Some Mothers Pride

I should be working on things for my blog.. but my daughter came home this evening on a flying visit. We've been looking at animation on the internet.. and found a site that had us in stitches.
Lorna make sure you show this one to Charlie

  http://www.simonscat.com/films.html

I also managed to sneak one of my daughters latest drawings.(I'm not normally aloud to see them)

 I must admit when I first saw this I thought it was a photograph.. then she told me it was one of her paintings..
To say I felt proud was an understatement.
So nothing from me today.. Just a proud Mam enjoying her daughters Talent. :o)

Monday..Monday

Monday...Monday

That's another weekend overwith. So what lies ahead for us this week.

Doctors, Dentist maybe a little craft shopping. Scrapbooking. Make a few cards.

I made this for a friend who is a craft teacher. So I had to make an effort.  Her favorite colour is Purple if you hadn't guessed. I love these stamps from rubber romance.  I have quite a few and purchase mine from Etsy.

I've managed to scrap another L/O.It's a starting blox from the Scrapyland Website.  I am determind to make more of an effort this Year. 

I've never had time to make cards in advance. But with the remainder of my time off work.  I'm going to make a bit of an effort to use my favorite stamps over the next few weeks. Fingers crossed for another post before the end of the month. Until then

Happy Crafting

Happy New Year

Happy New Year!
Sorry the happy new year is long over due.. but hey better late than never. Lets hope this year brings something nice for each of us.
Lorna this post is in honour of you as your the reason I'm making an effort. You have two young sons, a husband,home and a job .. and you still have time to update you blog. Your Amazing!
Thank you for the Lovely papers you sent me... I've used them for the L/O posted
I hope you approve.

Well it's Goodbye to 2009. Hello 2010

What a year.. Rachael is in her second year of Uni, moved in to her first shared house and is having a great time.... which is how it should be.

2009 is the year I lost my beloved Basset Hound Megan. She is greatly missed.

Molly Darling, our remaining dog, enjoyed the recent snowfall

She is such a good natured dog, a well loved eating nose on 4 little legs...

2009 also landed me in hospital for a month with a blood clot in my lung..No 2.. but I'm on the mend now, you just can't keep a good women down.

I've made a few cards but not many..and not my best. My Mojo is only currently returning to me.. spurd on by Tim Holtz getting together with Sizzix... to produce some of the best dies i've seen in a long, long time.. Thank You Sizzix and Tim. I can't wait to get my hands on them!

My Little Girl...to me will always be... the prettiest flower in the garden.

I've discovered a software package

called Serif Pageplus 9

which allows me to play with words.. and how they are laid out.

I just love it.. I can wrap words in a circle...and lot's of different shapes...

I intend to experiment some more and hopefully post some results.

I used it to make the heading of this Layout of my DD Rachael.

She was such a happy little girl.

When we are together there are always lot's of smiles.

Just a few cards

I thought it was time I posted something for Lorna.. you must be getting fed up of not having anything new to look at so here goes.












Rachael my darling daughter starts her second year of university today.
I think she'll be glad to have a reason to get up in the mornings again..... or maybe not lol....

I just had to post a picture of the birthday card she made for me.. because I'm so proud of her. A beautiful Basset Hound looking longingly at it's little birthday cup cake. I was so pleased with what she had drawn for me.

and the bird is a little "Thank You" card she made which I quickly took a pic of before she sent it.

Proud Mums... what can I say... Ssshhh don't tell.

Below are some cards i've recently made for some birthday's etc... Happy Crafting..

Until the next time....

My Oh My

Have I really been away from my blog for sooooooo.... Long. Sorry I've been busy with my bosses wedding all finished now.

Here are a few cards I made with my fav.. Magnolia Stamps and Copic Markers. I just LOVE Magnolia stamps... put Magnolia and Copic together and I'm a Happy Girl.

Below is a little Digi Stamp..That I came across on Etsy.

I first saw them on the Stamping Caz web site and had to investigate further as I had never heard of DigiStamps before...

What a fantastic idea.... you just pay to download the images.. no storage problems... you can resize pic to what ever suites your card best...

I thought this one was Really sweet!

Virtual Crop

This weekend I took part in a Virtual Crop... Having signed up for this event I really didn't know what to expect and thought I'd just sign up for a nose and see what was going on.

But boy did I have fun. There was speed L/O. where a sketch is posted on the Message Board and a certain amount of time is given for you to post your L/O before the deadline. We played bingo, watched tutorials and took part in Scavenger hunts.

This is one of the pages I scrapped on the Virtual Crop Day.

I found it so much easier having a Sketch to follow.. it ment I could just think about colours and get on with what I wanted on the page.

Here's another L/O I completed which had certain requirements for the crop.

The L/O had to incorporate the following eliments... a peice of ribbon..three embelishments.. two different alphabets and four pics.

Volia...

So.. if you ever have a chance to join in a virtual crop... I highly recommended it.

More News..

My friend Lorna has given birth to a scrumcious baby boy Congratulations Lorna and Family

My darling daughter Rachael has completed her first year Uni

.......and I have a new camera.. which I still haven't worked out how to fully use...

But hopefully will be posting pics in the not to distant future.

Bye for nowxxxx