On a roll with these pages!

I've made this for this weeks challenge over at UKScrappers. I got 20 points!! I had to scrap something that made me giggle and it had to have sparkle.
I really must scrap in other colours other than blues... but I LIKE blues... but I will run out soon, lol. Trouble with only have boys/men to scrap. I used the Cricut again, what would I do without this machine????? I of course cut the text, the hearts, the journalling mat, and the butterfly which isn't showing up very well.

Any idea?

So this is my page for today. I did a bit of stitching on this one! I don't know if I'll do it again, it's hard to get it even... even though I like the look of it, it was fiddly to do.
I used Papermania cream card, and the scalloped blue background and the black card is from the Papermania scalloped edge range. I used the Cricut to cut the letters and the shapes, Prima flowers, Kanban jewels, and I also inked the swirls on the blue and the black card. I can normally make a page in under an hour, but this took me around 2 hours. I'm quite happy with the outcome.

Strictly H20

This is part of a performance Matthew sang in at school last night. All the kids sang really well. Sorry for the poor video quality... it was taken on Darryl's digital still camera, a lot better than nothing though!!
Matthew is the one in the blue long sleeved top in the middle!!

Oh so colourful - Part two!

Here is the right hand side of the double page spread of The Milky Way. This side showing some of the animals in the petting area of the theme park. Matthew loved being able to get in and stroke the animals.

I used Papermania black cardstock, K&Co Kazoo papers and the letters spelling "Animals". I used the Cricut to cut the Kazoo paper background shape and the letters, both using the Storybook cartridge - most definitely my most favourite cartridge. Justin said that yesterday's page is his favourite out of all my scrapbook pages!

Oh so colourful.

My latest creation towards the Devon holiday collection is this one. I love it! It's SO colourful. I used K&Co Kazoo papers, chipboard rocket and stickers. I also used my wonderful Cricut to cut the pointy arrow, the text (Storybook, and Plantin Schoolbook cartridges) and the journal mats. The photos were taken at The Milky Way in Clovelly - <<< click that text Dad!! It was a rainy day this day, so this place was good as there's lots to do inside. I shall make the second page to this day out later.

Other news.
Darryl and Abby have gone to the hospital to have their dating scan today, so watch this space for a layout featuring Darryl/Abby junior in the making, lol.

Instow scrap page.

This is a page reflecting our first evening staying in Fremington, North Devon. This is the beach at Instow. Click here to visit the Instow website.
Across the estuary on the other side is a town called Appledore - The Jackson's were staying there when we were here. I don't think Joan (Matthew's nan, bottom picture) will thank me for this photo, but she looks like she was saying "Ooohh, it's a bit breezy!" So I couldn't resist adding it.
I had fun with the Cricut doing this page... getting it to cut out the hearts, the wavey pointer and the text. I added an inked swirly stamp, and some Prima flowers and Kanban jewels in the centres.

Reblowing my own trumpet.

I realised today that I hadn't uploaded this to my blog before, so thought I'd blow my own trumpet again about it. The above page is of my mum and dad and I'd got it published in Scrapbook Inspirations magazine way back in......... 2005! I do have the magazine but it's in a tub somewhere covered in other crafty items. I'm sure it was around the October issue of that year because I remember it had been delivered and it was waiting for me when I got back from taking Matthew on his first day of school, so it was a nice surprise. Well, more a bit of a shock if I'm honest! LOL!
Below is the page it appeared on. I've never had anything published since.

No pics to show you today.

Just an update of what I've been up to.
On Sunday I had the day off, forgot to mention that, lol. It was so nice to get to spend a day with everyone here at home.
We did a bit more of the weekly shop in the morning as Matthew had gone to a Laser tag party on Saturday, so we didn't do our shopping with dad again this week. After the shopping, we went back into town and bought more compost and some seeds and little plants. Matthew chose some Impatients to plant in tubs. Justin wants a veggie patch in the garden... it will be a patch too! We have a teeny weeny garden.
Anyhooo, I helped Matthew plant half of his little plants into two tubs, and he watered them in... and he watered them in... and he watered them in... and he watered them... you get the gist... I kept telling him to stop watering everything!! I'd also bought a new honeysuckle as my last one fell from the fence after about 6 years.
I looked at Matthew's plants the following morning and they looked like soggy cabbage... I've left them alone hoping that they will spring back into life, lol.
So, the other things I have sown in my greenhouse are... yellow peppers (Matthew's), spring onions for Justin, we also have some carrots in a tub - like they had on the telly!! We'll see what happens...

Today most of this morning I spent printing photos from the rest of our holiday to North Devon last August, and I also cut out the titles for the pages with my Cricut. (Dad, you know what that is now!!) I had to go and buy some more photo paper. I have an Epson printer (I've found this to be the best for compatible ink cartridges), and it didn't like the high glossy Kodak paper I had, so I've now got some Ilford Satin paper, and it's prints wonderfully on that.

