The best card ever made....

Harry spent yesterday drawing the images for this card, colouring them and cutting them out. He even wrote 'merry christmas' onto strips of card for inside! I absolutely LOVE it, and am so pleased that his drawing skills have really come on.

Christmas Cards

Well I have spent the last 2 days making Christmas cards, Harry and Katie helped me, and we manged to make around 50 all told. It's ages since I made cards, and apart from some lovely new DCWV christmas papers in a 6x6 pad, and the cards themselves i just used up a lot of old stash, stamped and embossed and pressed my Big Shot into action!
Here are a few examples of what i made, for more take a look in my do crafts gallery.
http://www.docrafts.co.uk/community/profile/profile.aspx?buddy=144046

Half Term at last :)

After a hideous last day of the half term (teenage girls can be particularly horrible!) am glad i have finally made it to half term. I am planning to take photos of the glorious autumn colour this year. katie is having birthday sleepover tomorrow (as long as she finishes her chores!) so this might be a chance to get some good photos too.

Cat had her first BIG adventure today.... she went out at lunch time not to return until 8pm!!!! I was getting worried about her, and just about to go out with a torch to look for her when she turns up at the back door. I have a feeling she was in next door, they used to love our old tortie too!

Managed to finish a LO with the apple photos from last week, and i got almost all of it done in a 2 hour crop!

Apple picking

It's that time of year again, Harry and Katie's birthdays are upon us, and the apples are ripe on the tree. Harry picked some of the Bramleys today and we made an apple crumble, i took a few photos with a LO in mind, but here are two of my faves...

Kids... bah humbug!!!!

I have a portfolio of images to complete over the next week as part of CJs portraiture course i've been doing. Sadly my kids are being TOTALLY on co-operative today, and the weather is great for outside shots. Might have to bribe Harry with a trip to the park!! Well here's a couple of shots i got of the boys before they got too bored in the garden. Loving the autumnal colours at the moment!!!

Harry is 10 next week, i really don't know where those 10 years have gone, and looking at the boys is a bitter sweet experience for me. It won't be long now before Harry won't want to spend any time at all with his Mum :(

And here's the LO using these photos for Harry's album. Am pleased with how it turned out, mainly Urban Rhapsody papers (K&Co) and who says you can't use pink on a boys LO!!

Stash Weekend!

Visited my local crafty shop yesterday (Stampeezee in Coventry) to pick up some more of the lovely Unity stamps. I seem to have gone from being obsessed with birds to loving trees now... although the tree set of stamps did have 2 new birdies in it!! Am planning to use these to make Katies birthday card...don't make many of those these days!!!

Today i'm off to a craft fair in Hinkley of all places. I've been really disappointed with the NEC of late, it is quite expensive to get in, there seem to be fewer and fewer interesting exhibitors (far too many peel offs for me!) and the parking fees are simply a rip off. I don't think there will be too many stands at the Hinkley fair, but at only £2.50 a ticket i won't feel too bad about it!
A friend at work and fellow scrapper is off the Ally Pally this weekend, and swears by it, so maybe next time i want a BIG craft fair i'll venture south!!