Season's greetings....

.... Now life is a bit calmer I just wanted to say that I hope you all had a great Christmas day and are enjoying the holidays where ever you are. Our snow is all gone now but we did have some fun while it lasted. Just chilling out now & playing. Back to work tomorrow :0( but only for 2 days then off again until the following Sunday......yippy!

So, just in case I don't get back before the New Year I will take this opportunity to wish you all ........

A happy, healthy and prosperous 2010!

Snow and more snow!

Well, the kids went to bed last night in a state of extreme excitement.....and they were not disappointed this morning. All schools in the city closed & not one bus running. What a way to end the school term! And seeing as I work in a school it's no work for Mum either (yippy!)
So here's a taster of how our morning has been.
Woke up to this sight.
Light enough to go out to play!
The view of the sea at the end of our road, looks really weird having snow in the foreground. We are not used to this on the South coast.

Time to get serious, nearly at the park.
Woo hoo......down comes my son.
Right......my turn.
OMG....how much fun is this!

Just had to take a peek at the beach before heading home to warm up.

Hot chocolate here we come.
Keep safe & warm where ever you are!

Kaz xx

Super fab candy....

Ooooh just love these gorgeous stamps Squirrel has on her mini advent celebration candy.
Well done on reaching (& surpassing) 10,000 hits!
Why not pop over to her blog and see for yourself.....
http://squirrel10.blogspot.com/2009/11/mini-candy-advent-celebration.html

My new Sugar Nellies arrived......

......Ok, it was a week or two ago but I have christened all of them now (was naughty & got 4 of them) .........well, there was a sale on! One you may have already seen in my last post....my attempt at a goth card.


This one is Miss Clause, couldn't resist her. Coloured her with water colour pencils and added Stickles glitter to all the 'fur trim' bits of her clothes. Greeting stamp by Inca.

This next one is Baubles, just LOVE this image....she's so cute!
Again coloured with water colour pencils & highlighted all the baubles with Glossy Accents.
I followed a sketch from http://papertakeweekly.blogspot.com/ challenge but am about a week too late taking the pic. Oh bring back those long, light days of summer!
But never mind its another Chrimble card completed.

This last one is for a challenge a lovely crafting friend set ~ to use the colours pink, blue & yellow in a spring or Easter card. Must say it made a refreshing change from Christmas cards and gave me a great excuse to use the last of my new Sugar Nellie stamps~ Reflective.

Dug out my Prismacolors & Zest it for the first time in ages to colour her. Have given up trying to use blending stumps and resorted to cotton buds :0

That's it for now, back to Chrimble cards if I want to get finished in time to post for this Christmas.
Thanks for stopping by.
Kaz xx

Three more.....

....the craft frenzy continues! Must be close to a personal record for cards in one week by now.

These 3 were all for my daughter's 13th birthday yesterday.

This first one is from her Nana who loves Henry almost as much as me. Wish I hadn't done the embossing now but it seemed like a good idea at the time.

Next was from her brother who chose this PB bear image

And finally from her Dad & me and my entry for this months

http://justmagnolia.blogspot.com challenge which is to use distressing on your card or project.

So I have used my scissors to distress the edges of the Bazzill card layers.

Thanks for visiting

Kaz xx

44 days to go.........eeek!

Seeing all those Christmas count down things on blogs I visit has spurred me into a crafting frenzy & I have two more cards done this week. Challenges are helping me no end.......Oh thank goodness for challenges!

My first card fits two challenges http://pennybfriendssaturdaychallenge.blogspot.com/ who's challenge this week is Song titles/lyrics.

My song is "When the red, red robin comes bob, bob, bobin' along"

And I instantly loved this sketch from the weeks

http://christmasblogchallenge.blogspot.com// ( will be using this one lots me thinks)

My second card fits the http://sketchsaturday.blogspot.com/ challenge which again uses a fab sketch

Its my daughter's birthday tomorrow so another busy crafting evening in store tonight.

Oh I am soooo last minute!

TTFN

Kaz xx

Well there goes another week! Oh boy they do seem to be passing fast. Have 3 cards to share this week.......not bad for me. Had two crafty friends with birthdays recently and a real toughy for me.......my daughter asked me to make a goth card for her friend......eeek! So needed some inspiration on that one!

Luckily (I think) a friend tipped me off to some discount on orders from Sugar Nellie and in a moment of weakness some fell into my basket and through the checkout before I knew it.......strange how that can happen.

Anyway, they have arrived and one of the stamps was a manga girl who was my only chance at a goth card. Lets face it cute bunnies, hedgies and florals just weren't gonna work!

I used the sketch from this weeks http://papertakeweekly.blogspot.com/ challenge and came up with this......

I do love the image and the sketch, but found the colours really depressing to work with and really tricky to photograph! I have used 3 shades of grey Bazzill and black. Managed to inject just a tiny bit of sparkle with black sparkly embossing powders for the text and a tiny splash of colour on her bow.
Just couldn't resist adding 3 fab silvery Dew Drops too.
Phew.....need some ribbons, flowers & glitter after that, which brings me to my other two cards.

Same image but way different colours. Used a fab sketch from ......ooops sorry I can't remember! But it's a good one. P.S My lovely friend Helen has let me know the sketch is from this weeks

http://www.christmasandbirthdaycards.blogspot.com challenge.......Thanks Helen!

And last but not least.....

A lovely Magnolia image with lace, ribbon, a charm and a flower, much more me.

Right I am off to play with my other new Sugar Nellies. Have a great weekend & thanks for peeking at my blog.

Kaz xx