My little princess

Here is a layout I recently completed of Holly attending her Year 8 princess camp. What a great idea this is, taking the girls away for a pampering weekend. It builds self esteem, pride and respect for themselves. The parents were contacted in secret prior to the event and asked to write a letter to their daughter. It was to say what they meant to you and your hopes for them in the future. The letter were posted off to be handed to your daughter during the event. Holly tells me there wasn't a dry eye in the room when all the girls were given their letters and they sat down privately to read them.

The papers are from a Rouge de garance collection all about fairytales. The leaf pattern is from Prima and is part of a pack of 37 pieces of Resistant Canvas, which I have inked over to reveal the resist pattern. Looks fab, doesn't it? This pack was part of my Christmas pressie from Leanne.    

Badger weir

 This is a layout of Holly from a few years back. We had visitors from England and South Australia staying with us and took them to a local beauty spot for the afternoon. the weather was perfect and Holly enjoyed playing in the shallow waters.

The papers that I have cut the flowers, leaves and die cuts from are by Adorn It Carolees Creations - Misty Collection. 

The lovely flourish die cut is from My Favourite Things.

The others dies are from Sizzix and Marianne's Creatables.

Following on from my previous post

Here are my dear friend's Christine, Leanne and Judy (apologies to Judy, the only photo I have of everyone and the pressies in one where her eyes are shut). As you can see the table was full of  pretty packages just demanding to be opened.

Here are a couple of the shopping list holders I made, I purchase the actual pads and then made strong decorated backings for them that can either be hung on a hook or a metallic surface with the magnets that I have attached to the reverse.

This last item is a sack I made for Father Christmas. Every year he arrives at the Community Christmas Celebration we have at the local Hall where I work. The CFA kindly bring him on the back of their truck to see the assembled children. I thought it was about time old FC has a pressie of his own and this year the usual pillow case was replaced with a much more fitting sack.

Chrissy pressies

Just before Christmas my stamping buddies and I went out for afternoon tea at a golf club in our area. Our table was festooned with decorated bags and wonderful gifts we had for each other.The snowmen above were one of my gifts to my friends. Each contained two bars of delicious Lindt chocolate. I downloaded a free PDF here with the snowman's face and body and then made the hat and scarf with felt, buttons, ribbon, bells and twine.
I received some wonderful presents in return which I will show later. I had planned a longer post, but taxi duties call as Holly and a friend need delivering to various places to meet other friends.
Hope you all had a good Christmas and a happy and healthy New year

So proud

We are very proud of our oldest daughter Lauren who graduated today with a Bachelor of Science degree. It has been three long years of study but today made that all worthwhile. Well done Lauren! She now wants to go on and do her masters in physiotherapy.
To clear up any confusion (as per my discussion on Sunday when some dear friends and I had our Christmas lunch) Bachelor degrees - no hat, Masters - mortar board, Doctorate - a bonnet with red trim.

Feeling Krafty

I love the colour combo of kraft (crumb cake) and cherry cobbler. This card came together very quickly, with the help of a new stamp set Fabulous Florets and leaves from Paper trey ink.

The casing of Judy May

Judy made a beautiful card here, it was so stunning I just had to have a go at making one myself.
I have varied mine slightly by not having the sentiment on the bottom of the card
I was so happy with it that I just had to make more.
I substituted glitter paper with shimmery ones for this card.