Thank You...

Well that's Christmas almost over again for another year!

I hope everyone had a super Christmas and had lots of super presents from Santa! I hope you are not still suffering from turkey overkill like we are in our house! We are still plowing through the mountain of food we got for Xmas- goodness knows why we brought so much, being that there is only the two of us and the cat! Maybe it was the thought that we may have visitors, I suppose, or that we were going to get snowed in again & not be able to get to a shop for days!

I thought I would show you a couple of the Thank You cards I made to send out for the lovely pressies we both got. They are based on the cards we made at SU Convention this year at Addington- I'm really liking this stamp set & will be using it more in the future!

The stamps were inked up with marker pens, then spritzed with water before stamping onto water colour paper.(I actually did the first image straight onto the water paper & then spritzed the stamp with water,without re-inking, to get the second image). When this was dry, the image was spritzed using a marker pen a & the Colour spritzing tool.The image was torn around, mounted onto co-ordinating card, ribbon & button added, and then attached to the front of the base card.

Items Used:

Just Believe stamp set;

Card: Not Quite Navy; Bashful Blue; Cherry Cobbler; Wild Wasabi; water colour card

Marker Pens: Not Quite Navy;Almost Artichoke;Bashful Blue;Cherry Cobbler;Pear Pizzazz

Other: Old Olive grossgrain ribbon; Su buttons; linen thread; Colour Spritzer

I am going to make a New Years Resolution -to keep up to date with my blog & to join in more blog challenges in 2011, as I let work take over and lost my Mojo this year. I keep looking at everyone else's blogs & seeing their wonderful creations, but just do not have the inclination to do anything myself! Well, we'll see what happens!

Hope you all have a super New Years eve & day..... and keep crafting!

Teresa xx

Yeah........ Its finished!!!!!!

Yeah....... the extension is all done(almost)

Hubby's office almost finished, furniture here,Christmas tree up & decorated- check!

We carried the wallpapers through to the new extension, so that it made it feel like one larger area rather than 2 separate rooms.

The sofas & chair arrived from DFS at 4.30pm yesterday(they did promise delivery before Xmas!!). All set up & tried out for comfort & TV positioning(hubby!). Now its all in its feels more cosy & like a room to live in rather than a big space to fill!

If you look closely you can see my chair- didn't realise how close the pattern match was to the wallpaper!

The cats love the new suite and were straight in investigating all the comfy sleeping spots(only one is ours- we inherit next doors 2 cats during the day & they go home when its time for bed!)

Next year- the garden!!!!!!

Best Wishes for a Very Merry Christmas & a Happy New Year to you all....

Keep Crafting..

Teresa xx

A Few Crafty Makes......

I thought I would show a few piccies of the things I made for the craft fair that I was going to attend, but got cancelled due to the snow. I held a mini fair at mine instead the following weekend and sold a few things.

I made some handbag treat

bags which I put mints in, but looked great hanging on my Christmas tree and could be also be used to put a small gift in. I also made up some notepad, ruler & pencil sets, covered notepads, paper-bag albums, Magic Reindeer food holders and cards.

The instructions for the Reindeer bags can be found here at Chic'n'scratch, which is a brilliant blog for ideas by a very talented lady. I did tweak the design to suit as I didn't have the SU Sparkly & Bright stamp set & used a photo download from here called Printable Heaven, which has loads of great downloads.

Hope you are all ready for the big day tomorrow! Have just last minute gift holders to make & prep to do for lunch tomorrow, then that's it- if I have forgotten anything now- too bad!

Merry Christmas to everyone & hope you have a great time. Hope Santa brings you everything you asked for.....!

Teresa xx

Teresa xx

Nans Card..

Here is the card I made for Nan for her 90th birthday.

I made an album card(I think that's what its called), the same as the Scrap club class that we did. It was from a class by Andrea Walford, who always comes up with some brilliant class/workshop projects.

I was quite chuffed with how it came out and used lots of bling on it to make a bit more special for her, and I also made a voucher holder to match.

Items Used:

Card- Baja Breeze, Very Vanilla, Early Espresso.

