Grandad

Well I can wish all I like that I was back at the Bon Jovi concert, but that aint gonna happen any time soon....LOL!

I had some cards that had to be made for tomorrow. One of them for my daughters best friend, and the only information she gave me was that obviously it was for her 18th and it had to be a Gary Barlow (from Take That) card. Well it ended up very Gary Barlow-y. As well as the picture on the front, there are pictures inside, including one of GB himself with the girl in question (some doctoring and a craft knife);-) and then 2 pictures on the back too.

The card I'm sharing today is one of the ones for my dad, from the kids. My mind was a complete blank, so I was surfing a bit trying to find some interesting facts from 1943. Only trouble is, that it was during WWII and most of the facts involved battles etc.

I then found a list of people born that year and so the card was made. I wasn't sure about it at first, but the kids like it, so..................

Pp is by K & Co. Cardstock from my stash, and the arrows cut using a die with the cuttlebug.

Bon Jovi

I went to see Bon Jovi on Saturday night at Hampden Park in Glasgow. They were amazing !!!!

I have seen them live once before 6 years ago but Saturdays gig was incredible. My sister gave me 2 tickets so I took my 18 year old daughter (who's arm did not take much twisting I might add) and she enjoyed herself almost as much as I did.

I have to admit to being a bit worried when she made me run onto the pitch to get to the front! We didn't quite make it but were only 3 from the front after the golden circle so had a great view.

It rained all afternoon and all night but it was worth it. Todays picture is to pay homage to the legend that is....Bon Jovi.... :-))

First for me

Well this is a first for me.
I have loads of blogs saved to my favourites that I look at every day, but I've not linked to show their blog candy before.
Over on Stamping Caz is a lovely blog candy prize. I just hope I've done the link properly...LOL!

Where did the time go?

It was my daughters 18th yesterday. Where on earth did that time go? I have a son who will be 20 in a couple of weeks but somehow my daughters birthday seemed a bit more of a shock.

Poor thing was working though and again today so she hasn't had a chance to celebrate. A bit of a rough shove into adulthood.

The card today is the one I made for her brother and sister to give to her.

I saw this image and it just reminded me of her. She can spend hours with her hair straighteners getting her hair just right and she hates if it's raining. She will even put up a brolly to walk a dozen steps to the car....LOL! Although one day a couple of weeks ago, we had parked quite far from the house and the heavens opened just as we got out of the car. She put up her brolly and a couple of seconds later, there was a huge rumble of thunder. She screamed, flung the brolly at me and ran.....with me following behind in fits of laughter. Her reasoning? Where there is thunder there may be lightning!

Anyway, I digress, the cardstock was just stuff from my stash, the flowers from my stash and the numbers cut on the cuttlebug using the Hippy Chick alphabet set.

Another 18th

I'm inundated with orders from my daughter to make 18th birthday cards for her friends at the moment.

Todays card is one of them...LOL!

I love these new Sugar Nelly stamps, the images are gorgeous. I only have 2 of them, but I can see the others following at some point ;-)

I love this colour combination too on the K & Co papers. This image was used on a card, using these colours, on the funky kits website and I thought it was lovely.

I did use my nestabilites to cut out the image and made a bit of a mistake. I put the die too far to one side and it cut the edges of the curves off. I decided to cut the sides off and thought it looked ok so just used it like that.

Flowers are from my stash as is the ribbon. The letters and numbers are cuttlebugged using the Hippy Chick alphabet and the sentiment is a plastic tile free with a mag this month.

Thanks for looking.

Prom night

Wow....this has been a busy time, what with exams for the kids and prizegiving last night and prom night tonight.

My eldest came home from her hair trial last week with the words..."your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to make some hair decor for me, perhaps a beaded hair comb?"

My first thought was "oh gosh", or something else unprintable....LOL!

I made the comb but as it turned out it wasn't suitable but I'd also made some flowers with beads and wires which could just be place individually into her hair. She was rather pleased with them (thank goodness, because I've never used beads or wire before to make anything) and her hairdresser was delighted, muttering something about our phone number and weddings......gulp!

Anyway the picture today is her hair...which she'll kill me for if she finds out, hence the reason for not putting up a pic of her in all her glory.

It was lovely and a first for me, seeing as my son left school before prom year. Took loads of pics and then went to the hotel to see all the kids in their finery. They were absolutely beautiful. Just made me reaslise how much my little girl is growing up!!!!