cards and crochet

Hello
How are you all?
Fine i hope
Here is my entry for Emma's Throwback Thursday Challenge we had to use the Zoobaloo cart and make anything that we wanted with an animal, i don't have this cart so i chose this cute dog from Everyday paper dolls and used my Gypsy to make a card. Below i have just used some scraps to make a tag and at night sometimes i just feel like colouring-in so i thought that i would make a card out of some of my coloured flowers. I have used my copics for these flowers and the stamp is Stampin up (so is the cupcake in the tag)

oooooooooooooooo look at my granny stripe blanket it is growing and i still love the colours i have chosen (sometimes i get half way and think :i dont like the colour) anyway not this time. I am about a third of the way i think and in these cold nights its nice to sit and crochet.

I have a duck roasting in the oven (yuk not for me and Joe) but for Caitlin and Andrew, the smell has gone throughout the house ugh, now i have to think of something for Joe and I. mmmmmmmmmm something yummy and fattening is called for.

Have a great week everyone, we have another week of school holidays here so i am getting in lots of sleep-ins.
XX

Linda

A Butterfly

Hi all a very short post today, but i just wanted to show you something that i learnt from another blog. Love this blogging community. Although the card below might seem basic to you for me it was a first. Thanks to Emma and this video here she showed us how to copy and paste an image then reverse one then weld them together-all on the GYPSY-are you confused yet? Anyway what i am trying to say is Emma taught me how to make shaped cards. Now that i have done a butterfly shaped card i can use any image on my cartridges to make different shaped cards. My card is pretty basic but now I know the "HOW" i can go and experiment.

Night, night

Linda

3 More Reasons Why I Love My Cricut/Gypsy

Just look at these, aren't they gorgeous. My spring bundle cartridges arrived yesterday and these are from the "Mothers Day 2010" cart. I have just cut them out on scraps (plain paper would have been more effective) but i just love them. Now I cant wait for my expression to arrive so I can cut them out at 12inches. These were cut at 6inches. Let me tell you the funny thing. I always buy these doily papers and they sit in my stash b/c i don't really know how to use them, i had better learn quick they are so pretty. Yesterday i went to a class at my local scrapbook store
and we made these two LO's all with Pink Paislee kits. Inking,reds and browns yum my favourite and some pretty blue glitter alphas, and check out the funky flower. Thanks Evana i enjoyed my afternoon.

It's another beautiful day in our part of the world. I slept in until really late then we all went out for lunch. It's fun at the moment going out with our 2 nearly adult children, watching and listening to them, realising that we wont have many years left of this but feeling very proud at the way they have grown up and matured.

We had to evacuate from out house last Monday as there was a severe bush fire a block behind us. It was pretty scary, i am used to cyclones not fires. The water bombers were right over us, i am sure that if you were on the roof you could have touched them. Luckily we were allowed back home after a couple of hours and no damage done but boy was it close just at the end of the street.

I had so much planned for today ie-ironing, baking, scrapping... but whenever i go out to lunch i always feel lazy when i get home. So guess what, i am on holidays and i can do it all tomorrow.

Have a good Sunday everyone.

Linda

Oh my gosh, did I make that?

Hi there
I have noticed that not many people are blogging this week. Are we all to busy? Too right. I just had to show you this though,
You know my new toy the GYPSY well it blends things together and you can then cut them out on the cricut. Anyway I have watched a few you tube videos on how to so I thought i would give it a go and wow its so easy. I got a rectangle from the George Basic shapes cart and stretched it to the size i wanted and then i got the numbers from the Gypsy wanderings cart and positioned them on the top and then you press the weld button and hey bingo this is my result.
As you can see it is an album to put my 52 Questions in. The flower is sprayed with pearlised water, a great tip from Jennifer Mcguire .
I am so pleased with how it turned out (much better than what i had imagined, which is unusual) i will show you it in all its glory next week as then we will be on week 52 YAY. (and PS i am behind again but only by 2)
Only 2 more sleeps until you know who will be coming down our chimneys or through our front doors. Are you all prepared.
OK I feel like crafting something so I am going to turn around and steer my chair up to my craft desk
Have a good night everyone.
Linda

A Peek at My Workplace

Well hello, how are you all, I just thought that i would share with you my last day at work for this year. As i said in an earlier post we where lucky to win a ham on the bone and what a big one it was. So we thought that we would share it with our volunteers (all 3 of them) and have a nice lunch. Here is my work bench all decorated by Pina ready for lunch. and here are Pina (with the pavlova) and Michelle (back to us) working hard. These two girls are both hard working and so much fun. I can honestly say that at least once a day everyday we are doubled over with laughter. This does make work fun i hope you have some laughter in your work days.

