Happy Mother's Day

Happy Mother's Day to all the mums out there, and to those that have passed on you'll always be in our hearts and minds. We love you!

My gorgeous daughter Heather bought me a beautiful bouquet yesterday (I know it was a day early but who cares). We also made a cake together with lashings of pink/strawberry frosting and little pink and white sugar flowers. I had a slice, or should I say a 'chunk' this morning with a cup of coffee...it was divine! No doubt it will be on Heather's blog at some point, as she documents everything.  She also bought me a beautiful art deco card and a lovely necklace...talk about being spoilt. It I didn't have to cook a Sunday lunch I would have described it as a perfect day...lol!! Never mind.

Snow...where did that come from?

Well I've just looked out of my living room window, and that grey rainy day outside has now turned into a grey snowy day...well where the hell did that come from?  I wasn't expecting that today!


The only upside is that I don't think it will lay.....well here's hoping.


Love
Janine XX

My Scrapbook Page

Just to let you know I've now started to add my digi scrapbook page, so why not check it out.

Thanks for visiting.

Janine XX

Anniversary Couple

This monochrome card was made for my sister and BIL's  anniversary on Monday (so ssh! don't tell them), who aren't really into lovey dovey stuff. It was really simple to make, it was just a case of printing out the backing sheet  and cut out.the shapes using my Cricut and Grand Calibur and sticking them down.

CS: Kanban White Scalloped card, Co-ordinations Black Card, RymanWhite card
Cricut: Sweetheart cartridge
X Cut: Tags/Bookplate Die
Background CS: Pink Petticoat Elegance White (Black - Negative)
Embossed Background CS: Cuttlebug Swirls Folder
Nestibilities: Circle and scallop circle dies
Gem, Brads and black ribbon

Hope you like it.

TFL
Janine XX

Super Mini

Afternoon everyone

This is an easel card was made for my lovely hubbie Tony for his birthday before Xmas (sorry for the late post).  He just loves mini cars as we had one in our courting days, and if we win the lottery it's on his wish list.  Yer keep dreaming Tony!!

Things I used

Stamp: Retro Cars - Kanban

Promarkers and Flexmarkers: Berry Red, Poppy, Black, Warm Grey 4, Satin, Apricot, Cool Grey 2

CS: Navy, Red, White

Distressing Ink: Tumbler Glass

Glossy Accents: Used for windscreen and lights

Nestibilities: Circle

Circle Scissor

Thanks for looking.

Janine XXX





Some New Cards

Afternoon everyone
I've just finished tweaking my header using Serif CraftArtist (which I love, love, love!), it now looks so much better.

Anyway here are a few cards I made recently as promised, I hope you like them.  Both cards were made using digi kits.

Buttercup Fairy



The cute little girl, embelishments and background paper is from a really old digi kit from Cuddly Buddly called 'Buttercup Fairy', no doubt you'll probably still be able to buy her.  I printed the image and text onto my white background base card. Then I printed another 4 of the images onto another piece of card and cut out different sections of them, so I could layer them up to give her dimension - she was so easy to cut out. I used pinflair glue to layer her up, and finally I added glitter. The background cbase ard was cut at the top and bottom using my Grand Calibur and a Edgeabilities die.

The Big Red Bus

Here's the next card, I made it for a little boy who just loves buses especially red ones.

Made from a great digi kit called 'Cool Britannia' from The Lilypad (.http://www.the-lilypad.com)
I used Serif's CraftArtist to create this card.  The background and bus banner was made from bits of other digi kits and a little digital drawing/writing from me. Again this was printed off a few times and cut out.  I add a piece of acetate behind the cut out windows (sorry my photo's not very good!) for a bit of realism.  I used foam pads this time for dimension (mainly because I hate using glue...because I make such a mess...lol).

Hope you like them.

Janine XX

Footnote:  Annabel and Joseph loved their cards...particularly Joseph who couldn't stop talking about his big red bus LOL :)

New Cards

Hopefully I'll add a couple of new cards tomorrow, and with luck I'll also add them onto my Docrafts gallery as well.

Well I'm going to log myself off and get myself ready for my bed because I'm getting tired now, I must be catching up after helping mum out yesterday and visiting my step-dad.

Quick update - My step-dad's doing fine, but it'll just going to take time to get his strength back up and build up his mobility skills, so far he's doing really well.

Anyway nighty night!!
Janine XX

Nearly There!

Hi there
Well here's my beautiful new blog design from the the lovely Ingrid at Cute-BlogLayout.  I've just added a new font design and colour, and its almost there.  Unfortunately my header title is way too high in its new decorative box so I just need to alter it myself, and yey!! it will be finished.  So far I'm really pleased with it.
Thank you so much Ingrid!

Hey, why not give Ingrid's blog a visit , her gorgeous blog design are free and there's so many you'll be spoilt for choice. Her blog address is shown in the side bar.

Hope you like it?
Janine XX

Just a quick post!

Just in case you thought you'd arrived at the wrong blog I thought I'd best explain!

I've been in the process of trying to change my blog layout in between doing hospital visits, work and the rest...unsuccessfully might I add.  It's caused me soooo many headaches...anyway I just managed to get my old layout off and change it to this simple one.  Now maybe I can add my new pretty one in the next few days, that is when I get a few minutes spare.  Well here's hoping!!!

Love you all loads
Janine XX

Sorry everyone!

Sorry I've not posted anything for a while but I've just been so pre-occupied, as there's been a few health issues surrounding my step-dad, and as a result had to have is leg amputated...bless him.

I will post some cards hopefully by the weekend.

TTFN
Janine XX