Unfrogettable

I saw this idea on Dawns Stamping Thoughts and had to translate it to this froggie.

Easter Brunch

I had 12 people here for brunch today. We started at 11:30 and went through till about 4:15. Great food. Three types of oven omlettes, hash browns, bacon, bagels and cream cheese, salad, veggie platter, fruit platter, hot cross buns, tea coffee and juice. There was also some chocolate and jelly bean treats. Others brought along grapes, chicken, quesadia casserole, juice, and chocolates.





I made each guest a card to celebrate the holiday.


Great friends, great food, and great conversation.

Challenge 10

Emilie's Challenge: use brads or bling to create a shape. It can be a circle, heart, star, wave ...anything!

Hard to see, but really there is a circle of studs and jewels in the top left corner along with pink buttons.

LayOut A Day LOAD

I am participating in the LOAD (layout a day) challenge on bigpicturescrappbooking.com and have so far managed to keep up. However it isn't always a layout, some times I have made cards, when time is limited or my inspiration is lost.

Below are the pages I have created so far.

Some of the cards I have made this month

I am participating in a challenge on Big Picture Scrapbooking to do one layout a day (LOAD). The days I have no inspiration or time I revert to making cards.

Here are a few that I made so far this month.

This first one was made for my Aunt in England.

The one below was made for my cousin Marilyn, she turned 54 this month.

The 2 above and one below were made at my Stampin' Up! stampers club.

These two flower cards I made just trying out new stamps. The pink card has some dry embossing on, that I haven't done in a long time, it really adds to this card. I love the Baroque rolling stamp I got, very curly!

This last one is a picture of the Valentines that I have made for the kids in my class. They are chocolate mints and I made a front and back with cardstock, scalloped and cirlce punches and 2 rubber stamps.

Now I must go and make a card for my dad. His birthday is on February 3, he'll be 81.

Patterned Paper

Challenge 1: Make Your Own Patterned Paper From Cardstock




It took a long time to measure up the strips before cutting! My only regret on completion is that I wish I had used less white in my design.

THANK YOU

I made a dozen thank you cards for a collegue who retired this year. The didn't scan well as they were a bit bulky.

My Card Creations

Recently I made some cards for a friend who was retiring and I was told that I should sell my work. I have always felt that if I started selling the I may loose the enjoyment if I have to have deadlines.

So I thought I would post my work and see if I get any feedback.

Also while in England recently I visited a medium who told me my mum says I should go into business with my creativeness!!

Sophie passed her driving test!!

So I made this card for her, and will take it to England next week.

Circle Card challenge

"Crop Circles" - CHALLENGE!
It's that time again! Yay! Dust off your circle cutter, or grab a tumbler to trace, pull out your circle embellies, ink up that circle stamp...make some cards using *circles* as the focus of your card front!

Camping at Brightlingsea

Way back in 1966 I was around 10ish and my dad decided to take our family on our first camping trip. A friend of his loaned us a tent which looked more like a marquee, and after setting it up in the back yard to make sure he knew what went where, we discovered that 6 of us fit into it with lots of room.

We set off for Brightlingsea, a seaside resort about half an hour from our home. The tent was pitched and we started our holiday. There was freedom back then for children to explore without the fear of abuction. My siblings and I did a lot of exploring. That night after Mum made us dinner on a propane powered stove top, we settled down for a good night's sleep. What a night! No one could get comfortable. Sleeping on the ground with no mattress was new to all us kids. There were countless complaints!

Next morning Dad drove home and sort out all kinds of cushions from our house. Couch cushions, pillows, even the actual foam seating from our couch! So that night we all slept a lot better!

Here is a layout that I just completed today. Here you can see the opening of the tent with my older brother and my 2 younger sisters. I think the youngest would have been about 3 or 4.

David went for a boat ride, and I love the picture of me and my sisters waving him off!

Some new work

This is a layout of my son playing in a park in my hometown in England. This was an easy and fun layout to do.

I created a Slide Show! Check it out!

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