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Hey all!

Sorry guys, I know its been a really long time but I am still crafting and did not want you to think I had given up!!! I have though become an SU (stampin up) demo as of yesterday. I am going to start a stampers 6 club and have classes in and around the Bulford area. I have been busy sorting all of this out and now have another blog http://stampingbelle.blogspot.com this is my SU blog which I am hoping I will blog on most days.... day job allowing. So if you have enjoyed my blog up until now??? or want to follow me in my SU outfit. You might like SU products and be interested in seeing what I can do with them or to purchase some for yourselves. please come over to my other blog and take a look.

Bells x

Box frame

I have been beavering away all evening to make this for a close family friend who's is 18 tomorrow. Stacey goes to boarding school with my son's and they have pretty much grown up together and are like siblings.

We are off over to her mum an dads to have a bbq tomorrow to celebrate, so before I have to many glasses of vino, I am going to share my makings with you all :) hope you all have a fab, lovely warm sunny weekend.

Kelly x
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Woyww

This has been blogged early and as I have no idea how to time my posts I'm posting this on tues eve as I do have to work for just a couple of hours on wed morn :(

Well it has been forever since I participated in woyww. I have been inspired to spend more time in my craft room these last few days by two things.

1. My new increasing stash from laura (airing cupboard stamping)
2. Spending time at my local crop, looking at the lo's everyone alse is doing and enjoying playing with my stuff.

So here I am again, twice in a week (julia will be so impressed) :)

This lo is me and oh on holiday in dominician republic, taken in 2008. I have a lots of similar pics of us all but felt time to do something with us instead of the kids! We will have been married 20 years this sept and I think in the current time and climate we have done well (most of our couple friends have not lasted) and with 3 kids and 2 dogs thrown in the mix its a manic life we lead.

So I hope you enjoy, I'm off to lauras (http://airingcupboardstamping.blogspot.com) to do my stampers 8 today and have a play with some crafty bits! I hope you enjoy your wednesday and you are all doing something crafty and enjoyable?

Will hop around wed eve

Kelly x
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Well here I am again!!! It seems to be foreve between posts but work is busy, so not a lot of crafting time in between. These are two layouts I compleated at lugershall crop yesterday. The downing street layout was sort of finished, but I was not happy! Came home made some adjustments and hey presto I'm done :) the other layout is of my children the photo was taken in 2008 in dominician republic on paradise island. The papers is bought yesterday at my local craft shop. Did not really go in for anything was with laura (airing cupboard crafts) and saw them. They are by me and my big ideas and are just perfect! I'm off to finish another layout started at crop and not finished!!! See u all sonn I hope, two weeks holidays coming my way :)
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I'm back!!!!!!!

Finally I find time to blog again. I have been crafting but it has just been so busy from october until now!!! I have much to share with you all but tonight I am sat here infront of the computer with a layout just finished, so that is what I am going to share with you all.

It seems very fitting that the layout is of the children (my rather large pumpkin) and lauras from airing cupboard stampin children on halloween. I hope you are all having fun crafting, I have still been bloghopping to keep up to date!
Will hopefully find time to post much more in the next few days now half term is on our door step.

Kelly
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Take That!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sorry ladies no crafting have been too busy! But I am so excited i had to tell you all I have got tickets to go and see these guys.....................

Woyww

Hi all, there is not a lot of work in progress on my desk this week. There is however lots of newly bought stash ready and waiting to be used! I have been busy here catching up on jobs needing to be done while I'm on holiday and before the big c!!!!! So sorry to disappoint :( but I will leave you with a few pics of my stash and try and hop around you all later x
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December daily

Well it's been a quiet day and after all the halloween bits and pieces I have made I fancied doing something different. So this is the start of my december daily. I found this idea on ali edwards blog and will be my first attempt at it. So these pictures are of my front cover, not compleatly finished but a start. I looked at ali's blog and liked her style of the daily pages but did not fancy paying $37 to download them, so as you can see I have had a go on my computer and made my own version. I am really pleased with the outcome and will be doing the rest of them myself now! Just to choose lots of christmas colours and print them. I have a list of lovely bits I need for this and am off craft shopping with laura from airing cupboard crafts this week to have some fun:)

