sneak peaks & stuff....

next week see's the end of our financial year at work so my hours have been hideous this week and next week is even worse, but i have managed to get another layout finished for gramps's book. I started this monday at scrapaholix, and got it completed late one evening ...it was great de-stresser cutting out all the bits!...this one features gramps & the thames!...predominantly Tower Bridge & HMS Belfast. This week also see the CHA in Anaheim California ....s some of the sneak peaks have been fab....im particularly liking the following!.. Sweet Celebrations and Spring Fling from the fabulous Bella Blvd company. I'm not sure who stocks this in the UK but will be actively seeking!...also Farmers Wife from the lovely Jenny Bowlin...check out these buttons! and finally for today....Neighbourhood from the scrummy My Little Shoebox.

This week my train book was The Shop on Blossom Street by Debbie Macomber. This another new author to me and I loved it....it revolves around a knitting shop which sounds terribly dull but it was great ..about finding friendship in unexpected places. As you know I Y a book!...i recently found a fantastic charity bookshop, today i managed to pick up 8 books for £10 4 of which are still in the book charts ..so watch this space lots of books to come!

forever friends.....

todays challenge over on the forever friends challenge blog is Ribbon and of course forever friends!.....i'm so glad that these images have been made into crafting bits & bobs...they so remind me of my late teens / early 20's when they were the card to send!....I have a card stash which i covert frequently...my friend and i were card junkies and i have a box dating back years of cards that i loved too much to send to anyone!!...i now do the same with handmade ones!... I used ribbon as a washing line as accents with bows and to frame the top of the card.

Papers are from Heidi Grace who is one of my favs!...this is my first entry to this challenge....thanks for looking Tx

challenge cupcake...

i'm a challenge roll this weekend! ..... I love the friday cupcake challenge over on taylored expressions... this weeks challenge is here. Here is my card!..... again i've used up some scraps from my scrap bag!... from the fantastic sassafraslass range. I received this kit from sarah's cards and it languished in the bottom of my scrap kit pile. It was a range i would never have bought myself, but have loved it and used it a few times since...here and here.... looking forward to what they come up with for 2009. :-)
Card ingredients:
apaper ~ sassafraslass
astamps~ tilda with rolling pin - magnolia
astamps ~ cupcake -amuse
astamp ~ sentiment ~ taylored expressions
aribbon & bling from stash!

cupcake craft challenge 22

this week i discovered a fab craft challenge called cupcake craft challenge. This weeks challenge was to use the sketch, found here. I haven't completed a challenge for ages, but was inspired by this one and it also got me to use up some scraps from my blueberry layout. ...cupcakes & hugs :-)

Card ingredients:
Papers; Imaginisce ~ all kinds of happy a

Stamp ~ sentiment ~ Amuse & Magnolia Tilda with muffin.a

Ribbon ~ from stash! a

daily commute.....

My daily commute to work everyday involves Liverpool street station!... I need to say that if the following happened there everday as shown in this advert my journey to work would be so much brighter...how fab is this!......