Christmas comes early

 

Just a quick one to say I am still here I have been doing this Advent calender.
I have a 2nd one to do so I will do a tutorial for this.

So I am still about 

See you all soon 

Love and hugs 

Nicky

xxx

Dasiydoodles chanllenge

 

 Its time again for the daisydoodles creative challenges.

And its anything goes so i chose this lovey digi Preserves which you can get at dasiys store

http://daisysdigidoodles.com/store/ 

I used spectrum noir pens to col then i made a little table and the papers are from Making cards mag

the tea pot and cup and cake are from the simply homemade mag if anyone want the table idea  i will do a tutorial .

 

 

This is a close up.

Thanks for stopping by and all you great comments 

Love and hugs

Nicky 

xxxxxxxxx

First Exploding box

 

 Hi all I wanted to make my in laws something special 

For there anniversary as its there50th

I was given some mesarments and its all with A4 card.
 

 

 Box layers mes small one to large.

2x 7cm wide by 21cm long 

8cm wide by 24cm long

9cm by 27 cm long 

score lines

7 & 14cm

8 &16cm

9 & 18cm

Lid 

13.3cm sq 

score at 2cm all round
 

 

 

 

 

 

Center piece

 

 

 

Lid i used a spellbinder die for the hearts and embossed round the edge
I add peeloffs on top with some tea roases.

 



 Finished piece
Thanks for stopping love and hugs
Nicky
xxxx

Shopping list
I used
1.yellow Core dernation sheet
2 yellow papermania A4
3 sheet of papermania Elegance range papers
Ribbon from papermania linen collection
Pic of wedding from the Making cards wedding special edition mag
fether and flowers from my own stash
and perals and gems also from my own stash
and peeloffs.

Craftymess Challenge no 11

 

Right I am back, this DT was paint so I printed 3 huts on to water col paper bought in Crafters compaion 

then i drew a wall behind and did shadows of the huts also.

A big thank you for Desmet Designs  

   For the digis which are both the prizes foe this challenge,

So pop over to craftymess challenge blog

And enter the anything goes with paint 

Hope to see some amazing works 

Thanks for popping by

Love and crafty hugs 

Nicky 

xxxxx

In your memory

Hi to all my followers, as a lot of you know I lost my best friend 

Cath Cook 

5 weeks ago and we had the funeral on Thursday,

after 9 years of fighting she let go, leaving a great partner and 3 amazing children 2 boys Jamie and Jack and 1 girl and  Kay has been an amazing tower of strength for the boys and the rest of the family, her mum will be so proud of all shes done. and her sons have been great also as there birthday was a week before the funeral.

 

I am adding some pics in her memory.

 

 

 These are some of the flowers from family and friend.
 

 

 

This heart is from my family.

 

 

This is her baby now 18 not a baby anymore.

 



This is her eldest 2.

 

 

This is Cath on her 40th birthday only 4 years ago
She will be missed so much  by so many.
We love you so much
R.I.P

 

 

 A small memory box

 

 

 her son's cards

 

 

 The large memory box for her daughter.