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Wednesday, February 29, 2012

All sorted,so away we go

A big Happy Hello Everyone,

Although the stress of all this made me dizzy, or more dizzier than usual, I'm sorted thanks to Ali....and thank you everyone for your help, advise,and concern.

If anyone needs a detailed notice on how to clean your PC up, just flick me an email and I will forward the info to you.

Oh, bliss, I am down to only 50% usuage now, and still cleaning off photos.

So now with my new found space, I can show you this cute card using an image from Crafty Sentiments Designs 

Oh! dear....I will when I can find it....I think I may have deleted it too....not to worry, I will wait for the sun to come up and take another photo..lol..






There he is...I had deleted him as he was in a folder, and the sun is barely up so he is a bit dark...

Coloured with pencils and papers are Crafters choice"country basics"...


Very simple card...I cut his head out twice and put foam dots behind...glittered his feet and tail,gems on his [horns??]...whatever those knobs are on his head...



Some spots for shading, and gluey buttons....why dont I see this glue when I'm making the card is beyond me...I take photos and there's the glue...I even tied some string through the buttons using all my thumbs...as I dont think I have many fingers, mostly all thumbs.

So there you go, finally back to normal or as normal as my life is....with a dear sweet lady asking me what happened to 'the dress'....I explained that she didnt like it so will never wear it again, and she was devastated that I thought she said that...she would never say things like that...yea right...so I apologised to her, and said it must have been someone else...and if this digital stuff does not happen soon I will go insane ....she is going to loose her TV reception in September if she does not changed to digital, and I hear it everyday..'.we have till September you know.'.I'm trying to get her to do it now, as there will be a giant waiting list by September.....but she wont budge..so be it.....

Thanks everyone for your lovely comments, and your support,hopefully I dont have to photographed too many more cards...oop's...thats a little something to look out for when deleting..lol..

Off to work soon, boys on their way, going to be a good day, not a cloud in the sky, but threatening to be pouring tomorrow...yay...wash day..but you cant get the leopard to change his spots or her wash day..

Luv CHRISSYxx



Tuesday, February 28, 2012

It's working

Hello Everyone,

Had a great day today at work, although I was worried sick about this space that I have not got...but I received a e-mail from Abi  and she saved my sanity, so guess what I've been doing all afternoon...

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I'm doing great have deleted 348 photos of nothing...and only 566 to go...but...down to 61%...yay!!

Thank you so much Abi....cant wait till you tell me what to do next...

See you all in the morning..my morning...[never mind, see you tomorrow.......]

Luv CHRISSYxx

Problem

Hello everyone,

I have a problem..I cannot load pictures on my blog,or  sidebar...apparently I've used up all my space,and cant follow simple instructions to delete stuff. I'm 100% usuage in 'pisaca albums' whatever that is!!

So until I get someone here with a computor for a brain, I wont be doing much.

But at least I can catch up on commenting...blogger tells me I have to buy more storage...$$$...

I will get a man in..see if he can show me what to do...

Have a great day/evening...lol...I only have 9 cards to share and cant...grrr...DT's will be screaming soon....I'm doing my best.

Luv CHRISSYxx

Monday, February 27, 2012

Fairy time for MIM

Hello Everyone,

What a great weekend, didn't do much...went to see 'My Lady' Sat & Sun morning....wore a dress.
I dont do dresses very often but had an urge, and she prattled about it for ages...but then she said,"I dont like it very much, but you do look striking"....talk about mixed feelings, so I loooked striking in an ugly dress....thats different....lol..
Her clock had almost stopped in the kitchen, and she couldn't WIND it up....so I suggested that I put a new battery in it....well I'm just so clever to think of that....but I had to put it 2 mins slower than the bedroom....because by the time she left the bedroom and reached the kitchen the time would be the same.
And my kids say to me..."Why do you get so tired"....if my brain ever starts to get that bad...please...shoot me!!

