Double Whammy

Thought I'd show you two new samples today...boy am I spoiling you :-D The first one is Robyn on her pink shiney bike whizzing down a hill with her feet out. I had a vision of this from when I was a little girl. I loved my bike. I remember when my sister Tracey and I got them...it was on Christmas day I think I was 9 or 10. We went downstairs to the basement and there they were under the tree (well, not UNDER but you know what I mean lol) Mine was my favourite colour...purple...with a banana seat and a high bar at the back to lean against. It was THE coolest bike in the world and I rode it every minute I could. Those were the days lol. Anywho with those memories in mind I asked Matthew to come up with something to remind me of the 'old days' and he did it brilliantly!

Every time I look at this image I say 'wheeeeeeee' lol. My new buttons go perfectly with the pp.

Here's a close up of her bike...I used Glossy Accents to make it shine.

No little girl is complete without a sparkly skirt and hair bow!


Here's the fabulous Make A Wish Nikki ...Love her! :-D


I wonder what she is wishing for...

She's got such a pretty face.

I hope you like these new additions. Thank you for your lovely comments so far...I think I've converted a few non cat lovers lol!!

Catch ya later x

Magnum +

I got an email from Ryan this morning saying they arrived safely though his bag got lost between the airport and the bus journey to the hotel...not sure how that could happen??? The weather forecast for the two weeks leading up to their departure and up until Thursday of this week had been showers and thunder and lightening storms so you can imagine they were none too happy. But yesterday turned out really nice for them and guess what?? They both got burnt! That was part of 'mom's chat' but obviously they weren't listening or they were just pretending to lol. They were heading out last night but he said not to worry 'they'll behave'!

We had a barbecue last night with Nicole, Ben and a friend of theirs Tony. All was going well until I was slicing the onions and almost cut my finger off! I thought I'd have to get stitches as it took about 4 hours for it to stop bleeding. Luckily it's my left hand so I can still colour with no problem. Then today I was cutting small pieces of card on my guillotine and I almost cut my index finger on my left hand off. I'm not sure how that happened as there is a safety guard and again I was lucky as my nail got the brunt of it. Maybe someone's trying to tell me something?

This is the card I was working on at the time....

This is another Magnum but with a twist. The main image is Magnum holding his hand up but it will come with the birthday cake add-on the sentiment 'Wishing you a purr-fect birthday'. There will also be an add-on set with 7 mini images you can interchange and a Magnum sentiment set. I thought this would be a fun set to use and I'll post more samples using some of the other add-ons.




As I don't have the stamps yet I had to play around a bit to get the cake to sit on Magnums hand and it worked out quite well...eventually!


It's another beautiful day and I had a great walk with Rocky this morning. The heat really affects Ruby and she usually flops down in the middle of the road to rest so I only took her on a short walk. We have a road that goes all around our village we call the circuit and its roughly 3 kilometers. Nicole and Ben live at the half way point so we stopped there for a quick cold drink then set off back home. I thought Rocky's heart was going to jump out of his chest he was panting so much. I'm not sure how much longer this weather is going to last but fingers crossed we'll get a good run of it.

Well that's me...I've been in most of the afternoon so I'm going to sit out for a bit before it's time for dinner.


Thanks for stopping by.


Catch ya later x

Sod's Law

Isnt' it typical that when I have so much work to do for Monday the sun is shining like there's no tomorrow and the temperature is 23 degrees! I haven't been buried in my workroom the whole day...I took an hour out to sit in the sun and top up my fading tan :-) I don't need a lot of time in the sun to go brown which really bugs the heck out of my family and friends. I know it's not good for you but I do use a minimum of factor 15 on my body and 30 on my face and let's face it, we do feel better when we have a bit of colour.

Now I promised you a new image from a new illustrator and here she is....

