We Are Settled In Our New Home, Tomorrow I Go Get The Big kids

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Samuel and I moved from Timaru on the last day of the third term (27th Sept).

We went to my Mum and Dad's for two weeks, leaving Darian (DS) and Savannah (DD) in Timaru with friends to finish their school year.

Paul, Samuel and I moved into our new home in Parklands 5 weeks ago.

We are settling in nicely, still boxes to unpack but slowly and surely we are getting through them.

We have found a great local church and are making new friends.

Samuel has settled into his new school, making lots of friends.

 

He has been to one birthday party and has another invite on the fridge.

We are loving been near family and had lots of BBQs.

We are enjoying been near the beach.

I have finally got my craftroom sorted enough to get some cards and swaps made that needed doing (it was left to last sadly).

 It still needs some tweeting, and if you know where my sanding bits for my Core'dinations Card Stock are please let me know LOL.

It will turn up.

Tomorrow after I have got Samuel of to school, I'm heading for Timaru.

To pick up the big kids.

Tomorrow Darian has a level 2 Maths exam and Savannah has a level 1 Science exam.

Savannah has Drama exam on the 26th November which I will take her back to do.

Savannah has been very homesick, it will be good to be a complete family again.

I will be back to show you the things I have made later in the week.

That was a bit of a teaser for you.

See you later in the week.

Tag It Christmas

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Here's another Christmas card that the girls made at the Craft Creators Craft Day.

 The stamp is from the 'Tag It' Stamp Set.

Stampin' Up are donating $3.50 to Ronald McDonald House Charity, when you purchase this set.

I used a sketch that I Crumb Cake, Basic Black, Cherry Cobbler and Very Vanilla.

Have a great day!

So Kind of You

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 The So Kind of You Card was another well liked card on Saturday at the Craft Day.

 I cased it from Sandi MacIver a demo in the states.

I changed the flower, which is from 'Blooming with Kindness' Stamp Set.

I also used 'Gorgeous Grunge' and 'Sweet Essentials' Stamp Sets.

The colour combo is Coastal Cabana, Wisteria Wonder, Basic Black and Whisper White.

The embossing folder is 'Beautifully Baroque'.

We have had a beautiful spring day here today (still is winter), I hope it stays like this for the weekend.

Enjoy your weekend.

Piano Card.

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Here's another card from Saturday Craft Creators Craft Day.

The ladies enjoyed this card.

 I'm not musical at all, I tell people the only instrument I play is the Fool and I am good that that.

I cased it from a pin on Pinterest.

Carol L made the original card, the ladies told me that the keys are correct.

The keys are made using the Word Window Punch.

The colours are Melon Mambo, Basic Black and Whisper white.

The ribbon is retired from the last catty.

The sentiment is embossed with White Embossing Powder.

To finish we added a butterfly and bling.

Pleasant Poppies Sympathy Card

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This was a very popular card on Saturday.

 The colour combo is Crisp Cantalope, Pistachio Pudding and Very Vanilla.

We stamped En Francis with Illuminate Glimmer Watermark Ink, then we ran it through the Big Shot with the Designer Frame Oval Embossing Folder.

We stamped the poppies with Stazons Black Ink, then we coloured them with Blender Pens.

Craft Creator Craft Day

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On Saturday Craft Creators held their annual Craft Day.

(I told you briefly on Sunday about it)

I have had the privilege of been the card tutor at Craft Creators for the last 18 months.

I have come to know the ladies very well and love them dearly.

I have had to give this up at the end of last term, with our move to Christchurch happening.

I have left the ladies in the very capable hands of the talented Alison Hydes.

I was invited back for Saturday fo the  Craft Day.

I made 6 cards for the ladies to made.

   They loved them, I will blog bout them in the next few days (Betsy's Blossoms Christmas Card see HERE).

 This the lovely Karen Tarbottom, she is the leader of Craft Creators.

 These ladies are making the Betsy's Blossoms Christmas Card.

 These Ladies are making the Piano Card.

These ladies are making Pleasant Poppies Sympathy Card.

 Here the ladies are trying their hands at Mosaics.

 Here they are making Felted Cupcakes.

Here are the knitters and crocheters.

In the afternoon some of the ladies made Christmas Picture Frames, sorry I forgot to get photos of this.

The talented Sonia Cullen was the tutor for them.

It was a great day.

Update

On the house front, we are under offer again.

If this works out as planned we will be in Christchurch at the end of this term (27th September).

It is a cash offer, they need a LIM and builders report (coming through Saturday), so in 10 - 15 day hopefully we will be sold.

So the house hunting in Christchurch starts.

I will try to get back tomorrow to detail another of the cards from Saturday.

Have a great day today.

