K is for Knots.

The current letter over at the Craft Barn is K.  Not a lot of pages in the dictionary for that letter  to choose from  but I have finally settled on  Knots as my word.

Page has been given a wash of match pot paint Willow Tree.

The rope paper was a freebie in a magazine.

Letter k is a freebie and can be found here.

Cord from my stash.

 

I learnt how to tie the different knots from here.

Entering into the following Challenge:

The Craft Barn: Alpha challenge letter K.

 

 

 



For Gerry.

This card is for my work buddy Gerry. The digi is her to a T. Hair is exactly the same and this dress is exactly like Gerry would go and choose for a Works party. In black of course.

Gerry nearly always came to work in black or black/white and on the few occasions that she did wear colour she would trip in (on high stilettos) and announce that she was wearing  it especially for me. So this is especially for you today Gerry. Happy Birthday twinne! The added black/white trimming is the only non colour you can have today and I shall be checking up on you later to make sure.

 



 

 



Yellow spotty design paper is by Papermania 'Chatsworth Vintage Collection'

Digi is by A Day For Daisies

Coloured in using Promarkers and Embossing powder.

Black and white card is a snippet that I have punched the edge using a Tonic punch.

Sentiment frame is by Cheery Lynn Designs B190 #2

Sentiment created in word.

Butterflies cut using tonic mini punch from  the  snippets of left over paper

Black pearl from stash.

 



 I pondered on how to show the netting as I did not want to colour over her arms and legs

so hit on the idea of running over the image with a Versa Marker pen and using silver metalic  'Wow' embossing powder . I am pleased with the shimmery effect. Below is the inside of the card showing more mini butterflies flitting across the pages.

 

 

Entering into the following challenges:
Make It Monday: Paper crafts.
Pixie's Crafty Workshop: Use your snippets.
Joanna Sheen challenges: Girls, Girls, Girls.
Heck Of A Challenge: Fashion.
The Squirrel and the Fox: Here come the girls.
Ginger Loft: Happy Birthday.
Card Mania: Spots and or stripes.
Kaboodle Doodles: Stripes and or circles.

And Baby Makes Three.

Time for another of Mrs A's Bloomers so grab a coffee and have a chuckle at my expense.
I'm going way back in time for this  tale to when Fluff was just a  baby about 9mths old(Not so long ago then I hear Fluff say). 
This particular day was cold but bright and I decided to walk with the pram to the shops about 2miles away as I needed to do a supermarket shop. So I loaded the tray on under the pram to stack the shopping on and away we went. We duly arrived at the shop (starts with S and ends in ys you know the one I mean) parked up outside grabbed a trolley and did the shopping. Fluff was being very good by the way. Got back home just in time for lunch and a nap for Fluff. Unpacked the shopping and spent the afternoon ironing. Time for tea and to cook the evening meal as The Doc would be home shortly. Fluff bathed, fed and ready for bed  and dinner cooking nicely and The doc gets in.  After about half an hour he asks if I went shopping  and I said yes. At this The Doc looks at me and says
Well where's the pram then!!!!!
Do you ever get that sinking feeling when you realise what you have just done?
Yep I had come out of the supermarket with Fluff tucked under one arm two loaded up bags of shopping on the other, promptly walked round the corner and caught the bus home!
My wail of 'At least I didn't forget the baby  'went on deaf ears as we all bundled into the car and raced back to the  supermarket and do you know what? The pram was exactly where I had left it 7 hours before! Phew.

You will  have probably realised by now that I do a card to go with  the story  so here it is.

Digi by DigiStamp boutique.

Pink card blank.

Backing paper from The NitWit Collection 'Thimbles 'n' Threads a freebie in magazine.

Coloured in using Promarkers  and Papermania gold pen for edging.

Sentiment generated in Word.

Ribbon and itsy bitsy embroidered flower from stash .



Entering into the following challenges:
Make It Monday: Paper Crafts.
Pixie's Crafty Workshop: Use up your snippets (itsy bitsy flower)
Sparkles: Monochromatic.
Southern Girls: Going spotty.
In The Pink: Baby Girl.
Crafting For All Seasons: Think Pink.
613 Avenue Create: Anything goes.
Electric Ellapu: Anything goes.
Alota Rubber Stamps: Childhood.
The Crazy Challenge: Baby card.

Mini Crisis.

Many thanks for all your visits and comments that you leave. Having a  slight mini crisis at the moment but I will get  around to all your blogs and comment back. I know who you all are!

Hugs Mrs A.

Friends.

