Mistakes .......

..... I make mistakes ALL the time!


Some are just terrible but I think the one in the picture below turned out just grand :)





I had a completely different vision in my head when I began making this card but after stamping in the wrong place, not stamping hard enough and adding the teal strip to the wrong end i've managed to come up with something i'm actually quite proud of.

I will forgive myself this time as my craft time has been quite non-existent this past while what with holidays and the general routine. I am a wee lil bit out of practice but I have enjoyed so much making a mess!

I have also managed to get myself a copy of the new US Stampin' Up catalogue. I can't wait for ours to come out, i do so hope we get build-a-brad in ours. A nice teal stamped centre for my medallion would have been just great on my card, not that i don't like it just the way it is!! There's also this kool, kool tool in it simply called a paper tearer. It makes a real raggedy edge and a beautiful vintage finish. Please, please, please can we have these ...... oh, and all the new colour add on kits too ...... please?!?!?

Ta, ta xx

Girls on Tour .....

... no photograph for this post ..... no time .... we leave in 9o mins time and still i have not packed my suitcase!!! Yikes!!!

Im so so so excited to be going on hols with my pals, 4 girls let loose, oh wat fun we will have! I have been to get my nails done ...... inspired by my elegant eggplant ribbon (which i brought to the salon!) i have them the most gorgeous purple colour with white and silver art.

So must dash, still have a few jobs to do ....... back in a week, maybe ;) xx

Stardust and Moonbeams

Tomorrow is my niece's 2nd birthday.

Lil miss Lucy is such a girly girl, already loves her shoes, handbags and sunglasses! So, I had to produce something to reflect her little personality.

Any of you that know me personally, know that i'm a real sucker for anything magical or fantastical. That's why when I saw this stamp set from Elzybells I just had to have it. Stardust and moonbeams, so cool and so perfect for this project. Although I generally love my SU products I think they fall down in some respects in that they don't really have anything funky or modern, especially for little people. Maybe as the product range expands there will be some of this kind of stuff. I have a nice mix of stamps now that are really quite versatile, what I need to invest in though is an alphabet set so i dont have to use peel offs. Not that theres anything wrong with peel offs, they do a grand job actually.

I love the shimmer ive sprayed on this too, only thing is, i sprayed the card once it was finished and sort of warped a bit, maybe i used too much or maybe i should have sprayed the pieces individually before assembling the card, i dunno. It still loks cool tho and im quite sure it will go down a treat.

Party tomorrow with a bouncy castle *excited* fingers crossed the weather behaves itself.

Back soon x

Grounded .....

........ all those poor people. I really for them stranded in far flung exotic places!! Ahem!! Mind you, wouldn't you be sick if you had paid for a happy holiday in the sun and weren't able to get. Who would have thought volcanic activity would have caused so much bother in UK. just as long as the banana supply doesn't dry up, it doesn't really affect me.

My guys and i are just back from a wee lil trip to London and we just missed all this disruption. Next holiday is in June with the girlies so fingers crossed the spewing has well and truly finished by then!

So, I thought i would share some creations with you. First of all a wedding card for some friends. Can you tell I like purple? I love the patterned satin ribbon too.



Next up, a wee selection of small cards for various occassions. I love being able to use one layout and get lots of different results. Purple again although Perfect Plum this time as my Elegant Eggplant cardstock supply is well and truly depleted!

I'll be able to use this design with lots of different colours and it will allow me use up a lot of old paper and card i have. I do really need to make some room in my little haven so this is a good thing :)

And isn't the news so exciting, rich razzleberry WILL BE AVAILABLE *jumps up and down .... again * I so cannot wait for this. I could go on for hours about this one colour .... but I won't.

I have found some new blogs that I adore so am off to satisfy my obsession.

Maybe back soon!

Rich Razzleberry and the ultimate in disappointment

Well, well, welll, does it really surprise you that the Americans get ALL the good stuff.

While having a wee look around the WWW I was oh so excited to stumble across a US copy of the Stampin' Up catalogue. I downloaded it, printed it and had it bound. New ideas, tips and all that but my oh my the differences in the products available is almost unbearable. Rich razzleberry now has to be my most fav colour ever, and I mean EVER! Just look at that ribbon, the fact that I can't have it just makes me want to cry :(

There are also funky stamp collections, lots of diff punches and papers to die for .... and don't get me started on the buttons! Sherbet buttons .... delicious, cordorouy covered buttons ... devine. *sob*sob*sob*

That's I suppose a failing of SU, u cant order this stuff online which really sucks. You have to order through a demonstator ...... I don't know anyone in USA ...... how disappointing is that?

Whilst I'm feeling all neglected and disappointed can I just also mention that I live in a town that doesn't even have book store!!! This is me, the wee girl who only ever wanted to live in a castle with a huge library and a craft room ...... nothing else mattered ......

Think that's as much disappointment as I can manage for today!

Blog's Alive!!!!!

Well Goodness Gracious Me ....Happy New Year everyone!

A new year and time to make an appearance on ye olde blog. Kinda was a bit half hearted about this in the run-up to the end of year hols. Sorry for not blogging to wish everyone a Merry Christmas. Excuses ..... i have none ..... none at all ..... just busy doing other things .... or if im truly honest .... but doing nowt much lol.

Actually, the week before Christmas especially was busy .... with parties, parties and more parties. There was of course also the snow, ice, last minute shopping and cars in ditches!!

Don't you just love snowy scenes tho .... here are a couple taken in Portadown (where we live) yesterday.

Doesn't it look lovely. I sure some clown from town will don ice boots and try to Jane Torville it up the river!! Ironically there is a funeral parlour just to the right of the bridge there .... just in case! TBH it is nice n all but the novelty of having a white Christmas, New Year and weeks after has totally worn off. Today it has started to thaw a little so hopefully conditions will be less dangerous. The weather has been slightly obsessive this past week with every news bulletin making reference to it ..... I even was dreaming last night about temperatures dropping so far below zero that it would be impossible to survive! i don't believe the whole global warming thing either ..... winters and temperatures years ago were just as extereme .... people just got on with it without complaining!

Ah well, that'll do for now, don't want to burn out so early in the year ..... *hugs* for all and i look forward to entertaining you with my ridiculous little life in 2010.

It's wats on the inside that counts .......

ok, so this isn't me under the mask, but it does help get across a certain message.

This is No.2 son at the Hallowe'en party on Saturday night. You wouldn't think to look at him here but he is the sweetest, kindest boy ever, always ready and willing to lend a hand. He also has this knack of giving company to those who might otherwise sit on their own all night. I love him to bits.

Applying this book/cover thing to me, Im not pretty, im overweight, Im no fashion icon, dont have money to throw about and dont own the latest must have accessorie BUT my family love me and that's all that truly matters. I do feel we live in an extremely materialistic society and culture that puts more importance on how people look and what they have rather than how people feel and act. I think I have done a good job in instilling good old fashioned values into my boys :)

When I last wrote, my creativity had gone, that is still the case so, rather than sit and do nothing I have been busy making inserts for my yet to be masterpieces. See, the inside counts .... see where im going with this! I love cards, pretty colourful ones but I do tend to pick shop bought cards according the verse inside. It is a very important element. A lot of people have expressed this as important to them too so I have taken the time to find some nice verses and had them printed up. All I need now are the cards to put them in lol.

Perhaps some blog hopping will help .............