World Cardmaking Day

I work Fri and Sun evenings so I've not had much time to get crafting for World Cardmaking Day this week, but I did manage to squeeze in four cards.

The first one is for the Passion for Promarkers challenge this week.

Up next is the card I made for the UKS Happy Daze card for World Cardmaking day. The challenge asked us to use brown, turquoise and circles. The stamp is Ferdie Fox by Sugar Nellie and I've coloured it in with my Prisma Pencils.

Next is a card that I made for my friend's daugther's 2nd Birthday. Again, I've used promarkers to colour it. The stamp is an adorable Gorjuss Girl stamp from Sugar Nellie stamps. I love the Gorjuss Girls and I hear that they will be releasing more stamps in October. I hope so as these girls are so cute.

Our close friends, Amber and Chris, celebrated their second anniversay earlier this week and this is the card that I made for them. The patterned paper is from Basic Grey and flowers are by Prima. The wedding cake does suggest a wedding rather than an anniversay but it was all I had that would work at the time! I hope they like it anyway. It's always difficult sending homemade cards as you never know whether they like it as much as you do.

Well I've not posted for over a year so lets see how I do this time. Mind you, sometimes it does seem rather pointless posting when no one is actually following. So I guess, I need to get creating some cards and layouts again. I feel like I haven't scrapped in a dangerously long time.

I've found a really useful site on how to use promarkers so that's got me excited about my stamps again. Especially, now that I've got some gorgeous Anya and Miss Anya stamps, which work so well with promarkers.

So, watch this space as they say!

One thing I love about getting back into card making is following everyone's blogs. In fact, I probably spend more time blog reading than I do creating! Another new thing to me is blog candie. And if you pop over to the talented Bunny-Zoe's website you'll see that she is giving away some yummy candy to celebrate reaching 20,000 hits!
http://bunny-zoes.blogspot.com/2008/09/blog-candy-20000-hits.html

The competition is open until Wednesday 17th Sept, so make sure you pay her blog a visit.

We've just come back from spending a rather lovely, and surprisingly sunny, day at Shuttleworth Old Warden Park where they were holding a steam rally. Mind you , the enjoyment was rather dampened by the fact that it cost £24 to get in which left us battling to find lunch for four people for £6! There were lots of glorious steam tractors, engines, vintage cars and motorbikes which kept the boys amused. There was also an old fashioned fair which would have been lovely if we had the money to enjoy it.

My second day of working in the corner shop starts in just under two hours and already I'm mourning the loss of creating time and also wondering how well my poor legs are going to cope with standing up for 6 hours! This going back to work has been a bit of a shock to the system!

Just a few more cards that I've been working on recently. The blue Sugar Nellie card is the first one that I made and although it's ok I think I may need to go back to it as it seems to be lacking any finishing touches. I'm really pleased with how the cupcake card turned out. I got the inspiration from a card that Sir Stampalot had displayed at the recent Stamperama show in Stevenage. The stamps are by Hero Art, the textured cardstock is from Love Elsie. I've raised the cupcakes so that they stand out a bit more and I've coloured them in with my prisma pencils.

The next new addiction!

Firstly a huge arrgghhh that it's September already! How did that happen? Where did summer go? Did it even start? On the plus side it does mean that Robert went back to school today and we'll hopefully get back into a routine. I may even sneak in a bit of me time in the morning whilst Finlay is asleep to spend some time with my new addiction. I've decided that I must have an addictive personality as soon as something grabs my attention, that's it, I must have it until the next addiction takes hold.



My current addiction is card making and stamping. I've never been one for artsy stamping - although I've admired it I don't think I have the patience or skill, but I love all the Magnolia and Funky Kits stamps - I just can't get enough of them. At the moment I'm colouring with Prisma pencils but I've just found a local stockist for artist pens (proplanners?) so I'm going to give them a whirl when I get a minute. Hopefully, they'll be easy to travel with.



Here is my first attempt at a card challenge. It's a http://fridaysketchersblog.blogspot.com/ challenge and I just love the ideas that they come up with. Here's my effort. The stamp is from Funky Kits.

Resolutions

I know it's a bit late to be making resolutions but I've decided to give them a shot this year, although calling them goals seems much less daunting! And to make sure that I do stick to them I'm going to dedicate a layout to them which will be my first layout in my 2008 album (one layout per month).

As one of my goals this year is to scrap more I'm going to try and set myself challenges every couple of weeks to spark off that creativity, so if you'd like to join me please do. I'd love to see what you come up with. My first challenge then (if you've not already done it) is to scrap a layout for your 2008 goals/resolutions. I'll hopefully be posting my completed layout at the end of next week.

In the meantime, here is a layout that I completed earlier this week that I'm really pleased with. I'm not so good at layering and tend to stick to the simple style so I was really pleased that I kept pushing this one and didn't think it was complete after just one night (another one of my goals is to try and stop procrastinating and actually complete my layouts in less time!).

The photo in the layout below was taken last year when we went up to Cumbria for my husband's Gran's funeral and decided to visit one of her favourite spots, Talkin Tarn. It's a beautiful place, so peaceful and a great place to sit back and just reflect and remember her.

My youngest has just had his second tooth come through now. He seems to be growing so fast. Already he's nine months and I've only managed to complete one layout for his album. I'm off to a crop on Sunday so along with my goals layout, I intend to make sure that I finish at least one page for his album. It's true when they say that you take loads of photos of your eldest and not so many of the following children. I still have lots of baby photos of Robert to scrap as well as the growing pile for Finlay! At this rate I'll still be scrapping Finlay's birth photos after he's turned one (which is fast approaching!).

Shame on me! Apologies for not blogging for quite some time but somehow or other I forgot how to get back in! The countdown to Christmas is almost drawing to an end. I can't quite believe that there are only six days to go. It seems that I start preparing for Christmas in September when the first ads come out and then before I know it I've run out of time and I'm frantically writing my Christmas cards - most of which will have missed the last posting date.

I've finally sucumbed to a die-cutting machine and I'm eagerly awaiting my goodies from Ellison - superb sale. Hopefully, they'll arrive in time for the big day so that I can test them with my cuttlebug that Santa's giving me. I already have tons of ideas to put into practice.

Thanks to mojoholder I've finally got my mojo back and have completed a layout from one of their fab sketches. Tomorrow's challenge is to print some photos out for the growing pile of half-completed layouts that I have here. Plus there are the Christmas gifts that I decided to make this year - seemed like a good idea at the time but now I'm not so sure!

And it's that time of year again - Cadbury's creme eggs are back on the shelves. I can't wait to pick my first one up. That and the relaunch of Wispas means that I'm back in chocolate heaven, which is no good for the diet that I've yet to start!