My Crafty Life

I've had my SDX1200 for about a moth now, used it a lot and now my mats have no sticky left. As I am going to retack it anyway I thpught I would show you how I do it. You might have seen a few different ways to retack your mat, and none of them are wrong, this is just the way I do it. Please forgive the disgusting state of my work mat. It's very well *loved* 😆 First of all I took one of my old cm900 mats which I used as a template. I carefully cut the middle cutting area out, making sure I left the measuring guide along the sided. I cut a hole in the middle with my craft knife and then carefully cut the test of it put using a pair of scissors, but you can do it whichever way you find easiest. I then placed the old mat over the top of my new mat as shown. I held it in place with a couple of pieces of low tack tape because I didnt want the template to move while I was spreading the glue. Mel Heaton says you don't have to use much glue, but I never find the tiny amount she us

I cant believe that yesterday my Little girl was 33. How time flies. I'm on holiday this week so I went for a birthday lunch with Louise and her husband Kevin. Louise loves sheep, and in particular she loves Shaun the sheep, so I had to make a Shaun birthday card for her. I made an A5 card blank by folding a piece of white card in half. Then I glued a mat of black card in place. Thete is a half cm border around the mat. Blue is Louise's favorite colour so next I added a blue mat, again with a 1/2 cm border. A while back I got an Ardman usb from Create and Craft. I used it for this d3coupage of the flock doing what looks like a bit of a wobbly dancing act. I then added a sentiment from a Paper Boutique usb. The card is then finished with some birthday themed peel offs. I'm very happy to tell you she loved her card. Happy Crafting Everyone.

I am going to start some regular features, the first of which will be a scrapbooking feature on Mondays. I am at the minute working on a Scrapbook about my dad. He passed away in 1997. My daughter Louise remembers him at little, she was 8 when he passed away. My son Adam was only 2, and doesn't remember his grandad at all. This is so very sad because he was devoted to them both. I decided I should make a scrapbook about dad and keep him alive forever in all of our memories. This is the first page done. I think he looks about 6 in the picture on the left, a real cutie. I know the picture on the right was taken when he was 14 because he told me so. It was taken when he left school and started his first job in the Co Op in Dunston. So now I am on the way to preserving my memories of my dad. I hope you will join me on the journey  Happy Crafting.