Singing for your supper....

So, knowing how much I struggle with these things, my lovely friend Magaly tagged me with this award. But being the awesome person that she is, she changed-up the rules before passing it on lol

So instead of sharing 7 random things about myself, I have to share some (and I quote) "sugary sweetness" that has occurred in my life recently.....

so I give you "PUDDING"

This was a lovely refreshing dessert I made last week :D

A meringue nest filled with strawberry ice cream, blackberries fresh from the garden simmered with a little sugar, poured over and a lovely heap of whipped cream! Doesn't come much sugarier or sweeter than that....and the warm syrup melted the meringue, turning it into chewy toffeeness :D

One specially happy thing that happened though this week, was receiving these fabulous Paper Artsy stamps from another friend Darcy

 They are called "mini" but each stamp is about 2 and a half inches in length :D

Thought I'd try using chalky paint for a change. These are test pots from a DIY store, £1.10 each so no major outlay there lol

Using a piece of heavy grey board (also Paper Artsy, which Darcy kindly included for me to play with), I did a quick "smudgy" background and then used the same paint to stamp the feathers with.

As the paint dried a lovely matt finish it was easy to stamp over with more PA stamps and Archival ink,

Before edging with Inka Gold wax in a green colour(have had it years) and a hint of black ink. 

The stamp set that the sentiment came from also has this wonderful image, which I thought would make an interesting topper. I stamped it onto some supersmooth card, painted with the same paints as the background, and cut out.

Before adding the topper, I wanted to make it stand out a little more. I stamped the same image in position directly onto the background, and used it as a guide to add a dark shadow.

 Finally I added some metallic gold pen details and glossy accents to the wings and clock hands.

I feel I should be adding something more, but I don't want to cover all the lovely feather impressions, so for now it is done...as am I :D

I would like to enter this tag for Manon's Paper Saturdays challenge :D 

Enjoy XXX

Gosh Another award!

Yesterday I recieved another blog award, this time from the lovely Babs aka Day Dream Stamper. Thank you so much Babs!!! I'm supposed to pass it on to 7 people, but I struggled on choosing 5 yesterday cos I always feel so guilty at not giving them to everyone else. So I hope no one minds if I just keep this one for myself today :D XXX

Thank you for the awards !!

I have been given this award by two lovely ladies this week, 1st by Sarah, who is a wonderful "busy" mum who somehow manages to find time to make gorgeous crafty projects, and then today by Claire, who is an amazing crafter, using so many different styles n techniques. Please visit them and leave some love, cos they both work really hard and deserve great praise :D

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I have to tell you 3 things about myself, mmmmm.... where to start?
1. I can't drive or ride a bike! Couldn't stop to look at the flowers on the roadside if I did :D
2. I have recently started attending a "Spiritualist Meeting" (Very interesting!!)
3. I nearly died last year, they told hubby to sleep by the phone and wait for "the call", but they forgot to tell me so I didn't bother :D

Now I have to show you one of my fav photo's. This was the 1st proper day out after the hospital incident. It was the Spring equinox, and the light was absolutley amazing!!! There we photographers everywhere! The pic is of Hubby, Shorty and Chunky Monkey all walking ahead of me in our fav family haunt (the trees have been farmed)

Now I have to choose 5 people to pass this award on to.
1: Stef aka Glitterbabe, for having a "wickeder" sense of humour than I have :D
2: Barb at Haunted Design House, for her awesome Macabre Mondays challenge(well creepy):D
3: June at Dezinaworld, for all the freebies she gives us to work with :D
4:Rachel aka Queen La Rubba for working so hard to make everyone else happy:D
5: The Team at Something Completely Different, for giving us just that :D
All of these ladies are real troopers who work hard to entertain us and are just lovely people!!
Keep spreading the love XXX