We Have Snow!

We have snow and as you can see from the photo it is coming down pretty fast!
Jake has gone to school and Adele is at collage and I have to go to work in school soon. I can see if it keeps snowing school will be closed early today.

Poor old Tabby was out in the snow all night, he just did not want to stop in, he left us at 12.30am.
I found him in his shelter that we made him at 7.00am this morning and he is now fast asleep in front of the radiator.

Julie

Caught in Crystal Video!

caught in crystal part 2

I hope these videos work. It has taken me most of the day to get it on my blog!

It is very basic, I have alot to learn so I hope you will bear with me.

Julie

part 1

caught in crystal part 1

Playing Cards Pryamage!

Hello everyone!
I made this quick birthday card for my brother-in-laws birthday using my pryamage CD.

Thanks for looking!

Julie

Class Card

Today's card is last weeks class card.
It's the Caught in Crystal Technique, one of my
favourites!

Stamps; montage style from Inkadinkado,
verse from Stamp To Your Arts Content,
dots from DeNami.

Punches; 3 flower punches from Woodware.
Ribbon; pink organza.
Card; main card ice white gold, two shades of pink Bazzill
& silver.
Vellum down the centre of the card,
background paper from Magenta called
foliage & butterflies.

The insert has been stippled with pastel pink
chalk ink pad.
I then stamped the dots across the bottom of the card using the same pink chalk pad.

I stippled and stamped across the bottom of the
envelope the same as the insert.

I have been thinking of doing some video tutorials
what do you think!

See you all tomorrow

Julie

No Cards Today!

Sorry but I don't have any cards to share with you all today.
I took Adele to the pantomime to see Billy Pearce in Cinderella.
It was absolutely fantastic!
We had glasses to were for part of the performance as there were ghosts, spiders,
fireball and a horse & coach floating towards us, it was great!

Can't wait until the next time when it will be Jack & the Beanstalk.

See you all tomorrow!

Julie

Aother Art Deco Lady & Tabby!

I thought you would like to see Tabby our other stray cat, this photo was taken a couple of weeks ago. We have had a good talk about him over the last few days and decided to keep him as part of the family. We could not part with him now, we love him too much!

Most of you know he was in a huge fight last weekend and he has not been himself all week. He had a slight eye injury which turned quite nasty by Thursday. So we phoned the vets yesterday and made arrangements to take him down this morning. Tabby has got a badly infected eye and paw so he had to have an injection of antibiotics and a course of tablets. The vet squeezed his eye and all this pus came out, it was horrible!
For a stray cat he behaved extremely well at the vets, I was so proud of him!
We also found out that he is only a year old.
When he has recovered the next step will be to have him seen to and get some pet insurance this time!

I could not resist doing another Art Deco lady card today!

Think I will get allot of use out of this CD.

Have a great day everyone!

Julie

Black & White Art Deco Lady

Good morning every one!
I thought I would get today's card on before I go to work.

When I went to the N.E.C. last November I bought the Art Deco
Timeless Keepsakes CD and it has been sat in my craft room ever since.
So I thought I had better use it!
I really love all of the images on this CD and hope to get some more cards made soon.

Enjoy looking at the card!

Have a great day

Julie

Oliver's Birthday Card

I made this birthday card for Oliver's first birthday
which was last Saturday.
I used the Boys & Girls Cd from
Crafters Companion.

I had fun putting this card together!
I like doing decoupage so long as it is not to
complicated.


Have a great day everyone!

Julie

Pansy Card

Today's card is what I made for last Tuesday's class.
We did watercolouring & felt pens.
Stamps are from Penny Black.
The background of the card, insert & envelope
have all been stippled with lavender &
wisteria chalk ink pads (you can't see this from the photo very well).
Lilac corners have been punched out of vellum.

I have used my water colour crayons on the large stamp
and everything else has been coloured with
my copic pens.
I then finished off with a bit of glitter!

Hope you enjoy looking at my card!

It is raining quite heavily here and is very dull
& miserable a great day for crafting!

Julie

Elegant Ladies!

Today's card is a pryamage card, elegant ladies.
Back paper is vellum.
Copper brads.

Kitty update!
She is doing ok, she is very steady on her feet and just eats
when she feels like it.
She only goes outside for a while now and again.

We had a right night last night with the cats. As some of you know we have another
cat called Tabby who is a part time visitor to our house. He is another stray
but he is a very young cat and he likes to be outside.
But last night about midnight we could hear a lot of yowling,
Tabby and another cat were having a huge scrap and we could do nothing about it as we could not get near them. After it was all over he came to our back door at about 1am this morning
in a right mess. He had got injuries to his eye, neck on both sides and his foot, so while we were looking after Tabby and cleaning him up Kitty wants to go outside.
So of she goes and does not come back for ages, Tabby is asleep on his cushion and
my white shirt is covered in blood.
So we did not get to bed until after 2.30am and I am now tired.
Tabby has visited us today and he is very subdued, poor thing I just hope he is ok.

