Finally finished! - the Halloween Mini Book

Here's the Halloween mini book i have been working on.  I'm really please as I managed to get it finished in a few nights I can now move onto the next thing!  

 It was made using the supplies mentioned in this post and 6" by 6" black chipboard pages and has 1" book rings holding it together and these have been decorated with ribbon.  I love it!

WOYWW 20th April 2011

Welcome to another WOYWW I can't believe how quick that week went! Thank you for all the lovely comments last week.  As you can see I cleaned out my desk and found lots of half finished and not started projects which i have decided to use the Easter holidays to complete them.

So today I'm working on a Halloween mini book from Halloween 200* - it's that long ago I can't remember which year it was!  We hosted a little party for the kids and some of their friends and I got to try out some Nigella recipes that I had been wanting to try for ages.  For the minibook I'm using papers from KI memories, run on's from Pink Paislee and some Echo Park hybrid elements printed out from JessicaSprage.com.  I love her One Buck Wednesdays and usually buy a couple of things each week (I'll probably buy this Photoshop Friday today).

Rach

Easter Holidays have begun

The kids broke up on Friday for Easter so today is the first day of the holidays for them.  No fixed plans for us yet but I'm hoping to do some crafty things with them.  I'm still working during the holidays so the days will be a bit limited but I'm sure we'll find lots to do.  At the moment I'm having a visit from Batman and found pix of Fireman Sam toys on the camera so that means the boys are having fun.  Yesterday we made rice crispie nests with eggs in them so we have plenty of snacks for today.  Here's some pix of the cakes:

 and to finnish a fireman same one...

WOYWW 13 April 2011

Hi guys!  A rather cold WOYWW today.  I'm sitting here in a tshirt, jumper and coat and I just can't get warm!  Only a small part of my desk today as it is a total mess with to much on it (a good sort out will be done later) and all you can see a pile of beaded safety pins ready to be made into a bracelet like this, just need to get some elastic to bind them all together.  

Here are the two pages I was working on last week.  Still need to give them titles but i'm useless at deciding what to put.  I need to find a course that will help me come up with titles for the pages.  At the moment I'm thinking of "Sort-of Cousins" for the first one and "Stonehouse" for the second (and green one) as that was the name of the pub garden the photo was taken in.

More Card Commissions

Over the last few weeks I have received quite a few commissions for cards and these two have to be my favorite.  The first one is a wedding card which I made from Sj's Little Musings range.  The set I set was "I do" "I do too" from digi stamp shop a bargain at £1.50.  I love this card, so simple and elegant, can't wait to use the rest of the stamps in the range.

The other commission was for a Christening Card and feeling so inspired from my wedding card I slightly copied the same technique on this card by printing the message directly onto the card.

I loved these cards so much I made more than one so they will be available to buy from FCC soon.

WOYWW 6 April 2011

Hi everyone! Thanks for all the lovely comments on last weeks WOYWW. Here's a link to the lovely cards I made for Mother's Day. Finally managed to do some scrapbooking tonight so here's my work bed rather than work desk.



You can see I've been working on a couple of pages, they're kits from Scrapbus a local crop that's held in Newport. I haven't been able to attend for ages but found time on Saturday to pop in and pick up some kits. They do lovely kits that are easy to put together - I managed to complete 2 layouts tonight - just got the titles to do. What have you been too this week.

Mother's Day Card Ideas

I have been lucky enough to be selling my handmade cards at the Forest Children's Centre in Duffryn, Newport. This year is the first year i've had requests for Mother's Day Cards so off I went last week to create some. Here are the ones I made from the tags i showed you in Wednesday's WOYWW post.

Last Thursday night Hobbycraft had a friends and family night where you could get 20% off all purchases so I promptly went and bought the crown jewels glimmer mist set and a couple of embossing folders for my Vagabond. Feeling inspired I made these 2 cards using the embossing folders, some prima flowers and a message all covered in pearl glimmer mist.

Love them so much I can't wait to play some more and make some birthday cards.