Hand Crafted Memories

A second blog in one day! I've had this page in mind since my brother sent me the Christmas photos that were taken of his boys. Each year a photo is taken of them kissing their present, it makes me laugh because in about 10 years they are going to be embarrassed at how excited they were over these games. Remember pac man and how exciting that was? This year Robin said to the boys lets get a Christmas picture and they just grabbed the TV and kissed it, no more prompting. This fits the challenge over on Bubbly Scrum ptious , What makes Christmas special for you . Well for me its about these boys having fun with their Dad, we have to enjoy it while we can it won't be long before they will want to be off with their girlfriends .

Well it finally happened today, I fell over in the snow! I was in the car park at work, its the worst car park because its at a 25 degree angle and over night the snow that had been melting froze into black ice. The only injury I had was I split my sides laughing. I had to be scraped up by one of my colleagues, who was also laughing. I've also won again over on the Bubbly Scrumptious Challenge blog, the challenge was all wrapped up and ready to go. I sent in one of the little gift boxes and a card. I'm very happy to have won again. I have bought my mask for the masquerade ball at the Inspired retreat I'm going to in February. I tried to make a couple from card stock but they looked awful, so I've bought one of these from Hobbycraft I've bought lots of 'glam' stuff to tart it up, so that is going to be my project for the Christmas break. Oh no its snowing again! Will it ever stop?

Here are the little gift packages I made for my mince pies, this fits perfectly with this weeks challenge over on Bubbly Scrumptious , it's to show something to do with festive eating. Well there's nothing more festive than mince pies. Go here for the recipe for the sweet mincemeat, it's to die for.

How about a Christmas Pudding card for the weekly challenge over on Bubbly Scrumptious This week it's Christmas Yumminess ?, the remit was just show something to do with festive eating . I'm making some little gift boxes for a couple of mince pies later today so I'll be back with those as well. I have to finish my cards first and get presents wrapped.

While I was writing my Christmas card I came across this one, I made it a while ago at a card class at the Craft Box in Elsecar . It fits perfectly with the challenge over on Bubbly Scrumptious All wrapped up and tagged to go . I didn't get very far writing the cards so they definitely need to be finished today, I'm getting quite behind with my preparations, so I need to catch up before I return to work on Monday.

The weekly challenge over on Bubbly Scrumptious has the theme of All Wrapped Up and Tagged to Go. I've used one of the little boxes I designed for Craftwork Cards. These boxes are so easy to assemble and can be decorated in numerous ways. I've added panels of paper and made a gift tag from in circle messages and an ice white mini elegant scallop. All topped off with a stamped tree image, it makes me want to buy myself a present.

This is a very quick post before I get dressed for my trip. I haven't done much crafting recently because I've had a lot going on and I couldn't think of what I wanted to do. After the fabulous day I had yesterday I woke up remembering this stamp and knew it would fit in with this weeks Bubbly Scrumptious challenge of fairy tales, After all there's always a knight in shining armour isn't there?

The weekly challenge over on Bubbly Scrumptious this week is advent calendars. I made this one a couple of week s ago. One of the boys at work asked me to make one for his girlfriend so this is another version in pinks and purples. I also found this picture of one I made a few years ago, believe me making all those boxes drove me mad, especially when I got an order for five more! The photo doesn't really do it justice its much brighter in real life.

The weekly challenge over on the Bubbly Scrumptious blog is to Go Wild, make something with a wild animal on it. I loved this cute sticker that I bought recently and thought it fitted perfectly, it's too cute to be wild really!

I've spent most of the day making scrap pages, but I haven't had the photos printed yet. I don't like posting the pages without pictures so they'll have to wait. I've got a pile of almost done pages all just waiting for the right photo. The weekly Challenge over at Bubbly Scrumptious this week is silhouettes, I immediately thought of this stamp.

This weeks theme for the challenge over on Bubbly Funk is Grandparents, with Christmas fast approaching I decided to make a Christmas card for special Grandparents. I love this stamp and any excuse to crack out the Copics for a bit of colouring. I didn't think the acetate snowflake on the left would photograph very well, but it's not bad.

Over on the Bubbly Scrumptious challenge blog , this weeks challenge is Vintage. I appreciate Vintage but it's not something I do, I guess that's why it's a challenge! So here's my go for this week, a vintage Christmas card, I have to admit it was fun. I have a ton of Christmas cards already left from last year so didn't need to make any this year, however, it's what I'm inspired to create at the moment. This one will be perfect for one of my really good friends.

Here's a really quick and simple card that I've made to add to the stock for boys. I used an image that's been kicking around for ever, and I love how it turned out. The thing is I just sold this on e-bay so it's gone! I haven't used it in a lifetime and never really know what I could do with it to make it interesting . That was before I got my Copics , now everything looks great when you colour it in. It also fits with Bubbly Scrumptious weekly challenge of vehicles.

The Bubbly Scrumptious Challenge this week is vehicles and in keeping with me trying to come up with ideas for men's cards, here is my effort. I love this little car that is an Art from the Heart purchase, it has some many uses and always stamps beautifully. I coloured it using C opics and added some glossy accents to the wheels, although you can't tell from the photo. I'm also quite pleased with the blue and orange combo which makes it bright but not girly .