It's a Celebratin' kinda day...

Guess what??!!!
CCT is two today!!!!

We're celebrating our birthday by setting the theme of errrr...Celebrations - well really, what else could it've been?!

I don't think any of us expected to still be going two years down the line, but I'm so glad we are - I thought it rather fitting this week to make a card that celebrates friendship cos I love them CCT girls ya know {see? even I can get sentimental at times...}
There weren't many card challenge blogs around when we started {rather hard to believe these days} and the ones there were took themselves a bit too seriously for our liking - we wanted everyone to remember that crafting's s'posed to be fun and really shouldn't have "rules" (good job, or I'd've been shown the door long ago).

Soooooo, wanna come join in the Celebratin'?
Course ya do - but go have a giggle at the samples we made for our very first challenge here first *snort*

A big, big thank you to darling Anita for passing this award over my way...

I'll pass it right on to everyone who comes over here to say hello, think of it as my gift to you all for helping us make CCT pretty damn fabby...

Hugs,

Whoooo-hoooo!!!!

The Stampavie Challenges are back!!!
After our break from the challenges so we could make {and then show!} you all our CHA samples, we're back with Challenge #19 - Spring...

I kept mine very simple {kinda like myself...}, I adore Mo's images and really like them to be the focus of the card. I thought Bella here looked like she was soaking up a li'l bit of Spring sunshine :D Do go and check out what the other girls have created - gorgeous as ever!

We'd love to see you all join in with us...and, as always, there's a secret prize on offer!

Hugs,


Stampavie stamps are stocked over at Dies to Die For - the Mo Manning range can be found here. Keep an eye out for the new CHA releases - they will be arriving very soon!

Got 'Bots?

Wanna meet my new favouritest, bestest stamp?
Yeah, course ya do!

Isn't he just the best?
As you've all probably gathered, I love making boys cards {no need for freaky-weird flowers on 'em} and I've been searching for the perfect Robot for a loooooong time - and now I have it!!!!
*insert happiest of happy squeal*
You can get your very own perfect 'bot right here at Dies to Die For and there are even the perfect 'bot papers and embellies here too - thank you MME and Pink Cat Studio for listening to those subliminal messages I've been sending both your ways...

I'm so enamoured with my perfect 'bot that I couldn't stop at makin' just a card - I made a li'l bookmark to tuck inside too.
I made this li'l fella to fit in with three challenges - ABC's "Paper Piecing" {the li'l green bit on his tummy, 'case you were a'wonderin'!}, Papertake Weeklys' "Buttons, Bows, Brads & Bling" {think I must've been saving those fabby screw-top brads for this chappie!} and last, but not least Sew Many Challenges "one For the Boys"


*sigh*
Love it when a stamp you've wanted forever lands in your inky li'l fingers...

Happy Sunday all,

Hey Pixie...

Look who I found while rummaging around in a pile of stash...

*happiest of happy sighs*
Love you lovely Pixie...

I made this li'l darlin' for the Passion for ProMarkers "Back to Nature" challenge and got so back to nature with it I stuck a whole bunch of freaky-weird flowers on it...

Some serious scrumminess going on here - quite apart from my beloved Pixie (who can be found here), there's even more MME Quite Contrary-ness.
These are from the "Jack & Jill" collection and can be found here at Dies to Die For or here at CleoCrafts...

I also have a card for the PaperPlay "Just Because" challenge...

My littlest big brother and I spent much of the late '90's {drunkenly} singing parodies of karaoke classics in the Student Union {£50 cash to be won each Thursday...desperate times you understand}. Our version of "You're so Vain" was a definite fave - anyone who ever had to fight over the bathroom as a teen will surely be able to guess the way that particular song went ;D I have no doubt that if we'd spent a fraction of the time actually studying as we did writing those parodies, we'd both be actual real geniuses right about now...

So yeah...the card...
It's a "just because I knew as soon as I saw this stamp that I was gonna make this card as a celebration of the wasted student years of two siblings" just because kinda card.
He started singin' when he opened it...

Right, I'm off - typing all that with only one working eye was rather tricky. If this gooeyness carries on much longer I shall be taking Annie's advice and making myself an eye patch. Probably a pink gingham one. With bling and ribbons...
Hugs,

Just in case anyone fancies a little sing-a-long {c'mon, you're singing it already aren't ya?} here's Ms Simon's original version.
Ya ready? One, two, three...
"You walked into the party, like you were walking onto a yacht.
Your hat strategically dipped below one eye, your scarf it was apricot..."

Monster Singer love...

A big thank you to you all for the get well wishes - I'm slightly improved, but still kinda yucky lookin'!

I'm joined today by the li'l Horror - he marched out of bed this morning and informed me that "I'm not going to school today. In a few weeks I'll be 5 and when you're 5 you have to go to school. So I've decided that while I'm still 4, I'm going to have a day off. Most 4 year olds haven't even started school yet so it does seem fair. And I do have a cough *insert cough* OK?"
I was too gooey eyed to argue...

So this morning we made a new sock monster...

...and when I realised that my stitching was no more wonky with one working eye than it is with two, I finished off this little rag doll I've been making for my niece. The poor li'l thing's been waiting for her arms to be sewn on and her trousers to be stitched up for about a month...

*sigh*

Love you my lovely Singer...
(even if there is a rather freakish looking peg doll sat on you at the mo - li'l Horror tells me it's art...)

Have a happy day :D

Bunny stitches...

Hey peeps :D
First up, I have to confess that there's not a whole lot of crafting going on here at the mo - I have a wicked eye infection (so ucky I'm starting to wonder if my eye actually died and is now starting to rot...) and am scared to get creating in case I drip eye goo all over everything...ooooops, apologies to anyone who may have regarded that as a bit too much information - hey, I like to share ;D

Anyways, here's a very quick card I stuck together for one of the li'l Horrors buddies...

Not much to say 'bout it really - it's a teeny-tiny one because li'l Horror found a couple of mini sized scraps of this old K&Co paper and insisted I use them along with the cutie bunny (He's on sale for only £3 at DTDF - bargainous!). I decided to get stitchy and play along with the latest Saturday Crafter challenge too :D

Catch ya soon peeps,

Dydd Dewi Sant Hapus...

...or Happy St. David's day for non-Welsh speakers ;D
Only a quickie post from me today - I have a stack of Welsh cakes to eat...ooops, I meant make...

So here's a speedy li'l card using the very fab sketch over at Anyone for Anya and the very cute Edward - he can be found at Dies to Die For here along with these delish MMe papers here

Thanks, as always, for coming by to say hello and apologies for not hopping by any one's blog over the past few days - life just gets so annoyingly busy sometimes... ;D

Catch y'all laters,

Remember the gate-fold card "how-to" I did here?
Thought I'd link up some gorgeous examples that have been made :D
Cheryl's is here,
Kellie's is here (and I just spotted another one here!,
Maria Therese's is here
and Kylie has one here...

Thank you for providing me with such scrummy eye-candy girls...anyone else who has made one who wants linking up, just lemme know :D