Bad Blogger

Apologies - I have been a very bad Blogger. We had a lovely Summer Holiday (which now seems months away as is usual with these things!) and returned to settle the children into their new school. They are doing really well so far :)
The same week, we discovered that after months of paperwork, we finally have planning permission to move (the house we are moving to was used as a business so it needs official permission to make it residential again) so now its full steam ahead with packing up a house and a garden. It was so much easier when we moved here from a little flat. Where on earth does all the junk come from over the years?!

So anyway - those are my excuses for being very quiet and not so crafty these past few weeks. I am having a last minute flurry of card making and scrapbooking before my craft stuff is relegated to packing boxes (oh yes - I forgot to mention - we're not just moving but overhauling the new house too so the nearest I'm going to get to paint techniques for a few months is a big roller and a jumbo can of white gloss!) Still it will be nice when its done (deep breath and repeat....nice when its done, nice when its done...lol)

Luckily I will still have my Gotta Craft kit coming every month to give me a fix of the newest stash and the most gorgeous papers. I have also been drooling over their new CC stamps (Autumn themed and soooo pretty) that are new in. I have used the Fall Birgitta one to create this card for my lovely Niece

Onslow Crop

A bit of a miracle - 3 layouts in one day (if you count a double layout as two separate layouts which I definitely do purely in order to boost my scrapping output!)


I had a lovely day yesterday at the Onslow Village crop. It was my first time there - the other ladies were very welcoming and Jackie hosts a mean crop (lots of cakes, yummy sweets, a deli opposite and tons of scrapping room - what more could a girl want?).
The other page I completed was ages old - from April 2009 but this double layout is my first with photos from 2010 - woohoo I am finally catching up! Once again I've blurred the faces of the other children - its not some new craze for photo editing that I'm trying to start :)

I used pretty much everything from my June Gotta Craft kit including the journalling tag and gorgeous mesh fabric. The chipboard letters are also covered with DeLovley papers from the kit. I think I will be buying some extras though as they will be perfect for sunny holiday photos too.

More Cards....

For somebody that has never got the hang of rubber stamping and whose colouring skills are normally limited to the kid's menu and pot of crayons in Pizza Express, I have to confess I am addicted!

I blame Sandra over at Gotta Craft with her huuuuge array of promarkers and gorgeous new CC stamps. They are so easy to stamp with and I have really enjoyed learning to blend pro markers to colour them in (you just need 2 or 3 colours in slightly varying shade and away you go - the results are fab!)


This is the Sweet November Corander stamp and the colours I have used are:
ivory, blush and pale pink for the skin
leaf green and meadow green for the dress
terracotta, cinnamon and burnt umber for the hair
glitter for the wings
white pen for highlights
ice grey1 pen for shadow outline



Sweet November Corander stamp again
ivory, blush and pale pink for the skin (more coats of blush than ivory this time)
primrose, pastel yellow and vanilla for the hair
pale pink, baby pink and cocktail pink for the dress
glitter for the wings
white pen for highlights
ice grey1 pen for shadow outline