Over the hill!!

April was a pretty mad month. The title of this post gives you a smidge of a clue why ... yes, I reached that milestone of a birthday, the big 40!!
Now instead of sobbing into my grey hair I decided to embrace my coming of age with lots of treats & celebrations :)
I had an 80s night out with my lovely friends, a meal out with my fab family & a visit to Blenheim palace in the gorgeous sunshine with hubby & my cherubs :)
And I'm really gonna milk this ... a trip on the London eye had to be postponed, we decided visiting London the same weekend as a big footie match & the marathon was a bad idea so I still have this to look forward to. I've never been to ladies day at Ascott so that's booked up. Oh, & a girly day at a health spa is calling me later in the year. I mean, come on, what's not to like about turning 40??!! :)

Onto crafty things now, an old school friend of mine also turned 40 a few days after me so here's the card I made for her. I'm loving the lace & bakers twine that's so popular at the moment. Or butchers twine, as one of my lovely crafting friends keeps calling it :)

And just to get your taste buds watering, there's a pic of the birthday cake I made for myself. Yes, covered in maltesers & minstrels. Yummy ...

Take care & thanks for popping by x

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Using up the scraps!

Just a short post to show 2 quick cards I've made using some leftover scraps of paper.

Sentiments are from my favourite stamp company, Banana Frog.

Thanks for popping by & take care x

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