Our Beautiful Boy....

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This picture was taken by Alex Holt ( thanks Alex - top picture) at my friend Dianne's 50th Birthday party, Alex is one of Dianne and Phil's two sons, the other being Matthew. I have yet to meet two nicer young men then Matthew and Alex and I hope that when Connor becomes a man he turns out as lovely as them.

Wow that was deep..Alex has a fabby camera and took some brilliant pics of Connor - this is just one of them.

1st Birthday Invitations

Well I have now finished all the invitations for Mia-ann's 1st Birthday Party which is going to be held at our house.  It will be four days before Christmas so it will give me carte-blanche to razz up the house in Pink and white...Ohhhhh I can't wait.  I used to put my tree up about the 15th December, but since knowing the Erri's, itnow goes up on the 1st of December so I get to drool over it all month.

Here is a sneaky peek at the image that has gone on the invites....

Wow.. I won some Blog Candy

I can't believe it, I have won some blog candy on http://sugarnellie.blogspot.com/ I am so excited and can't wait to receive my stamps...BIG thanks to Mrs Mac from Funky Kits.

New Stamp...Milly

I went to the Craft Obsessions crop on Saturday and instead of Scrapbooking I made some cards as I seem to have lost my Scrapping MoJo...I have used "Milly on a yule log" from Spiral Whispers and I love her..

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I have also made a card in Pink and White, using my new cuttlebug embossing folder and the Nestabilities scalloped ovals..

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Wedding Card.....

Hiya

Here is a card I have made for my sister Penny to give to a couple of very good friends for their wedding on Friday. I have used the Magnolia Christmas couple and coloured them in using Browns, Creams and Gold which are their colours... I hope she likes it

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Here is a close up of Tilda and Edward



Good luck to Cassie and Rich on Friday XXXX

Another amazing card maker

Hiya

Just a quick one tonight as I am tired and I need my bed, I have just stumbled upon another amazing card maker called Gayle...at http://littlebirddesign.blogspot.com/ go over and check her out..

I made a couple of cards on Saturday using my new Cuttlebug ( Tony calls it the "Cuttlefish"!!!) so will hopefully post those tomorrow...sleep well X

Hubby's Birthday

It was Tony's 44th Birthday today and I can't believe this time last year we were lazing by the pool in Florida...happy days !!! We spent today in Bath and had a lovely time just mooching around the shops and I finally got to go and have Coffee at the Pump Rooms, which I have been trying to do since 1993 !!!!!

I just stumbled across an amazing blog by a lady who makes wonderful cards....she has had over 12000 hits on her blog..makes my 350 seem pretty pathetic really...the site is http://passionforcrafts.blogspot.com go check it out she is really talented.

My latest effort in the cardmaking stakes is this one...sorry about the background..I should have cropped it !!!



Here is a close up of her...she is from the Autumn stamp club set from Magnolia....

A Raspberry Christmas....

Well here she is again, the lovely snowflurry Tilda in a Raspberry Guise....

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I have used cardstock from Stampin Up, Prima flowers and Flat Back Pearls, also the crystals dont show up to well but they are Swarovski and REALLY sparkly....

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A Blue Christmas....

I managed to get this Magnolia stamp from the glitter pot...it was out of stock on "tinternet" but i was so desperate for it that I rang the shop and begged them to look and see if they had it on the shelf...she did...and they did and here she is. I LOVE her...watch this space as she will be appearing in many incarnations.

Snowflurry Tilda

and here is a close up of her coloured in with the Prismacolour pencils

A Pink Christmas

Here is a card I made thinking that I might give it to Mia-ann for Christmas but it's so not good enough for her and I'm not really that happy with it, I don't know why, In fact I might just take it to bits and start again, watch this space you MAY see it in a new incarnation!!!



I have used the Home Grown Snowman from Sugar Nellie and they dont show up but all the snowflakes have a half pearl in the centre. The papers are DCWV from the Rose Tinted Christmas Stack...

Another Card.....

This is the card I made for my friend Renee...Happy Birthday Sweetie, I hope you have a great day, I have used the Sweet and Sassy stamp which I Love...

Here is a close up of her, I used Daisy Bucket Papers in the Playful Petals Range, a bit of Bazzil, pearls, swarovski crystals, a bit of ribbon and I used the Stampin Up circle stamps which I think are great.

Connor's Birthday Party.....

Well we took 10 young men to the Millstream Raceway Slot Car Track today in Ringwood for his birthday party.  They all had the best time and guess who won.....Connor of course, Tony says it';s a fix but I like to think that he won because he was the best on the day rather than the slot people sucking up to the people going to pay the bill !



He has been well and truly spoilt for his birthday, but after the year he has had with his health, I think he deserves it.

Birthday Boy

Well our one and only son has made 8 years old today and we are off to a firework display on the quay in Poole...Pics to show you tomorrow...He finally got his much longed for and wanted DS Lite and was over the moon at 6.45am this morning!!!!!!

On a different note, here are a couple of cards I have made as Thank You's for friends recently..



and the other one looks like this....

Halloween Card....

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Here is the Halloween card I made for our good friends Rob and Carol after the had the best Halloween Party ever..

Here is a close up of Tilda, coloured in again with my fabulous Prisma color Pencils

More Cards

Well I'm back...I seemed to have forgotten how to do a blog post and was too lazy to find out how, anyway I did find out and here we are...Christmas Cards....Argggggggh...not yet please, but here we go, I do need to write a message on the tag at some point.  The stamps were lent to me by Claire V ( Thanks Claire) and coloured in using my fabby Prismacolor Pencils.



I have chosen papers from Craft Obsessions and they come from Dream Street Papers – Wonderland Collection).  The Snowflakes were hand cut and covered with Glossy Accents and tipped with stickles

 



and finally the juggling snowman which I love...