Craft Mad September Card Swap completed

The card swap for September over on CraftMad has been completed.

I have received some beautiful cards from Kaye, but need to wait for batteries to charge for the camera and will post pics of Kaye's cards shortly.

Here are the cards I made for Kaye

Acetate strip stamped and coloured from behind, run through Xyron label maker, glitter sprinkled on back, then panel glued to tissue paper, then layered on hand torn background paper, then placed on purple cardstock.  This technique is from a class I did years ago, and always looks impressive!

Snowglobe designed by me and cut out using CraftROBO.  Tree shape decorated with gold stickers, inside of card sponged with inks and kindy glitz. 

A4 acetate sheet cut in half and folded to form card base.  Nestabilities labels used to create panels, Flourishes irises heat embossed and has coloured with watercolour pencils.  Inside card, panel has been duplicated to give you somewhere to write greeting.

WOYWW - a bit early ...... The Big 50 ;-)

As some of you may realise, I am approaching the Big 50!  I do this in a positive frame of mind ;-)

When I turned 25, I stressed out something shocking!  A quarter of a century and what had I done with my life?  

Now here I am, 50 and I am very happy with what I have done with my life!  I have a home and my health and a lot to be thankful for.


I am happily married to my best friend, have a family that I get on with (for the most part ;-) ) and have a small group of close friends that, even though we may not see each other as often as we would like, I cherish whatever time we can spend together.

We are going to have a party to celebrate this milestone and I spent the weekend making up the invitations.  Ofcourse, they never go to plan and never look like you imagined them in your mind's eye, but I think I am happy with what I eventually came up with.

Now I can start stressing about the food and ofcourse the really important one ...... what am I going to wear?

LOTV Blog Candy

LOTV have some beautiful blog candy

Don't pop on over to their blog  ideastoinspire to check out the  post for the candy :-) or you can use the link in my sidebar to check out the whole blog - it is worth a visit ;-)

Blog Candy !!!

Sue from a consuming passion has some beautiful blog candy!

I quote from Sue's page:

I'm so pleased with my new look blog page. So what about you, would you like something that is taylor made for you? I'd like to offer one person an idividual blog page - like mine but to your design........interested?

Marcia of MarciaJaneDesign.blogspot.com will help you get a blog page you'll love.


Now I also know that lots of you are much more talented than me and very capable of your own blog designs. So what about this 9.5" x 7.5" Calico gift bag that I have full of stamps, embellishments and all sorts of goodies.

Pop over to Sue's blog and check out the 'official bits'.  While you are there, stay a while and have a browse - it is a feast for the eyes ;-)

Spring has Sprung

It was a lovely sight today - the blossoms seemed to all pop up overnight (not quite, but you know what I mean LOL)

Pity about the white balance being wrong !!! 

that's what I get for not checking the camera before taking shots!