And the winner is............

I have drawn the winner of my birthday blog candy

It is poster number 3, who by my reckoning is Mar G - well done missus! 

Should I or shouldn't I?

Am debating the pro's and con's of making this quick and incredibly dangerous recipe that Dawn posted on her blog. Am not on a diet as such, as I don't believe in them - but I am trying to stick to reasonably healthy eating to lose weight, so its probably not a good idea. BUT I want to try it out of sheer nosiness.

oh what to do! lol

I managed to get a bit of time last night to have a go at 3rd Sugar Bowl Challenge, this time the theme is "Love and Romance"

I used some pink core'dinations card from the Black Magic collection as a card blank - its very effective with the black on the outside and the pink on the inside of the card. I used the swiss dots embossing folder to emboss the front of the card in the cuttlebug, I then distressed the raised areas and the edges with the Basic Grey files. I coloured the image "Claudia the artist" with letraset promarkers, and watercolour pencils to do the shading. The image, the mat and the greeting spot was cut using the labels 1 nestabilities. I added 3 red papermania brads to the bottom right hand corner of the image. Distressed the edges of the mat with the BG files. Added a rub-on to the greeting spot. I used some heart shaped metal shapes from papermania as charms, attaching them with thin gold-coloured wire and black brads from papermania.

That's my valentines card for Graham done - woohoo

I struggled a wee bit to begin with, with this challenge as I don't have any particularly lovey dovey or valentine-y stamps. But I thought Claudia has a kinda sexy alluring feel to her so that would do just fine.

Pinch and a punch

for the first of the month....... and no returns.

haha, I know - I'll just never grow up lol

well I have just spent the whole day cleaning and sorting out Faith's room - what a job! You couldn't see the carpet before I started - but its all done, all the toys are sorted into their sets and tidied away together - I give them half an hour before its wrecked again.

Took the kids to burger king as I really couldn't be bothered cooking tonight - dunno what I'm going to have for tea though. I know this sounds awful, but there's no way I'd eat that rubbish from BK.

Both the girls are quite tired already - so fingers crossed I can get them to bed early and have an evening to myself

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This a heads-up for anyone feeling the credit crunch. Lets face it, there isn't a whole lot of spare cash at the moment, so Emma has come up with the idea of an image swap blog. So she's looking for 25 people to get things kicked off,and the action starts next weekend.

I've signed up, and if you're into stamping but feeling the pinch then you should do the same. Just click on the logo below.

And this is how it works: 

the 25 team members post once every two weeks over the same weekend offering images to other bloggers, (each individual can offer 10 images to however many people they want)
The 'winners' can swap images,papers,ribbons etc by contacting the stamparound team member and they would organise between themselves via email.

So its a great way of getting some lovely stamped images without the expense of forking out for the rubber in these tough times.