Michelle's happy mail!!

I have just finished talking to Michelle on facebook and her happy mail got to her so I can pop it on here now. Michelle and I swap cards and decided we would call it happy mail as it just cheers up our days when they plop onto the mat through the letterbox.

I used my new storybook cart for this one,ooooh I love it, its so versatile!!

I made the overlay for the card in ds by welding the letters of her name to 2 rectangles ( made by using 2 squares to avoid the dreaded 'x' error!!!) and because i was using double sided patterned cardstock I was able to pop the little accent overlays for the letters on 'flip shapes' function and cut it all out in one go!!! i love ds!!!! ohand I did the heart the same way too. The sentiment on the inside I made with my xyron design runner ( I like that too!!!) I inked theegdges of the card,all the letters and the little heart to make them stand out a little .I used foam squares to mount the letters and the heart but I had to cut them up into little strips!!! I gave them a little bit of sparkle with glitter glue and then went over the top with anita's 3d glaze ( love this stuff too, it makes things look so pretty and adds a new dimension.) I popped some little dovecraft gems in two of the corners and added a little bit of ribbon too.

I am going to bed now!!!! thankyou for popping in!!!

Football (for us in the UK!) soccer (for US!) card!!!!

Now I have finished Michelle's card I have been able to get on with a birthday card!! this is for the football mad little boy (arghhh,he's not so little now!!! I am getting old!!) that I used to nanny for. I used my soccer solutions cart for this one. Its funny because dh bought itas a surprise for me when it first came out and was quite a good deal and I wasn't toosure if I would use it but I use it quite a lot!!! I welded 2 football shadows together in ds and the I poped the overlay on. I added a bit more to the overlay using george as it loked a bit wierd without it, it is the little line near the E that I added.The font is doodletype with blue for the shadow and claret for the normal on top.He supports West Ham United football club so I used their team colours for his name and I googled the clubs emblem and printed it out on some card. I have put anita's 3d glaze on the letters and the emblem because I love the effect that it gives.
The ont inside the card is fro http://www.dafont.com/ and it is called 'bend it', I downloaded it especially for this card as I thought it was cool for footy mad little guys!!! I did lots of doodle dots in black and white gel pen on the football to look like stitching(hand very achey now from attempting not too smudge it too much!!!) and some around the 'Happy birthday' too.
I am looking forward to the weekend, yippee friday tommorrow! I am ready for some snuggle time with mo and doing some nice mummy things. I have been informed by mo this morning that we are making some banana cakes with icing on so looks like it will be a messy old kitchen weekend!! He wants to make some chocolate playdough too for a sweety shop so I'd better get some cocoa!!!
Thanks for wombling my way xxxx

Mini card.....Little but sooo cute!!

I have had a busy day today doing day 2 of my SENCo course and needed to unwind a bit after I had put Mo to bed so I decided to have a play and make a cute little mini card.The card is only 9x7cm and really does look cute!!! I cut the scalloped card from my new arrival cart,inked the edges and added a few doodle dots in blue. Then I printed out a few josh's (from grab-a-doodle-do). I cut three little rectangles and highlighted the edges of the bottom one with a silver gel pen, then inked it blue over that, I used a bit pf patterned paper for the 2nd layer and inked it softly and then the 3rd layer is the white cardstock I had printed Josh out on,trimmed into a rectangle with the edges inked in blue again and a few doodle dots. I have put 3d glaze on the little football and it looks really cool as it has a kind of domed shape but I think it is tricky to see in the picture! I haven't made a sentiment yet but I have just downloaded a really cool football font called 'Bend it' from http://www.dafont.com/ so I think I will be using that for it. I have also made a really nice card for my lovely friend Michelle who I do 'happy mail' with but I don't want to post that until I know she has recieved it!! it is the first card I have made using my new storybook cart and I am really pleased with it!! I will post it soon!!

My January Team Paper Perfection challenge entry!

