Cards for Andrea

A blog section of 4 cards i made dedicated to Andrea the queen of card making .Not quite as cute as yours but im trying LOL .
I had to use the new Core'dinations Black Magic Hocus Pocus card stock that i had just bought. It's the card that has a coloured core , so if you sand it you get the colour coming through .

21 Houses

Here are the 21 houses i made for Sarah's house swap , i was realy running late with this one so ended up making them on my weekend retreat at Gibside in Newcastle the other weekend. I ve now got the other ones back and they are realy nice , a great swap .

CJ's again

Both CJ's are coming to an end , infact i think i have now finished .I just need to take a picture of Efemera's that i have just done and that's it , but (ther's always a but ) im now doing a fabric one.And i also have an idea for another one which i think i might start putting together in September.Get the summer ( what summer i hear you ask) out of the way first .

Last 4

Yep the last 4 skinny pages are done.Once I got into them Ii just loved messing around making them. Just hope I haven't made everyone wait for them to be swapped out. Now all i have to do is wait for the swap to be sorted and posted out.
So off to get supplies tomorrrow so i can finish off my fabric CJ as it needs to be posted Monday , at least i know what im doing with it. I also need some odd n ends for the 21 houses i need to make and post by Friday .
Must also do some ATC's and my 6x6 page for glue and stick on Monday. Will i have time to sleep ????????????????

Deadlines

Why o why do i always end up having to stay up half the night to finish swaps off.
I have a few on at the moment but they all seem pretty big ones , 5 material skinny pages and 5 paper skinny pages is the one that needs finishing first. As it stands at the moment I have 4 finished fabric ones and 2 finished papers ones , with 3 paper ones drying for one reason or another. So here are the finished ones ive done in the lst couple of days and tonight. Just waiting for it all to dry now .Think i will do the fabric one i have eft tomorrow night and that will be them finished

Rusty Pickles

Wednesday night saw me at a three hour class in Castle Eden run by Mr Pickles himself Lance Anderson . Great night nad a great class .Just love the red/black and cream papers we used , just my colours LOL
So here's are some pictures of what i made.

Bag

Hannah bought some bags for use to decorate . I've actually had mine made/decorated for a couple of weeks , just never got round to taking any photo's . So here is a picture of the back and front .I used Cosmo Cricket Fleuriste , i realy like this paper and thought the best way to show it off would be to use it on this bag. Stamped ladies are Catslife Press stamps another favourite. All in all i think it turned out rather well.

CJ entries

Here are a couple of pictures of 2 CJ's i have done this week. The stamp ones off ukstampers and ukscrappers , i get so confused as to who's is who's , but i think we are nearing the end of them now.
Must think up another one to do.

The 1st ones was to use a pear stamp and the green one was to use the tree stamp .
The tree i stamped onto acertate and then put this over the top of a church yard scene. The pear i did into a nice pair of ...........you can guess the rest im sure.

Skinny pages

Well I made my first fabric one last night , wasn't as bad as I thought it might be. Gail said just treat it like paper , she knows what's she talking about but it's not paper and it doesn't have the same properties as paper but I think I got there in the end.
I made the cream one with the dangling houses last night at Gail's and was so inspired made another 2 for the swap today at home. I'm keeping the first one I made for myself.

Wearable art swap

I took part in the Wearable Art Swap on Ukscrappers and forgot to take photo's of the 2 I made. But her are the ones I got in return. Thanks ladies good swap I enjoyed it.
Well lifes busy ive signed up to do 6 mixed media and 6 fabric skinniny pages. Havn't started yet but it means there will be lots of photo's for the blog.
Also signed up for a Fabric CJ this will be interesting and Gail is going to have to help me on my way with this I think. All ive ever done with fabric is my apron and the doll. Time to learn more stuff I think.
Im just doing cj entries this afternoon 3 down 1 to go , so I will post those pictures tomorrow.

Tagged

I've been TAGGED!!!

Thanks Katie , I will get you back LOL!!!

1. If a movie was being made of your life who would you like to be cast to play yourself? And why?
I think (OMG this is hard)Cher , she would have to wear a blonde wig though LOL , why because she's got a great body (just like me , is that more peels of laughter i hear) she's a go getter and determined sort of person just like me again

2. You are spending a whole month on a desert island for charity and you have to choose your favourite celebrity to spend the first two weeks with & your least favourite celebrity to spend the second two weeks with, who would they be & why?


