2 more sleeps

I can't believe it's Christmas Eve's Eve! Where the heck did this year go? I got the rest of the food in today but boy was it busy at Sainsbury's. It took Nic and I forever to get parked but thinking back that was the EASY bit...getting out of the carpark was another story! I think we were lucky as it only took us 45 minutes to get out....I heard it took an hour and a half for others to get out of that same carpark earlier in the week!

Here's a card a friend ordered for her daughter's whose birthday is today. I love this Stamping Bella stamp. I hadn't ordered anything from SB in months but as soon as I saw her I knew I had to add her to my collection of Bella's. I knew my BFF Karen would love her too so I got one for her birthday...that's why her present was late!!

I'm pretty pooped. I've barely sat down today. After dinner I did some more baking. Speaking of which I made a big big BIG mistake last night...I made another batch of Kris Kringle cookies...OMG they are soooooooo good...especially still warm but soooooo not good for the waistline lol. Tonight I made Turtles (amazing!) and Rocky Road (amazing!) and some wheat and gluten free shortbread for Ben's mom (amazing!). I think I might be joining a gym in the New Year lol.

Right...dogs need out and I need my bed.

Thanks for stopping by...catch ya later x

I delivered this card this morning to a girl who ordered it for her mom a couple of months ago which was pretty brave of her since she hadn't seen any of my cards before!! She loved it and said her mom would too (phew!) I love this image from Stamping Bella and for all that there were really small bits to colour the image 'allows' you to go outside the lines (phew, phew!)

I've finally started some cards to put into my stock which had run quite low. With all the excitement of Nikki and her launch etc I hadn't managed to make any. I'm making some today with Mermaid Nikki...I have been wanting to use her forever as I had a visual in my head of how I wanted the finished card to look. But many of you know that what you have in your head doesn't always transfer onto paper LOL. I'll post it either later today or save it for tomorrow. And remember if you want to win the Blog Candy leave a comment and which Nikki Stamp you think sold the most of last Saturday.

Have a great day...the sun is shining!!

Catch ya later x

Sew what!

I have been sewing up a storm tonight...I can still hear the machine in my head! I don't seem to be able to make a card these days without putting some kind of stitching on it. I got a text today from a girl who has a coffee morning once a year at this time for breast cancer asking if I would sell my cards at it. She has a number of friends also selling handmade/crafted items and a portion of the profits go to Cancer Research. So you're probably wondering what this has to do with my sewing. Well my stock of cards is really low at the moment and her coffee morning is this Saturday...yikes...so I'm trying to get as many cards made between now and Friday along with all the other things that I do. I decided to to just the bases tonight and tomorrow I'll do the images. Believe it or not I've made 24 bases and I think I might do this in the future. I started at 8pm and fnished at 11...I'm very impressed with myself lol. I also want to make some little books and possibly...and I think I'm being a bit amitious here...make some of the gift boxes with the ribbon handle. I have a bit to do in the morning after dropping the dogs at DDC but I plan to be home by 12 and put my head down only coming up for fuel ie coffee!

I didn't manage to take a picture of my Nikki card today but this is a card I made for my friends MIL's 80th birthday....and I managed to match the colours with her living room without being told! It was a boxed card and my friends MIL loved it : )

The image is Stamping Bella, ribbon PTI and the pp My Mind's Eye - Bloom & Grow.


Thanks for stopping by...



Catch ya later x

The Glitter Girls!!!

