Summer Sun Layout

For all you budding digital scrapbookers out there, here is a bit of inspiration for you. I made this layout with a kit that is for sale in my shop (www.digitalmonsoon.co.uk)...

Hope you all enjoy it.

Thanks for looking. xx

Has been a while.... I know!!

Its been a while since I was last here, I know. I have been busy learning, holidaying, exam taking etc. Tonight I really surprised myself by making a couple of blinkies.... I am just so chuffed with myself I had to post them here.... rofl

Okay I am sitting here giggling to myself now.....and if you want a bit of a laugh despite the looting going on, check out this website.... www.photoshoplooter.com. And if you recognise anyone, please tell the police.... thank you for looking.

Have a great evening all... xx

Just a quick one.....

Well what can I say, dont you just hate it when life takes over and crafting and designing has to take second place..... I have had the dentist (nothing wrong thank goodness, just a polish and clean) and today I had another Life Coaching session with someone new.  Then my daughter stayed at my house last night so we went out to Costa for lunch..... yum yum....

I am sure I cased this card from somewhere, but because I made it quite a long time ago I cannot remember who, if anyone, I cased it from.... so if it is you, I am really sorry, just leave me a comment and I will credit you.... used lots of Stampin' Up! stash for this card including the edge punch, the Bliss Stamp Set and Basic Black and Whisper White cardstock.  Thanks for looking.... we are off to our pub quiz tonight, so fingers crossed we get a better result than last week.... 

Life Coaching......

 Did I ever tell you I was becoming an accredited Life Coach..... well I am!!  I am off soon to 2 coaching sessions with my clients (read this as guinea pigs...), I have nearly finished my coaching with them and they have achieved so much towards their goals and I am really proud of them both.  I am assuming they are pleased as I have been asked to coach someone else too (not a guinea pig this time, the real thing... ha ha).  It is really encouraging seeing these people reach the goals they want to in life and to move forward each month towards achieving the ultimate goal.

Anyway, back to my cards.  This card was made for a really lovely man who runs the Music Quiz at the pub we go to on a Thursday night (The White Swan in Bicknacre for anyone local who might want to pop along, starts 8.30pm every Thursday).  He has some serious medical problems at the moment and has just gone into hospital for an operation (dont worry, someone else has taken over the quiz for now..... 2 guys from our team, so we are 1/3rd down on our members and not doing too well!!).  We as a team thought we would send him this card so he would know we were thinking of him at this difficult time in his life.  As he loves music I thought I would make a jukebox card for him with a record (vinyl disc that plays music for all you youngsters out there) inside with our message written as you would find titles on a record.

I used all Stampin Up card for this, Cherry Cobbler, Marina Mist, Bashful Blue, More Mustard and Daffodil.  I cut it out using my Silhouette Machine... the record I designed online, but made a file to cut it out on my Silhouette as I am not very good at cutting circles freehand.... lol

The next card I made for someone in Church's birthday.  He is very good at DIY, so thought these tools were ideal....

I used Crumb Cake, Baha Breeze and Daffodil cardstock from Stampin Up, and everything was cut again using my Silhouette Machine..... why did it sit in my cupboard unused for all those years?  Am loving it now.  Have plans for when my Grand Daughter is born next month too..... am going to make little bodysuits with Princess on cut from Transfer Paper on the Silhouette.....  might even get out my PC Imagine to make some transfers (wow now that would be an achievement.... lol).

So off to my first coaching of the day, hope you liked the cards..... and hope to catch you all tomorrow. xx

Another week......

This year is just speeding by, it just seems to get faster and faster.  The longest day is tomorrow and it is all downhill to Christmas from then onwards.  How was your weekend?  Ours was good, didn't do too much but did buy a Tefal Actifry.... do you have one?  Do you like it?  What do you cook in it?  We cooked some chips for dinner Saturday night, well you have to try it out dont you, but I am too lazy to peel the chips and they still tasted quite potatoey, if that makes sense.  So today I have bought some ready made chips, not oven chips as I dont want all the fatty oil on them and am going to try them again tonight.  We dont actually have chips very often at all and twice in a week is a record, guess I had better buy some ketchup next time I go shopping.  I do have full intentions of cooking a chilli in it later this week, I am not only going to use it for chips, and chicken drumsticks, 25 mins to make them all nice and crispy and golden..... sounds good to me!!

