Happy Birthday Billbo

Its my son's birthday tomorrow. (happy birthday Billbo, love you xx) I wasn't sure what sort of card to make for him. fast cars?....he definiately likes those, football?....he definiately likes that, beer?......lets not even go there lol so i suppose he's easy really but i didnt go for any of these. His new hobby is fishing. i think this has more to do with spending time with his brother and the beer cooler than the fish.
                                                                  so here is his card

I've used a hanglar image and coloured it using copics

                                                        and of course it is an easel card.



                                                  i thought the little fimo fish worked well

                                               

 i made the sad little worm and hook myself, just freehand drawing and some glossy accents, very simple.

thanks for visiting my blog and for any comments which are always appreciated.

thank you.

hugs suzanne x

A friend like you.

hi crafty friends,

here is a card for all of you!

i've made this card using one of the stamps from the birthday candy i won over at Here Come the Boys.

i love it and its so easy to colour.

I've used my copics.

the sentiment is from a set called Be Happy sentiments from AmyR stamps

have you noticed my new card stand too? its so cute, clear acrylic and 99p from the Range, what a bargain.

i am going to enter this card into a couple of challenges

Emergency Crafters challenge

and

Stampavie

hope you like this card as much as i liked making it.

well the sun is out in full glory so i'm off to the garden now.

dilema......

should i do gardening jobs or take my pens and images outside and do some colouring?

aww its a toughie!

enjoy your day whatever your plans.

hugs suzanne x

Happy 1st Anniversary

Congratulations today to my son and his wife on their first wedding anniversary. wow this year has flown by.

we had a lovely family day yesterday talked about how wonderful the wedding was and looked at the photo's again. it really was a fairytale wedding!

congratulations Gemma and Billy, we are so proud of you both. xx

so, of course i had to make an anniversary card didnt i and here it is,

I tried to keep it simple and used the wedding colours.

the material was saved from the wedding flowers so i thought that would be a great  way to use some of it.

im not too clever with the computer but i even managed to make an insert!

and of course it needed a matching box.

im pleased with the result and gemma loved it.

couldn't resist adding another wedding photo before i end todays post.

i love the way my son is looking over at his brother who was his bestman. talk about two pea's in a pod!

ok, enough family stuff, next post will be back to just crafting.

thanks for looking.

suzanne2 (proud mum) lol



Jubilee Weekend

well what an interesting weekend!

i wish every weekend could be 4 days long.

We had a lovely day out visiting our eldest son and DIL insisted we stayed for dinner. she cooked a lovely roast and we watched the boats sail along the thames from the comfort of their sofa's.

i did worry about the queen getting  cold but she looked like she had a nice day too.

we had another day out,  but this time we didnt have far to go, our youngest son and his GF invited us to dinner and as they only live next door we didnt have to worry about the traffic.

another lovely yummy dinner. i could get used to this.

I did manage to do some crafting while hubby was off out on his walkabouts but i also managed to get the dreaded ironing out the way so i dont have that nagging at the back of my mind. lol

so on to todays project which is June's calender page for papercraftpat.

of course it had to be a jubilee page!

i can't think what else i will use these british papers for though.

it really has been a nice weekend and one i won't forget for a long time.

suzanne x

Love you Dad

Oh no not another easle card?

yesssss! they are my favorites at the moment lol

i used a nice large circle die from GoKreate for this one. i got them from Cuttingedge crafts. (big pat on the back for them, always great service)

papers are Complete Boy stack from craftsuperstore.

the cute image is from Mo's digital pencil. i love this image, i can remember hanging on to my dad's leg like this and trying to get him to have a day off work. lol

it never worked, dad used to work 6 and half days a week and then spend sunday afternoon gardening.

i am going to enter this card into the challenge over at Here come the Boys

baby cards

Two little cute cards today. neighbours baby arrived last week and we wasn't sure if it would be a girl or boy so i made both cards so they would be ready for the new arrival.

Sienna is adorable so we used the pink card of course.

Now we just need a boy for this little blue card.

I've coloured the images with copics. the image is louie with bear from digistamp boutique and i will enter these cards into their challenge.

i guess i better start dinner before posting my next card. i've had such a crafty day today!

back later

suzanne x

Happy birthday Michael

hi all,

today is my babies birthday, i can't believe he's 26 years old already!

im not old enough to have  grown up son's lol

both my boys have decided they need a new hobby and have taken up fishing. i think the beer cooler was a bit of an attraction. lol

so i've used the new hobby as the theme for michael's card

i've used another TeddyBo image. i love this little bear.

coloured him with copics and used Complete Boy papers.

and of course i used my favorite easle shape.

i bought the flat backed fish from wallmarts a few years ago and i knew they would be handy ......one day!

off to watch the footie now with my boys and the results go the way they want them too then we will have a nice birthday dinner and cake! yummy.

i will enter this card into the challenge at Here come the Boys

and Lollipop cards

Cards for Men

WOHOO!!!!

my card made top 3 at 'her come the boys' oh i am one happy bunny today!

added bonus, i won becky's birthday blog candy too......can today get any better?

happy happy happy!