Merry Christmas

OMG ... can't believe that last post worked, how easy was that! So while I'm on a roll here's the Xmas cards I made for my gorgeous kids. My lil man simply loves club penguin. Jess's card is a stamped image from the Greeting Farm coloured in with promarkers. The stamped sentiment is one from a Banana Frog Xmas set.
I also made some very quick & simple gift tags using distress ink & Banana Frog stamps again.

All that remains for me to say is I wish you all a very merry Christmas & a happy & healthy 2011.

Take care & thanks for stopping by.

x

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Fame at last!

Well I didn't quite believe it when I received the letter & freebies, but I've had one of my cards published in a magazine! It was in issue 61 of Papercraft Essentials. Here's a pic of it ...
Now this is a short post as I'm trying out blogging from my phone!

Take care & thanks for stopping by.
x

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Celebrations continued ...

Just a quick post ... I rummaged around & managed to find a pic of the card I made for my sister for passing her degree. Here it is

And I made her birthday card using the adorable "Hiya chick" stamps from Banana Frog

 That's all for now!
Thanks for stopping by & take care xxx

Celebrations!

Yes I know ... long time no post. I'm gonna try really hard to blog a bit more often!

July is always a busy month for celebrations in our family... my Mum & Dad's wedding anniversary is in the middle of July & also, can you believe it, my sister's birthday is on the same day! So after years of always feeling left out (sob, sob, pass the tissues), when me & hubby decided to get married, it had to be in July!
This year though my parents celebrated their Ruby wedding anniversary ... 40 years of married life together. We had a big family meal at TGI Fridays to celebrate. If you've never been there, you should go it was yummmmmmmmy!
Of course such an occasion can't be celebrated without a card so here's the one I made for my Mum & Dad, with of course the obligatory wedding day photo ;-)



My Mum also asked me to make a card for her to give to my Dad. I made a kind of flag/concertina style card which I had seen on the Craftwork Cards website gallery.




We had even further reason to celebrate as my little sister passed her social work degree! Kerry's in her 30s, but she hated school & got out as soon as she could. After bringing up her 2 boys on her own, once they were in secondary school she decided to go back to education. She's worked her butt off to get this qualification & I am so immensely proud of her. Love you lil sis xxx

Thanks for stopping by and take care xxx

My little poppet

My little poppet is of course, my daughter Jess. She's not so little any more though ... why oh why do our kids have to grow up; and so frikkin fast??? She recently had her birthday & is now the grand old age of 11. 11? How did that happen??? Here is my gorgeous girl on her birthday

Isn't she just beautiful, & so grown up. *sigh* She's off to secondary school in September, we had her place confirmed & she got into her 1st choice school with lots of her friends. Phew! We had a girly day out shopping, spending some of the pennies she had for her birthday & we both fell in love with these...

Oh there's no place like home :-) & leading on from that ... Jess has a small part in the upcoming school production of Wizard of Oz so we have lines to learn & songs to practise :-)
We also have reason to celebrate ... after 5 months of being out of work my hubby has just landed a 3 mth contract. Yay! Ok, its only 3 mths but it's a darn sight better than nothing!!
On that cheery note I'll say farewell for now. I'll leave you with a couple of cards I made recently. This was Jess's birthday card made with the Papernation "Disco Diva" decoupage & a Craftwork Cards Fold-a-flower made with vellum.

This one I made for one of Jess's friends

And lastly, my Mum asked me to make a card for her friend's 60th birthday. I used a Hero Arts stamp I've had for a long long time. The background was made with spiced marmalade, mustard seed & antique linen distress ink pads, a swish of gold perfect pearls & a spritz of water!

Thanks for stopping by and take care xxx

Polkadoodles!

I'm not very good at this blogging malarkey am I? Tis 3 months since my last post!!! Humble apologies ... & this is just a very quick one as I want to get outside in that glorious sunshine.
I've made a card for my Dad's birthday next week using the free download available this week from polkadoodles
The polkadoodles challenge this time was to make a card with texture & dimension using the free download. Here's my entry ...


I used stamps to spell out "dad" & raised it with 3d pads. I gave the card some texture by wrapping twine around it & used some cross screw brads to give it a bit more of a masculine 'edge'! Hope you like it.
Enjoy this fabulous weather everyone & take care. xxx

How much stuff ???

Well this month's task was to re-decorate my office & I can safely say we now have mission accomplished! Re-painted ceiling, walls painted green, a new blind & some gorgeous laminate flooring. I am happy happy happy :-)
But for such a tiny room - it's only 5" x 8" - boy can it hold a lot of stuff! It's a bit of a multi tasking room, in that it's the place where I work, study & craft & it also houses all our photos going back to the year dot. I'm still cringeing through the photos which have caused much hilarity for Jess & Jamie seeing mum & dad way back in the day. I've tried to convince Jess that those clothes & hairstyles were soooooo trendy at the time but she's not convinced & thinks we were, in her words "well dodgy"!

Here's some before & after pics of my office

Before ...


After ...


I can't believe how much craft stuff I have ... well ok, maybe I can! I must own a few trees worth of paper!! Look!


And here's my stack of drawers all full of stamps, ink pads, glues, brads, flowers,etc etc etc ...


I want to get back to doing some stamping now though. I saw Tim Holtz on QVC this week & was so inspired. I've found 2 distress ink pads I already have, some adirondack pads, perfect pearls & a sheet of cut & dry foam which I haven't even opened!! And I just know I've got some alcohol inks at the back of a drawer somewhere. Oh yes guys ... I'm gonna get dirty :-)))

Next week is a "keep everything crossed" kinda week for us. We should find out which secondary school Jess will be going to. Secondary ??? OMG how quick does time fly, they grow up so fast. She's also auditioning for a part in the school production of Wizard of Oz, she wants to be either the good or the bad witch so we have lots of practising to do ... give back the ruby slippers my pretty, mwah ha ha!! ... lol

Take care all & thanks for stopping by xxx

40th birthday card

Just a quick post for tonight ... I came up with a few ideas for my friends 40th birthday card request & we went with this one in the end. I used templates for the numbers, quickutz diesel alphabet for the letters, some gorgeous prima flowers which I've had for a long time. The "lots of dots" papers & card candy came from Craftwork Cards.

So long, farewell January

Well I'm glad that's over, I simply detest January with a vengeance ... cold, wet & miserable. Bleuch! But now it's gone AND I've finished all my tax returns! Woop woop!
So now to look forward ... I registered for another OU course, in 'Human genetics & health issues' and the books arrived at the weekend. It looks soooo interesting & I can't wait to get stuck in. I've been asked to make a 40th birthday card by this weekend so I need to get inspired. Results will be posted up here later!
Take care all & keep warm xxx

My FIRST blog!

Let's get this blog rolling with a few pics of some cards I've made in the last few months ...