Me on Monday

OMG what a weekend!!!!!  Three wonderful days and nights spent in Wolverhampton with the Marillion clan for the UK convention.  I am still buzzing with the excitement of it all especially meeting up with friends, some that I hadn't seen for two years since the last convention and meeting for the first time people I have been Facebook friends with for ages.

There were three wonderful nights of music

 There was a flag waving sing-a-long

And a bit more flag waving

 Men dressed as women

 Another sing-a-long

Playing with giant balloons

And laughing through my tears at the end of the weekend

So how does Monday find me, well blue, very blue - not even a Pimms and Lemonade can cheer me up.  This is my post convention, oh no it is going to be another two years till we do this again face

And if you would like to share your Me on Monday story then please go and give Sian a wave over at From High in the Sky, she started all of this xx    Thanks to Dave, Chris, Phil, Alison, Jerry and Steve for sharing their photos on Facebook - I am the baddest scrapbooker on the planet, I was so in the moment all weekend that my camera never came out of my handbag - thank goodness lots of people are sharing their photos today!!

Me on Tuesday!!

A day late with Me on Monday as I was still in weekend mode yesterday.

The weekend was a lovely busy but relaxed one as it went on for four days.  There were two roast dinners, lots of easter egg munching, special Dutch Easter sprinkles on my breakfast cereal, a 40th birthday tea party to attend, Dundee cakes baked and a few layouts finished.  And most important of all, Mr P was home for most of the weekend, a rare treat!!

Today will be mainly spent getting ready for the UK Marillion convention - deciding what t-shirts to pack -

Making a start on the packing, don't forget the flower garlands for Saturday night's gig!!

And finishing making convention chocolate packs

If you would like to share about your weekend, then go over and see Sian at From High in the Sky and give her a little wave!!

Beat the Christmas Rush - March

I am trying every month to make some Christmas cards so that I have plenty ready for when I do my fundraisers later in the year. 

These are the ones that I made for March's Beat the Christmas Rush.  Whilst we were away at Meadow Barn, Fiona showed us how to make a slider card like this one.  I had a go at making my own but decided to make mine with a sliding Christmas tree as I had the Stampin Up set 'Festival of Trees' with co-ordinating punch with me.

I made six in total - the holly paper is from Craft Creations and the sentiment is  Personal Impressions

Thank you for Fiona for sharing how to make these.  You can find out all about Beat the Christmas Rush on Sue's blog.

Cheerful Critter Thank you

A quick and easy card to share today - a thank you card made for the lovely Lisa who books our annual crafty retreat to Herefordshire.

I used a new Stampin' Up set called Cheerful Critters and used a mask so that I could stamp all three of them together.  They stamp beautifully and I am looking forward to having more time to play with these lovely stamps.  The sentiments are by Personal Impressions and I coloured the images with Promarkers.  The heart confetti is from the new heart confetti punch by Stampin' Up.

Easter Cards - Part 3

And here are my final Easter cards for this year (I had actually made more than this but a friend popped round and bought a load before I had chance to take photographs of them LOL!!).

The stamps are all Penny Black and the sentiments are a printable from Pink Petticoat.   The patterned papers are all magazine freebies.

Easter Cards Part 2

More Easter cards from me today, this time using some Penny Black images that I coloured in ages ago, tucked them away in an envelope and didn't do anything with them.  And how do I know they are old???  Well they had been coloured using Derwent watercolour pencils and I have barely used them since I stared my Promarker obsession!!

The papers used are all magazine freebies and the tiny flower punch is from Stampin' Up

The sentiment stamp on the small cards is from Stampin' Up and on the other two cards is a printable from Pink Petticoat.

Easter Cards Part 1

In the run up to Easter I will share some of the Easter cards that I have made this year. 

For my first batch I used a stamp from Stamping All Day.  I coloured the stamp with Promarkers and highlighted the flower centres with gold stickles.  I then die cut the image with a stitched rectangle die and mounted it on a mat cut from the same die set, which was then mounted onto an embossed mat.

 For the next three, I mounted the die cut image onto a mat die cut using a Spellbinder die.

The sentiments are all from Pink Petticoat