Apothacery

 Again i had a request for a birthday card for my friend Sue from her husband. I can't take credit for the colour scheme a recent card Julie Kettlewell made inspired me.

Bye for now julie x 

More Apothacery

Good morning i had a request for a 40th birthday card and i knew i would have to use the Apothacery stamp set. Ive tried to add some close ups so that you can see the frame which were made with the framelits dies, again which i have used on nearly every other card i recently made.

I love the versatilty of the framelits as you can make the actual card base from the also.

Again those flowers ............

Apothacery

Hi just a quick post over the next few days i will be posting pictures ive made with the gorgeous Apothacery Stamp Set. I must admit a soon as i saw this in the catalogue i loved it and have used it quite alot.
Most of the flowers on the cards have been made out of card or paper which a fab demonstrator Sally-jo showed us a stampin up workshop.(Thanks Sally im hooked on them).

Reason To Smile

Hi Everyone, another great offer from stamp in up place an order worth £60 and receive this gorgeous set absolutely free!!!!!!!!
And as  a special incentive from me join my team and purchase the starter kit (Now only £99 but choose products up to £130) and receive the Reason To Smile kit free, now that is a reason to smile.

https://ida.stampinup.com?demoid=5002034
And you can now join on line no forms to fill in everything completely done on line, quick easy and much quicker and receive your demonstrator id number instantly.
Now is the ideal time to join as  you can also add some gorgeous new products from the new Christmas mini catalogue to your starter kit.
If you would like to join my team please  click on the link above and hopefully this will direct you straight to the stamp in up website if you have any problems please don't hesitate to contact me julieelizabethmccartney@msn.com   take care and keep crafting Julie x Ps i will be posting some cards soon made with this gorgeous set.

Teacher Gifts

I'm late posting these pictures as school broke up several weeks ago. Its quite sad  for me as my youngest daughter Kate left school this year and will be starting a new chapter in her life.
Kate has always been a joy and has excelled at school and i wish her all the luck and love for college.
 Well a couple of pictures of teacher gifts i was asked to make for some friends unfortunately i didn't take pictures of all of them.

I don't know how this picture slipped in but i could'nt delete it.....

Vintage Craft Fair

 All  the boxes had sweets or chocolate in them.

Angela covered these books aren't they gorgeous.

I loved making these hearts which all have lavender inside.

I love these little handbag charms which hold little post it notes.

 Lip balm holders cute or what?

Several weeks ago myself and my  upliner Angela ran a craft stall at Marton Country Club, we had a fab day i thought i would share some photographs with you all.

I'm Back

Well i have no excuses other than I've been busy.
I  promised i would keep you informed regarding my new hobby. My ever so relaxing marine fish tank.
If I'd known how expensive this new hobby would be i probably wouldn't have started it but thankfully my husband has paid for most of it.
Right we now have 8 fish, four shrimps and four hermit crabs. The crabs have been the most destructive by eating the coral which is very expensive.
I enquired at the pet shop about the crabs eating our coral and he had never heard of crabs eating coral so he seems to think we have either crabs with attitude or they are stressed. Stressed crabs !!!!! what have they got to be stressed about, anyway I've posted some more photographs.

All the coral  and rock is live. When the light is turned off the coral shrinks.

These are cleaner shrimps very amusing to watch as when we add food they do alittle dance across the sand.

Here's two of the troublesome crabs lol x

Take care and keep crafting x

Good Morning,
                          I only have to work three days this week which I'm loving. Anyway just a quick post as i am running late for work.

Day 4 of punch art. Hope you like it. Take care and keep crafting jx

Sorry I'm alittle late posting today but i ended up doing a sewing class with Jenna who is soon to be a stampin up demonstrator, Jenna is very enthusiastic and is already doing craft workshops and stalls etc .
Then two of my ladies turned up for a class a week early so of course that was a great excuse for a natter and a coffee.
Well day 3 of my punch art and this card has been influenced by Julie Kettlewells card, I've just added my own twist . (Thank you julie)

If you would like to attend a punch art class please contact me .julieelizabethmccartney@msn.com
Bye for now take care of each other and keep crafting jx

Punch Art Dinosaur

Hi Everyone, Last day of the holidays  which I've really enjoyed i really could get used to crafting and not working for a living.........lol.....

Well here is my 2nd punch art card hope you like it...

During June stamping up are  giving us customers 4 packs of designer papers for the price of  3 how fabulous is that. Please email me if you would like me to place an order. Take care and keep crafting jx

Happy Bank Holiday,
                                 I feel really guilty as i haven't watched the jubilee celebrations or even taken part in any celebrations. But i have enjoyed  having a few days chilling........

Its my friends daughters 18th next Saturday I've already made the bunting so i needed to make the card, apparently she loves sponge bob square pants . Punch art is ideal for this style of card even though its quite time consuming. Please watch my blog all week as I'm hoping to post a punch art card each day.

Strawberry Flan

Yesterday i had a lovely nautical class with some fab crafters.

Sharon my good friend always makes me something special. Strawberry scones beutifully boxed mmmmm...............
Bye for now and keep crafting jx

Hi Everyone and Happy Jubilee Weekend,
                                                         My husband and I decided we wanted to do something together so we bought a marine tank. We have bought quite a large tank which will take us some time to build up up to the marine aquarium we are aimimg for. Corals and anenmomes will be the main items but crabs, fish and shrimps will be added.
In hindsight we should have maybe read up alittle on marine life as i didn't expect it to be so complicated.
All the rock in the tank is live and we had to buy special water which has been filtered three times. 
We then had to add the rock and water and leave for a few days and then test the water.
 Wednesday came and we could add some crabs so we added 4 hermit crabs this was so stressful as apparently they fight if one crab takes a fancy to another ones shell they will literally drag the crab out of the shell and climb in.
Thursday we had a small red crab on the floor of the tank so we assumed it had died but we still counted 4 live crabs. Friday two red crabs appeared again we thought were dead.
What a stressful week , Saturday arrived and off to the pet shop we went.
A lovely guy at the shop explained that crabs shed their skin and the move to a new tank could have caused this premature shedding. Phew..........

Anyway i'm going to share this venture with you all over the next few months.