I have blogged 2 days in a row! Oh my gosh! Can you tell daddy is 'working' from home so giving me some Phoebe-free time!

As promised here is my current personal project that I am working on.  I am making a present for my Nan, now a great-nan, that's a bit different from the normal photo albums.  I have been quite busy doing things with Phoebe and her daddy or crafting in some way or another recently so haven't seen my Nan as often as I would have liked.  Her other grand child, my cousin Francis, is a marine engineer and is off at sea for long periods of time and she always complains that she will soon forget what we look like!

Honestly, I will have to get a photo of my Nan's collection of pictures next time we visit so you can see that she is exaggerating slightly and that it would be impossible for her to forget us- we are everywhere in her lounge!

So, I have started making her this exploding photo album.  I love our new in colours, especially wisteria wonder. The Flirtacious speciality DSP is pretty yummy too! The base is made from 12x12 wisteria wonder cardstock and decorated with 3 1/2" square pieces of DSP which will provide a background for my pics!

I have stamped the outside using an old favourite, the Circle Circus stamp set!

This is the box just before it 'explodes'!

I will hopefully have this finished just before Christmas and because my nan hates technology I will be able to show the finished product before she receives it!

Take care and see you tomorrow.

Hello! Back again!

As promised earlier, here are a few pictures of the cards we made at my Christmas class on Saturday.

First is this sweet little gift card card/holder. Super quick to make using a whisper white note card, the Jolly Jingles jumbo wheel, inked up on a marina mist ink pad and some tombow and dazzling diamonds for the front.

 Plenty of space for a gift card inside

 I used the Christmas greeting from perfect pairs as a nice surprise when the recipient removes their gift card

The next card is one of my favourites, it has lot's of elements but is actually very simple to make.

 It uses crumb cake, very vanilla and soft suede cardstock. The stamp sets are delightful decorations and serene snowflakes. The card uses one of my favourite toys, ahem, sorry, business tools- my Big Shot.  This time I used the textured impressions designer frames embossing folder. You get 2 folders in the pack-a rectangular frame and the oval one that I have used. I used the lace ribbon border and ornament punches, a couple of dimensionals and an adhesive pearl to finish of the card and give it some depth.

Here are the other cards we made including a cute little children's shaker card!

I will be back tomorrow with my current work in progress, my exploding box mini photo gift!

Hello everyone in Blog Land. I hope you are all keeping well. I have had a busy few months.  This is why!

On Wednesday 24th August 2011 at 7.23pm weighing 9lbs Phoebe Nicole Cooper was born. Just like her mummy who is generally very disorganised, she was 11 days overdue but well worth the wait.

It's scary to think that she will be 3 months old on Thursday!

 This is the look Daddy has taught her to give me when I am trying to argue the case for a bigger craft room!(photo above)

 I would love to say this is the smile she gives her mummy but in reality it's the effect the monkey on her mobile has on her.

I will be back later today with pictures of the projects we did at my Christmas Crazy class that took place on Saturday.

Is my blog alive..?

This is an attempt to find out if my poor blog is still alive or whether it needs to be ressurected in some other form so here is a brief recap of some of my creations over the last few months! (very photo heavy!)

Day 1 - Thank you card

My aim is to post a project every day this week. Hopefully the scheduling has worked and you are looking at project number 1 for this week, a Thank you card. This is a card the ladies made at card club last week, very quick and very simple.

Recipe

Cardstock - Whisper White, Regal Rose and Rich Razzleberry
Ink - Rich Razzleberry
Stamps - Fine Flourish and Tiny Tags
Punches - large oval, scalloped oval and eyelet border

Thanks for stopping by!

2 posts in one day!!!

As promised, here is something I made for my Nan for her birthday earlier this week. We also bought her a lovely glass lamp from IKEA but she always likes something hand made.

This card was almost 99% CASE'd from one shown to us by my lovely stamping mummy, Amanda at a recent team training day. I tweaked it a little using the rhinestones as I know my Nan loves them!

I also made her a decorated post-it note pad and a little pizza box to gift wrap it in!

Recipe:

Cardstock - Wild Wasabi, shimmer white, Marina Mist So Saffron and textured Baja Breeze
Ink - Wild Wasabi, Marina Mist and Baja Breeze
Stamps - Simply Said, Bella Toile, All A Flutter, Plane and Simple and Dot, Dot, Dot.
Other accessories: Big Shot, Perfect Polka Dots embossing folder, Beautiful Butterflies Bigz Die adhesive pearls, adhesive rhinestones and Marina Mist satin ribbon.

I will be back tomorrow with news of a whole range of new classes and clubs that I will be running over the coming months, plus another project!

Hope you are all having a lovely weekend!

Finally back!

Well, after a lengthy battle with blogger am I am back in control of my blog!

I promise you, I haven't been sitting around doing nothing, I have been very busy growing this!:

Hopefully all being well our little lady will be joining me and her daddy at convention in Paris in November. This was taken some weeks ago, I am now 28 weeks and there is no way I am adding any more picture of her until she is born!lol

I have also been busy with a craft room revamp courtesy of my lovely other half:

and now it has been in use for a while....

Whoops!

I have however, created something other than a huge mess in here and will be showing my projects over the next few days!