Waste not want not

Is that how the saying goes?
Anyway here is a little file that i made from an envelope i received in the mail last week. I used my last piece of canvas from my Cocoa Daisy kit and other bits and pieces.

Next up i was experimenting making flowers with the cricut and these were too pretty to waste so using my new Paper Tray Ink background stamp i made this card.

Now my next card i don't like at all it didn't come out at all how i imagined but instead of throwing it away i thought that Caitlin might use it sometime. The back flower was meant to be made out of felt but as i didn't have any white/cream i cut it out of cotton wadding, there is also a Paper Tray doily die on here (i do love that)

i don't know maybe its just the colours.mmmmmmmmm still don't like it.

Now the three of us met last Friday night and shock horror i have nothing to show you, instead of working on our current label-crew item we sat and hand stitched the next block in our caravan quilt and as its not quite finished i cant show you just yet. (thanks Susan for a lovely night and Tracey i am so sorry that our drive home was extra long-guess who was talking to much and missed the exit ramp???not me-never)

Only two more days of work left until the Easter hols-yippee-and i am now going to turn around and make a couple of Easter cards, i have had an idea looming in  my head so lets just see if i can put it together to be something special. (oh and by turning around i mean that my craft desk is behind me so i will just swing around and begin)

enjoy your week everyone and thanks for stopping by
xxx

Plum Jam

Hello hello hello
how are you all my friends
well it's Sunday (of course) and you all know what i do on Sunday's yes iron. So i spent the morning ironing and the afternoon was, oh, spent doing happy happy things like going to the Swan Valley to get some yummy fresh grapes and vegetables then coming home and making some plum jam with my lovely fresh fruit, making some cute labels for my jam jars and finally cutting out the last three blocks for my table runner.
So a fair bit of craftiness has been done today and hopefully more tonight.
So here is my jam (can you guess that plum is my favourite).

Did i ever tell you that i cheat and make my jam in the bread maker, oh, its so easy. The labels were made by my friend cricut using the Preserves cartridge.

Did anyone watch Hawaii 5 O last week? I did and i thought it was quite good so i will be tuning in tonight. Tonight will be the first night since Joe started his apprenticeship that i have had to stay up late to pick him up then have to get up early for work the next morning.(didn't mind when i was on holidays) so i expect to be tired this week.

Alright that's my  lot for today
keep safe
xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Linda

This and that

Hi there, how are you all?
I have a couple of things to show and tell.
 Scrappy Go Lucky are having a new challenge on Wednesdays called Whip It Up Wednesday and the theme this week was to colour a cricut image. I can tell you now that i have never thought to colour an image that i cut out so i had a great time looking through carts and deciding what to cut and how to colour. The stockings were coloured with Copics and some Distress Stickles.

The snowflakes were coloured with distress inks and then a quick spray of Glimmer Mist. Love how these turned out. I got this idea from the Hero Arts blog although they didn't use a cricut image. So there you go more great things you can do with the cricut.

Last night Andrew and i went out to dinner with our BF's without the children/young adults (who were disgusted that they weren't invited BTW) and i just had to make a little I Love You present for my friend so this is what i made.

Another little card set and one of my crocheted cleaning/dusting cloths. If you hadn't guessed already her favourite colour is PINK.

All presented in a cute bag because as you know it's all in the presentation.

Another of Caitlins BF's (she has two) is turning 18 at the end of the week so Caitlin asked me to make her an album so this is what i have done so far.

Didn't have to do much to the cover-add the ribbon, some pearls and a lovely stamped sentiment and of course ink the edges.

Inside the front cover is this pocket that i have inked the same way as i did the snowflakes on the very top photo. Love love love the way this turned out with the matching tag. The flower page is from my favourite October Afternoon-Fly A Kite collection and will have a photo attached to it. So with that in mind i had better go and work on the album as it has to be finished by next Saturday.

Have a great week everyone, thanks for stopping by.
xx

More from last post

Hi all, here's hoping i can download these photos that i meant to share on Friday with you.

The first lot of are a book that i have made-my little craft book- to have near the computer to jot things down on or for any inspiration i might have (ha, i am not one for doing a sketch of my cards or LO's i just do them). The idea for this came from Scrappy Go Lucky.

For the dividers i have used a recipe card design from the cricut cartridge From My Kitchen. There are four sections, copics, cards, general and cricut.

