Couldn't resist getting Ethan to pick daisies from my neighbour's garden, we took them round to her, as technically they do belong to her!!!

Had a play with a digi layout... not done it for ages!

Ingredients: PP by The Shabby Shoppe, Daisies by Cheryl Barber from Scrap Girls, chalk effect from Corel Photo Paint.

Comissioned mini album... Bon Voyage

These are the pics of the recent mini album... using LUSH Basic Grey papers!

Fold out...

Other side of fold out...

Ingredients: PP by Basic Grey, CS by Bazzil, Bookplates and Lettering by Quickutz, flowers by Prima, ribbon, butterfly and dragon punches and stamps by Rhonna Farrer.

CPS and Sketch this cards

Managed to squeeze in some card making.

Luke has the pox now... so has done mostly watching videos and playing Xbox today - looking very spotty.

Had a lovely morning catching up with a friend who is also heavily pregnant. She bought a bunch of flowers and yummy cakes to have with our tea!

Here are the cards... for CPS challenge got a belated card for Tom's uncle done, used fab new Basic Grey paper pad....drool. Funny how I have a whole pad of paper, but was still so frugal!!!

Ingredients: PP by Basic Grey, repro vintage cigarette card, stamp by Anna Griffin.

And with the Sketch This sketch I made a long overdue baby card... I not that happy with the colours, I love the chiffon bow on the button though!


Ingredients: PP by anna Griffin, Prima flowers, vintage button, ribbon from stash. Stamp by Heidi Swapp.

A Not So Sticky Challenge from DCM

What a fab midweek dare by DCM. I love being challenged in this way, it makes you push the design techniques.

Used the dare to make a wedding card for a young couple.

The PP is attached on one side with brads, then on the other with ribbon lacing.


Ingredients: PP by Basic Grey, Fiskars scallop scissors - 2 sizes, ribbon, Quickutz letters, MM setter and hand stitching.

Made this late birthday card for my mum with the scraps...

Ingredients: PP by Basic Grey, Fiskars scallop scissors, ribbon flowers by Prima, button, Quickutz bookplate, Rhonna Farrer stamp and hand doodling.

Will post pics of the mini album from which most of the above scraps came from once I've taken pics!

DCM, I can see clearly now...

Well everyone... life has been busy in my household. baby not here yet, but been trying to get through my list of jobs before he/she arrives. Like... making tiaras for friends, a mini album comission, buying bits for the birth, tidying the house even though I haven't had the nesting instinct yet as well as doing normal housy stuff!

Had a fabulous weekend, I went with a friend to the Hay on Wye literary festival to hear comic writer Neil Gaiman talk about his adult fairytale story Stardust that has been recently made into a film. It's not quite finished, but he was able to show us about half an hour of clips. There's quite a star cast including, Peter O Toole, Michele Pfeiffer, Rupert Everett, Ricki Jervais, Robert DeNiro and Claire Danes. He came across as being very amicable and was very gracious when someone asked a slightly uneducated question. We then had opportunity to get something signed by him, and I asked him to draw a self portrait in the sketch book that Tom keeps about our family life - will post a pic when I get the camera back! When I got back from that our friend was in the garden creating a boarded off playarea for the children... again pics soon...

So card making has been on the backburner. Thought I'd do one tonight but DH has left digi camera at work... so I'm afraid I'm going to cheat and use one "I made earlier" - although I don't think you've seen it yet.

I made using this freebie I created a while back, which I am happy for people to save and use themselves.

Ingredients: PP unknown, polka ribbon, my circle wordings printed on acetate, flowers from local source, vintage button and twine, stamp by Clever Cut.