Happy & Sad.

A mixed bag today.
A bit like our weather,
we have had glorious sunshine,
sea Harr blowing along,
dinging doon rain stotting off the road
and thunder....
all in one afternoon.

Welcome to Scotland!

Sad bit first.

A friend of Andrew's family died this week
after a long and courageous
battle against breast cancer.
My thoughts are with her Husband, children
and grand children.

There were meant to be 6 pearls on the card
to represent her 6 children,
but I have just noticed one is missing....

I wanted it to be clean and classy.
But am wondering if it looks too plain.
there is a slight hint of colour on the SU tulip.


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Happier things made afterwards
to cheer me up.

This is my Dad and my Nephew fishing.
I could not get a decent picture
due to the dull weather and the photo's
not being great to start with.

I finished his name tag.....
And lost the fishies I have had sitting on my
craft desk for week to put on it!

I think I will just leave it
without as the papers ( basic grey I think)
are fairly fussy anyway.

And lastly.....
My furry monsters...

Bella still thinks she should sleep as close to
Poppy as she can get....
and if that means on her head
than so be it....
This was her with me telling
her to get off Poppy.

Yeau....this is her ignoring me
and going back to sleep...
on top of Poppy...

Hope you are all well.
Much love
Me xx

Gift to Sammi & James

As you know Sammi, James and Brooke move away down south tomorrow.

They got married on Saturday, this is my Wedding Card to them.



The heart is from Sketching stampers that was kindly given to me by Teresa.
Thank you very much!


And as well as vouchers so they can get what they want when they are all moved into their new home.......I gave them this.



It matches in with their card.

I couldn't give it to them till after I printed off wedding photo.
I have added a tartan bow from their wedding cake and added it on to it.


Sammi's colour's were deep red and white.
That's her invitation behind the Sammi & James place cards.
I wrote them out for all the table settings at the meal,
and did two spare ones to put in here.



I am not so keen on the centre of the flowers but couldn't put the centres
I wanted in due to it being under glass.

I love this verse....not sure where I first found it.
I have used it a few times now.



Their wedding rings are platinum,
the small small hearts on the place cards &
on the invites are silver so the frame picks up on that.
The is 12 x 10 " from Asda!
I will get some more of these as they are a fine size for scrap pages.
I am not sure who makes the backing papers
but they are sliver with deep grey writing on it.

My Fave of 2008

Dawn has taken on the challenge and challenged us all to look at the work
we have done in 2008 and pick our 10 faves....
I thought it would be easy to do.

In no particular order.......

Firstly is the first ever scarp page I did.
Emma Elfie helped me and it was for my friend Bunty.
The beautiful young woman in it Laura, died this summer.
Aged just 24 , two weeks before she was due to marry her soul mate Richard.

This was my first ATC, Emma also helped me with this.
I love the colours on it with the contrasting papers on the leaf.
It was also one of my first cuttlebug dies.

This was a card that was way out of my usual style.
I love all the different papers on it.
And the saying on it , was something Laura used to say.

Next a recent make.
The Holly King, a pagan card for Yule
made for my Dear friends Nan & Paul.

Our niece Robyn got engaged to Paul this spring.
This exploding box was full of pictures of her and Paul.
The rose in the centre too ages to make.

There HAD to be a Poppy Dog one!
This was one of my fave Xmas cards.
With guard dog Poppy reporting for duty sir!

Friends of ours got married at the start of December.
This card followed a sketch and I wasn't sure about the rings on it.
But the lace is actually spare lace left over from making my wedding dress!

An early make.
The butterfly is a brooch I made.
I love butterflies, I have one as a tattoo on my shoulder.

A lady at work became a Nanna and this is a book to celebrate
her Grand daughter Matilda's birth.

Each page has details of her weight,
or the date or the
place of birth.

And lastly a card that looks quiet cute from the outside....

And inside is the nativity scene.
I actually changed the star inside
to a bigger one that Sammi gave me.

It took ages to get everything to fit
and the donkey and lambs come out
and act as stabilisers for the card.
Mary, Joesph and Baby Jesus pull to the centre.
I must admit.
I thought it had three wise men and two shepherds.
and we almost had two Josephs on the card......

Looking back.....many of my cards have green or brown on them....
I do love green and browns!

Have enjoyed this looking back at the last year.
But its been so much fun as you guys have done this year with me.

Many hugs my lovelies.


xoxooxoxox

blue!

Making note to self.....

I am gonna buy all my cards next Christmas!!!

Honestly!

I am almost there!
But will need a small bank loan to post them all.....

Anyway.... I managed to get a challenge done,
using my new Sugar Nellie Stamp from Leanne,

Cute Card Thursday wanted you to use a punch.....
that will be the snow flakes punched out of dark blue vellum.

Just Christmas and Birthday cards had a sketch on Monday which is the card below,
and then on Wednesday they asked for it to be all one colour.....so its blue!
Well apart form her hair, but I drew the line at her hair being blue!!

This Thursday, it's all about....wanted naughty but nice,
so I used the pictures from Poppy's dog class ,
of her playing with her boy-dog Blue.
Well they are naughty, they are ment to be concentrating but it's cute !

Although , last night at class, she was ment to be doing a recall......
you call her, she returns to you....and she ran straight to Blue....several times!



And lastly, I have finished my DT card for Sammi's Crafty Muse....


Want a wee peek.....do ya?

So gonna come and join us at the Crafty Muse to join in with us?

