Manic... Manic... Manic...

few days I've had ... with my Grandson, Sister and two nieces staying with me.  Don't know where the time goes but my poor blog has suffered...lol  So all by myself once again which gives me the chance to do some crafting and catch up with you all.

One of my favourite actresses of all time is Audrey Hepburn... she is so elegant and thanks to a gorgeous image from Narry at Etsy she now has pride of place on an easel in my room :D

I added more colour to the already beautiful image with distress inks and put on some half pearls cos I love things to be touchy feely.

I also gave her a butterfly in her hair and decoupaged the bird with it's crown cos I also love 3d bits and pieces... like you don't know that right :D

I was a very lucky girl to win Patty's fabulous giveaway from her guest spot on the Artist trading club blog and oh what a delightful array of goodies she sent me (see below).  Thank you sooooo much Patty xx

I also received this gorgeous brooch as a RAK from Rosie... isn't it just so lovely.  Thank you Rosie... you made my day xx

Blogging buddies are just THE BEST!!

hugs

Chris xx

SOPPY ABOUT CHRISTMAS....

Yep... that's me!! Especially when a certain little gentleman presents his Nanna with a lovely little lady like this :) DG won her in a raffle and thought about me because my favourite colour is red and I like angels....awwwww sniff, sniff, sniff. Aren't they the times in your life when everything seems worthwhile :D You betcha!! This little angel certainly brought me much joy and warmed my heart.
So now it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas.... la la la la la la la in our place... tree was up last week after much persuasion from my little man, and the dust came off the baubles and other little bits scattered around the room to delight me for another year. Think I'm still only 8 inside :D I'm like a kid in a candy shop... lovin' it...lovin' it... lovin' it.

Christmas cards are being made... not as quick as I'd like but I'm getting there, this one courtesy of Cosmo Cricket goodies and some tiny buttons and rub on sticker( share gifts from by buddies Chriss and Karen respectively xx)... and as it says on the card... I do...

BELIEVE in Santa....rofl Well who else is gonna bring me a stocking laden with gorgeous goodies for Crimbo but the man himself and anyway after watching Miracle on 34th Street earlier with DG how could I not believe in Kris Kringle eh!!

Can't show you pics of everything cos I will have to share layouts after Christmas so hope you enjoyed my little sneaky peaks :D

Now as promised last Monday I have some little RAK's to share and just to make it fair I used Random.org to pick out some numbers :D So this time the winners of some crafty goodies are as follows:-

Random Integer Generator
Here are your random numbers:10 2 9
Timestamp: 2008-12-08 01:29:42 UTC

Which translates to Karen(no2) Shashi (no9) and Kristen (no 10) and as soon as I get some addresses the postie will be a busy little guy :D

Have a great day all

hugs

Chris xx

Well HELLOOOOO again....

I bet you thought I was never coming back...lol Well just as I thought I was on the mend last week I began to have horrible dizzy spells (and no it's nowt to do wiv me bein' blonde...lol) After a visit to the GP it seems that a lot of people are picking up this virus and the dizziness is part and parcel of the illness. So it's taken me another week to pull myself together enough to feel like blogging or indeed crafting again. Thanks for all of the well wishes and I will be round to catch up with everyone as soon as I can... as well as catching up with the heaps of awards I have received that I haven't got round to passing on ( I have saved them all honest) and thanks to everyone who thought of me :D
Now then... on to the fun bit... I finally got to play with my alcohol inks, my white pen and my new stamps from Scrapz.... whoooooohooooo I am in luv!!!! OMG I totally totally adore them (why didn't I buy some before... what a lot of time I have wasted)
I have admired this Mona Lisa stamp on lots of bloggers creations and decided I just had to have it and because she is my new baby I gave her wings and a crown so she could feel all glam in her new surroundings. The Lost coast design stamps are fabulous and these trees made a fab background with the alcohol inks. The best bit is that I didn't lose the pads off my fingertips like I did with my sharpie pens...rofl (see my altered tin post lower down) and the inks were sooooo quick to use. Only trouble is... I need more... and some distress inks and................... oh I could go on and on... just as well I haven't written my Christmas list yet eh :D

Moving on...WHO CAN REMEMBER..... doing scraper boards at school where you used wax crayons on card covered with a layer of black and using something sharp to scrape your design onto your sheet. I used to love them as a kid and I know that you can buy loads of clever scraper boards now with pictures for you already to scrape yourself... well while visiting my favourite cheapo shops a while ago I saw these... in a pack for kids. So I bought some for DG not realizing how cool they are :D DG had a ball scraping his design into his aeroplane... which at one moment was a "poor plane" but ended up a "cool plane" when he had finished and then he gave one to ME...... whoohoooo

Big girls like to play too... so I got a helicopter and scraped off my own design so that I can use it on a layout of when DG and I shared a helicopter ride... I think they are well pretty and the colours as beautiful as the alcohol inks.

Okay to say thank you for being my blog buddies and for sticking around over the weeks I have been missing I have decided to do a couple of RAK's and if I can find more of these scraper shapes I will pop some of them in the goody bags along with some surprises. All you have to do to receive one is to leave a comment on this post and I will pick some names at random at the weekend to receive some goodies to play with :D You up for it ?...lol

Have a fab evening everyone and I will be back tomorrow with more catch up stuff.

hugs

Chris xx