Couple of Days in Southampton

A couple of weeks ago some friends and I headed down to Southampton for a couple of days. 

On the Monday when we arrived at Southampton, Pam & I went round Ikea. Pam was an 'Ikea Virgin!'. She has ordered from them but never been to the store. 

Originally we were going to Nancy & Stephanie's Crafty Workshop (Nancy Watt & Stephanie Weightman), but this was cancelled. As we had already booked the hotel (which we ended up getting free - long story!!) we decided that we would go anyway and on the Tuesday we did a bead class at the Southampton Bead Shop. Here is a picture of the necklace that we made. It's my favourite colour. I enjoyed making the piece even though it looked quite difficult. 

We had a good day with plenty of laughs as normal. Not quite sure what the tutor or the shop staff made of us but hey ho, we had fun.

We ended the day with a meal at TGI Fridays. I would like to say that it was a good meal but it was not, we had to wait ages to be seated, even longer to be served, We had been there over an hour before our food came out and some of the food was cold. We ended up complaining and getting £25 off the bill.

Pam and I git stuck in traffic on the was back and took us just as long to get back to Brighton as it did Trace to get back to Cardiff!!!

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Friend's Birthday

Not been making many cards recently as have been busy doing other things :-( but here is one I made earlier!!

It's one of my closest friends 50th birthday this month and here is one of the cards I have made for her. I will be making 2 - this one and a comic one! This card is based on a card that I did earlier in the year at Greta's playday.

The backing card is bazzill bling and the backing paper comes from Kay and Company. The ribbon was from my stash as were the gems and the flower. The stamped words were from a friendship set from HobbyArt stamped on white card and backed onto bazzill bling cut with spellbinders.

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Last lot of cards made

Here are the last couple of cards that I made using the La Pashe 'Wacky Wheels'. When you get the decoupage sheets you get a large image and then you get a pyramarge (*sp!) image of the same car.

This first car is a small square card. I have used a piece of the corrugated card and some black card to matt the image on. I have used some card candy and some black peel offs for the greeting.

 Here I have used 4 of the smaller images and matted them on plain black card. The greeting is of course from Craftwork cards.

A different type of card here. Image is from a Forever Friend topper pack. The green card is bazzill bling and has been embossed using a football folder that I have. The backing paper is from a pack I got with the forever friends toppers.

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Sketch 'n' Stash Challenge 93

Following on with my male cards here's another one that I have made today. The image is a forever friends bear stamp which I have coloured with promarkers. The red card and football backing papers are from my stash and the greeting is a Craftwork Cards one..of course :-)

I have followed the sketch from the Sketch and Stash Challenge that is running at the moment. Here is the sketch.

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More Men's Cards

As previously stated I have a few (quite a few to be exact!) of male birthdays over the next couple of months. As I am trying to use my stash here are a couple of cards that I have made over the last couple of days using the 'Wacky Wheels' decoupage from La Pashe.

This one is for my brother in law. Corrugated  card that I found in a drawer, piece of ribbon found on the floor of my craft room!!! Buttons are from my stash too. The greeting is of course Craftwork Cards.

This is a card for my son who is 24 soon. He has just finished his 2nd year car mechanics apprenticeship and will be starting year 3 in September. He bought a couple of old Golf GTi  to do up so I thought this image was appropriate. The ribbon I found in a box and the greeting and card candy are from Craftwork cards again.

This is for my nephew in law. Again corrugated card and ribbon from my stash and greeting and card candy from Craftwork cards. 

Have entered these cards into the Dude Time Doodles Challenge which is 'Travel'

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Men's Cards

Men's cards again. Yuck!! But in my stash I found these card decoupage papers. Think they came from    La Pashe. Made them up and over the last couple of days have made them into cards. Papers are all from Forever Friends paper pack that I have. Buttons are from my stash. Greetings are from Craftwork cards. Will come in handy as I have quite a few male birthdays coming up!!

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The week with my boy..

This past week we have had Leon staying with us while his Mummy & Daddy went on a short break to the Isle of Wight so no cards from me!

We had a fun week and he was very good. I have a few more grey hairs and I was sleep deprived by Friday - 4am - 6am awaking...but I really enjoyed having him and really missed him when he went back. Here are a few pictures from the week.

I decided to walk him round to the park one afternoon. It took an hour to get there - the park is only round the corner- but after we had stopped, examined every gate, every bush etc, we eventually got there :-)

Eating chocolate cake - mmmmmm! Time for a hair cut too!!

 Watching Thomas the Tank Engine at 6am in the morning.

Morning nap time

Playing in the park.

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