Julie

Another Award

I have received another award from the lovely Rina.
Thank you, you are so kind!

I would like to pass this award onto;

Rina
Christina
Erin
Debby
Kathy

Enjoy girls!

Award

I received this award from Erin, thank you very much:-).

I'm supposed to list 5 of my obsessions, then pass the award along to 5 other fabulous blogs.

1 My family.
2 Crafting.
3 I just love spending time in my craft room every day.
4 I love looking a other peoples blogs every day, there are so many talented people out there.
5 I love to cook.

I would like to pass this award on to;

Anna
Kerry
Wendy
Clare
Heidi

Enjoy girls!

Cute Little Bear Birthday Card!

Hello everyone, I am sorry I have not been around for a while but I have been
really busy tiding my craft room and of course house work.

For today's card I have used a new stamp that I had for Christmas.
The balloons have been glittered but that does not show up very well.

Have a great evening!

Julie

CD Photo Cube!

Hello everyone, today's project is a photo cube made out of Cd's!
The idea came from here.

I had great fun putting this project together but I did find that my Cd's did
not want to snap together very well.
Also the card base is a very tight fit and mine has split on one corner.
I will certainly make another one but I think I will have to modify it a bit!

I am going to make some more mini books this year to go in my photo cube and
it will take pride of place on my coffee table this year!
Edit; Yes you can change your pages, you just pop the cd apart. Mind you
I don't know how many time you could take it apart before something broke!
Enjoy your evening!

Julie

WII Boy Birthday Card

HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!

Sorry I have not been around much over the last few days
We are all back to work now and Adele is back at collage and Jake is
back to school.
I have got my first card making class tomorrow so I am busy preparing for that.
I have had a few emails and awards given over the last few days
so I will get down to that this week.

Today's card is a digital download from Victoria Case
I just love this image.
Background paper is from Studio K.
Blue Bazzill card embossed with the Cuttle Bug Happy Birthday die.
Green card from Bazzill.
Super Mario poster image from the Internet.
Green ribbon from my scrap box.
Corners, can't remember where I got them from.
The main card is white.

I would just like to say a big thank you to everyone who visits my little old blog!
It really makes my day special when I see people have been to visit.
I have had a great first year!

Hope you enjoy looking at the card.

Julie

Christmas Day Smilebox

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Christmas!

Don't you just think that these flowers are beautiful!
They came from school last Friday as a thank you
for all the work I did with the school fair.

Here our tree on Christmas Eve just before we went to bed with all the presents!

Julie

Last of my Christmas cards!

Here are my final three Christmas cards.

Anna Griffin papers, die cuts & tag.

I made this card for a card class.

This is last weeks card for my class.














Thanks for looking!

Right I had better get back to preparing for tomorrow.
I will have a house full this year so it will be all go.
Boxing day wil be quieter this year as we normally go to my Mother in laws
but this year she has gone on holiday.
So I think it will be a quiet day at home this year for the three of us, Adele will
be spending most of the day at her boyfriend Ben's house.

Merry Christmas to you all!

Craft Fair Items!

Freeze dried snowballs

Calendars

Reindeer Pooh

I thought I had better show these tonight as I have four more Christmas cards to
show you tomorrow.
Then that will be all my Christmas items shown up to date!

Julie

Poinsettia & Tag Cards

This poinsettia card is a little different to the card I made before.
I used different paper.
Stamped my greeting on red card stock
and toned down the red & yellow paper with a chalk ink pad.

The purple card was quite a simple and quick card to make.
The paper came from Dovecraft.
The round embellishment came from Tesco last year in the sales.
I stamped the tag with my black Stazon then coloured in with
embossing felt pens and then embossed with clear embossing powder.

Have a grest evening everyone!

Julie

Penguin!

I made this card using up some leftovers from other projects!

I have got three draws full of scraps to use up in the New Year,
should keep me busy!

Julie

Oh Christmas Tree!!!

Hello everyone!
I hope you are all having a great day.
Are you all ready for Christmas?
I think we are now.

I have have cards to show you today using a Christmas tree stamp that I bought
a couple of years ago from QVC.
I think it is a Dawn Bibby design.

A black & white design, which I love.
Papers from Dovecraft and red Zooms.

Black, white & silver papers from Dove craft.
Silver embossed tree & black Zooms. ( photos not very good on this one, sorry).

