2 posts today! Cards, cuties and cobbler!! lol

ok so the cobbler post is to follow later as we are having it for tea tonight so it seemed silly to make it first thing this morning only to have to heat it later! I will be back around tea time to upload all the step by step details :)

For now though i thought i would do a seperate post for the cards i made yesterday for a couple more challenges...

First up is one for the Moxie Trigger Tuesday Challenge - the photograph on the site is exactly what im aiming for in the corner of my living room! I mean the jars etc... some filled with sweets, others filled with birds eggs (fake little spotty ones etc), pretty bits and pieces - im sure you know what i mean by now judging by my blog! lolI dont know if its just good timing what with Valentines day around he corner or having a little girl but im loving working with pinks right now! lol (ok so ive always loved pink but ive never had this much of an excuse before!!) lol

Next up are these 2 little scallop ones. The sentiment is from the Papertrey Around and About sentiment set, the ribbon is also Papertrey so i am entering these two in the Passion for Papertrey blog challenge for this week. The girls set a challenge that we make something for Valentines but it didnt have to be overly cutesty so i thought go with simple - i hope it works! :)

And last but not least! It was my day on the Bo Bunny blog yesterday and the theme was Valentines from the Kids. My boys loved making this glitter globe (i love snowglobes at winter so why not have glitter ones all year round!), this one was only 99p from Home Bargains!! Check out the Bo Bunny blog for all the step by step details on how we made this. Lots more fun projects coming up too - so many hearts and so much love being shared over there!! :)

Cricut downloadable double cupcake box file!! Wahoooo....

For those who own a Cricut, one of the ladies on the Cricut forum has made a downloadable file of my double cupcake box which should make it a lot easier for you to use :) Heres a link to the messageboards and i think they are working on making it for design studio too - not sure what that means but im working on the hubs to get my own machine so hopefully soon i will know what im talking about!! LOL ;)

Heres a sneak at one of the cards ive made - i managed to get one of the Sizzix scallop circles to make the cards with so expect a few of these for a while as i think theyre so cute!! LOL Lots of glitter, Hero arts stamps and the Cuttlebug embossing folder :)

Also look at this little heartbreaker.....he asks his daddy each day when hes picked up from school if the baby is here yet !He is far too excited, i think i might have a fight on my hands as to who will be looking after Evie when she arrives!! :D

Week 6 - Vegetable Cobbler! *shopping list*

Ive always wanted to make a cobbler but its usually been of the sweet variety so depending on how this one goes we may also fit a peach cobbler or similar into one of the desert weeks :D Yummm!!

Here we go with week 6...

Shopping List
Serves 4-6
4 small onions, quartered
2 sticks celery, sliced
8 oz button mushrooms, sliced
1/2 small cauliflower, broken into florets
8 oz swede, chopped
2 carrots, sliced
1 tbsp olive oil
1 clove garlic, crushed
14 oz can chopped tomatoes
2 oz red lentils, rinsed
2 tbsp cornflour
3-4 tbsp water
10 floz vegetable stock
2 tsp tabasco sauce
2 tsp oregano

Topping

8 oz self raising flour
4 tbsp butter
pinch of salt
4 oz mature cheddar, grated
2 tsp oregano
1 egg, beaten
5 fl oz milk

I cant wait to try this one, sometimes you just get sick of meat and need something else! As we are a proper 'comfort food' home im hoping this one is accepted by the males of the house!!

Thank you so much for all the sweet comments about the cards over the weekend. I love taking part in the challenges, cards seem so much quicker to finish than layouts!! lol I will post the links here to the sites i take part in as i was so pleased to see others taking part too :)

Passion for Papertrey challenge...

This fortnights challenge is Nature over at the Passion for Papertrey Blog - i am SO into birds right now that i couldnt do anything but these cute birdhouses, i also made it into a kind of Valentine card too by using the You Make My Heart Sing Sentiment from the same set of stamps :)

Thanks to the girls for the inspiration and its been fab to join in with a few challenges again! :)

Thank you too to the 2sketches4u girls for making me one of the fab 5 this week - go check out their blog as Sylvias winning card is absolutely stunning!!

Catch up Sunday!!

We have had a lovely weekend, had Stuarts mum staying yesterday and last night, watched the boys on the Wii which was hilarious (you havent seen anything until Ethan doing the Hula!!) lol Im going to do a quick catch up now before baking some more cakes then starting on Sunday dinner :)

This is an upcoming peek of a Twisted Sketches layout :)Remember the card i showed the other day with the coffee cup roses - it was picked as a winner on the Impression Obsession blog and i have $25 to spend in their store and this fab blinkie which ive popped in my sidebar too :D *does little happy dance*
...winning card :)
Is anyone going to Harrogate in March for the Craft show?? Im going with Andrea on the Saturday and im so excited!! :D

Papertrey Emboss challenge.

There is a challenge over at the Papertrey blog to resist emboss (i havent picked up my heatgun for years so thanks for giving me the push i needed!) :) I used the snail and look who has just arrived sentiment stamp from the January Baby Button Bits stamps. The background squares paper is from the 2008 Bitty Box Basics papers and the white is embossed with Cuttlebug Dot embossing folder. Pink Dotty paper is Bo Bunny.The snails were embossed with white embossing powder and covered with Sweet Blush and Spring Moss inks :)

*grr dh just said it looks like its torn at one side but its like that all the way round - instead of inking i ragged the edges to add more texture but the angle i took the photo makes it look like its just got one rip! - thanks hubs! lol *

Couple of challenges :)

First one up is this one from 2 Sketches 4 U - im still dithering over a cricut or craft robo so for now im limited to what shape cards i can make! lol I received the new Papertrey stamps from the January release and of course i had to go for the baby ones - how cute is this poem...and snail!! I cut the centre out using one of the Hello Kitty dies so that when the card stands up the inside little circle swings with the snail :)

Second is my take on the going green challenge for the Impression Obsession Blog. I used the Smell the Coffee Stamp set as these little rose cups are so cute! I know its not all green, but hey im a pink girl so i couldnt go without! lol