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 

thanks for stopping by 

hugs

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.

Thanks for looking
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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

hugs

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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5 Year wait

Not a crafty post this one but On Thursday Myself Ian and Nathan got on a train to London with a rough Idea of where we were going and hoping we could work out the underground map once we got there (HAHAHAHA). We had to get to Wembly arena as we had tickets for Rammsteins new tour. Getting off at Kings cross and not a clue as where to go next, we spoke to the nearest BR guy who told us get on this tube, off that tube, onto this tube etc.... Confused ?? doesn't even begin to cover it!. once in the Tube station we spoke to a nice BR lady who told us oh only one tube 5 stops along and get off, she even took us to the right platform.

We exited Wembly Park station to be greeted by the great sight of wembly arch and stadium

Yeahhh we had got there and so simple. See always ask a woman for directions :)
After a 5 years gap we were off to see Rammstein again, and wow what a show, the wait was most definitely worth it .

We had seating tickets this time instead of standing ( never again it felt so wrong to be sat down) and if we had been any higher we would have needed an oxygen mask....

Hearing is now back to normal and can't wait to see them again .

hugs
Nicci

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Happy Christmas

well once again I am late with my Christmas greetings. Hope you had a great Christmas, and wishing you all the best for 2010. Well the last few days of what has been an eventful year, this time last year I was in Telford and now I am sat in Bedfordshire. Still finding not a lot of time to craft, but we hope to rectify the situation next year (hmmm me thinks i uttered those same words this time last year !) I have attached a card I made for my mum's birthday, I did manage to make some Christmas cards this year, but didn't photograph them.

The stamp is from www.funkykits.co.uk and coloured with my prismacolour pencils, papers are basic grey and the twinkles are from www.thehobbyhouse.co.uk and were a fantastic buy :)

thnaks for stopping by

hugs and New year wishes to you

nicci

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bits and bobs

Not been up to much lately crafty wise, apart form buying something to put all my craft bits in tidily , (thank you IKEA) but did make this necklace. I bought the Turquoise nuggets locally and the tubes from a bead shop online, hope I remember where as I want some more.

The weather was so lovely today we walked to the shop. The walk took us over an hour as we got distracted by the leaf piles ... do you remember kicking your way through them when you were a kid walking to school... bet you still do now :) I know i do but i do have a nearly 2 year old walking by my side :). Yes my baby is 2 years old next Saturday !!!!! Where has the time gone ?? Any way a few pics from our walk this morning.I won't tell you about the piles of conkers that are everywhere.. including callum's bedroom !!!

Thanks for stopping by

hugs

Nicci

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Birthday delivery

Fell in love with this rubber stamp as soon as I saw it. I have made this for my friends daughter who is going to be 6 next month.

nicci

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bevs amazing blog candy

Bev is offering a truly awesome blog candy http://bevscrafts.blogspot.com/2009/08/thank-you-collab-blog-candy.html

nicci

Life is a canvas

Hi , have finally made a card after 4 months, I bought some pro markers early this year and am finally ( i hope) getting the hang of this shading jobby. I bought this rubber stamp a few months ago but when i heard the saying attached to the card and thought the 2 went perfectly together.


rubber stamp from www.funkykits.co.uk
coloured with pro markers, papers from K&Co

thanks for stopping by
nicci
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Back in blogland

HMMMPPH second time lucky. I closed the screen down before I published my post !! DHHHRRR

Well am back here after the move, which went brilliantly. Just finding my feet. The boys did 3 weeks at school before they broke up for summer. They have the novelty of catching the school bus here instead of walking or riding bikes. I have unpacked all my craft stuff and to be honest going from a room to a cupboard is a bit of a pain so am keeping my eyes open for some suitable storage.

I haven't done any card making yet but have been playing with my beads. I have put up a couple of pics of some stuff I made this week. Have done some before we moved bu can't find where it is stashed at the moment , when I do I will post them too.

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anyway that's all for now,

hugs and many thanks for stopping by

nicci

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Whiff of Joy

please visit www.whiffofjoy.com and check out the beautiful new stamps.

nicci
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2 weeks and counting

back of the new house

back garden of new house

playing in the sun callum and marcus

Hellooo there how are you. Hope you enjoyed the beautiful weather we have just had. We made the most of it in the garden and the boys in the paddling pool. On Monday we took a trip out to go and have a peek throught the windows of our new house and have alook at the garden to see if it looked as big as it did on google earth and it did...lol Well 2 weeks today and we will be on our way can't waite now to get resettled .

hugs to you

and thanks for stopping by

nicci

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feeling a bit blue this morning as I just waved my friend off as she goes of to their new posting in Cyprus.

I love the moving around and living in different places - not been lucky enough to live any where exotic though i do keep dropping hints to Ian to no avail yet - But i really hate all the goodbyes, you think it would get easier over time but it doesn't, especially when it comes to saying goodbye to good friends.

Anyway 3 weeks and 3 days to go and we shall be on the move ourselves. It's going to be a long day as this is the first time we have done a one day move, it's the shortest distance we have moved unless you count the move round the corner in Northumberland when we moved from a 2 bed to a 3 bed house...

We have packed everything we can pack for now, just the essentials and clothes left to do, which we can't pack until the last few days.

It's half term this week, and Nathan goes back to school on the 1st June as he has his maths GCSE paper to do, Callum is on a PD day, so we are going down to Bedford to have a look at the house and drop Marcus's travel cot etc off at mums as she is having Marcus for a few days whilst we move. Its great mum will only be 20 miles down the road, and it will be great to meet up with old school friends who I am back in contact with...how great is friends reunited. Ian has recently got in touch with some old school friends too via this.

anyway enough ramblings
thanks for stopping by

hugs
nicci
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BOXES!!!

Well hello there and good whatever time of day it is where you are.
Have started packing up the house , we sill have 7 weeks to go but it flys by , We had 16 weeks before we moved when we found out and it has flown past. I am now starting to feel like I am living in cardboard box city!! I packed my craft stuff up over the Easter weekend, Marcus and Callum went to grandma's and my mum came down to give me a hand. It took 8 hours to get it sorted and packed!!
I can not believe how much i have amassed over the past 5 years.
When we moved here in June 2004 I had a little crisp box and a carrier bag which was my sum total of craft bits... Now I have a room full of boxes!!!

Have googled our new address and looked on google maps, and WOW what a HUGE garden we have got. Good excuse for Ian to get the new lawn mower he has been eyeing up since last year, and again we have got a detached house, which if you are a parent of boys (especially teenagers and nearly teens) you will understand why I received this news with great Joy. They do not know how to walk quietly down the stairs. I swear they turn into baby elephants as soon as they put their foot on the stairs.

No pics to Post I'm afraid, all card stuff is packed away but have made a few jewellery bits which i will post when i have finished them off.

hugs and thanks for stopping by

nicci
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Chill out

I made this card for my mum. She has got a busy stressy time ahead at work in the next few weeks, so i shall send it to her at work.
The backing papers are basic grey can't remember which pad though.
The lion is roary from www.funkykits.co.uk and is coloured with prisma pencils and H2O's
The letters are cut using the hippy chic alphabet using chip board and painte with H2O's.

thanks for looking
hugs
nicci
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Water Babes

Thought I would show you a picture of the boys. The other weekend we went to sherwood centre parcs for the day , with grandma and aunty Ann and Uncle David. Great time was had by all. Didn't see much of Nathan and callum as they were off riding the flumes etc, Marcus spent 5 hours in the pool only coming out for about 15 mins to have something to eat. Everybody slept well that night.

hugs

nicci

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