Friday 9 December 2011

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.

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

 

Letraset Flexmarker Tutorial

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Thursday 8 December 2011

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.

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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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My latest scrapbook layouts using the My Memories Suite use my code if you want to buy it and at least you’ll save some pennies.  You could even make the layouts into a printed book as a gift.

My code is STMMMS48868 Enter the code on the shopping cart page At My Memories Suite

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Wednesday 7 December 2011

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.

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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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Don’t forget by using my code you can get $10 off the My Memories Suite software and also an extra $10 coupon off any purchases made. That's a big $20 saving.

My code is STMMMS48868 Enter the code on the shopping cart page At My Memories Suite

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Tuesday 6 December 2011

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.

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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!

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Monday 5 December 2011

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.

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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

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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.

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Sunday 4 December 2011

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.

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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?

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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.

My code is STMMMS48868 Enter the code on the shopping cart page At My Memories Suite

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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.

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

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