New year, but same old me. late as ever!!

I know we are into the New Year now and all you probably want to do is put Christmas behind you and move on, but before you do, I wanted to share my little Christmas projects with you.

The chipboard tree was from a class taught by the hugely talented Cleo Jarvis at a previous Christmas workshop at Exhall.

The advent was originally from tesco (huge thanks to my mate Lesley for this!!) which I decorated with old patterened papers I'd had in for ages.

The idea for the ribbon tree and the card holder were both found on Pinterest ...it's amazing what you can do with some old clothes pegs and a coat hanger!!

Happy new Year everyone!!

Doods x

been having a play with mists, stamps and alcohol inks! The Rusty pickle papers I used were quite old but I really like them, the photo is my lovely nephew and his equally lovely fiancee.

while I'm in a circle mood

here's another!

This is me, many many moons ago (when dinosaurs still roamed the earth etc, etc!)

well I have had a great month, Nov of course is when the Sarah's Cards retreat is and it was amazing!

As usual the shop was filled to the rafters with lots of exciting new goodies and it would have been rude not to buy some!!;)

the background paper for this latest layout was one I couldn't resist buying, the new My mind's eye Kraft papers are just stunning!

I came home feeling really inspired, so watch this space!!

Can't wait to do it all again in March!!

Doods x

Granny Wobblys

I thought I had a sweet tooth but Granny Wobblys fudge is a step too far for me, however the rest of our holiday party loved the stuff! So here's my tribute to that wonderful establishment that puts a smile on so many faces!

My own 'fudge' has far fewer calories and won't rot your teeth! It's made out of scraps of felt wrapped in cellophane. I can't comment on the taste though, but I'm willing to bet people wouldn't find it quite as appetising!

Doods x

Did this one for the weekly challenge on UKS

used some papers I had had in for a long long time but can't for the life of me remember what make they are.

I used glimmer mists for the background and some watercolours to 'shadow' the flower in the paper but it didn't photograph very well

Have tried to get back into journalling again because it's been sadly lacking on a lot of my layouts to date, feel free to pick me up on my lack if you notice me slipping back into bad habits!!

been scrapping!

Well I had a fantastic time at The Green Buttons retreat in Birmingham last week and since I've come home I have definitely got the scrapping bug back!

I found this idea for a flower made from a zip on Pinterest and just had to have a go! Loved how easy it was and really pleased with the look - think a trip to my local haberdashery is in order for some more zips!!

A change from the norm

Haven't done any scrapping for a while but I wanted to share my latest creation.

A friend of mine has a lovely little necklace with little round 'dogtags' with the initials of her children on it and I thought it was a really sweet idea.

I thought it would be nice to have one with the grandkids initials.

After looking online (and seeing how expensive they were!!!) I thought I'd make my own. I raided my stash and found these little hooked letters but unfortunately I was 3 letters short!

Plan B!!! I found 3 brads, folded down one of the prong things to make a loop and cut the other one off, and hey presto - 3 hanging initias!!

I finished it off with a leather thongy thingy and added a few beads I'd got hybernating in a cupboard!

I think it will be fun when I wear it watching people trying to make out what it says!!

another layout

just adding a little detail as requested!

I did the background using glimmer mists and prima masks (awesome thing those masks, so many ways to use them!)

I made the flower by making a circle of card and wrapping lacy ribbon around it, simplest flower I've ever made!

I found some hook and eyes while I was sorting my sewing stuff out and like most scrappers, I can't look at anything nowadays without wondering if they'd fit on a layout!! Quite like how they turned out!

I'd had the rub-ons for ages!! But I loved them and was waiting for the right page and thought this was it!

been playing!

have got a lot of stones and rocks lying around so started to paint them - this is a mini house I've done to go in a miniature garden, the 'roof' was nabbed from a dried flower arrangement that was gathering dust!