This is a card I made for a swap back  in April. I have heard from my partner in New Zealand that it has been received so am safe to show as I know that Dawn has a blog too. You  had 4 different themes to choose from and you could incorporate them all into your card or just use some. I went with the colour palette of pink/light blue/yellow, an umbrella  and the sentiment Friends. This card came together largely from stash sat on my desk. The lady with the umbrella was the fourth tap transfer design that I made for the tag swap which I have already shown. I only needed 3 tags to send so this one was a spare. I cut the tag down by using a Sizzix Framelits 657905 which in turn left me with a picture frame shape to be used at a later date. The lady is a freebie digi from here. The backing paper is a freebie from here and has the corner swirl incorporated already into the design.

The printed paper that I did the transfer onto is a freebie from a magazine. The flower has been in my stash for ages and matched the ribbon perfectly. A flat pearl to the centre finished it off.



 

 

 

Entering into the following challenges:

Pixie's Crafty Workshop: Use up your snippets.

Tuesday Taggers: Feminine and Fancy.

Challenges 4 Everybody: Anything goes.

Shopping Our Stash: Scrap attack.

One Stitch At A Time: Use a digi + anything goes.

Wags and Whiskers: Anything goes.

Sister Act: Anything goes.

One Stop Craft Challenge: Anything goes.

Country View Crafts: How does your garden grow.

 

 

 

 

 

 



First Aid.

Gosh is it Wednesday again already! Are you ready for another Mrs A's Bloomers?
Okay it's fess up time .Grab a coffee and stay a while.
So last week you know that I got the job and this little escapade happened about 18months into the job.

It was decided by the powers that be that each department should have a First Aid Officer to deal with minor accidents so a volunteer was needed to step forward for the post. Now I wasn't particularly interested but  before I knew it my name was put up and seconded before I had time to draw breath!  We all had to be duly trained by the Red Cross and a training day was scheduled to be held at another of our buildings.  

The day arrived and about 20 of us from various departments turned up for the three day course.(I did not go anywhere near the coffee machine just in case your wondering even though this was a different location). We started off by learning to do resuscitation  and before the boys (we were a mixed bunch) could get excited about it we were  told it would be on the standard plastic dummy and not on us girls. Well managed to get through that alright and we stopped for a break. Next up was learning how to put someone into the recovery position and we were paired up for this. I was  with J.C. from Engineering and he volunteered to go first. So he is lying on the floor and (cross my heart I barely touched him) I flipped him over as we had been shown and he let out the most awful howl of pain and clutched his knee.  The instructor came running over and examined his knee and said 'We need to call an ambulance I think you have dislocated your knee cap!!' In my defence he was a rugby player and this was an old recurring injury but he was off work for two weeks and I went down in history as the only person to ever put her partner in Hospital on a First Aid Course!!!!

Now I know you all want to know the answer so yes I did pass and  got my certificate but you know the funny thing ? No one was ever ill on my watch!

 

Image by Bugaboo Stamps

Coloured using Promarkers, Distress Markers and Pearlescent chalks.

Blue spotty paper freebie in Simply Homemade magazine.

Snippet of red cardstock

Sentiment generated in word.





Entering in the following challenges:
Pixie's Crafty Workshop. Use your snippets. (red card stock).
Scrappy Frogs: Free Choice.
Through The Craft Room: Anything goes.
Crafts and Me Challenges: Use a Digi.
Stamp 'n' Doodle: Anything goes.
The Paper Shelter: Anything goes.
Make It Monday: Paper crafts.

Lets Get Ringing

This is the second card for the challenge this month over at Lady Anne's  which is  to use this digi image by Priscilla Styles. Details of her site can be found here.

 

I suppose I did this the wrong way round really as I coloured the digi in first with  my Distress Markers and then went in search of papers to go with the colours I had chosen.

The red glitter card came from my star buy at NEC . £1 for a pad of 3 different colours.

The bell paper was a freebie from  Quick cards Magazine and is by Raspberry Road. The green another freebie from a magazine Forever Christmas Cards Paper Stack by Hot Off The Press. Sentiment was part of the same recycled  Christmas card that I used on the post below. Flat pearls from my stash and the card design is the current sketch over at Merry Monday 's Christmas Challenge.



 

Entering into the following challenges:

Lady Anne's #4: Use image by Priscilla Styles.

Merry Monday Christmas Challenge: Use sketch provided.

Jingle Belles: Merry & Bright.

Creative Craft World: Beat the Christmas Rush.

Crafty Hazel Nuts Extra: Anything goes.

Sparkles Christmas Challenge: Favourite festive Colours (Red/Green/Gold).

Pixie's Crafty Workshop: Use your snippets (sentiment).