It's been a while......

As you can imagine, it has been difficult

adjusting to loosing my Mum.

It is true that you don't know

what you have till it's gone.

I haven't done much crafting lately,

have gone to a few craft days,

including two amazing GJWHF days.

But today, I want to share with you

a memory box I made for my Mum.

If you are on my Facebook

you will have seen this already.

There are a fair few photo's.

The lid.

The papers are layered on white card

stock that I inked using distressing inks.

I stamped the image too far up

so you don't see it very well once

the lid is on.

The lid, my favourite bit.

I was really struggling with this new blogger,

Thank goodness Pam told me how to

change it back to the old layout.

Anyway..... enough of my rambles,

how have you been ??

love Teen xx

mum

Sorry I haven't been around very much.
My Mum was poorly,
and I have been spending a lot of time
with her and just not been in the mood
to do much crafting.
Sadly she died on Friday.

I just wanted to say thank you
for the beautiful cards I have received.

hugs xx

a piece of work

I fell in love with making canvas
pieces after doing one last year
at the first
Girls Just Wanna have fun
with Kath, Debbi & Anne.


The photos are again nae great,
as they say round here.

The first three here, were Christmas gifts.

This one was my Mother in Law, and very inspired
by the one we did at the girls day.

~~~~~T~~~~~

This one is made using various bits from our
niece Robyn and her new husband Paul's wedding.
Including the menu, invitation,
the seed packet all the ladies at the wedding
were given for favours,
and some raffia held the menu scrolled up.

The birds were used to decorate the
hall, there was a bird theme
the whole way through the wedding.
I edged them with inks,
added stitching and gems for eyes.

~~~~~T~~~~~

The next one is using photos
of a lovely friends wee girl.
What a beautiful wee honey she is too!

The last one,
is kinda personal to me.
It is representative to changes
in my life.

I really enjoyed making all of these.

Hope you all had a lovely Christmas.
Wishing you all many good things in 2012.

much love Teen xxx

me to you......just a few!

So my Mum phoned the other day,

asking me to make her a few
cards for the family.
She needed ten different ones,
and she needed them
in the next two days....

Oh Mother!

Anyway.
Since I was super busy,
I decided to use Me to You toppers
and images on a pack of papers,
Percy & Penelope
from Daisy & Dandelion.

This one is for her Great Granddaughter

Aliesha

who will be enjoying her first Christmas this year.

Grand daughter Becca who is going to be 21
but you are never too old for this wee bear.

Grand daughter who is 8.

The reason I didn't put grand daughter or grandson
on any one's cards apart from my Mum's
only great grand daughter,
is my wee brother has a new girlfriend
who has twin daughters
from a previous relationship.

My parents treat the girls the same
as the other kids in the family,
but it is still all new and they haven't defined
who my parents are to the kids.
SO I put names on all the grand kids cards,
so no one was different.

Grand son and his girlfriend,
again, names used
as grandson and girlfriend in law
sounded weird! LOL

How come,
if I take all my photos at the same time,
do some of them turn out alright.....
and some are awful?

I do like this wee chap
not sue if it is a bit childish for a grandson.

Grand daughter who is 18.

my sister really wanted her card
to say Daughter and Son in Law.

Last one.....

and the one I like the least....

I love the image,
and I love the colours.....
but not sure why....
But I really am not keen on the end result.

I hope you are all getting there with your Christmas stuff,
I must admit I am not getting stressed this year,
have loads still to do, but have cut way back
on the stuff I usually overwelm myself with.

Stay warm and I
hope you are grand!
Love Teen xx

cat's whiskers

Stay well back.....
Germ alert!

I am still feeling really rubbish with
a nasty cold/viral lurgy thing
that I have had for over a week now.

I ended up coming home and going for a snuggle
with Miss Bella Boo this afternoon.

Turning 40 sucks! LOL.

Anyway.....one card to show you.
Got it finished last night,
after promising a lady at work
I would make a card for her daughter.

Anything with animals,
penguins,
cats,
dogs.....
Well I did one with a penguin
but it looked too much like an Xmas card.
I guess I can add it to the very small pile
of Xmas cards I have got done.


Nitwit papers and topper thingys
from local shop were used.

It is an eseal card where a wee accetate cube
makes the handsome black puss sits
holds the back panel forward.

I think I might have to take my cards into
work to photograph, as they are much better
than my latests efforts at home!

hope you are all grand!

Love Teen xx

thanks a bunch

Last bunch of thank you cards....
I made others but posted them with out
remembering to take photos!
DUH!


Some more 10cm easel cards.
I really like these wee cute sizes.
All made using craftwork card papers.

I like this one, flower stamp is from a See D set.

This one..... I am not so sure off,
It looks nothing like I had imagined it would.

Last one of the small cards.
I love the flower, stamped onto backing papers
and wording just shows through the
promarkers I used to colour.

Might add some more to this,
but really like the pearls in the centre.

Two bigger cards,
This one is for the folks at my work,
need to give it another tap
to get rid of the excess glamour dust.

Last one.....Honest!
I really like this one.
No idea who this will be for!

Hope you all had a lovely weekend.
Back to work for me tomorrow.
much love Teen xx

thank you, thank you, thank you x

Well turning 40 didn't hurt at all!
I had a lovely day, even though I have been
sneezing and sniffing all week
with another blasted cold.

Thank you to everyone who
left me Birthday Wishes.

{{{{{{{{hugs}}}}}}}

I received some beautiful cards
from bloggy mates, and once I get
some photos taken, I will proudly
show them on here!

Thank you cards are now required,
have only managed to get four done so far.

They are 10cm easel cards.

I enjoyed using craftwork papers
and card candy on them all.
Got a fair few still to make!

The first one I made.

This is the one I like the best.

A wee bit of heat embossing used on this one.

I really am needing to improve my photo taking skills!

Hope you are grand.

Happy Thanksgiving

to all those who celebrate !
Love Teen xx