More card making..

and this is what happens when you have three 16 year olds having a sleep over in the late hours of the night.

aren't they amazing. With some glow sticks from a show bag and the new digital camera set on an extremely slow shutter speed and the darkness of night the boys came up with these and a lot of others. It kept them busy for about two hours and i think they are "cool".
Ok i am about to check in on all of your blogs now so have a good night/day.
Linda

M I A

Hey there
sorry have been MIA this past week.
My school holidays did not end well for me with a huge fall in the kids bathroom which left me with the biggest bruise i have ever seen (about 10inches long) on my butt which made sleeping and sitting down very painful.
Am happy to say that its not too bad now.

Before i forget Enfys at Going Buggy has an amazing giveaway and it ends on the 17th  so you had better get in quick.

Here's what i have been up to over the last week.

This is a double LO from when Caitlin went to her music festival a couple of weeks ago. I have used Basic Grey papers and the Stampin Up butterfly punch.

Well i did have a load of other crafty things to show you but my browser doesn't appear to be working so i will have to put them in another post.

***some cricut love***as you all know, i love my cricut, well Caitlin and her Uni friends love it now. Boy has my bug had a big workout this week. Caitlin had a whole week of prac at her primary school, teaching and preparing three lessons a day, we had girls over here making posters for some of their lessons, cutting out huge clouds to hang the children's work from, big flash cards etc. This only justifies what i said to Andrew when i upgraded to my bigger machine "apart from me using it Caitlin can use it for her class work" i said this only half believing it and of course i had to justify the money i had spent on it and guess what it was true so i didn't tell a little lie. Now i wonder if i spend $400.00 on more craft stuff if i can say the same thing. (I don't think he will believe me)

So i spent last night making thank you cards for Joe's teachers as it was his very last day at school (he starts his apprenticeship soon), thank you cards for Caitlin's prac teachers and 28 goody bags for all of her year 1-2 prac class. And guess what- not one photo to show you.

I will try and post all of my other crafty things later on
Hope you are all well, and have a lovely weekend.
Linda

Purple, Orange & Black

That's the colour challenge over at ICopic and as i want to get in some practise with my Copic markers i thought i would give it a go. As we don't celebrate Halloween over here i didn't use a Halloween greeting (could be the fact that i don't have one to use either) but who could resist this cute digital stamp that i purchased from here. It is so cute.

Of course my trusty cricut got a workout with the frame and the background paper is from Stampin Up.
I don't have a clue who i will give this card to but i think it's very cute.

I have been reading quite a few blogs lately and in most of the American blogs i have read, everyone goes on about their love for "Candy Corn". Can someone please tell me what it is and what the texture is like. Is it like the coloured popcorn here which is plain old popcorn coloured with food colouring or is it something far more yummier that we are missing out on?

Linda

Lots of photos

Hi how is everyone. Hope you are all having a great weekend.
I have spent the last 15 minutes trying to get my photos and text up in this new format so once again i apologise if everything is askew.

OK so far so good. Here is a simple card i made for my friends daughters birthday, coloured with my copics.

and the inside of the card.

and two photos of Joe's stripey grandma blanket. L O V E it. I think that its the colour combo that makes it so eye catching. The minute it was of the crochet hook Joe had it on his bed.

 

Some Sunday cooking. Gee can you guess what type of jam this is. Cut out with my dear cricut.

I am very short of male cards so i put some thought into it and this is one i came up with. The present is cut by the cricut and all of the papers are from my Cocoa Daisy monthly Kit and i just had to use my ticket die and stamps.

Hopefully this one will pass for a male card as well, it is made from leftovers of a LO which is up next

This was made entirely with a Coco Daisy kit, every kit comes with an acrylic stamp (that sold it for me) and here i have clear embossed it in two corners.

Now the next LO is made with papers that i received from the lovely Tereesa for my birthday and this LO is very very simple but it tells a story and that is how i am feeling right now (no that's not true, how i was feeling on Wednesday) am glad to say that i have got passed that little hiccup, but i thought it would be good to write about my feelings. Click on the photo and you can read it. To me this is the whole point of scrapbooking, the journalling, the feelings, writing something as if i was speaking so that in years to come my family will know how i was feeling as well as how i looked. OK that was pretty deep-have i lost you yet.

so here is the LO

see very simple but quite effective.

OK that's me done.

