Chubby Chums

Good afternoon all.

Not getting a lot of time to craft with school holidays being here. But thought I would just post this little card I made the other evening. 
There sun is shining and there is a cool wind so will be going out soon for a walk. Hopefully it will be staying dry.

Supplies:
Stamps: PaperSmooches "Chubby Chums"
Papers: Kraft card-stock; Echo Park scrap
Ink: Memento "Rich Cocoa
Dies: MFT Circle STAX 1; Simon Says Stamps "Holiday shapes"
Twine

Challenges

CAS on Sunday - #13 Kraft and Twine
Cupcake Inspiration - Dogs
ABC Challenges - Use scraps
Pile It On - #30 Anything Goes
Allsorts Challenge - #217 Kraft it

Thank you for dropping by and have a super day.

Hugs ~ Mette

Hello Sunshine

Afternoon crafters.

I am afraid that my title is very misleading. Still grey, wet and chilly here in Derbyshire. My son Ben is going to Majorca on Thursday with his GF (lucky them) for a week so he will be seeing the sun before me I guess. I am just hoping that when I go home mid-August that the sun will be shining. If not I can always look forward to my birthday when I be getting a Big Shot (been on my wish-list for ages).

So, I decided to cheer everyone in the UK up by providing my own little sun. I will be entering this into the Paper Smooches Sparks Challenge ...



..... isn't he fabulous!? He's just perfect for a sunny card to a friend or family member who needs cheering up.



Materials used: Hello Sunshine from HERE - white and kraft card-stock - twine - Simple Stories paper

Thank you for dropping by and have a super day. Hugs, Mette

Purfect!

Good morning all.

Another sunny day here although it is cold :). My Ben is coming home today - he claims he is missing my cooking lol but I really do not care what excuse he's giving - it's lovely to see him. I am hoping he stays till Saturday and we can watch the firework display here. In the UK we celebrate the 5th of November with hige bonfires and fireworks because of THIS event.

There is mayhem and carnage at Phoebe's school this week. They are putting in new toilets down in reception/class 1 so they have been moved to the big hall. The class teacher has asked parents if they are able to stay a little while in the mornings to help with reading etc - so that's what I have been doing. It feels good to help the little ones (of whom my Phoebe is one) read :).

So my card for today is for the PAPER SMOOCHES SPARKS challenge ...............



.............. there is a super inspiration photo and I have yet again used the chubby chums stamp set. They are just fabulous and I love them. The little cat has been paper pierced.

MATERIALS USED

Chubby Chums from Paper Smooches
Echo park papers
ribbon

Thank you for dropping by and have a fabulous day. Hugs, Mette

Chubby Chum

Good morning all.

There is nothing quiet like a flu to announce that autumn/winter is finally here. Yes, I have now got my first flu of the season - it's not quite in full forve yet but I definately feel rough. Not a lot you can do about that apart from drink a lot of fluid, stay warm and take a few painkillers. I am pretty sure I got it of James who has been poorly most of the week.

Made a call home to Denmark yesterday. I wanted to catch up with my dad's wife as she has been in terrible pain for a very long time and doctors couldn't really work out what was wrong with her. Turns out she has a rare condition called Lupus where the immune systems attacks healthy tissue and cells. Not nice but at least now she can get medication and hopefully get better.

Well, enough doom and gloom. I wanted to share a card I made for ..........



........ using this fabulous photo as inspiration .........



........ and this is what I made ..........


........... you may ask how this fits in with the inspiration photo - well, I love the shape of those tomatoes and I thought of a lot of little owls huddled up together to keep warm in winter. I did try a lot more owls but it got too confusing lol. The colours are wonderful and I used a little wooly embroidery thread for texture.
This is one of my favorite stamp sets - I adore the little animals (my daughter wants zoo ones lol).

MATERIALS USED

Chubby Chums from PaperSmooches
Cardstock
thread

Thank you for visiting me today and have a super day. Hugs, Mette

Thankful

Good morning all.

Well,woke up to dull, dark and wet weather. Autumn has finally arrived with a vengance lol. I hate mornings like that - I prefer waking up to sun and then the rain comes later. The sun always put me in a good mood.

Did my usual "guided reading" at school this morning. It's fun to help out and provide a little extra something for the youngest children at school to help them with reading and maths. It is only a small village school with about 80 pupils so it's nice for the kids. The big shock comes after year 6 (11 years old) when they go to secondary school and there are about 1000 pupils lol.

So my card for today is very appropriate to fall ................



............. this is a card for the WEE MEMORIES CHALLENGE "Halloween or fall". I used a free image and sentiment from PaperSmooches and paper pierced the "leaf".

MATERIALS USED

Image and sentiment from Paper Smooches
Scraps of dp
Kraft

Thank you for visiting today and have a lovely day. Hugs, Mette

Thanks!!

Good afternoon all.

