Sporting Greetings

ell it is now Thursday, nearly at the end of the week, and also time for a new challenge over at Aud Sentiments. Our challenge theme this time is BINGO and here is our BINGO board:

 

We are sponsored by Dr Digi's House of Stamps for this challenge, just pop over to the blog to see what the prize is for this challenge. Please do remember to add a sentiment to your creation (this could be hidden within the card, but we do need to see it).

I have used Dunderton Academicals FC for my easel card: (BINGO - Ribbon/Digi/Die-cut and 3d item/digi/Markers)

I folded the front panel of a pastel 6x6 base to create an easel base. The image was coloured with Promarkers and then I used X-cut large ovals nesting dies for the image and the green backing paper, which I added to the easel part of the card. To one side of this I added a helmet from my stash. A blue ribbon was added just under the fold, and a bow added to the side of the image. For the bottom of the card I used a papermania sentiment and two football embellishments and 3D foam pads.

I would like to enter my card for the following challenges:

 Card Mania #93 Buttons/Bows

Cute as a button #35 For the boys

CCM #190 For a special man/boy

PFP #399 Add a sentiment
craftycalender - boys will be boys

I also have a dino update for you all - now at 30.5 hours (or just over 120hrs for the whole thing):

And some of my bits that I am growing indoors:

 Firstly my indoor tomatoes and chillies - they were all overwintered, but the tomatoes are just too big, and as I have not got an allotment as yet I think they are highly unlikely to produce any fruit - but the chillies are just starting to flower.

 My money plant, who is insisting on producing lots of little money plants to share the pot with!

 The oranges off my little citrus tree - the lighter is so you can see the size of them! (Not actually sure if they are edible).

My lemongrass growing well in the guest bathroom.

Thank you for stopping by, and hope to see you joining in with our challenges,

Hugz Tinz

An extra large birthday wish

Now onto my second post for today, announcing our new challenge over at Creative Moments. As always we are an Anything Goes challenge blog, but this time we have the optional twist of adding a flag to your card. We are sponsored by the lovely Bugaboo and Torytale for this challenge.

I have used Spring Clyde for my creation and added the flag as part of the sentiment:

I coloured Clyde in using watercolour pencils, which I chose to add water to in some places to blend the colours, but left just as pencil in other areas. I added a starbust background before printing, and then die-cut using a scalloped circle from the X-cut nesting dies. I then layered him onto some bright patterned paper. The numbers were bought from Hobbycraft (this is an A4 card, so the card is actually quite heavy with the numbers on). To make the flag I stamped the sentiment from the new Creative Stamping magazine in green ink, then folded this round a cocktail stick. I then used silver glitter glue to paint the stick and attach to the card base.

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Simon Says Stamp monday - Touchy Feely (glittered numbers are very rough)

Crafting by Designs - Things with Wings

ATSM #246 Anything Goes

Hanna and Friends #275 Summer (summer colours and image)

Simply Create Too #128 Summer Fun

Dradonfly Dreams - Add Sparkle

Animal Friends #51 Animal with wings

I would also like to share an update on my Christmas Fairies too @ 33hr 17:

Here also is Simba, who wanted some new photographs taking:

Thank you once again for coming and looking at my blog,

Hugz Tinz

The Big Monochrome

Hi there,

Welcome to another Wednesday, these months are going by so quickly at the moment! We have another new challenge for you over at I Love Promarkers, and our theme this time is Monochromatic. Please do let us know what range of Letraset pens you have used for the creation. Our fab sponsor this time is The Paper Shelter . I have used The Bride for my creation:

I used a geometric papermania card base as this was the correct colours for the card. I layered two bands of lace across the bottom of the card front.The bride was coloured with Promarkers and layered onto Anita's gold card. I added this at a quirky angle so that the flowers would fit on nicely. The bloomers are from the Linen colour collection from papermania. I added a fussy cut tag to the bottom and some gems to the centre of the bloomers, to match the brides hair colour.

Promarkers used - Lavender, Winter Berry, Cool Grey 1, Satin, Dusky Pink, March Hare and Oatmeal.

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Crafting by Designs Anything Goes

The Card Concept #75 Bold and Graphic (Clean and layered)

 

Inspired by the creams and beiges with geometric patterns and a slight pop of brighter colour

CAGI - Weddings

I would also like to share an update of my fish tank @ 146hr 34:

I also have a couple more goose pictures from the nearby lakes.

And I actually have another Audio Book review for you also!

The Big Four by Agatha Christie

A Poirot mystery that is a little different from the usual. Poirot is facing a powerful group and is determined to figure out who they are and how to stop them from getting away with murder and exploitation. He has his old friend back from South America for a time and so they work together to get to the bottom of the mystery. As they are not figuring out a single event this story is a little more open than usual and also does not give the readers insight into things that would be unknown. This is helped by the first person viewpoint that is adopted.

However, all I could think of whilst listen to the story was that it seemed a lot like a Sherlock comedy. The great detective has a very dumb sidekick, who doesn’t think he is dumb, and lives in a flat where the landlady shows people up to his room and looks after him. After looking into this it does not seem that it was ever supposed to have been based upon Sherlock, but that is certainly how it comes across. I would only read or listen to this book if you are looking for a light-hearted crime story with a lot of comedy in it.

Thank you for looking,

Hugz Tinz

Gardening Granddad

It has been a mixed bag with the weather this week - sunny one moment then torrential rain and heavy wind the next! I am just hoping that it is a little nicer for this weekend as I am going to the Think Parrots show down in London!

