Childs Christmas card 2010

A few more of my cards

Birthday card

A Birthday card requested, made with 'Anita Be Stampin's digi stamp.
My minds eye printed paper from 'la paperie' range, cuttlebug embossed
background. and the tag cut from the cricut and 'Sure cut's a lot' prog.

The Expression says it all

This is my gorgeous Grandaughter, Eloise, aged 9months. Sept 2010. Her Mummy gave her a drop of water in her sippy cup, the look on her face says it all. .... You sure? Eugh....I'm all wet! .... It wasn't My fault Mummy.... I told you so ! lol what a little precious she is!!

some of the cards I have been making

I have been making a few cards, I have also been trying out Letraset Promarker pens, they are awesome!! I love the result you get with these, everyone who has seen them didn't believe they were coloured by hand

Vintage birthday card

This paper is die cuts with a view, 'Once upon a time' it just makes you want to do something vintage, I used a cut out for the cameo and a beautiful frame from Penny Duncan's files.

The Great Escape

A sequence of pictures of my dear Grandaughter Eloise and my dog Jaz, it looks like she's bribing him to dig her out of the playpen. They were so engrossed in thier 'plot' lol. I had to scrap this and call it ' The Great Escape' Sep/12/2010.

First ever Card !!!!

Look - if I give you this bunny will you dig me outta here?

Mademoiselle Chameleon

This is a drawing of my niece Billie who lives in Australia, this beautiful picture was drawn by a very talented artist called Celeste Ramon, she called it 'Mademoiselle Chameleon' as Billie is able to change her appearance with the professionalism of a chameleon.  Billie is a make-up artist living in Brisbane. 

The Spitfire and my brother who built it. 2004

"City of St. Albans" Spitfire(S.D.unit K9789)

"City of St. Albans" Spitfire(S.D.unit K9789)

This link will take you to a site which is now the home of my brother's life size replica of a WWII Spitfire which he hand built himself over a span of 7-8 years.  I am so proud of him for this amazing achievement as I am of the Spitfire itself.   am putting together a double page LO of this very thing and hope to put it on my blog soon.

New Look

I've decided to update my blog look, just fancied a change, winter coming and all, I loved the roses and maybe go back to that again, for now I'm going shabby for while !! Thanks to everyone who visits my blog and for all your kind and encouraging comments, they really are appreciated and thanks to all those who share all their hard work and freely share files etc.

Uncle Alfie

One of my Fathers five brothers. Alfie.  This pic was taken in the Army in WWII

more pages for my mums album

Laughter

A trip to the seaside with my grandmother, my brother and I all dressed up in our Sunday best, for the beach, a coat and best shoes, brother in a suit and cap!! lol  another page for my mothers scrapbook

Grandaughter Billie Weston

Another page for my Mum's album, this is Billie, my niece, my mother's grandaughter, of course! , my brothers daughter. They live in Brisbane Australia, she always wanted to be a make-up artist as long as I can remember, now she is 29yrs old and works in Brisbane in the make-up department of a big department store. she works for a designer called shu ueumura. She has attended fashion shows doing their make up also, in Sydney, and works freelance too. We are all so proud of her. well done Billie!!

Good Times

This is the second page from an album I am doing for my mother. I used My Mind's eye, pp. 'la paperie' Martha Stewarts deep edge punch and my cricut with some wonderful files from Penny Duncan's creations blog. Many thanks Penny for these wonderful files. especially the hibiscus flowers and leaves.

The two of us.

Some more pages for my Mums album

1st Page of my Mum's scrapbook

Beloved wait for me until I can come to you

I know no other can  fill the gap

Inside me left now you are gone

Beloved wait for me



I always loved to see you smile

But my greatest ecstasy was waking first

To watch you sleep like an angel next to me

But now your eyes are closed forever love

And I would give my life to see you smile again

Budapest

I re did my LO of my visit to Budapest in 2005, It made me sad then, but re-doing it today made me remember the saddest sight I have ever sen in real life. The memorial along side the Danube,
I was walking along there with my friend when we noticed all these shoes, now cast in iron, scattered along the waters edge. I then saw a plaque with the story on. during WWII these people were shot and fell into the Danube.
The romantic idea I had of the 'blue danube' then disappeared into thin air.
The City of Budapest really beautiful and there are magnificent buildings and bridges, but the invasion during the war is evident in all the memorials and statues that are scattered throughout the city. a really thought provoking visit and one I won't forget in a long time.

Budapest

The second page of LO of My visit to Budapest

Re-sticking a cricut cutting mat

Cricut Mat - re-sticking

Wednesday, 18 August 2010

I've had a great couple of days, I bought 2 new cricut mats, then decided to try to restick my old one,(bought the new ones just in case I messed up)   I already have some sticky stuff remover, I sprayed that on..... all the yukky stuff came right off, I re-did it a couple of times and it was sparkly clean.  washed off the residue..
then... I sprayed it with 3M repositionalble spray adhesive.  (It's what I already had) Left it to dry overnight.... yes...still sticky in the morning...VERY
I patted it  (conditioned it, as is the right term)  a lot, almost got my hand stuck.... I had visions of me walking to the surgery with a mat stuck to my hand!!!  so I kept patting it. it got better.
Tried it out. perfect!!!!! thin paper got a bit stuck, but after a while I just sort of patted it gently on the mat rather than smooth it out.  but it's awesome now!!
So.... I have2 new mats - unused.  and am so proud of myself for havng made a sucess of it

When my daughter was small, her father and I made up a story about where all her bottles came from when she was a baby, she was told that there were little gnomes living under the fridge and they used to make the bottles every night ready the the next days feed. The head Gnome was called 'Agul' (this was the first sound my daughter made as a baby) Also they were actually called 'Boggle Gnomes' (baby speak) . There, in the large picture is the drawing my husband drew of Agul, and the two small pictures are of the steps leading up from the basement to the fridge, and the last, a small gnome just leaving, having delivered his order.

Brambley Hedge

When my daughter was small we used to read this to her all the time, she loved it and we would imagine the little mice in their tree trunk home. On our Camping trip this year I found this tree it reminded me of the Brambley Hedge Book. Here is a LO with the tree I found, the book illustration of the inside of the tree and the mice's kitchen.

Mike

Had this paper for a long time, I think it was free in a magazine, I liked it so much but couldn't find a photo worthy, but here's Mike, my other half, my friend, my soulmate, a worthy subject for my paper. This photo was taken while we were in Greece in 2007 in Zante.

Grandad Weston

This is another photo I had given to me of my paternal Grandfather Jack. Here he is working on the roads in London,Later he became a stone mason, which was to eventually take is life, the dust from working with marble/granite caused lung infections and in those days they had no chance of survival. Don't they all look the same in their caps, waistcoats and moustaches? lol
My father didn't know his father well as he was only a baby when his father passed away, but according to family he was a well liked and kind man. This was taken on or around the 1920's.

As Time Goes By

This is the last of my old photo's that were given to me by my family, it is of myself, my aunt and my father, The middle one is about 1948/9 and the others must be early 50's. I used Tim Holt's Ideology paper and all the rest is my own stash, the wording is cut out by the cricut with 'George' cartridge.