Happy Anniversary

On Monday my friends celebrate their first anniversary, I took their wedding photos for them and wanted to make them a card to celebrate their first year of marriage. Orange was one of the colours the wedding party wore so I made my card using Only Orange, Very Vanilla and Grey. I used the new framelits die and created an easel card.

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Happy Birthday to me!

Yesterday was my birthday I received phone calls, texts and facebook messages from my family and friends I got a necklace from my husband, a bracelet and merino fingerless gloves from my girls

In the afternoon I attended the unveiling of a young man who was a younger brother to me, he and his brother affectionately called me "mavis", i am 'mavis' to them only. When I got home my husband had cooked me a beautiful dinner of salmon, tomato salad and roasted vegies.

I attempted to make hot cross buns to celebrate Good Friday here they are rising nicely:

After the came out of the oven:

I didn't make the crosses for them, they smelt like hot cross buns but they failed, they were edible as long as you could get past the fact they were more sultana spiced scones than hot cross buns. We had unseasonably warm weather, more summer than autumn which was nice to get out in it and to be able to dry washing in it. Thanks for stopping by Amanda

I Want Candy!

I love Reeses Peanut Butter Cups, they are amazing USA candy and very hard to come by here in NZ. However I heard that the town near us had a shelf of 'candy' in their video store. So today I took a drive and loaded up with some tasty treats to try.

I have tried the twizzlers and I won't be purchasing them again. The Jolly Rancher are delicious, the cinnamon gum kept it flavour well. THe bites are quirky and yummy. The Mike n Ike are like soft jellybeans. I am enjoying my 'candy', its my birthday treat to myself. THanks for stopping by Amanda

Art Page

I made some base pages a while back and I had finished all of them but this one:

The other day I sat down and added some temporary tattoos and stickers:

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AJ 8-redone

When I created my first AJ 8 page I had problems with it sticking together. I had used indian ink and it didnt dry and my page was ruined. Working from the photo I had blogged about previously I recreated it, this time using black paint that I brought from the $2 shop

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Its A Boy!

2 baby boy cards made, 10 more baby cards to go! I was woken at 3am the other morning and was unable to get back to sleep because the planning and formulating of how I was going to execute this card were running around in my head. I finally dozed off till 7am when the kids woke me and I promptly got up and drew a sketch of what had been running around in my head hours earlier. I then spent 2 days punching, brayering, colouring, stamping, cutting and sticking to come up with this card.

I also spent an hour decorating the inside of the card:

The inside and outside before I assembled them:

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AJ 14

This page is dedicated to my two girls who are currently 5 and 3

Damn blogger loaded my photo sideways, nevermind these entrys aren't viewed by anyone. Amanda