Hope you have all had a fun crafting weekend :)
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WOYWW

Not alot but a repeat of the busy crafting weekend I had. Sorry but it's a normal working week here and all i shall be looking at is my work desk :(My halloween card for Airing Cupboard crafts, i have fallen in love with the SVG file used on this, it's so cute :)My Halloween goodie bags for our children.and finally my altered sweet box to fill with goodies and put on the coffee table! All of this made using Echo Park Halloween papers. I have had such a drama getting hold of Halloween papers locally and had to order from the internet. It's such a shame we dont get the halloween goodies they do in the US.

Happy crafting!

Halloween candy box

Wow! 3rd time today!!! Must be a record!!! Here is a ferrero rocher box I have altered for my coffee table. I'm gonna fill it with my favs fox's fruits!

That's the last today, (well probley for ages). Off to watch xfactor now, see who's going out.

Happy crafting

Kelly
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Halloween party bags

Halloween party bags done too! I am a busy bee today!
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Halloween card

My quick attempt at a halloween card! I have enjoyed doing this and have fallen in love with the bottom svg border! So cute :)
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Halloween Calender

Well its Saturday and its been a busy crafting week for me! Have been off of work all week with a poorly little girl! She is now on the mend :) I had to find something other that house work and poor day time telly to keep me busy. They have a fab Halloween challenge going on over at Two Peas in a Bucket, this has been inspiring me all week along with the fab blog EIGHTEEN 25.

So here it is the crafting that has been keeping me busy all week. Its a Halloween countdown calender. I used Echo park papers and Embellishments along with some pics taken at Halloween in Euro Disney last year.
I hope you like I'm pretty pleased with it! I have found it really hard to obtain decent packs of Halloween papers on line and in my local shop. I understand Halloween is not as celebrated here in the UK as it is in the US but come on guys, some of us enjoy doing Halloween LO's and challenges.

Anyway I'm off now to see what new challenges there are for today before the X Factor live starts!!


Kelly x

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Well here it is just a little offering for this week. I have been taking part in the halloween challenge over at 2 peas and this is my version of the first challenge a halloween door plack!

Nothing alse this week due to girls fab weekend away and needing to catch up on much needed sleep!

Catch u all next week

Kelly
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WOYWW

Here i am after a mega productive weekend crafting :) So much new stash and no time to play with it. I allotted the weekend to myself and sent hubby off to the golf course. I wanted to do something with my favourite holiday photos and i thought what better way than a mini book. I had seen these fab new papers (road trip from Prima) and i just had to have them. So this is picture heavy but here is my mini book..........









OK so mini book made, i spent forever blog hopping for inspiration and knew i did not want to do a LO. I needed to have a bit of a change. I have had this Tando house sat in the jiffy bag envelope since it arrived and had not thought much about it for a while. The general chat here between mum's is how little time we now have until Xmas, but of course we have Halloween and Bonfire night first and i cannot possibly think about Xmas shopping yet! So with a few Halloween papers i could find ( not many about this year) i made myself a cute little Halloween spooky house.



I am really pleased with it and am hoping to be able to find a little battery operated light to go inside!! It will look great with my few bits and pieces of Halloween goodies when i get round to decorating nearer to the time. I am going to get online later and order another one of these houses to make into a Christmas Grotto.

Well now i have shared with you I'm off to finish my True blood book and relax before my working week starts :( I won't have time to blog again this week as we (Laura from Airing Cupboard Craft & me) are off to stay with some girlfriends who no longer live here! Girls weekend with lots of Cocktails, laughing talking and of course some shopping!

Have a fab week

Kelly x

WOYWW Finally!!!