Enjoy your week everyone..

xxxxxxxxxx

Linda

A LO, A Card & More

Yes this is my recipe book i have had it for about 20 years and its a bit hard to find all of my favourite recipes and when i see something i think that i might like to try well it gets printed and then stuck in here. Not very organised. So what does one do... this... all in their little own plastic pages, sweets at the front and savoury at the back. I got an expandable folder so that i can add more sleeves when it gets full which is just as well because i had to put in another packet of sleeves before i had finished putting in my recipes.

Here's a photo taken on the weekend just to show you the half new me, by half i mean i am half way there now 38.2 kg's these last 10 have been very hard. Oh and that's Andrew (DH) just in case you haven't met him. (he's is moaning as he says his head looks square in this photo-it isn't in real life)

Here's a card that i copied from here

really good as you use left over ribbon bits.

and here is a LO, a different one from the style i usually do. I thought that i would give my cricut a little workout sorry cant even remember what carts i used

Haven't been feeling very crafty lately although i am still working on my granny stripe blanket.

Joe and i are going to go halves in a SLR camera, we are currently looking at a Canon EO500, does anyone have any advice, comments or suggestions for me before we go spend our money.

Our trip to Penang is booked and paid for so all we have to do now is wait until Nov 26th oh its ages away.

Lucky me i had the day of work today as Joe had another Laser treatment on his birthmark and this was the first time in his 16 years that he didn't have to have a General Anaesthetic, yep straight into outpatients, no fasting and early morning appointments we were there and back within an hour and a half. Although he did say that it hurt as he was awake for the whole thing and this was the first time in 16 years that i actually got to see what they do, i had to put some funky glasses on and watched.

Ok babbled on enough for today have a great week everyone.

xx

Bags,Baking and Cards

Happy Saturday everyone. As usual in the school holidays my friend Pina and I spend one day baking biscuits and here are some of the delights we baked. There were still about another 4 trays waiting to go in the oven when this photo was taken. Unfortunately for me they are all delicious and not a diet friendly food. Now isn't this card cute? Made with a little help from my friend the cricut.

and another blogger friend made me this gorgeous, gorgeous bag. Janelle will soon be starting her own etsy shop so if you want one you will be able to order very soon. When Caitlin saw this she immediately suggested that maybe she should look after it. Oh no its mine. Janelle can make them in quite a few colours so we/i could get one for every occasion. Caitlin would like a dress made with the rose fabric as a ruffle down the bottom, oh what a shame i am not a dress maker....

Have just finished a LO that is a bit unusual for me, i will post it tomorrow, that is after we get back from our lunch outing at my mums local Italian restaurant, its her birthday and getting very near to a year of my dads passing can you believe how quickly that has gone? So it will be a very family orientated couple of weeks as it will/would have been my dads birthday next week as well.

have a good day/night everyone.

xx

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

One for Joe

...Although he wishes i didn't put this on my blog. Emma's challenge for this week was to do a lay out using the Doodlecharms cartridge. I don't have that cart but that's OK you can use any older cartridge. I have used a car from Every Day Paper Dolls. (much to Joe's disgust). This is a fun LO and in years to come hopefully he will remember the day and the fact that i put it on my blog. I am now going to watch some world cup soccer/football and work on my stripey blanket. Oh its gorgeous-i will try and remember to take a photo tomorrow.
xx

Very tired

Well hello there.
It sure has been a busy week with Joe's birthday on Tuesday and the first of Caitlin's 18Th parties last night. I will post those pictures tomorrow.
This is what has kept me busy craft wise this week. My first attempt at following a crochet pattern. This pattern is free from here and gosh was it easy and quick to make. Two nights although the wool cost me a fortune. I love it. Sorry the photo didn't come out that great and you cant see my beautiful big black vintage button courtesy of my MIL. Here is another look although not a great one. Asked Andrew to take a photo of me wearing it but alas photographer he is not so this is the best i can do. (i am all dolled up here ready to leave for Caitlin's dinner/party).

Here is the card that i made for Joe's birthday. I find it hard to do boys card and as i had left it to the last minute this is what i came up with. I used my Cri-Kuts Pens. (pens that you can draw with on the cricut machine). I then had problems trying to get the correct size to cut the numbers out so i had to do it by hand. But now i know how to do it perfectly as i asked the lovely Tereesa for help.

