Tickled Pink on The Girls Paperie Tinsel & Twig

Another challenge card today. The next challenge to 'tickle' my fancy was Tickled Pink's i {heart} you challenge. I have used the current sketch from Friday Sketchers.
It was great fun to make and, for once, I am happy with the result :) LOVE these papers.



I am also entering this card in the Secret Crafter's 'With Love' challenge and Bunny Zoe's 'Love is in the Air' challenge.

Whiff of Joy on Pink Paislee Sweetness

I have had some spare time over the last few days so I have been making some cards for challenges. Prepare to be inundated over the weekend :)

I am having fun! It has been a long time since I have played with paper.

I decided recently that I am giving scrapbooking a break for a little while. My photos shall remain undecorated for now! I am enjoying stamping, colouring and card making at the moment.

I absolutely adore this Whiff of Joy stamp, and I've had it for ages but never coloured it! I also had these beautiful Pink Paislee Sweetness papers that I was itching to play with so I combined them on a card using a sketch from The ABC Challenge.



Oh the dramas of making this card! Let's not go there. It was a mess. LOL.

I'm also entering this card in the Dutch Dare's All Stitched Up challenge and Crazy for Challenges Thank You Card challenge.

Glitz Designs Hoopla

Loved playing with the Full Tart for Lime Tart this month.

It is sooo pretty and absolutely chokkas! Sold out but sorry!

You can see what else I did with it in the gallery.

Honey, I'm Home!

Yes, I am painfully aware that it has been 9 long months ( to the day! wow) since I last blogged.

And no, don't go getting any stupid ideas about babies just coz I said 9 months LOL - no more babies for me thanks!

Although I have been nurturing a sort of baby in my absence - my business. I have been working too much, I know that. And in the spirit of the 'word of the year' thing that seems to have gone viral, I will share here now the word that haunts me daily, and must, MUST become a mantra for me in 2011....

BALANCE

I have struggled with it BIG TIME this last year, but I think that just comes with starting your own business and letting it run free all by itself. I should be thankful that I have never had to look for work, but I think 2011 might have to be the year that I start to say NO. Sometimes ;)

I need to delegate more, I need to relax more. I need to CREATE more.

I know it, and I am looking forward to it, I NEED this.

And to get me started, I am once again playing with a Lime Tart kit. This pretty pretty pretty one, just gone on sale:

How well suited is it to me and my fave colours of all time!!!??? I never did share what I did with THIS paint did I!!??

Check it out! WOW - old photos now, 6 months later and I dare not take a pic at the moment!! It's now a little, um, busier shall we say!? LOL But it's all mine, and I love it.

oh my!

what have i done?

I'm pretty darn happy!!!

Lookie what arrived for me today :)

Belle by Epiphanie - Isn't she just beautiful!!?

Time to Fish or Cut Bait

PMSL - Time to Fish or Cut Bait! No idea where it came from, but this phrase has been popping into my head a lot lately. I think about my blog and then a voice inside my head says 'Time to Fish or Cut Bait!' It's traditionally a bloke's idiom for decision-making time. Usually the point in their lives when they decide if they will propose marriage or end the relationship. (Like there's only 2 choices...?) My blog has been sadly sadly neglected :( I think I want to start it up again. And 5 minutes later I think I want to shut it down for good. PMSL. It's definitely time to Fish or Cut Bait! I have to make a decision. So step 1 in my long-winded decision making process - Establish if anyone gives a shit. LOL So what will it be? Let me know what you think. Fish? or Cut Bait? (um, BTW - Fish refers to an attempt to resurrect my blog and Cut Bait means stuff it all to hell and delete the lot)