Paper = American Crafts - Dear Lizzy Neopolitan and My Girl | Stamp = Clearly Besotted - Butterfly Wishes Additions | Ribbon = American Crafts | Tag = Staples | Wooden Hearts = Ebay | Twine = The Ribbon Girl | Glossy Accents | Stickles Star dust.

Here is the sketch:

Hope you have a great weekend.

It's been a long time since I last showed you what's on my desk and as I have recently been cleaning and organising it a bit, so I thought that I would show you it again. 

On my desk are some paper pads I picked up from Homesense that I thought might give me some inspiration. There are some fabrics that I won in a giveaway from Paper and Strings and a card that I has been sitting on my desk for about 3 months unfinished as I haven't been feeling like making cards but finally finished it with some sequins.

Also my 5 year old loves when I stamp her some images on paper so that she can colour them in, that's what I am off to do now.

Linking up with Julie @ Stamping Ground. 

As I mentioned in my previous post that I haven't been making a lot of cards recently but this past weekend was one of our nephews 16th birthday, so I decided to try and make a card for him.

I decided to use a card sketch to make it a bit easier for me and so went with the Mojo Monday sketch 304.

My card style is quite simple but has a lot of colour, so as this card was for a teenage boy it helped to keep it simple. 

Paper - My Minds Eye | Card - American Crafts | Stamps - Banana Frog and Amy R | Ribbon - American Crafts | Star punch - Fiskars | Button - Sew Sweet. 

Hope you are having a good start to the week. 

I found out I was pregnant the day after my dad's funeral and ever since then I have suffered from bad nausea, sickness, heartburn and acid reflux. It's been quite a tough few months but these common first trimester symptoms are beginning to ease as I am now 16 and a half weeks. 

Although these are easing, I have been suffering more with anxiety and low mood associated with antenatal depression. I have been feeling very restless, not sleeping and eating, crying alot and not able to concentrate on things - hence why there has been nothing on the blog. First thing in the morning tends to be the worse though. 

I have to wait until the end of the month to see a specialist who can help me, so in the mean time, I have been trying to get a grip on my emotions and my thoughts with the help of my family and my midwife.

I truly hope to be able to post more on the blog and make more cards and crafts so that it acts as a kind of therapy for me.

 So for now on there could be alsorts of posts on the blog as I try to make my way through this pregnancy including crafts, cards, home decor and more personal ones.

To those that are reading this post, I hope you don't mind me writing this but I felt I needed to get this off my chest and to help me move on.

I hopefully will be back soon with some cards I have made in the last few months.

Hope you are having a great day. 

The past week has been quite a difficult week for me as my dad passed away suddenly and then my health has been giving me a lot of problems too. My dad and I weren't very close but it obviously was still a shock. So for these reasons, I just haven't been able to concentrate on crafting or blogging. 

I did manage to make one card before last week and that was for our niece. 

Monday was our niece's 21st birthday and as she loves owls, I thought I would use the Clearly Besotted You're a hoot stamp set.

I started with the patterned paper that is the lacey circle. From there, I chose the card and the ink. 

 The cute little owl with the polkadot heart is so cute. Love it. 

Paper - Making Memories Just Chillin Girl | Card - American Crafts | Stamps - Clearly Besotted You're a hoot | Die - Spellbinder Nestabilities Lacey Circles | Ribbon - American Crafts | Border Punch - Martha Stewart | Wooden Stars - Ebay | Foam Letters - American Crafts Thickers | Embossing folder - Cuttlebug seeing dots. 

As our niece loves owls, I bought her a cute little owl mug, only trouble was when Hollie saw it, she wanted one too!

Hope you are having a great week.