The few cards I've made recently have been uninspired rushed jobs-becuase I had to make them rather than for the joy of making them so to make this card was a real treat. The bits to make it have been gradually piled on my desk over the last few days-adding little bits as the idea grew-and as time allowed in between changing nappies!

The sketch is from 2sketches4u

We've been very busy lately reorganising things at home-the main change being...we've rehomed our house rabbits Bert & Ernie. They weren't getting the attention they deserved from us, and the pain from my hypermobility syndrome has been getting worse making it very difficult for me to get down on the floor to play with them and clean cages etc. They've gone to a very loving home so after weeks of feeling guilty I'm finally happy we've made the right decision.

It also means we've reclaimed 2 rooms in the house! I even found a secondhand dining table and 6 chairs at the carboot sale for £110 so we have a proper dining room at last now ernie has moved out.

Please note having a dining room table to eat on does not neccessarily mean I will be cooking !! Although I did get the Rachel Allen Bake! book for mother's day-the cookies are to die for-hubby thought they came from M&S-praise indeed!!!

Off to get some more bits done before Little Miss decides to wake up-to follow one posing baby shot!!!

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Its been a while hasn't it? I have been making cards but yet more thank you ones and I thought I'd boed everyone to death with those by now. People keep sending Claudia the most gorgeous presents-look what arrived this morning!

Now I need a wedding to take her to to wear it!!!

I have made a non thank you card at last! This is for my friend Sue to wish her a speedy recovery from her knee op. The theme on DCM this week is patchwork-this is vaguely patchy-will have to try better on my next attempt I think!The stamp is a new one from Sugar Nellie-my sister bought me these for my birthday next week but I was allowed them early. I'm trying not to buy any craft stuff for myself this year-bar the essentials like envelopes and tape so mum has given me money for the papers for CJ's scrapbook-I've ordered the Imagniescence fairest of them all range-can't wait till they arrive

and finally its Crafts by carolyn's forum 7th birthday next weekend so we are having a birthday fairy-think secret santa without the christmas paper! Look at the lovely parcel I receieved yesterday-its almost too pretty to open!!

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CJ's cards

First I would like to thank everyone who has sent such lovely cards and presents for Claudia-Jean-she is one very spoilt little lady. I will take some photos of all her cards and flowers soon... this is just one with the lovely personalised teddy Andy and Sarah sent her-isn't he cute?

I've only made 2 or 3 cards so far-I still have yet more thank you cards to make!!! I made 3 very quickly using another of Kathy's great templates-keep them coming please Kathy ;-)

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She's arrived!

Claudia-Jean (CJ) was born on the 29th January weighing 8lbs 4 1/2 ozs

She is absolutely gorgeous and doing very well

She has inherited Daddy's feet-these trainers are size 0-3 months, by next week she will have outgrown them!!

My final baby card-for now! My friend Katie is due on sunday and i'm hoping to be a little busy myself by then (fingers crossed) so I hope this card will be ok for a boy or a girl

I used Di Hickmans template for this one-and it fits Nikki's challenge for using one of her lovely stamps and the theme is New

I do love this little hippo stamp-like the others in the range it stamps perfectly everytime-and is great for layering

Friday sketchers have a gorgeous template this week-and I finally used one of my only 2 Magnolia stamps! Just realised it also fits for the ABC challenge- X!!!

Everytime I post here I'm hoping its the last time for a while-Little Miss is now 2 days overdue so fingers crossed you won't be hearing from me for a while!
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More challenges

I'm starting to realise how little time I have left-so I really have to design and start the birth announcements today!


But first a couple of birthday cards for next month


This one used the Papertake challenge this week and a stamped image from a swap

and this one covers two challenges-Di Hickmans sketch and a Spoonful of sugar's challenge for the week-Paper piecing

the card is straight honestly-its my terrible scanning!!

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Thanks to some great challenges and sketches I've managed to get a few more thank you's done and used up some scraps in the process

These two were using Kathy's sketch- I love this its so simple and quick, uses up oddments and can be altered to any occasion!

I then moved onto Caardvaarks sketch and made a couple more

Then finally this one came from sketches by Tamara-the challenge was to use 3 strips of paper

distressed edges and a tag

I would have got more done but hubby brought a colleague home at 2 and needed to use my desk space so they could work (and eat my chocolate cookies!!!)

I think this afternoon I'll make a couple of birthday cards and try hard to use some different paper for a change-you must be bored silly with all this nursery range!!!

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