Still not firing on all cylinders

Hello and happy Tuesday to you all. I am so sorry I have not been around but I have had a yukky old time following my surgery. The surgery itself went well as I told you in my last post and I was all kinda good (as good as you can  expect anyway) till about day 6 when I started to go down hill. I was not a well puppy and didn't know what to do with myself. Frankie had stayed with me until day 5 and then he had to come home to collect Ashley from school camp. So he  flew home and drove back down two days later. I am so glad he did cause I ended up having a massive bleed on day 10 and got a ride in an ambulance and admitted to emergency. It was awful - I have never seen so much blood in all my life - very scary, lucky Frankie is a paramedic cause I would not of coped by myself . Anyway all ended up ok. Apparantly one of the clots that had formed had given way and my body decided to take a little while before it formed another.

I got the all clear to travel on Friday so after visiting my family and attending my Nephews 18th birthday we started for home on Sunday. I was supposed to fly but if I had of, it would of meant that I had to be alone without Frank for afew days, and I sure didn't want that so I decided to drive with them. The first day was ok but the second was very painful with very bumpy roads. But I am home now and supposed to start term 2 of Uni yesterday. I am going to just take it easy for a few days and see how I go and ease myself into it all.

I must admit I haven't even really been around to check all of my favourite blogs which is very sad. But I haven't even read my two magnolia magazines that I had saved to read while recovering hehe I must of been sick. So I will be around soon to check up on what you have all been up to.

talk soon

x joy 

surgery went well

Hello and happy Sunday to you, just a little update to let you know that my surgery on Friday went well and they let me out of hospital earlier than expected yippee!!!!! Feeling a bit sore and sorry for myself - thank goodness my darling Hubby Frankie has come down to Brissy to look after me. I can not sit down at all hehehe my tushie is just tooo sore - I can only lie. But I am sure that I will be all ok very soon. Thank you so much for all of your lovely texts, phone calls and messages. 

take it easy

 talk soon

 x joy

I've had a play day after all

Hello and a happy Monday to you. It is the Queens birthday holiday here today so I've had a lovely relaxing day packing and playing in the craft room. You see I decided to make a little card for my great nephew who turned 7 on Saturday. I am a terrible Auntie, great Auntie and even sister, daughter and  friend,  as I rarely make cards for anyone important - I am usually too busy making cards to sell. I know , I know it is awful of me and I do vow most days to change my ways - but I have a reputation of being very slack and I wonder if it will change - one day maybe hehehehe

So here is the card I made

 I have wanted to make a card like this for ages - using kaiser craft  k-bots paper. I have mounted the robot that I cut out on a couple of spellbinder layers then decorated with some handmade paper buttons and a Tim Holtz small rosette die.  I then added the number seven and Jared's name - I know my boys love it when I put their name on their cards - it makes it more personal.

This is the inside view. I have decided that I need to buy some cog or gear stamps and die's as I think they would of finished this card off nicer. I have distressed the white inside writing card and the aqua backing paper with some odd swirly, line and dotty stamps that were lurking in my stash - but I think cog stamps would of looked better. All of the button have been mounted with magic mount to make them stand out a bit from the card.

Ok well thats it for now and maybe a week or so

so be good

 talk soon

x joy

Not much playing happening

Hello and a huge happy Sunday to you all

I am very sorry that I have not been around for a few days. Despite the fact I am on term break from Uni - I have been kept out of mischief and busy. I had planned on spending most of last week playing happily amongst my treasured crafty stuff - but the Universe had other ideas and kept me doing other things - I felt like the last week just disappeared into nowhere.

Tuesday I spent the day with my lovely papercrafting buddies having a fun day relaxing and crafting  before I go away this next week - I had such a lovely day!!!!! Then Wednesday I had a lovely little 4 year old's birthday party to attend - which I also thoroughly enjoyed. Happy Birthday Jada!!!!!! Her clever Mum decorated all the party goodies with strawberries - I was very impressed - sooooo cute!!! And just as I have written that I remembered that I forgot to take a photo of Jada's card that I made - silly me!!!!!!

Then Friday I had to drive over to Barcaldine (100kms away) and back, because our local chemist didn't have my medication in stock and I needed it, so off I went. Travelling in the car and I aren't all that happy with each other at the moment - so I ended up in a bit of pain after that - it has taken me a couple of days to get over it.

So today I have a couple of things to share with you, firstly a couple of cards that I have made. The first is a blue version of the bubbles card I made (from my last post)

 Once again I masked out the dandy lions from the stamped image and changed them to bubbles. Added a strip cut out using my new tonic punches and a layered bow.

 The inside view.

 This is another of the Thank you cards that I made last week using Kaiser craft stamps called hummingbird and some beautiful paper also from Kaiser - finished off with a stamping up sentiment and some pearl bling. I have layered the smaller bird house as well but I don't think you can see that very well in this photo.

 The inside view.

 Another Thank you card using Stampin' up stamp, top note die, sentiment and punch finished with some Kaiser paper and some grossgrain ribbon. 

 And once again the inside view - I love this Kaiser paper it is the back of the Bonjour collection  Moriesse - sooooo pretty!!!!!!

 And finally something other than cards for a change - I sat and enjoyed some time in the sunshine yesterday with my puppy Sebastian - how cute is he!!!!!

 And madame Sabrina just couldn't bear me sitting giving all of my attention to Sebastian so she came and joined us as well

 And then just some shots of the garden again - it was such a beautiful day yesterday

   This is our little log cabin and rockery - still needs more work but it's getting there.

