hello again and is everyone ready for 2009!!!
well hopefully everyone will have a good NEW YEAR and if is been a bad year i hope things turn around for you....
Just wanted to say HAPPY NEW YEAR to my followers and looking forward to seeing more blogs and making new friends in the coming year
take care everyone have a safe new year, hugs carol xxx

WOW BLOG CANDY!!!!

while i was popping around other blogs i came across this amazing blog candy at
http://charmedcrafts.blogspot.com/ if you have not all ready had a peek its well worth it! hugs carol

MERRY CHRISTMAS

Hope everyone had a lovely Christmas and are looking forward too the next new year ahead!
We had a lovely xmas day with lots of sharing presents and a lovely xmas dinner with the family. No craft stuff for me but to be honest i don't think there is much i need ooh apart from a new paper cutter as i broke mine just the other night when i was cutting acetate......it was thick acetate, have enclosed a pic of the card i needed to make for my daughters friend.
Sorry its just a quick chat today off to the shops may pick up a bargain or two!!!hehe
hugs carol

HELLO!!!!
this is one of my latest cards which i have sent to a do-craft member as a secret xmas card swap. Nearly finished all my cards for xmas, must get out and do some xmas shopping.......very behind with my shopping this year, not in the mood some how, LOL need a good kick i think! merry Christmas, carol xx

MINI CRAFT FAIR....I decided to take a lot of my craft items in to work and have a little mini fair there! with a great result better than my craft fair infact,
everyone loved the snowman soup and the magic reindeer feed have uploaded a picture for you to see, got rid of a lot of my stock that i had made. carol

wow i have received these lovely awards from denise over at http://craftycrafterdenise.blogspot.com/ thankyou so much denise for thinking of me and also tracey at http://bluedaisycrafts.blogspot.com/ it was a lovely suprise when i came on today. The Kreativ blogger was given to me by tracey



This blog invests and believes the PROXIMITY - nearness in space, time and relationships!These blogs are exceedingly charming. These kind blogger's aim to find and be friends. They are not interested in prizes or self-aggrandizement. Our hope is that when the ribbons of these prizes are cut, even more friendships are propagated. Please give more attention to these writers!Deliver this award to eight blogger's who must choose eight more and include this cleverly-written text into the body of their award.
so i will be adding my eight shortly for this award
http://debscards.blogspot.com/
http://vixx-a-craftin.blogspot.com/
http://ginaskraftyplace.blogspot.com/
http://bearlymine.blogspot.com/
http://www.stampin-n-stuff.blogspot.com/
and
i need to pass the kreativ blog to five people.
http://katysbloggeroo.blogspot.com/
http://craftywanderings.blogspot.com/
www.julietspaperpalace.blogspot.comhttp://craftyshell.blogspot.com/
http://craftypixiedust.blogspot.com/
http://thecreativeworldofmellymoo.blogspot.com/
the rules are you must choose these blogs and leave a little message for them to say you have awarded them, and a link from your page to there's and then they will leave a link from there's to the giver of the award hugs carol

hiya.....update on the craft fair i was doing today not really a very good turn out don't know if it was the really cold weather or just the wrong time maybe too early!!
or what ever the reason did not sell a great deal, before lunch it was fine then it just went really quite hardly anyone came in after that so a bit sad after my first one...boo hoo
Better look at the next one when ever that maybe!!!!

I see i have been given more suprises from my crafting friends which i will gladly visit and do the duty thing a bit later over the weekend, as off for a meal with my hubby now
hugs carol

Good Evening friends

wow what a week i have had...supposed to be off work on a weeks holiday but as usual you find lots of things to do! Been adding all the inserts in my cards and packaging, Made many things for my craft fair as you can see off yesterdays post and i made some money cards today, What do you think??? I used the free CD crafters companion what was in one of the magazines a little while ago, thrilled with the images and print outs.
I have even had time to decorate my daughters bedroom with a lot of help from one of my daughters, god bless her.

More items for craft fair





well here is a few things i have been making for my craft fair which i thought was today, haha its next Saturday..... silly me
i have made around about five of this size large A4 decoupage cards two pictures shown
loads of tags i have made with forever friends and glittered the Santa hat, made other tags out of shinny coloured mirror card used my nestabilities to cut the shapes and added embellishment's
Some more cards mostly thank you and get well soon etc.. using a Pyramage kit i got off Create and craft all with lovely flower images made around 20 of these.
Hope you like them and please let me know you've been around by leaving any comments, thanks carol

wow thanks mina - http://pinkpuds.blogspot.com

for thinking of me it was a lovely suprise when i came on to my blog today, now the hard bit is to choose five other creative blogs. hugs carol

well here's one Lisa....http://crafty-moments.blogspot.com/
2 is dawns http://dawnscrafttime.blogspot.com/
3 is susie http://susiescards.blogspot.com/
4. is alex http://eisbaerentraeume.blogspot.com/
5. is michele http://micheleroos-space.blogspot.com/

The rules are you need to pass this on too another five blogs with links from your page to there's and a link to the one who gave you the award. Don't forget to let them know you have left them something on your blog for them. x carol

hi guys just thought i would pop on and say i am so sorry for neglecting my world....only been really really busy doing things for my craft fair. OMG which is Saturday coming, thank god i am off work for a week on holiday that's good timing.
i will take some photos tomorrow and pop them on so you can see what i've been doing.

