Giant Icicle!!!!!!

This icicle was hanging above one of our bedroom windows and when a slight thaw started today it was in danger of falling on to our new conservatory roof.
My very kind sister managed to reach through the window and grab hold of it with a towel so that we could dispose of it safely.
It was massive! 135cm long and weighing 9lb! Good job she rescued it!

Play Date Cafe Challenge No 11

The colours this week on The Play Date Cafe Challenge are gold, silver, black and white.
I stamped some Lavinia seed head stamps with versamark ink and embossed with silver, white and gold embossing powders.
I used a Martha Stewart border punch on the bottom edge of my black cardstock and mounted it on matt gold card.
My base card is stamped with versamark and an Elusive Images stamp then dusted with gold perfect pearls, and I filled in the space on the bottom corner with another black seed head.
It's great to be doing some crafting again. I would never have thought of putting all these colours together on one project, so thank you Sandi for a great challenge.
Thanks for looking X

Happy New Year and Tuesday Taggers Challenge

Happy New Year!
This card is for this week's Tuesday Taggers Challenge, and the theme is Black and White.
Medallion Stamp and sentiment is SU, oval punches are SU and lovely black and white ribbon is also SU. I used a cuttlebug embossing folder on the white card.
I finished it off by adding stickles and some gems.

Christmas Medallion

Happy Christmas everybody! It will be here soon - that's why I haven't blogged for ages, been pretty busy, like everyone else, preparing for parties and family visits. This is a card made with the Medallion Stampin' Up! stamp, embossed in white and embellished with walnut stain distress stickles and icicle stickles. Ribbon is SU and sentiment is Stampington.

It's certainly looking festive when I look out of the window:
Poor Santa is covered in snow:
Have a very Merry Christmas, and thank you everybody for all your kind comments. I have loved having my blog this year and I've met lots of lovely people via the blogging world - looking forward to chatting again with you all next year.

Lots of love, Anne xxxxxxxxx

Completed Noel Tags

Here are the rest of my Christmas Tags that I started a couple of weeks ago. It was very hard to take photos because the light here has been shocking for about a month - we just keep having torrential rain day after day, so I took some very quick (i.e. rubbish!) pictures during a short brighter spell.
All the papers and images are Graphic 45 again - just love their papers and can't get enough of them this year.
The little bells on the "N" and the "E" are from chocolate santas and reindeers by Lindt. You see I have no willpower and thought it was a good excuse to eat the chocolate so that I could use the bells. LOL! You will notice that I have only eaten 2 though, so I have shown a little restraint (so far!)
We've just spent the weekend in the Lake District - those rivers are certainly swollen!
We went to a wonderful Dickensian Christmas Fair in Ulverston. All the shopkeepers were dressed in Victorian clothes, there was a fun fair, stalls, mulled wine, roasted chestnuts, carol singers, a Punch and Judy show, a coconut shy, to mention just a few attractions. The whole thing was rounded off with a procession which included Santa Claus and Queen Victoria. It was just the thing to put me in a festive mood, so I think I'd better be finding those Christmas decorations in the loft pretty soon.
Hope you all had a great weekend too. x

The Play Date Cafe Challenge No 6.

Sarah chose the beautiful colours this week, and you know when the idea you initially have just doesn't work? Well that's what happened to me this week - I had such a lovely ATC in my head last night but all the colours had other ideas. LOL!!!! It just didn't look anything like how I wanted it to, so I abandoned it and had a go at something else this morning instead.
Hope you like my "cheeky" girl. Have a great Friday. X

Play Date Cafe Challenge No 5

The lovely Julie has chosen the colours this week for the Play Date Cafe Challenge- Silver, Blue, Purple and White.



I've had this little canvas for ages so I thought I would use it this week.
Background is Claudine Hellmuth paint, and Glimmer Mist using a Glimmer Mist Screen. The little image is from Crafty Individuals, and I outlined the image and the canvas with Stewart Gill paints.
I coloured the lace with Glimmer Mist and then used Martha Stewart Snowflake and Snowflake border punches. The white transparency swirl is from My Little Shoe Box. The Joy stamp is from Elusive Images.
The charms are to add a touch of silver.
I really enjoyed using these colours, so thank you Julie for the challenge - oh and by the way, did I beat the lovely Paul? LOL!