News !!!!!!!!!!!!!

I am now an Independent Stampin Up! Demo - whoop whoop !!

Below you will see an example of one of the cards that I have designed for a Card Class.  I have designed five cards altogether, and if you are interested in holding a class in the comfort of your own home (I will bring everything you need), then please contact me - details under the Class & Workshop tab (above), or just leave a comment below and I will contact you.

Please also contact me if you would like to purchase a Stampin Up! catalogue priced at £3.95, the value of which will be deducted from any order you place.

If you are interested in attending either a Cardmaking Workshop, Scrapbook Workshop, Project or Technique-based Workshop - then please contact me via the Class and Workshop tab above.

(I will soon have a link to the SU online catalogue - I promise)

Stampin Up! Class example

I hope everyone has had a wonderful Christmas, and I wish you health and happiness in 2011.

Love 'n' hugs.

Crafty Day

Had a fabby crafty day at Lianne's yesterday with Sarah and Elise - will upload and download photographs of the layouts I produced later.  Must say, that we made a serious dent on the scrummy food that Lianne provided - strawberry cheesecake biscuits, toffee and apple cookies, strawberry bon bons, fruit sweeties, and the most delicious chilli with cheesy bread and Doritos - yum yum !!!  We did do some crafting - honest !


Anyway, aside from the delicious food, I got to play with some of the new My Minds Eye that Sarah has in store, and some of the amazing new Cosmo Cricket ... two of my very favourite brands.  I love the fact that with both of these company's papers, you can mix and match other ranges together ... anyway, will take some photographs and upload later.

For now though ... here are some photographs from my favourite place in the whole wide world -  Ireland .... enjoy !

Starting Again .......

I can't believe how long it is since I blogged *insert shocked smiley*

So, I'm going to start again.  I've literally just got back to Lancashire after going to my second 'home' - Ireland.  My first home will always be my parents home.  No matter where I go in the world, home is home.  However, my son and I have recently been travelling to Ireland to visit his relations - and thats where our tale begins ... again ....

Kids Cybercrop class ......

This is the class I did for the UKS kids cybercrop - it was to teach them how to distress and ink.

GET OVER TO UNITY - QUICK

................... they have heaps and heaps of new releases - oh, and hop it over to the blog and see the latest Secret Agent film HERE ..... its hilarious !!!

Angela has manufactured some fabby new stamps that will suit both cardmakers AND scrappers ... some great new ideas as well.

Let me know what ya think of em - catch them all HERE

Awards !

I received these two awards from the gorgeous Hannah from THIS BLOG .

The first one is the Honest Scrap Award and you have to list 10 honest things about you.

1. I smoke. 2. I'm stubborn. 3. I'm loud (occasionally) 4. I find it hard to let go of the apron strings. 5. I love singing, anywhere and everywhere even though i'm crap. 6. I feed Jack Jnr under the table even though he has food in his dish. 7. I used to bite my toe nails (can't reach now) 8. I hate all insects - anything that creeps, crawls or flies. 9. I have a shocking memory. 10. I'm a terrible for doing things last minute. They get done, but always last minute.

The second Award is to confess to 5 things you're addicted to so here we go:

1. Scrapbooking stash

2. Handbags

3. Shoes

4. Everything has to match

5. Cheese and onion Seabrook crisps - yum yum

Now I have to nominate 7 people to pass these awards on to, but rather than do that, I would like everyone who reads this blog, to please accept these awards, and forward them on to those bloggers in your life.

Thanks for reading !

Luxury Weekend ...

I spent a glorious weekend down in Bedford with Gwyneth. Honestly, it was like staying in a 5* Hotel !!! That woman has more stamina than I will ever have, and kept me up into the wee small hours laughing and chatting. I really managed to completely chill out and was extremely sad leaving to go home. If you're reading Gwyn - once again, very many thanks xxxx

The twinchies and frame above is a gift that I made for Gwyneth. I used all TH dye ink pads, mostly TH stamps together with Hero Arts, Autumn Leaves and UNITY. Lots of sandpaper, distressers, blossoms, dye cuts etc. were used, and some of the images are 2/3 layers of stamping.

Thanks for popping by !