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Just wanted to wish you all A Very Happy New Year!!!!!!

I know New Year is not always a happy time for everyone and if that is the case then I really hope that things turn around for you in 2012.....

Lets Hope that 2012 brings us all some Good Health, Happiness and Prosperity to us all....

I have my loving family all around me for New Year, so I feel very blessed !!! :-))

I'm not a big fan of New Years Eve - as too much looking back! Prefer to look forward and I  Love New Years Day and putting up all the new Calendars!!! Our house is a bit odd in that we have loads of Calendars all over the house!! Last year I had 3 in my room!!  I know!! that is odd!!! but we just love them...

This year I have a Thomas Kinkade one and a lovely Wonders of the World one. Oh and a Page a Day Desktop one with 1,000 Places to See Before You Die!!!!! Ooh er.... don't think I'll ever get to any of the places - but it's sure nice looking LOL

Take Care!

Speak to you all soon!

Love Sue xxx

Moving Along With The Times (DT Card) - 'Step Back in Time' Challenge

Hi all, It's Thursday and so time for another Challenge over at

Moving Along With The Times

This week our lovely boss Hazel is our hostess and she has chosen the fab theme of ....

'Step Back in Time'

So, if you are itching to get back crafting again after all the festivities, why not have some fun and join in the Challenge. So we would like to see cards that are music/retro related. You have plenty of time as this week's challenge is running for 2 weeks again and so you have until 8pm GMT on 11th January 2012 to enter! 

Our sponsor this week are  Digi My World.

who have very generously given us some gorgeous pre-coloured image sets to play with. So an easy peasy week for us this week! Thanks Hazel !! I chose the wonderful Heidi who is a 60s 'Groovy Baby' and takes us back to the Sixties. Very Austin Powers! 

  

When I saw the image I thought of shiny vinyls and remembered that I had some glossy lime green card blanks from The Works. So then just a case of printing out the image set from Digi My World. You can resize all the images to your hearts desire and arrange them on one sheet to print out. It was really easy and all the images from Digi My World print out really nicely! Perfect for a really quick card make.

Pop on over to MAWTT Website for more details of the challenge and prize and to take a look at the rest of the team's creations - they are all fab and groovy this week! and don't forget to check whether you were a winner in last fortnight's challenge! 


Also we have a Fab new member on our Team - Sandra! So hope you will pop over, say hello and make her feel very welcome!

My mum became unwell and had to be taken into hospital yesterday, so please forgive if I don't get around to all your Blogs. I hope to catch up with you all very soon! 

I know there are some nasty viruses doing the rounds and so hope you are all keeping as well as possible!!

Love n Hugs
Sue xx


Edit: My daughter has just phoned from hospital to say my mum is looking a lot better today. They are still running tests but they said it could be diverticulosis. I am just glad that she sounds a lot better - she was SO ill yesterday bless her. Thanks for all your kind comments. I am fine but shattered!!! it's all the worrying and waiting. Will speak to you all very soon!!


Love Sue xx

Wishing You All A Very Peaceful and Happy Christmas!!!!

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Lots of Love

 Sue xxxx

Some Exciting News!

Well I hope you are all ready for Christmas… presents wrapped, food at the ready, extra batteries for your remotes!!!! Not long to go now and little ones (and big ones!) will be getting very excited about Santa coming!

I usually dread that time just after Christmas when all the decorations come down! and I always leave up some Fairy Lights to brighten up the evenings. 

But… in a way I can't wait for 2012, I think it's gonna be a great Crafting Year. Yes, sadly some Challenges and Shops have closed this last year, which I hate to see. But as the saying goes … as one door closes… another one opens….

    

   

I have been keeping secret some exciting news and I am so glad to be able to now share it with you! Teresa over at My Crafty Heart is opening a new Online Papercrafting Store which will go live online on Saturday 14th January 2012!!!! The shop will sell lots of the goodies that we all know and love and more besides because Teresa herself is designing and selling some new gorgeous digital images! 

And .... I was SO excited when Teresa asked me to be on the Design Team and I am really looking forward to working with her and my other Teamies who are Vicky, Vicky, Donna, Ira and Mel. Just after Christmas we will be giving you all a sneak peak of what's coming up, so do watch this space. Her images are awesome - you will love them!

