GREAT POST

I actually had some post yesterday - although it wasn't through Royal Mail - lol! - it was some scrapbooking stash I'd ordered as I'm in the middle of a scrapbook commission for a 60th Birthday. It was great to have all those goodies in the name of Work!!! It does stop me from having time to do other crafting though, so must get on!

THURSDAY'S CHALLENGE

THURSDAY'S CHALLENGE IS NOW OVER ON MY CHALLENGE BLOG SITE


A CHANCE TO WIN SOME BLOG CANDY THIS WEEK SO POP ALONG

www.magickdivasthursdaychallenge.blogspot.com

AND JOIN IN FOR A CHANCE TO WIN A CHERRY PIE ART STAMP.

INCHIES

Over at Cherry Pie Yahoo group we are organising an inchy swap - this is the first one I've done and I'll be so excited to receive everyone's art. The theme was travel and the only stipulation is that you only use Cherry Pie Stamps - unfortunately I don't have any of their fabulous travel stamps so I had think outside the box a little bit. I chose to use the Moon Stamp and the fairy as in Fly Me To The Moon! The fairy is embossed in silver, the man in the moon is stamped in black and La Luna stamped in purple. We had to make 16.

I'm going to put them into the Wednesday Stamper challenge too which is also doing inchies.

THURSDAY CHALLENGE

I've put my Thursday Challenges on a separate blog

www.magickdivasthursdaychallenge.blogspot.com

All entries for IN THE PINK are displayed. Hope to see you there tomorrow for a new Thursday Challenge.

TAGGED

I've been tagged by Deb http://countrylovincardmaker.blogspot.com/ and by Crissi http://random-ramblings-of-a-crafter.blogspot.com/ with the same tag!!!

Here are the rules

''Here are the rules which you must abide by if you are tagged.1. Link to your tagger and post these rules.2. Share 7 facts about yourself: some random, some weird.3. Tag 7 people at the end of your post and list their names (linking to them).4. Let them know they've been tagged by leaving a comment at their blogs.''

1. I used to be a bilingual secretary speaking both French and German
2. I first sang on stage at the age of 11 as Wendy in Peter Pan and had to fly around the stage, bumping into scenery and singing at the same time LOL!
3. I sing opera in my spare time and my favourite role was as Violetta in La Traviata
4. I suffer from claustraphobia and had to learn to overcome my fear of lifts when the children were little
5. I lived in Texas for three years
6. Ever since I had the children, I seem to cry at the slightest thing, sad films, books, sad stories
7. I appeared on Ready Steady Cook in 1995 and won!

7 blogpals to tag next -

Julie - http://www.scrapping-away.blogspot.com/
Caroline - http://www.madebycaroline.blogspot.com
Joanne - http://madebyjoanne.blogspot.com
Ros - http://stampandscrape.blogspot.com
Paula - http://minibookpixie.blogspot.com
Andrea - http://andreabrownjohn.blogspot.com
Em - http://blushes-emma.blogspot.com/

HOPE SEES A STAR AUCTION

Marina, who designs and owns Cherry Pie Stamps had let me know of a very worthwhile auction that was being held - - it was called the Hope Sees a Star auction and you can read more about it here. http://www.zne-store.citymax.com/Home.html What the organisers of this auction were trying to do really touched me and I wanted to be able to help in some small part.

I am delighted that I won my bid and am going to be the proud owner of some fabulous artwork, thanks to the generosity of the artist Colette Copeland.

Here's what I've won! Isn't it just amazing!

SKINNY SATURDAY CHALLENGE - WINGS

This is a new Challenge site that has started and I like to support the challenges. http://sarahsskinnysaturdaychallenge.blogspot.com/

This one was entitled Wings. I saw this quote on someone else' work , sorry can't remember who, but email me if it was you and I'll post you credit on here. But the quote stuck in my head as I love this song by Randy Crawford! I just think this angel stamp is looking so wistful as if she wishes she could fly away. Don't we all feel like that sometimes?

DARING CARDMAKERS - POSTCARD

Daring Cardmakers challenged us to make a postcard and send it - bad timing really with the postal strike!

Here's mine - Used my Cherry Pie Stamp for the pen, Stampin Up for the images and don't know the background script stamp.

Alphabet Stamper - O

I've turned French just for this challenge so that I can use Oiseau (French for bird)! I've used this stamp before but its such a versatile one - the extra challenge was to do something autumnal but with no orange or red. I love using stamps when you can detail extra parts of the stamp as in the bird here.

