Daffodils

hi there, 
Another week has flown by without me checking in here. Today I have a card to show you that I made using an idea from a clever person on the net. I have just searched everywhere to find the creator but cant find it so if its you or you know who it is please let me know. I love the way she made the daffodils with the small flower in the set Growing Green. I used a different stamp for the foliage but still out of the set Just Believe. I have made a couple more cards using the daffodils and have decided to use these as my swap for Convention. I wont show you the actual card until after Convention.
After stamping, colouring and cutting out 300 daffodils I then decided I was crazy as I needed to shape 300 punched centres for them. Luckily a couple of my wonderful stamp club girls stayed after club had finished and helped me as my hand and arm didn't like putting that much pressure on them.

I hope your weekend went well and that whatever you have planned for Easter goes well for you. 
Graham and I are going camping again up at Horrock's beach. We have a different tent this year and have room for my friend Julia to come up and stay with us for a couple of days. I plan to cut and stamp all my swaps and hopefully put them together while I am up there. Apart from that I have a couple of good books and my laptop to watch some DVD's on.

thanks for stopping by and take care.

Scallop Circle Die

Hi, I hope you have had a nice weekend what ever you have been doing.

I had stamp club yesterday which was fun. I always enjoy having the ladies here stamping for an afternoon.

The card I am showing you today is one that I made for my group of ladies at LBC. I wanted to use the Bigshot for the projects for the day. This card is inspired by the lovely card that Tanya Kitto sent me for a RAK. I will add a photo of that as well for you to see. The stamp set used is Bliss and the scallop circle die and Beautiful Wings embosslit Die,

this is the card and gift made by Tanya that inspired my card.

have a great week and I hope to be back soon with the card we made at stamp club.

Autumn Winter Mini is out.....

Hi there, 

April is here and that means it is a new Stampin' Up! year. Also the Autumn Winter Mini is out. I have put a link in the left side bar for you to access that online. Also there is a Carry Over Flyer which shows you what items are going to be available until they go into the main catalogue in September.

Awhile ago I had a play with the level 3 hostess set Playful Pieces. It is the only time I have used this set and the card was cased from SCS by Anne Marie Hile. I changed both the ribbon and the greeting but otherwise its a straight CASE. I must give the other pieces a go and see what else can be made with them.

Have a good week and thanks for stopping by.

Just Believe

Hi there,

March is nearly over and I realised I haven't posted for a couple of weeks. I haven't been doing much creating lately. I do feel much better as my Rheumatologist gave me an injection of steroids to see if it would help the pain and it sure has. This means that I definitely have rheumatoid arthritis along with the fibromyalgia. At least the pain has improved. 

Today I have a card to show you that I made while visiting my friend Jennie one time. It is so lovely. It is a CASED card from Gretchen Barron. I really love this set Just Believe and have used it quite allot.

Anyway I hope to have more to show you in the coming week as I have made a couple of cards today for my class tomorrow and just need to take photos of them. 

have a nice day.

Stylish Blogger Award

Hi there, 
I have just been awarded the Stylish Blogger Award from Kari Webster at  KW Card Design. Thank you Kari.

There are some rules when a blog receives the award:

1. Thank and link back to the person who gave you the award.
2. Share 8 things about yourself.
3. Give the award to 8 bloggers that you have recently discovered.
4. Contact those bloggers and tell them about their award

Thank you again Kari.  Be sure you stop by Kari's blog and check out all her papercraft


8 THINGS ABOUT ME:
1. I just turned 50.
2. I have a big fluffy cat named Meeka and a gorgeous dog named Skye.... but then you knew that if you have been following my blog.....
3.I was raised on a farm in the south west.
4. I was a nurse. 
5. I have been teaching craft for 20 years.
6. I have 3 sisters and 1 brother.
7. I love growing roses. 
8. I am a member of the Lesmurdie Baptist Church.


Now I have to find 8 new blogs to tell you about. 
1. Prairie Paper & Ink.
2. Simone Bartrum 
3. A Stamp Above
4. Stampin' Pretty
5. Paper Pleasing Ideas
6. Dawns Stamping Thoughts
7. Kylie Bertucci
8. Jan's Stamping Creations


Ok that took awhile. These are blogs I just found today so all new. Go over and have a look. 
have a good day.

Punched Cross

Hi there,

I haven't been online much in the past couple of weeks as I have had a flair up of my Arthritis. Mainly due to going off one of my medications as it was affecting my liver. 

Anyway I had taken some photos of how I made the Punched Cross for a friend of mine and thought I would share them with you. I saw this cross somewhere on the net and thought I wonder how it was made. I of course went and fiddled around with bits of card stock and found that this was the way I could do it. This was not my original idea but this is just how I made my card.

I'm making 26 of these for a friend so will be really good at them by the time I finish.

Have a good week and I will try to post again when I can.

Box of Cards

Hi again. March is here already. Wow the year feels like it only just started but here we are, its Autumn already. Today I wanted to show you a box of cards I made last year and have finally got around to photographing them. This box is one of Creations by AR. Its called the one drawer organiser.I sent this box to my friend Julie, who also turned 50 last week. I have another box made but not the cards so need to make the cards to match. This set is made using old colours and the Afternoon Tea DSP.

Hopefully Julie likes her cards.

bye for now