Wednesday, 14 July 2010

Wedding Madness

Hi Bloggers,

hope you are all well and enjoying this odd weather we are having - one minute it's blazing sunshine and the next it's a thunder storm and quite chilly. I wonder if those long sunny days were our summer - it's notoriously short up here in the north!

This week my day off was Tuesday so I managed to do another 2 cards from the Facebook group - they are both wedding cards for my friend Leonie whose only specification was that the names and dates were added. For the first one I used some stickers I've had for quite a while and some gorgeous paper I've not wanted to use! I'm entering this into the "Colour Create Challenge" which is warm pinks, white and chocolate, it's ages since I entered anything into a challenge so maybe this one will bring me luck!

The second was made using freebie papers and a matching topper from a magazine along with some paper flowers, gems and peel off corners from my stash.

My friend Leonie loved the cards, I hope the 2 happy couples do too.

Well, I'm off tomorrow so who knows I might get the craft room tidied up and get some more crafting done!

Bye for now xx

Wednesday, 7 July 2010

Rushing About

Wow what a busy couple of weeks I have had with revision, exams, my birthday, nights out and a weekend away with the girls it's no wonder my head's in a spin lol
Had a great time with some repping buddies last weekend in Glasgow which was long overdue.
We spent Friday catching up on all the gossip and then Saturday went out for a lovely dinner followed by cocktails...
I also had Monday off work so managed a bit of crafting too which was good. Another of the Facebook group orders was for a "Fire Engine 3rd birthday" and an "anniversary for my husband" both of which you can see below.

For the fire engine I used my Mum's craft cd rom which is from Crafters Companion and decoupaged the main image and used a co-ordinating backing paper.

And yet again another easel card for the anniversary - my challenge is to find another style I love, and quickly!

I thought the superhero idea was so different to the usual slushy romantic cards for anniversaries, let's hope the hubby in question agrees lol!















Thursday, 1 July 2010

New Month, New Look

I thought the start of the new month deserved a new look to my page.

My Facebook group is doing well - had another 2 orders this week. It's all about weddings at the moment and here is the first of 3 wedding cards I need to do this week.


The spec was pretty simple "just put their names on" so I dug out some freebie papers I had from a magazine and came up with this easel card. I really love making easels, they're so easy to make and yet look unusual and guaranteed to stand out on the mantelpiece!

It's another hot and sticky day here in Newcastle, the sun isn't shining but it's really close and clammy as we say up here. Hoping to get another card done tonight and then I'm off up to Scotland for the weekend.

Laters xxxx

Wednesday, 30 June 2010

I'm Back!

Hi all

it's been so long since I last blogged - all tied up with revision and accountancy exams.

But it's all over and done with for another year and I've packed those notes away and have my fingers crossed for results day August 17th!

Just a quick note now to say get in quick over at Lou's Blog as it's the last day of her "Surprise Birthday Candy"!



http://lulus-cards.blogspot.com/2010/06/surprise-blog-candy.html



Back in a bit - off for some lunch!

Hayley xxx

Monday, 26 April 2010

Happy Monday!

Wow, I can't believe how quickly the weekend has gone yet again. Despite working Saturday I managed to squeeze in some crafting (see below) and I also completed this one as well...


I'm entering it to the Crazy 4 Challenges new challenge C4C34 which is to case one of the DT cards. I've never done "casing" before so I hope I've got the right idea - the colours and the layout are the same as Vicky Garrett's card but instead of using my rainy Anya I thought I would use the summer one as the sun was shining!
Fingers crossed it's what they want. Have a good day peeps xxx