Afternoon all,

Another day of crafting!

This is a card for Tracy who had a nasty accident over the weekend. I think there may be two little nurses looking after your every need now that you are home, lets hope so! Get well soon Tracy.

This is one of the beautiful stamps designed by Leanne Ellis for Sugar Nellie Stamps over on the Funky Kits site. (Link below) I have teamed it with Deja Views papers "Blue Raspberry". Me thinks, I might have to play some more with this stamp!!

Today I also received a lovely parcel from Beckie @ RP, many thanks. I love it, the "Pop Star" papers are so applicable to me with two boys, can't wait to play!

Oh, I've been playing with my blog again today....to much time on my hands?
Or should I be doing something more constructive, yer, probably, but where would be the fun in that?
In honour......I know it is a little late...of the new Gorjuss stamps over on the Funky Kits site...I've added this background, sweet isn't it. Looking forwards to playing with the new stamps, I love this range. http://www.funkykits.co.uk/catalog/index.php?cPath=47_55

Another card here for a friend in the village, with a picture of her partners dog. I've kept with the beach theme and colours and again used my template from The Cutting cafe for the greeting.

Over the years I've done my fair share of sympathy cards. Calla lilies being the favourite embellishment in various forms. So what do you make of this one? To much, with bling? Just got sick of lilies and wanted a change.

I first saw this cuttlebug embossing plate when Tracy Dowie did a demonstration at Papercraft's Boutique in Elgin...Tracy thanks for the idea.

The stamped image is from The Cutting Cafe and thanks to Sharon my teamie on UKS for that link. I can see I will be using that site again.

And for today's card, gets out trumpet! (Only kidding)

This stamp is part of a Rusty Pickle packet that I picked up on my day scrapping with Mr Pickle last year in Edinburgh, thanks to Becky, and I have been waiting for a wee while to use it, I thought it goes well with the Creative Imaginations "Love to Shop" papers.

As you can guess Julie enjoys shopping, or that was my brief!

So how was your Valentine's day folk?

Red roses, chocolates...Champagne?

Or did your partner forget?

My hubby told me we weren't bothering this year then surprised me with flowers, chocs and my favourite brandy. So what is he after?!*

On that note I thought I would show you this years Valentine cards.

I have been busy of late making new samples for Papercraft's Boutique in Elgin...if you want to see them I'm afraid you'll have to visit the store, I know you want to!!

Ok who pinched January? And now it is February....who ordered snow?Actually here we have a light "icing sugar" dusting which is pretty but I believe the rest of the country seems to have come off worse.

This picture is for my "teamies" on UKS. My youngest had a birthday party to go to today...he made his own card , don't know whether the little girl will appreciate a Pirate card when she is having a princess party but the thought is there!

As to gifts well I usually do a bigger picture than this one...too much brandy last night...wasn't quite seeing straight this morning!

The apron is usually given with a cook book/cake making kit/fancy icing pack etc... Just a little different from picking something up at the shops and she won't get two!

Morning....this was a request from my mum for a Harley pal.

For those of you who don't know my parents are "Harley bikers", which I and my boy's think is really cool.

One of my pals always smiles at me and says "Granny's should be in flowery dresses with strings of pearls not black biker leathers covered in badges on the back of a large noisy bike."

Why?

Good luck to them, I think it's brill.

Morning crafter's.

Looking at cards and magazines to which cards are popular just now and more is more...more paper..more embellishments etc.. I love this style and do have my attempts at it...However when it comes to making cards for folk for special occasions I am always asked for something more personal, name, age, hobbies etc... Some requests can get quite bizarre but I'm always willing to give it a go. Thankfully today's request was for an 18th for a young guy (obviously) who likes golf. My 1st card is an attempt of the local 18th hole golf course....ok it's not to scale etc...but you get the general idea.

Living in a small village I quite often get asked by different folk for the same person...so we have 3 combinations of golfing cards.
Let's hope Kyle has a super birthday and now enjoys the 19th hole officially!

My mum has also been really poorly of late so this is a quick card for her. Hope you are feeling better soon, mum and back to your usual self. Dad put the kettle on!!

Recently I was sadly asked to make a card for a couple who were unfortunate to loose their baby. Now I can only imagine the shear heartache that they're both going through and my thoughts are with them.

Morning all

Another day beginning and madly dashing around getting sorted for school. Found my other candles that I made for Christmas presents and thought I would share them as promised. Why no matter what time everyone gets up on a morning there is always a mad 1/2 hour before school?! Or is it just in this house....I bet not.

Anyway happy crafting to you all....catch you again very soon.

Another day and at the moment I'm in between computer's and some files are on 1 and some on the other....is it me or is it a pain switching to a new system?

Anyway enough of that I can't show you the candles I wanted to so today so I have attached part of Karen's birthday gift. I hope you had a fabulous day Karen.

I'm enjoying making the candles....could this be my latest crazy?!**

Happy New Year everyone!!!!

This is the Jacob's ladder that I made for my brothers partner. I used winter wonderland papers by Craft house. I thought the pinks and greens would make a really "girlie" book of my niece.

A little birdie told me that it is Beckie's Birthday today.

I hope you have a super day and get spoilt rotten by the family and maybe even get a little craft-time!

Merry Christmas everyone

I'm back. Hope you all had a great time over Christmas. Did you get to do any crafting? I didn't.

This was my new Christmas decoration for Karen this year, it has become a tradition that I make something new every year. I've been feeling a little traditional this year and have always loved my poinsettia's.

More to follow.....must catch up on the exciting jobs like washing and ironing....NOT!

I need to get in some crafting.....

I am still here. Have been making quite a few cards here's just a few quick ones using clip art. Quick and easy for the teachers, as usual everything is last minute here. Still at least their getting homemade ones most other folk aren't.

My boys have made cards at school this year and had them printed to raise funds so they've bailed me out and taken over my roll of card making leaving me free to complete a few special cards and presents.

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I wanted to share this with all you mom's out there. I have heard it before but thanks Jacqui for sending it....I bet most of it features in your daily ritual!

Had a great day yesterday at the Aberdeen Christmas crop. Lots of crafting, lunch out, home bakes and Secret Santa....a perfect day. Thanks to Dawn and Kara for organising it and for my lovely gifts (the icing on the cake!)...my name was drawn out of the hat and a got some super goodies. It is so not like me to be that lucky!

I'm still busy crafting away for anybody checking up on me but I'm not wanting to show any Christmas pressies just yet, so not to spoil the surprise. Happy Christmas crafting to all.
One last question for you all.....what was in/on your advent calendar today?

At the weekend I was asked by a friend if I could do a class for the Moray Befriending voluntary service last night.

These are the two cards I came up with and the evening went very well with only 1 person in the class of 14 having made cards before. Karen we may now have a few more converts!

Finally.......

Can't wait to start my next project with my new toy.

And more?!

In between the larger layers I have enclosed a mini page of extra photos. Behind most photos I have also added tags so that my MIL can add her personal journalling of the day.