My not so 'little' girls

my babies are growing up, Mya is 5 now and Grace will be 3 next month, so glad we'll soon have another baby to love.  Meanwhile back to my big girls, they are such good company and I love having them here.  The latest photos.....

At last some cards....

,,,,my mojo has gone awol again but I have managed to make a few cards, mainly because some important birthdays are coming soon.  It took me twice as long as normal to make these but I got there in the end...

firstly a card I was asked to make for a 60th, the front part opens to reveal a photo of the recipient.

and then a very important card - for my youngest granddaughter's 3rd birthday next month, the stamp is called Grace so I had to use it for Gracie's card.....

then it is my younger son's birthday next month, he loves to cook and he enjoys a good wine so I thought this was a good combination....

now a card for my sister-in-laws birthday......

and this one was purely because I was on a roll......

and finally two get well cards - I seem to have had a run on them lately and was getting low on stock......

now to try and track down Mr Mojo.

not crafting news.....

....I have been crafting since my last post, but keep forgetting to dig the camera out and blog - note to self must try harder.

However for the past couple of months I have been sitting on some fantastic news and at last I can reveal all.  Perry and Sheryl are making us grandparents again in September.  This baby is truly a little miracle and we are all so excited.  We have been truly blessed, baruch Hashem.

xx

It's a blue day...

...for my Daisy and Tilda cards today, I even used some of my ribbon from Crafty Ribbons (on the thank you card) love ribbon with words on it.

Looking at the World through Rose Coloured Glasses...

...and my Tilda and Daisy cards today are all in pinks.  I am so enjoying

these images and going back to my Promarkers and colouring.

When a Wreath is not a Wreath.....

it's a mobile....

I saw a photo of a wreath made with these paper hearts and have to say I was not impressed but I could see potential.  So I set to work and made 12 hearts (dead simple) and set them out on my desk in the shape of the wreath.

No!!!!!!!!!!!  it quite simply didn't work, too big and not terribly substantial.  So I took 4 hearts away - ah that's better but what do I do with the spare hearts - ping light bulb moment - make a second tier.  But then it's not a wreath - it's a...........

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mobile!!!!!

Well that sounded simple enough but the mechanics of joining the two tiers so that they hung straight was a bit thought provoking.  But after looking at it from all angles I worked it out and worked out how to hang it.  Now how to make it pretty and to get movement in it.  Firstly I printed off 4 of my Tilda stamp images and then I flipped the images and printed 4 to go on the backs.  Coloured and glittered them and fitted them to the centre of the mobile.  It still needed something else so I cut and glittered 8 little butterflies and fixed them to the mobile using thin strips of acetate so that they looked as if they were flying and voila.......one mobile.

It's there in black and white......

....last week I bought the Joanna Sheen Daisy and Friends cd and my friend Gloria sent me some more of her Tilda stamped images so it would be very rude not to play.  I printed off lots of the Daisy digi stamps and decided to go for colour groups.  Dusted off my ProMarkers and set to work on the first set of black and white .....