Poorly Jack

What a shock he gave his mam and Dad.

Oh no! Jack has had a fall and split his head, Grans special biscuits seemed to help.

A Special Gift from Katie

Those of you that have been with me for a while will know that my dear friend Katie Renz passed away recently, such a sad time for both family and friends of such a dear, dear lady.

When Katie and I chatted we would often talk about living close to the sea, although many miles between us we would call each other across the sea friends and after the fund raising you all helped me with, Katie wanted to do something for me, I jokingly said to her send me a pebble from your coastline and I’ll use it as a paperweight, of course Katie immediately said she would and to be honest I never gave it a second thought.

Then I got the devastating news that Katie had slipped away from us and her husband Kevin's Mum told me she needed my address because Katie had indeed gone and chosen a pebble from their coastline and given her the task of having it engraved for me. Katie even while so poorly still thought of others.

It arrived on Friday with a beautiful thank you card that friends made for the family to give out and the most gorgeous ribbon bow, inside the card it read “The ribbon from your flowers” these were the flowers that I sent for Katie's funeral. I sat on the floor and wept. Not with sorrow but with gratitude that Katie was part of my life and that both Kevin (Katie’s Husband) and Elizabeth (Katie’s Mother in Law) are still part of my life and beautiful people.

So as you can see I have a fabulous paper weight and every time I pop a piece of craft paper under my pebble I will think of my dear friend Katie Emmerson Renz. miss you Katie xxx

Blast from the Past

I was browsing through my old Christmas card pictures I like to do this now and again and I came across these ones and I thought I would share them with you, the book of tricks had just came out and I made so many of them that I totally sickened myself and gave the board away.

 

Pre2008 Christmas VIEW SLIDE SHOW DOWNLOAD ALL

Tomorrow I have something special to share with you, I need to do the photography and as of today I have downed my paintbrush and it is now up to the big fella to finish it all off, mind you seeing as it was his works night out last night I wont hold my breath for anything being done on Sunday.

Flexmarker Video Tutorial

Flexmarkers are so easy to use, the ink stays wetter, longer, allowing you time to blend with ease.

This card is one I made a video tutorial with when Letraset were about to release them.

So lets see how they work and what you can achieve with them.

 

Letraset Flexmarker Tutorial

Theres a Moose Loose Aboot this Hoose

Are you all singing along?
These are my little beauties from Creativity Direct, I've only painted one of them up but to be honest I love them bare buff eeek!

Corinthians–Love is Patient, Love is kind

Still in the paint and brush phase, and aching like you know what. Most of the satin wood is finished except the skirting boards need an extra coat, oh yes and as Chris lifted the carpet, Jak got wood spelks in her butt while shuffling along to paint. oh Joy!

So Corinthians love is patient is very apt here at the moment.

 

and the kind bit came into play when Chris made dinner and then finished what I couldn’t do and let me nap on the sofa. (love that man)

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Tempting Tuesday on a Wednesday

Oh I’m so behind with all of the decorating going on, The electrician is on his way as I type and then I have a date with the paint paint brush and a pot of satin wood paint. urgh!

My craft room is growning as I pass by it but thankfully I can sit down at my computer when I need a break and still do something a bit crafty.

My first is of the girls with my Mam and Dad, photos took at Hawthorne Dene where they often used to go for walks.

My second page is just of the girls and is a freebie page layout from My Memories Suite and can be yours from here This is just one of the many free extras that you can get when using the software.

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Help!

Will we ever be ready for Santa Claus? we have started on the long drawn process of renovating our stair case, in our wisdom 25 years ago we decided to artex the walls of our stair case, what can I say we were young and penniless and one drop length of wall paper took a whole roll so the cost of a half decent wall papered stairs was just out of our penny limit.

It has been the bain of our lives for at least 10 years, too thick to plaster over the top of and no matter what we tried it just wouldn’t budge.

This year was make or brake and we hired an industrial steamer an my Chris my better half plodded on with steamer and a long handled bladed scraper and bit by bit chipped away at it suffering some horrendous blistered and coming close to death by electrocution going straight through an electric cable.

well all that aside we as in the royal we got the artex off the walls then Friday the lads came in and made good our walls. We are still far from being done, the sanding of gloss paint work has begun and tonight Chris pulled up the carpets while I cleaned behind him, he did comment whilst taking up the carpet that they must have been giving the nails for nowt when I layed it because of the amount I'd hammered in (cheeky devil.)

So here is a couple of shots of the state of play that we are in, the first is of Chris peeping around the landing whilst pulling out the left over nails.

As you can see we have smooth walls but there is 4 doors and frames to paint and a long landing barrier from where Chris is peeping right back to the bathroom, all the skirting boards including the ones that come down the staircase and then 2 doorways at the bottom of the stairs and only then can we start thinking of putting the paint on the walls, We have an electrician coming out on Wednesday to fit 2 new light and switches and a carpet fitter booked for the 16th eek!

