Two Christmas Cards

Back tonight with a couple of Christmas cards that I made but never got posted.

Cardblank - Craftwork Cards
Cardstock - Paper Mill
Patterned Paper - Echo Park
Image - Stampavie
Coloured with Distress Inks
Gems - Mei Flower
Woodware Snowflake Punch
Sentiment - Hero Arts

Cardblank - Craftwork Cards
Cardstock - Bazzill
Patterned Paper - Echo Park
Image - Stampavie
Coloured with Distress Inks
Gems - Mei Flower
Sentiment - Hero Arts

Went to Altnagelvin Hospital with Hollie on Tuesday. Sat for about an hour, then was called to see the doctor, only to be told Hollie needed an x-ray.  Another half hour later and three more x-rays, the doctor said her finger was definitely broken.  They strapped two of her fingers together and gave her a review appointment in another week.  Basically they only did what our local hospital had done on Sunday.  Hollie was not happy that she missed a day off school.

Here are a couple of photographs of my second daughter, Sophie, going to her friend Andrew Crawford's formal - St Joseph's on 13th October.

You may recognise this dress as it was the one Shannon wore last year to her formal. Lucky it fitted Sophie too as I wasn't for buying her two formal dresses. Will show you Sophie's own formal photographs which was last Thursday night on my next post.

Thanks for popping by and hope to get caught up with the rest of my commenting tonight or tomorrow.

Second Post Tonight

While my internet is keeping working tonight, here is another card that I made for the Sugar Bowl challenge but never got entered.

Image - Sugar Nellie

Cardstock - Paper Mill

Patterned Paper - My Minds Eye

Woodware Flower Punch

Pearls - Mei Flower

Coloured with Distress Inks

Got a very stressful day ahead tomorrow.  About two weeks ago Hollie hurt her finger playing at school.  As she caught a ball her finger bent backwards.  When she came home it was slightly swollen and bruised.  We took her to our local casualty department but it was queued out the door, so we thought it best to wait as the bruising, if an x-ray was taken, might not show anything anyway. The bruising has went down and so has most of the swelling so we thought it was getting better.  However, yesterday she said is was sore again so we went back to casualty and got it x-rayed.  Her finger is broken diagonally and is not knitting together properly.  They contacted another hospital as our local one doesn't have a bone department and we have to go there tomorrow morning and possibly get her finger reset or maybe surgery. Not looking forward to it and Hollie is nervous and worried, although we haven't told her what might be happening.

Have another couple of cards to show but will post them later this week along with photos of Sophie at her two formals.  One she was invited to and then her own.

Thanks for popping by again and hope to catch up this week with everyone, internet permitting.

Updated:  Forgot to share link for Hollie's cards - http://holliescraftingblog.blogspot.com/

Sherbert Pip

Apologies for not being around recently but I have been at the decorating again.  Have decorated Sophie's room, the Kitchen and Utility, Living Room, Hall, Stairs and Landing.  Definitely going to have a break, just two rooms left to do now.

I had made this card for a sketch by Cute Card Thursday with the colours for a Colour Create challenge but never got round to entering it as my internet has been playing up over the last month or so and either wouldn't connect or kept cutting off.

Cardstock - Bazzill

Patterned Paper - My Minds Eye (I think)

Ribbon - American Crafts

Image - Sugar Nellie

Coloured with Distress Inks

Woodware Flower Punch

Gems - Mei Flower

On the 29th September, (our 21st wedding anniversary) hubby did taxi for Sophie and her friend as they went to see Rihanna in concert in Belfast.  What a night that turned out to be for them.  Although

 the concert didn't start until after ten due to something technical, they had an amazing night. They had got very good seats, but Rihanna had built part of the stage in front of them so they wouldn't have been able to see all the concert.  Our neighbour is one of the head security men and Sophie asked him if he could get them moved to other seats.  They got into the VIP area at the front of the stage and then Sophie was picked to go on stage and had to join in a dance routine with Rihanna's dancers.  Don't think any concert will ever match up to this.  She is away tonight to see Katy Perry.  She got these tickets for her friends birthday on Friday for a surprise for her friend.

Anyway thank you for popping by as I know I haven't been the best blogger at the moment but do hope to get some more crafting done over the Halloween holidays.

P.S. Hollie has put some cards on her blog tonight as well. http://holliescraftingblog.blogspot.com/

Sugar Bowl # 67, Truly Scrumptious # 65, A Gem of a Challenge # 29

Finally got some crafting time. 

I have to apologise for the lack of posts and not being able to visit all your blogs over the past few weeks.  Life has just been really busy, getting the girls ready for school with uniforms, etc., doing hubby's bookwork and vat and then we went to Portugal from 22 Aug - 1 Sep. Then the girls went back to school the next day and it takes a week or two to get used to the routine again and get caught up with bookwork, etc.  Before we went on holiday Shannon got her 'AS' results and had her career appointment at school and this is now her last year. She is doing French, Spanish and English Literature for 'A' level.  She also turned 18 when we were on holidays. Seems like only yesterday she started P1.

