scrapbook

Hello lovely people! I'm back again! lol Same old same old from me. Struggling health wise and just craft for short amounts when I am able. 

I have finally, (almost) finished my friends birthday scrapbook. I'll be adding a little letter onto the front and few finishing touches, but it's almost there, so I can finally send it, nearly a month late! Luckily she is understanding. 

Hope you like it! Sorry about the photos not being that great, but I just don't have the energy to spend ages on the photos. 

I found this gorgeous Cath Kidston on eBay as she adores all her stuff. 

Under the tractor flap:

That last page has an envelope bit in so she can slide in some more photos. 

In between doing this, when I'm too tired to move off the settee i've been colouring some images in ready to make some cards when i'm well enough:

The wedding couple, the mermaid and the birthday Tilda are what I bought with birthday money. I adore Magnolias.
Thank you again to Sally@ scallywags for sending me such a lovely card and some gorgeous little gifts. I was really touched xxx

I'm off to watch the England match now. Very happy to see my spurs boy Scotty Parker captain! Let's hope Psycho does a better job than Capello did!

Sending you all love and good wishes. Thank you as always for comments left xxxxx

A scrapbook challenge

Hello everyone! I hope you are all having good days. Thank you as always for lovely comments from you. It really makes me smile.

I had my gorgeous niece, Emily to stay with me for a few days for half term and after reading some old scrapbook mags, I decided to set us a challenge. I gave us each a £10 limit and we were to buy enough for the other to make a scrapbook page with. We chose the photos before we went off to the gorgeous "Glitterpot", which I am so lucky to live near, and we went shopping. It was funny trying to avoid each other and keep our buys secret. ( I had some early Birthday money to spend so 3 new magnolia stamps fell into my basket too! lol)

We got home and showed each other our kits and we were not surprised to see we had chosen the same sticker sheet and the same flowers! lol
These are our kits:


Emily bought this lot for me:

She loves those felt brads so spent a big bit of her budget on these. 

I bought her this kit:

I was very pleased to find those little stamps at such cheap prices and they fitted in so well with the theme. 

We loved our bits so these are our pages!! 

Here is Emily's page. She did everything but stick it all down, as she struggles a bit with that, but the design and layout was all hers. Isn't she talented! 

This is my page:

I hope you like them! We can't wait to make more with the gorgeous new Bo Bunny papers out at the minute. We are going to make snowy pages with them as they are so wintry.

I'm nearly finished my friends scrapbook, so will show you pics of those soon.
I'm off to watch Emmerdale now.

Wishing you all a good evening. Lots of love xx

*shock horror* i've made a card!!

Hello everyone! Thank you for such lovely comments on my last post. This ME and Fibromyalgia lark is not at all easy in the winter! I haven't had any improvement at all for months now and just hope that the spring/summer will give me a little relief, so I can at least get out a little more as I feel like a hibernating hedghog!

Well, my best friends birthday was recently and I wanted to make her a special card. I'm a bit slower crafting at the minute as I can't sit there for long periods, so this took me about 4 hours in the end, on and off. I hope you like it! I am now desperate for more flowers as this is the first time i've used them on a card after winning them in some blog candy. I'm becoming more shabby as the time goes by too and am inking everything that sits still! lol

I'm also in the process of making her a small scrapbook. I found a lovely Cath Kidson one on ebay (She's obsessed with CK), so i'm hoping she'll love it when I finally send it. 

I'm sorry i've not been well enough to be on here much, especially to leave comments on your blogs, but when I've been able to i've been popping by to see your gorgeous work! 

I'm soon to be 34 (on the 19th, which just seems bizarre as I still feel in my 20's) and we are having a little party at my sisters, so that I can rest and lay on the settee when need be and watch everyone make fools of themselves on the Wii! We are making jelly and ice cream, cheese and pineapple etc.. so it should be fun! I just hope i'm having an ok day so I can enjoy it. 

Hope you are all keeping warm! I'm off for a nosey round some blog. Thank you again for such supportive comments. Crafters really are a lovely bunch of people!! xxxxxxxx

Bad blogger :-(

Hi everyone. I feel like such a bad blogger, as I haven't been on for ages again. My health is not at all good recently and I'm struggling to stay awake some days. I feel so poorly and weak everyday and keep waking up feeling as awful as the day before.
I'm just about managing to walk my little doggie and bath each day, while the rest of the time i'm laying on the settee trying to stay awake.

On slightly better days, i'm sitting knitting, so I'm at least doing something, but the last few days i've not even been able to do that.
I've had Millie at the vets with a stomach problem so have been worried sick about her (she is doing bit better now thankfully), so it's all a bit of a struggle.

I just wanted to keep this updated anyway.

here is a pic of my knitting I was doing last week with my faithful little companion with me! 

I hope you are all as well as you can be and i'm sorry for the lack of comments from me on your blogs xxx I hope to be back soon with crafty makes to show you xxx

Happy new year everyone!

I know I say it all the time, but long time no blog. The build up to Christmas was either pressure of getting stuff made for the craft fair, or feeling ill and exhausted, so I just didn't have time/energy to blog.

