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Happy Halloween!! Are you having a spooktacular weekend? (Sorry :) ) We don;t really celebrate halloween but the kids love to be dressed up and we were invited to a neighours party, and couldn't go without a card. Naturally! So here are a couple of spooky themed cards I made.

This first one is made with Basic Grey "Eerie" papers (that I won from Scrapwhispers) and a squiggle Stamps image. The trick or treat sentiment came from Basic Grey Eerie stickers. And this next one, again made with Eerie papers and stickers, but the image this time is from Sugar Nellie. I loved colouring him in with an acid yellow face (though its not too clear on here). Not sure why but thats my favourite part of this card. LOL. I just wanted to share.

hope you have a defrightful night... sorry I mean delightful..... Mwah ha ha ha! :)

Yoo Hoo!

Hello! I have been dying to share this post with you all week but have had to wait til now because I've been away to Mum and Dad's. We got back yesterday. Anyway, last Saturday I got to meet up with some online friends, Georgina and Rosey. We have been talking online for around 2 years and have now finally got to meet face to face and have a mini crop together! It was fab that all of our timings just fitted. Me being at my family home, Georgina being home that weekend and Rosey being over from Singapore.

So here we are! L-R: Me, Rosey, Georgina. I was so nervous... well, more nervous excitement I think, about meeting with these ladies. We know so much about each other and we speak so often on the forum pages and via email. We also grew up around each other, even worked in the same building without knowing and we came together on an American website. Seriously, you just couldnt make it up.

This is Georgina, and Rosey. They are both so lovely!! Very easy to talk to and they were both full of tips and inspiration. So down to earth and very, very sweet & kind. Georgina let me loose with her Copics (Thanks, G!!!), had lots of tips to share and even gave us goodie bags! (there was also a sweet gift for DD. Her very own Goodbyn, which she has not left alone since!)

And Rosey showed me how to do shading and helped me out with a couple of scrapper block moments. She also showed me how to reduce my bag of rubbish when I am crafting. There were no scraps left, apart from the backing from double sided tape!! It was honestly, the smallest bag of rubbish ever!!! Rosey also bought some food from Singapore and some homemade fruit slices which were delicious! Here are the cards we created between us. I managed 4 tiny ones (4x4"). It was my first time using Copics and I am sold! I NEED these pens! I hope santa is listening, LOL.

We had such a great time. I really hope that we can get to meet again. These ladies are just so fantastic, I am so happy to have them as my friends.

So Georgina, thanks once again for organising it all and doing all the leg work! And Rosey, thank you for the treats from Singapore. They went down well!! And I am very sorry for getting you lost on the way back to mine, even if it was the scenic route :)

I'm looking forward to the next crop!!!

All about me in a Whisper

There are so many BOM challenges out there at the moment which I am loving because I am trying to get some pages of me done to pass down to my kids, so they can get to know the other sides of me other than just Mum. This fortnights challenge for All about me is to scrap a life turning moment. Of course I alrady had this topic for my DT challenge with Butterfly crafts, but I have more than one turning point. A huge one is when I became pregnant with DD. I was never maternal, I didnt even really like kids that much. So when I became pregnant I went into a state of shock and panic, thinking all kinds of things and the one I kept thinking was that I wasn't good enough to be a mum. As soon as I held my little girl in my arms I knew then that I was going to be ok. She needed me and if I am honest I needed her. I was in love from the second I saw her and it changed me into a far better person. I am also going to be entering this layout for the scrapwhispers challenge which is to create a Book Of Me layout. I'm off for a week to visit my family so this will be my last blog post for a while, but I will be back soon to share some more. I am so excited for this weekend when I get to meet some very special oline friends for the first time! I can't wait! (See you tomorrow ladies!!!!) :) Enjoy your week X

Almost no adhesive box of notelets

I've made this little box set as an early christmas present for my Grandma. She still loves to send cards and letters so I thought this would be ideal for her and after she has finished with the cards she can send the box to someone with a gift inside. This box is made from one piece of 7x10 cardstock and it holds 5 cards and envelopes of 4x4" size. I've just realised I've added this photo on its side! DOH! I'll try and rectify it..... This is how the back of the box looks. Then all I have done is closed it with some sticky fixers that I would usually use to close cellophane bags. I will do a proper tutorial when I can work out the measurements again. I did this completely off the cuff and so I am really happy with how it turned out. Look out for the tutorial later this week!

First Impressions

This is a late entry into the latest challenge over at All About Me. This challenge is called Pigeon-holed. Do people see you as something you're not? Do you feel like you should be a certain way? Are you mis-understood? The journalling on this layout reads:

"On first impressions, people generally think I am a snob, posh, unapproachable, when that really couldn't be further from the truth. I am friendly, chatty, down to earth, with a great sense of humour! I guess its just the way my face falls"

In this photo I know I do look a little harsh but that really is just my face, lol!!

I tried to make the flowers on here look a bit feathery by added the contrasting colour leaves to the black flowers. Adding diamonds and Pearls just were for the sake of the snobby part of the title. And today I have no idea on which companies made these papers, apart from DCWV, All Dressed Up (flowers) & Rock Star.

There is only 2 days left on this challenge, so another is due very soon!!!

Challenge 21 - Butterfly Crafts

Here is my first design team entry for Butterfly crafts challenge blog!! The challenge for this fortnight is "the moment that changed your life". For me it would be too easy to say that after I became a mum it changed my life. Which don't get me wrong, it did change my life in more ways than I can count. But for me it was the journey of how I got to be a mum that was important. I am a huge believer in fate and destiny and all things happen for a reason. So when I quit my dead end job at the age of 20, it started me on a path that I would never believe I would have been travelling. I set me off for my first job abroad, on a campsite in Germany, where noone spoke a word of English and I didnt speak German. I was alone there, but it was a challenge I threw myself into and never looked back from there. It also led me to do a HND course in European travel and tourism management, a logistics course in Copenhagen, Denmark, a job as a mountain guide in Austria and finally to 4 summers and 2 winter seasons in Spain. It was there that I met the man who was to become the father to my children. It gave me confidence and made me stronger. I have met some amazing people and done some incredible things.... most of all I found ME!!!!! For this layout I used a mix of Prima & graphic 45 paper, some lace ribbon, and gold wire threaded with plastic red and black beads, attached with green gem brads. the journalling is written on the Prima paper but it makes it a little hard to see. Go on over and check out the challenge. Its a fab one for a Book Of Me! I can't wait to see what you create!

Starting tomorrow!

Just to say that the first of the Winter DT challenges is up tomorrow over at Butterfly Crafts. Come and join us!! It will be loads of fun! Hope to see you there!