I don't feel very much like scrapping or card making at the moment maybe that's because i am working on crocheting Joe a Granny Stripe blanket for his bed. The pattern for this comes from this great blog Attic 24. I recommend that you go and have a read. Lucy's post are so wonderful, her photography is breath taking, her crochet is bright and cheerful and you can follow her on her Connievan makeover.

Ok i am going to go and make sure that i am up to date with all of your posts and have an early night.

xx

You're on my mind

Hi there hope you are all having a wonderful weekend.
Just a quick post to show you a card that i have made with the cricut for a challenge on this blog. We had to use brown,red and blue. I think i covered all that. All products are SU and the cartridge i used was Stretch your imagination.
typing quick as we have guests coming to dinner and they are about to arrive so i want to get this posted quick.
No time for spell check so excuse the mistakes if there are any
xx

Here I am

Yes it's me, many, many years ago and check out the very blonde hair. Typical Aussie though, it's obviously cold as i am wearing a jacket but there is nothing on my feet. The papers are from Melissa Frances, aren't they gorgeous, apart form the papers further inspiration for this page came from Tracey in QLD with the use of my Storybook cricut cartridge.

Have finished my sashiko hand stitchery i am now about to start cutting out the rest of my chosen fabric (my least favourite part).

Ciao

Happy Mail

Don't you just love it when the postie brings you yummy things in the mail?
Here is what arrived for me today. A Japanese sewing kit this type of sewing is called sashiko/sashico and is oh so easy all you do is a little running stitch, it's all marked out for you. I got this kit from here and there are so many styles to choose from. I am going to use mine as a center piece for my next coffee table quilt and yes its a red and white theme. More lovely mail arrived earlier this week in the form of this lovely birthday card that i received from Tereesa, its so unusual in the way it stands up, thank you i just love it.

And finally some mail that i will be sending out, Bries birthday card that i made with the cricut using the weld feature.

Have a great Friday night everyone and if you live in Perth a lovely long weekend. Yippee

xx

30, thirty,30,10x3=30,30.5 to be exact.

Hi there,
just in case you didn't get it i have now lost 30.5kg's and must say am pretty proud of myself.

OK here is the mini album-although not that mini that i am making for Caitlins BFF (Brie i hope you are not looking at this). It's a 6" X 12" album. These LO's are already in their plastic sleeves so they have come out a bit shiny-sorry.

On this one below i have made an envelope with my trusty cricut and stuck it on the outside of the plastic sleeve and put some more photos inside it. I love little pockets and hiding places.

All of the paper i have used is Basic Grey -Green at heart with the exception of the one below which uses SU- i had to use it as the colour of Bries eyes is the same as my new SU ink and yes i have done a LO exactly like this before but as this is not my album i felt that i could "copy". Another little file again full of photos for Brie to look at.

Now i have 3 pages left and that will have to be about Brie and her friends. It's her 18Th tomorrow and if i am truthful i will have to say that it wont be done by then. Just as well then that Caitlin has got her some other gifts.

Thank you all for your birthday wishes, i had a lovely day yesterday and got spoilt actually i was pretty spoilt all week. Alas i didn't have any birthday cake, i did how ever buy some jeans with some of my money and alas i couldn't even get my leg in them and no i will not take them back another 5kgs and they will be fine.

Ok i am off to try and finish this album.

xx

me

Cards, LO's and digital

Hi all hope you are having a glorious day. We were lucky to be taken out to a beautiful Italian restaurant for lunch. YUM

Here is my first instalment for today. My Pink Stamper is having her first ever challenge and although i don't normally do these type of things this one sounded fun so i thought i would give it a go. All we had to do was use the cricut and use the colours green, pink & black. So thanks to Emma and her wonderful videos i designed this card on the gypsy and then cut it out on the cricut. I thought this would make a fun card along with a packet of coffee for my friend who happens to be a coffee addict. This was a LO designed by Kelly Goree using my Basic Grey monthly pack. I cant get over the difference in height between mother and son.

Now this one i just love and it was so easy. This is a "hybrid" LO and the whole white piece was designed by Ali Edwards and you can get it free here just download it and put your photos in. You don't need Photoshop Elements you can just load it into a word document.

OK this is a "hybrid" card and not a great one but i was just experimenting. This is a Hero Arts digital stamp that i loaded into a Word document then printed onto cardstock.

Yes you have made it to the end.

Thanks/merci for stopping by.

Linda