Hello!!!!

Evening everyone!

Well I am happy to say my shoulder is much better. I have a lot more
movement in my arm, so I can now craft again.
I can't believe I have been out of action for a full week.

Tomorrow we are going to the NEC and I can't wait!

Today we took our Tabby to the vets to have his bits seen to!
He came home at 4 o'clock very groggy and did not know what to do with him self.
Poor baby!
When we went to pick him up the staff on reception were having a bit of a
joke with us about the size of him and the size of his b***s.
I don't think they have seen any so big before.
Anyway he his recovering nicely and is starting to sulk with us.
I can see when we let him outside tomorrow we might not see him for a while.

See you again soon.

Julie

No cards today

Good morning everyone!

I have no cards to share with today, as my shoulder is really painful.
I went to the Dr.'s yesterday, so I am now on painkillers, a pain relief cream
and heat packs. I have very limited movement in my right arm so I can't do very much
and it is really frustrating, I mean NO CRAFTING!!!! how will I survive.
Kevin's mum helped me out yesterday and my mum is coming today which is great!

Anyway have a good weekend, whatever you are doing!

Julie

Medallion Ornament Class Card

Afternoon everyone!

Here is another class card I am sharing with you all today.
I love the colours of this card.

I am finding it very difficult to stamp and type at the moment as I have a bad
shoulder. I fell a couple of years ago and injured my shoulder and it has been playing up on and off ever since.
Last week I was rolling out pastry and mixing muffins by hand and it has set it off again.
I am in so much pain when I move my arm it's unbelievable!
Anyway enough of me moaning!

Hope you enjoy looking at my card.

Julie

Class Card - Paper Pleating

Hello everyone!

The day started off really nice, it was lovely and sunny this morning but very
windy. So I put my washing out on the line and then two hours later it went very grey
and has rained ever since.
Well at least we have a good excuse to craft!

I thought I would share one of my class cards with you, paper pleating.
We had great fun making this card and it is not as hard as it looks!

Enjoy

Julie

Crop Class - Autumn Photo Wallet

Make a Smilebox slideshow This is a photo wallet we made at last weeks crop. Enjoy! Julie

Christmas Paper Bag Book - Crop Class

Make a Smilebox slideshow Hope you enjoy looking at my Christmas paper bag book that I made for one of my classes at my Crop last Saturday. Julie

Today's Workshop - Paper Pleating

Hello everyone, just thought I would share with you the
12" x 12" paper pleating layout we made today.

The panel with the photo on opens up to reveal another photo
with some journaling printed on acetate.

Enjoy!

Julie

Poinsettia Cup Class Card

Evening everyone!

This is the card I made for Tuesday's card making class.
I love Poinsettias and this cup stamp.

See you soon.

Julie

Today's Workshop - Paper Weaving

Evening everyone!

I thought I would show you the paper weaving layout
for today's workshop.
Hope you enjoy looking!

If you would like to purchase a kit from here they are £6 + p&p.

Julie

Blog Candy Winner!

Good evening everyone!
Well tonights the night of my draw for my blog candy givaway.

I got Kevin to pick the winner!
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It is Tracy!
Congratulations!

If you can get in touch with me at julie@bradwell.plus.com
I will get the book posted out to you.
Hope you enjoy it.

Julie

Today's Class Card - Jigsaw

Hi everyone!

Well it is nice to be back, we had a lovely few days away in the
caravan at Weighton, Wells-next-the-sea, Norfolk, just the two of us!
Heaven! now it is back to work.

Hope you like looking at today's class card.


Julie

Today's Class Card - Side Step

Hello everyone!

Well for once I am on time to show you my Tuesdays class card.
I love making side step cards at the moment and this is another variation
on the other two I have shared with you.
We had lots of fun making this one.

I will be missing for a few days, so I will see
you all next week.

Happy Crafting

Julie

Christmas Shaker Class Card!

Hi everyone!
This is the card we made last Tuesday at my card class.
A shaker card!
We had fun with this one.
Now I am off to prepare for tomorrows class.