Ok well I am not sure that I am going to get time to blog again before I head off for my round three of surgery this week. I would like to say that I am going to spend the next two days in the craft room but I don't think that is gunna happen. I am going to take the computer with me so maybe I can hop on and say hi in the lead up to Friday. I have to undertake a pretty yukky preparation and no eating on Thurs so I am not looking forward to any of it. Hubby is flying down to be with me this time as it is a little more serious - he gets to Brissy on Friday, so by the time he gets there I should be out of surgery. Ohhhhh the joys of it all - but by this time next year I should be running around full of life again - I hope!!!!!!!!

Ok well have a great day

talk soon

 x joy

Bubbles

Hello and a super happy Sunday to you all. I hope you are all well. I am still having lots of fun playing in my craft room seeing as I am on holidays from Uni. I have made a couple of cards but I wanted to show you this one. I have had a little play with one of my stamps.

You see I found this paper at my local newsagent and I just had to have it - it is soooo nice and I thought that it looked like bubbles

What do you think? 

So I thought that it would be nice to make a card with a little girl blowing bubbles with it - but I don't have a stamp like that. Soooooo I spent several hours scrolling through the www to see if I could find a digi stamp, but no go. Who would of thought it was so hard to find a cute digi stamp with a  little girl blowing bubbles. Anyway in the middle of the night I came up with this idea - I knew my little cutie from Lili of the Valley, looked like she was blowing bubbles even though she is actually blowing dandy lions - soooooo I masked out the dandy lions and popped on some bubbles for her. It kinda came out ok - just a few little uneven lines where I drew the bubbles but I think it looks ok. I hope I am allowed to do that - I have seen others doing it on cards before.

 This is the finished card that I made:

It was really funny cause I was trying to find embellishments to match and was looking through all my stuff and found this ribbon that matches the paper perfectly, I just mounted it on a strip of silver paper that had the edges punched with my fiskars punch. I made some silver flowers with my sizzix no 9 flower and some bling centres. Then added my Cherry Lynn flourish, with a few extra flourishes and finished with some bling and kindy glitz.   

This is the inside view - just some punched silver paper with some of the pretty pink bubbly paper and some bling here.

I am going to enter it into Lili's Little Fairies challenge which is Anything goes, as I haven't played along with them for ages.

Ok well I hope you have a great day

talk soon

x joy

Playing with Penny Black

Hello and happy Wednesday to you. After a very slow start this morning I have finished the day with a play in my craft room. And finally I have been able to play along with all the girls at Penny Black Saturday Challenge. It has been ages since I have had the chance to join in the fun. But here I am - that is if the challenge is still Monochrome (sometimes I am a bit slow off the mark and make the card too late) Ahhhhh I have just been over to check and it is Monochrome Magic so I fit the bill with this card:

 I have used Penny Black Transparent set called Allegro, stamped in versamark and covered with white embossing powder. Then just mounted up on a few layers of card and finished with some ribbon and a hand made fabric flower using sizzix flower layers #9 die with some bling in the middle. Looking at my card on here I think I could of used some thicker ribbon as it looks a bit bare down the bottom - too late now though as it is stuck down solid. 

 This is the inside view - I have done something completely different this time and used a black base card - I always only use white - so it is very daring for me hehehehe

 This is the lovely Penny Black set that I used - purchased from The Glitter Pot - my favourite UK store. I am amazed at how quickly that products get to me from The Glitter Pot here in Australia. I usually order one week and I have it in my hot little hands the next week!

 Hmmmmmmm and this is some more stash that I got yesterday, opppssss - it jumped into my cart while I was ordering the latest Magnolia magazine from Scrapbook Boutique. I got two memory box dies that I have been wanting for ages. Then this Hero Arts set that I have wanted for ever and  the star circles set from Spellbinders that I have also wanted for ages - hehehehe what can I say? hehehe plus you get free shipping with orders over $90 so I had to get a few extras to make it worth my while hehehehe.

Ok well I had better go and get dinner cooking - it is Taco's for the boys tonight so not much to do

 really. Have a great night!

talk soon

x joy  

Red and yellow and pink and green . . . . . . la la la I can sing a rainbow

Hello everyone and a happy happy Tuesday to you all. I am having a couple of lazy,  not knowing what to do with myself, days at the moment, after my term one finished last week. Hehehe  it is nice, but I am a bit bored. I think I like keeping busy. Anyway I have a little bit of a cold so along with all the other things wrong with this old body - I am taking it easy and not doing anything too much. So what better way to waste a few hours than to play in the craft room.

So I have had a picture of this card up in my craft room from the lovely Beth over  at Beth's Little card Blog  I saw it a little while ago and fell in love! I sent a message to Beth  asking if I could case it straight away. So here is Beth's card over on her blog and here are my two:

 The first one that I made wasn't straight - so I had to have a go at a second one(don't look too closely!!!!!). I thought that it looked quite easy but it was a bit tricky lining up all the squares. I cut my squares 2 x 2cm and mounted them up on a 14cm square piece of card. I just love the colours though!!!!! It is such a happy fun card. Thank you so much to Beth for the inspiration.

 The sentiment is a hero arts stamp and the punch and surround stamp are from stampin' up. Then  I just finished with some ribbon.

This is the inside view - using stampin' up top note die and my lovely quickutz rainbow die to just finish it off. I haven't used craft card for ages but this has made me love it all over again. So you may be seeing more of it on here.

Ok well I might just have time to go pop a cake in the oven for the boys afternoon tea (that is if I just sign off here and not go looking at every one's blogs hehehe)

Talk to you soon

x joy