Limbo

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Hi, I know it's been awhile since you have seen me blogging. Our life has been in turmoil, and we are in limbo. Paul (DH) from last December has been working 3 weeks out of 4 in Christchurch and coming home on weekends.He was on contract to Chubb, in March they starting to talk about how he would be good on their team (no job offer). We didn't give it much thought at that time, A month later Paul was offered a job. At first I was apposed to it, even though all our family is in chch.

After much prayer we decided that it would be the right move for us as a family. So  The big decrapping of our house began and 3 weeks later we had the house on the market. Paul started working for Cubb a month later. Our plans were that the house would sell and Savannah (DD), Samuel (youngest son) and me would join him in the July holidays, Darian (DS) was going to board with friends for the rest of the year to finish his school year. 

But our plans were not in line with God's plans.

We have had 2 good offers on the house but have both fallen thought due to finance, so we are still here in Timaru. I am just waiting in God's peace and waiting for his timing and it will all work out for his purpose.

I found this on facebook the other day it spoke to us.

Disappointment are just God's way of saying,

I've got something better.

So be patient,

have faith and live your life.

As I am typing this our agent is coming over soon with an offer, we will see if it is meant to be then all well and good, so I hope their will be good news soon.

I don't like living like this but it is only for a short season and we will be a proper family again soon.

So with all this going on blogging was not a priority.

Yesterday I was crafting in Geraldine at the Craft  Creators Craft Day, I had 6 cards for the ladies to choose from.

Its Betsy's Blossoms Christmas Card.

The colours are Gumball Green and Raspberry Ripple.

This proved a very popular card with the ladies.

It is cased from a pin on pinterest. 

I will be back tomorrow with another card from yesterday.

Hope you have enjoyed your weekend.

In Bed Crocheting

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For the last week I have not been very well, so no papercrafting has been done.

I spent Easter weekend in bed with a crochet hook and wool while watching movies.

 I created 2 flower brooches, and 2 hats and there is a third one in process.

 This hat I crocheted last year but it needed a flower to brighten it up.

Here's the Rose Brooch that I crocheted for it.

The wool is a Merino Blend, the colours are ab fab, island indigo, elegant eggplant, more mustard, melon mambo, Always Artichoke to name a few. 

Isn't it funny how I see colours through Stampin' Up eyes. 

Do you do this also?

 Here's a hat I have crocheted for Dad.

 

 Here's the second flower brooch I made, I made them into brooches so they can be interchangeable.

The cream wool is left over from the hat I crocheted last year.

This is a very large flower, I love it.

 The hat is real red, I have worn it a lot since finishing it the other day.

Here's my blogging assistant this morning, Ambrosia.

Hope you all enjoyed your Easter break.

Bunny Wiggles Through

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Yesterday when I posted Easter Cards, I said I had an idea for my Bunny to make it into a birthday card.

Here it is.

The bunny is jump into his rabbit hole.

 On inside he is coming out of his rabbit hole.

 Supplies List

Stamp Set: Teeny Tiny Sentiments and Bring on the Cake.

Card Stock: Lucky Limeade, Melon Mambo, Marina Mist, Basic Black and Whisper White.

Ink: Melon Mambo, Marina Mist, VersaMark and Basic Black Marker.

Punches: 1 3/4" and 1 3/8" Circle, Large and Small Oval, Cupcake Builder, Boho Blossom and Small Heart.

Extras: Big Shot, Fancy Fan Embossing Folder, Circles #2 Originals Die, Dazzling Diamonds, Clear Embossing Powder, Heat Tool, Dimensionals and Multipurpose Liquid Glue.

Hope you have all had a great weekend.

Have a fantastic week.



Easter Cards @ Craft Creators

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Yesterday we did Easter Cards at Craft Creators.

I did a fun bunny card and a card with a cross, because without the cross we wouldn't have Easter.

Here's the Easter Cross Card.

Andrea Buckland is the designer of this card and you can find the tutorial HERE.

 I have made these before as a Baptism Card, the are so versatile, some of the ladies yesterday made it a Sympathy Card.
Supplies List
Stamps: Teeny Tiny Sentiments and Flowering Flourishes.
Card Stock: Primrose Petals and Whisper White.
Ink: Primrose Petals.
Punches: Scallop Trim Border and Corner, Modern Label and Word Window.
Extras: Big Shot, Square Lattice Embossing Folder, Stampin' Dimensionals and Multipurpose Liquid Glue.
The next card was a fun card using punches.

I found this cute card on Chris Galbraith blog HERE.

Lucky Limeade, Basic Black, Melon Mambo and Whisper White Colour Combo.
The ladies loved him.

I embossed his tail with a mixture of Dazzling Diamonds and clear Embossing Powder.

Supplies List

Stamps: Teeny Tiny Sentiments.

Card Stock: Lucky Limeade, Basic Black, Melon Mambo and Whisper White.