CMU - SHOE CHALLENGE

The Challenge over at CMU this week was shoes - I didn't think I had anything suitable for this challenge and then remembered I bought some Tanda Stamps last week which had shoes on them. Eureka! As they say - LOL - so I did this:

Arty Girlz Challenge - TAGS

The challenge over on Arty Girlz this week was Tags - I only just managed to get one done in time.

WEDNESDAY STAMPER - AUTUMN COLOURS

Wednesday Stamper set the challenge of autumn colours. This is one of my favourite times of the year - I love the colours of autumn, browns, greens, golds, reds. I love to make chutneys and pickles and get the puddings and mincemeat ready for Christmas. I love walking in the woods and collecting conkers and chestnuts to roast on the chiminea in the garden. I wish I were more adventurous to pick mushrooms, but I'll leave that to the professionals!

INCHING ARTISTS

Inching Artists challenge this week was to produce something with a RUST appearance. I managed to find some dead heather leaves in my garden, which were just the right colour I was looking for- I twisted them together with copper wire and added them to a stamped background.

Sending a Guardian Angel for Nancy and her son Andrew

Read about it at http://fornancy.wordpress.com/

SATURDAY STAMPERS

The theme over at Saturday Stampers was DPOV - Different Points Of View - one stamp - two different styles of cards.

Here are mine - all stamps used are Cherry Pie.

Rosie's Buddy Bus Christmas Charity Cards

Here's another Christmas Card for Rosie's charity - as soon as the post men get back to work I can send them to her!

TMTA - MASK CHALLENGE

A Hallowe'en Mask Challenge over on TMTA - I've used orange and black colours and chosen one of my favourite Verdi operas - I actually sang in this one some years ago!

PINK PETTICOAT

I found this site while I was surfing the blogs - the way you do!!! LOL!!!

What a great site and a very generous offer if you sign up for her newsletter

http://www.pinkpetticoat.co.uk/newsletter_return.php

Thought you might all like to take a look if you don't know her work already - And a great story about how she started out!

STAMPIN UP UK

WOOHOO - ITS OFFICIAL - STAMPIN UP ARE COMING TO THE UK IN NOVEMBER THIS YEAR. I'VE BEEN WANTING TO BE AN SU DEMONSTRATOR EVER SINCE I LIVED IN TEXAS BUT, AS ONLY HUBBY HAD THE WORKING VISA, I WASN'T ALLOWED TO SIGN UP. NOW I CAN AND I CAN'T WAIT. SO WATCH THIS SPACE.................

One Card - Two Ways Challenge

http://stampinonthemountain.blogspot.com/ A challenge with a difference on Stampingranny's site - make one card that can be interpreted two ways.

Here's my entry - All materials used are Stampin Up!

NO NOT ANOTHER POSTAL STRIKE

Oh no - its official then - yet another postal strike and this could affect us for nearly a week!

Don't they know we have CJ's to post, and inchies and atc's and stash to get hold of!!!

What a bleak week it could be! Thank goodness for the internet!!!!

BLOG CANDY GET WELL COMPETITION

http://patsy-j.blogspot.com/ CHECK OUT PATSY'S BLOG FOR A COMPETITION TO WIN SOME GREAT PRIZES

HERE'S MY ENTRY:

MAGICKDIVA THURSDAY CHALLENGE - IN THE PINK

Well I guess the last challenge proved far too challenging then - so here's something a bit easier.

The clue is in the title IN THE PINK - show us anything you like, a layout, card, atc, with the main colour being pink!

That's it - quite simple

Rattytatty's Blog Giveaway

Take a trip over to http://www.rattytattysblog.blogspot.com/ and join in her give away blog candy. She's offering some gorgeous looking Christmas papers from The English Paper Company.

She also offers some of her own papers for downloading - how generous is that! (ps mention you saw it here when you go! he he!)

TANDA STAMPS COMPETITION - AUNTY'S FORUM

Over on Aunty's Forum - Tanda Stamps are running a Halloween Competition. I love Halloween - one of my favourite times of the year - with Yule close behind!

Sorry I didn't have any Tanda Stamps to use for this but hopefully they won't mind this time! Fingers crossed! lol!!!

Arty Girlz challenge

Here's my offering for the Arty Girlz challenge this week - something with flowers.

Feeling poorly

Sorry bloggers but not much from me the last few days - I've been feeling very poorly - hopefully I'll be back to normal soon.

Tuesday Inchy Challenge

The challenge this week was to do an inchy about what you see when you look in the mirror.

Here's mine - I see ME when I look in the mirror.