My little friends Bethany and Katie arrived 11 o'clock on the dot...actually they were 5 minutes early and just a little bit excited about what we were going to make today! We had a great time and I think they really enjoyed making their project. We made this cute little notebook using my Bind It All. We started off covering the front and back cover with pp from 3 Bugs in a Rug and inside each cover with a gorgeous chocolate brown cs. Next was colouring Stamping Bella Lulu Ketto with Twinkling H2O's. It took the girls a couple of practises with the water pens and they were off and did a great job. We had a short lunch break as we were starving then soon got back to the job in hand. I punched the holes in the paper inserts and I let the girls punch the front a back covers under my watchful eye. They managed pretty well though I think I would suggest a couple of weeks at the gym for the next time lol. Once it was bound together we tied SU! ribbon to the spine, stuck the image onto the brown flower mount and stuck it to the cover with dimensional fixers.I used a SU! punch for the brown flower and made co-ordinating brads with my i-tool (love that thing!). To finish it off we used a bit of glitter...I might add that Beth and Katie used a LOT of glitter...on the wings, shoes, heart, crown...you name it they glittered it lol. And that was that! Here's their finished books...what do you think?

Right, I'm off to de-glitter my kitchen...don't think I fancy roast chicken with glitter gravy lol.

Catch ya later x

Good things come to those who wait...

....is what I told my bf Fee today when she called to say that she doesn't do waiting and wanted to know what I was up to lol!!! I told her my lips were sealed and she will have to wait just like the rest of you : ) Though I must tell you that it's been extremely hard to to tell all and sunder (or is that sundry?) but I don't want to jinx anything just in case.

Now on to more exciting things...I made a card today!!! Actually I made 5 but they're all the same. It felt great to colour after so long. And this little fella was a treat to colour...Cuppycake Huggabugg from Stamping Bella. I'd like to say at this point that I do own stamps other than Stamping Bella but can you tell they're my favourite??? I used my Copics to colour it in adding glitter and a couple of crystals on it's antenae. Can you guess the pp? Basic Grey of course lol. And yes I do have other brands of paper too. Now, can you see that round flower on the ribbon? If you click on the photo you can see that it's actually quite big and sticks out. Any guesses??? It's my new toy...the i-top by imaginisce! (it looks like the crop a dile) I got an email from CraftsUlove and ordered it straight away...think I was one of the first to order it and they sold out straight away. It's not cheap by any means as you need the i-top tool then an i-top punch and then the brads. There are 3 sizes of brads...I ordered medium, but if you order large you have to buy another piece to go with it! But can I tell you....I love it!!! It is so quick and easy to use (bit fiddly the first couple of times) and I think the results are fab. It means you can properly co-ordinate your brads with your project.

That's it for today folks...2 posts in one day. Hope that makes up for the weekend Trace : )

Enjoy the rest of your day wherever you are and I'll catch ya later x

My big sister says...

...I gotta post earlier so she can read my blog when she gets up!!! Easy for her to say lol. I'll try for you for tomorrow Trace : )

Another whirlwind of a day to add to an extremely busy week and it doesn't stop today...tomorrow and Saturday promise the same!!! Basically what I'm trying to tell you guys is I never got to make a card today either : ( BUT I'm getting closer to revealing my secret..tomorrow's a big day for me so fingers crossed and wish me well.

So that means I've dug into the archives once again and brought you this little number and guess who's on the front...another Bella!! I can't seem to get enough of Emily's Bella's and this won't shock those who know me but I do own quite a bit of her rubbah lol!

Anywho, the paper is Pink Petticoat and the image and sentiment Stamping Bella...I love pink and brown together. It has to be one of my favourite colour combo's.

I'm gonna have to say goodnight now...gotta rest up for my big day. I do hope I get a chance to play with my new toys tomorrow but I won't hold my breath!

Catch ya later

New toys?? What new toys??

Did I say yesterday that I got new toys??? I never even got a change to even stroke them today as I've been rushed off my feet. My day started by taking the dogs to Cathkin Braes by 7:40am ... not a cloud in the sky with a bit of heat in the sun, followed by hanging washing, tidying up and getting ready for my friend Annette who was coming over for a mini workshop as she couldn't make it on Saturday. There was the added bonus of her daughter Eilidh which was a nice surprise as I hadn't seen her in years. We had a great time making the projects and having a bite of lunch in between. After they left I headed out to pick up dinner and back again to make it. Dogs back to the Braes with Steven then back to the house...finally got stuck into my emails and now I'm blogging. It's now 9:20pm and I still have some ironing to do before I start all over again tomorrow!! I'm definitely coming back as a man in my next life LOLOL.


