Ali's card making blog

Here is a bright and cheerful summery card which I made as a Good Luck card for someone. Made with (yet another!) Penny Black stickeroo, the backing card is cut on my paper trimmer with the bottom border punched with my X Cut punch. Stamped Good Luck and then framed with nesties. I am entering this card into the following challenges: Summer Days Challenge and Bunny Zoe's Crafts Bold and Bright Challenge at the Pollycraft Monday Challenge Anything goes Challenge at The Townscrapper who have made their last post before they go off on their summer holidays (so last chance to join in for a while!) and, last but by no means least, Summer Days Challenge at the Allsorts Challenge Blog Wish me 'Good Luck' and have a good Saturday!

Hello all, here I am back from my holidays in sunny (very sunny!) Norfolk. Actually I've already been back a week but with the heat last week I didn't really feel like doing much when I got in from work, hence no post from me for the last WOYWW. The holiday was lovely, we stayed in a little cottage in a country village and did lots of cycling. We also went to the beach quite a bit too. Oh, and we ate loads of food, some of it a bit strange...here is a photo of some 'Iffits' (apparently this is Norfolk's answer to tapas). The delicacy on the right of the picture is pigs ears! Much nicer than they sound, honest (you really aren't convinced are you?!) Anyway, back to my desk for this week. I've been having a bit of a penny black stickeroo fest this week. I've had them in my stash for a while and thought they would be perfect for 'Thank you teacher' cards to sell at work. I also made a cute good luck card with a colouful hedgehog and some br...

Here is yet another card for yet another challenge! This time for the Nice and Girly Challenge at Bunny Zoe's Crafts Made with yet another Penny Black stickeroo (I have a few!) I've made this card for my best friend's birthday as she loves shopping (just like me ;-) I am also entering this card into Paper Sundaes Lots of Layers challenge .

And here is another card for the 'thank you teacher' theme described in my previous post . I am going to enter this into the following challenges: Penny Black at Allsorts - A Burst of Summer Colour Quirky Crafts challenge 31 - Ribbons Made again with a Penny Black stickeroo, some funky coloured papers and some bright orange spotty ribbon. I've also had the brightly coloured flower brads for a while, so this was an opportunity to use one.

I haven't been too successful with my little card sales box at work over the last few weeks for some reason. Perhaps it has become part of the furniture now so people aren't noticing it so much (or it could be because everyone seems to either be on holiday, off sick, or to have left)?! I recalled that this time last year I sold quite a few cards as thank yous for children's teachers. So I thought I would make a few that would be suitable for this purpose this weekend and send an email round my previous customers on Monday. We will see how it goes! Here is the first one which I did yesterday, made with a cute penny black stickeroo. I am going to enter it into the following challenges: Craftalicious challenge 3 - cute Penny's paper crafty challenge 33 - 7/7

I've finally got around to entering some challenges, hurrah!! I need there to be more hours in the day really, what with working full time and trying to find time for three hobbies (the card making of course, cycling and Spanish) my days (and nights) are full to say the least! Have to fit hubby in somewhere too, he he!! Anyway, back to the challenge, here is the card. Made with a cute Penny Black stickeroo (see the full sheets in my previous blog post) and lots of spotty bits and pieces! I've entered it into two challenges: 1. The Penny Black Saturday Challenge (lots of dots) 2. The my time to craft vivid greetings challenge And I've fathomed the linky thing, hurrah again!!

A couple of new things on my desk (table, still haven't got round to setting anything up in the conservatory) this week. I snaffled the stripy box from hubby, it had come from a car boot sale with playstation games in (for the ebay empire) and I thought it would be ideal storage for my stamps! I've chucked a few other bits and pieces in it too for good measure, I never seem to be able to keep to a proper system of having one kind of item in one place! The other new thing is my Penny Black stickeroos. I am using them to enter my first challenge at the Penny Black Saturday Challenge at www.pennybfriendssaturdaychallenge.blogspot.com (sorry can't get the link thing to work!) and my time to craft http://mytimetocraftchallenge.blogspot.com/2010/05/challenge-93-vivid-greetings-cards.html Wish me luck! The other items strewn around include my ironing and once again the salt and pepper etc! I must get round to doing that ironing this Bank Holiday weekend and also sorting out the c...