ALLSORTS ~ New beginnings

Happy New year's eve to you all. 

I hope that 2012 treats you all well.

I hope you all had a great Christmas.

Ours was lovely, Mackenzie got loads, I got some pennies, perfume and a kindle. 

Darren got a few books he had wanted, oh and a remote control helicopter lol,  

But best of all was having time together.

xXx

It's already time for another fab challenge over at ALLSORTS

and this week our lovely Emma want to see

 

NEW BEGINNINGS

I have used:

LOTV ~ All our dreams and  sentiment

Prima ~ Botanicals

Nestabilities ~ Labels 18

Marianne ~ Chinese rose, leaves and craftable circle

DooHickey ~ Rose leaf

Martha Stewart ~ Sm monarch butterfly

Wild orchid ~ Small flowers

SU ~ Scallop circle punch

Tim Holtz ~ DIs

Pearls, Kraft and Scrim from stash

Thanks for looking

BIG HUGZ

My top 5

Happy Christmas eve everyone,

Can't believe there's only one more sleep until the big day.

Mac has got her new PJs layed out ready ~ she always has a new pair especially for Christmas eve.

Her sack is already layed at the bottom of her bed too!!!!

and Darren's already got bin bags at the ready for all the wrapping LOL!

I thought I'd join in with Debby and show my fave top 5 Xmas cards.

This wasn't too difficult as I hadn't made loads this year what with one thing and another!

Next year I will be a lot more organised!!!!

Thank you so much for all your lovely comments, kind words and friendship through the year!

I hope you all have a wonderful Christmas

BIGGEST

OF 

CHRISTMASSY

HUGZ

Hubby's Xmas card

Good Morning,

Hope you all had a great weekend.

I have a quick share this morning,

I bought this cute image about 3 years ago with Darren in mind

and I've only just got round to actually using it.

I have used:

Mo Manning ~ Siku and Shiya

Kraft 

SU ~ Brads, Twine and Corner punches

Sizzix ~ Snowflakes

Scrim and rusty bells from stash

xXx

Thanks for looking

Big Hugz 

ALLSORTS - Blue and Brown

Good morning,

This is a scheduled post and as of yet we have no snow!!!

Hopefully we get some.....

Mackenzie has been rushing to the window every morning!

Thankfully School has finished, 

and the alarm clock has been turned off!!

It's my turn to pick this fortnights challenge at ALLSORTS and I'd like to see 

BLUE and BROWN

I have used:

LOTV ~ Hello Cupcake

DooHickey ~ Swirl

Marianne ~ Open leaves

Martha Stewart ~ Sm Monarch Butterfly

Nestabilities ~ Labels 16

Wild Orchid ~ Flowers

Tim Holtz ~ DIs

Cotton Scrim and Pearl

Thanks for looking

BIG 

HUGZ

Time to have fun

Good morning,

We have real miserable, wet and windy weather here today

My car is officially a write off, which means the courtesy car has to go back today, 

as they will only lend us a car if our car was to be repaired.

At least there's only one more day of school and I have done my Christmas shopping!

We're lucky enough to have Darrens work truck to get about in over Christmas too.

And at the end of the day there's a lot of people far worse off ~ so mustn't grumble.

xXx

I have a card to share this morning,

It's an order for a 40th birthday and he loves skiing, 

Because it's on Jan 1st I could get away with making a wintery card ~ just hope it doesn't look too Christmassy, with the snow!

I have used:

LOTV ~ Ski jump and sentiment

Magnolia papers

Kraft

Tim Holtz ~ DIs and Weathered clock

Nestabilities ~ Scallop and Classic circles

Sizzix ~ Number die

SU ~ Corner punch

Snowtex, cotton scrim, buttons and staples from stash

xXx

Hope he likes it!

Thanks for looking

BIG HUGZ

A card and a Thank you.

Good Morning.

Firstly I'd like to say a 

MASSIVE 

Thank you for all your kind

and thoughtful comments on my last post.

They meant so much to me.

I really appreciated each and everyone.

Thankfully I feel a lot better just the odd twinge, 

but that could just be my age lol!!!

xXx

I do have a card to share

 and there's a litte tag too

 I have used 

LOTV ~ Cake glorious cake and sentiment

Go Kreate ~ Lrge frilly #4

DooHickey ~ Tag, butterfly and swirl

Marianne ~ English rose, doily and leaves

Wild Orchid ~ flowers

Cotton scrim

Tim Holtz ~ DIs

xXx

Thanks for looking

BIG HUGZ

No card from me this week,

Good morning everyone,

Hope you are well.

I haven't made any cards this week, 

But it's challenge time at

ALLSORTS

and 

BASIC GREY

So pop over and join the fun.

I, on the other hand, got up to a bit of distressing of a completely different nature!!!!

I had a momentary laps in concentration and like everyone keeps telling me, we all have them, I was just really unlucky and got caught out ~ BIG TIME!!! 

I just didn't see the car stop in front of me.

Felt stiff & very sore for a couple of days,

but thankfully on the mend, just sore chest when I reach for things.

Thankfully everyone was ok & a huge lesson has been learnt.

xXx

On a nicer note I will defo be back next week with a card.

BIG HUGZ

and take care everyone!

ALLSORTS - GOING ROUND IN CIRCLES

Hello, just a quick post this morning

Had my Mum over for a few days and Mac's got a party this afternoon,

Going to put the decs up too so got to get on!

Anyway this week at ALLSORTS

our lovely Debs wants to see

 

CIRCLES

I really enjoyed this challenge and have made a small hanger that I've seen on a few blogs recently.

I made this for Mac and they are really quite simple and really effective. 

So I may make a few more for a few friends instead of Crimbo cards.

 

 

 

I have used:

Magnolia ~ Tilda with hanging heart

Nestabilities ~ Classic circles and scallops

Tim Holtz ~ DIs, Antique linen coredinations, holly die

SU ~ Kraft seam binding

Sentiment ~ borrowed from a friend 

Holly berries from ebay covered with pinfalir diamond ice

Small brads

xXx

Hope you'll join us this week and thanks for looking

BIG HUGZ 

 

LOTV - Anything but Christmas

Happy December, hope everyone is well.

Mackenzie was at home yesterday due to the strike,

So we had lunch out with the neighbours, and then she had afternoon tea around her friend's, 

whilst me and his Mum caught up on the gossip LOL

so it was a lovely relaxing day together and I didn't want her to go back today!

She also had an absolute fantastic parents evening, so well done Kenz,

Anyway it's time for another great challenge over at LOTV

This week we're giving you some time off from all those Crimbo cards,

we'd like to see...

ANYTHING ... BUT  A CHRISTMAS CARD!

I have used one of the gorgeous new releases

"Positively Pampered"

I have also used:

DooHickey ~ Curly butterfly

Marianne ~ English rose, leaves and craftable circle

DieNamics ~ Daisy

Nestabilities ~ Deckled ovals,  labels 16 and 18

Tim Holtz ~ DIs

Wild Orchid ~ Corner

Stickles and Pearls 

Web ribbon from ebay

xXx

Thanks for looking,

Hope you can join us

BIG HUGZ