JOY to the world!!!

Happy Friday everyone!!!



Apart from being on a very long and tedious training course for 2 days this week the whole thing seems to have gone quite quickly!! I also had a meeting to go to in Colchester yesterday which meant another day out of the office.......I got some work done today but I think Monday will be a massive chatch up day!!



So here are the next installments of Christmas cards........cant remember where I first saw this idea, I think it was actually a wall hanging and I just used it on a card instead.



Wasn't sure about the dp behind the letters at first but my lovely other half said it looked better with than without......have to trust them at some point!!









I am really not that keen on this next card.......although I love the clean lines and it came out better than I had hoped. This dp is not one of my favorites but with soooooooooo many cards to make I had to come up with different ideas and use different colours so......what do you think??

Mmmmmmmm...........I still not sure.................

Well let me know what you think, I would love to hear from you!!

Stay safe

Kylie xx

Christmas get together!

Hi everyone, how wonderful are Sunday nights when you dont have to go to work the next day!!!
Wanted to just say again what a great time I had round Michelle's on Friday night and also show you the wonderful swaps I got from the other girls......

First of all here is the card that Michelle made...

Love the sentiment and the large oval punches!!!

Next came the gift card holder from Sharon (hi Sharon, it was lovely to meet you!).......

Then there was the little chocolate box (complete with chocolates!!) from Germaine (hope to see you again soon)....

And last but not least was this very yummy mug filled with mocha chocolate goodness from Alison........recipe included!!!

All the girls are extremely talented and I hope that now we are all going to meet up once a month that some of their talent rubs off........at the very least I get some inspiration!

The last project I want to show you is a little acetate box filled with mints which I am going to give out to all my hard working staff......it has been a tough 6 months with many changes at work and they have all done so well. Thanks girls xx

Well thats it for now.........quite a long post for me really, but there was so much to show you all.

Have a good week and hopefully I will be back with some more projects soon.



Stay safe



Kylie xx

Back on line!!

Finally managed to sort out my technical problems and we are back on line again!! Despite work being mega busy, I have managed to get all my Christmas cards made and they are just waiting to be posted off now.......need to get the ones for Australia in the post this week otherwise they may never get there!!

As most of you will already know, I dont really make stocks of cards, although I am thinking this is a good idea....... as I like to make cards with the individual in mind, I also tend not to make cards that are the same, so with 30 odd Christmas cards to make it got a little difficult towards the end to come up with different ideas!!!

With the weather now turning so bad and it getting dark around 4.30pm I have invested in a small 'light tent' so that I can still take photos of my cards, although getting the light shining in the right spot is a bit of an art in its self!!

After a very long week at work, I was looking forward to finishing up yesterday as I have booked a week of annual leave. My upline Michelle had a get together at her house last night and although I was falling asleep on my feet, I mustered up the energy to go..............and I was soooooooooo pleased I did as I met Sharon and Germaine for the first time and of course Alison was there and it was just really nice to sit and do some crafting with other people, relax and have a bit of fun!!

So a big thank you to Michelle, it was a great night and looking forward to the next one!!

Stay safe

Kylie xxx

Cold Christmas.....

As I have been working on my Christmas cards, I keep showing each creation to Steve to get his opinion........he is totally Mr Christmas and I just really aint that bothered by the whole affair!! Anyway, Steve has this whole thing about Christmas being traditional and 'warm' so he really doesn't like all the lovely pale blue, white, silver, crisp green colours and just keeps saying to me 'GREEN, RED AND GOLD!!!! PEOPLE WANT TO SEE SOMETHING TO MAKE THEM FEEL WARM!!!!'

Ok so that made him sound like he was shouting at me but he really wasn't......bless him, he just likes traditional English Christmas stuff.....I will loose count of how many mince pies, mini Christmas puddings and brandy cream/butter he will eat between now and new year!! Again, all the traditional Christmas stuff like mince pies, christmas pud and Christmas cake I just cant stand........raspberries and ice cream for me!!! I do try my best to get 'festive' when the time comes but it is hard being so far away from family.....................

Righty ho, onto a couple of cards.....I made a point of buying some of the retired DP's as the Christmassy ones are just lovely although this is one that Steve didn't like......too cold apparently!!!








.......and one that he did!!

I used some little red gem stones on the woodcut holly stamp to make the berries stand out (as they should really be red!!)

Well thats it for tonight folks, hope you enjoyed looking around my blog, please leave a comment it is always great to get constructive feedback!

Stay safe

Kylie xx

More Christmas Card Chaos!!

Hi everyone....

Hope you have all had a lovely weekend!! I have had a massively busy week and another one to come but somehow I managed to sit at my craft desk and, like a crazy woman, I made loads of Christmas cards!!! Unfortunately none of them are for me to use for family and friends......it was an order from my local lady with the lovely shop, but I was grateful for the order as every penny counts!!

She also asked me to make her some general cards as well so I put together about 32 cards for her.......I did say I worked like a crazy woman!!!

I had a good look through all of the sketches I save and even used some of the designs from the new and old idea books, trying out different colour combo's and shifting things around so that they weren't exactly the same.

I managed to take photo's of all the cards.....Steve is going fishing again tomorrow so no camera for a few days (we have to share!!) but good news......it looks like he has found some work starting the end of this month. It means he will have to work away during the week but anything is better than nothing!!!

Well have a good week everyone, hopefully I will find some spare time to pop back during the week to post some more Christmas cards.

Thanks for browsing.......

Stay safe

Kylie xx

Its coming..........!!

It pains me to even say the word this early in the year so I am not going to........but Steve has already got me buying mince pies!!!

So what I have for you today is a little selection of those cards which we all need to make tons of and then get in the post on time (well, thats me anyway....why I have such a problem with posting I dont know!!!)

I wanted to do a bit of stamp a stack for myself, keeping all the designs simple for ease and speed but I think I will just do what I always do and individualise cards for people........I like to make cards specifically with the person/people in mind.........rambling now so here are the pics! x

Sorry about this photo.....didn't really turn out that well!!!

I am loving the Winter Post set and I think I will be using it on many of this years cards.........

and my Woodcut Holly wheel was just perfect for this card!!!!

Thanks for stopping by and browsing, hope to see you here again soon.

Stay safe

Kylie xx