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Hello Crafters! Crafting is my escape into my own little world full of ideas. Some of my best creations are produced in the early hours of the morning out of my craft cupboard …. hence ‘Open all hours’. Plus, as I have three lovely small children, often, evenings, weekends and late at night is the time when I can concentrate on making cards.

Wednesday, 1 October 2008

Here come the girls!

Hi Everyone,

I haven't posted anything for a while as I've been busy working on the latest assignment from 'Stamp Addicts' which was a range of lovely girly stamps called 'Mimi Girls' from DeNami. I quickly took a few pictures of the cards in my lunch hour on Monday and then posted them off to 'Stamp Addicts'. I didn't have the best background for taking the pictures, the car park floor! Oh well. Anyway here are a few of the cards I made.
















Saturday, 6 September 2008

Definitely Girly!



Hello Everyone,

I think you would agree that not many men would really want to receive this card, so it is definitely 'One for the girls'. So this is my entry for the 'Penny Black Saturday Challenge'. Hope you are all enjoying your weekend with lots of 'craft time'.

Thursday, 4 September 2008

Little Pink Princess...


Hello Everyone,

Another stamped image that I took away with me to colour when I was in France. As this week's Cute Card Thursday Challenge is 'Pretty in pink', it was lucky for me it was the colour I chose for her! So here is my 'Pink Princess', hope you like her.

Tuesday, 2 September 2008

A little birdie told me!


Hi Crafters,

I'm back crafting after my holiday in France. I say back crafting but I did actually take a few stamped images with me to watercolour, well what can I say, I am truely addicted! Anyway here's one of the images I coloured when I was away that I have used for the Papertake weekly challenge. Hope you all had good holidays. Bye for now, Michele x

Monday, 18 August 2008

Rainy days and Mondays....




Hello there,

Well the image I've used in this card is certainly appropriate with the awful summer weather we're having! I'm really enjoying using my new stamps I got at Stamperama. I thought this image was so cute I couldn't resist it and it stamps out beautifully. I hate stamps that have thick lines but this one is lovely and fine. I also got to use another lovely stamp by 'Stampin up' for the text. If you like this stamp it comes as a set of various sentiments and is available via Jackie's House of Cards. Here is my entry for this week's Papertake Weekly Challenge. Hope you enjoyed doing this challenge as much as I did.

Here is the sketch



Bye for now, Michele x

Saturday, 16 August 2008

Hello Friend...


Hello Everyone,

I had a lovely time last weekend at the Craft Show and I did what I said in my last post and treated myself to lots of Penny Black stamps. I've got no excuse now for not having a go at the Saturday Challenges! Here's my attempt with one of my lovely new stamps.