Dance like crazy ..

We had a great night last night.  A friend from work, who I've actually know for about 26years now celebrated her 50th birthday.

This is the invitation we received

my feet are still aching.  We had a fabulous time.  Julie had booked a live band - I think they are a local group called The Love Rats (electric guitars, drum kits the works).  Absolutely brilliant, everyone danced all night, they even played Status Quo, and I am sure there will be a lot of photos on facebook later today of us all 'rockin all over the world' with our inflatable guitars!

This is the card I made for Julie, made with Stampin Ups Calypso Coral and Simply Stars Stamp set, and as the dress code was GLAMOROUS I had to throw in a bit of gold bling

Bye for now and have a lovely weekend - C x

A first for me ...

In between a lot of things over the weekend I held a craft class with Crafty friend Linda. 

I've never done anything like that before, but I loved it.  Everyone (new and experienced card makers) joined in, shared ideas and had a fab time making these - we managed to get a last minute booking at a local village hall

 

 

We had a lovely time, its was a fab way to spend a couple of hours on a Saturday and everyone seemed to enjoy it.

We used 2 of Stampin Ups stamps for the cards - Swallowtail and Papillon Potpourri and the new colours for the ink pads, just hear the names of these
- baked brown sugar
- coastal cabana
- crisp cantaloupe
- pistachio pudding
- strawberry slush

The theme for the day was summertime and butterflies.  Very appropriate considering we have such lovely weather at the moment.
Bye for now
Cx

An early start to a busy day

Its a Sunday and not normal that the alarm clock would go off at 5am!!.  J is doing the Manchester to Blackpool bike ride again this year.  So with bikes on the back of the car and friends collected off we went. 
J is collecting money through just giving for his sister who died at the end of May (a very sad time for us all in the family).

 

 And finally off they went, as I type this blog, and by the wonderful tracking device on iPhone I know they have left Old Trafford football ground and heading in the right direction.  I'll set off at about 9.30 to drive to Blackpool to collect them.  Hope they are safe on their travels.  cx

He knows a bargain when he sees one

so - I got back from a long day at work with a lot of travelling involved, went to the kitchen on auto pilot to make a cup of tea.  "Did you see the flowers in the sink" said J, they are a present from me to you.

They are nice and I'm not going to say anything but they were obviously purchased from the bargain bucket - he'd left the price tag on - reduced to 35p :) Lets see how long they last.  I suppose its the thought that counts.  Cx

Born to shop ...

... Last week when I went to craft friend Carole's we made some note books.  Born to shop ... Forced to work.  It does feel like that sometimes, but we are so lucky to have good jobs with a great company. However, that doesn't stop us doing the lottery and wishing!!

My book is on the left, Carole's on the right.  In fact we have a craft challenge on a regular basis.  It started when I went to see Carole one Saturday having bought some ribbon that I thought would be a challenge to use ( orange and turquoise dots !!). We managed to use it (of course) and we both loved that it made us think and craft differently.  Since then we've made bird houses, scrapbook pages, shopping bags and lots of cards. It's a lovely way to spend and evening or two.

I'm off to the shed now to start sewing a tunic top. John Lewis had some really lovely amy butler fabric in the sale when we went to Cambridge. I couldn't resist and bought 3 different ones - see I knew I was born to shop. Bye for now. C

x.

New Stampin Up catalogue released today

Well, it's here. The new Stampin up catalogue is released today.  Click on the link, it really is lovely


http://su-media.s3.amazonaws.com/media/catalogs/EU/20130701_3nv82G1a_AC_en-EU/files/mobile/index.html

Check it out, I just love the new stamps and inks.  If you would like to be my first customer please email me.

Cx

Happy birthday (x2)

The first card I made was for Marcus - our neighbour. I used some wrapping paper to bring back memories of music on vinyl.  I don't know about you but I find male cards quite difficult. 

The 2nd card was for my craft friend Linda. I used a woodware stamp with white embossing powder and then used my pro markers. 

 Bye for now. Cx