More paper play

We had the scout hut get together yesterday which is always a fun day, we were a bit quieter yesterday with a few of the noisy ones away lol but had a great day and i got lots done, 

after playing with lots of yummy tilda papers and ink covering lots of wooden hearts i then went on to doing a LO i wanted to do for a class, 

i had done my version with my papers, i then needed to do it with the class papers, i like to do it this way so i get to keep one for me and to leave one in the shop album

 this is my early august class page "Forever Love" (my copy) the shop version is already hanging in the gallery in the shop

 and this is the late August class page (i have 2 in august) "Little Beauty" top one is shop copy and bottom one is my copy, changed round because of the photo's

Thank you ladies

At Crafty Daze for making me feel so welcome, i missed some of the regular friday girls who were on holidays but we all had a lovely day and all pages turned out lovely, well done girls you did great, see you soon x

Scrap class....

Tomorrow is my scrap class at Crafty Daze (melton mowbray)

"Live life to the full"

Friday 8th June 10.30am - 3.30pm £10

Tuesday 26th June 7pm - 10.30pm £10

 next month we have the "Smile" page

Friday 13th July 10.30am - 3.30pm £10

Tuesday 17th July 7pm - 10.30pm £10

 

i have 2 pages in August  pictures to follow , if you visit the shop you can see page 1, 

page 2 to follow soon

Busy Jubilee weekend

Phew and breath... WOW what a weekend, it was fantastic, 

did you celebrate?

just before christmas i saw a notice in the local parish mag calling for help in organising the jubilee weekend, we, DH and myself went off to the first meeting and came out on the commitee, after monthly meetings and lots of planning it all came together on sunday and monday, 

Sunday --we had a street party(well village hall party because of the rain) including a flag made of cakes , jubilee hat competition, pot luck/bring and share lunch which was amazing, packed together tightly in the village hall we all had a fantastic afternoon.

Monday --was change of venue, down to the cricket ground,(and the weather changed too and was fantastic to us all day) with more cake than anyone could ever need, tea and coffee and juice for the kids on the go all afternoon, while rounders and a "its a knock out" kept everyone entertained all afternoon, we then went onto a BBQ, bring and cook your own food which worked perfectly, we were then entertained by the fantastic Govannen, that had us all up and dancing into the darkness until we lit the Beacon.

a fantastic weekend although absolutley shattered on tuesday, good job we had that day to recover.

So what do you think

I have been playing and came up with these cake stands, 

what do you think?

Scrapbook class.....

I will be teaching 2 scrapbook classes in june at Crafty Daze, Melton Mowbray, 

"Live life to the full"

day class on friday 8th june, 10am till 3.30pm(class full)

evening class tuesday 26th june, 7pm till 10.30pm (places available)

£10 for the class

 to book either call the shop 01664 500804 

or leave me a message and i will do it for you

Two different colourways to chose from

the scrapbook bit........

 A couple of pages i did recently, the first was just me messing trying to get myself going again and into the swing of scrapping , i have been looking around and there is so much new stash out there, my purse has had a bit of a battering but i am enjoying it

 the second is a page i did at a workshop, the pic of jake opens to reveal a couple of smaller pics but the inside needs a little bit of something else......

 

lots of ideas going on in my head but what happenes ....the printer runs out of ink mid print, typical, anyway i have a couple of pics to play with so watch this space.......

Recent cards......

 OK so i wont bore you will a million and one cards i have been making, bit of a exaggeration there but you get what i mean so here are just a few, firstly a butterfly card i did a few weeks ago, love the colours, it looks so much better INL

and a gorgeous mermaid card i did today at Honeypot crafts in Nottingham

 and the inside

 and a couple more cards i did a few weeks ago also at honeypot crafts

New sewing pattern design

so i am back with all the pics i have been meaning to take of recent finishes, i will spread them over a few posts, break them up into cards, scrapping and fabric lol,

firstly the wallhanging which will probably be a workshop at the October scout hut weekend, pattern available for sale if anyone would like it just get in touch

 

and the matching note book cover that i made from the leftovers, well there are enough left overs to make several note book covers lol, may  also be done as a workshop

I am here, realy i am!!

