winner, castle and cards

Hi Cyber buddies
I hope you're well and happy and not too soggy from this 'lovely' spring weather!!

Did you all enjoy the Banana Frog blog hop? I loved all the other froglets inspirations and am proud to work alongside such a talented bunch of girls! Thankyou for all your lovely comments and welcome to all my lovely new followers :) With that said and without further ado I am here to announce the winner of my 'I've got a brand new blog' giveaway ... drum roll please! ..... it's Mustavcoffee Please can you email me (addy on my profile) your address and your box of goodies will be winging it's way to you :)

It's been a busy week again, as I said in a previous post we were away at the weekend for 2 funerals and a 21st birthday. All very emotional and lots of travelling and Stan's first road trip!!! He was a perfect doggy though and I was so very proud of him. I will get the pictures ready to show you of his trip to the stream with his 2 new best friends Maisy and Martha ... HILARIOUS!!!

Moving on, I've been on catch up with myself and been a crafting fool ... just for a change and also trying to catch up on sleep and put the house straight after the recent mayhem! A lovely email really lifted my spirits though the other day and I must share. It came from a happy customer who has purchased some of my DIY projects recently and she sent me these fabulous pictures of her finished Princess fairy castle. I love her interpretation and it really made me smile.







Becky thanks for sharing and also for directing me to Hubby's website Craftaholicsupplies .... too many goodies to tempt me :)

Looking back over my posts I realise, not only do I use too many exclamation marks!!! but I am very good at telling you I've done this and that and promising to share pics .... then never doing it! So I am on catch up with some past projects :) For this post I will share some of my cards that I made for Creative Expressions and the lovely Sheena Douglass to take on Create and Craft. They are made with the new spellbinders borderbilities and of course lots of distress ink, cosmic shimmer paints and Sheenas fab stamps.....
These are my favourites ....













This one is done with spellbinders XL scalloped rectangles



Now I feel like I don't keep lying to you LOL!!!
I guess I better stop waffling now but before I go I have a quick

And Finally...



Stan on his first river trip, you can just see Martha making good her escape and that's Maisy smiling at the camera!



Stan was soooo exhausted after his road trip LOL



and look who it is ... Oliver Pickles .... more on him soon but shhhhh Stan doesn't know yet LOL

As always thanks for stopping by and I'll *see you* soon so until then Happy Crafting

Love
M x

Stamping style challenge!

Hey cyber buddies .... I know I hear you cry 'she's blogged within the week' LOL wonders never cease and miracles do happen!!!

I thought I'd drop by and share this .....



My Lily pad lesson. A very easy technique that looks super stylish and the full step by step instructions with photos are here.

AND while you are over at the Lilypad check out the new style challenge .... get stamping with your Banana Frog stamps, create a lovely spring project, share it with us and you could win not 1, not 2 but 3sets of gorgeous Banana Frog stamps. You have until midnight GMT 10th March so why not treat yourself to some crafting 'you' time over the weekend and get stamping .... good luck ..... can't wait to see what you create!

On other crafty matters .... I've been scrapping!!!! it feels like an age since I created pages and I had lots of fun .... I'll share pics soon.

I've also been creating samples for Sheena Douglass for her spell binders shows with creative expressions on Create and craft. The shows were crazy busy, I don't know how Sheena kept up! I'll share pics of my cards soon too :)

I hope you're all well and happy, Just a quicky from me to let you know what's happening at the Lilypad .... I'll be back soon ... maybe I actually will be too!

Until then
Happy crafting (and stamping!!)

Love
M x

Home, jet lag and Creativity Knocks!

Hi Cyber buddies I am back in Blighty!!!! Well I’ve been back since Monday night actually but jet lag and catching up with meetings and deadlines has taken up my time but I thought it was high time I stopped by to say hello and share some ‘stuff’ with you!

So 1st I’ll share a quick whistle stop tour of the rest of my FABULOUS Mexican holiday!



I topped up on creativity in Playa Del Carmen



We did have rain … and I mean rain! Wow those tropical storms are amazing so what else was a girl to do but go downtown to visit the craft and material shops ….. oh! the ribbon and lace :)



We spent a fabulous day topping up on some Mexican culture and spirit at Xcaret



We took another trip to Isla Mujeres and had a great time driving round it on a golf buggy. We went to the art garden and temple Ixchel, then sat and drank cocktails looking at it before this happened ….



Yep another storm coming and believe me when I say we nearly drowned on that golf buggy! …. Hilarious!
And in between all those events we ate good food in the Palapa Belga, and lots of other restaurants. Drank beer on the beach, swam, chilled and laughed …. FABULOUS!!!!!



Then we came home … HOW PIGGIN COLD???????? Not a great pic but it makes me laugh! I haven’t been warm since I got back!!!! That’ll teach me!

And so Adios or should I say Hasta Luego Mexico and Hello Blighty and back to creativity! Oh how I have missed you …. And I have a head fit to burst with creative ideas following all the Mexican influence and CHA to boot! 1st up is …..



My Lily pad lesson (formerly known as Stamp School, Lily pad lesson sounds so much more fun don’t you think?) and it can be found on the Banana Frog blog here with step by step destructions as always! Did you enter the DT call???? If you did good luck, if not if you’re a speedy stamper go for it deadline is tomorrow (14th) New things coming at the lily pad too, all exciting stuff so stay tuned!



Today I taught the first of my monthly workshops for 2010 at Bee Crafty



We did my birdhouse project and had such a great day. All the ladies that attended were lovely and were great with me when the pesky jet lag hit LOL Thanks all for making it a great day and to the lovely girls at Bee Crafty ….. I love coming to see you. There are still places available for next months Putting on the Glitz workshop, book quickly!

I’ve been working on my visit to Olympia for the craft and stitch show. Got your tickets??? If not visit here and get them cheaper than on the door and while you’re there book up for one of my workshops. I am doing one at 11am and one at 2.45pm every day of the show 18th-21st March. If you can’t make a workshop please drop by my booth and say hi, I’ll give you a stand number soon :)

And lastly!!!!



Remember the video I told you I filmed at CHA? Presenting the oh so fabulous Purple Cows freestyle mouse kit (soon to be available in the UK watch out for freebies :)) Well it is now live on the creativity knocks website eek!!!! Please pop over and take a peek here. It will stop and start as you download and then will play straight through and while you’re there PLEASE register on the site, it’s quick and painless and once you’ve done that PLEASE give Purple Cows your vote in the Great Tool Hunt, it really is a SUPERB tool (and besides you’ll earn me brownie points with the bosses :)) Go on you know you want to!!!!

Ok cyber buddies before you fly off to Creativity Knocks I’ll say a quick goodbye, I have a workshop with the awesome Sheena Douglass tomorrow yay me!!!! And as of Tuesday, for all of you that have moved house with me from my website blog to here my ‘and finally’s’ will be back as I am going to fetch our adorable and much missed Stanley Dervish home form his holidays with my parents and Ruby his sister in Yorkshire …. Can’t wait!

Thanks for stopping by ….. I will endeavour to be back more regularly as ‘normal life’ (whatever that is!!) gets under way so my posts won’t be so epic LOL
Hope you’re all well and happy and until soon ‘happy crafting!’

Love
M x