Since I haven't made a card to show you I went into the archives and pulled this one out. It's another Stamping Bella image and I love how it turned out. I coloured it with my Prisma pencils and Sansador, cut it out and embossed it with my Nesties (what did we do before they came along???), a bit of sewing, pp and ribbon. I can't remember the name of the paper but I remember I did get it from The Papercraft Company.

Sorry for being so vague but I really do have to get to the ironing to make at least a small dent in it. Steven's working tomorrow and his uniform is in the basket somewhere and Ryan's got a game and his tracksuit is probably buried under Steven's uniform!!

I'm off and running.....catch ya later x

Workshop success!

A good time was had by all me thinks : ) I had 3 really great projects lined up for todays workshop and I think they all went well. I've got a thing for calendars at the moment and this is the project we started with. Anyone who knows me knows I don't do scrapbooking...it's just not my thing...so I knew when the girls saw this they would be shocked...and I was right lol. I have never been interested in scrapbooking or distressing or shabby chic but all that changed in this project. Two separate pieces of canvas boards connected with eye and hook screws. The canvas was distressed with brown ink with a touch of pink. I add my fave Basic Grey pp with some SU! and Martha Stewart punched vellum flowers with Doodlebug glitter brads. The photo is from a collection on a CD I've had for years and the calendar was made by my sister's friend Kerry-Anne on Microsoft Word. I think it's really pretty.


The second project was a chipboard gift bag with a set of 4 note cards again made with BG (I hadn't made the notecards when I took this picture). This pp is from the Lemonade range which I love. I cut the flower and heart from chipboard covered with the same pp with my cuttlebug and die which is attached with a ball chain onto the ribbon handle. I used a MS punch for the scalloped border and finished it off with AB crystals. This is a great bag...if you don't want to make cards to go with it you can get little bottles of bath products or some makeup and put them in it. I think anyone would love to receive this as a gift.


Last but not least was this cute card. It was quite easy after the first 2 projects and finished the day off nicely. The image is from Stamping Bella, the pp is Doodlebug, ribbon SU!

Our next crop is August 29th where we will do our own thing with a m&t and September 26th is penciled in for the next workshop.

Thanks girls for today...it was great fun and I look forward to the 29!

Catch ya later x

It's raining it's pouring..no it's not the sun is shining...no it's not it's raining...

Very confusing headline I know but the weather here in Glasgow IS confusing. One minute it's cold windy and raining and the next the sun is shining and is roasting!! No wonder everyone here is either getting sick, sick or getting over being sick!!!

This is going to be a quick post (yeah I hear you say lol) as I've still got a bit to do for my bf Fee coming tomorrow. I spoke to her today and she has everything all cut and packaged up for our day of fun so I've got to get my skates on.

This is a card I made for my sister Shelly. About 4 years ago she went to Aveda Hairdressing School and after a lot of blood, sweat and tears she graduated and went to work for an Aveda hairdresser. She worked there for a couple of years but took the plunge to work for herself and since January of this year has been a self employed hairdresser. I am so proud of her and what she has achieved over the last 7 months. It was a big risk but it has paid off and she is doing amazingly well. I didn't want this occasion to go unrecognized so made this card for her using Underthehoodybella from Stamping Bella. I love Stamping Bella stamps...I do have one or 50 lol!!! The cs is Bazzill and the pp is Basic Grey (my favourite pp at the moment), Martha Stewart border punch, ribbon Papertreyink, sentiment: alphabet stamps, not sure brand. I stamped Gravity Hair with the alphabet stamps...and yes the i is supposed to be upside down.. ie gravity!!! Very clever huh.

That's it for now...must get started on Fee's project. I'll post pictures tomorrow to show you what we got up to!

Catch ya later x