So the weekend has passed in a flash...Rod Stewart was here Saturday night singing his heart out...I didn't go..it rained and turned to the South which is cold....but when the night was still, you could hear, every now and then, the crowds cheering....was told it was a brilliant outdoor concert.

But we are here for indoor activities today which is cards and projects for Make it Monday 
and our sponsor is.....




They are offering a $10 gift voucher to the chosen random commenter this week.



I have gone for another Fairy....from Pergamano "Summer Fairies" and Prima papers "Sweet Fairy" 6x6 pad...


Coloured with Faber Castell pencils and very glittery wings...added gems to her dress and tassles.
Butterfly and ribbon from Vicky's candy, flowers from woc,and my stash.

The tiny pink heart down the bottom is from a childs jewelery playset, and I stuck a flower in the middle of it...as it was a bit ragged around the inside edge..


Close up of my sweet Fairy...



Side view of the open card..yes!!... I stuck it on with the opening at the side by mistake, but it worked as I had not done the inside at that stage...phew.

And of course I picked a favourite this week.....


A waterfall card made by #77 Indira   you cannot see it working, but love the waterfall cards, have not made one for ages...pull the bottom tag and the little squares flip..very clever..and my favourite colour too...

Thats it for today...lets get linking those cards and paper projects up on MAKE IT MONDAY 
you can see all my teamies beautiful cards over on the main blog, just click the link and you are off..

Thanks for stopping by and all your fabulous comments [just leave the dress out of it]..and a big welcome to 2 new followers, thank you so much for joining me, and will see you all tomorrow, have a great new week...

Luv CHRISSYxx











Friday, February 24, 2012

Friday Night....with Stampfairy

Hello Everyone,

I'm back, and I said this morning that I will be bringing you "CUTE"  and cute I have...

This little sweetheart is "LINDA"  [Linda-spring 1] from Stampfairy 



Aww..so cute. I love this card...might have to send it to myself ....

Coloured with my Faber Castell pencils...paper pieced her dress and bow, used copics for the grass and the shading around the image...



Close up of Linda....and the flowers, as I made the Lemon yellow vellum flower with the DP in the centre and a yellow brad...the roses from our local emporium..



A side view...the inside all nice and tidy too...matching butterfly and a curly wurly wire..??



There is the whole sheet of images of LINDA-SPRING 1   and you also get a freebie of the flower that Linda is holding...

So there you go, another Friday night of cuteness, lovely to know you have been for a visit, thank you so much for all your lovely comments....see you over the weekend....

Luv CHRISSYxx

Going to enter this card at Ready-Teddy-go challenge  

And now a Panda

Hello Everyone,

It is very early on a Friday morning...dark....5.45am to be exact...the season is changing, moving on to Autumn...no pictures outside now as it is still dark,and at late afternoon the winds come up and my cards blow away...so time to move on to the table inside...


There he is..a cute little Panda Bear,and the dreaded black pencil colouring...but not too bad, black pencils have the inclination to go grey or dirty, so this took a while.



This bear was a freebie from Kathie  at Bearywishes, and he is still there...with a coloured image to copy the colouring. Papers were a freebie too...


The little flowers, I found moons ago, and used once, but found them just right to sit on my Cheery Lyn swirl....ribbon from my stash.
Coloured the flowers that the bear is holding with copics.

Going to enter this in a challenge with his faux stitching at Ready-Teddy-Go  and I really was going to do actual sewing but forgot and added the faux at the last minute....

Will be back tonight with some cuteness to show you from Stampfairy...but right now I need to get ready for work, have the boys coming this morning, and then I want get around some more and see what you have been up to.

Welcome to my new follower, thank you so much for joining me and thank you everyone for all the lovely comments you leave me...my day is going to be a good one...I can feel it....and I finish early on a Friday...yay!!

Luv CHRISSYxx

Thursday, February 23, 2012

"Rosey"

Hello Everyone,

Have another sweet girl to share with you....from Crafty Sentiments Designs 



This is "Rosey"...a very sweet little girl, that could be used for many occassions.
Gorgeous paper is from 'Crate paper 6x6 pad' that I forgot I had...and so love it."Portrait collection"


Coloured her with Faber Castell pencils,added flowers and some I made myself as didn't have the colours I wanted..added sparkle on the flowers..



