Whats On Your Workdesk Wednesday.

I'm joining in with the lovely Julia over at WOYWW  today.  I'm currently working on some designs for my own Christmas cards, I have my gorgeous new Derwent Inktense pencil set out (that hubby treated me to on our hols).  My watercolours on standby ~ not quite sure what medium to use maybe a bit of everything.

A bit of a sneaky peek... and that's all your getting for now =D

I want to have a bit of a shout out..... I ordered some patterned felt at the weekend from the lovely Emma over at Sew Sweet and it arrived yesterday.

They are absolutely gorgeous, and fantastic quality.  Not only was I super excited and the creative juices were flowing, but there was also an extra little surprise in the package.......

In amongst the goodies was buttons, and I love buttons.

Thank you so much Emma for a fantastic service, and I would highly recommend her website to anyone.  I'm now eyeing up some pom pom ribbon/trim and polka dot buttons ~ so why not pop along now to Sew Sweet and take a look yourself.

After opening the felt I just had to get making, so yesterday I made a little padded heart and hair clip

and the ideas keep coming... I'm thinking there may be a brooch and some cards on tomorrow blog.

Thank you for popping along.

Love Em x

Halloween cupcakes

Hope you had a great evening last night, our bat girl had great fun.  The curse of the black fingernail worked, she must have past it on as her nail finally came off~ Yippee!!! She has been so brave, as it kept catching on everything but would not let me near it to help.

So we enjoyed a lovely evening down my Aunt's with my mum and my gorgeous little niece who came along dressed as a witch (so cute she's only 7 months old).  Everyone enjoyed their cakes.

Bat girl slept well, after a night out flying........

With her very serious bat pose lol!

Only 54 sleeps until Christmas ..... How exciting.  I'm afraid it's all Christmas from now on, my card sales are going through the roof and I am getting a lot of private/direct enquiries about them which is so exciting.  You'll get to realise that I could 'do' Christmas all year round, I love it.  I not actually sure who gets more excited me or the little one =D.

But them I am an 'Elf' xxx

Love Em x

Phew! A day off!!

Hi everyone and welcome to my blog.

I have had a fantastic day off today, and to be honest it just keeps getting better.

Myself and my sister took the little one to the aquarium today down in Plymouth.  A little pricey but a great morning out.

We saw some great sea life, some of the photos are poor because we obviously couldn't use the flash.

Including the sharks

Abigail being our tour guide, she went not so long ago on a school trip ~ so she knew everything lol!

Then when we got home I checked my emails, and my Christmas cards are flying out ~ Yippee! Always makes you feel great, to think that someone actually wants to purchase MY hand made cards.

All packaged and posted.  With my new gorgeous mini business cards, that my lovely postie brought for me along with another little package.

I am now ready for my next cross stitch project......

I have also noticed I have gained quite a few new followers, thank you so much for joining me it is very much appreciated, hope you enjoy what you see.

Told you it had been a good day, maybe I could push my luck and get some card making in this evening or tomorrow =D

Thank you for popping by my blog, I hope I didn't ramble on too much.

Love Em x

Happy Monday!

Hi everyone and welcome to my blog.

Today's card is for the following challenges:

Willow Sketchie Challenge

LOTV Challenge ~ Bingo (Charms, Flowers & Buttons)

Meljen's Designs ~ Red & Gold

Totally Papercraft ~ Layer upon layer

Winter Wonderland ~ Vintage Christmas

The Secret Crafter ~ Wrap up warm

Materials Used:

LOTV image ~ Shine a light

Woodware border punch

Poinsettia's, gold bow, snowflake charm, red & white twine ~ Wild Orchid Crafts

Sentiment ~ HOTP forever Christmas cards

Background paper ~ Forever Friends A Christmas tale

Ribbon ~ Pepper's Christmas party glittered ribbon sticker

Stickles ~ Star dust

Buttons, brads, gold card & flock from crafty stash

Pro markers

I added a flock detail to the fur of the little girl's coat, which unfortunately you can't see to well.  The weather is terrible and there is not much light anywhere in the house.

Sorry it's a short one today, but it is half term and life in our home is a bit crazy just trying to grab a bit of time to craft is pretty hard. 

Thank you for taking the time to visit my blog.

Love Em x

Robin Red Breast...

Hi everyone and welcome to my blog.

Hope you are all having a lovely weekend.

I had a spare afternoon so I thought I would have a play, so today's card is for the following blog challenges:

Willow Sketchie Challenge

LOTV challenge ~ Warm & Cosy

Winter Wonderland ~ Robin Redbreast 

Daring Cardmakers ~ A Little Bird Told Us

Christmas Crafting ~ Little Robin Red Breast

Christmas Stampin' ~ Seeing Spots

Materials Used:

Poinsettia, Holly leaves and gold metal charm ~ Wild Orchid Crafts

LOTV image ~ feathered friends and Christmas circle sentiment

Glitter ~ Stickles ~ diamond (fur on coat), Stardust (snow) & Craft Planet red

Promarkers for colouring image

Polka dots/snow background paper ~ Festive Treats, Trimcraft

Holly paper ~ Pepper's Christmas Party, Trimcraft

Lace and red card from crafty stash

Thank you for taking the time to visit my blog, please feel free to leave a comment.

Love Em x

Tis the season.....

Hi everyone and welcome to my blog.

Today's card is for the following blog challenges:

Crafty Catz ~ Challenge 103 and it's a recipe

Allsorts ~ Bear with us

Papertake weekly ~ Get in shape

Winter Wonderland ~ Autumn colours

Materials used:

Hot off the press ~ Forever Christmas Cards

Docraft Kraft Basics 12" pad

LOTV Christmas circle sentiments

LOTV James Bear ~ Deck the halls

Anita's Christmas ribbon ~ gold

Craft planet red glitter glue

Wild Orchid Crafts ~ gold metallic bows

Buttons and gold elastic cord from crafty stash

I have been busy here making Christmas goodies and cards, the first lot of which have been listed in my e-bay (just click the top right e-bay logo). 

Girl's hand decorated hair clips.

Metal clip covered with felt ~ hand stitched.

With felt snowflake, glittered snowflake button and gold seed beads.

At just £2.50 each they make great little stocking fillers.

Thank you for taking the time to visit my blog

Love Em x