I have a card to share with you which I have made for hubbies Granddad for Father's Day:

I used a heavily patterned card blank to give the impression of  a full garden in summer. I then added a strawberry panel to this using the Papermania Country Life patterned paper, and rounding the edges, after first adding a blue flower ribbon pennant to one side. I then added a strawberry panel from the same paper range and added some gardening stickers from out of my stash. I also had these carrot stickers left over from when I bought my ovo cage for the mice. Finally I added a tag to bring a mmore masculine element to the card and wrote Granddad on it in gold pen.

I would like to enter this card for the following challenges:

AHS #215

 

Cute Card Thursday #481 Boys/Men

 CCM #190 For a special man

Crafty Calender - Boys will be Boys

I alos have some random pictures from up by where we have a little dyke. I was looking for dragonflies and damselflies, but I did find these:

I would also like to share an update on my fishtank - 146hr34

Thank you for looking,

Hugz Tinz

Quirky Things with Wings

Hello again everybody,

The sunshine has suddenly come out - I have been off work and having to go out and about and it has rained all day. This means my garden stuff has not been done that I wanted to do today although I have spent more time with my little birds (they are having issues at the moment and so I am trying to figure out what the problem is :(, but one of them is fine now and the others seem more settled). I have however managed to plant up my Cali Wonder pepper plants - 8 potted on and another two still a little small whoop.

I also have something coming into the garden in the early hours and removing my feeders from the feeding station, throwing them on the floor and running off with the fat balls. As yet I haven't been able to establish what is doing this. I looked out this morning and the fat ball feeder was on the floor, went to do my ablutions, looked out the window again and in that time period the seed feeder had been thrown on the floor!

Anyway onto the crafty quirky winged creatures lol. We have a new challenge over at Quirky Crafts, and this will be our last challenge for a couple of months due to some unforseen circumstances and not enough DT members - so if you are interested in joining our little group do drop an email. You will be required to host the occasional challenge though. So our June challenge is Things With Wings.

We have two lovely sponsors for this challenge. The first is  Limited Runs. They have a progressive challenge running at the moment and I have used the Steampunk Bug for this challenge on my quirky card.

I coloured him with Promarkers and used X-cut nesting oval dies to cut the shapes. The holographic paper was in my stash, and the sentiment was just typed on the computer and means 'Don't let the B***ards grind you down', which I thought was great for this guy!

This particular card I would like to enter into the following challenges:

.Limited Runs progressive challenge

Cute as a button #35 One for the boys

 ATSM #244 CAS

Cute Card Thursday #480 Bugs and Butterflies

Our second sponsor is Bugaboo Stamps and I used last weeks Friday Freebie - Spring Bird - again coloured with Promarkers and then layered over several scraps of patterned paper - both printed from a Digital Delights Boofle CD-Rom:

This card I would like to enter into the following challenges:

TIOT - Feathered Friends

Alphabet Challenge - F for Feathered Friends

Crafty Catz #373 Summer Time

And I believe that both of these cards are suitable for:

Addicted to stamps #149 Animals

Catch the bug - Anything Goes

Animal Friends #51 Animals with wings

I would also like to share an update on my Dino height chart - now at a total of 119.5 hours (just under 30hrs for the second dino)

And some actual quirky things with wings lol:

Thank you for popping along to read my blog,

Hugz Tinz

Boofle and Bond

Hi there,

I was playing about on my computer yesterday and created two cards. One I used a single digital image that I got free with a magazine quite a while ago and then added a sentiment peel-off (actaully letters as I didn't have that particular sentiment) and some stamps.

I also added peel-off hearts - and because my printer is playing up there was toner all over the inside of the card - to hide this I used soe Forever Friends patterned and glittered paper:

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

As You Like It - fav reason to make cards - they are great for special occasions!

Addicted-to-stamps #149 Animals

Country View #52 Hearts

And my second card was made using the Boofle CD-Rom and some Christmas embelishments from my stash:

And I would like to add this card for the following challenges:

Merry Monday #250 Rustic Christmas (the feel of the Boofle design I think is quite rustic)

Allsorts 418 Christmas in June

I have stitched the next initials for the next birthday card:

And here are my two little blue birdies too:

Thank you for looking,

Hugz Tinz

Shaking it on the Beach for Summer

Wednesday passed in a blur - why do your days off always seem to go so quickly, but work days drag out so much. Having to do this blog post quick as I am due in work at 11am and don't get back until after 9pm. But it is our new challenge over at Aud Sentiments, and this time the theme is Summer. It may be the case that summer has now been and gone in the UK (hope not - my courgettes want time to grow lol), but here is my shaker card that I have made for the occassion, using Surfer Avery from our sponsor Paper Nest Dolls.

I die-cut the aperture out of the front of a white card base, and also some blue pearlised card using X-cut large labels nesting dies. I coloured Avery with Promarkers - Gold, Peach, Bright Orange, Tequila sunrise, Ruby, Oatmeal, March Hare, Polar Blue, Arctic Blue, Blue Pearl and Lime Twist.
Acetate was added behind the blue frame and this was adhered over the aperture in the card base and sequins placed inside. Avery was then layered into the frame and stuck down with washi tape, to make the inside neat. Joanna Sheen seaguls dies were used on the blue card, and the toy ducks on X-cut self-adhesive glitter paper. The Dolphin was already in my stash. These were layered onto the front of the acetate to add some dimension.

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

PFP 397 Kinetic card (mine is a shaker)

Die Cutting Divas #319 Anything Goes

CCEE1722 Include a Hole

C4C387 Summer Destination

Kort 'o' Mania #177 Maritime

CAGI - Nautical

I would also like to share an update on my Dino height chart @ almost 29hrs

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And here are some lovely little babies at our local wetlands reserve:

Thank you for looking at my blog and hope to see you joining us at Aud Sentiments - just remember that all important sentiment!!

Hugz Tinz