Urghhhhh!!! I have monday feeling today!! Mo had a terrible night again with his asthma, he has a bit of an infection and is on antibiotics (again!) so I am terribly dopey!!!!

So I am cheering myself up by posting my team Paper Perfection January challenge entry. Over on the cricut mb I am taking part in this challenge,( the rules are below for anyone who might not of seen them!) this is the first challenge I have ever entered so I am very excited and voting starts on the 29th January over on the cricut mb. Please feel free to click on the links for the teams and check out the other amazing entries from our teams. I have really enjoyed being part of this and there is another sign up going for february (if it isn't already full!!).

Have a lovely monday everyone xxxx
here are the details of our challenge to remind you all!

1. Create a LO or Card with the numbers 2009 .

2. Your creation must have 2009 cut from a cricut cartridge

3. When you have your project ready to post , your team must create a Thread with the Title " January Cricut Team Challenge (your team name).

4. Every team member needs to post under their same team thread (no individual threads..this will make it easier for voting )

5. All projects need to be posted no later that January 29th, voting will be open the 30th and 31st. ..anything posted after the 29th will not be considered for voting

6. very important.... Have fun Fun Fun

Paper Perfection ........... Red Hot Cricut Peppers

TBug ............... . Nilda

sockmonkeykitty ...........grammat

JaniceSchmidt ...............KweenScrapper69

goatesgirl .................DanielleP

jackierussett.................amysangels2

CPKarateMom.................Nicky

~Carla~...................Me&LiliCie

Nancybeth..................Inspired*Scrapper

Mom2ZZ...................designsbydawn

loopylou.................**Familystrong**

buggincrazy.............Twizzie

Don't forget to vote !!!!!!!

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I have been distributing my 'Tags'!!!!!

It has been a busy weekend, this morning we went for a lovely early morning swim with Little mo, I am sure he is turning into a fish!! and I have just had time to sit down and womble round a few of the blogs I follow and tag them!!! it was fun!! so heres who I chose:

Cathy http://koalatkreations.blogspot.com

Okie http://okieladybugsscrapnmore.blogspot.com/

Meg http://beauchampfam.blogspot.com/

Anita http://scrappingwithglitter.blogspot.com

Enfys http://going-buggy.blogspot.com/

Amanda http://amkscrap.blogspot.com/

Go to your pictures and look in your 6th folder and post your 6th picture then explain it!! I have chosen both people that follow me and people that I follow but they don't follow me, I decided to do this as there are so many people that inspire me on a daily basis and I am tyring to thank them for all the things they share. Thankyou for looking, I will look forward to seeing what everyone who has been tagged posts!!!xxxxx

Oooooh, I've been tagged!!!!!!

I just got tagged by Leanne!!heres her blog!http://createdbyleanne.blogspot.com/

ok so the rules of this tag (i have never had one before!!!) were that I went to my pictures and opened the 6th folder and picked the 6th picture in that folder!!!! and then explain that picture....

So this is my picture!!! in the picture, (from left to right) my nephew Jake, my son Little Mo, my niece Lily-boo and my eldest son Ryan. On the table in front of them are their bread buns (recipie in the background) and this is the picture we took to send to my niece and nephews mum and dad ( they were having some mummy and daddy time at a wedding so we had a sleepover, though they were all so excited about it you'd of thought they had won a years worth of sweets!!! lol !!)

Thankyou Leanne!!!!

(errrr, can someone let me know if you pass a tag along, I am a bit new to tagging!!!!)

Card I made a while ago!

I made this card a few weeks ago for a friend at work who was leaving to have her baby ( he is here now and sooo cute) but I wanted to share this card as it was so much fun to make. I sometimes have 'favourite cards' and this is one of them.

I used my new arrival cartridge for the expectant mum with a bit of blingy glitter on, I am hoping you will be able to read the verse if you click on the picture, I found it by googling!!! I wanted a nice verse that was just for Leanne as I knew we would be sending her cards for the baby after he arrived and I wanted her to feel a bit special.