See you soon
Happy crafting
Julie

Today's Class Card - A Distressed Tag Book

Hi everyone, sorry for the lateness of my post!
For my workshop today we made a distressed tag book.
I really love how it has turned out.
Hope you enjoy looking.

Julie

Last Saturday's Workshop

Hello again.

This is last Saturday's workshop, a Happy Birthday Word Book.
If you would like to look at the other pages of my book
then please click on the link here.

The Funky Hand Word Books Cd can be purchased from here.
There is also FREE P&P on all CD's.

Hope you enjoy looking!

DON'T FORGET TO TRY OUT FOR MY BLOG CANDY,
CLICK ON THE BLOG CANDY POST AT THE TOP OF MY BLOG!

Christmas Side Step

Hello again!
Well I can't believe it, two posts in one day!
I am soo far behind with updating my blog so I decided to post more than one project today.
Hope you like looking at them.

Julie

Autumn Side Step Class Card

Hello everyone, just popping in to show you on of my weekly class cards.
We made an Autumn side step card, which I love making!

Happy crafting
Julie

Alcohol Inks

Hello everyone!
Just a quick post tonight. I thought I would share with you a project
I made for last Saturday's workshop.
It's an altered tile using alcohol inks and a custom made box.

Happy crafting

Julie

Another Tuesday Class Card!

Good morning everyone!

What a windy and miserable looking day it is.
Perfect for crafting!

Hope you enjoy looking at my card, I will try and add more details later.
I have to go to work very soon and I still have to prepare for tomorrows class.
See you soon.

Julie

Blog Candy!

I thought it was about time I had some Blog candy!

This is a fantastic book on three dimensional scrapbooking.

To be in with a chance to win all you have to do is;

1. Become a follower of my blog.
2. Leave me a comment on this post.
3. Spread the word on your blog and link back to my blog.

I CAN ONLY POST OUT WITHIN THE UK

I will draw the lucky winner on
Wednesday 30th September.

Good Luck!

Julie

Pansy Class Card!

Hello everyone!
Looks like it is going to rain again today.
This is my last day at home as I am back to work tomorrow, Jake is back at school on Monday
and Adele is back to collage in another week.
So things will get back to normal around here and I will have more time to craft.

Today's card is from one of my Tuesday classes.
Hope you enjoy looking at it.

See you soon

Julie

Tuesday Class Card!

Hello everyone, I can't believe it has been a week since I last blogged!
I have only done a bit of crafting this week as I thought it was time
to get down to some housework before I go back to work on Thursday.
It's hard to think that we have had seven weeks off school and the time
has just flown by.
Anyway today's card is one of my class cards from a few weeks ago, I was going to share with you today's class card but the photos did not turn out very well so I will have to photograph them again tomorrow.

Hope you enjoy the card!

Happy crafting
Julie

Today's Class Card

Hello everyone!
Well it is great to be back.
We have had a lovely holiday in Poole Dorset with the caravan.
The weather has been great but it is so nice to be back crafting & blogging.

This is the card we made in today's class.

Off to catch up on my ironing, so I shall see you all tomorrow.

Happy Crafting

Julie

My First ATC's!

Good evening everyone, sorry my post is late today.
I thought I would share with you all my first attempt at ATC's.
I needed to make some samples up for my shop as they are now in stock.
I had great fun in making them and can see I will make some more soon.

Happy crafting
Julie

I Have An Award!

If have been given this great award from Suemon.
It is really great to know people do read my blog!
Thanks so much Sue.
I know have to pass this award onto ten people, so here goes;

Clare
Debby
Heidi
Nicki
Tracy
Dianne
Kirsten
Christina
Kathy
Maree

Enjoy your award girls, you deserve it!

I am sorry but I have no card to show you today.
I only got three hours sleep last night, I just could not go to sleep.
So I spent my time washing, ironing, reading & baking.
I am just getting my stuff ready for my class tomorrow but I am
absolutely exhausted!
I need sleep, so I will see you all tomorrow.