Ink - Baja Breeze

Papers- Elegant Soiree

Stamps- SU- Happy Everything

Penny Black - Every Day

Punches- SU-Bird on a Branch, Scallop circle, scallop circle, Scallop border punch. Quickutz lettering and dies.

Misc- SU- filigree brads, Very Vanilla ribbon, pearls.

Other- rhinestone swirls

Hope you like it- might have to make some more of these- but only for special occasions, as it seemed to take ages to make!

See you soon.. happy crafting..

Teresa xx

Nans 90th Birthday....

Good morning to one and all on this fine Sunday morning- most of the snow has now gone from here, with only a few remnants left to show now!

I thought I would show a few piccies of my Nans 90th birthday party the other weekend, as I have been so busy with work, that I haven't got around to doing so before now.

Mum organised everything beautifully, with help from Dad and some family friends that were staying with Nan for the weekend- thankfully it was the weekend before we had all the snow!

It was nice to see lots of family friends that we hadn't seen for a long while, and it was nice to see Nan enjoying herself & laughing as much as she was!

She had loads of lovely presents and I think there is a trip to the garden centre is on the horizon with all the gift vouchers she got- Dad had better hire a lorry I think!!

Mum made some of her scrummy cupcakes, which went down well with everyone, and as usual there was so much food that most took a doggy bag home!

I hope you didn't mind me showing you a few piccies of my Nan, as I am very proud of her- she is a very independent lady, especially as she still lives on her own- she does have a very good support network, who without I don't think she would be able to do so- Mum & dad, neighbours & friends who keep an eye on her & do jobs for her.

Well off to get some breakfast & a nice cuppa. I will post some piccies later of the cards that Mum & I made for Nan.

Happy crafting.....

Teresa xx

Convention 2010

Wow.... what an exciting couple of days have been had by everyone that went to the SU Convention. It was the turn of the UK to host this years event- at Addington Palace in Croydon.

It has been fun packed, exciting, tiring, inspiring & a great opportunity to make new friends,over the past couple of days.
There were over 300 Demos from the UK, France & Germany and a couple from the US.

Some of us met up on Thurs eve for a pre-convention evening, arranged by Natalie & Monica, for their downlines, at the hotel, with Create & Takes, Raffle prizes, started exchanging our Swaps. There were so many fantastic swaps going around and even more when we got to the convention on Friday. These ladies deserve a medal for all their hard work & for putting up with over 100 rowdy & excitable ladies, most of whom had never been to Convention before!!

Here are some pictures from the Convention....

Natalie with some of her Stamping Stars Team.. we knew where we all were as we wore fluffy stars head bands!
Natalie, Justine, Gill, Cary, Jenny

The table set up for the Awards evening meal...

Natalie & Zoe

Front- Sue, Cary, Gill
Back- Justine, me,

Jackie

Make & Takes on Saturday

Kim, Natalie, Zoe, Jackie, Sue, Gill, Cary

Everyone there had a brilliant time - as well as the Make & Takes, we had Prize Patrols, where you could win a stamp set that had been used to demo a class(guess what..... lucky old me won!! I never win anything usually! I couldn't believe it when my name went up on the screen!).

We had demos, classes & training sessions. There were swaps going on for various different projects- I have never seen so many fantastic ideas! I have taken loads of pictures so I could remember some of the samples & projects, and have loads of fantastic swaps from some very talented crafters!

I can't wait to go to next years conference.... it was announced it is to be held in France at none other than .......DISNEYLAND PARIS! OMG!! I am going to start saving up now.. and set some goals( Natalie will be pleased!)

Will pop back later with some more pictures of some of the fantastic swaps I received...

In the mean time.. happy Crafting

Teresa xx

Sneak Peek......

Woohoo!
Have finally finished my swaps for next weekends SU Convention at Addington Palace! I made 170 in the end as I was getting carried away with cutting & sticking and couldn't stop till had run out of various bits n pieces!
Here's a sneak peek at what I have made...
You will have to wait till after next weekend to see what I made & hopefully the swaps I am looking forward to receiving to get more ideas for classes.


Off to do my homework for work tomorrow as have a Training Day at work & have my SLA & SAR to write!

Enjoy your Halloween evening tonight..

Happy Haunting......

Teresa xx