I made lots of little tags with some forever friends baby paper, then made the tags again with the shadow function with cardstock to back them on so that we could all write our own personal little message ( I thought that this would be much nicer than a huge card that we all signed a bit of!!) andUsed my big bite to pop some eyelets on each tag, popped ribbon on them all. Then I made some tag pockets in the same paper I used for the front of the card and inked all the edges to make them look pretty. I made the card base in ds.

The empty bigger pocket in the bottom picture is the tag pocket that I made for her gift card from our collection to go into.

Thankyou for peeking!!! now I'm off to my dashboard for a nosey around to see what everyone else is up to!!! xxxxxxx

My nephews 1st birthday door hanger!!!

I am sooo fed up with this bug I have got, I got it just before christmas and it just won't budge!! everytime I get a little tired it comes back, today I have a headache that won't budge and a throat that feels like I ate a cactus!!!! I had such a great weekend but it was busy so think thats how I got tired and then last night little Mo's asthma was sooo yukky, we were up half the night. His little eyes are so red and bloodshot from coughing and he gets so panicky and upset when its bad ( tonight is not fairing much better so far bless him!) Anyway, thankyou for letting me moan!! At the moment I am working on a ' happy mail' for my amazing freind Michelle (I am late with it to, sorry Mich xxx) so I am posting something I did just before christmas.

My nephew, Rufus, turned 1 in november. He has a pirate theme in his bedroom and I wanted to make him something that would tie in with that. I found the card from cricutbutterflies blog and played with it a little to get it how I wanted it and I used the pirate ship on my PDDU cart to make his door hanging. It was the first time I have attempted a door hanging so I was quite pleased with it. I used black tissue paper for the sails and blue tissue paper for the waves. Its hard to see in the picture but I used rafia to 'tie' the sails and to make the hanger for it to go on a hook on the door. Have a lovely monday everybody xxxx

OOOh I love these!! More Grab-a-doodle-do's!!!

I have had a lovely day today. I caught up with one of my best friends (and probably one of my oldest friends!!) Leah, and had lots of tea and giggles, I love days like today. I don't have much but I am truly grateful for what I do have and wouldn't swap a thing about my life (lou thinks hard about that and decides she would definately change the size 14 that she is and be a 10 again!!!! lol!!!!) I even got 2 cards done tonight!!

I am so pleased that I wombled over to http://grab-a-doodle-do.blogspot.com/ one day!!

I love these Josh and Lilly's., Thankyou Sally-Anne xx

I used my new wild card cartridge for the Lilly one and did a pocket card for the Josh one. You can probably tell I am loving my new cats eye chalks at the moment too, I love the way that inking or chalking adds new definition to the card, it really makes a difference.I put 3d glaze on Josh's football but it doesn't come out that well in the photograph.

Grab-a doodle's Lilly.

Hello!!!!! oh i love these little images I have got from grab-a-doodle (link at the top right of my blog) his one is Lilly. I had a tought time deciding which one to use for this card!!!!! the choice is sooo hard as they are all so cute!! I chose this Lilly sitting on the present in the end ( I had to hide the rest under my card magazines to stop them looking at me!!!! lol!!!) This one is one of my cards for Kazz's carsd for claire house appeal ( I am on a last minute rush to get some more done for her!). She has soe glitter glue on her present and I cuttlebugged the scallop with divine swirls before giving it what I was hoping to be a grungy kind of inking look but I am not sure I pulled it off!! I used my white souffle pen to add some dooodledots here and there and a little bit of lacey sticker across the card and inside, I used my xyron design runner for the'Happy Birthday' inside and I bought the sentiment sticker in the sales!!!!

I am still learning how to use my design runner and still only have the little trial disc that comes with it but I am enjoying the ease of quickly popping a sentiment on a card.

Right now I am going to have a play with the cheekies I downloaded from pink petticoat (watch out Kazz, claire house could be getting some 'cheekie' cards!!)

Thankyou for looking xxxxx