Selling Up and Stepping Down

Firstly the selling up. The reason I haven't been around much this last week is because we have been getting to grips with getting the house on the market. The stepping down - because I don't know how much time I will have in the near future I have decided to step down from the design team at By the Cute and Girly.

We may still be here in a years time - but if we are lucky and sell fairly quickly - it will be all go. (How on earth am I going to move all my craft stuff. That's going to be the biggest problem.)

I have loved working on the DT for By the Cute and Girly and am so pleased that it has turned out to be such a popular challenge. I'll certainly be joining in when I get the chance.

These three items were made before I knew how things were going to turn out this last week or so and are still included on the challenge site.The theme this month is 'Spring is in the air...'

The first is a made over notebook, painted with an acrylic paint dauber. The stamp is by Inkadinkadoo and the decoupaged flower is from My Craft Studio.

The second is a Tilda image - coloured with Promarkers and she's seated on a Glimmer misted background which has been through the Cuttlebug.

The third is an Elusive Images Hellebore script stamp - coloured with Inktense pencils and some ribbon from my stash added down the side.

Spring in this garden is a mass of hellebores and I will miss them greatly - well - most of them. I'm taking some with me wherever I go!

Thanks very much for visiting today. My apologies if I still don't get round to all of you as much as I would like.

Beryl xx

By the Cute and Girly February Challenge

Well, it's the start of another challenge from By the Cute and Girly. This month the theme is 'Love'. This takes me out of my comfort zone - not the sort of stuff I do at all normally.
We have three great sponsors this month:

Joanna Sheen .. .. .. .. £10 voucher

Simon Says Stamp .. .. .. .. $20 voucher and free p&p

Capture the Magic .. .. .. .. £10 to spend on line

Jules is our host this month - she and the others members of the DT have come up with some great makes again this month. I do hope you'll pop across to their blogs to take a peek and also join in if you can.

My first card is a 5 x 5 cream card and the central image is from a blog buddy and I'm afraid I don't know the make of the stamp. It's been coloured with Inktense pencils. The MS punch border and the flower have been made with paper from my stash.

The second item is a tissue box, covered with some Papermania paper (quite old now) and 'Bless You ' in several languages stuck all around. There's are heart on each side which was a freebie for a magazine. As Jane said - 'It's for when love goes wrong'. Aw bless.

The third is a card where the background has been done in the Daisy Trail scrapbook programme. The sentiment is from U-Mount and the image a freebie from Pollycraft, coloured with Promarkers.

You will see on my sidebar an award passed on to me by Anesha. Hopefully she won't mind if don't pass it on to 10 others, but I will list 10 things that give me pleasure (in no particular order).

Chocolate -watching the sea - crafting - my pets - my children and grandchildren - my home and garden - my pc and laptop - friendships - buying crafting goodies - opening them when they arrive.

Thanks very much for visiting today.

Beryl xx

By the Cute and Girly Challenge #4

Happy New Year to You All

Today sees the start of a new challenge from By the Cute and Girly. Hosting this month's challenge is Debby - a fellow DT member and the theme this month is 'NEW'. New anything - beginnings - baby - job - house - whatever you consider falls into the category. As usual - there will be prizes.

Janlynn, $25 voucher plus goodie bag,

$20Simon Says Stamps voucher,

£10 Joanna Sheen voucher

and a Funky Hand CD full of gorgeous backing papers to print which has been donated by Anice of Funky Hand

My first makes for this challenge are a new baby card which I made for my daughter's friend. The baby is due any day now. What a chilly time of year to be born. I have made a scene using Lily Boo's house,coloured with Promarkers, some Stampscape stamps and Adirondack inks and a Motivet stamp, coloured with Promarkers, cut out and attached with Pinflair glue gel. The spotted BP is by Crafty Ann and the flowers made using a small daisy punch. The sentiment was done in the Greeting Card Factory programme.

The second card is for my daughter - who is starting a new job any day now. The image is a pre-coloured one from Charmed Crafts, given a background of distressed paper by Funky Fairies in MCS. The bp is from a Graphicus Guild pack and the flower and ribbon from my stash. The sentiment was also done in the Greeting Card Factory programme.

Thanks very much for visiting.

Beryl xx