This was a commission card, I am not sure if I have shown it to you before, but it was a friend's daughters engagement and the daughter loves Winnie the Pooh, could I please incorporate him into the card.... so this is what I came up with.....  took me quite a while to sit the letters around the card and this weekend I have found a short cut to do it, would you believe it!!!  Well actually yes I would...

The papers are Stampin' Up!, the cardstock is Marina Mist and Whisper White along with Early Expresso.  Dont they look good together.  The photo above is the inside of the card which I made similar to the outside.

This weekend was also Father's Day, so I did finally get around to making some cards.  I used my Silhouette Cutting Machine to make these and because they are reflected I didn't waste any Patterned Paper.  The paper is Stampin' Up! and the Cardstock is Baja Breeze, Soft Suede and Not Quite Navy, all from Stampin' Up! also.

The sentiment I drew on my Silhouette using a Bronze Coloured Pen and then also used the silhouette to cut around it..... easy peasy and very quick to make.  I then put little pearls where the buttons should be.

What did you do for Father's Day?  We were supposed to be having a surprise bbq for DH and daughters husband, but although the weather forecast had said good weather on Sunday, come Sunday it was looking far from good and there was a gale blowing outside...... so after a bit of a palava sorting out a working bbq on Saturday all secretly like, we didn't even need it.  Daughter came to my house whilst I was at church and cooked everything in the oven here..... and sod's law the sun came out around 5.30pm, after we had finished and cleared up..... never mind, a nice time was had by all!!!  And it warms the cockles of my heart seeing my children (DH's stepchildren) sending him Father's Day Cards, even though they have grown and left home..... thank you to my kind generous children, I love you. xx

More cards.....

Just a quick post today.... here are 3 more cards that I have made, still haven't made the Father's Day cards that I need to do, not uploaded anything to my computer either but have spent the day fine refining some kits that will appear in my digi shop.....

For this card I used a Verve stamp for the sentiment, Martha Stewart punches for the leaves and butterflies and not sure where the flower came from.... ha ha.  The cardstock colour is Certainly Celery and Pink Pirouette and the much used Crumb Cake.... all from Stampin' Up!

For this card I cut out the brackets on my silhouette machine, the butterfly and flowers were again punches.... the cardstock is Bashful Blue and Old Olive and the sentiment is from Our Daily Bread Designs... the ribbon is Old Olive from Stampin' Up!  I just love their ribbons....

For this card I used Pink Pirouette, Rose Red and yet again Baja Breeze cardstock.  The bird and leaves  are a Stampin' Up! punch as is the gorgeous ribbon.  The swirl is a punch that I bought at the Ally Pally. Oh yes, the pearls are also from Stampin' Up! too....

Right, I think I have had enough of staring at the computer screen today, off to stare at the tv now instead...... lol.  Have a great evening all xx

What is it about owls.........

I just love them..... one of the first things I drew whilst learning illustrator too... which I might just dig out and show you tomorrow......  this card was made using the Stampin' Up! Owl Punch and the other bits were cut out using my silhouette machine... its wonderful for cutting out unusual shape card blanks.  The colours used are Baja Breeze, So Saffron, Early Expresso and Cherry Cobbler.... are you noticing a trend here.... most of my cards nowadays are cut out  using the silhouette and contain Baja Breeze.... lol

The second card, yet again was cut out using the silhouette machine, see what I mean about unusual shape cards, this time I picked an owl shape.  And is that Baja Breeze I spy on his wings?  Also made using Early Expresso, Cherry Cobbler, More Mustard and Sahara Sand, all from Stampin' Up!

And last but not least a flower shaped card, made using Melon Mambo, Old Olive and Pink Pirouette Stampin' Up! Cardstock.... I just love their cardstock, it comes in wonderful colours and cuts easily on the silhouette machine and lookee here, no Baja Breeze, what was I thinking.

I have been to the hairdressers this morning and had my hair cut and recoloured.... about time too, the roots were about 3 inches long.  I am so pleased with it this time, I will try and remember to take a photograph of it later to post on here tomorrow.

Okay, so plans for tomorrow are to transfer photos from both my cameras to my computer and get sorted for Father's Day..... plus finish off bits for my new website....  See you all tomorrow, have a great afternoon and evening xxx