A Little Winter Papertrey!

I was fortunate enough to spy and purchase a Papertrey Ink set with die to match which contained these ice skates - I love them! In fact I love everything Papertrey! The die I have used at the bottom of this card is actually from MFT but this release of Papertrey contains two very similar dies which actually have an improved design from this one. The die is designed in such a way that it has 'extra' metal at the bottom to help with 'lining up' - this saves the sticky tape that I have to use with mine for the same purpose!

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year! A New Year is time for new resolutions - time when we take stock and decide to make more time for things that are important to us. I find this an exciting time! At the moment I have so many things I want to do that I really have no idea how I am going to fit them all in! One of them however, is making more time to craft - and to post here on my blog! Here's wishing you all a happy, peaceful and creative 2011!

Time to Craft!

With the chaos of Christmas over I am hoping to spend some time in the craft room - yippeee! That, I hope, is going to be this afternoon! In the meantime I am posting one of the Christmas cards that I made this year. I hope you like it!

The Frozen River Bann in Coleraine

I hope you have all had a lovely Christmas with family and friends. We have thoroughly enjoyed our time together with family on both Christmas Day and Boxing Day. We had lovely meals on both days and all of us ate far too much! The diet really would need to start NOW!

Anyway I thought I would post a couple of photos of the snow in Coleraine for you to see. Last year the river began to freeze at the edges but this year the River Bann totally froze over and the last time this happened was in 1947! I was totally amazed to see this as I never expected it to happen in my lifetime! Here are a few photos!

A Post - at last!

At last - a post! As I mentioned in my previous post my youngest daughter who is only 10 has had Glandular Fever. As she is only 10 and we live in Northern Ireland she has been preparing for her transfer tests and unfortunately has missed more than a month from school - certainly not the best timing. As you can imagine she has been my priority in the last few weeks. I have not had the time to craft at all but did manage to tidy out the Craft Room at the end of last week! Until I manage to create again I am posting some cards I made a few months ago. Thank you for dropping in!

AWOL!

So sorry that I haven't been able to post recently. My youngest daughter hasn't been well and as it turns out she has Glandular Fever. Crafting time has just been non-existent recently but I do hope to make up for it once she is feeling better. Take care. xxx

An Anniversary Card!

Today is our 15th Wedding Anniversary - and do you know I wouldn't change him for the world! This is the card that I made for my husband - I'm not really sure why it ended up with pink!