Ink: Melon Mambo and VersaMark.

Punches: 1 3/4" Circle, Large and Small Oval, Boho Blossom, Cupcake Builder and Word Window.

Extras: Big Shot, Fancy Fan Embossing Folder, Circles #2 Originals Die, Clear Embossing Powder, Dazzling Diamonds, Stampin' Dimensionals and Tombow Multipurpose Liquid Glue.

Samuel has a birthday party to go to tomorrow, so I have idea to abdapt this for a birthday card.

So what this space!

 

Have a great weekend.

Craft Creator

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Craft Creator met for the first time last Friday.

I was good to be back and catch up with you all.

Here are the cards we created.

 This is the first card we did, I featured Button Buddies Stamp Set and Teeny Tiny Sentiments.

Colour Combo is Rich Razzleberry and Island Indigo.

The DSP is Sycamore Street (SAB).

 The buttons are Vintage Faceted Designer Buttons.

This the second card we made.

It is a Diamond Fold Card, you can find the Tutorial HERE

Colour Combo is Crumb Cake, Tangerine Tango and Sycamore Street DSP.

The snail is from Button Buddies, #1 is from Ciao, Baby(mini) Stamp Sets.

The Ribbon and Button is from SAB.

 Craft Creators is on Fridays mornings (school terms) in Geraldine.

If you are in South Canterbury, we would love to see you.

 

Craft Creators

10 Cox Street (St Andrews Church Hall)

Fridays 9.30 - 12.00

Cost $7 ($2 for morning tea $5 for 2 cards).

 

Tomorrow we are doing Easter Cards.

Have a great day.

More Soda Pop Tops

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This is the card we did for the make 'n' take at Melissa'a party.

This was my sample card, I made it a sympathy card.

 I cased this from Sharlene Meyer, she did hers in the pinks.

Check out her one HERE.

 We used Print Poetry Designer Series Paper Pack.

It's a great pack perfect for card makers 48 sheets, 4 each of 12 designs.

We used the small Soda Pop Top as a feature alongside Collage Curios Stamp Set. 

 Here is another card, very similar.

I changed the sentiment.

I flattened the Soda Pop Top, then filled it with Crystal Effects.



Soda Pop Tops

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I have very much enjoyed playing with the 'Soda Pop Tops" for the Seasonal Catty on page 24.

You get 8 large and 8 small for $8.50.

Last Saturday I had a Party at Melissa's, I featured these.

Here are the Hostess and Door Prize gifts I made.

They are simple pouches with Jaffas inside.

To make the tag I squashed a large Soda Pop Top through the Big Shot, used Collage Curios Stamp Set that works so well with the Tops.

I used Crystal Effect to fill the centre, I used my 1 1/6th punch then threaded Bakers Twine and attached to a ribbon.

 I used Very Vanilla Card Stock, Real Red Ribbon, Old Olive, Early Espresso Ink.

I also used VersaMark Ink on the card stock to get a watermark effect.

 Because the ink and Crystall Effects are both water based the image has blared a bit.

If you want a crisp image you heat emboss to seal it first.

 This the quick card I demonstrated the squashing of the top.

 I used the Print Party DSP Pack.

Have a great weekend

I'm Back

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Here is the second card I made yesterday.

I have used Rain or Shine Stamp Set from the Seasonal Cataloque.

I love this set it's so sweet.

This basically a case from out the catty.

I have added a Tempting Turquoise base to my card and a freehand frame.

I used my markers to ink 'thoughts of you' then cleaned it then inked the 'rain or shine' which is one stamp.

I have had a very busy day today, I have been out collecting census papers and worked in the uniform shop at Mountainview High School, so no crafting has been achieved today.

I need to do some more tomorrow.

So I might see you again tomorrow (I will try anyway).

Goodnight all.

 



Found my Craftroom Today :)

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I don't know when I last made a card, I made 2 today.

Life have has been very busy around here lately.

Paul (DH) has been working in Christchurch only coming home in the weekends all year.

I don't like been a solo mum, I take my hat of to all you solo mums out there.

I decide to stop playing FB games and 2 day after that my laptop fries it hard drive.

It is still at the doctors trying to retrieve all my files, photos and contacts etc.

I am having to share a laptop now with teenagers, so I don't get much look in.

I been working as a Census Collector, so I will be busy for a wee while still collecting forms.

So family has come first, crafting on the back burner.

This the 1st card I made today.

I used Pool Party Core'dinations Card with Honeycomb Embossing folder.

I sanding to heavy in the corner and it tore so I decided go with like that.

I used Sycamore Street DSP, it is a Sale-A-Bration freeby, spend $120.00 and choose a free product.

I used 'My Friend' Stamp Set with Island Indigo Ink.

To finish it I used Island Indigo Bakers Twine.

I will try and blog my second card tomorrow evening.