Happy Mother's Day .....

.... in memory of my beautiful and very much missed mum.
You are always in my thoughts and in my heart.
xxx


I'm so grateful for having an amazing stepmum and love making things for her. So I dusted off (literally) my Cricut, bought this file from SVGCuts.com and taa raa! Came together so easily I don't know why I don't use the machine more. Can anyone recommend any good svg files for cards?

Hope all you mums out there have a relaxing day!

Old stash and new ...

.. I mentioned the other day about the punches I got at the NEC last week. I also picked up some stamps, masks, washi tape and a few other bits and pieces. I wanted to have a quick play so with some last few scraps that I had earmarked for cards I came up with these.

 

 

Happy Mother's Day ...

... I had wanted to buy this card for my Stepmum but left it to late for delivery. I then realised with the cricut and SCAL I could of course make my own!!!

 

I had planned a 10 things post for today, but as I'm now struggling to think up new ideas, I'll leave you with some photos instead

My beautiful family

My amazing stepmum 

My wonderful and sorely missed mum 

Cards and kits ...

... so having organised my albums, I moved on to sorting out paper and stripping uot old kits. Before discarding the last contents of a kit I am challenging myself to make some cards. So here are my first lot. I'm going to add sentiments as and when.

And of course, destashing means you can buy more! So I decided to try a Scrapagogo kit which arrived this morning. First impressions are good, 4 pieces of paper, 2 cardstock, a stamp, a printable and assorted embellies - just enough to make a few LOs without having loads left over. It's very similiar in colour to an old Scrapbook Circle kit that I have, so I shall probably combine the two.

 

Shimelle's weekend party ...

... kicked off at 6pm last night. I've managed the 1st two challenges, but have had a slow start this morning (made the most of no kid's activities to go to!!)

Friday 6pm - use cupcakes as inspiration. Luckily I had these waiting to be scrapped from when we went to Primrose Bakery (as in the cupcake book) in Covent Garden. Yum Yum Yum! I've used a PencilLines sketch. Friday 8pm - use Shimelle's LO as inspiration. As you can see I've used it as a sketch and the title. Excuse the goofy pictures of me and DH - it was New Year's Even and we'd had a few!!

I realised when I was scrapping these LOs how little I'd used my recent Scarlet Lime kits, so I'm looking forward to a productive weekend!

Whilst waiting for the party to start I took a fancy to this card on Kristine Werner's blog. Simples!

Right I have an hour before picking DD2 up from a party so I'm going to make a start on my Creat 10 Day 4 project.

Happy Belated Easter...

... hope whatever you did it was a good one. I had an overnight stay near Chester and then off to see family in Torquay. So have finally managed to blog a couple of things I did last week. A LO from the Scarlet Lime kit - I now have no uncut sheets of paper from this kit, which I think is first, especially to use it up in the month the kit arrives!Secondly, a card for the UKS monthly challenge, which is to use predomiately Pink, Red or Orange. I went for Orange!

Cards ...

... I'm not a card maker, but I really want to be. With so many scraps, it seems a shame not to put them to use. So I've been merrily bookmarking lots of card blogs over the last couple of days for inspiration. I've made this one for a friend's birthday next week from the Scarlet Lime kit. This SEI paper is gorgeous, you can't tell from the photo but it's got a matt foiled effect to it. This colour combo is turning into one of my faves.