Julie

Saturday's Workshop Scrapbook In A Tin - Round

Hello everyone, what a glorious day it is!
Kevin and myself have the house to ourselves for a change and it is lovely!
Adele has gone to her boyfriends for a few days and Jake has gone to Drayton Manor Park
with his brother Carl, Amy & children.
It is so peaceful sat in the garden today, so we had our breakfast and lunch there.

I thought I would share with you today yesterday's workshop at Montgomer Hall.
I think everyone enjoyed there selves, even though we ran over our time by an hour & quarter!

Hannah, Margaret, Maureen & Christine.

Our next Saturday workshop is Paper Weaving on a scrapbook layout.
August 29th at Montgomery Hall Wath-Upon-Dearne.
For more details please see here.
Kits are available for £6 + postage.

Happy crafting
Julie

Hero Arts Lady!

Good morning everyone!
What a miserable start to the day, rain!
It has stopped now but rained non stop since last night.

Hope you like the card, I made one larger than this a while ago (A5).
So I thought I would try a smaller card (A6)
and I am happy how it turned out.

Adele & Jake have gone to the pictures today, so I have the house to myself!!

Happy crafting
Julie

Another Pergamango Card!

Oh I am getting to be a bad blogger these days!
There is just not enough hours in the day to get everything done
that I need to do.
I have spent the last couple of days preparing everything for my kits for
Saturdays workshop.
We are making a scrapbook in a tin, a round tin.

Last night we had to go and pick Kitty's ashes up and I felt a bit emotional
caring the little box. Her ashes came in a lovely little pot with a very sweet sympathy card.

Tonight we had to take Tabby to the vets as he has a few sores and lumps on his body.
So he had to have an injection and he was very good but he had wee and was soaked.
We tried to bath him we we got home, oh my word he is a strong puss, you should see the state
of my bathroom!
Once he had settled down he had a bowl of chicken and is now fast a sleep!
Ok for some hee hee.

Right now back to my card, I hope you like this one as I had great fun in creating it!
This is my second Pergamano card I have never done anything like this before.
We have a lovely lady called Doreen who shows how to do the Pergamano techniques
on a Monday and I really look forward to Mondays.

Right I am now off to do some shopping at Tesco's,
see you soon.

Julie

My First Saturday Workshop!

Hello everyone!
I thought I would share with you my first
Saturday Workshop,
Box-in-a-bag.


We had a fun 2 hour session yesterday
and everyone went away very happy
and looking forward to next weeks
workshop.

I forgot to get my camera out and
some of the ladies had gone home.
I shall have to do better next week.

So here we are;
Christine, me, Margaret & Maureen.



Happy Crafting everyone
hope you are enjoying your Sunday!

Julie

Thank You!

I just want to say a very big thank you to everyone who has left me a message after we lost Kitty last week.
I have to say I was very touched!





I would just like to share two pictures of my baby, Tabby
our other stray. He is about 16 months old and since Kitty has died he has taken to sleeping in the house at night and using the litter tray, to our surprise.
He has even taken over her new bed!

We are so glad we have him as the house would be so empty.
He loves to play and have lots of cuddles,
he is just like a baby.
He follows me everywhere, just like a dog!


I will be back soon with some crafting posts.


Julie

Sad News

Sadly Kitty passed away at the vets just a short while ago.
This photo was taken last weekend of her sat in a cardboard box.
Needles to say we are all so upset by this.
It seems she was quite poorly but they did there best for her.
I am just sorry we could not have been with her at the end.

bye for now
Julie

First Go At Pergamano!

Hello everyone!
I thought I would share with you all today my very first attempt at pergamano.
It's not brilliant but I am sure I will get better with practice.
I only started learning a few weeks ago and I am just finishing my third card.
So I will share them soon.

We have to go to the vets tomorrow with Kitty as she is not well again.
She is not eating and is in some discomfort when we pick her up.
She is a poorly puss anyway as her heart rate is that fast the vet cannot count
the beats and is on medication and monthly blood tests.
I shall keep you posted.