The Online store will be called My Crafty Heart and here is just a taste of what they will have in store... Designer Papers from Basic Grey, My Mind's Eye, Prima, Authentique, Kaisercraft and more... Beautiful Flowers and Embellishments from Prima, Jenny Bowlin, Kaisercraft and Hero Arts to name a few, Inks and Glitters from Ranger & Tim Holtz, Dies from Memory Box, plus they will also have some wonderful and unusual Charms....

I hope you are as excited as I am !!!! and please check back often for more details and previews.... I can't wait....  and I'm sure you'll join with me in wishing Teresa every success in her new and exciting venture!!

I can't believe where today has gone. The family have been out last minute shopping and so I put some ready made sausage rolls in the oven. Simple task you would think. It said 10 minutes Gas Mark 6. Well I completely forgot about them!!!! for 30 minutes!!! When I looked they were cooked to perfection? LOL. Our oven is faulty and everything takes longer which is just as well. Really worried about my memory!! 

I hope you are all ready for Christmas now. I know some of you have come down with colds, so if you are unwell I hope you get better very soon!!

Take Care

and Have a very Happy Christmas & New Year!

Love n Hugs!

Sue xx

Cute Stocking

I told you I would be back soon LOL!! When I was commenting I saw some gorgeous Stockings on Caroline's Blog. Well I thought they were fab. You open up the top and there is space to put gift voucher or money. The template is free from Waltzing Mouse Stamps. 

The pink paper and matching Tag was freebie with Cardmaking and Papercraft and is still available to download. The red paper is from Pink Petticoat. The gorgeous snowflake with the gem is from Sew Sweet. After seeing those gorgeous Felt Kits on Vicky's Website, I thought I would take a look. They have some wonderful things.... thanks Vicky for sharing the link!! The delivery was so quick and they added in some of the snowflakes as a little extra!! I bought the Gingerbread Men Kit. 

It was a very quick make, so it's not perfect inside.... don't look too closely!! The gorgeous sentiments and holly inside the top of the Stocking are from a Forever Friends set that was part of the Candy that I won from Sarah. What a fab parcel of goodies she sent!! Thank You Sarah! it was like an early Christmas Present! 

I'm quite pleased with how this turned out considering how quickly I made it. I love the colours on it. I will tie the ribbon much neater when I have put the money inside!!!! ;-)

Hope you like it...

I would like to enter the following Challenges:-

Paper Crafting Journey - Challenge 25 - 'Christmas Challenge' (ends 21st December 2011)

Charisma Cardz - Challenge 49 - 'Last Minute Christmas Makes' (ends 21st December 2011)

One Stop - Challenge 162 - 'Christmas Sparkle' (ends 23rd December 2011)

Top Tip Tuesday - Challenge 65  - 'Anything Christmas' (ends 27th December 2011)

PaperPlay - Challenge 50 - 'Christmas' (ends 4th January 2012) 

Ooh La La Creations  - Challenge 95 - 'Anything But a Card' (ends 8th January 2012)

Off to get a few hours sleep now! I keep falling asleep after tea and then I'm wide awake half the night!! 

I think it's the dark evenings. It was pitch black outside at 4.15pm. But then tomorrow is the shortest day I think? so from then on it will be getting lighter everyday!! :-)

Thanks for looking and for all your lovely comments!

and a big Welcome to my New Followers!!

Love Sue xx

Christmas Tags

I thought I would show you some tags that I made. The photos are terrible I'm afraid!! They look lovely and sparkly in real life... and I forgot to photograph the reverse which has To: and From: and Greeting!

They were really easy to make and I'm pleased with how they came out. All the images are pre-coloured ones from Cuddly Buddly. The ones in the first batch were freebie when I ordered the other images!!

I just resized them all to 4cm square and did a square for the back with the greeting on. Then added glitter and sparkly string.

I would like to enter the following Challenges:-

Paper Crafting Journey - Challenge 25 - 'Christmas Challenge' (ends 21st December 2011)

Charisma Cardz - Challenge 49 - 'Last Minute Christmas Makes' (ends 21st December 2011) 

Stampin' For the Weekend -  Challenge 22 - 'Christmas' (ends 22nd December 2011) 

One Stop - Challenge 162 - 'Christmas Sparkle' (ends 23rd December 2011)

Top Tip Tuesday - Challenge 65  - 'Anything Christmas' (ends 27th December 2011) 

Sweet Stampin - 'Sparkle and Bling' (ends 30th December 2011)

Hope you are all going on ok and nearly ready for Christmas! I wrapped all my pressies up today! so the tags came in very handy!! ;-)

Will be back very soon!

Love Sue xx