Where does the time go, i have been back at work a month now and am back into the full swing of things and the full hours....i am exhausted!!

i have been busy with other things too besides work, 

i have been sewing, i have been card making, and i have been scrapping, i just need to get my A**e into gear and get my camera out and take some pics, and for the sun to come out and make me feel a whole lot better , its a bank holiday weekend and on saturday i spent the day in bed feeling realy poo, now i am just so full of cold my nose hurts with blowing it so much...oh woe is me!!

so watch this space and i will be back soon with something more interesting than my waffle.

Scrapbooking......

More pics, of my recent finishes,

 this is the page we did at the workshop recently, my first 12x12 of Mia and she is 8 months old, how bad is that? the original clas was done in much more pastel colours but i'm not realy a pastel person so we chose some stronger coloured papers ad they sorted the rest to match for us, very happy with the result.

and here is the mini book i started when Mia was born, finished at last!

i have a million and one pics of Jake and mia so hopefuly i shall get a few more bits done now my mojo has returned.

Its back!!!

my paper craft mojo that is!

i used to do a lot of paper craft, with cards many many moons ago and then scrap booking, but in recent years it has all gone on the back burner for my fabric, i used to be able to alternate it quite well, but not recently and i missed it greatly but with me being off work these passed few weeks it suddenly made a return WOOHOO and after starting a mini book when Mia was born last august and me only getting 2 pages in, i have at last finished the mini book and made a ton of cards, (here are a few of them, don't want to bore you with pics of the many lol) 

i also went off to do a scrapbook workshop with my daughter and my mum, we had a lovely evening and came back with a gorgeous page on Mia, (pics to follow tomorrow)we are going to make it a regular event and have booked in for the next one, Jake is the subject next time.

 on my mojo returning and my search for all my STASH, what happens to it all? where are all my punches, a box full, no clue to their whereabouts and lots of other stash items too......no where to be seen.....oh well stash shopping it is then......i am so pleased that my mojo has returned after a few years ab-sense.....

now lets see if i can balance it with my fabric, 

i really don't want to go back to work on Thursday, 

I WANT TO BE A LADY OF LEASURE!!!

come on lottery win i need you!

 

watch this space i have many pics to take tomorrow when jake has gone home and i have time to play.

Show and tell...

It was the crafty weekend Woohoo, we had a fab time as we always do, lots of laughter not so much work, we had our friendship exchange and this is what i made for Ann......,

 i received a gorgeous little broach from maddy and a stitched hanger i will take pics of that for a future post, just wanted to post something quick lol

 

we had lots of yummy food and went out to eat on saturday night which was lovely , we laughed a lot and we cried too!

i have lots more pics to show and lots more to take of completed projects so watch this space

a finish and a new design.....

Sewing pattern that is....i have been playing this week and have been working on a new sewing pattern...watch this space, i just need to tweak it  bit before i can show you, i am loving it though and even my daughter said how much she liked it...must be ok then lol

I then went on to have a play with a few scrappy bits of fabric and made this book cover for my note book

 

ok back to it, my head is full of ideas at the minute, need to get them down on paper lol

 

A finish and an exchange received......

I started LHN "Curly Q Ewe"on tuesday when Wendy and Rachael came to visit, i finished the stitching the next day but had to wait for some fabric and a cushion inner to "finish" her off and i am very pleased with the result, she has been waiting to be stitched for some time, i am loving the colours i chose, (different to the original design, i never have the right threads !!)

i also received an exchange piece from Lynn W this week from the Lizzie kate exchange blog, thank you lynn i am very happy, love it, it is now living on my stitchy shelf at the top of the stairs!

i now need to work on an exchange piece for my partner at the Scout hut Crafters group weekend crop in a couple of weeks, the theme is friendship, mmmmm i cant quite decide what to do though, got a couple of bits in mind, we shall see......