Go on...you know you want should!

splish splash poppy taking a bath

well the shampoo for reducing skin irritation seems to be working for Poppy....
no more itching!
no idea what's caused it, will now try reducing bathing and see what happens.
Also will try some sort of fish oil but due to her sensitive tum will have to be careful.


I love the main picture! the itchy bit was on the inside of her back leg and must had felt
better for being massaged with shampoo!!

The shiny pearly card circles are ment to be bubbles!! lol

pink feathers

I found these lovely pink feathers online and I wanted to use them to add something to a page for Laura.
Pink Feathers are and will become very important to her family who miss this Angel very much.

I did this first page, but feel it is too fussy.
I am not sure if it is the backing paper which I love,
or the fact I have too many different shades on pink on it,
or have I used to many feathers??

The pictures of Laura are amazing!

This one I am more happy with.

It is very simple but Laura is stunning so it didn't need much.




I want to use the same pictures in a few different LO's to see what I get.

Oh I have 195 more shocking pink feathers if anyone wants some!!!

for Laura's Cousin

I have made scrap pages before for my friend Bunty's niece Laura
who died a few months ago aged 24 , just days before she was due to marry her soul mate.
Laura died from genetic lung cancer, she was a very healthy, non smoker aerobics instructor
and her family are setting up a charity in her memory called Pink Mackenzie.

The pages I did for Bunty have been seen by family member's and Yvonne ,
Laura's cousin had left a lovely comment on my bebo page about them.

So I made these two pages for Yvonne







The more colourful one is for Yvonne's daughter Amy who was very close to Laura.


I have made them similar in layout to keep them linked and also used the large flowers with falling petals .

I love how they seem to blow away in the wind....

Amy just loves Laura's wee dog Jess.

Talking of dogs.......if you were a Labrador....

and you came in on a cold day.....
and found a pile of warm towels out of the tumble dryer waiting to be folded.....
what would you do???

Of course you would make a snuggly bed out of them!!!

for a special person......with love

I have spoken before about Laura, she was truly an amazing person who fought hard but sadly lost her fight against lung cancer in July, aged just 24....

She was way too young to die, and had way too many more things to do and so much more love to give.
Laura's family are setting up a charity in her name...Pink Mackenzie.

I made some scrapbook pages with some pictures of Laura to give to my lovely friend Bunty who is Laura's Aunt.
I didn't want to post pictures on here until I had delivered them to Bunty, but for one reason and another we didn't manage to get together till this evening.
We had a lovely meal with our Hubby's and I really enjoyed spending time with them.

This is the first scrap book page I ever made.
Emma helped me, both with the layout and with emotional support....
It was sad making these pages, but in a way it was almost like saying good bye to a lovely person I knew too briefly and only online and though her family. xx

I am very proud of these pages....
So here they are......








This one is for Bunty's daughter Nicola, who will miss her special cousin,
who she was very close to, spent family holidays with and loved like a sister and a best friend....

This one I am keeping....just sums up the fun that Laura and Rich shared in their love together.
It is really unfair they had so little time together, but they had more in thier short time than many couples have in relationships that last years......

There are many out there on blog land who are having difficult times,
heart broken over lost loved ones, worried about their own or loved ones health problems....
Life is hard and too often too short.

Be kinder than necessary, for everyone you meet is fighting some kind of battle


hippy hugs and love xxxx

second Poppy page.....

Have done a second scrap book page with my lovely Poppy....

Am enjoying doing this much mire than I thought I would.

busy bee's & blog candies!!

Had a lovely afternoon with Emma & Belle,
we did some crafting, and had lots of giggles and laughs!
I know now why she has been so successful at craft clubs!
She is so easy to learn from.
Has a great style of teaching.....
( is that what you told me to say Emma? Did I get it right?)
*ducks* don't hit me again!!!!
I have a whole list of stuff I have seen on her blog that I want to know how to make!


Also did some Christmas cards for the troops....
and did some thank you cards.......to appear her soon enough!


And made this for Sammi's bloggy challenge!


Needed to do three things.....

1 ) make a purple sparkily card, well the fairy which is one of Sammi's is painted in a sparkle sukra pen. The green ribbon is shimmery, the purple card & backing Purple paper is shimmery........and there is silver embossing powder on the flowery backing card I made with chalk inks.......do you think thats sparkily enough Sammi?



2) list the blog candy here....done that......
3) add her to your blog roll...well I have her on my list of blogs I read....is that the same thing?

I also finished Laura's pages and will take them To Bunty on Thursday....
i have made six.
I will post about them after I have delivered them.
I am very proud of them.

first scrapbook pages...taaa daaaaa

I did my first ever scrap book pages with the wonderful Emma yesterday!

BUT!

I can't show them here yet, cause they are to be sent to someone who reads this blog,
I will when I have finished them all...and delivered them, I have 4 in mind.
Finished one, which I am really proud of.
Have almost finished two more, and will start last one soon.
But the copies I have of some of the pictures are too grainy.
Need to get them emailed to me to print off properly.
Anyway.....

Here is my first one with out the help of master Emma......
I "bee" quiet proud of it!

I am thinking it may be a little too fussy , but I still like it!
I also managed to use my "stamp of the moment" Buzy bee,

But I added him after this picture was taken!

I have also entered it to the Thursday challenge. Which is all about colour


I can't crop it as the soft wear I have to do this is new, and I haven't figured it out yet!
But no worries, I have had no internet for a few days...and have missed you all....
Away to go see what you have all been up to!!
hugs Teen xx