Anyway onto my card :-

I am entering my card into three challenges :-

Sugar Bowl # 67 - Follow Sketch
Truly Scrumptious # 65 - Decorate the inside of your card
A Gem of a Challenge # 29 - Picture Inspiration

Cardblank - Craftwork Cards
Cardstock- Bazzill
Patterned Paper - My Minds Eye - Lime Twist
Woodware Flower Punches
Pearls - Mei flower
Doily - Sarah's Cards
Image - Sugar Nellie - Candy Pip
Coloured with Pro Markers - (couldn't get the colours with the distress inks and I had a packet of pro markers which I have never used, so tried them, but not sure.  Never liked colouring with felt tips, always preferred pencils and although it was quicker than inks, think I need to practice a lot more)
Sentiment - Free with magazine

Here are a couple of holiday photographs.  I only got a chance to look at these this evening too.

Went to Zoomarine on the Saturday for Shannon's birthday and then went to the Sand Fiesa, which was amazing, will show you those photos later.

This was taken at the promenade in front of our apartment,

These are our apartments.  They were really nice.  The one we stayed in belongs to a friend of ours and he only took possession at Christmas.  The only downside to the apartments was that there was no communal pool, so the girls didn't get to make friends.  Also as the resort, Olhao, isn't a commercialised resort they had limited wifi connections, so no facebook for the girls.  Eventually found out that the hotel beside us had a computer room and the girls were able to buy internet cards each evening. Problem solved.

Thanks for popping by and your comments are always very much appreciated.  I hope to get round this week to visit everyone and catch up with what is new.

P.S. Forgot to say that Hollie has set up her own blog although she hasn't had much time to craft either.  She had made a card for the Simon Says Stamp summer challenge and wanted to put it on a blog of her own rather than on mine.  Hopefully she will get another card made this weekend. http://holliescraftingblog.blogspot.com/

Sugar Bowl # 65, Allsorts # 114, Papertake Weekly

Just a quick post from me today.  Again not much crafting time.  Last week I was doing taxi service for the girls to go to The Milk Cup football matches (at least three each day) and then hubby was away to the World Superbikes at Silvertstone from early  Saturday until late Monday evening and I had to work in the shop for him on Saturday.

I am entering my card into three challenges:-

Sugar Bowl # 65 - Follow Sketch
Allsorts # 114 - Free and Easy
Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes

Cardblank - Craftwork Cards
Cardstock - Paper Mill
Patterned Paper - My Minds Eye
Image - Sugar Nellie
Coloured with Distress Inks
Woodware Flower Punch
Pearls - Mei Flower
Sentiment - Free with Magazine

Off to the supermarket now and then maybe some gardening if it stays dry.  Thanks for popping by and your comments are very much appreciated.

Sketch Saturday # 164, Kenny K's Krafty Girlz Challenge, Allsorts # 112, Craft Us Crazy # 13

Got some cleaning done and got another card made.  Like how this card turned out, which isn't that often for me.  Love these images but I am always scared to colour them as there are so many gorgeous cards in blogland with them.

I am entering my card into four challenges:-

Sketch Saturday # 164 - Follow Sketch (turned it on its side)
Kenny K's Krafty Girlz Challenge - Anything Goes plus Blog Hop
Allsorts # 112 - Free and Easy (2nd entry)
Craft Us Crazy # 13 - Anything Goes

Cardblank - Craftwork Cards
Cardstock - Paper Mill
Patterned Paper - My Minds Eye
Image - Whimsy Stamps - Kenny K
Coloured with Distress Inks
Gems- Mei Flower
Sentiment - Whimsy Stamps (had to cut this out freehand as I can't remember where I put the die for it.  Left it somewhere for safekeeping until I found out how you used it and can't remember where)
Ribbon - Local craft shop

Thanks for popping by, off now to link up and comment on the blog hop.  I hope the weather gets better as it is our international youth football tournament (The Milk Cup) next week and there is nothing worse than taking the girls and watching it in the rain. Hope everyone has a great weekend.

Truly Scrumptious # 61, Moving Along With The Times # 107, Dream Valley # 11

Well I got the Bathroom decorated and decided to replace all the accessories as well so I think I will leave the Kitchen for a week or two, and do some crafting and cleaning instead....   

I am entering my card into three challenges :-

Truly Scrumptious # 61 - Follow Sketch
Moving Along With The Times # 107 - My Favourite Things
(Stampavie image, Distress inks, Woodware flower punches and Martha Stewart punches)
Dream Valley # 11 - Summer Theme (hope the image is fine as I normally associate summer with lots of flowers in the garden)

Cardblank - Craftwork Cards
Cardstock - Paper Mill
Patterned Papers - My Minds Eye
Image - Stampavie
Coloured with Distress Inks
Woodware Flower Punch
Pearls - Mei Flower
Martha Stewart Daisy Punch

Thanks for popping by, hope everyone is having a good summer despite the weather, feels more like winter it is so cold and wet.  Think we had our summer over the Easter holidays, it gets earlier every year.....