For Caitlin

My good friend Steve, who works at the same school as I, and his wife Sarah, had a beautiful baby girl this morning at 2.45am. They have called her Caitlin.

The image is from 'Karen's Doodles', please see the link on my blog if you would like to view and purchase any of her lovely creations.  Sadly, this is the last card I will be making before going into hospital tomorrow as I just don't have any more time but I will be taking loads of images into hospital with me to colour etc to while away the hours, the loooooonnnnnnnng drawn out hours before my release.

Thanks for stopping by. Hope you like the card?
Hugs, Fae xxx

Lianne's Sports Presentation Evening 2010

Just a few more days and my little girl will officially be a teenager!!! OMG!!! She has all the teenage attitude now and is a handful but she has blossomed into a beautiful young lady (just wish she would show it more towards her family, especially her brother).

She went off to her Sports Presentation Evening last night with her friends and they were all dressed up like it was THE social event of the year and all looked amazing, as did all the girls (and lads) at Lianne's party recently. Thought I would share with you one of her photos, Lianne is in the black and white and her best friend Sam is in the blue dress. Don't they look grown up?

Thanks for dropping by and watching me making myself feel old. Come back soon.
Hugs, Fae xxx

Swirls and Curls

Here's a little something I made today to while away the hours between Lewis' Sports Day and picking the children up from school.

The image is Penny Black (cling-on stamps) which I coloured with coloured pencils and 'smudged' with Sansodor and a few blenders. I just love this technique!  The 'frame' around the image has been cut with my Big Shot and my new Nellie Snellen Multi Frames. The ribbon was purchased from Watford Indoor Market, the gemstones came from PoundLand and the 'swirl's' were created, also on my Big Shot, with my Marianne Creatables. The red card was border punched with my Martha Stewart Doily Punch.

Hope you like it?

Thank you very much for stopping by and hope to see you here again soon.
Hugs, Fae xxx

More Leavers Cards

Well, I have been a very busy girl today. Having finally slept after arranging Lianne's birthday party and sorting everything out for that, with mum's help, thanks mum! I have finally been able to get on with the many leavers cards I have had to make.  As it is our last week of term this week, THIS weekend was my only chance to get them done in time for everyone at work to sign them.

Here are ALL the leavers cards I have made this evening (in between watching the most boring game of the World Cup 2010), only watched it because I had SPAIN in the sweepstake at work! And I won...wahhooooo result!

Anyway...here are the cards:

And yes...you did read correctly, I have been making these cards all day and my poor hubby settled only for a cheese and ham sandwich for his dinner! Bless him!

All of the images (apart from Cliffy) are from Karen's Doodles, digital images. They are all so lovely and so many to choose from. be sure to pop over and give her a visit as she currently has a buy 3 get 1 free offeer on all her images. What a great excuse to get introduced to digi images (or just buy more if you're addicted to them like me).

Hope you liked the cards, thanks for popping by.
Please be sure to pop back and see me again soon. Thanks and hugs, Fae xxx

13th birthday Party Blues

It's Lianne's 13th birthday party this evening and I haven't stopped all day, hairdressers for Lianne, barbers shop for Lewis. Pineapple chunks and cheese, cocktails sausages on sticks, quiche, sandwiches, seafood platters, dips, crisps, picked up the cake, picked up giant '1' and '3' helium balloons.... pause for breathe.... ironed steve's clothes, ironed my clothes and lewis', did two loads of washing AND cooked the chicken nuggets and chicken legs. Two more hours to go and I think I am done!!! PHEW

Now I need a nice long sleep. wake me up in the morning, it's too hot for partying!

Lucky Leprechaun

Well, I have made a new friend, Karen at Karen's Doodles. Except their not doodles they're amazing digitial stamps and little mini works of art and there are so many different characters to choose from I have just literally gone bonkers for them. I have seen her images around for a while but didn't know where to source them and then I came across her site just by accident and have been an almost permanent resident ever since.