Well it has been a while!! This post has been put on a little early (Tuesday Eve) but I do have to go to work tomorrow :( So think of me while you are all blog hopping as this is where I will be sat, not my favourite idea of a desk!





The summer really did take up my time and to think I said a whole 6 weeks off and I can craft all the time!

Now the children have all gone back to school and I have gone back to work, I feel more organised and am finally finding time to complete NVQ (think my assessor will pass out) and to find craft time.

So here I am after going to crop a few days ago, I was so disorganised I really don't want to show you the LO's, they are OK but nothing to be proud of!! However I know I need to set myself the task of starting to prepare at least a week in advance!

I have been spending a little time browsing online and looking in my local craft shop for lots of lovely stash! I really like some of the Halloween papers this year and think I may invest in some very soon. I have a cute Tando house to decorate and it's looking more like a Halloween house every day. It is however the festive goodies I have been buying and with so many cute bits and pieces around I really have been having trouble choosing and deciding what to do with them all.

I have not really been into card making until now but thought as I have all of this festive stash I should really use some to make cards instead of buying them! So here is my first attempt at Christmas cards.
I have to say I am quite pleased with them and enjoyed having a go so much I have signed up to do the card marathon being organised by the lovely Julia and Allie from 2 Scrap Ladies in October! Well i figured I might learn something :)

I have also invested in a Cinch and am hoping to find sometime over the weekend to have a play with it. I have some fab new 6x6 papers called Road Trip and I would like to use them to make a mini book of our summer holiday. So ladies watch this space.................

Happy Crafting, Hope to catch up with some blog hopping tomorrow evening!

Kelly x

LiFe AnD tImEs of A 12x12 ADdiCt: Mini Giveaway

LiFe AnD tImEs of A 12x12 ADdiCt: Mini Giveaway Have a fab mini book give away pop over and take a look x

LiFe AnD tImEs of A 12x12 ADdiCt: and the winners are.........

LiFe AnD tImEs of A 12x12 ADdiCt: and the winners are.........

Keep missing Wednesdays!!!

Hi all

well it's been somtime and i have lacked the time and energy to scrap or blog :( Now we are well and truly into the summer holidays and i have been away completed all the tasks await me (except buying new uniform) I have found time to scrap and craft. So please scroll down to last Fridays blog to see what i have been up to. I have nothing to add today as it been quite a week and i have had 2 seperate visits to A & E this week with the family and a lovely day yesterday with Laura from airing cupboard crafts and some other friends shopping and lunching in town.
Happy crafting, i'm now off to hop through your blogs for inspairation :)

I'm back

Wow! has it really been all this time???? I fell like it has been forever since i have done anything in my craft room apart from clean! well a girl has to have a little dust and hoover now and then. School finished and life became busy sorting everything out for our family holiday and then finally going on holiday! We had a fab week away and the weather was beautiful. I am secretly glad that now we are back the weather has been rubbish as it has given me the perfect excuse to just spend lots of time in the craft room.

I have been participating in the http://www.bigpicturescrapbooking.com/classes/summer2010/indexelizabeth.php I really enjoyed yesterdays challenges and have found this a good way to get my mojo back. Here are two of the projects i have completed from the first day.

The above picture is from the bonus project which was all about making mosaics, i had just printed these lovely pics of our holiday and what a fab opportunity. Not over the moon with the finished project but as it is my first LO in a while it's not too bad.


This cone shaped object is a Schuletute which is German it's a kinda gift bag which German people fille with goodies for their children's return to school. I loved having a go at this and what a fab incentive to encourage them back to school. Im very pleased with the outcome.

I have not had a go at today challenges, as lovely as they are they have not really appealed to me so i will go back again tomorrow for another look.

Im off now to have a really good look at all of your blogs! Dont forget to go and have a look at the http://www.bigpicturescrapbooking.com/classes/summer2010/indexelizabeth.php

Kelly x