My first ever crop

I have had a busy time this week, the highlight of which, was to attend my first scrapbooking crop, hosted by Katy of Design Objectives. We were given 3 page kits and examples and then left to create (I only managed one page - as I didn't have the right colours in my photos to co-ordinate with the papers provided). The highlight for me of the evening was the abundant supply of CHOCOLATE!!!!! followed closely by meeting some lovely, tallented people.

The only problem I found on the evening, was that I had left several things at home that would have greatly enhanced my page...stamps, ink, etc...every one else came with suitcase sized trolleys-I now know why!

The stampaholic monster made an appearance this week too....I found a great US website that had several stamp sets that I have been craving and well what more can I say I couldn't resist temptation and so now I eagerly await the arrival of the postman each day in hope that my parcel arrives soon.

Other news this week:-Hero Arts set a card making challenge this week that I have found absolutely impossible...to design a card with a shabby chic style, no matter how hard I try, I just can't achieve the look I am striving for!

So here are some pictures of my efforts.

A Wordle and Thanks

Check out these cool word clouds, they are a jumble of words created from those you use most on your blog, you can change the fonts and colours and I think they look really cool -thanks Lisa for the link (I have made mine green in honour of you) and also a big thank you for the blog nomination.


If you would like to have a go at making your own wordle click the link http://wordle.net/
Check out my previous post for my holiday update.

Holiday Highlights

I have just returned from a weeks' holiday in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt and I can report that there is still a SUN! (honest). It was such a joy to wake up to 40 degree cloudless sky's and saunter down to breakfast and then spend my day basking on a relaxer whilst the hotel's entertainment team entertained my teenagers! (Although I did have second thoughts when they offered to take my daughter to a foam party!). My son got to see a blue spotted stingray whilst diving and we all saw some amazing colourful marine fish from the jetty.

Well this is how the holiday began anyway......but then ooh no, 3 days in and I got the most horrendous food poisoning and spent the remainder of the holiday in my room. So I crawled back home feeling worse than when I went! The bad news is that I am still suffering and so finding everything really hard work at the moment.

On the morning of our return home, my DH informs me that I have 10 minutes to wrap presents and make cards for the people that moved the mail and looked after our fish whilst we were away; as they were popping round. Oh no pressure then! Well I was fortunately inspired by the arrival of some inks from Hero Arts (for my recent honourable mention). Lovely fall colours that just called out to be used in the making of some quick cards. As time was short I thought I would experiment with some extra quick drying printer photo paper - boy does it suck up the ink! Anyway here are the results.

These cards were made using the colorbox Q Fall Chalk inks from Hero Arts and Hero Arts stamp set LL 842 Flower Blocks. They really are great when you need a card in a hurry!

Well I couldn't end this post without showing you a few pictures of some of those beautiful fish, I just wish they would pose for their photos...like my DD!

See not one of them smiled for the camera!

Anyway this has been rather a long post, so if you have managed to stay awake to the end well done and thanks for persevering.