About Me

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I am 38 and live with my husband and 2 little dogs called Tessa and Toby. We married in May 2010. I work as a care manager however have finally finished my 4 year social work degree and as long as I have passed I hope not to do any more study for quite a while lol....

Friday 28 January 2011

New background yeah!!!

Ok so the fantastic Summer Driggs has allowed me to use her designs to create a background for my blog........ Wahey!!!  What do you think?

Dissappointing....

Sorry guys, have had to remove the blog background as when I emailed Nitwits (whose papers I had used) they advised that this was not allowed.....
Feel like crying to be honest as this has taken me so long to do and was something that I wanted to get to grips with for ages!!!!!

So unless anyone can suggest other digikits which dont mind this (am not clever enough to design the actual elements myself!) then this may be it creativity wise!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Catherine xx

Wedding Stationery

When I got married last year I made my own wedding stationery and loved doing it.
I loved doing those although they were pretty time intensive!
I also made a table plan for a friend's wedding and this was fairly quick and easy, yet I can't believe how much they seem to sell for!!!


I have been sitting here on my last day off thinking maybe I could sell something like this?
So playing around with my software I have quickly come up with two designs, excuse the white blob on one of the photos, I really should have let the glue dry before photographing lol...





The last one didnt photograph too well however it looks quite cool in real life!

I would love to know what you guys think and whether it is worth trying to do more things like this??

Thursday 27 January 2011

Scrapbook page

Now I have always wanted to get into scrapbooking however found it too time consuming with working and studying as well and so always stuck to cards...
Until I was persuaded to try did scrapping ; I purchased Serif Digital Scrapbook Artist 2 and there was no stopping me!  Have now upgraded to Serif Craft Artist and thought I may also post scrapbook pages on here, so here is one that I have recently made...

This is me and my Dad, when I was a baby and when I got married last year......

Mens Cards

Why are men's cards so hard to make?
Cards for women are so easy, especially as I am such a girly girl lol...
Anyway made these two cards with Sugar Nellie's Catch a big fish.
Two different colour ways but I think they work well..




Wednesday 26 January 2011

Housemouse addiction

I think I may have a housemouse addiction as there is nothing I like more at the moment than sitting in my craft room, listening to some music and cutting out the decoupage! They are just so addictive.

Here are a couple of cards that I have made for valentines day using the house mouse decoupage.
The first is an 8x8 card using decoupage from the Two of Us collection...







This second card is an A5 card also using decoupage from the Two of Us Collection.


New year, new resolution




Ok so have decided that this is the year to get to grips with blogging and have found the old blog that I started ages ago!!!


Apologies if things don't go according to plan as I am still learning lol....

I made the following card for my sister and her husband's anniversary from one of the new stamps at Lili of the valley. Thought I would have a go at using distress inks and although I dont thing it looks that great close up I am pleased with the finished product....
Well that didnt really go according to plan as the photos should be at the bottom and they are in the wrong order!! Oh well looks like I have a lot to learn!#
Thanks for reading
Catherine






About Me

My photo
I am 38 and live with my husband and 2 little dogs called Tessa and Toby. We married in May 2010. I work as a care manager however have finally finished my 4 year social work degree and as long as I have passed I hope not to do any more study for quite a while lol....