No Time To Play Lately

I haven't had any time to play and be creative lately but I am excited about why. We are finally finishing our renovation and getting the front of the house done!!!! We started 4 years ago and did the inside and the back yard and now the front gets the much needed attention it requires.

We are taking the arches out as you can see by the photo's and landscaping the entire front yard. We will then render the house and finish it off.

I can't wait to show you the finished product so watch this space. Hopefully fingers crossed in the next 6 - 8 weeks. The good news for some is that we are taking tiles off the roof on Monday or Tuesday so I can promise you that it will definately rain next week.

I hope to get around to adding some new cards over the week and want to thank everyone for looking at my Blog, I get so excited seeing that I have some new visitors.

Just One Of My New Favourites

One of my favourite new stamp sets is Scribble This and I just love Purely Pomegranate from the In Colours. I had a little time this afternoon so thought what better way to spend it than to make a card. Much better than the ironing!

I have used two of the stamps from the Scribble This set. They are stamped on Very Vanilla card stock in Chocolate Chip ink. Then I shaded the flower with Purely Pomegranate and the flourish with Chocolate Chip.

This was double mounted on Purely Pomegranate and Chocolate Chip and then stuck to the main card. I have embellished with Double Stitched ribbon and a little glitter for the flower centre.

Hope you like this one!

images ©1990-2008 Stampin' Up! ®

Recycling To A New Level

This little project has taken recycling to a new level. This unique little gift packaging is made from a Baked Beans can.

It is created from some of the beautiful Prints Designer Series Papers in Rose Red, Very Vanilla and Rose Red card stock, Rose Red Stampin’ Pad, Purely Pomegrante Double Stitched Ribbon and the Boho Backgrounds stamp set.

The idea is to put a little gift inside the can and the person opens it by pulling the Ring Pull.

Whoever receives one of these will think you are very clever.

Images © 1990-2008 Stampin’ Up! ®

Wow, I think I have finally done it and created my first Blog and without my teenage son's assistance. Now the hard part is to make sure I keep it up to date!

School holidays are over and today is my first child free day so I have achieved something big today.

Next week classes start back on Tuesday night and I am looking forward to catching up and start creating again.