More Kids Cards

While the kids were making Fathers Day cards for their Dad they also made them for their Grandfathers too. Above They used a Karen's Doodles image for Hubby's Dad. We have 2 cats ourselves who seem to love our sofa more that their scratch post. Also he loves and has cats. Below they used a Whiff of Joy image for my Dad. My father used to be a mailman so you can see where the theme for these came in. I just love how my son made his own mailbox from a piece of my scrap DP.

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Nic

Happy Father's Day

I'm just sneaking on here while hubby is watching football (soccer) to show you the card I made for fathers day and also the cards the kids made for him. My image is from squigglefly and the mouse is WOJ and the cat is Karens Doodles.

I also thought you might like to see what the kids made for their dad this year. I took them to a place called Marmalade Skies and let them decorate their own piece of art for him. They turned out pretty good and made totally with love.

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Nic

School Pages

Well here we are at the end of another school year with a long 10 week summer vacation stretching out in front of us. What better time to finish up the kids school year scrap pages. This year sees my youngest on her way to 3rd grade and my eldest graduate from Elementary school and head off to Middle school this fall. Doesn't seem that long ago I was fretting over him starting Kindergarten. Time sure does fly...

Simple Kraft Christmas

I thought it was about time I tried to complete one of my friend Tracy's Christmas Card Challenges. This month the challenge was a color one and I just could not resist the awesome colors she picked out. It also gave me the chance to break out one of my new Whiff of Joy stamps.

The colors were:

*Red(your choice of any shade)

*Kraft(or as close to if you do not own Kraft)

*Cream/Vanilla

*Chocolate

Here are all 5 cards together.

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Nic

Friendship Pages

A little while ago Megan got to go to Kiddie Acres with her best friend Tatiana. They had loads of fun and Sandra, Tati's mom took some real nice pictures of the girls on the rides and stuff so I decided to make them into pages for their friendship books. Here they are:

I made two of each page so they could both have the same pictures in their books.

Gifts for Baby

Sorry I have been a little AWOL. It was my birthday this week and I have been a little naughty and haven't been crafting very much lately. My want to, up and went. However I made this about a week ago and didn't get around to showing you. So I thought I would pop on and let you have a look see.

A friend that my hubby works with had a little baby boy recently so I went through my classes I did with Heather a while ago and found this adorable card which I decided to case and I also made a little box and duplicated the same punch image to make them match. All I really changed on the card was the colors and the DP as I didn't have the same ones. I think it turned out really cute.

Colors are Soft Sky, Close to Cocoa, and River Rock. Thanks for looking.

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Nic

Happy Mother's Day

Wishing us all a wonderful day. I got some lovely hand made goodies from my kids this morning. Along with some lovely flowers. I love flowers, and tickets to the Wizard of OZ when it comes next month. I am so spoilt.Here's my Mother's Day card for this year for all you Mom's out there.

And here is my reason for doing it every day.

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Nic

Birthday Bag

Today is my wonderful Friend Sandra's Birthday. She is very proud to be turning 40. We met because our daughters became friends at school. It turns out our husbands work together also and they didn't realise that their daughters were talking about each other all the time. Sandra invited us over for a playdate one day last fall and we have been friends ever since. I wanted to make something special for her so I made her one of my denim bags. I chose red fabric as she is very fond of the color and has a lot of red accents in her home.

Happy Birthday Sandra!!!!!!!

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Nic

Teacher Appreciation

This week is Teacher Appreciation Week at the kids school. I normally make the teacher a little something for them to take in and give to their teachers. I cheated a little bit this year with the gift as everything is shop bought. The pretty flower pots are from Michael's and I filled them with glass beads then I put pencils, cute post-it notes shaped like apples and a colorful little wind chime in them. The finishing touch was to tie ribbon around them.

The card I decided was something I just had to make and I chose to case my good friend Joani's flower pot card. Do you see a theme going on here. LOL. I found the instructions on how to make the pot on Splitcoast Stampers. The DP is from Stampin Up. The flowers are supposed to be sunflowers because they make me think of summer. They also remind me of the 7 foot ones we grew in our garden back in England.

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Nic

Make And Take

In celebration of Scrapbooking Day I headed to Archivers for some retail therapy and of course to play with some of their toys. I got to make not one, not two but three make and takes this time around. I was one happy scrapper.

I got to play with metal and alcohol inks to make a cute thank you card and got some scrapbook inspiration from 2 awesome scrapbook pages. They make it look so easy. Kinda makes me wonder why I keep putting off my scrapbooking. when I got home I found the perfect pictures to put in my pages. What do you think? I think I am gonna mount them on 12 x 12 sheets and make a vow to continue to make more.