Pink & green papers from Dovecraft, pale green
embossing powder for the tree
& pink Zooms.

Black & silver papers from Dovecraft.
Black embossing powder for the tree.
White Zooms.
Cream card stock.


Hope you enjoy looking at these cards.

See you all tomorrow!

Julie

Hello!!!

Hello everyone!
Sorry I have not been around much but I have been very busy!
What with school Christmas fair, craft fairs, card orders
and to top it all I am not well again!

I have just finished my last card order and I think I am ready for a rest :-).
I have a few Christmas cards to show you over the next few days
and I now need to tidy my craft room up as it is in a right mess.

See you all soon!

Julie

I am back!!!

Hello everyone, I am finally back in the land of blogging!!!
How I have missed it.
Thank you to everyone who has been asking after me.
I had a really bad head cold and was poorly for a few days, I missed Jake's concert
at school, very disappointed at that:-(.
Then Jake caught it and was off school for a couple of days.
So now we are getting back to normal and I am so far behind with things!

I have had a few messages asking about Kitty, she is doing ok at the moment.
Her eating is up and down a bit, she only goes outside now and again.We are all very happy
that she is slowly getting back to her old self!

Today's card was made for Adele's boyfriends birthday.
Quite fitting really as he is in a band!

I have got some more cards made I just need to get them photographed.
The lighting here is terrible at the moment.

Bye for now!

Julie

Sorry!

Sorry I have not posted anything since Monday but I have not
been well.
It is nothing serious just a cold but it is getting worse not better!
I should be back blogging by the weekend.

Julie

Black & White Penguin!

Oh my, isn't this penguin soo cute!
I think this is the quickest card I have made in a long time lol.
I just love black & white Chistmas cards.

I have not made any cards for a few days as I have been
seeing to Kitty! She is getting lots of love and attention.
She was sick twice this morning and it took me ages to clean up.
She is only eating a small amount of food per day but she is no worse
in herself.

Now I am going to go and make some candy cane mice for the school fair!
See you all tomorrow.

Julie

NEC

Wow, what a fab day we had at the NEC!
I was shattered when we arrived home but it was worth it.
I have never been on a Friday before and I have to say I would go again.
The weekends are always soo busy.
Spent enough but don't seem to have alot to show for it lol! but I enjoyed it.

Then today we went to the Range in Doncaster and I spent a bit more money!
I will have to start saving for next years shows now!

Blog Candy!

Pop over to Rina's blog for some great blog candy give away!

Julie

Black & White Snowman

As I am not here tomorrow thought I would post this card now.


For today's card I thought I would go for a black & white look!
I am really pleased how this turned out.
You might not be able to see the sparkle.

Snowman stamp is from Creative Expression.
Greeting stamp I think is from Docrafts.
Papers & ribbon are from Docrafts.
Flowers unknown.

Have a great Friday!

Julie

Kitty Update!

We have just brought Kitty home from the vets!
Needless to say we are all very very happy.
She has just had all her medicines and a drink and has now settled down.
We have put her some food out so I just hopes she eats it.
Thank you for asking about her I really appreciate it!

I might not get to post tomorrow as I am going to the NEC!!!
My mum is kitty sitting for us!!

Julie

Cat Card!

Today's card is the same basic shape as the snowman card.
The idea for the cat came from a gift bag Adele had for her birthday.
These cards are really quick and easy to make, perfect for using up all of your scraps!

Happy Crafting!

Julie

Concertina Presants!

I must admit that I made this card a while ago for one of my card classes.
I think it is simple but effective, hope you like it!

Julie

Kitty

We have had to take Kitty back to the vets tonight.
She has not been eating.
It is not very good news I am afraid.
I said we should let her go as I think she has suffered enough, she is so thin
and her kidneys are suffering.
But Kevin said give her another chance.
We were both in tears as we have got so attached to her in a short time.
Mind you Kitty has been sulking with me today, she would not let me fuss her.
When she was sat on the vets table she put her head in my chest and let me fuss her.
So she is now spending the night at the vets and they will put her on a drip
and will try to get her to eat. They will phone us tomorrow and if there is no improvement she will be put to sleep.
I am finding this hard to type with the tears rolling down my face but I felt the need to share
this sad news with my blogging friends!

Julie

Cards Made For Adele's Birthday!

This is a photo of our Kitty, which I made into a birthday card for Adele.

This card was made for Grandma Eileen for Adele.

This card was made for Grandma Betty to give to Adele.

and this card was made for Jake to give to Adele!

Happy 18th Birthday to our lovely daughter, Adele!

Julie

Happy 18th Adele!

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