I did one.......

Yes I have made a card at last, not sure I am very happy with it but I ran out of time so it will have to do. It is for my 9 year olds friend who will be 10, but he decided to tell me today that he wont actually have his birthday until mid February, he is just having his party tomorrow as they couldn't book the swimming pool at any other time... DOH!!! I could have spent more time after all.....

All the Patterned Paper used is Stampin' Up! and all the cardstock also. The Monkey, Happy Birthday and letters are all cricut cartridges (Create a Critter and Base Camp) and the bunting was made using Papertrey Ink dies.

Next up is yet another Digital Scrapbook Page, this is of the time we went to Dublin, I had never flown before and DH had treated me to the trip for Christmas..... since that day you cannot keep me off planes and all the family have been abroad loads of times since.

Hope you like it, have a great weekend all, I am sure we will although tomorrow is jam packed, boys are off to a pantomime in the afternoon so DH and I have decided to have a meal together in Prezzo, has been quite some time since we last went out on our own. Take care. xx

Yes you've guessed it......

I have been digi scrapping..... lol. This layout is from our trip to Barcelona in 2007, I love the bright colours of the market and food. I thought they matched the papers brilliantly.

Have a great day, should be back with some cards in the next few days as I have a few birthdays coming up..... see you then xx

More Digi Scrapping....

Well I have made more digital scrapbooking pages in the last week than I have made in the last 2 years...... ha ha. Am coming on in leaps and bounds with my learning digi scrapping, can now scrap a page totally from scratch, the only problem I have now is finding photographs, so am going to be taking my camera everywhere with me in future.... any tips on carrying it other than being slung around my neck like a tourist. It is a big Canon 40d so slightly too big for my handbag (which is big but not that big)....


We went out geocaching this afternoon and I took my camera, and then decided to let everyone else get out the car and I stayed in it as there was hardly any walking involved, they were both in supermarket car parks, so still didn't take any photographs. Wasn't sure if people would be upset if I clicked away in Waitrose and Sainsburys so I didn't..... any input on that please would be greatly appreciated.

Have a great Sunday, take care xx

Digital Scrapping

Well a Happy New Year to you all..... I have been badly slacking these last few weeks/months as I have been so busy and have been reflecting on my life, where I am and where I want to go and have loads of plans for 2011, this means I may not blog as much as usual as I may not be making as much stuff..... I am training in Graphic Design and at the moment am making digital scrapbook layouts so I can learn how photoshop works properly, I have always learnt bits and pieces and then forgot about them. After photoshop I intend to learn Illustrator so lots of studying etc to do. But I thought I would share some of my digital layouts with you that I have made over the past week, not sure I would print out and save them in an album as I feel Digital Scrapbooking is a bit of a cop out and that there is nothing quite like normal proper in real life scrapbbooking, but I may try a bit of hybrid along the way.

So without further ado, here are my LOs....

Thanks for looking and I hope you all have a good evening..... yummy kebab tonight, I really will get this diet underway at some stage!!

Rose Tutorial

I thought I would show you how I made the little rose I used on a recent tag I made.... it is so simple and quick (which was lucky as I made 35 of the tags)....

I used Elegant Eggplant cardstock from Stampin' Up! and punched out a circle.....

As you can see I used the 1 3/8" circle.....

I then took the scallop circle punch and punched around the circle hole that was left in the cardstock, discarding the circle that I had punched out.

I was left with a thin scallop edged frame.....

I cut in one of the scallops to open the circle up....

Using an embossing took, I bent the scallops slightly backwards to give a bit of shape to the scallops as these will be our rose leaves.

Once I had curved all the scallops, I started to wind the thin frame around my embossing tool. Once it started to wind I took it off the embossing tool and carried on by hand, making sure I didn't roll it too tight.

I used Tombow Adhesive to glue the end to the rest of the flower so it didn't unravel.

Next I cut a 1/2" circle and covered that with a light coating of Tombow Adhesive.

I stuck my loosely wound rose onto the 1/2" circle of cardstock.

I punched out a Martha Stewart leaf shape to finish the rose off.

As you will see, on my tag I used the leaf shape punched from the Big Bird Punch in Baha Breeze. Now you can see how easy they are to make please leave me a comment with a link to any projects that you make using these cute little roses.

Thanks for looking, stay safe and enjoy the snow!!

My Son's Birthday....

Yesterday was my sons birthday, cannot tell you how old as he is over 20 and dont like to give ages away.... ha ha

The image is from Mo's Digital Pencil, isn't it awesome, and funny thing is when I took it round to him he was actually playing his games console and saying I wont be a minute just have to finish this, he looked so much like this card it was unreal..... lol. Image was coloured using Copic Markers and I used Stampin Up Cherry Cobbler and Whisper White Cardstock and Pacific Point Patterned Paper... hope you like it!!

Anyway, must rush, children are back at school and I have loads to get through... have a great day all xx

Jesus Saves.......

As most of you know I go to Church and we decided that we would share our love for Jesus this halloween whilst giving out trick and treat gifts to children coming dressed up as witches and ghouls... this is what I made....

I bought the Patterned Paper online, it was a digital download and printed it out 12 x 12 with my A3+ printer and was so pleased with the results.... I then used Pumpkin Pie, Wild Wasabi, Elegant Eggplant and Basic Black Cardstock....

I made everything so each one was different... inside this pack were maltesers....

This little bag is a die from Papertrey Ink, isn't it cute... there were smarties inside these bags...

And this little bag was made using the new die from Papertrey Ink which I only got on Friday, it is unheard of for me to use stuff on the day I get it.... the spotted circle are the new Papertrey Ink Circle Set of Dies... There were either smarties or maltesers inside this bag.

And an old favourite, these are so easy to make yet so effective, again there were smarties inside this pack.

I then decided to make a cake, I have made one of these before but not for halloween... I cut out the shapes using my Cricut Expression and decorated with left over Patterned Paper...

Inside these were Jaffa Cake Bars and Galaxy Cake Bars.... but you wouldn't know which one you would get.

I first of all took these to church to share out amongst the children there, the children were blessed with goody bags and prizes of money and toys for the best carved pumpkin, but of course no one was left out... and as I still have some left I am sure my boys will dip into them again today.... back to school tomorrow for them... did you hear me say Yippee..... lol

Have a great afternoon, take care xx