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Nic

Princess Arianna

My friends little girl turned 5 this week and she is a big princess fan. I decided to make her a crown card using my WOJ princess Charlotte. Lots of flowers and diamonds too. perfect for a little princess. I think the DP is from the Spring Stack. Happy Birthday Arianna.

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Nic

Jake's Thankyou Cards

I have finally gotten around to making these. I think next year I will encourage him to make his own. I used a picture of him actually taken on his birthday at the Rodeo Fairground. He had just won the giant shark in the picture. I used his favorite colors and they went really well with the colors in the picture itself.

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Nic

Purple Birthday

I have been using my Top Note scraps again. This time for a birthday card idea. I hope you like it. Stamp sets used were Doodle That and Messages for Mom from Stampin Up.

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Nic

Easter Leftovers

I made a couple of cards with the leftovers from my kitkat holders. I didn't want to just put them away in a draw and forget about them. I found a nice DP in the Spring Stack from DCWV. Everything else was used in making the kitkat holders. I know I'm too late to send these to anyone this year as Easter is over but they are here and ready in advance for next year.

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I also wanted to show you this awesome Easter card that I got from my dear Friend Joani. This woman is a constant source of inspiration to me and I am gonna have to try and make one of these real soon.

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Nic

Simple Bookmarks

I started this project with a request from my kids for bookmarks. I decided while I was making them to make a few more for some of our friends kids. I got this cute little bookworm from High Hopes a while ago and have been wanting to ink him up so I made Easter gifts with him for the Baer's and the Wilson's. On the back I heat embossed each child's name. The letters are from Inkadinkadoo.

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Nic

Easter Kit Kats

Hello everyone and a very Happy Easter to you all. I'm just popping in quickly to show you something I made for a few close friends and of course my kids for Easter.

My favorite chocolate is Kit Kats so I got the idea to try and make a little holder for them. I sketched out my own idea and then had a go at making it. I used my favorite little monkey Changito and his pals for my image and my Martha Stewart Fence punch for inside. Finished off with a pretty Easter colored flower.

I think it turned out pretty well for my first attempt. Normally I would follow other peoples' sketches but I couldn't find anything that worked for me. I apologise for there being no Easter cards this year. I ran out of time but I will be more organised hopefully next time.

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Nic

Quilted Coasters

Firstly I need to apologise for my long absence. Things have most definitely been getting in the way and it isn't over yet. We are currently in the process of having the inside of our house painted. They are doing pretty much everywhere so everything is a little upside down and I have a lot of unwelcome stuff in my craftroom getting in the way of my creativity. Once these guys are finished we are getting a deck put in the garden. At least that is outside so I can get on with putting the inside back together.

In the meantime I thought I would show you something I made last week. I actually made use of my sewing machine (first time this year) to try out making my very own quilted coasters. I got the instructions and template from a sewing calendar I got for Christmas. I enjoyed making them so much I think I might make them for everyone on my Christmas list. The instructions show you how to make a full set of 4 coasters. I used Christmas material, a pretty pattern, a green and a red. I am really happy with how they turned out.

Get Well Mama Baer

I can't believe I almost forgot to show you this. I made this for my dear friend a couple of weeks ago when she wasn't well. Both her daughters were sick too at the time so the kids and I made cards for everybody. No, I didn't spell Baer wrong that's her name silly.

I printed off a couple of Dustin Pike images and gave them to the kids to color in. It is the 3rd image from the owl collection he did for Delia. Another new find for me lately is Karens Doodles. I have put the link under 'inspiration' over on my side bar as I cannot get links to come up in my posts anymore for come reason. She is an awesome artist and her pictures are so very cute, You just must go check her out. You won't be disapointed, promise.

I am kicking myself at the moment cause I had the brilliant idea of giving up my papercraft purchases for lent. Man did that idea come back and bite me in the ass. There have been so many new releases recently that I am going stir-crazy and my wish list for once lent is over is phenominal. Anyway to cut a long story short. Karen also has a group on papercraft planet and was giving away the image I used on my card as a freebie for being one of her followers. I thought the image was perfect for this card - a get well bear for Mama Baer. She has also just started a challenge blog which is really exciting.

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Nic

Chocolate Wedding

Saturday we went to our friends, Evan and Cheryl's wedding. It was a beautiful ceremony in a beautiful location and the bride and groom looked awesome. I found out from Cheryl that her colors were chocolate and ivory and I thought it would be nice to make the card to match.

I made it a short while ago but have been unable to show you until now. I picked an easel card for the occasion as it looks so elegant and I am really happy with the result. I used the bride and groom in the carriage image from WOJ and my new corner and edge punches from SU.


We wish them many years of happiness ahead.

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Nic