I recently joined in on a crop day with some good friends and here is what I worked on. After making the mini album for our friends wedding I really wanted one for us. Their wedding photos were truly stunning and as Craig was best man I whipped up this mini album for our coffee table. Unfortunately the light doesn’t do it justice but you get the idea.

Keep posted as I’m off to another crop tomorrow, so should have some more bits to share. We also had our baby shower on Sunday so lots of pictures to share of that. I will get them all posted as soon as I can but  we are off to anti-natal classes now.

Firstly a big thank for everyone’s kind words about our family friend’s passing, I really appreciate it!

In baby news, all is still going well and I’m starting to think that maybe we should get moving with buying more baby things. Usually I am pretty on the ball and organised but I’m finding getting all the baby stuff sorted hard work. There seems to be so many decisions with each product! I just want a magic list that tells me all of the best brands and exactly what I need hehe

I’ve been feeling the baby kick too (felt more like mini somersaults to me), and Craig finally managed to feel it the other day so that was really cool! It’s getting more real everyday as time ticks closer

Time to share what I worked on the other day at the all day crop I went too. I managed to complete to mini albums which I really like.

This first one is for my baby shower, I have left space for the guests to write in words of wisdom for our wee bubs and also a guess of the sex and day they will be born. I thought it would be a nice keepsake of the event.

This next mini album is for the swap over at S.E. It has to have the theme of summer and be 3″ by 4″ big. We then post them away and get another persons back to add our photos too and journal in. Sounds like fun!

It’s only a sneak peak, I will post proper photos once the swap is over. I can’t wait to see what everyone comes up with.

Well I’m off to get started on our bedroom makeover, we are off shopping to collect all the bits we need. If it turns out good I’ll post some before and after pics hehe

Have a fab weekend everyone and hope you get to find some time to create!

Gosh I can’t believe I’m up to the big 100 already. I suppose I have been blogging for a bit and man am I glad I found blogging. Not only is a great way to share my creations and get feedback, I feel like I have been lucky enough to meet some lovely ladies virtually  through this and some of the forums. It’s such a great hobby and blogging let’s you connect with people from all over the place! It’s fantastic.

So to all you lovely ladies that read my blog but haven’t yet made a comment or even to those others who are always showing their support, I want to say a huge thank you!

As a wee thanks I will randomly pick some one that leaves a comment on my blog by Monday 7th April and post them a RAK (random act of kindness)

  The other post was getting to long so I thought I would share my latest creations in another post.

Firstly have you seen these AWESOME clear stamps from Fancy Pants? Craig was very generous the other day and got me a set of them. I’m totally loving their new ranges of papers and transparencies, also Crate Paper’s new ranges are fabulous too. I’m lucky enough to be going to an all day crop with friends on Thursday so will be able to have a play with them all.

To start the sharing here are some cards I’ve whipped up lately.

On this card the stripe paper is actually on the inside and I added some transparency to the outside so it would show through.

I used my new cuttlebug Swiss dots embossing folder on the happy birthday card. Did I mention I love my cuttlebug!

This is the wedding card I made to match the album I made as part of the wedding gift.

Then these are some layouts I worked on at the cyber crop on at Scrapbook Essentials a few weeks back. I also entered the treasure hunt where you had clues and had to find the products in the shop. I won some very cool Tim Holtz Grungeboard for this competition, can’t wait to have a play with it.

Finally here is the album I made for our friend’s wedding gift, I’m so glad I made it because I got SOOO many comments about it. The bride and groom loved it so much they were in tears when they got it. It’s so lovely that this great hobby brings can bring so much joy to people. They told me that they will treasure it forever.

That’s a record at the moment for me! I really want to get back into blogging regularly and instead of waiting for something interesting to happen I have decided to just write about everyday stuff. I enjoy reading other peoples blog about their everyday lives and events so I thought I would share too.

We have had such grotty weather over the weekend and the past few days, I have managed to get all up to date with cleaning and washing etc. I was feeling pretty bored with staying indoors and had no inspiration to create so cleaning it was. Yesterday I even made a huge pot of roasted red pepper and tomato soup. That proves how wintry I was feeling! hehe Today however the sun came out so I’m feeling much brighter! I headed out for a coffee with Mum and had a catch up which was nice. She is under such pressure looking after my Nana who has some sort of dementia. I think it’s good that she gets a bit of a break every now and again.

I did get this layout done over the weekend, I love the bright colours of it and the fact I managed to use loads of pictures.  Also over the weekend after the curtains were hung, I got inspired to get some more things for the nursery. We purchased a nice white drawer set and I altered these MDF letters.

I also saw this card idea on a website and thought it looked cool. It opens thru the middle rather than the traditional way, so here is my take on it. It’s good to have at least one Mother’s Day card done, as I’m sure it will be here in the blink of an eye!

Firstly thank you so much for the lovely comments about our fantastic news. I’ve booked the 18 week scan and we are counting down the days till we can hopefully find out what we are having.

I’ve been trying to remember to blog, but since I have not done it in such awhile it is easy to forget about. So I thought I would get started but sharing  just few of the things I’ve been working on.

Firstly I did this layout of the scan photos from our 12 week scan. I thought I better get these scrapped and make a plan for the album before baby comes along.

Then I have been pottering with a few cards, just really for the stock pile at present. I have been making cards as they are quick and easy to do and don’t need to much inspiration unlike layouts.

This last card I did for the Friday night card challenge at S.E. They have a new chat function which was a bit of fun, it was done off a sketch and had to be a Valentines theme.

I have been working on a few other things, but I can’t put up photos as they are for gifts, I don’t want any sneaky eyes catching me out before they are given. I will certainly show them when the cats out of the bag.