Candle Light

The Candle on this card is the new Marianne Die out this autumn...

Christmas Trees

This was a quick die cut card - all dies are marianne....

delicate...

This card is 5 x 5 - I used the marianne dies for all of it....

little baubles....

Little baubles... just love the snowflake embossing folder for the background...

snowflakes..

 Here I used the spellbinder snowflakes sets - I think I used  1 from each set...

poinsettia wreath

 I used some of the new joy dies on the corners...just love them...

Noel...noel...

 I have never really liked poisettia's in the home...  but this year, for some odd reason, I just love the poisettia dies - can't get enough!  

jingle bells

 I had to do a glitter one... I hadn't used any of my quickutz dies in what seems like forever, so I dug out my christmas folder, and oh.... couldn't resist this bell one.

oh christmas tree

I can't beleive I last posted in August!  I have been a little pre-occupied though.  Oldest daughter has gone off to university, and the summer was really difficult, trying to come to terms with the idea!

So, after my blue and white cards, I decided to do red and white....

This is my red and white period!!

25c....

Whilst on holiday in Florida a couple of years ago, in our second week..... I discovered that all 25cent coins had a state on the back.....aaaagggghhhh I didn't know this, and it was too late to start looking for them all, soooo we got as many as we could find, which was about 17..........

THEN... my dear friend was going to Las Vegas for a holiday, and I asked if she would collect the rest for me - she said she had so much fun doing it.  She didn't know that each state had a coin either...

well

here they are!!!!

All in their little protective wrappers, I have now ordered the 50 states cricut cartridge, and can't wait to do a scrapbook just for them!

each state will have a coin - flag - state - tree - bird - flower

and anything else I can think of...yey!!!

let it snow...

These were last years heirloom dies... but the snowfalkes are this years new release...

I cut out the snowflakes, and stuck on small bit to the top layer,(before sticking the whole thing together) cut around, then carried it down to the next layer, and cut around the last. It is a bit fiddly, but lovely when finished.

Oh Christmas tree....

Isn't this tree just lovely... one of the new spellbinder dies just released.

Brrrrr.....

Isn't he cute... I just love these dies....

Frosty the snowman....

I actually changed from square card to 7 x 5.... ouch it did hurt!!

Keeping warm

Aren't they just adorable?

Snowy...

Don't you just love that little face!!!!

Oh little town...

I just love dies.....

Blue on white

I just love white and blue on white for christmas....

I had a few images that I had coloured in last year, and when I found them again, I was going to bin them....then the thrift in me said no.... so I sat and had a play...

Where does the time go?

I really can't beleive that it has been 4 months since I was last here....
I will have to make up for it!!!

I wanted to make both the girls a little album each full of 'our family chrismtas' things - photographs of them from sitting on santa's knee to now!

I will include family traditions - recipies - favourite things... etc.  I want them to have a little christmas to take with them when they leave home...(eventually).  They are now 20 and 18 years of age....
It is very much a work in progress, I now have to decorate them.

EMMA'S



 These are little Christmas books I am making for my daughters.

SARAH'S



They are made from cereal boxes, envelopes and cards.

 I have used backing papers that are cutsie, but they will be covered with photographs.

 The spine is decorated with wired ribbon

ladybirds

 I am not brilliant at colouring in reds, but I thought I would give it another go... still not great, but I will not give up. The same can be said for my bow making... I am rubbish, but have now got a little bow maker thingy, with prongs, so it should help...lol..  I have been waiting to use these little ladybirds on something, glad I kept them by.

Anyone for strawberries...

I had these quickcutz strawberries lying around for ages, they almost went into the bin, but then I thought 'no, I must have cut them out for something...Magnolia probably, but did them in a sizzix basket instead.

I must use some of my quickutz dies more often!

friend..

 This die is another one the new releases, it is just gorgeous....

Wedding on the beach..

Aren't they cute?  I just love these stamps, but then I love nearly all the magnolia stamps....

Did these in watercolour pencils.

black and white

This was going to be my favourite all white... but when I started playing around with my new dies, black just jumped out. I really like these new memory box dies.

anniversary card..

This is an anniversary card I did, with magnolia frame and Tilda and Edwin wedding stamps.  They are just so cute.

love these dies...

I love this new die from Spellbinders...
I saw this at the trade show, and did copy, changing the colours etc,

what a bad day...

Well, yesterday was one of the worse days I have had for a while.
If any of you have, or are suffereing with depression, you will know what I mean. I can feel myself sinking again.....
Thank goodness for my papers, I get them out and have a smell, and a sort, and then I put it away again...lol..
I think it its time to get my copics and promarkers out again, and try to do something.

another butterfly...

These are some of the new nesties I treated myself to this month... oh I wish I had them all.....
used purple bazzill for backing, lighter bazzill for die cutouts and some backing papers from an old stash.

butterly magic

This butterfly was cut out from the spellbinder grand butterfly set - the butterflies are small enough to go through a big shot... I haven't used glitter since christmas - missed it!