I hope you all had a great Christmas and are looking forward to the new year. I had a good Christmas and definitely hope next year is good.

My Mum's birthday was on the 20th of December and as it's so close to Christmas I nearly forgot all about it.

We decided to buy her an apron for her birthday, as she had mentioned she couldn't find hers, and then she would get the rest of her presents on Christmas day.

This is the card that I made her.

So it's December. I am gradually getting things ticked off my Christmas gift list and have been making gifts too. I figured that teenagers (and adults) tend to just get themselves what they want when they want and so I would make presents for a lot of the females on my list. This involves cards, gift tags, notebooks etc. I did this last year and decided to do it again this year. I'm sure I will show what I've made soon.

For today's card, I drew around a butterfly template to create the butterflies and decided to add some beads on some thread to the centre of each butterfly. I decided to keep the background plain but added a lined border and a dashed line on the butterflies to make it less plain.

So we have put up our christmas tree already. It is early I know but my husband and daughter kept asking so it went up. I am beginning to think though that I will have had enough of it before christmas day but never mind.

So this card is my attempt to make a card for a younger girl.






This card started with a flower die cut template from Jenni Bowlin, which I just drew around on to the pink polka dot paper and made the stem and the leaves to go with it.

Adding the daisy embossing on the card base just jazzed up the plain card base as the card itself didn't need anymore colourful pattern as the flower is so big.

P.S To all the Americans, Happy Thanksgiving.

Have a great day.

There are some great printables around for all sorts of different organising, some of the I have used and still use but when it came to a shopping list and to do list I decided to do something different.



I chose to create a list that I could use again and again and would cost any more. I decided to create some laminated lists that were pretty but functional.


I started with creating a header on a piece of A4 paper which was created in Microsoft Word.
Then took a piece of card which I cut to fit the laminating pouch and then cut the A4 piece of paper down to fit the card and stuck it down.

You simply laminate the card with the piece of paper attached, trim the laminate if have excess and voila, one laminated list.



To draw on the laminated list I decided to use crayons instead of pens as they can get messy.



I use the Crayola dry erase crayons.  They work well on the boards and are great for kids as they are washable.


So next item I decided to make was a board that my daughter could draw on.


This board was done exactly the same was as the lists. I decided to put her name on the top to help her learn it but you could put whatever you wanted or could leave it blank.
             This is the artwork that Hollie created.


They would be great to use at home but also great to use in the car as they are very light and portable.
You could make smaller ones, books or  lined ones to help with writing. There ideas are endless.


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I've never really gotten into scrapbooking mainly because I rarely print photos out these days.  So when My Memories contacted me to try out their digital scrapbook software and give one away, I thought it would be the opportunity to try out some scrapbooking.





The software is called My Memories Suite and is very easy to use and I found the layout option helpful.

Here are two of the pages I've made so far:





Here is video to learn more about the software.









My Memories are also offering one person the chance to win the My Memories Suite Software (worth $39.97).

All you have to do is leave on comment on this post with a way to contact you and the winner will be chosen by random.org. Closing date is midnight on Monday 14th November 2011 (UK time).


I wasn't compensated for this post, opinions are my own. I received this product for my honest review.

So Halloween has gone, bonfire night has gone and the clocks have gone back, so are we ready for Christmas? he he. I have hardly started. I know it will come quickly enough though.

The card today was made using simple washi tape. I love washi tape, all the different colours and patterns.

I decided to make a banner card and use the washi tape on the banner.

I simply stuck the tape to some white card and made some pennants and put them onto 3d foam to add dimension.

Keeping the background simple with just swiss dots brings the banner to the focus.

Hope you are all having a good weekend .

I decided to make this card for the Ribbon Girl challenge #12, which was to make a card using lilac and green.

I have seen there is so many wonderful cards entered but I thought I would give it a go.

For this card I used the Basic Grey Kioshi papers as it's full of subtle purples and greens.



I did the top half of the card first with the big butterflies and the flower and it took me a while to decide what to do at the bottom.

I finally decided to do some hand stitching in the purple and green and add some little butterflies and the card came together.

Hope you have a great weekend.

When I came across Wendy Mckee's blog post last year about how she would trace around butterflies from the Internet or die cuts to use in projects I thought was a great idea as you can get so many shapes of butterflies and would bring a bit of diversity to the cards.

 I had some die cut butterflies from Jenni Bowlin and didn't want to give them up too soon  so I just traced around them and cut them out. That was how I got the two middle butterflies.

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I like making sets of cards to give as presents and like to find different ways to present them.
This time I chose to just make a small set of four cards with envelopes and make a little book to put them in.