Julie

Clare's Birthday Card + Link To New Class List!

I made this card for my good friend Clare for her birthday the other week!
Papers are from Magenta and the stamp is Penny Black.

Sorry I have not been round much lately I have just been very busy uploading items
in my shop, preparing for my classes, school fair and family.
I have just finished working on a new set of classes to be held on a Saturday morning
at Montgomer Hall in Wath.

Please click here to see new class list!

Have a great day everyone!

Julie

Boot Card!

Another class card where we used Wendy Stenton's boot template.
Supplies we used are show above.
I find for me that these templates are to small, so I scale them up
to fit an A5 card (A4 folded in half).
We also used shrink plastic for the dragonflies.

I then designed a box suitable for the boot card with enough depth
so the shrink plastic dragonflies would not get damaged.

I used ivory mulberry paper inside the box as a wrap for my card.

I watercoloured the flowers & leaves.
Then added some glitter glue to finish off!

Thanks for looking!

Julie

Wishing Well Class Card

For this class card we used a Wendy Stenton Wishing Well template.
The photo below shows the supplies we used.
If you click on the picture it will enlarge.

The ladies had great fun making this card!

I am now going back out into my garden to some weeding!

Julie

80th Birthday!

Hello everyone!
What a beautiful day it has been, well we have had a good week really.

Now this card was commissioned by a neighbour for a friends 80th birthday
and as I type it is winging it's way to Canada.

I am still busy uploading new supplies to my shop, It is a mammoth task
but I am getting there.

Happy Crafting
Julie

My Shop Is Live!!!!

Evening everyone!

Well what a time I have had trying to get my shop on line!
It would not load so I had to install a couple of things, It was a good
job Scott(no. 2 son) was at home to help me out.
Thank you Scott!

I would love some feed back on what you all think to it.
Also please let me know if you see any mistakes!

Just click on the picture to get to my shop!

Julie

Mum Card!

Morning everyone!
Not a bad day so far here in South Yorkshire.
It's a bit cloudy but the sun is there somewhere!

I have been selling some of my cards lately and this is one of them.

Forever Friends decoupage sheet, paper & ribbon.
Cuttle Bug swiss dots embossing folder.
Flower & two circle punches.

Happy Crafting!

Julie

Penny Slider Card

Hello everyone!
Sorry I have not been around for a while but I have been very busy with one thing and another.
I can't believe it has been two weeks since I last blogged!
I have been quite busy in the garden.
I have had a few card orders
I have been sorting out things for my online shop so I hope that will go live Sunday 21st June.

On a sadder note I might not be around tomorrow as I am going to a funeral.
My neighbour Ann died last weekend suddenly of a heart attack.
I came as a great shock to us all and we will miss her.
We had know Ann and her family for over 25 years.
So it will be a sad day tomorrow.

I have some more great project to share with you soon!

We have just had the most horrible thunder storm.
It has rained heavily non stop for the last two & a half hours.
We have even had fork lightening!
It has stopped now but it is still very dark out there.

Julie

WII Boy Birthday Card No. 2

Hi everyone!
It's been another lovely day here in South Yorkshire, I hope you are
all enjoying the sunshine.
I have been out all day today, this morning I went to a class to learn how to do
Pergamano, which made a lovely change for me and I really enjoyed it.
Then this afternoon I had my card making class, I will show you the card later on in the week.

I made this card for Carl's birthday using the WII boy download that I used for Jake's card.
I then downloaded some pictures of the internet to complete the card.

I have now got to go and finish off my gardening.

See you all soon.

Julie

Smilebox! Workshop May 2009

Make a Smilebox slideshow

Workshop!!!!

Saturday's workshop was great fun!
I only had nine people and we made a scrapbook in a tin & a box in a bag.
The ladies enjoyed themselves and are looking forward to the next workshop
which will be in September.

Enjoy

Hello!!!

