Training swaps

Hello everyone,

Yesterday was spent travelling to Leeds for regional training.  It was lovely to see familiar faces and everyone had a ball.   For those ladies still waiting to go to their regional training you'll have a blast.  It was so inspiring and uplifting, thanks to Paula and Kelly for organising it.

Obviously, as with any SU gathering, swaps are a major part of the day.  I got some lovely ones back and will try and take a picture later to post.  As training was near the end of the current catty a lot of us, thanks to a suggestion by Zoe, did swaps using punch art only.   So, I googled punch art and found a very cute hippo but, unfortunately I can't remember who's site it was on so apologise to them.  I have altered mine a little so it is not exactly the same as the one I saw.  I made 40 in total and here they are:

I used the following punches to create my hippo: word window for the inside of the ears, 1 3/4 round punch for the head, 1 3/8 oval for the ears (cut in half) and for the mouth, large ovel for the front of the face, circle from the trio punches in the mini to make the nostrils, 2 step bird punch for the leaves.  The eyes were none SU but you could easily make them using the owl punch.  The colour combo was old olive, basic black, crumb cake, basic grey and blushing bride.

 I'd like to thank Victoria for driving us there as it was a pretty eventful journey thanks to the motorway being closed...lol   Still we got there and back safely.

Thanks for looking and if you  would like to order any of the above items just get in touch and I'll be happy to oblige.
Hugs
 
Tracy -x-

Lovely as a tree class

Hello everyone,

My what a hectic weeks its been.  Not only have we been baby sitting our gorgeous grandson but have been running his mummy everywhere to find a new car.  She has finally got one so is mobile again.  We also did a major clean on the house, I ran my class yesterday and then organised a BBQ to celebrate our anniversary.  It was a great turnout and, for the first time in years, all of hubbys family were together in one place.  Over the next few weeks I have to make 30ish swaps for training thats next Saturday, a wedding card, design my scrapbook class and other bits and bobs so quite a busy time ahead.  Oh and did I mention I have to work full time as well...lol

At my class yesterday I used the stamp set Lovely as a Tree.  We made a box that holds 4 tea tree lights and 6 cards.  The measurements for the box were kindly given to me by Victoria, thank you.   This is what we made:

The image on the cherry cobbler scallop card doesn't show up too well but it was the largest image in the set stamped in Night of Navy.   The colour scheme was cherry cobbler, night of navy, river rock and whisper white.  All the ladies loved the class and we had a blast as usual.  One of my ladies even brought home made cakes for us all and has specially baked extra for my BBQ... how sweet (excuse the pun) was that!

If you would like to order anything or book in for a class please visit the pages at the top of my blog for details of how to contact me.

Thank you for stopping by

Hugs
Tracy -x-

Owl punch art

Hello everyone,

Sorry I haven't been around for a while but have had a few things to do that have taken up rather a lot of my time.  Anyway, I am off work this week and so far have just managed to finish off designing my class for Saturday.   I'm basing it on the Lovely as a Tree set and will post piccies after Saturday.

Yesterday was my wedding annniversary and, believe it or not, it was my neighbours as well.   We moved here 10 years ago to discover that they got married on the same day and year as us.  How weird is that!!!  Well to celebrate their anniversary I made them this card.....

As you can see I have used the owl punch to make a bride and groom and papers from the Lap of Luxuary set ensuring I got the word Love on the card.   I haven't seen them since I posted the card so I hope they liked it.

Hubby is meant to be taking me shopping this week to treat me so I'm hoping to get really spoilt.  We are having a BBQ on Saturday to celebrate our anniversary so I'm keeping my fingers crossed that  the weather is kind to us.

I won't leave it so long next time to post I promise.  Til them, ttfn

Hugs

Tracy -x-

Christmas in July

Hello everyone,

Today was my craft class and I've just had the most fabulous session for a long time.  As well as my usual ladies I had two new ladies join us and it was lovely to meet them.  Neither had made cards before so didn't quite know what to expect but both throughly enjoyed what we did, so much so they have booked in on the next one in August :)

Anyway, as the title suggests this months theme was Christmas and we were using the Welcome Christmas set.  We made a gorgeous bag and 6 cards.  The instructions for the bag were actually from another SU demo, Angie, and I would like to thank her for allowing me to use them in my class. Pop over to her blog and see some of the gorgeous creations she makes.

