Whilst tidying out some drawers during lockdown, I came across these hand written notes of my daughters time at nursery school 15 years ago. I had completely forgotten about them!
With all the lovely photos of her playing, they were ideal for making up some scrap book pages
These are all 'Work in Progress' - the great thing about scrapbooking, is that you can go back to them and add embellishments and decorations once you have sorted out your layouts.
So many weddings have been postponed this year and there is still no certainty that large weddings with lots of family and friends will be allowed for a while yet.But despite that, I've made a wedding card!
It started off uncovering the 3 leaf charm toppers at the bottom of a box of bits and pieces and thinking 'what the heck can I do with them?' I matched them up with some other odd bits such as the ribbon, flowers and hearts to make a silver and white based card with touches of glitter.
I've just found them when routing around for something else, They are a selection of presents, snowmen, snowflakes, Santa etc
I've threaded them on red velvet or silver ribbon and layered them on scraps of sparkly Dufex that I have had kicking around for years.
Having a break from making Christmas cards ( you can have too much of a good thing!) So I decided to have a play with the tonic goodies I won last week.
The floral cuff die has a lovely clean, crisp cut and comes with 5 matching graduated flower dies
The embossing folder makes a nice clean pattern too - I think I will get alot of use from these in the future!
Plus this fab golden sparkly robin background paper!
I also treated myself to Creative Stamping Magazine (issue 89) to inspire me through the next few weeks of lockdown.
It has encouraged me to do a bit of heat embossing - a technique I have sorely neglected for a while.
There are lots of papers and toppers, an embossing folder and 10 stamps!
Plus a fab Floral Cuff die and loads of ideas in the magazine to inspire you to use it - a great giveaway!
Why not pop over to her blog and see what she is giving away this week, she posts one every Friday and the winner is drawn out of the hat on Saturday! You could be lucky like me.
I've already made some lovely bird themed Christmas cards
as well as a couple of birthday cards using the toppers, papers & embellishments - and there are still plenty left!
Which today I have turned into a variety of different Christmas cards for this year ....
using lots of stamps that haven't seen the light of day for a long time!
A very good way to spend a rainy day.
I just love a traditional 'robin in the snow' Christmas card - and luckily so do some of my friends and family!
It also seems wrong to make Christmas cards when it is still hot and sunny. So, earlier this week the weather cooled down and I went and rummaged in the cupboard under the stairs to dig out my 3 boxes of Christmas goodies. Really I have so many stamps, papers, dies and embellishments, that there is no excuse to buy anymore this year.
I bought myself the latest copy of Simply Cards Magazine with these lovely Autumnal trees, leaves and sentiment stamps
And I teamed them up with a Hunkydory background sheet that I bought at my recent charity shop haul.
to make these Autumn themed cards - won't be long now til the leaves start falling off the trees!
Popped in to one of my favourite charity shops for St Elizabeth Hospice and found loads of card making stuff!
I picked up loads of Hunkydory shopper sheets in a whole variety of styles
A complete cardstock pack from Hunkydorys Watercolour wings selection, retails at £12.99 - pleased about this, as I already have the matching topper deck.
A large pack of embellishments and toppers from Craftwork Cards
Plus some cute Christmas card kits and lots of Christmas banners from Lakeland - all for £5.00. The first cards that I made all featured birds.
I have added a few buttons and bows to some of the images from the Hunkydory Topper pads I bought recently to make some quick vintage style cards for the charity box. It was all that I felt like doing in the hot, humid heat we had last week.
I mentioned a couple of years ago on this blog about my love of the Pokemon Go game, and its still going strong! As I don't have a dog, its a good excuse to go out for a walk and collect Pokemon instead.
I am surprised how many 'older' people like myself play it regularly too - its not just for the kids!