Side view...what a shame you only get two squares of paper for each pattern...why did I not scan it first??..oh!..thats right, my son played with my computer and now the scan wont work....ratbag..

So there you go another cute image that you can buy at Crafty Sentiments Designs...

My chair has lost some gas in it..and I have been slowly sinking down..lol...now I can hardly see the keypad....I'm up again, only takes 1 second to boost it up, but  I get so into what I'm doing I just...sink!!

Thats me done for today....another day at the office....'My Lady' told me not to forget it is cleaning day today[Thursday]...No I wont forget [2 years now...7 days week....think I'll remember]...but dont wear those pants again...you cant do good work with BLACK pants on....how are you going to bend??

I'm not sure how colour has to do with me bending...they are elastic waitsed stretch pants...lo...
Gotta love her....See you all later...

Luv CHRISSYxx

Wednesday, February 22, 2012

Annabel the Mermaid

Hello Everyone,

I'm back to share another new release image Annabel the Mermaid  ...from Crafty Sentiment Designs.
"Love and Romance collection"...and hopefully a bit more inspiration to join our monthly challenge...


Coloured with pencils and loads of flowers...one of those cards when you tell yourself....stop...but keep going...a tiny shell from the beach and added a pearl...andmade some scallop shells with card stoch, embossed lines, then inked lightly....a tiny anchor charm, very tiny silver flower beads and pearls.Also put tulle behind the image...



Sprinkled pearls in Annabels hair...and forgot to glitter her tail..lol...



This is how light my pictures go in the sun....normally photograph about 6am when still dull...because it is not this pale.

Never mind, it is what it is, and still pretty....

Will be back tomorrow to show you a little girl called 'Rosie" from Crafty Sentiments Designs..
So see you in the morning...my morning...hope you all have a wonderful day...I've just made my cocoa, then off to bed...

Luv CHRISSYxx

Wings and a birdcage

Hello Everyone,

I has such a stressful hard day yesterday...I'm such a worry wart, and really no need to be.
I was given a new client..male..53..who has been through 2 caregivers already and complains about everything....my bosses were having a meeting about things and my name kept coming up in the conversation....so they rang me and asked if I would take him on...I love a challenge and plus needed the extra in my pay, so agreed....the only problem, I worried about going all morning...but really..there was no need...we got on fine....small place but strange...and loads of dishes, which I was pre-warned about...very clean man....but just lacking the womans touch....and he was impressed that I shook his mats and laid them in the sun.....I just didn't tell him that it was only to kill time as they gave me 2 hours to do all my bits and I finished early.

So that was my stressful day over, I went home and flopped down for 10 mins with my dog'Harry' and we had a chat,I told him about my day and he told me about his [which was sleeping] and that was that.,,

Have a cute card to share.for a challenge at Flutter by Wednesday  [anything with wings]



Coloured with pencils, and then fussy cut out, this is  a freebie, and so sorry not sure where from...and the lovely birdcage I bought when I went away to a craft show...tiny puched butterflies with pearls on their spine.


Her wings were multi coloured and then glittered with clear [stickles -kindy glitz]...


Lots of flowers on the paper from Prima "Sweetfairy Collection"  and then more flowers from WOC and stash...
Now I have to find the link for the challenge as the one I have does not want to play so will add later when I find it...

Time to get ready for work...just my usual schedule today..so should be stress free...depending on
"My Lady"...she was not impressed with my pants yesterday...BLACK....you dont wear BLACK...you always look so nice and you are wearing BLACK...I thought black pants and pale blue shirt looked very nice.....but she didn't...lol..

Welcome to 2 new followers, thank you so much for joining me....thank you all for your lovely comments....See you later today....

