Thank You Golden Hippie....oooh and Fishies!

Just to say a quick thanks to Golden Hippie (Laverne) over on the CB forum for this beautiful RAK of papers, embelishments, a rubber stamp and a lovely "Get Well Soon" card!

And a little welcome to my lovely new fishies who I have had since last Saturday!

Gaius (Orange One)

Merlin (almost all white)

Arthur (orange and white)

A few more crafting bits....woah and Christmas!

I've been making some more cards recently and I thought I would take this time to share them with you again!

This is a thank you card I've made for my Mum's "confidence skills" teacher!

And then woah here are my most recent Christmas cards....eek Christmas is coming :S

Dragon Bookmark!

I needed a new bookmark and I had this image downloaded for quite a while so I decided this morning that I would make it!

Close-up of the dragon design!

The completed bookmark!

And on a completely different note, I've been feeling a bit down recently because I haven't been riding for ages! I'm going on Sunday and to remind me of how great it is the picture at the top of my blog is of my lovely share horse Barney!

Some new makes

Seeing as my small camera is suitably dead and my trust old camera only seems good for pictures with little detail I will be uploading pictures of my card makes occaionally when I can be bothered to faff about with my bulky DSLR!

Here are some of my latest makes from this week!

I loved this baby elephant decoupagé so much I used it to make an unsual "New Baby" card!

I used this tall card and a decoupage image to create this vintage feel blank.

This is a special card I have made to the Snow Patrol lads for their kindness last Monday after their show in London and will be sending this off shortly! The snow flake brads are linked to them as it was their old symbol and the stars as that is what is on their new album cover!

This anniversary card is one that I have been asked to make for my Nannie's friend's wedding anniversary!

And finally my first make from the new LMCs kit!

Completely un-craft related! SNOW PATROL GIG PICS!

Well although I'm a bit late with this I figured I'd post my favourite pictures from the Snow Patrol gig on Monday 27th in London!

Firstly a couple from the awesome Bradley Quinn

Meeting Nathan Connolly afterwards (we only stood outside for an hour and a half to meet the band!)

My pictures from the gig (using my trust old 2mp camera!)

St Pancras Station (the only "touristy" shot I took)

Ooooh and in other news, I got offered job with MenCap on Friday afternoon! It's based in Rackheath which is the other side of Norwich to me, but I have to take it because I need a job and it's the one job I really really wanted to get this week! Will have to look into certain things like possibly renting out in the city or something once I've got through the training and know I'm going to stick it out!

Craft Fayre Yesturday!!!!

Not been on here for ages, been pretty busy with a training course but just thought it was time for an update! No pictures this post but I did make a little bit of money at a craft fayre yesturday and am very pleased!!!! :)

Challenge, Swap and a card Mum made!

This is my entry for the Christmas Tree Decoration challenge over on the CB forums! I used tea back folding with some blue shiney paper and then added "Merry Christmas" ribbon and some cute wooden character heads that I found in my local craft shop!

Above are my 2 tags for the October Tag Swap over on the CB forum, the theme was "Fairies" so I used 2 different style of fairy to create 2 different tags. It's my first go at tags and I'm not overly keen on them but I guess you can only get better with time and hopefully the tags I recieve back my help me learn more!

And finally....My Mum doesn’t do card making at all (she says it’s too fiddly and would drive her nuts, she’s an abstract painter though) but yesturday she sat down with me and I helped her to make this card for my Grandad (her Dad) for his birthday!

New Make

Made this card this morning from part of the RAK sent to me by 2belle over on the CB forum the other day!

Thanks again to 2belle :)

A lovely parcel....

.....just dropped through my door and I got all excited! So here is thanks to 2belle over on the CB forum for sending this lovely card for the October Card Swap themed "Snow" and a very thoghtful RAK (random act o kindness) that she also sent!

Snow card swap and I got 3rd place in a challenge!!!!

Copse got my card for the Card Swap on the CB forum yesturday so I figured I was allowed to post it on my blog now too! The theme for the swap was snow so I made this card with a horse pulling a sleigh through the snow and used a line cut out from some scrap booking paper for the words "Dashing through the snow" which I thought toned in nicely!

Also, I just found out that I got 3rd place in the 2year old girl birthday card challenge held by Counrtneysmum over on the CB forum! Have send Amelia my address and I can't wait to see my prize! It's my first prize from a challenge on the forum and I'm so pleased! Below is the card that I enter which also then got sent on to Courtnet herself for her 2nd birthday on Sunday!

Christmas "Wish Tags"

This is an expansion of something me and my Mum do every year that we thought would be a nice little thing to do for a couple of fayres I am doing in time for Christmas this year!

Basically they’re long narrow tags (that will have ribbon in to hang them up) and you basically write a little wish on it for Christmas and hang them on your tree. The wish can be anything you would like but the hope is that it will be for something for someone else and not yourself.

So this is a small batch that I have made and I’m making plenty more!

Number Challenge Card

The upload function over on the CB forum seems to to have decided it doesn't want to work anymore :(

Here's my entry for the Number Challenge. It is a card I have made for my Grandad who is horse racing crazy. I have used a decoupage image from http://thelilacgarden.co.uk/ and although my printer is running out of ink (which is why the image is stripey) I'm hoping he won't notice too much as he is unfortunately losing his sight!

The number isn't that clear I guess, but I promise it is there. He is 85 on October 17th!

So more decoupage & LMCs Issue 18

Seeing as the craft fayre came again this week and my lovely decoupage man was there I nabbed a few more bargains and found some lovely images to incorperate with the LMCs Issue 18 "Vintage" kit!

Decoupage with "Vintage" kit

Decoupage with "Vintage" kit

Decoupage to create "Brother" Birthday card

"Vintage" kit make!

Decoupage kit from previous week!

Christmas card made with some new peel-offs and toppers I've just got!

Blank cute decoupage!

Blank Fairy decoupage

"Vintage" themed Thank You card

And finally this is my "Vintage" themed LMCS Issue 18 Challenge card enter over on the Craft's Beautiful forum!

Quick catch-up!

Sorry I've not posted for a while! I have made plenty more cards but my camera decided to run out of battery and I can't find the charger atm to recharge the bloody thing!

Anyway, I'm still about and have still been making plenty of cards! I had my hair cut yesturday and bought some of the most amazing skinny jeans ever (see picture)!

Went into town again today and got a few more decoupage kits and a cute little book with lots of different decoupage fairies in...so I'm well away!

Got a couple of challenges and swaps to take part in as well atm so we'll see how that goes!

I'll post again soon and there will be more pictures as soon as I find that damn battery charger!

Just a few more makes!

Just a few more of the cards I've been making recently!

Wedding congratulations cards!

Good Luck In Your New Home Card (made for a friend that is moving soon)

New Baby Card

A selection of my first Christmas batch!