It's been a  while since I last did a what's on your work desk Wednesday and nearly forgot to do it this morning but here it is.

I have a few cards I need to make for birthdays in the next few weeks and want to make some more masculine cards as I have none in my stash so that it what I need to complete.

I am loving the wooden stars and hearts I purchased from Ebay recently and the Clearly Besotted stamps and dies, they are so cute.

Hoe you are having a good week.

See you soon.

Linking up with Julia @ Stamping Ground.

When I showed you my Filofax Flex Planner a couple of weeks ago, I said that I was sorting out my blog planner aswell and today I have the first of the printables that I made for my blog planner.

I decided to make these printables quite simple and plain so that they don't require to much ink from your printer as I love all the printables out there but they can eat ink if you print a lot. 

First off, I made a printable to record what social media I have used for each blog post. This is really handy in keeping track of all the social media outlets as there are so many options.

 Some social media, once you set it up will automatically update using the feed but others you need to keep a track of and you can see from the picture of my printable, that I can't remember whether I posted on linky followers so this should help me remember and to check.

Social Media Planner

The next printable is a Link Party Planner. This is good if you want to record where you have linked your blog post up to, as there are so many link parties and you can get lost if you don't  keep a record of where you have already linked up to.

Link Party Planner

The last printable today is one to keep a track of your blogs monthly statistics. This is nice to see how your blog is growing or if you need to improve it.

Blog Stats Tracker

If you would like the printables yourself, all you have to do is click the picture or the link below them and download them. 

These three printables are the first for my blog planner and on Thursday I will have some more to share with you, so I hope you will come back then to grab some more.

See you soon.

In the first felt food post, I showed you the the pasta, spaghetti, eggs and bacon that I had made for my daughters kitchen, well today I am back with the second part and I have some felt tea bags, donuts and biscuits to show you.

For the tea bags, I just created a rectangle and cut off the corners to make a tag shape, sewed them and filled them with stuffing and then created the string with bakers twine and a little square of felt at the top.  Most of the tea bags have stuffing in but a few haven't and they still look good.

To store the tea bags, I grabbed a small tin that was in a set of three from Ikea which are the same as these. The tin was the perfect size and will keep them all together. 

Next, I made some felt donuts. To make these I used a cd to draw around and created a pattern for the top and sewed on some beads to the pink and white ones. They were then simply sewn and stuffed. 

Last, I have made some little biscuits which look like party rings. These are similar to the donuts but just created wavy strips to put on top instead of sprinkles. 

They were fairly easy to make and were well received.

Hollie has really enjoyed using the tea bags in her little cups and using the cakes on her little play cake stand.

Have you made anything or considering making anything from felt? Leave me a comment and let me know. 

Today is my husband and my daughters birthday. Hollie is 5 today. I can't believe how quick it has gone. I looked at her baby photos last night at how she has changed and when she was born, she had thick dark hair, now its blonde but still has the same cheeky smile.

This is the card I made for her. I decided to stamp lots of 5's on the background and used the Clearly Besotted Fairy Jasmine stamp. I used this stamp recently on a card and realised this time, I had coloured it in a lot darker.

Stamps - Clearly Besotted Fairy Jasmine, Amy R Its's Your Birthday, Banana Frog Teen lower and Teen tiny and Habico lowercase alphabet | Ribbon - Hobbycraft | Labels - Spellbinders Nestabilities Label four | Heart - Mei Flower.

This is the card I made for my husband.

I used the Mojo Monday sketch 276 as my inspiration. I used a lot of stars for the card both from patterned paper and stamps. 

Card - American Crafts| Paper - My Minds Eye Fly a kite | Stamps - Papermania For the love of sport and Banana Frog Seeing stars | Border Punch - Fiskars Upper crest | Labels - Spellbinders Nestabilities Label one | Buttons - Papermania | White Sekura Gelly roll pen.

These are two of the presents that Hollie got for her birthday. She loves to dress as a princess, so these were perfect for her. She has been wearing the red dress most of the day.

Hope you are having a good start to the week. 

See you soon.

Yesterday was one of my sister in law's birthday and I decided to make a card for her using the Lastest Mojo Monday sketch 279.

I decided to break out the sewing machine and stitch around the outside of the layers and it worked out great. It is something so easy to do if you can use a sewing machine but for some reason, I couldn't manage it. 

I have been making good use of my Clearly Besotted butterfly dies and used the small one on the card.

Papers - Basic Grey Lemonade | Stamps - Amy R Best Birthday Wishes and My Pink Stamper Fabulous Phrases | Ribbon - American Crafts | Border Punch - Fiskars | Butterflies - Clearly Besotted die | Gems- Hobbycraft | Gllitter - Stickles Star Dust.

This is the sketch.

Also I made my sister in law a notebook and decided to personalise it too. 

I used the American craft cardstock as the base to keep it sturdy as I took the original front off the notebook.

On one of the papers from the American Crafts Dear Lizzy Neapolitan papers is a picture of a jar with hearts on it so used that as the main image.

I also added some glitter to the hearts in the jar and some glossy accents to the heart at the top to make them shine.

At the bottom of the notebook, I added a wooden flower embellishment and used some foam alphabet stickers for her name.

Card - American Crafts | Paper - American Crafts Dear Lizzy Neapolitan | Border punch - Martha Stewart doily lace punch | Ribbon - American Crafts | Foam Stickers - Papermania | Wooden flower - Kars | Glitter - Stickles star dust | Glossy Accents.

I have been rearranging my craft space so I better go and tidy up the mess I have created.

See you soon.

I have found it quite hard to get back into card making after Christmas and would keep putting off making any cards and crafts.

So when I find myself feeling like this, I try to find a card sketch that will give me some inspiration to start making a card.

This time I chose sketch 278 from Mojo Monday.

Love love love the sketches from Mojo Monday as they are so easy to inspire and interpret to your own.

For this card, I used an image which was on one of the patterned paper from The American Crafts Dear Lizzy Neapolitan line.

The scallop circle is actually supposed to be a lacey circle but I obviously needed to add more pressure and so added up being plain which worked out perfect.

The little butterfly is the small die from the Clearly Besotted butterfly die set and I love it. So cute.

Paper - American Craft Dear Lizzy Neapolitan | Card - American Craft | Stamp - Forever Friends Black and Gold | Ribbon - Hobbycraft | Border punch - X cut | Scallop Circle - Spellbinders Nestabilities Lacey circles | Butterfly - Clearly Besotted butterfly die | Gems - Dovecraft | Glitter - Stickles star dust.

Hollies birthday is in just over a week so I am off to wrap the presents I have bought so far.

Hope you are having a good weekend.

See you soon.