LSNED Days 3-6!

Well I am on a computer which seems a minor miracle!

Although back at school means I'm too busy to make many pages I thought I'd share what I'd learnt!

3rd September
There are EIGHT WEEKS until half term!
Ryan is growing up too fast.
Lord of the Rings is not suitable viewing for a 5 year old (Ryan wailed when someone died at the end!)

4th September
Hearing the kids in my school singing in assembly is magical and gives me goosebumps everytime.
I want fish fingers and chocolaate pudding every time they have it for school dinners
I should have gone home for a nap after work instead of going straight to my mums
Rehearsal on the first day back at school is tiring!

5th September
I need to go to sleep before midnight!
Big Red Combine Harvester is THE most annoying song!
Musicals are magical!

6th September
Thursdays are hard work!
I will have to fight with Ryan's teacher to prove that he is cleverer than she thinks, and yes he really is that clever... (As a TA I hate being "one of those parents" but you have to do what's right for your son)
My mum is an angel and will do my washing up while she is waiting for me to come home from work
Spaghetti and meatballs works better if you cook the spaghetti
The kettle boils quicker if you turn it on
Life was easier when Michael cooked dinner :(
I'm a dab hand at packing for camp and can do it in 15 minutes!

So these are the things I've learnt this week! I am away for the weekend now (told you, busy month!) so I will be back on Monday hopefully! Loving LSNED, just wish I had time to do the scrapping!

Sorry!

Hi Folks.
Just want to apologise for the complete lack of anything for the past couple of months!
We moved into our lovely new house on 3rd June and STILL havent got the internet set up. I'm currently back at my parents using their internet while they're on holiday looking into getting the internet in our lovely new house before I start uni again in September.

Never fear though, I have still been doing lots of cardmaking, even managed to do some christmas cards, so once we finally have the internet the blog will be full of the cards I've been making!

Will hopefully be back online in the next month (I'm fed up of living without it!) so will update again then!

Rachy :)

Christening Card

I made this Christening Card using my Forever Friends CDs! I also used it for the ABC letter 'T' challenge on Docrafts- "Text, Teddy and Tear"

I printed the spotty backing paper with the text printed on, then printed a blue background and tore round the edges (its not very clear on the picture!) and then used one of the ready made decoupages on the disc. It was the first time I'd cut my own decoupage rather than using die-cut so I was a bit nervous about it but I think it turned out ok!

This week I've also made Ryan's birthday card and my Dad's birthday card, both birthdays are tomorrow! I still have a lot to do though so I don't really have time to upload the pictures! I also need to make a card for my sister in law who's birthday is next Tuesday! May and June are very busy months!

Also, completely off topic, but awesome news today, we finally got a house! Moving day is 3rd June! And it has a huge cellar to store all my crafting goodies in! hehe

Hopefully I will get the pictures of Ryan and my Dad's cards up some time this weekend but it's going to be a busy one!

Hope you're enjoying the sun :)

Forever Friends!

Well I finally got a (very exciting!) shiny new printer, meaning that I can finally do something with my Forever Friends CD's!


First project was to make Ryan's birthday invitations for his barbeque party next weekend!


So here is the result:
It took me quite a while to get it how I wanted, the images were easy to pick up and put on, but I had trouble getting the text to look right, and getting it all in the right place and the right colour, for some reason it decided to print some of the black green but I fixed it :D
Anyway, was dead easy other than the text so can't wait to get playing some more on it cos normally there won't be so much text so I won't have that problem!

Feel I could spend a lot of my time coming up making Forever Friends cards, which could prove detrimental to my uni work but its much more fun making cards than writing essays :)

Also, thanks for those of you who have commented, and those that are following me I hope I am following you too, I have tried but I keep getting confused and then can't find your blogs so fingers crossed I'm following you, but if not it's nothing personal and I will keep trying! I really appreciate it, thank you very much :)

Little Tweets

I made another card. After having zilch inspiration for a while I found Claire's Challenge on the DC website and came up with this:

It is a good luck with your exams and disertation/I know you can do it card for my best friend who is currently battling through her finals at Durham university and working very hard but has very little faith in herself!

I made it with stash I got from C&C a few weeks ago. It came last week and its so shiny and pretty but I had no idea what to do with it. I'm pretty impressed with it :)

I'm going to go and buy some stuff to make my Dad's/Ryan's birthday cards cos I have nothing for men/boys currently. My bank balance is not going to like me!

A new card!

Well hopefully I've worked out how to get a picture up!

I made this for my friend's 21st birthday. Her birthday isn't until the 12th, but we're going to Dublin this weekend to celebrate so I thought I get it finished so I didn't have to post it!

I got new doodlebug papers, I loved the black and white I've never made one like that before I think they look really classy! I added mirri card numbers (pre-cut!) and some flowers with gems in the centre.

I'm quite impressed with it to say I'm not very experienced!

It's Ryan's birthday in 3 weeks time, quite how he got to be 3 already I'm not sure! So I'm going to use my new forever friends cd's to make invites for his birthday barbeque. We're only really having family coming so I'm going to use it as a trial to see how easy it is without feeling like they'll be judged! That's probably the next think I'll do!

My first blog!

Well hello and welcome to my blog! I hope someone may actually see this so I'm not just blogging to myself!

The idea of this is to record my craftyness, that is the craft items I have made, rather than my cunningness!

I cross stitch and papercraft, so I guess that's what you'll find here! Obviously papercrafting brings results more frequently than cross stitching, so the majority of the blog will hopefully filled with cards I've made, and maybe even some scrapbook pages if I get adventurous!

I started papercrafting for my Queen's Guide Award, which is the highest award available in Guiding. For one element I have to gain a new skill and improve over a period of 12 months. So the idea of this is to chart my progress and improvements, so if you have any ideas for further steps I can take, feel free to throw them my way and if I'm brave enough I'll give them a shot.

Hopefully I'll have some stuff to add soon, if I can work out how to. Going to go and play with the layout for now!

Rach =)