Fabulous News

You have probably heard me mention my cousin before and yesterday I received the call I have been waiting for she is expecting her first baby. I was so pleased for them both, she will make a fantastic mum and that is one lucky baby. She sent me a picture of the scan and I can't wait to meet this new little person and give them lots of cuddles. I will also be the one who buys all the noisy toys and gives them the hyper sugary stuff, well you have to keep a tradition going lol.

I remember reading her a book at bedtime called "Will Cwac Cwac" and I used to do all the different voices and accents and she used to love it, in fact she still talks about it to me, I would love to find a copy of this book for the new baby but it seems to be out of print, such a shame too as it was a lovely book.

I used snippets from the Keita kit from Sassy Designs and have made three cards all from the same papers so far, can't you tell I like them lol. Even the image and sentiment were stamped on snippets lol.

Ingredients:

Image: Elzybells

Papers: "Keita" Sassy Designs Inc 

Cardstock: From Margaret (ArumLily)

Challenges: Snippet Playground

Hubbie's Hobby

Morning all, I thought I would show you what hubbie gets upto when I am in my craftroom. I spend quite a bit of time in my craftroom and as his main hobby is pottery but he didn't have anywhere to do this properly he decided he needed to find something else.

He bought a 3d printer kit and build the printer himself and has been merrily printing, calibrating, learning and printing things for a while now.

I saw this model on "thingyverse" and when I came home from work he was waiting on my craft desk. Isn't he adorable, his propeller even turns.

Hubbie has suggested converting our garage into a hobby room, with 2 thirds for me and a third for him and his printer so that when we are both concentrating on our hobbies we can still chat, just need to work out where all the stuff currently in the garage is going to go.

A Baby Girl for a change

Well last year was the year of the baby boy but it looks like baby girls are on the agenda for 2012. One of my work friends and his wife had a baby girl last week and I made this card for them. Last year everyone was having boys and they all knew beforehand so I had lots of time to make cards and like always I waited until the last minute but this year they are all waiting until the birth to find out, so I had to make a girl and boy version. I will show the boy version again though as am keeping it for someone else.

I used a gorgeous image from Di's digi downloads and had a blast colouring her in. I don't know about anyone else but I find pink the most difficult colour to match, I tried all my copic colours but none would match the nit wit paper so had to resort to mixing my own with the RV10 and R11, irl they look an identical match to the papers, not sure the camera picked that up though.

Ingredients:

Image: "Baby Bow" Di's Digi Downloads

papers: "Baby Girl" Nit Wit

Cardstock: "Pretty in Pink" Stampin up

Sentiment: Studio G

Brad: Stash

Aren't freebie stamps the best

Hi Everyone, sorry for going missing, been a bit hectic here and haven't gotten myself back in the crafty groove, this is a problem as I have lots of cards to make and no mojo lol.

The only crafty magazine I buy regularly is the docrafts creativity, as with all magazines sometimes I like the free gift and sometimes I love it. I always check to see what the next issues free gift will be and when I saw these gorgeous stamps I thought they would be small but they are definitely not small, they almost fill the 135 x 135 cards I use and are lovely to colour too. My mojo is off on her summer vacation I think as I really struggled to put this card together, I have been trying to get ahead as I have loads of September birthdays and this is when the mojo always goes on strike lol. If anyone finds it can they please send it back to me.

Ingredients

Image: Docrafts freebie

Papers: "Karen & Keita" Sassy Designs Inc

Paper: Snippet Folder

Brads: Papermania Glitter brads

Challenges: Snippet Playground

A Wedding Card

Now all you who remember me asking if I should make a card ready for December may think this is the one I meant but no it isn't, this is for a young lady at work who gets married today, she loves bright pink and as I had just bought these fab papers I had to use them. The image is from Jellypark and was a joy to colour, I bought this image for the december card but forgot about the lili of the valley one I already had so at least I got to use this one.

Ingredients:

Image: "Wedding Couple" Jellypark

Papers: "Blushing" Sassy-Designs Inc

Card: Snippet folder

Nailheads: Josy Rose

Challenges: Snippet Playground

Mmm...Chocolates...Again...

This isn't the first card I have made with this stamp and after the fun I had colouring it  won't be my last either. Last month there was a sale at Sassy-Designs Inc where they were selling their digital paper packs for 25cents each, so it would have been rude to visit and not buy any lol. Of course I had to buy the sets called, Amanda, Newport and Orlando lol and several others to keep them company. The papers for this card are actually from two separate kits, Christy and Heirloom, and I love that the colours match perfectly.

I have used all scraps for the card except the backing papers, the teal card was in the snippet folder as was the crumb cake card. Now I realise I may be revealing too much here but all my stampin up card has its own folder and any snippets no matter how small go straight back in, so all the crumb cake snippets are with the full sheets of crumb cake, makes it much easier to keep them together but this is the only card I do this with.

Ingredients:

Image: House Mouse

Papers: "Heirloom" & "Christy" by Sassy-Designs Inc edges inked with Tumbled Glass distress ink

Cardstock: Teal(snippets folder) & "Crumb Cake" Stampin up

Sentiment: Elzybells

Challenges: Snippet Playground

Shopping with friends

Hello everyone, I have had the most fantastic week, my friend and I have shopped til we dropped and had so much fun too. She has gone home now and I miss her already, she is such fun to be around and we like the same things too. Hopefully it won't be long until we get to do this again.

I saw so many lovely items that it has inspired my mojo and I also managed to get some wax paper so will be playing with that this weekend too.

TTFN