Flowers in June

I so love this time of the year, when my pots and hanging baskets  are flowering away and giving me so much pleasure

while looking out of the kitchen window, gazing out from my studio or just being out there enjoying the colours and the hum of the bees and insect they attract.

I took these photos in the week.

 I also have a single sunflower planted in the garden, a giant snail took the other one!

Fingers crossed this one survives and blooms.

My card today is a new baby card, these are always popular sales at Dotty's Teahouse where I sell my cards. If you are in the area do pop by, you can sip tea from vintage tea cups, poured from real tea pots using a tea strainer! All the cakes are homemade and delicious, something for everyone. And yes of course she also sells coffee.You will find Dotty's in the High Street, Carshalton, Surrey, SM5 2EP. 

I am appearing there very soon in a "Meet the Maker" event on Thursday 11 July. More details nearer the time. 

The image is a sweet Lili of the valley digi. The stamped sentiment is Clearly Besotted.

I would like to enter it into the following challenges;

Allsorts 1/3 soft pastels
Addicted to stamps and more 2/3 anything goes
Creative moments 2/3 anything goes
A gem of a challenge 2/2 anything goes
Pixie's snippets playground #355
Crafter's Castle 2/3 anythng goes
Simon says stamp Wednesday anything goes
Crafty hazelnuts patterned paper challenge June

Thanks for stopping by today,

Back soon,

Bye for now,

Jane x

Smile, it's May!

Good morning. Today we have reached May 1st and Mother Nature is in full flow around me. I adore this time of the year. Everything is bursting open 

 the trees are nearly back in full leaf

 and the blossom is everywhere

Of course it also means it's time for a new challenge over at Country View Challenges. For this month the theme is "Be humorous" Now that is open to so many interpretations, from adding a funny quote, words, image etc etc. As always you can enter our challenge as many times as you like and combine with any other challenges. Your make can be anything creative! You may even be the lucky random winner of the £20 CVC voucher.

All the details can be found here

I decided that a new baby card would be very appropriate for this time of the year. First I took out a sheet of yupo paper and I added some blue alcohol inks. Sorry about the poor photo but it was taken late in the evening in my studio!

I have a fun baby quote stamp (long discontinued) which I use a lot (and sell a lot) on my cards for selling at Dotty's tea house. I thinks it really does make people smile.
I also used Tim's crescent moon and stars Bigz die and die cut a moon and stars from snippets of white card. I added grey distress inks to the stars plus a wink of Stella for some sparkle when dry.

I did the same with the moon but blended in some chipped sapphire too.

This is what I put together.

It is a sentiment which always raises a chuckle and is perfect for new baby cards.

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges;

Pixie's snippets playground #325 
Lil patch of crafty friends 3/3 anything goes
Crafty catz 2/3 anything goes
Simon says stamp Monday time out my entry depicts night time when the moon shines and the stars are out.


We would love to see you enter our "Humour" challenge this month over at Country View. All the details can be found here

I hope you all have a wonderful month ahead, "May time, play time" is what I always sung a primary school!

Now as the theme over at Country View Challenges for this month is humour I just had to share some really corny baby jokes;

How do you get a baby astronaut to sleep?
You rock-it

Eddie; "My Mum's having a new baby"
Sarah; "Why, what's wrong with the old one?"

What are baby witches called?
Halloweenies.

Now come on I bet that did at least raise the corner of your mouth into part of a smile 😂 Enjoy a great May.

Back soon,

Bye for now,

Jane x