Hello everyone, sorry I have not been around much lately.
Jake, Adele and myself have been poorly and then we had no Internet!

I will not be around for a few more days as I am preparing for my first workshop.

If anyone is local to Montgomery Hall Wath, Rotherham
and would like to join us on Saturday
for a fun day of crafting.
Just let me know!

See you all soon.

Julie

Another Flowers Layout

All papers, card, ribbon & punches are from Stampin Up.
The photos are of the flowers I received as a thank you
from school for helping to run the book fair in March.

Sorry It is such a short post but I have been very busy in the garden for the last few days.

Julie

Beautiful Flowers Layout!

This photo of some beautiful flowers was taken on a lovely sunny afternoon
last August. When we went for a walk around Wentworth, they were just in a garden.
So I could not resist taking a photo!

Card; whisper white, only orange, chocolate chip textured.
Paper; DSP Sweet Always.
Stamp Set; Soft Summer from the Mini catalogue.
Punches; large oval, scallop oval from the mini catalogue.
Scallop edge & boho blossoms.
Felt Pens; Stamp & Write Pens Earth Elements set, summer sun, more mustard, pumpkin pie,
old olive & garden green.
Other; Versamark pen, clear ep, brads, sponges, chocolate chip ribbon, hand cut tag & white gel pen.
Ink Spots: summer sun, more mustard, pumpkin pie, creamy caramel,
close to cocoa & chocolate chip.

Hope you enjoy looking at my layout!

Julie

Box in a bag!

I have been dying to make this box in a bag for sooo long!
The instructions came from Di.

I would just like to thank Sara for the flower images she sent me, as you can see Sara I have used some of the Boho Blossom!

Punches; Boho Blossom, 1" circle & round tab.
Paper; Tea & crumpets set.
Card; Bareley Banana & chocolate chip.
Ribbon; 1/4" grossgrain chocolate chip.

thanks for looking!

Julie

More awards!!!

I received this lovely award from Sue' & Dianne this week.
Thank you so much for thinking of me!

These blogs are exceedingly charming. These kind of bloggers aim to find and be friends. They are not interested in self-aggrandizement. Our hope is that when the ribbons of these prizes are cut even more friendships are propagated. Please give more attention to these writers. Deliver this award to eight bloggers who must choose eight more and include this cleverly written text into the body of their award"

Clare
Debby
Heidi
Carole
Chrissy
Ed
Kathy
Christina

Have fun girls!

Julie

Happy Birthday Jake!

Oh I can't beleive it my baby's 12 to day!
Time certainly flies by, It does not seem that long ago that he was born.
He is a big fan of Top Gear, hence the cake and we bought him a DSi and a few other bits.
He also got money, sweets & DVDs off others.

Happy Birthday Jake!
I know you read my blog.

Lots of love from us all xxxxxx

See you all soon

Julie

New challenge blog & DT call!

Our Names are Kirsten (Kirstens Krafty Place) and Emma (metalicbutterfly) and we are looking for 4 DT members (to start with) to help us kick start the Allsorts Challenge Blog........ we will be looking for crafters who enjoy using lots of different techniques and challenges e.g sketches, recipies, colour themes etc....

to join the DT you need to be able to commit to a weekly challenge and be willing to set or post a challenge either of your own or one from a set DT list once every 6 weeks plus it would be nice if a DT member could offer a small prize each month unwanted stash, ribbon, Images.... etc (each DT member would do this once every 6 months).

If you are interested in becoming a DT member please leave a comment so we can visit your blogs and take a look at all your crafty stuff!!

DT call will close Midnight 09/05/09...

I have put my name down to try out for the DT, so I will now keep my fingers crossed.
I would love to be part of a DT & have tried out for several DT places over the last few months but have never
been lucky enough to be chosen.
Oh well, may be I am the only person who likes my cards.

See you all later

Julie

For Keepsake Boxes

Today's projects are two keepsake boxes made from
Laurens My Timeless Templates.
I just love these templates as they are so easy to use.

Julie