Happy New Year

It seems hard to believe 2011 is almost gone, but what a year, our son married his wonderful wife and our daughter has announced she's expecting her 1st baby next June, what more could we want than our family to be happy and luckily healthy. Here's wishing you all a happy, healthy and creative 2012.  To start you off here is a new backing sheet for you.  As usual its designed for A4 portrait. 

Just around the corner

How are you all doing with your Christmas preparations?  Gifts wrapped, food bought etc if you are then well done, Ive still got the fresh food to get.
I love reading Snowcatchers blog and she posted a wonderful Christmas story that I think you'll all enjoy so do pop over and have a read.    Here is the link for Just around the corner  enjoy.

Birthday cake

Sorry for such a gap in posting, I've been busy with custom orders and of course Christmas preparations.  I celebrated my Birthday a couple of weeks ago and had a wonderful day.  I was very spoilt at lunch time while I was at my lovely daughter in laws.  Her Mum ( now a dear friend of mine) made a wonderful birthday cake.  As you can it was very popular with my lovely grandaughter! lol and we both got in a lovely mess eating our cake! lol

Bonfire night

Happy weekend everyone, here are a couple of photos from las Saturdays bonfire night at my son and daughte in laws.  We had a great evening with 4 generations of one family all enjoying the fireworks and as you can see sparklers.   The second photo shows the toffee apples that DIL made for us all, she had also made some wonderful pumpkin soup and homemade bread along with other delights. 

Take care all of you

Carol

Wine bottle tag

Andrea Walford has started a new challenge, called Makeover Monday and I thought you might like to see my take on it. 

The joy of this challenge is using things from your stash.  The card stock I've had for years! so I'm not sure where I bought it! lol  The striped paper is from a pack which is I think from Docrafts but not certain.  I used the SU punch for the envelope and label and Xcut christmas tree punch.  I added the envelope to a strip of gun metal colour metallic card stock and added 2 silver peeloff christmas trees.
To make the tag top I used a photo corner punch and cut the corner to the first punch line, hope that makes sense! lol 

Happy Halloween everyone.

Wishing you all a spooktacular Halloween, thought you might like to see our wonderful trick or treating grandaughter.

Surprising Nana & Grandad!

Ready for yesterdays party.

S on S Xmas toppers

Hi everyone, at last I've been able to make a sheet up for you for sheets on saturday(S on S).  I hope this comes in handy for all your Christmas cards.  As you can see I've included 2 of each design.  The boot is for a quick card with just the 'fur' to layer which would look nice with glitter on.  The frame has 2 extra  layers to give more dimension.

 Wishing you all a happy and peaceful weekend.

I've been featured!

Hi everyone, I just wanted to let you all know that I was lucky enough to be featured on a wonderful blog by Karen.  Her blog has a regular post called 6 on Saturday and she was kind enough to include my cards. Do pop along and have a look at her blog which has a link to her wonderful jewellery.
 I hope to post another freebie this weekend, so until then.

Cat in Christmas tree freebie

At last I've had time to design a new sheet for you.  Unfortunately I don't know the original artist of the topper so cannot give them credit.  Hope this comes in handy for you, just click the image to enlarge and then save to your computer and print.  I'd love to see your results. 

As you can see there is a choice of backing paper to go with the cat. 

Cute Bear

Hi everyone

I know this isn't a card but wouldn't this lovely cute crochet bear look wonderful on a greeting card to match the hat. The instructions are from this fantastic blog if you crochet do pop along and have a look.

Whoops!

Where does time go?  Sorry I haven't popped in for a while,  I'm still about but not able to sit at the computer for as long as I used to as my back has been playing up. :-((  I have managed to make a few cards recently and thought you might like to see one.  Here is the card I made for my husbands birthday. 

I hope to get some new sheets designed soon for you all and will upload them as soon as they're done.  Have a nice weekend everyone and lets hope this lovely sunshines stays for the weekend. 

Dual backing sheet - Freebie

Firstly I hope this weekend hasn't been too upseting for those of you that have family involved in the 9 eleven  attacks.  My thoughts have been with you.
This week I've designed a backing sheet with 2 colours to give you contrast papers for your creations.

1st Christmas vellum!

Hope you are all having a wonderful weekend and that the weather is being kind to you.  My thoughts are with those that have been affected by hurricane Irene.
Yesterday all my family were together celebrating my mothers 80th birthday, it was so nice to catching with all my nieces and their families etc and have 4 generations sitting together.
Now the celebrations are over I've had time to do some designing today.  Here is a little offering using tiles from PSP Tubez (with license).  I've divided the A4 sheet giving you the choice between traditional and modern designs.  Have fun using them and as usual click the image to enlarge it and then save to your computer for personal use only.

 

At Last!

I've had time to actually make some cards here's one I've made using one of my design sheets.

This card is now in my Etsy shop and is my first item!  I hope to add more items tomorrow and will show you them when I can.

Freebie Design sheet

Hope you like this weeks offering.  There are 2 sets on this sheet, dog on the moon and dog in puddle. hopefully this will be useful for you.  Wishing you all a great weekend.

Freebie - Oval latte

I've designed this backing sheet to be used for all occasions and hopefully you'll be able to use it in your creations.  

S ~on~ S backing sheets

At last I'm able to offer you some sheets on saturday.  I hope you find these backing sheets useful.  As usual they are designed for A4 paper size.

I would also like to let you know I now also sell design sheets etc in the Digital Crafting Mall which has some exciting new designers so do pop along and have a look.  Wishing you all a wonderful happy and peaceful weekend.

Sons Wedding

Hi just popping in to let you all know the wedding went really well.  Here are a couple of photos for you. The first is of Dave arriving in a 3 wheel  replica Morgan car and his best man arrived in a Westfield open top car.

This next photo is of Dave and Michelle with my lovely grandaughter the flower girl. :-)

 and here they are arriving at the reception in the Tuk tuk that Michelle arrived to church in.

Free backing sheets

Hi everyone, so sorry I haven't been around much, but as you know my son is getting married this Saturday and he moved yesterday!  To say his stress levels have been up is an understatement! lol  I've managed to  find a few minutes to myself and  make a couple of backing sheets.  Hopefully they'll come in useful for one of you.
As usual I've designed them for an  A4  sheet.  Just click the image to enlarge and save to your computer then print as you would normally.

Happy Easter

Wishing you a Happy Easter and lovely weekend.  I'm sorry to say there won't be a freebie sheet this week as I'm flat out with working on the last minute bits for my sons wedding which is in a few weeks time.  I'll try and get a freebie made for you for next Saturday.  Bye for now

S ~ on ~ S Whoops

Hi everyone, I hope you're having a great weekend with the sun shining,  This week I've used a design from Sweet T designs entittled Whoops did I do that! lol I think the design can be used for anyone in the family.

S ~ S motor racing

 For this week I've used this great racing car image and for a change made a pyramage topper for you to use. I've also added some 'bottle caps' for you to embellish your card.  Have fun and I hope you all have a good weekend.