Wedding Cards

Wedding cards always stump me, I never know what to do....

Some LO's from yesterday

All the better to see you with

I saw this photo and thought of that saying straight away! As usual I was short on letters and ended up having to make every letter in BETTER! I triple embossed a bit of cardboard and stamped SEE into it, when it was cooled I restamped see with embossing ink and brushed on some lovely green eyeshadow! It's handy to be able to use all the gank eyeshadow you wouldn't normally wear :)

Pregnancy journal

I HATE my bind it all and it hates me (really should read some instructions on how to use it!) but this a pregnancy journal for a friend, quite like how it came out :)

Pre Father's Day Card

I didn't know he expected one!! He only told me on the fly in passing so of course I had to make one, not the best but I like the sentiment of the card!

12th June Class makes

Karen's gorgeous LO of her brothers creations at the recent bloom competition.

Karen and Jenny's make and take of a lil post it note holder

Jenny's antique LO of her Granna, such a great photo!

Louise's colourful LO of her little boy and a very feminine make and take

Grainne was busy! A fabulous antique lo of her mother and grandad and one of herself as a child aww

Phil was in her scrapaholic form and worked through her mountains of family photos to create these gorgeous LO (not hard when your subject is a fine thing!)

Emma was a scrapping machine and scrapped like it was going out of fashion with a grand total of 4 LO's done!!

Anne's beautiful post it pad and an altered matchbox for a swap she is in :)

Not all stories have happy endings

But this one does...

I needed a story to illustrate journalling for Saturday's class what better topic!!! It's a 2 pager, 1st page is a photo of a miscarriage book with a reminder letter for my first scan, journalling behind tag and the 2nd is the first scan photos and journalling behind the owl

Hello Mrs Mojo, where were you hiding?

Got a chance to craft today, thank god I thought my Mojo had gone missing .

Made a tassle out of twine and inked it up. Using my new little girl stamp which I love (thanks Anne :) )and a few quote stamps I managed to get out of the craft slump I was in..phew!

A few baby makes

A cheap album I bought in Tk Max and altered the front of it with UTEE B's and hearts, want to stick a few other pieces on it

A mini journal I have started, documenting every week or close enough!

The blanket I crocheted and once I put it on the ground Diablo thought it was open season, we are going to have trouble!

A tri-fold card for my friend who is getting married, always forget how much measuring goes into these and since I hate measuring...I don't so there are bits too long and bits too short but it's made with love :)

Yella Fella

To really appreciate how yellow he was you really need to see the photo in real life! Used his hospital bracelet as an embellishment, need to get my mojo back!

you might want to check this out...

my 365 yesterday
ummm.....I dunno

Remember me?

Sorry for my absence lately, real life has been a rollercoaster. It's from suprise to find out I was pregnant, sickness as morning sickness hit hard and me and the couch became firm best friends, secrecy because I wanted to tell people but wanted to wait until 12 weeks. Then everything disappeared and I knew something was wrong. So last week it was like everything came hurtling to a finale, rang the doctor trying to ask if I was being overcautious but couldn't get through, rang VHI and  I told her my symptoms she told me to go to a&e immediately. Because I was in so much pain, they thought it was ectopic so when they scanned me I felt relief when she said "The baby is in the right place" then silence... I knew in my heart that McLentil Pants wasn't going to make it, she said that because I was coming up on 10 weeks a heart beat should have been visible.
But the saga doesnt stop there,that was just the prelude..I put grieving on hold to focus on the courtcase on Friday. After 3 years I just wanted it over and the way the day panned out I could never have imagined it.
Surely that was the end of the bad luck..no unfortunately not. D was rushed to hospital on Saturday, his liver has stopped working and he had turned yellow. He was accused of being an alcoholic & drug user.... this from a guy who would begrundingly take a panadol. It's hard to stay optimistic but we are ignoring our own pain and trying to focus on each other.
So here we are, a week since it all begun and waiting on a plateau with everything resting on today.
D has his tests at 12 and hopefully we will find something out.
Waiting for my D&C tomorrow and I can begin to grieve properly.

And my final feeling is regret because I regret starting a pregnancy journal and scrapbook. This should have been  a happy post  showing my new LO's so my regret is that it has to end so suddenly.
Thanks for listening x

Finally...

I used the bind it all to punch holes in black card to make it look like a film reel and just used bits of embellishments I had around. For some reason the title stamp would not stamp so I filled it in with marker and  went over with glossy accents, gives a nice raised title :) and not at all a mess....

I made the little girl look like an oopma ooppma on purpose.... it's very easy to mix up red and yellow in distress inks when the lids are off but she makes me smile because it looks like she is princess of the oopma oompa's lol

 I got some crafting done!!

Some work from the class

Sorry it's so late girls, real life is mental!!

Louise's embellishments, I thought she was going to buy shares in shrink wrap by the end of the class

Cathy's altered bottle cap, I said alter it Cathy not give everyone the heeby jeebies!!

Kay's gorgeous LO of her grandson

Jenny wasn't too impressed with her challenge of using no siccors but I'm still amazed how she got the pattern perfect..... Jennifer?

Ann's egg inspiration, if she could wear this lil fella see would, an inspiring tag *wish I was doing 12 days of Christmas now

Phil showing off her youthful looks and finally found a use for that gorgeous paper!

Some of Cathy's altered embellishments

Sorry I missed some of the girls work, I only remembered to take proper photos when everyone was gone!

Web sites for free images

Artist freebies
Cut out and keep
Bringing my laptop back tomorrow so  clearing up all the bookmarks. I found these last week and hadn't a proper chance to go through them properly but they look good!

New Beginnings

I used Creative Sketches Number 97 for this

Had no photos to scrap so I was rooting around in my photo box and came out with this one, I always loved it and since I did it when I first started scrapping I think it needed a revamp

This is how it looked when I first did it *cringe

And this is the one I did today trying to use as many techniques I am teaching for the class as possible!

2 cards

Few cards I made yesterday, nuffin special but my card supply had dwindled. Man I love that green button, it was a once off in a pack so I should have really kept it!

Altered Tiles

Yahhh got to play with alcohol inks yesterday and I love them!! Finally do something with the 500 extra tiles I have left over from the kitchen!

I used alcohol inks with the idea from Anne (Thanks Anne!) and then embossed my stamps onto then. Glazed with modge podge and easy peezy!

Sneak Peek

Of some of the emellishments we will be learning to make in the class on the 10th!