This is Robyn and her illustrator is the very fantastic Matthew Harding. I'd wanted a little girl for ages (not a real one lol) and once I had Nikki and Ruby established I went on the hunt. Like with finding Moira I googled illustrators (what did we do before Google??!!) and went through dozens before I found Matthew. When I thought he was the one for the job I emailed him and that was that! We were a few weeks (4 to be exact but that's my fault because I'm so particular) getting her face right but once we did everything just flowed.

There are 8 different styles of Robyn...I can't wait to get the rest coloured up and show you!

I just love her...she's so stinkin' cute lol!

These epoxy dots have been a great find :-D

I hope you like Robyn....I would love to know what you think of her so drop me a comment.

I'm going to fire up the BBQ and get the burgers ready. Enjoy the sun but remember to wear your sun cream!!

Catch ya later x

Bye bye babies

My boys left this morning for Cancun {sniff, yay!} Sniff because I will miss them (who else is going to help with the dishes and take the dogs a walk??) and yay because there will be food in the fridge, the bathroom will be clean and the house will be tidy! All joking aside I did give them the 'mom chat' ... stick together, no fighting, don't drink too much you don't know what's going on around you, be careful with girls...don't want any surprises in 9 months time! Pierce just looked at me with a raised eyebrow when I said that last one but I just said if more parents spoke to their kids about these things there wouldn't be so many kids having kids!!

Enough of that chat...how about a new Nikki?

I think I'll call this one 'Gossip Nikki'....wha' d'ya think? Gorgeous!

I love Nikki's friends bob...very chic lol. I got my Copics out for this one and I'm quite pleased with how it turned out. I like the fact that the areas are quite big to colour so you can really get stuck in with blending and see the results.

Tomorrow I'll show you an image from a fabulous new illustrator I found....I think you'll love her!

Hope you have a great weekend and the sun shines wherever you are :-D

Catch ya later x

New images coming soon!

Finally! After much too-ing and fro-ing between Moira, Matthew and Allan (my very talented illustrators) and myself (chief colourer inner lol) over the last few months, I have got some fabulous new images...fingers crossed they'll be landing on my doorstep week commencing June 14th. Over the next few weeks I'll be posting a sample of each of the new designs and from June 1st I will take pre-orders for anyone wishing to add to their collection! The pre-order price will be £5.50...a saving of £1 off the retail price.

So without further ado, adeaux, adeau, adew, adu....

I'd like you to meet Catflap Magnum...Do you love him??!! I've been asked for a cat for months now and I have bowed to the demand lol. I'm not sure if this is what everyone had in mind but when Moira and I got our heads together this is what we came up with. I think he's fat and fabulous!!

Moira has done a fantastic job of translating what I wanted onto paper. When she sent me the first roughs I burst out laughing. Wait till you see the others. There are 4 Magnums in total but there's a bit of a twist with one of them.

I love Magnum's expression!

I'm so happy and excited to be finally showing you the new collections. I would love to hear your thoughts on each of the images as I post them. I'll be having a little competition later on where you have the chance to win EVERY image I'll be posting. I think that translates to about 16+ stamps!! Anyone can enter and it doesn't matter what country they live in so I hope all my visitors outside of the UK will enter as well.

That's it folks! I'm exhausted with the excitement lol. Hope you all have a great rest of Thursday.

Catch ya later x

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Something new

When I've had the time (what is that??) to do a bit of blog surfing I've come across a lot of cards made using these fantastic digital Bugaboo images and decided I had to have some for myself. This one is called Ruby (go figure!!!) - Coffee and comes with the sentiment 'Is there life before coffee?' There are plenty of characters to choose from...I'll have another one for you

tomorrow :-D

Just look at how fabulous Ruby is. For a change I decided to put the sentiment on the inside of the card. The pp is one of my favourite by Bo Bunny which I bought from Hayley at Funky Farm Scrapbook Barn (rumour has it Hayley now stocks Penny Black stamps and has just added new MME papers to her website!)

I got a bit carried away with the glitter lol! Notice her fabulous pink Swarovski crystal earrings :-D

To finish the card off I added one of my new embellishments!

Hope you like it.

Catch ya later x