I still need to find a few more great blogs to give the blog award too so i will get on with that as well tomorrow.

Goodnight sleep tight hugs carol

this one i made this morning for the tilda challenge over on the dc site, you could only use two colours and the theme was winter wonderland.
I used my alphabet shapes for the letters added lovely tangly snowflakes which were a great idea, which i bought from matalan and naturally a tilda
what do you think!!

I LOVE YOUR BLOG AWARD
as you can see i have received i love your blog award kindley given to me by denise, http://craftycrafterdenise.blogspot.com i have also received this lovely award again by tracey she can be found at http://bluedaisycrafts.blogspot.com/it was so kind of you tracey


well a great big thanks denise goes to you,I am thrilled you thought of me.
watch this space because i will be passing it on to 7 lovely blogs very soon.it may take a while for me to choose out of all these great blogs that i keep seeing, these are the ones i have choosen so far,only thing is i don't seem to be able to get these to give you a link!!!!any one have an idea where i am going wrong xx
dawn - http://dawnscrafttime.blogspot.com
val - http://thecraftingpad.blogspot.com
babs - http://babzaramma.blogspot.com

kristine - http://kristineskort.blogspot.com
allison - http://alisonscraftypalace.blogspot.com


annette http://nettyscraftinghaven.blogspot.com

hiya... well i managed to get a few male cards made yesterday before i went out to pizza hut that is.... hmmm it was lovely
Used forever friends stickers and backing papers for some of them and just used some kanban toppers for the other two, with my glittery papers which you cannot see very well on the photo

well good afternoon bloggers, what is everyone up to today?? me personally will be doing more craft things for the xmas fair, also need to make more mens cards...which i hate to do they are such a problem.... hehe in more ways than one don't you think ??
Just haven't had time to do any other challenge cards this week as yet, been doing the dreaded House work and work as well of course.

bev has this lovely blog candy up for grabs...it looks fantastic don't you think, x carol

http://bevscrafts.blogspot.com/2008/11/whiff-of-joy-blog-candy.html

hello..... thought i would share some of the cards i made last night again for my craft fair...at this stage everything is for my craft fair. these are A4 size, great coz they were die cut decoupage.

hello again, thanks for your comments on my challenge card which covers the three challenges..i think that its self was a challenge. lol

i have only made four cards this afternoon for my craft fair, a couple of cuttlebug ones using the Xmas tree embossing folder and flower soft. craft fair is 22 nd November so have a few more weeks. will have to get stuck in this week , then i won't be rushing at the last minute

hugs carol

goodmorning.......this is my card i made this morning, its for three challenges

1......tilda challenge Docraft site, had to have a ribbon be sugar and spice and use three papers so i used plain pink, a dottie one and a glittery circles one from my glitter stack.

2.........abc challenge Docraft site, had to be inked image and irregular shape

3.......a spoon full of sugar, had to be sparkle and bling so i used my sparkle papers, glittered tilda's cake topping and the pattern on her dress and used those lovely glittery flowers. added some pearly doodles http://aspoonfullofsugarchallenge.blogspot.com/

so what do you think......have i covered all them

good evening...well i went shopping for candles today, did not stay in so only got a few cards made, but managed to decorate some candles for my craft fair...messed up one candle as i had never done these before, have uploaded a picture for you along with a few cards

i used flower soft for the first time also today so easy and quick to do

well good morning peeps, i have already changed my back ground after a day or two not sure really what i am looking for but i will go with this one for now...

Think i will have to get some card making done today as only 3 weeks til my craft fair OMG might have too do night shift in the card making dept..lol

Need to decorate some candles also so will uploaded them this evening when i am finished so please pop back and tell me what you think,

Have a lovely day and enjoy the weekend. bye for now

goodevening ...what a cold day we have had today and the hail stones this morning, saw a lovely rainbow at 7 a.m. this morning on my way to work. Finished work early and went shopping with my two daughters, now at home and staying in for the night to do more construction work on my new blog!! and to chat on the do craft site,

and this one was made for my craft fair one of the many i must add...

i thought you might like to see some of my latest cards which i have in my gallery on the docraft web site...this latest one was for a recent challenge which is set by a dc member on a weekly basis

welcome

thursday 30th october

hello and welcome to my new blog and thanks for popping by

this is such a new thing for me

shall i start by telling you a little about myself well..i am married to lovely man called kev and i have three wonderful children oh and a gorgeous black lab who is only a year old he is lovely, i will add a pic of him soon

I love to make handcrafted cards and have always dabbled in a few different crafts, but at this moment in time i am getting ready to do a craft fair, which i have never done before.