Cards!!!

Cards to me tend to just get in the way of all my other craft loves

at the minute but over on the Counterfeit Kit Blog

we are having a Card Month where each Master Forger

will take turns to create a Card Kit and then (hopefully)

inspire you to play along.

Today is my turn and I've been given "birthday cards".

Why not hop over to the CKCB Blog to see my kit and then pop back tomorrow for some

inspiration on "quick to make" birthday cards.

I have a 50th and a 16th birthday coming up within the month

so I'm off on a Pinterest Spree to

see what I can find...

...any ideas greatly appreciated!

342!

That is how behind I am on commenting in MyFeedly!!!

I have come to the conclusion that I just will not catch up with that amount

and therefore please accept my big apology if I do not comment on anything before December 1st.

I have wiped you all out and hope you understand but I will, starting now, restart my commenting

and hopping.

Today brings me up to date with my

November 12 Pledges Kit Layouts

from

Wearcrafts

I have also had the great pleasure of playing with the December Kit but if I show you those

Jennifer will have my guts for garters!!!!

So, here are my last two layouts from the November Kit...

...the first is a layout of The Child from nearly 16 years ago (yikes!)
A bonny little lass who is nearly 16 and still just as beautiful.

This one is of my Nanna who made a little gap in this world for The Child nearly 16 years ago!
I would love to know why she would say Crinny 'Eck
I have never heard anyone say it since.
If you know the saying, make my day and let me know.

Right, I'm off to get  those Christmas presses wrapped and under the tree - are you ready for Christmas?

Improve!!!!

Yes I certainly need to do that!

The November pledge over at Wearcrafts is

"to improve"

Well, I for one certainly need to do that as I was supposed to be showing you a layout yesterday!

Better late than never I suppose.

The papers in this kit speak for themselves and don't really need a lot of anything else.

Can you spot me in this photo from 40 years ago? (ouch, that hurts!)

I wish somebody would transport me back to those carefree days.

I think the kits are sold out but Jen has put some others together if you want to go over and take a look.
I have two more to show you tomorrow...

Advent

Every year in our house we have homemade advent calendars.

Every year The Child makes me something wonderful and this year I came home from my weekend retreat to this...

I tricked her this year by giving her the smallest advent I could find but she knows me too well

and didn't take the bait!

The Child's advent started out like this...

and she was more than delighted when she came home from school yesterday

to find this...

Oh how I'm going to struggle next year to come up with something different!

Do you make or buy?

Well.....

...did you notice there is no kit reveal today?

CKCB, as we know you are all busy, has taken a different

angle this month and we will be helping you 

out with a Year of Cards.

I will be here on the 4th to show you my card kit

and then the following day to show you some ideas on how to use that kit

to make birthday cards.

Today however, I am guesting over at The Memory Nest.

I love Leslie's blog and will often join in with the challenges (time allowing)

so I was delighted to win  and be chosen to guest this month.

The sketch with a twist (to use stamping on your background)

made me think of drink splats and I had the perfect photo to tell my story.

"I’ve always been a “red” fan but over the last year

it just hasn’t agreed with me. It could be the tablets

or something else but whatever it is, I am glad

as I know we were drinking far too much

of the bottled stuff!"

Now I was always a red wine drinker and would share a bottle with Him nearly every night.

Recently though the red stuff hasn't agreed with me and just a small glass

leaves me feeling YUK.

Sitting watching a beautiful sunset in Madagascar, I enjoyed a very small glass

but don't think I've touched a glass since.

3 months!!!! Now that's a record!!!

I'll be back on the 8th to reveal my second layout created for

The Memory Nest Guest Spot.

16 Days!!!!!!

Well haven't I been rubbish at blogging lately!!!

16 days since my last post - oh dear I have let it slip haven't I!?

To be honest I haven't had time to scrap as in between the craft fair and retreat planning

there has been crochet too!!!
(that went wrong so no pics to show!)

Here is how the stall looked last weekend, 

took a few book orders and sold plenty of small items,

hopefully the next one will be better.

Anyway, the release of the November 12 Pledges Kit from 

Wearcrafts

jigged me up and shook me about and got me back into scrapping.

I love the kit this month, with its gorgeous papers from a 

Prima Collection - Pixie Glen

and a price tag of just £5

I have created 4 layouts.

Want to see?

Here's the first one I created....

I have let the paper do the talking in this layout and just added a few subtle stamps around the background that tie in with my layout.

The journalling is hidden as it's personal and hopefully
when she looks back at this in years to come she will understand how true it is.

These kits fly off the shelves so be quick to grab one if you fancy a play!

Anyway, I am currently enjoying my second retreat with a bunch of wonderful ladies

(although sad to say I am missing a few)

and lots of good fun and laughter and way too much food!

December is a calling and luckily I finished The Child's Advent Calendar

ready to give her on Monday morning.

I will blog about that next week....

Door-Mant No More

Do you see what I did there?

I love scrapbooking and blogging but sometimes, as we all know, other things get in the way.

I haven't been away from my craft desk, I've been doing other things.

Book folding and creating lots of things to sell at the Crafts Fairs that are coming up as we approach Christmas

have taken over my scrap room so it was lovely to create a layout for the

Counterfeit Kit Challenge #2: Decorative Doors

The challenge is to use this

Pinterest Board

for inspiration and to create a layout using the chosen pin.

I was inspired by...

  photo credit

to create the following layout of me and him enjoying some leisurely time in Barcelona earlier this year.

Can you see how the door inspired me?

Which door will you choose?

Are you still singing along to Shaky?