Opps!!!

Yesterday my husband had a little accident at work. He is a police inspector and has been waiting for for his new work phone. Well it arrived yesterday and as with most new phones you have to charge them up. So hubby lent over the shredder - yes I said shredder - to plug the charger on and guess what.......yep his tie got caught in the shredder... luckily all police officers have to wear clip on ties so he was able to pull it off before he did any damage to himself...although the same can't be said about the tie.....

I had to ring him up at work yesterday to break the news that I have to have a cap fitted on my dodgy tooth that had had root canal treatment a couple of months ago and it's gonna cost £350!!!!

He told me that my friend (who works with him) wanted to tell me something and he put her on the phone and she told me what had happened. Well to say I laughed, was an understatement. The only problem was I was standing in the middle of a shopping street and people were walking passed me as if I was a loony! hahahahahaha!!

My only regret was that I wasn't there to see it & they don't have CCTV in their office!!!!!!

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Another Christmas Card

Good afternoon from a very sunny but chilly South Coast here..brrrr - had to succumb on Thursday and put my heating on!! Was determined not to have it on until November but can't stand being cold! Love this weather though - cold and crisp!

Yesterday I was up in my craft room and was feeling in a Christmassy mood so started going through my Christmas boxes ( I have a few!! didn't realise how much stuff I had) So I have decided this year to use what I already have and not buy anything new!! (well apart from the 3 new embossing folders I bought from e-bay :-) )

Here's the first one...it is a kit I bought in Doncaster last year from Kraftyhands . The kit comes complete with decoupage image, A5 card & enevelope and other co ordinating tags and seal etc.

I do have a coiple more so watch this space.

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Made some Christmas cards

When I went to Appleby Magna back in June, Debs had some Snowman decoupage sheets that she was giving away and I took a few of the sheets. When I was away in the New Forest a few weeks ago I made some of these decoupage up and yesterday afternoon I made a few into cards. (I had a bit of a card marathon!!! :-) ) Here are the cards I made.

This is a square card. The snowflake is a sizzlit die which I have put stickles on (I don't do glitter!) Have stuck a gem in the middle. 4 gems in the corners of the cards. The greeting I found in my Christmas box and this has been layered on silver mirri card.

This is a 5x7 card. Image just stuck on blank card. Snowflake as before except this time have put a snowflake brad in the middle of it. The greeting again I found in my Christmas box.

5x7 landscape card, image just stuck onto card and Christmas greeting from Craftwork cards used.

Quick, easy cards. I have a couple more sheets to make up so hopefully will be showing you soon.

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Have been finishing some shoebox cards

This afternoon I have been making up some of the shoebox cards form some of the crafty meets that I have been on. I didn't realise how many I have outstanding - naughty Cally!!! - Here are the ones that I have made.

This is Trace's card from our Guildford meet in August. It's an 8x8 Christmas card.

This is Trace's card from Appleby Magna in June 2011. Beautiful A5 card. She even provided us with a card box.

This is Jennie's card from the Christmas meet 2010. I didn't actually attend this meet as I was on holiday but I did provide a shoebox card. This is a padded card. The image is a material square. I do have some of these and they are really effective and easy cards. Just need to get round to making some!!!

This is Chris's card from Appleby Magna this year. A beautiful simple and easy Christmas card. Very effective.

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Catching up with my birthday cards

Well have been trying to finish off all my birthday & anniversary cards for the rest of the year as I need to start on my Christmas cards as I'm going away for 3 weeks in November. Well here are 2 that I made yesterday afternoon

The first one is for my brother in law. I have used a 'flippin men' decoupage image from La Pashe. The decoupage image has been stuck on acetate. The backing image also comes with the decoupage sheet. Just added some card candi from my stash.

The second card I have done is for my mother in law. I have used stickers and I can't remember for the life of me where they came from. I know bought them from the Craft Barn years ago but do not know who they were from. The greeting is computer generated and the backing card and gems are from my stash.

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Another beautiful day in October

It's been another beautiful day today although it has got a bit chilly now. This afternoon I have been making cards.

I had a message from an old friend the other day, on that I had not seen in a very long time and she mentioned that it was her 25th wedding anniversary this year.. Well to say that my flabber was gasted is an understatement. I know time goes quickly but i was bridesmaid at her wedding along with her two daughters.

It was her second marriage and she got married in pink and our bridesmaid dresses were a pale green, quite heavy and done in the style of 1920's, drop waisted, beautiful dress. I must see if I can dig out a photo.

Anyway thought I had better get a card done for her and Barry - her husband and here is what I came up with.

I used a square card, silver mirri card, corners inverted cut and stuck to the card blank. Ribbon tied round the the base and a separate bow made (I'm useless at making bows but this one was ok). The image is from an embossing folder ran under the cuttlebug and then layered onto some more mirri card and white card. Gems from my stash were used to finish it off. The wording and number 25 were peel offs.

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A belated birthday card

On Monday I received a belated birthday card from Toni.

Such a beautiful card. Thank you Toni.

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