When Nz post let you Down

I am sooo sad today as a very special parcel for my niece and her grandfather whose birthday is a day apart have had there birthday Parcel misplaced even though it was sent track and trace.......... What is even worse than losing my wedding video on my fathers player, and the dress I had sent with hand made cards, was that because in contained a small amount of money for a phone top up card the other Items are said not compensated for so not only have I lost all these Items I also have to replace them myself ..... pretty double stinky

be warned gift vouchers etc also come under the label of money as per a post office front counter staff information (she was lovely thank you) cant say the same for the cold letter from nz post

However I will not give up and I have included that parcels return safely in my prayers

Watched

I just had to post about this today as it often happens but today even more so. It seemed that everytime I turned around today Sariah (the near Human at times Spaniel) would be leaning around the corner of some door frame and watching.......................................................me

Colour challenge 50

Wow this is a very vibrant colour challenge by Kristina Werner .

I thought it was just perfect for a journal cover for a friend who is soon to be travelling overseas.

Unfortunately I couldn't seen to capture how beautiful the new fine super nova glitter by stampin up is I have used for this cover chocolate and Aqua and dazzling diamonds on the yellow card stock

The butterfly was hand cut which took some time but well worth the trouble as she is a lovely flyaway kind of girl. I have applied some crystal effects to the sailing ship in the bottom Left corner to give it a little pop this is a stampin up stamp from 1996 however I do not know its name The brad is fabric covered by K and co in red Turquoise and white pearls very yummy

Now I just have to get on and complete the rest of the Journal lol

teenagers yikes

I finally caught up with Cj after 8 weeks of not seeing each other and I made him pose so that I could use my scary skull wheel in a layout, usually he has a skull of some description on his tee shirt but alas not today anyway for this layout I used

Riding hood Red designer series paper
Elegant Eggplant,Brocade blue and whisper white cardstock
elegant eggplant and riding hood red Ink pads
Scary Skull wheel, and From the Kitchen of stamp set
Super Nova glitter Old Olive

One Teenage Boy

Not just for Cooks

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As soon as I saw this stamp set from the Kitchen of I just knew I had to have it as I can see soooo many reasons for using it and I just love it.

I shared this Idea with a couple of girls at the South Island (Dunedin) regional meeting yesterday and thought I better post a wee picture so they can see what I was on about I have used as a set of photo dividers this time in conjunction with the window dressing stamp set

In this instance :

girl = family photos

Cat = Pets

Pumpkins= seasons

Snow Men = Christmas

Flowers = Birthdays

No looking Dad colour challenge# 49

This Colour Challenge seemed to come around pretty quickly Kristina

And the challenge for myself was to make a Masculine card for my DaDs birthday therefore no yummy fluff I did however use the priceless stamp set to do the white embossing of the chipboard letters the other stamp set used was alphabet soup which is unfortunately no long available

It was great to colour it in with the challnge colours and to stamp the rose red card stock

Thank you Michelle

Can you believe it 4 days into daylight saving finishing and we have had the first small fall of snow on the hills......and it is so cold here today I really dont look forward to winter especially when the wood shed is not full

But ON a much brighter note this lovely Parcel arrived in the mail today from a very generous lady in our stampin up team called Michelle Cave I so wish I had the "a good egg" stamp set but I left my run a bit late.

Thank you for brightening the day with your kindness now please get a blog so we can see all the lovely things you make

embrace life colour challenge 48

Hi this is my take on Kristina's colour challend I have used all stampin up products and the stamps set is embrace life

New Moon twilight saga continues

What a hoot I cant believe this as a firm and totally committed twilight mum I cant believe that my sister has just come back form holidays over seas Italy Volterra in fact and didn't even know about new moon and the drama that happens there ahhhhhhhhhhh anyway she stopped there for coffee with her husband and thank goodness happened to take some photos yeah the one of Alice is copy written to summit entertainment 2008 which i got out of some mag.

Oh how I wish I could have been my sister just that one time oh well the paper is stampin up designer series close to cocoa enhanced by me

Karens Card

My dear friend Karen has just had a Birthday and I made this card for her using a mix of old and new stamps sets these being Window Dressing, Fun and Fast notes and Its beautiful wheel the ribbon is chocolate chip satin unfortunately not available at present but the New Catty has a fab range of new ribbons which i am waiting for