I hope you have all had a lovely Christmas. Doesn't it go so quickly :-( I had an ok time, but I have been poorly all over the Christmas period with that virus as well as the ME playing up, so I spent most of Christmas morning in bed, having a little cry and then my lovely family took a mattress into the living for me so I could at least be with them all. I did manage to get over to mums on boxing day but rested on the settee whilst most of them popped over to the pub for a Christmas swifty.
I hope all of you had healthy Christmases and lots of special times.

I want to say thank you to Sally (Scallywags) for such a gorgeous card!! Isn't it so cute! I just adore the glossy accents on his beak and feet. Thank you for the ribbon too. That was very sweet of you. I'm pleased you liked my blog candy xx

I've not made any cards for a while now but wanted to show you a few of my lovely prezzies and some bits I bought in the Glitterpot sale with some Xmas money. 

I just love owls lately. They are too cute! My sis bought me this gorgeous cushion. 

A cute little hand warmer from my friend. 

She also got me this cute little robin. 

Every year I end up buying more and more decorations as I just adore Christmas and I bought these a few days before:

Yes I bought another owl! lol 

Here are my bits from the Glitterpot:

Ok, enough photos! lol

Now that Christmas is over, I am going to try and concentrate a bit more on my scrapbooking as I have so many years to scrap! Trying to actually use my gorgeous pile of papers isn't going to be easy though! So watch this space!

I wish you all a happy new year. I can't stand new year's eve myself, as every year that passes of me being ill, makes me wonder if i'll ever get my life back. Maybe 2012 will be a good turning point for many, as it's meant to be. 

Distressed Tilda.

Take two again!! I accidentally deleted the post instead of one photo.

Hello everyone! I hope you are all as well as possible and bug free. I'm hoping i'm not coming down with another cold as my niece has another one and i've been sneezing all day. I can't be iller than normal again as I have too much to make before the fayre on Saturday! I really hope it goes better than the first one, but we'll just have to see.

So here is my Distressed Tilda card. I love seeing all the distressed cards that lots of you make, but it's not something that comes naturally to me and my neat and tidy card making style. So I just inked up the edges, flowers, swirls, used kraft paper and some pretty lace. I hope it's a bit "shabbier" than my normal style. 

Again, i'm sorry for the poor quality photos. It's so hard to get a decent photo in such low light and get in nice and close without using a flash. 

I'm entering this into the following challenges:

Cute card Thursday- "it's just a number". (I've used my cute LOTV valley 25th Dec stamp). 

Magnolia stamp lovers- "use a Magnolia accessory stamp" (I used the Christmas bench, and the snowflake circle). 

 Just Magnolia- "anything goes with the option of "sparkle"- (i've used a sakura stardust pen for the sparkle)






I'm sorry i've not been able to get round all of your blogs and leave comments but i'm non stop lately getting ready for the fayre on sat, so when it's done i'll be round as normal xxxx

Blog candy winner.

Hello everyone!! I hope you have all had a lovely weekend! I have spent some lovely family time with my lovely mum, sis and niece and have put my tree up today. I've got lots more lights and deccies to put up but worn out so will finish off tomorrow.

Right first things first, I forgot to get my niece to pick a winner from a hat, so the fairest way was to use random.org.
So I had 35 entries and I counted each comment in order and random.org chose:

No 19 is Sally. Well done Sally!! Please email me your address to KezzaGroves@aol.com

It's weird that it chose 19 as that my favourite number being my birthday. 

I wish I could have sent something to everyone and am so grateful for the entries, new followers and lovely comments. 

I have also been sewing for the first time in years and have already made this little darling. My sister tried to steal him and put him on her tree, but I stole him back. I can't wait for next year to get all the reindeers and make a lovely garland with them. 

Isn't he cute!! I want to make more felt decorations now. I think i'm hooked. 

I'm also building up a lovely collection of me to you tree decorations. They are so cute. 

oh how I adore Christmas. I'm watching while you were sleeping too, which is a lovely Christmas movie. I'm off to sew my second reindeer now!
Night everyone and well done Sally. xxx

Totally gorjuss challenge.

Hello everyone! I hope you are all having a nice evening. I wanted to join in with the challenge over at Totally gorjuss, which is "sparkle". 

I love this sparkly ribbon. I've almost avoided using it, but it can't just sit there being looked at! lol 

This is the Tilda that "jumped" into my basket and just made me buy it. I am such a sucker for Magnolia stamps. 

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I've made a couple of cards today, which has been lovely. I find it so relaxing and the hours pass too quickly when i'm at my craft desk. 

Here is another of my crafty makes today:

I love this snowflake circle. I have shimmered it up with a sakura pen, but the light is so awful lately, I can't get very good photos. 

This is another one for the craft fair a week on saturday. I am so hoping that I'll be well enough to go. I've felt horrible every day for months now, so I hope my family will do it for me if I am too ill to go, as i've worked so hard on getting bits made. 

I'll show the others i've made tomorrow. I can't wait for the weekend as my mum and sis are coming to get my Christmas stuff down from the loft, so I can Christmas this place up. I just love everything about it and can't wait to put fairy lights everywhere and put my tree up! 

Right, i'm off to finish watching Corrie and then I'm a celebrity, get me out of here. Take care everyone xxxxxxxxxx