Dad picked me up at 2.50pm to get Matthew as we went to dads for dinner tonight instead of tomorrow - he's out to lunch with my Auntie Myrtle and Uncle Ken tomorrow. We had a lovely Mr Whippy ice cream with a flake after school, courtesy of dad, thanks dad! We then went and fetched Darryl as he'd been with Abby, then back to dad's. Lovely roast chicken dinner.

Back home I cut out some more titles, and Justin put some of his Devon photos on a memory stick for me to transfer to my laptop from his, then I printed some more. I shall get busy tomorrow making the odd page, so watch this space!

The last time...

The last time I made a scrapbook page was July 5th 2008 - I know it was this date because it was when Justin was at Silverstone for the British Grand Prix (plus it's the date that I wrote on the back of that page!). So anyway... I printed these two photos last night and turned them to greyscale, and like them, so decided to scrap them today, and here's the result.
I used my Cricut Expressions machine to cut the text and shadow the word Boy. The Summer Holiday text was done by first using the Cricut pens to draw the letters and then got it to cut out the letters leaving them outlined in the blue pen. I do love this machine!! I used the Storybook cartridge for the letters and the little tumbling hearts.
In the first photo, Matthew is having a stroll along Instow beach on the first night of our holiday to North Devon. We stayed with Justin's dad and step mum in Fremington. In the second photo Matthew is sitting on Ilfracombe Harbour wall eating chips... we got told off by the Town Crier for feeding the seagulls, lol. Justin should have known this being as he lived here before moving in with me ten years ago!
Click on the photo to get a better view.

The picture below was taken yesterday afternoon. We have a balloon hire place a few miles up the road in a village called Pidley - funny name, I know... at least I think it's Pidley they're based in.

If anyone knows any scrapbooking blogs, can you post their link in the comments please? I seem to only know of Australian ones, not that there's anything wrong with that of course, lol.
Thanks x

So today in my little greenhouse...

I have potted my strawberry plants, and thinned out my tomato plants... they look a bit spindly at the moment don't they?!

Here is Matthew this evening filling a couple of pots to put some sunflower seeds in. He doesn't believe that they will grow higher than the fence!

Matthew's pots, lol.

I'm having a lot of fun with this little greenhouse. I got it from Wilkinson's (not on show in the shop, have to ask for them!) and it cost £30, almost £40 in Argos with a green cover! It's like having my own little world outside the back door, lol, and it's right next to my lovely new water butt! I bought that with the money dad gave me for my birthday - yesterday was my birthday by the way, lol.

WOW!

Isn't this stunning?? And how beautiful is this young girl???? I love this scrapbook page, and wish I could make them like this too.
You can see more of the creator, Paulien's, work over at her blog. Click here to go to her blog.

I have been tagged!

Poppy from Poppy's Place tagged me. Thanks Poppy x

And up above is my 4th! It's of Matthew in 2004, lol, he was 3 years old.

Ok, what you have to do...
You have to find the fourth folder (inside the photo's folder), and then open that and find the fourth photo, and voila!

Ok, so I'm going to tag..............................................

MARION, PAULA, SHELL, AND TOTTY.

A hug and a glass of lemonade.

Thank you to my lovely friend, Marion, for giving me this lovely hug and glass of lemonade. It is just turning to Spring here, so what a nice way to spend a sunny spring afternoon with your friends.
I shall also award this to... (have to be different to Marion!)
Sue, Lynsey, Helena, DawnMarie, and Poppy. Please click on their names to visit their blogs.

A few new pics!

Hello!
Here are a few pics that I have been meaning to upload. The first one is of the first blanket that I've made for my unborn grandchild. I used Hayfield's Lustre Wool in white. It's gorgeous - it has a lovely white shimmer to it. I used a Wattle stitch for the pattern, it's a crochet stitch, and it's really lovely close up.

The next photo is of one of our dogs, Abby, finding the first rays of sunshine in the garden. She loves laying in the sun. This is the dog that had a lump removed from her breast about a month or so ago.

And finally, here's my mini walk in greenhouse! It's nice and cosy inside there. It has 6 shelves, and now has two bags of compost laying on the bottom tube structure poles because of 25mph winds here today - the front kept lifting off the ground! LOL! I have just strawberry plants in there at the moment, but have plenty more seeds to sow, including lettuce and carrots, freesia's, spring onions, and my tomatoes have just come out of the airing cupboard after sprouting, and are now over an inch high!

A greenhouse!