Just Inklined to Hop–Blue Christmas

The Blog hop this Month for Just Inklined is  Blue Christmas and our host is Jeni  and that is where our Blog hop Starts.

You should have landed here with me from the all inspiring Jeni’s blog

so be sure to go to each blog and leave a comment as there will be a couple of spot prizes for comments left.

I tried to keep this clean and simple as I can have a tendency to run away with myself at times and forget to stop and when the image is as pretty as this one I think that less is more.

My image is Snowy Chapel

Coloured with Flexmarkers by Letraset and crushed glass glitter add for the snow.

Next up is Tammy and just wait until you see what she has come up with.

Remember to leave comments along the way.

Deck the Page

Lauren my eldest daughter started with her Christmas Tree and Jack just loves to add the baubles, Kyle my ready made Grandson and Jacks brother was with them for the weekend so it was a perfect time to get the Christmas Tree sorted.

I just love it when they are freshly bathed and in their jimjams smelling like new teacakes.

this one is of my Mam, I love making scrapbook pages of her as when she was in her younger years she was quite film starish don’t you think?

I use the My Memories Suite to make my digi Scrapbook layouts but you can also make cards and calendars and much much more on it too, it is my favourite craft tool of this year.

If you want to have the software (My Memories Suite Version 3 )yourself use my code and grab $10 off the price and you will also get a $10 coupon to use on extras.

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Robin on a Lamp

I got a beautiful Christmas card in the post from fellow team mate Heidy and she totally inspired me to make a card with the same digi image from Just Inklined, Lamp with Robin

Coloured with Copic Markers and although it doesn’t show in the photo the pinecone background paper I sprayed with the Crafters Companion iridescent glitter spray (gorgeous) I also used to creme gold and a stipple brush from My Craft Studio to add a shimmer to the base card, oh yes Grandson Jack helped me with this stippling.

Holly and berries and ribbon for embellishments along with a couple of punched out snowflakes.

No Card but some Free Backgrounds

Well what a day I had on Friday, we have finally got rid of the horrible artex off the staircase and the workmen came in to put new plaster on the walls, the downside to this was I couldn’t get past them to get into my craft room and they had the back door open all day so I sat at my computer with coat and scarf on and made some backgrounds for you all instead.

Before I give you the link to the backgrounds  wanted to share with you a picture of the walls as they are starting to dry, I have a terrible habit of seeing things in shapes and in fact have had to change patterned wallpaper on many occasions because of this.

So today I found Woody Woodpecker from the cartoons and Pinocchio, can you see them?

now onto the backgrounds

These are the previews 4 in total all 12x12 scrapbook papers but can be used for your card making too.

Please abide by my Terms of Use.
You are free to use my sheets for personal use but please do not share, alter, claim them as your own or sell them, instead link back to my blog for people to download them.
They are copyright protected.

you can download them from here

Stocking Fillers from Creativity Direct

Oh my friends over at Creativity Direct are doing doing a free delivery on all orders promotion today and tomorrow, I’m thinking I may need to go shopping, a lovely lady told me about their The Yellow Campaign lots of bargains in that section which I hadn’t known about.

I just love the fact that it is crafts for everyone and brilliant Christmas gift ideas, I’ve added a few of my affordable favourites below every one of my previews cost under £3.

Just click the images to go to the shop.

I first started to knit with a dolly bobbin like this one and the birdcage charm is a set of 6 and I lurve them.

!!Squeal!!! I love these reindeer in polyler all ready to decorate in your favourite colours (mine are on their way to me as I type

Alterables, book boxes and this gorgeous wooden envelope box

  

Pop over there now and grab some Christmas Stocking fillers but remember the free postage is only available today and tomorrow.

Cards from TV–Create and Craft

Just a couple of cards to show, the first is a sample I had ready to demo but didn’t have time to make up so I thought I’d share it here for you to see.

I made a Metronome most musicians use these to keep their timing right, I remember playing with one at my Auntie Alices home, her son Alan went on to be a music teacher.

The image is from one of the Just Inklined A4 digital sheets and can be purchased here

A close up of the image, coloured with Promarkers and FlexMarkers.

Three Trees

This is one of my favourite images from Just Inklined and Better still it can now be puchased on a A4 sheet 300gsm smooth card ready to colour alongside 3 other images from here

Ursula's Family Album

With permission from Ursula I wanted to share the Scrapbook Album that I made for her from the giveaway that I had.

Gorgeous Family that she has.

 

Digital Scrapbook Album

Remember it is easy and so much fun to make and you too could be creating your own.

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Just Inklined Digi Prints A4

I thought I should show the full card from yesterdays sneak peek, I have a few more to show you which didn’t get shown during the demo’s and as soon as I get them unpacked and made up I’ll pop them on here to show you. If you missed the shows then all of the images can be purchased here

A4 Digi Prints 4 images per sheet each sheet only costs  59 pence each.