Blanket of Snow

Good morning from a snowy Kent!

Today's post is a bit photo heavy - grab a cuppa!

Woke up yesterday morning to a ...blanket of snow... which brings me neatly onto this scrapbook layout. 

I created this for Spellbinders using their Holly Accents, Poinsettia Creations and Scalloped Circles - all the details are on this link.  I kept it very white and simple to emulate the snow..

This is the first time Bella has seen snow...

 Really puzzled her as to why snow should stick to fur...

 And a confused snowy face!

I mentioned a couple of posts back that I attended the craft event at Bluewater here in Kent, it was really good.  Spread over two floors there was an array of goodies, demos and people to meet.

I caught up with lovely Genevieve Lee who runs The Kraft Shop - she is a stockist of Creative Expressions.  Later this month I will be using their products when I'm on Create and Craft.   

Bookmark the page.. :)

Here are a few shots of the event...

Ribbon, ribbon and more ribbon!

Knitted bunting.

I want a pink one!

and Cath Kidston scrumptiousness! I'm a huge fan of all that flower stuff...

I do have more pictures but I'm guessing your cuppa may have gone cold! 

I will share more tomorrow :)

Have a good Monday dear friends.

Three Flowers

Hello friends,

I'm all flowers and butterflies again with this card!

It is all fairly neutral, the only real colour being the background peach/pink paper, everything else is script paper and kraft cardstock.  The flowers are Rose Creations with some Tea Dye distress ink.  

Just by curling the petals you get a much more realistic flower.   

I've varied the sizes so they descend and looped some twine in between.

I think this follows on from my map flowers in that you can pretty much use any patterned papers to create flowers...I'm now looking at the Yellow Pages and wondering.....! 

Have a lovely Sunday and thank you for visiting.

Back tomorrow with news of the Bluewater craft event that I attended yesterday....

Personalised Gift Bag

Hello Blogland

Today I'm featuring a little gift bag that seemed to be on camera a great deal last month when I was 

doing my Spellbinders Pick of the Day shows but I never actually got the chance to demo it.

It truly is very simple, decorating a shop bought gift bag with pretty pearl swirls, 

Classic Scalloped Rectangles and Banner Basics Three.

The photo features me with my younger son, Elliott last Summer (his fringe is shorter now..thankfully!) 

Oh how I crave some warm weather ..

Talking of my younger son, I have to say a big thank you to him as he is my 

Editor and Producer of all my You Tube videos!  He has reminded me that I really should be doing more of them so hopefully this weekend I will set up the camera and share a project with you soon.  

It will be featuring butterflies....

Also this weekend is a craft event at Bluewater Shopping Centre here in Kent.   

This amazing centre is about ten minutes up the road from me so I just have to attend...!

I will tell you all about it and hopefully post some photos too.

Take care friends and bye for now.

A Butterfly Trail

It's Friday blog friends, as this post is published I'm getting ready for my City job, 

it takes about an hour and a half for me to commute into London, 

thankfully I travel by coach so I get to have a nice snooze!  

Hopefully I'm dreaming of butterflies..which is a sort of link to the card below! 

I've inked through a mask for the background, added Nested Butterflies Two and for the sentiment 

I've used Labels Seventeen. 

I'm glad you all liked the map cards, it is so nice to hear how they have inspired you.

It's the weekend tomorrow - yeah!  

Hope you all have an enjoyable one and I will be back ....!

Remember When...

Hello friends,

Today I'm showing my last 'map' card, this time featuring Classic Hearts and I've also used Edgeabiliites®, 

the Classic Postage Stamp decorative insert to emboss a pattern across the top of the card.

A useful card for Valentine's pinpointing a memorable or romantic spot maybe...

Not long and it will be Valentine's Day, I've just seen all the chocolate goodies appearing in the 

shops right next to the Easter eggs! 

Back tomorrow.  I hope you all have a lovely day.

Welcome Back

Pinch, punch first of the month! 

Do you remember when all I seemed to blog about was poinsettias...!  Oh Christmas seems ages ago now.

Thank you for all the lovely birthday wishes for my son yesterday.  We had a brilliant day, despite the snow!
Here are a few photos.... the birthday boy with Bella...

the birthday boy with me...

I decided to make an array of cup cakes for the party...

and the beginnings of the chocolate fountain with an onlooker!  

(Bella has spooky eyes but it appears that red eye software does not correct animal eyes!)

So returning to craft....

Today another map card, very simple with a recycled map as the backing paper, a couple of 

Labels One including one that has been stamped, bakers twine and some punched 'map' butterflies.

I like the idea that this card could work if someone was coming home, moving back to an area.  Mind you, notice my map mentions cement works, printing works - bit industrial!! 

I have a further map card to share with you tomorrow and then what will it be...??

I promise there will be something!

Hope your week is going well.