Checking in - with a card!

Hi,

I hope the weather is better where you are today... it's so damp and miserable here, it's like November!!!   I feel like I should be starting to get sorted for Christmas, not thinking about holidays!

On a brighter note, my card is quite cheery...  I am still using scraps and stash I have had forever... I so want to buy some new stash but still can't justify it (I wonder how long this is going to last!)  I find myself browsing craft shops online alot at the mo...

We had a lovely Jubilee weekend.  My daughter's Confirmation was lovely, I was very proud of her and she looked so grown up.  I have discovered that our local church is a very nice community, no wonder she has enjoyed the social aspect of going to confirmation classes, etc... and they are taking them all bowling in a couple of weeks time too.  Even the headteacher of my daughters school turned up for the service and she gave them all a card and gift from the school.  The only thing that did disappoint was that Daddy didn't come... I know she was disappointed even though she said she didn't want him to come... he just isn't in to the church thing, just like he doesn't do the school thing either.  He can be so selfish sometimes!  But we won't go into that!

Anyway, I am off to start dinner...
Take care
Hugs
Kim
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Let's Capture These Sketches - card sketch 22

Hi,

Well.... checking in a bit quicker...  I was inspired as I was browsing and came across Let's Capture These Sketches - card sketch 22.  What a fun sketch this is... and I had a few sheets in an old K&Co paper pad that was begging to play with me. 

Bit disappointed with the photo... I feel I need a new camera, I have had mine forever, but there are so many to choose from I seem to spend alot of time reading reviews and getting more confused by the minute. 

Anyway, hope you are having a lovely weekend... My daughter is being Confirmed tomorrow, so I need to finish decorating her cake. 

Hugs

Kim

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Mojo Monday - Sketch 243

Hi,

I seem to be spending far too much time browsing on the net and not enough crafting... I really did mean to make more cards this afternoon, but time just runs away with me when I'm on this lovely laptop!

Anyway, I did manage to put it down long enough to make this one... my take on Mojo Monday's sketch 243... what a lovely sketch it is too. 

Again I am playing with things that are in my 'need to use up' box...
I need to make some 'Thank you' cards for teachers but seem to have lost my Thank You stamp.  My daughter is leaving Primary school in July and seems to want to send cards to every teacher in the school... so glad I asked her about this early!!!!!
Thank you for stopping by.
Hugs
Kim
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Mojo Monday - 242

Hi,
Isn't all this sunshine wonderful?  I love that I am always up earlier, feeling more positive and creative when the sun is shining!  I really hope it is sunny and warm where you are today.

The decorating is driving me mad... I am having some time off from it.  OH has gone fishing so I am playing with paper and card!  I have found alot of different crafting things that I didn't realise that I had and have been trying to sort it so that I can make some cards with it. 

This is my take on Mojo Monday's challenge sketch 242.  The papers and image are from some things my mum gave to me when she bought one of those goody bags from Hobbycraft... so cute!  Nice fun sketch...

I also found some small packets of things from a kit I bought from a shopping channel many moons ago, and thought I'd make some more simpler cards for those times when I never seem to have an appropriate card...  I have gaps in my card box... I tend to mostly make just birthday cards, so I am making it my mission to make some 'other' occasion cards.

We have some exam takers in our family that are working very hard at the moment that I am going to send these to when they are finished taking them... I know they have been working very hard on their revision and I think a Congratulations for actually surviving GCSE's is definately warrented!

And a couple of simple birthday cards are always useful... am off to make some more!

Many thanks for popping by.

Take care.

Hugs

Kim

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Hi,

Just a quickie... this is a card I made as a 'Thank you' card... Using up some things I found as I have been sorting through stash. 

I am having a weekend of NO PAINTING!!!!  I am so fed up of all the disruption, I decided I need a weekend with no decorating, no work, just peace and quiet!!!!!!  So I have been playing... or trying to inbetween all the interuptions.  I came to take photo's and of course, my camera battery was dead!!!

Thank you for popping by, and hopefully tomorrow I'll get more uploaded tomorrow!
Hugs
Kim
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Mojo Monday 239

Hi,

I don't know what has happened to the weather but I am thankful I have only had to do the school run today...

This is my take on the Mojo Monday sketch 239 ...  I enjoyed playing today... I have sorted some stash and am hoping to even get a start on some Christmas cards at some point!

I also couldn't resist having a play at a scrapbook page, these photo's were from a trip we took to Windmill Farm that I found mixed in with my stash... so I thought why not have a play with a layout too.

I will be back... I plan to play again later... OH has gone fishing (mad!!!) so I am making the most of being able to spread my stuff out in the living room.
Take care,
Hugs
Kim
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Mojo Monday 237

Hi,
Here is my take on Mojo Monday's sketch 237.  What a fun sketch!  I actually found it quite challenging as I rummaged through my stash ...

I know I have been missing for ages... I have litterally only started crafting again this week.  We have had loads of work done on the house (to the point we actually moved out for a while) and I have not touched my crafting since Christmas.  I have missed it so much too...  As we started having a new bathroom, heating and some replastering done, begun to decorate, we have just found so many other things that needed doing... all put down to the age of the house... and the mess has been devasting.  We still have a long way to go, including one room that still needs a new ceiling and replastered walls, but at least we are back living here at the mo!

In all this mess, I have discovered that I have a lot of crafting stuff that I need to use up before I buy anything else... OMG!  My OH has no idea what is in some of the boxes... good job too!!!!!  Yes, it is crafting stuff!!!!

These are my attempts at beginning to use some of that stuff....  and I'm really enjoying myself!

Cute bears!

I will post some more later....
Thank you for looking.
Hugs
Kim
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