These girls are amazing and a great help to me so i made them a fruit cake each (sorry forgot to photo them when they came out of the oven. In this photo you are meant to admire the gorgeous tag that i cut with the gypsy/cricut and then glittered.

Believe it or not we do actually do some work but as it was the last day of school for the year we didn't have many students so we could all enjoy lunch.

And today i caught up with some lovely bloggers for a coffee (i was late and that was all i had time for) so thanks Susan,

Lisa

and Janelle

for a lovely hour.

Sorry about the spacings there but when i put a link up i cant seem to type past the name without the rest of my typing being linked. I shall have to go and ask the young adults for help.

Have a great weekend everyone.We are going out to dinner four times starting tomorrow so i guess its not a good time to start a diet :)

xxx

1,2,3-10

Hi All

I just wanted to share with you a little book that I am making for one of the teachers at work baby granddaughter. (if that makes sense)
I simply had to do something with my cute little Disney characters and this is all made with SCRAPS don't you just love that.

That's it for this post

A very short one for me.

xx

New Additions

How cute and adorable are these?...... Even Andrew (DH) couldn't believe that I had made them from the cricut/Gypsy. This machine is amazing-look at Pluto's tail (sorry black on black) but its really skinny and cute and the cricut cut it out really easy. I have absolutely no idea what I am going to do with them but they are way to cute to throw out.
Yes its that time-we dropped Caitlin of yesterday at her Leavers vacation spot and now i will spend the next 4 days trying not to think about it or i will go grey. (hehe ..more grey).

Last night we had friends over for dinner which was really nice and on Friday night I caught up with some of my craft friends and had a really nice crafty night. Although not much work is done on these nights even Andrew sat at the table and helped (ie punched holes out with my crop-a- dile).

And this morning I took mum to watch Joe play cricket, so NO ironing has been done on this my ironing day. I am too tired, it can wait, I want to scrap and read all of your gorgeous blogs and as i munch on leftover sweet treats from our craft night I look out the window to see Andrew working away in the garden, the thought should i go help? has very briefly passed through my brain and just as quick my brain has said noooo way you hate gardening.

Keep smiling
Linda
xx

Breakdowns

You know that feeling when you are travelling along OK and then all of a sudden one thing goes wrong then another and another. Well that is what my last two weeks have been like. Only mechanical things thank goodness. First there was the garage door with Caitlin's car stuck inside, then there is the leak in the main bathroom now the pool pump has died, hopefully they can come out and fix it before the pool turns green. Now that is 3 things so OK we have had our turn, someone else's now.
On to more crafty things.
The only craftiness happening here this week (last night actually) was this double lay out.

I like to keep all the little bits and pieces from a night like this to look back on. So i have incorporated them in the LO so that in years to come Caitlin can look back and live the memories. All the papers are Basic Grey-Lemonade and all of the other bits were cut with the Gypsy/cricut using the Gypsy font and Gypsy Wanderings Carts.

Here is some randomness;

I have some dough proving ready to make a loaf and some pizzas.

A lot of you ask about my mum, she is doing really well, to quote her and dad "she is a tough old bird" and extremely fit.

There is only 6 weeks of school left.

Oh OK 5 weeks and 4 days to be exact

I love the Gypsy

Joe's team won their cricket match today

Caitlin slept in until 11.30 (she did work yesterday from 7.30am until 6.00pm)

I just watched the new Star trek movie on DVD whilst i was ironing and NO i am not a Trekker but i did enjoy it.

Joe is looking over my shoulder and said to add that he has broken his thumb and is feeling sorry for himself.

Mmmm i might go and make some cards now

have a good week ahead
xx