Valentines Day

Well here is my card to my DH. Left it as a suprise for him, when he returned from work Lunch time. He was only working half a day because guess what! He and 3 others arranged to go to Southern Spain to see some GP motorcyling and left the wives at home!! They flew early this evening from Stansted and return back late Monday night. He did leave me a little pressie for when I got in from work this eveining, a big bar of my fav chocolate. Cadburys whole nut! I just love this chocolate. Anyway with him away I just might get a few cards made this weekend :o)

Create a Card for Cancer Care

Been busy today sorting through my cards to send to the DO CRAFTS Create a card for Cancer Care. See details here http://www.create-a-card-for-cancer-care.org/. The top photo are my cards and the bottom one are cards made by my mum. My mum is getting into cardmaking big time. Her creations are beautiful, although she is very modest about it all. She would kill me if she knew I had put them on here. LOL. (Sorry for the bad photo's the light was bad indoors, so I tried outside but still not very successful.)

More Sugar

Have been playing with my new Sugar Nellie stamps. I stamped the images last week end and have been colouring a few each evening. Today I made a couple up into cards. Both are square white cards covered with freebie paper from magazines. Can't remember which one, as I normally don't use them, but these seemed to work well.

LOLA

My new Sugar Nellie stamps from http://www.funkykits.co.uk/catalog/arrived on Saturday. I wasn't too sure about these new designs at first, but boy now they are here wow they are just adorable, the pictires on the Sugar Nellie blog http://sugarnellie.blogspot.com/ don't do them justice. They stamp out beautifuly and are so easy to colour. Here is my first creation using one of the stamps. I started off in my mind that this card was going to be blue, it has actualy ended up being lilic. LOL. Having one of those days where I keep changing my mind, and can't find the right paper for the card. I colour in my stampped image first, then make my card. Perhaps I need to choose my card colours first then colour the image to match the colours I have choosen....Off to try that.........X

Sponsor Belle to raise money for a medical trip to Nevada, USA

Belle, needs all our help. This beautiful, couragous young lady is needing to raise funds to travel to America, to embark on some treatment that our own country cannot give her. Read all about it here http://www.kirstywiseman.com/ellie.html. Belle's mum is the wonderful, creative Kirsty Wiseman, and for months now I have been reading Kirsty's Blog http://limegreenbogiegirl.blogspot.com/. Go over and have a look, her work is fab, but also you will be able to read all about the long, frustrating journey, Kirsty and Mark have had to endure, fighting with the medical system in the UK, to get the help their daughter deserves. Although I have never met Kirsty or her family, I feel that I know them all so well and I want to help them try and get the best for that wonderful daughter of theirs. I'm now off to make my donation.

Kirsty, If you happen to stop by my blog........ Love to you all X

Look what I'v done.........

Most of the weekend has been spent with DS and his Bowls. Yesterday we spent most of the day at the World Bowls being held at Potters holiday park, Hopton. This is an annual event held here, and this year the Junior Beccles Indoor Bowls Club was invited to demonstrate bowl to people as they arrived for the main event. As you can imagine the kids thought this was great, paying at the same place that all the Pro's would be playing. After their demo, they where invited to stay and watch. We stayed for the afternoon session and saw the 3rd round game between Mervyn King (a local Norfolk bowler) and Kelvin Kerkow from Australia. Wow, what a game it was. Mervin won, but it went to a tie break. DS was in awe of them all.

This morning was taken up with Bowls again. This was a return match, against another local Junior Bowls club at Browston. It was a close match, but Browston won by 6.

All this going on means no crafting again this weekend :-( but I have been fiddling with Adobe Photoshop Elements 4 and created a watermark. I saw a tutorial here http://www.stampinkub.com/tutorials/tips/photo_4.html and thought I would have a go at creating one. Now believe me, when it comes to using Adobe PE4, my mind seems to turn to mush.........I get in a muddle with the simplest things LOL, but this is quite easy. I don't pretend it was a five minute job ......in fact it took most of the evening..........but I am quite pleased with the result. I have tried it out on a card I made a few days ago, using the Sugar Nellie stamps from http://www.funkykits.co.uk/catalog/index.php. Just love these stamps. Off now to colour some more images in ready to make into cards.

Where does the time go

I was so looking forward to spending some time crafting on Sunday, but ended up spending day in bed feeling pretty bad. Bad stomach cramps, and then all my joints aching. Slept on and off most of the day. Couldn't go to work on Monday either, but still not well enough to craft.

Finding it a real struggle to find any spare time at the moment. I made a start on the job hunting and have completed two applications for admin roles at two schools near by. But boy do these application forms take time to complete! No interviews yet but closing date for one was yesterday and the second hasn't closed yet, so early days.

So, I will share a card I made about a week ago! It is using one of the Magnolia stamps. I decided to cut the image out and place on the card, don't know the papers used I am afraid as they where scraps from the scrap box, you know, the one we all have, because we can't throw anything away LOL. I am quite happy with the way it turned out and will certainly use stamp in this way again.

Bye for now.

More Cards....

Waiting for a parcel for DH to be delivered, so have been making more cards today. DS has been happy playing all the new PS2 & Wii games he got for Christmas so has been quite content and let me play. Have been using my Sugar Nellies again. I love these stamps. The pink card is using my new Cuttlebug and embossing with the textile folder and using the nestabilities again. I love these dies, worth every penny. The other card is using paper from the DCWV Nana's Kids range. The paper has glittery little stars on it which I thought was appropiate to the stamp. The 'Make a Wish' and the cup cake on the pink card are Stidio G clear stamps. Had better go and clear up the mess I have made and get on with making a meal for tonight....

Happy day crafting

I had to work between xmas and new year, but I am on holiday now until Monday. Had a great day just crafting and playing with my new Cuttlebug and Nestabilities and my Sugar Nellie stamps. Funky Kits sent out my Nellies before Xmas, Thanks Girls, and I stamped a few images over xmas, but didn't get around to colouring them. Today I have been playing and created these cards. Just love these stamps. They stamp up so crisp and clear. Now off to do some more colouring ready to make more cards tomorrow.............

HAPPY NEW YEAR.........

Happy New year everyone. Had to work New Years eve, then went around friends to see the new year in. Had great time, playing cards and the board game Destination. Kids love this game and it keeps them occupied for ages. Today I have taken the Xmas decorations down. Hubby is back at work tomorrow, so I thought it best to do it today so he could get all the boxes back up in the loft, this afternoon I created a card using one of the Sugar Nellie stamps I bought before Xmas. By the time it was finished it was too dark to photograph, so will post it tomorrow. Now going to browse through some of the blogs I love visiting to see what everyone has been up to....