Here I am! I keep disappearing I know, sorry. Dad was moaning at me yesterday for not updating my blog - today dad is in hospital for a sort of minor op, and then home tomorrow morning.
Anyway... I'm getting greenfingers, or at least trying to get them...
I've always been a spur of the moment type of person and it doesn't look like I'm changing anytime soon. It's all Paula's fault, as usual.
Paula suggested that I buy some seeds and grow a bit of veg. So yesterday, and Tuesday I got started. On Tuesday I bought some tomato seeds and flower seeds, 8 strawberry plants, a couple of little propagators, and a bag of compost. On Wednesday morning I bought some cress seeds for Matthew, coz they're easy, and a tub with some rocket seeds.
I've since planted the rocket seeds, the cress, and the tomato seeds. Matthew has the cress and the strawberry seeds on his bedroom windowsill at the moment.
So today on our card group we got talking about planting things and growing your own veggies. Now I don't do things by halves... so tomorrow I pick up the greenhouse that pictured below - my first greenhouse, wooohooooooooo, lol, yes I know it's only small!!! And on Tuesday I pick up a water butt complete with drainpipe fittings!

10th of March already???

I can't believe it's been so long since I wrote my last post!!!
I haven't made one single card since I uploaded the last one either! But I have made one and a half blankets for my grandchild in the making. The first one I made with white lustre wool and is quite big and shimmers, it's gorgeous! The second one I'm making is a lemon one, really soft. I shall upload a photo of them tomorrow. I finished Paula's blanket, she loved it, and I also finished Cheryl's unborn grandchilds one as well, also loved it. I've now ordered some cream lustre wool, so I'll use that once I've finished the lemon one.
Oh, and apparently Abby is 10 weeks pregnant now, so she was a week out when they told me she was 7 weeks.

Other news.
The washing machine decided to flood the kitchen on Friday. Justin handwashed a couple of t-shirts, couple of things for Matthew and said he was knackered, lol. I decided to do a handwash as well, pair of Matthew's pyjamas, 3 pairs of pants, a pair of socks, trousers, 3 shirts... my back was killing me!!! So last night we ordered a new machine, and it's coming on Friday, lol. I don't know how they coped with all the washing when people didn't have washing machines!!

MASSIVE News...

I've been spending this week getting my head round the fact that I'm going to be a grandmother!!!! Darryl is to become a father, my dad is going to be a great grandad... blimey. I'm far too young, Darryl's far too young, and Abby's far too young!
I was shocked when Darryl first told me last Monday. I said "Oh my God"... and was silent for ten minutes, but now, I've bought some wool to make a baby blanket, lol. It is still early days though, Abby is just 7 weeks pregnant, and it's due on October 5th.
Darryl is realising how life changing this is going to be. I don't think he really wants to leave home just yet. He was talking about things like he didn't think that last Christmas was his last Christmas here at our house, and he's going to miss Matthew etc.
So there, that was my massive news!!!

I've not made any cards, just been finishing Paula's blanket, and now I'm finishing Cheryl's unborn granddaughters, then I shall start on my own grandchilds... that makes me sound SO old!!!!
Justin had his 32nd birthday this week on Pancake Day (Shrove Tuesday). I made the best pancakes ever this year! I'm still sort of on my diet, and losing steadily, well ok, around 4lbs lost in three weeks, but that's good.

Darryl left his job, so I got him an interview at the hospital as punishment, so now he works nights from 8.30 - 4.30am Monday to Friday. He likes it now, hated it the first night though.

A new card, and a new award!

It's been a few days since I've said anything on my blog! I've just not made any cards or anything of interest to tell you all. Anyway... my two friends, Paula and Shell started the Copics Colour challenge. I said to them, that as I don't own any Copics, I shall enter it my way, lol... even though I can't win a prize, blah blah! So, the above is my entry using my Prismacolor pencils and my Brushmarkers (who makes them??? I do know!!! GGRR!), well anyway, I used those to colour in the lil gal.

I received another fantastic award from my friend Paula, but for some reason I can't get to her blog and grab it, so I shall upload that when it lets me. Thanks Paula! I know you gave me one last week and I've still not gone and got that either, but I will... much appreciated though x

Thanks Paula!! WHISPERS brushmarkers!!

Sansador...

No card today. I've been to work today so too tired to be very creative tonight. Having said that... I was sitting up the table happily using my Prismacolors colouring in Sarah Kay... Matthew came along with his new metallic pencils and asked if he could colour one in. I said yes and I asked him to get the scissors for me to cut one out for him... instead, he tried to get a sheet of paper that was underneath where my things were that I was using... over went my bottle of Sansador all over my two coloured images from tonight... Justin just calmly said "I'd go upstairs for a bit if I were you Matthew, mum's going to be very cross" lol... I'm calm now, but I didn't do anymore colouring!

MY FAVOURITE FOR TODAY! 6th Feb 09

My favourite card for today has been made by Vicky of Cuddly Cards. I love the subtle colours of this, and of course the gorgeous Penny Black stamp "Lazy Days". How cute are these little hedgehogs?? Click the link and go and have a look at Vicky's blog and have a look at her fab creations.