Anyway, I purchased this rather lively leprechaun from her this week and thought he would be perfect for Jan's A4 'Good Luck' card, as she is leaving the school, where I work, at the end of this term for pastures new.

Thanks for stopping by and taking a look at my cards. Please come again soon.
Hugs, Fae xxx

Another A3 card...

 Here's another of my A3 cards for one of my colleagues at work who is leaving to get married, new job AND is moving house over the next few months... blimey! Talk about don't do things by halves. Anyway, ALL of the lettering down the left hand side of the card was done by hand and the text at the bottom was done on the computer.  After outling the letters on the left I then colour co-ordinated the colours with the colours used on the image.  The image itself is hand drawn in a similar fashion to that which I used on my previous A4 card (sorry I keep calling them A3 cards, because I have used A3 cardstock and folded it I guess) and I have added flowers and buttons to finish it off.

Hope you like it, watch this space because there's gonna be more of them, all of which I have to get done BEFORE the 9th July!!!!! Hellllllllp me! No seriously... watch this space!#

Cheers, thanks for visiting
Hugs, Fae xxx

Get Well Soon Nanna

Hi girls (and possibly guys) just thought I'd quickly show you the card I made for my 82 year old nanny Rose. She went into hospital today for a knew operation which will be taking place tomorrow so when I go up to see her tomorrow afternoon I wanted to take a special card with me to cheer her up.  This is the card I came up with.  

I was talking to my friend Sue in Watford Market today, and I purchased some gorgeous Prima flowers and some cardstock off her and I was telling her about the card I made recently for the Penny Black challenge where I folded the ribbon over to make pleats along the width of the card and that gave me the idea to do the same on the ribbon for this card.  I bought the ribbon in TKMax on Saturday. They're fabulous!  Anyway, the image is from Lili of the Valley coloured with blendables pencils and the papers were free in a paper craft magazine.  The Prima flowers were purchased today from Sue on Watford Market, finished off with a single adhesive pearl in the centre and the writing at the bottom is my own handwriting.


Hope she likes it and isn't too long in hospital??? My daughter is having her 13th birthday party on the 10th July and she really wants her great-nanna to show the young 'uns how to boogie (my nan is always the first on the dance floor and the last one off...at least until recently!) So come on nanna, sort it out and get back home and walking... See you tomorrow, Fae xxx


Thanks for visiting and I hope you'll come back and visit again soon.
Hugs, Fae xxx

Oooooooer

Just to let you all know, my appointment at the hospital finally came through. I go into hospital in July for my hysterectomy so I may have to have a little break from card making for a while. I'll be around before then but if I should suddenly go quite, that's the reason why.

I know I have been waiting for the appointment to come through for a little while now, but now it's finally here, God I'm nervous!!! I suppose I should be 'sort of' grateful that it's happening during the schools summer holidays as at least I won't have to worry about taking time off work and having to worry about how to get the children to school etc, but on the down side, it means that they will be here with me during my recovery period and, if you met my children, that's not necessarily a good thing. Still... I have a little while to sort them out and get them in practice helping out around the house etc, so with a bit of luck... everything will work out for the best.

See you all soon, will have another couple of cards to post later today if not tomorrow so like I said, you'll still see me around for a little while, but I may disappear briefly and that is the reason why.

Thanks for visiting, please come back soon.
 

A3 Leavers Card No 2

This is the second of many A3 Leavers cards that I will be making over the next couple of days. I got the image from a child's colouring page which was totally perfect for Louisa who will be leaving at the end of the Summer Term to have her first baby and I thought this image just about summed up how a first pregnancy probably looks to everyone who hasn't yet had one. I love the loading trolley too ha ha ha, that made me chuckle!

Anyway, I hope that Louisa and Matt have a beautiful bouncing baby soon and that all are happy, healthy and well.

Thanks for stopping by, please come back and see me soon.  Fae x