Still alive.....

Just having a really busy and rather trying week! Mojo has gone walkies which is not good when I have a stack of projects to complete! Sooo.... if you see/find my mojo... please send him home as I am missing him!!!!

Oooh and before I forget (brain is sooo not working right at the mo!!!!) Thank you sooo much to Looby and Vanessa for their awards.... they made me smile!

Will leave you with a layout from stitches as I don't really have anything new to share :-(

Ok this was a really difficult layout to do... haven't really scrapped any of our wedding pics. Couldn't quite bring myself to journal on it yet! It's coming up to the 2nd anniversary of Danny's death and if anyone had told me 20 months ago where I would be now I simply just would not have believed them! Time IS a greater healer but as the layout says, we always have our memories. Life moves on.....

Hopefully I'll find time to blog soon and will definately post more pics from stitches! I have some lovely photos of the stand that just need a wee bit of tweeking!

Til the next time!

Maria x

Sad times...

Sorry I didn't update yesterday. Had some very sad news that left me not wanting to rave about what a fab time I've been having of late. One of lovely ladies that attended our local crop finally lost her long and brave battle against cancer on wednesday. She was a total inspiration to all who had the privelege of meeting her and she will be very missed. My thoughts are with her family at this very sad time.


Not really got much else to say so will leave you with some more pics of the layouts from the Stampbox stand.

Using Collage Press Margot papers (love em!) and a mixture of Hero Arts and Autumn Leaves Stamps. The flowers have been cut using a sizzix/ellison die... can't remember which!

French Twist papers, bitty blossoms, corduroy brads and Hero Arts journaling stamp. Oh and yes! that is me... when I was a bit thinner than I am now!!!!!!

My Minds Eye Confetti papers and Autumn Leaves stamps. One of the rare occasions when Ziggy posed for the camera!

Til tomorrow and a new bog challenge!

Maria x

Catching up

I've had a day of catching up after our jaunt down to Birmingham! Shop orders to pack and post and general admin stuff. As promised here are some of the layouts that I made for the Stampbox stand....

I used Daisy Bucket papers, Hero Art stamps (loving these!!!), Bazzill in stichez, ribbon and some bazzill blossoms.

Ok this has got to be one of my favourite layouts! Lots of grungy inking and Collage Press Grayson Hall papers!

Felix doing one his poses (he just loves the camera... unlike Ziggy!) I used a combination of Daisy Bucket and Grayson Hall papers, ribbons and rick rack, a whole heap of buttons (Autumn Leaves Whirligig) and of course some zig zag stitching using the Bazzill in Stitches programme.

Finally for tonight... more Daisy Bucket and a layout of my very gorgeous niece Louisa! Note the NUFC shirt... she is such a footie fan and a damn fine goalie too!!!!

I have a stack of projects on my desk to get through over the next couple of days.... so am looking forward to some serious scrapping time! Will show some more layouts tomorrow and some show pics!

Off to bed now!

Maria x

How tired????

Yup I'm pretty tired at the mo! Have had a whirlwind time at Stitches and a nightmare journey home! Three days of looking at gorgeous new products, selecting products for future kits and meeting gorgeous people has left me totally shattered! I have had THE best time!

Our journey home was a complete nightmare! We left at 4pm and hit all the rush hour traffic! My poor sis was shattered before she started driving! And then... oh yes... freezing fog! All the way home until we reached South Shields! The journey took 5 hours.

So I'm home... not unpacked but with glass of wine in hand!

The show was fab... my layouts seemed to go down well! Well lots of peeps taking pics of them (very strange feeling!!) and a whole heap of great contacts and possible future projects!

I'll update fully tomorrow when I've had some sleep but will leave you with a pic of Alan (Stampbox), Joey (Bazzill Basics) and myself!

Til tomorrow

Maria x

Phew what a week!!!!

It's been another busy week hence the lack of blog posts! Not had a minute to scrap... apart from this weeks SSC challenge.

I now have a very tidy and organised craft room! It so needed to be done and done it was! I can actually find stuff now... and along the way I rediscovered a fair bit of stash that I had totally forgotten about!

Spent the night at Angie's last night as we hit South Shields for an early birthday celebration (Angie's... next saturday ;)) Well needless to say am feeling a bit worse for wear this morning and pretty tired which isn't great as I have stacks to do before we set off for stitches!

Anyhoo... this weeks challenge... set by Karen, was to use only one shape on a project. Such as squares, rectangles, circles etc. Quite a tricky one this and I played it safe and went with rectangles!

I used our Mellow kit and some of our new buttons... have a bit of a button thing going on at the moment!!!!

Right on that note I had better dash... stacks to do and not much time! Will pop back with some pics from stitches when I get a mo!

Have a great weekend all!

Maria x

The Aftermath!!!!!

Yes this is what my craftroom looks like after a manic week of scrapping! Ok to be honest, it's never the tidiest of rooms as I'm a pretty messy scrapper but this is the worst it's ever been! You know its bad when you lose a ruler and you can't find it any where!!!! I mean the ruler is 12 inches long for gods sake!!! I did find it... eventually!
I have finished the samples for the StampBox stand at stitches and I'm pretty pleased with what I've made... just hope that Julie and Alan like them too!!!! I've tried to stretch out of my comfort zone and try new things. Here are some sneaky peeks of the rest of the layouts....

You'd think that I'd be all scrapped out by now. Well no.... it seems to have kick started my mojo big time and I have sketches and ideas galore... but these will be made at a leisurely pace ;-)

Right best get the weekend's orders packed and make a start on tidying THAT room!!!

Maria x

As promised....

A full pic of the layout for the blog challenge! Am still busy scrapping.... today is the last full day that I have to get as much done as possible!

I've used our Bliss kit and based the layout on one of the "recipes" from the new Designing With Recipes book by Autumn Leaves.

So have taken 2 paracetamol to help with the smallish hangover from last night and am about to head up the stairs and start creating!!!!

Will pop back later with some more sneak peeks ;-)

Enjoy your sunday

Maria x