Busy Bees

More cards from my week away, I used embossing paste and stencil for the back ground on this one.Mounted it on some brown paper added a piece from a craft sheet, some candy and twine to finish off.

This one again I used a stencil with some ink. Stamped and die cut the butterfly. Added sentiment and some stickles.

Heres one of my girls busy crafting and having there photo taken reluctantly of course!! Sally trying to hide, Carol busy cutting, Carol on the phone tut tut and Anita on her wonderful hand sewing machine so quiet. What a great week. x

Craft week away with girls

 Last week I went away with a group of girls for whole week of crafting, we all had an amazing time. Here is a picture of some of my stash ready to load in the car. I cant ever go back to my Mini! I even went on some nice walks so kept my step count up as well. Diet was going well, will see how much damage the week has caused on weigh in Monday.

I made some cards as well as scrapbooking and sewing. Here are a couple of cards I made for this weeks coming birthdays. The Butterflies were stamped and die cut using clearly besotted stamps. I used my sewing machine as well.

This one I made by printing the image from images and then I added some die cut cogs. I will post some of my pages soon. x

Rome Trip

Not much crafting been going on here, had a lovely weekend in Rome for my Birthday. The weather was perfect done lots of walking and of course we done Segway too.

A few shots I took of Colosseum and the one below was a view from a park near our hotel.

Well next friday I am off for a week crafting with some lovely ladies so should have some stuff to show soon. Well need to get on with my packing have about 15 boxes ready to go in car and haven't finished, I definitely better not buy a Mini next time.
Have a great week x

Think i'm a weekend blogger

 Hi, fresh frozen morning here today. I am off out for lunch with my Brother and some friends so not good for the diet but I am up to 11lb sadly don't thin k I will now make the Stone by my birthday a week tomorrow as off to Rome on Friday. Oh well not doing bad.

Need a male card this week so put this one together using some papers I bought from Costco years ago have a huge bag of it but it is quite dark colours. Added a bit of washi tape and some twine, and stamped the sentiment.

Now a scrap page made at the Scrapbags crop yesterday, this was the class kit. I changed the orientation of the photo. Me and my Bro on his second 50th party as he was ill for the first one.
Had a lovely day catching up with all the ladies.

Well better go get ready for my lunch date. Have a great week everyone hopefully i'll be back with some great pictures of Rome if I can fit my camera in my hand luggage! xx

Lampshade Making

Hi All, this week I went on a lampshade making course and here is my result. The Tutor was Detola and Geek, and the workshop was held at Heartsandcrafts in Walkern. I had a lovely evening, I chose my material from Bev's stock and she has some love choices. Pleased with my result, now I need to go buy a lamp to put it on as I have no where in my house that takes a shade.

Valentines surprise, my husband and the boys went off to Goodwood Friday night for some motor rallying a friend was taking part in. I went into the bedroom and the ensuite door was shut…unusual so opened the door to a lovely surprise awaiting me. Then Saturday morning I am making my bed picked up my top pillow and in-between was my valentine card so I had slept on it all night without noticing how funny I am obviously not a princess!

and finally some Sunday crafting I made this card using my new stamps from sarntangle blinged it up with stickles and liquid pearls I might enter this  in CAS Challenge as they have an orange challenge game 33 here goes. Well now I need to go organise for a day of scrapping next Saturday with the lovely ladies at Scrapbags.

This is the Inspiration.

Merly Impression Win

Hi everyone, had  a good week especially as I was a winner and my lovely goodies arrived today from Merly Impressions so excited can't wait to use them. I am going to save them for my week away with the girls in March which is fast approaching.



Diet update still going well 9lb loss so far, so on target to loose a stone by my birthday. Below is a picture of the fab sky last night out on my walk, the photo doesn't do it justice it was an amazing colour of reds and pinks.

Finally my fabulous new Stamps arrived this week and couldn't wait to have a play with them this morning, had this idea in my head, so set about doing it and quite pleased with the result. Thanks to Sarn at stamping for pleasure for the amazing stamps. Off to play some more now hopefully be back with some more creations xx

Heat it up!

Today has been spent making wedding invitations for Karens daughter. Three of us worked a production line, would have been four but Karen went home being sick with a very bad headache.
I have to say Jules you don't have to worry it won't be-becoming my full time job!
My heat gun done very well I quite expected it to give up and maybe suffer over exhaustion, but it lasted the whole day rather amazing. Not great photos but I was exhausted too.

Well thats me done going to sit down and probably fall asleep. Have a great week x