Hope you are all enjoying this monday eventhough the weather is not sure what it wants today.
Yesterday Phoebe and I went to a Wildlife Park/butterfly House - she had been invited to a birthday party and parents were very much welcomed. She loved it and was facinated by the Birds of Prey, exotic creatures (snakes, butterflies etc etc). There were farm animals to feed and pet so all in all - the kids had a lovely time, as did the adults.



So I wanted to show this card I made for a dear friend who has been a great help lately by lending an ear or two ....................



........... I used the inspiration photo at Paper Smooches and one of their sweet little free images. The pattern paper is "ruffled" and I am loving these colours.

MATERIALS USED

Image and text from Paper Smooches
DP Badic grey
Cardstock
Tag
Staples
Buttons

CHALLENGES

Paper Smooches SPARKS - Photo Inspiration
Totally Papercraft - Thank you
Totally Gorjuss - Birds of a feather

Thank you for visiting today and have a super time. Huggles Mette

hey Chickie

Well, it's monday again - time flies so fast I can't keep up lol.

Yesterday was spent quietly with Phoebe and James. We just potted around and made home-made bread. Nothing better than freshly baked bread but it does take a while. So I have decided to invest in a bread machine although I am not sure if it taste the same as handmade.

Made a few cards so that I could show you this ......



....... I am sure I have said this before but I absolutely LOVE this stamp set from PaperSmooches. They are just the cutest little animals and perfect for any age. This is just a simple 1-layer card made for LESS IS MORE (Seeing double) and WEE MEMORIES (1-layer). Coloured with Promarkers and I have made a little "frame" around the image.

Chubby Chums from PaperSmooches available HERE
Cardstock

Thank you for dropping by and enjoy your day. Hugs, Mette

Bee Happy

Good morning all.

Finally the sun is shining again - August has been dull, cool and not very nice. So it's nice to see the sun again but hey - this is Autumn after all hehe.

Went to see the doctor yesterday about my foot and turns out that I might have damaged a ligament a few months ago while walking in the beautiful countryside around here. Been ordered to relax, not to do a lot of walking and hope it get's better soon.
Not had any news about my gran (I am phone-less atm - my phone is dead and I need to get a new one). My mum did e-mail to let me know that a CT scan didn't find that the tumor had spread. She's still in hospital so I am just waiting ..... and waiting .... and - you get the drift lol.



I am totally hooked on the fabulous stamps from Paper Smooches and yet again you have a chance to become a guest designer for a month (October). So I made this little card using a free image and sentiment to cheer myself up and I love it hehe. These bees are just so much fun to colour and you can really go to town with them. I put a little glitter on their wings to make them shimmer.
You should go over and join in, pick up a free digi stamp and have a look at the stamp sets available. They can be bought in the UK from Make the Day Special.

Thank you for visiting my little cloud and enjoy your day. Hugs, Mette

Chubby Chum

Good morning all.

Just popping on real quick to post this card as promised. It is a just bacuse card and be posted to my gran later today. Both she and I need cheering up as the news from her CT scan is not good at all. It is, as we all suspected, cancer. However, at her age, 89, neither the family not the doctors feel we want an operation, nor kemo so we will just take each day as it comes. They fear that it may have spread to other parts too but she doesn't know that.

Anyhow, my Paper Smooches stamp set arrived yesterday, it is available in the UK HERE and I am totally in love with these. They are just super fabulous :).



I used white, black and kraft cardstock, a lovely piece of ribbon and foam pads together with Chubby Chum stamp set.

Thank you for visiting my cloud and hope you have a super day. Hugs, Mette

You're so thoughtful

Good morning all.

Hope you are all enjoying your weekend. I just popped on to show a card which I made for an inspiration challenge at



There are so many possibilities for playing colours, textures and embellishments but I kept mine clean and simple just using a few elements. If you want to play along just hop over to Papersmooches blog and have a go. It doesn't matter if you don't have any stamps as there a some lovely free digi images.
I am also entering this card into the Clean and Simple challenge as I used their sketch. Hope you like it



MATERIALS USED

Sentiment by Papersmooches
Cardstock and gems from Quixotic Paperie

Thank you for visiting my little cloud and enjoy your Sunday. Hugs, Mette

Love you Berry Much

Good morning all.

I am not sure whether it's my advancing age or the humid weather but lately I am having trouble sleeping. I wake up several times in the night and am up early and I don't even go that early to bed. I am hoping it's just the humidity as I normally sleep like a log. However, as I am a year older today it could also be my advancing old age lol.
This might be the reason for my low energy and my mojo being on a rollercoaster ride - high and low, high and low. I made 4 attempts for a card for the LESS IS MORE challenge this week which all ended up in the "not suitable for human eyes" basket before finally settling on this...............



........ hip hip hurray for the World Wide Web. Finding Emily's wonderful blog I found PaperSmooches stamps and love them. Just wish that they were available in the UK but luckily she does offer a few digital images and that led me to make this little card to enter into the LESS IS MORE Challenge. Paper Smooches are also looking for a Guest Designer for the month of September so I thought I might enter using this card. They so have seriously cute stamps :).

MATERIALS USED

Free digital image from Paper Smooches
White and kraft cardstock from Quixotic Paperie