Luv CHRISSYxx

Tuesday, February 21, 2012

Hollywood or bust

Hello everyone,

Tuesday morning...all is well, but last night Napier had an earthquake...never felt or heard a thing, was snoozing too deep...but I think that was what disturbed 'Harry'...he was whinning at some dark hour to go out, and I staggered down the hall, opened the door and let him out....left the door open for him..and flopped back into bed...so I didn't no anything till I turned MSN news on and there it was...No damage reports, so that's good.

Have a new card to share for Scrapbook Stamp Society  and this is is for their challenge, which is "Hollywood Starlets"


There she is...all hot pink and sparkly...this 'star' is called "Seeking Lil Susie #101563..



Coloured with Faber Castell pencils, and lots of sparkle on her gloves, glasses, and socks...



The film strip, I printed onto accetate and was a freebie from Carmen  It just didn't want to dry, so cut another strip to put behind it...stars with my star punch, and the papers have a velvet feel to the spots from Kaisercraft.."Le Chateau"..a few pink gems and cuttlebug corner dies...

So there you go.....you can join in the challenge with your "Hollywood Starlets"...there are a few freebies over at Scrapbook Stamps society as you need to use their images..

Lots of new and exciting things coming up soon, loads of blog hops and prizes, should be fun.

Thanks for stopping by...will see you all tomorrow...

Luv CHRISSYxx

Monday, February 20, 2012

Twittering for MIM

Hello Everyone,

Went to afternoon tea on Friday at the school, with my daughter, and we walked into the classroom, my G/son looked up ,and said a big" Hi! Mum"...and then saw me and yelled " NANAAA!!" I was so chuffed....he was a happy camper for sure....his whole class had been doing experiments and making rocket fuel cars...from scratch, and TJ and his partner had 2 coke bottles taped together, with plastic milk bottle tops for wheels, on very wonky axels, filled the bottles half way with white vinegar, added baking soda wrapped in paper towels, qickly put the tops on the bottles, shook them up, put them on the ground , and the chemicals mixed together caused pressure in the bottles and they blew the lids off and the 'car' they made should have shot forward....but instead...the car stayed exactly where it was, but the lids blew off and went right across the quad...lol..they at least thought it was funny, where as some kids started crying cause theirs didn't work....but it was a lovely afternoon with cups of warm tea!!![I think it was tea]...and biscuits.

Well, it is Monday....and time for a new MAKE IT MONDAY....and .......




This week we are being sponsored by the ever fun and cute Meljen Designs Digital Stamps!







Meljen Designs Digital Stamps are giving away the lovely prize of the winner's choice of 4 single digis!



 












My card to share is made using a sponsor image.....cute little birds.



A very simple card....no DP's, just gold and black card....



Coloured with Faber Castell pencils, and sponged my sky...added CheeryLyn B117 Fanciful flourish die...



There they are .sitting on my fence...how appropiate, and very cute.

My pick this week is this super card...



From Kasey #239....I think it is so beautiful.gorgeous colouring and details.Fabulous work.
http://kaseyscraftcorner.blogspot.com.au/2012/01/sweetpea-fairy.html


Thanks to everyone who linked up last week, a huge selection to choose from ,for favourite picks.
So lets do it again, link up old or new projects, as long as it has paper...

Thanks for stopping by, will see you all tomorrow...

Luv CHRISSYxx

Sunday, February 19, 2012

It's Fairy time

Hello Everyone,

Didn't expect me on a Sunday did you?....I didn't expect me either, but had a great day colouring yesterday, and building up cards last night, so thought I would share one this morning....



I used the 'Summer Fairies" stamp again from Pergamano...and added the little birds from the same set.
Coloured with pencils, sponge inked my sky, and the papers were from my candy win from 'Lisa'.



Yes, we had a lovely sunny day yesterday...hence a few shadows....finally worked the spellbinders butterfly out...dont remember ever putting it through again and embossing it...never thought about until I saw it on someones blog,and it certainly made a difference, so layered this one up 3 times.
So what I thought was a boring butterfly ...why did I buy it, kind of feeling, has now made me happy...



There you can see the dimension...and all the butterflies wings...the card has actually come out quite pink, but here on my desk it is lavender.