Fave would be Steve Tyler (Aerosmith), well you need someone to snuggle up to on a night.
Least fave would have to be Heather Mills she is so scheming and opinionated i dislike women like this

3. What are your three favourite crafting products?

Rubber stamps , couldn't do anything without them.
Stickles , well the black ,so handy for adding a tasteful glitter to an altered project
Basic Grey , i just love and use soooooo much

4. If you could invent something to do anything what do you think it would be?

I dont know about do anything but i wouldn't mind an invention that could give me a couple more hours each day

5. What are the last three books that you read?

A hat full of magic - Terry Pratchett
A crowded marriage - Catherine Alliott
Harry potter and the deathly hollow - J.K.Rowling

6. Qvc or create & Craft?

QVC if I must

7. Docrafts or Dovecraft or DCWV?

DCWV if I must again , not realy my style at all

8. What is your claim to fame?

Jeremy Irons nearly ran me and my best friend over in Stratford in the 1980's .He was driving his beetle we were on holiday.

I shall Tag........will get back to this bit
DARCY

More CJ entries

Another CJ entry that i have done for the stamp CJ. Can not remember who's it is , sorry. I'm getting a little confused as im in 2 stamp cj's with a lot of the same people.
Sunday today and already been up for 2 hours, Olivia woke at 5am , now her and Pete are in the garden putting my new vegetable boxes in and then this afternoon ican start planting. In the mean time i have a little High School Musical album to put together.

Easter Holidays

Last day of my Easter Holiday break today. We have had a week away in the caravan in the Wirral County Park.Lovely area but o so cold , caravan was fine as it has central heating , but the weather outside was very cold. Spent a day at Liverpool and did the Beatles story , Olivia realy enjoyed this.A day shopping in Chester and a visit to Tatton Park also.



Finally got round to making the holiday book from last October when Mum and Dad came with use to LEEK . So here are some pictures of the book I made for them to keep.I think for use I will make some scrapbook pages.

Quick Post

Just a quick post as im about to go away in the caravan for a few days. Just got back from a training course for BT , could have done without it but there you go, have to show willing.
Before i went i had time to make this lovely little dog , not my usual colours , even Pete mentioned that , but i do think it's rather cute.

Another CJ picture

This is another one of the Stamp CJ I am in on UkScrappers , the stamp to use this time was the wings.Not realy sure if I like it or not. I've used some of the Tim Holtz Crackle Paint on it as I love this stuff , so easy to use.
Had a realy nice Easter break. Met up with some of the Scrappad gilrs on friday for pizza. It was the first time of meeting Liz so that was realy good , hope she had a good stay up here and that it wont be another 10 years until she visits again. Took some photo's so will have to get them on here at some point this week.

A few

A few cards I have been making.Not my normal colours for cards but thought I would use up some Basic Grey Scarlet Letter 6x6 I had left.I seem to have no inspiration for cards at the moment , yet I realy need to be making some as I am very low. A friend has asked me to do a baby boy card for her and I dont know where to start. Lets hope I find some inspiration over the Easter Holidays.
Off scrapping tonight , not feeling 100% as I woke up at 5am with another one of the terrible migrains again and now I feel sick and a little fed up from it. No worries I will be back to full working order tomorrow.

She's Finished

Well there she is all finished. Im realy pleased with her , since it's only the second thing ive ever sewn i dont think ive doen to badly (even if i say so myself)
She now has pride of place in the bay window down stairs. Im now on the look out for some other project to sew, but ive lots to keep me going whilst i find it.

Calendar

Yesterday I spent the day round Gail's designing a calendar for the ladies on a Monday's glue and stick day. It seemed a bit to easy , just hope they think so when we come to do it. I used last months Jenni Bowlin kit , I love these kits always so good to use on a project as everything always matches and goes together so well. It's not my normal grungy style but im very pleased with it.I think I will make soem more of these for xmas presents. This one has not dates in the months as im not sure if im going to use it this year or next.

Stamp CJ's

Im now up to date with the 2 Cj's im doing.Next one is due to be posted on the 20th , so a couple of days off and then i will do that one. At least i know what i want to do with it and i think that's half the battle sometimes.
The following pictures are from the CJ im doing on UkScrappers , hope you like the finished pages.

Swaps

Been busy doing things for swaps and remembered to take some photo's this time.
So first is the little tin I made for an altered tin swap im in on UkStampers. It looks rather cute and i would have liked to keep it , but off it's gone to a new home.


The other was an altered coaster swap and it was to be made into a caddy sort of effect.I covered 5 coasters and then cut the middles out of 2 and put in some asetate images.Looks better in real life , but then dont most things LOL.