WOW time flies

Bloomin heck how long since I last posted on here?? Mind you I don't think I have made that many cards since may which is sad, but head and heart hasn't been in it much.  I have been making jewellery which I think ha slightly distracted one :) Been up to a lot though, My eldest son started college, my youngest son started Nursery and the middle son changed school...

Went to Knebworth -sonisphere- this summer with Ian and thoroughly enjoyed ourselves, were very tired after the long weekend, not quiet got the ability to dance till you drop these days, I loved seeing rammstein play an outdoor gig, but my fav had to be Mr Alice cooper on the Friday, that man is amazing for his age and Papa Roach on the Saturday .Also went to London with my  mum in the December to see A-ha play their last UK date ever on the farewell tour.They were the first band i ever saw live, and that was on their first world tour 25 years ago....OMG I suddenly feel very old, and they were absolutely Brill.



I am finally off to see Duran Duran later this year, never got to see them when i was a young duranie, and the foo fighters later this summer... can't Waite, so much to look fwd to , but the best thing that I am looking fwd to is Ian's return home after a long 4 months away...roll on April. Oh yeah and if you live around my neck of the woods, STAY OFF THE ROADS on Feb 22nd as I am having my first driving lesson for 20 years....lol
So that is pretty much the last 9 months in a nut shell. Thanks for stopping by
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Nicci
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Sunday "TEA"l time

Afternoon. It's a lovely Sunny if very windy Sunday afternoon here , perfect for drying the washing actually, any I'm off waffling at a tangent again. This is a card I made today, coloured with promarker pens in colours I wouldn't normally use. I am also going to be brave and enter it into my first blog challenge on passion for promarkers, who are celebrating their 1st birthday.

patterned papers are from one of the papermania capsule pads, flowers I made myself from a tutorial on the whiff of joy blog, they were coloured using promarkers too.

challenge :- Passion for promarkers 

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Nicci

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a few more

These are a few more of the May card mountain I have to make . The first one is for a friends son, using another Lili of the valley stamp. Their stamps are fantastic value, and I love the fact they have so many male orientated images. Having 3 sons a brother and the usual collection of male relatives I am sure you can understand why I was soooo pleased to discover this little company.Long may they thrive :)

This one was made for Ian from the boys, again  LOTV stamp. The one I made for Ian is also  a LOTV image

just forgot to take a pic of it , so will do that at some point.

Images were coloured with promarkers , top papers were some scrap papers I had and the bottom ones are from basic grey can't remember which pad though.

thanks for looking

nicci
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Birthday cards

These are the 2 cards I made for Ian's mum for her birthday , the first one is a Lili of the valley stamp, and coloured with promarkers, check out the LOTV blog for some great video tuts on using promarkers

This one was made using a tut from the Whiff of joy inspiration blog, which is a wealth of new ideas, the image is by Elizabeth Bell and available at funky kits. It is one of my favs and I use it often.

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nicci
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Me Time

The past couple of weekends I have finally found a bit of me time to play , whilst marcus has been following his daddy round the garden digging up several of what his daddy had planted, in fact the other day I rescued my lilly bulbs from the lawn where Marcus had dug them out of the pot ! Anyway I digress. today I made these flowers following the tutorial on the whiff of Joy insperation blog, so easy and great messy fun to make.

and last weekend i managed to do 3 yes 3 cards.

one is for Ian's dad whose birthday is tomorrow and the others are for the multitude of birthdays I have next month .

nicci

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Sunday afternoon

Now don't all fall down in shock but, I actually managed to get 3 cards made this Sunday afternoon. The first one is a birthday card for my neighbour. The image is a stamp from www.liliofthevalley.co.uk, coloured in with promarkers and some generic scrap booking papers I had.

This one was made for my FIL birthday. It was made using some Tim Holtz alcohol inks ( i love them so quick and easy to use) the rubber stamp image is one of his too and some basic grey paper, quick simple and effective.

This one is for a very lovely Lady. Sadly on Friday dear Netties husband passed away.

Sympathy cards are not something I usually make, but I wanted something plain, simple and straightforward, and this came together so easily.

Now to start making the cards for the million and one (well it feels like it) that I need for May. I think it was 18 at the last count !!

thanks for stopping by

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Nicci

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Mothers Day cards

These are the cards I made for our mums this year, The first one is penny black stamp coloured in with pro markers and copics, I even used the little sewing machine I asked for for Christmas, on it.

This one was made using Tim Holtzs alcohol inks. I got some for Christmas and like the sewing machine haven't had chance to play, until lately, and they are so simple, addictive and easy to use, It is hard to see the full effect of them in a photo as there is also some gold in the mix, which make sit look like marble when it catches the light, and my photography isn't the best, David Bailey has no threat from me LOL. The stamps are some do craft sets I had and they were blinged up with some pearls and twinkles from the hobby house.

thanks for stopping by

nicci

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