Flowers from WOC, leaves MS punch.

Going to enter this into a few challenges.
All Sorts  [anything goes]

Lili's little fairies challenge  [anything goes]
Aud sentiments [have the word happy]


So there is card number one...made 5 last night, so you will get bombarded with faires, chickens,pandas, and little girls all week...

.Have some lovely new releases to show you....so will pop them in between and I should have enough cards for 2 weeks...but !! I still make more...cant help myself...lol..

Hope you are all having a wonderful weekend and the weather is kind...we had a lovely sunny day yesterday, not too warm and today looks pretty nice also...this weekend is our 'Art Deco weekend'...all the ladies ,are poshed up in their 1930's get up's and the men with their vintage cars cruising around...my g/son [7] asked me did I drive in cars like that when I was young.....!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
He's still standing...had to keep saying to myself...he is only 7....and replied to him..."not quite"...the lady standing next to us smiled...lucky for her it was a nice smile...

Luv CHRISSYxx

Friday, February 17, 2012

Another wishful thinking for some

Hello Everyone....

I'm back with my DT share for Stampfairy...



Now look at this preciousness.........not a real word...but who cares..this little pet was so gorgeous to colour...and yes...my favourite colour...Yellow...



There she is....CLEMENTINE SPRING 1   and the fabulous freebie sentiment....

Coloured with pencils and paper pieced her hat....



Tha gorgeous ribbon is one Ive had for ages...hanging on my ribbon frame, on the door, just calling to me...Chrissy..use me...but I never did...BUT...the other day had a sort through some papers, and came across these....freebies in a magazine....and then found yellow cardstock already cut...in one of my boxes...well!! I was set....and Clementine came forth in yellow...

Did you guess that I really love this card....yellow is such a happy colour...and it cetainly helps when you have gorgeous images to colour....here are a few more...



New releases from STAMPFAIRY   and your freebie...

Thanks for stopping by and all your lovely comments....Saturday tomorrow...bliss..

Luv CHRISSYxx

Tis' Friday

Hello Everyone,

Tis' Friday...yay...been a hard week...one more day with a rock tied round my ankle and then I'm free for two whole days....

Went to my 'young mans' yesterday...cleaned his doors and frames,and up in the stair well....talk about spider webs...there is only so much time you are given to do these jobs, and it is good to get all these other chores done, so we are nearly there...will make my life easier when it is all finished and I can go in and do a regular normal clean...he's so lovely though and gave me some Baileys chocolates...I must have had such a look on my face, he started shaking his hands and saying...no,,no,,not like that, no strings attached....... you're too old!!.....charmed I'm sure...but I knew what he mean't...I think..lol..

Onto a card to share with you, another one sitting waiting but knew it was there as I made it for a DT card, but used another one, so this was just waiting for a challenge and one at Cute card Thursday  popped up...flower power..



Sweet image from Meljen designs...coloured with pencils.



Grass has a few copics in there and the flowers...


Side view...made the flowers myself, the butterfly from Vicky...and buttons from Marianne.



and my handmade flowers,made with corrugated card, MS leaves...

I really dont want to tell how long this post took.....but I'm going to...40 mins..for goodness sake...I found the photos last night, was all organised this morning...and lost the photos...I could not remember what they were labelled under....[deep exasperated sigh....] but got there in the end...

Have an afternoon tea party at school today for my yougest G/son...he does not know that I'm going....he doesn't know his Mum has taken the afternoon off to be there too, so it should be a lovely day for all...

Thanks for stopping by, love to hear from you, see you over the weekend....

Luv CHRISSYxx

Thursday, February 16, 2012

Found it!!

Hello Everyone,

Another day as begun this side of the world....it is 6am..Thursday morning..and still dark...the season is starting to change and we are starting to head toward Autumn.

