Woodpecker

Have you seen what this little thing is doing to the side of our house!!! not only that, on a saturday morning when we are trying to have a few extra minutes in bed he insists on waking us up. Apart from squirting a hose pipe at him, does anyone have any ideas to stop him wrecking our house!!!!

More candles, this time using Penny Black Stamps.

student of the month

I have just got back from school. Out youngest son was nominated as student of the month. Talk about a proud mummy moment. I am so proud of him and he is doing so well at school here and being rewarded for it too.

Candles

I have just discovered how easy it is to stamp candles, well not actually stamp on candles but using stamps to embelish candles.

On my travels surfing the internet, I have often seen beautifully decorated candles and often thought about having a go! But, I never got round to doing it. Anyway tonight I thought I would have a little play. I had a candle that was starting to look a little old and grubby, so thought I would give it a go and at least I would not be ruining a brand new candle. So I stamped my image onto tissue paper, coloured it in with pencils, positioned it onto the candle and then wrapped waxed paper onto the candle and started heating it up with my heat gun. You can tell if it working or not as the image changes colour as it melts into the candle. I then took the waxed paper off. I was absolutely amazed at how neat it looks, I will certainly be making more of these very soon. Infact my mission for the morning is to go and buy some candles!!!!!! Guess what I will be making for christmas gifts this year!!!! Anyway I will hopefully get some done and post some pics very soon. If your reading this and have done this technique please leave me a link to your blog so I can check your candles out and leave a comment.

Forever Friends

I had a few minutes to spare this lunch time so thought I would have a little play with one of the new stamps I bought, Does this take you back to the 80s when Forever Friends were all the rage? I just love these bears and I am so glad that they have made them into stamps. They are so cute.

I forgot to post these on my blog!!!! Look what dh had delivered to the door the other day!!!! It was such a surpise, I had no idea who they were from when the man knocked on the door!! It wasn't my birthday or anniversary so was wondering who sent them!!! Well it was dh just to cheer me up a bit, as he knows what a hard time I have been having lately. How sweet is he.

Hi All

Sorry for not posting sooner, I have just been so busy!!!! infact I feel like I am drowning at the moment! I have so much to do and so little time at the moment, so scrapping/stamping has taken a little bit of a back burner for now. Saying that I did manage to buy some new stamps the other week, all the way from England!!!! Jenny I am sure you can guess which ones I bought!!!! Anyway when I get a bit of time I hope to upload some pics of them and hopefully get some cards made with them too (is that wishful thinking).

Take care all and keep popping back as I will post something sooner rather than later this time!!!

Sorry not been a good blogger this week, I have so much to do and so little time!!!!

Anyway I do have some good news to share I submitted some layouts to an online magazine Scrapbook News and Reviews and they are publishing 4 layouts of mine!!!!!!!! YIPPEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

I subscribe to the Cricut newsletter by email which is known as the CHIRP. Anyway, to my surprise my Tigger Door Hanger was mentioned as one of the highlighted threads on the Cricut Message board!!!! You can find it here . Anyway got to dash as I have to go to college!!!!

Coupons - ENJOY

Fall Page

I tried to get this layout side by side in blogger but it was not playing!!!! so have done it this way and as single pages so you can see what it looks like when they are put together.

This layout came together in minutes! The paper is so gorgeous that I didn't want to cut it up so instead just tore the edges of the paper and inked them, then cut out a circle and photo mat, adhered it to the paper, then added some blossoms and this time leaves!! adhered them to the paper, added buttons with tied raffia in the centres to the flowers. For the 2nd page all I did was cut some strips of paper then added the leaves which I stamped with flourish stamps and adhered them to the paper. Such a simple layout to do, but I love how it turned out.


I have had another busy weekend, so I have not managed to get my other mini album finished as yet, but as soon as I do I will post pics for you to see. I have the perfect picture for this layout but as the Kodak machine was not working at the shop I was unable to print it out and put it onto the layout before posting it on here.

Wow

I am really surprised I have had over 500 hits on my blog since last night!!!!!! WOW But not many comments!!! Come on people don't be shy, leave a comment and say hi and then I can check out your blog too and even if you don't have once its still nice to hear from you. I love reading what people think of what I make , GOOD or BAD, constructive criticism does no harm and if its good that's even better!!!!!!

I went to Michaels last night, only because I wanted to spend my coupon!!!! they had some nice halloween papers in, think they were K&CO, maybe I should do another Halloween album!!!! Did anyone use the coupon? and what did you get?

I also went to Hobby Lobby and went a bit mad in there!!!! chipboard was 50% off, along with wooden stamps so I had to buy some House Mouse stamps oh and stickers were on sale too so I bought some thickers alphas, now when they ring them up are they counted as stickers or chipboard! I was a little worried that they were not on sale as I bought quite a few packets!!!! but she rung them up as 50% off. I absolutely love HL sales!!!

I am hoping to do some more crafting tomorrow, so will probably post some pics by the end of the week as I am a little busy until then. I am hoping to do another album but this time it will be much much smaller!!!

Okay gotta run, whatever the weather hope your having a great day.

Sam
xxx

Michaels Coupon 40% off valid until August 30th

Here is a link to the Michaels coupon.

Hope someone can use it. http://www.michaels.com/coupons/081908/coupon.html

Halloween Chipboard Album

This is the latest thing I have been making. A little early but I thought I would make a start as I am going to be busy in the next couple of months going to college!!!!

All the die cuts were cut with the expression using the Paper Dolls Cartridge. There is so much more on this cart than you see on the back of the box, it is one of my most used carts! So if you haven't already got it GO BUY IT!!!!!!!!!!!

The album pages are made of black chipboard and cut with the accucut die at the LSS. The title "Trick or Treat" are thickers alphas which I then inked with white chalk ink. If you want to know anything else let me know and I will be happy to help or leave me a comment.

If you click on the picture you will be able to see the detail much easier.

TFL

Sam.