A lot of products and tools were used in the making of this set. The colour theme was Old Olive, Cherry Cobbler, Very Vanilla and Whisper White. You can't see it in the picture but the trees and ground had Dazzling Diamond glitter on them and there was some on the fathers chrismas hat and bobble.   Needless to say everyone went home covered in glitter.....lol

Thank you again for a lovely morning ladies

Hugs
Tracy -x- 

Baby Leo's card

Good morning all,

I'm still on cloud 9 following baby Leo's birth.  We saw him on Saturday and was lucky enough to have the pleasure of his company Saturday night when his mummy and daddy came round for tea.  They were both shattered as he had kept them awake most of the night.  We didn't see him yesterday as he went to his other grandparents house but, on catching up with Nikki yesterday he kept them awake again Saturday night.  Not too sure about last night as not spoke to her yet.  I am going to take as much of this week off as I can to be on standby should Nikki need anything but both her and Lee are fantastic parents already.

So being a crafter I just had to make card didn't I and this is what I came up with....

Its using the Little Additions stamp set and the colour combination is Marina Mist and Crumb cake.  I have also used the markers for the little elements on the card.  I have embossed the background with the SU polka dots embossing folder.  Inside, and I forgot to take a picture :/, I used the information stamp from the set to record all little mans details.  Mum and dad loved it.

Thank you for taking the time to visit my blog, please leave a comment as I love to read then.  

Hugs
Tracy -x-

New arrival....

Hello all,
Before I show you my entry for the Less is More challenge I would just like to tell you about the roller coaster of a week I've had.  Not only have we been on baby watch but our youngest daughter has moved out to live with her partner.  Despite her not being here much for the last 2-3 months it is still a horrible feeling to know she's flown the nest...lol.  Then of course we had baby watch, well Wednesday came and went and nothing.  On Thursday morning Nikki rang me at half  6 to say she thought her labour had started as she'd been having pains since 3am.   We kept in touch all day and nothing seemed to be happening.  At 8 pm'ish we got a call from Lee asking us to go over as Nikki was getting aggitated, which we did.  We finally left at 11pm and had just finished having something to eat when we got another call saying her waters had broken and could we take her to the hospital!!!!

Well, I don't think Dean's drove so fast...lol  We arrived at the hospital at 12midnight and they said she would take another 7-8 hours to deliver so we got sent home at 1am.  We finally got to bed about 2 but neither of us slept and Dean then got a phone call form Lee at 5.40am to say that our grandchild had been born and both mummy and baby were doing well.  He didn't tell us the sex so we were still none the wiser on what we had.  When we got to the hospital at 8.30 to pick them up, ( I know released after giving birth 3 hours earlier !!!!!) we were very very pleased to discover that we had a gorgeous grandson called Leo Thomas, he weighed in at 8lb 6ozs and was born at 5.19am.  Here is a picture of the little man.....

I'm sure you will agree he's adorable?   Right then onto my entry for the challenge which this week is Button or Ribbon.

I've used my big shot to cut the daisy flowers out in Early Espresso, Regal Rose and Daffodil Delight and the button is from the subtles collection. The ribbon is Daffodil Delight and the sentiment is from Fresh Cuts stamp set.

Thank you for visiting my blog and I'm sorry its such a long post but wanted to share my wonderful news with you all.

Hugs
Tracy -x-

Oh my what a miserable morning, the sky is overcast and its quite cold, what a week to pick off work...lol  Anyway, I'm not going to let it get me down as still waiting on baby arriving so any day will become a bright one when he/she does :)  Its one day overdue now  !!!!!!

So what have I got to show you today?  Well its a card I made with a male theme for a change.  Men are soooo difficult to cater for so the Motorcycle stamp from SU in the mini was a nice surprise.   Here I've just stamped it in the corner and left the majority of the card blank, must be the influence of the Less is More challenges as I'd usually have  to have lots of layers..haha

The image and sentiment are stamped in Basic Grey and I've used the blender pens and Wild Wasabi ink for the "grass".

Thanks for stopping by and having a peek at my creations.  Off to make a new home card for my youngest who moved out on Monday,

See you later

Hugs
Tracy -x-