The days can still get very hot, but cools down at night, and darker in the morning.Still on daylight saving time, so really it is only 5am, and this will stretch out for another month yet...I dont do daylight saving very much, throws my body clock out.....but you have no choice do you, otherwise you would be the only person in the country to go to work 1 hour behind everyone else....speaking of behind everyone else......I found this card in my files and completely forgot about him....I always enter the challenge at Ready-Teddy-Go  and thought I had popped this one over there, but I hadn't.



Cute Teddy bear from Spyder[Lyn]   coloured with pencils and mounted on foam dots onto cloud papers [freebie from Bird[marie]..mounted again on foam dots, onto white scallop circle die, and mounted again onto card base...left my sticky tape at my daughters so had to use foam dots for the whole card..lol..



Added faux stitching [stitching being the requirements for the challenge] and added black floss for the balloon string..



PC for the  sentiment...and a bit late for Valentine, but could be a 'because 'card..

There you go...all done,have been pottering around on the computer [I know, very dangerous for me to do that]...and trying to come up with a new plan for the freebies I collect....I usually write them down with the link with brief discription, but my writing can get very scratchy, and slope down hill, and then the whole thing just looks untidy.

So I've tried, and transferred to 'word.'..link, name,image, etc...now just have to remember to go there and get them when posting..lol...but knowing me, I will stick to my clipboard with 36 sheets of freebie links, scratchy, down hill writing and hope for the best...

I'm off to work, got a big load today, filling in for staff, and have to start new clients...another 93 yr old.[shudder-grimmace]....who is thinking about going into a home...for the last 3 years..bless her.

Luv CHRISSYxx

Wednesday, February 15, 2012

This one stands up

Hello Everyone,

Thank goodness this card stands up...yesterdays card finally did stand up with a bit of persuasion..the front panel was just so thick and heavy it kept coming forward...lol..

Today at  work my young man and  I were chatting, and he was asking what will happen to me when his time for help runs out...and I explained....not a lot...I just have to wait till another one registers and I go from there, so he has asked me to stay..once a week, so that was really good,I said yes.He only lives around the corner from me and the money will be handy.

Today I have a card to share with you, that I made on the weekend...



I used a freebie image from 'Bugaboo' and a little fairy coloured and cut out from a stamp set called 'Pergamano' Summer Fairies..and this was in my candy win from Dora a hole sheet of clear stamps 4 fairies and tiny birds and ohter little animals...really cute, thanks Dora.

Coloured with pencils and a few Memento pens, and a white gel pen...inked my sky with a sponge and used my  template.added glitter to her wings and ladybugs spots.


Not sure why there is no side view...but it is dimensional.
Paper is Prima - 'Sweetfairy'....some half pearls in the corners,and lovely organza ribbon, and thats it really.

Going to enter this card in a challenge at Sir stampalot  [In the garden]

Really enjoyed making this card, so cute, love the garden scene, had it for ages and never used it.

There we are, all done, nearly time for me to get motivated for another day at the office toilet brushes in hand,duster tucked into me knickers and we are off...

Welcome to my new followers, thank you so much for joining me, and thank you to you all for leaving me such wonderful commments....highlight of my day to come home flip the pc on, and glance across from the kitchen as it is loading up and I'm making my coffee, and then the magic words are there under my name 'you have ? comments...I nearly break my neck to get over  to read them..lol..

Luv CHRISSYxx

Tuesday, February 14, 2012

Magical Birthday

Hello Everyone,

Stampfairy is Sponsoring Top Tip Tuesday  tis week, so I have made a card to support the challenge...which is a J fold card...and I attempted  one......but it does not stand up, so somewhere I went wrong...but the image I used is gorgeous..
' Molly fairy 2.. from Stampfairy  



Coloured with pencils...glittery wings....pink gems all around the image and in the corners, and a big butterfly to hold the card shut....and a freebie sentiment from stampfairy too...


Now there's the card starting to open..and you will have to see the tutorial at Top Tip Tuesday  to know what happens next...cause mine doesn't do it...so guess who else is going to go and read..

Beautiful papers from Prima"Sparkling Spring and Sweetfairy"

Thanks for stopping by...

Luv CHRISSYxx