May calendar page

What a difference a haircut makes. When Spring arrives the girls go from long to shorter hair. This was the first time DD1 took a photo idea with her to have her hair cut. Hmmm little girl growing up. !!!!

Embellies Prima flowers, K & Co G A die cut butterfly, B G button, dew drops and Papermania foam alphabet.

April calendar page

April has DD1 in her school show Fashion Rocks attire. Lots of attitude and make up.

Embellies K & Co epoxy sticker and die cut flowers, B G buttons and alphabet.

March calendar page

March shows DD2 ready for Red Nose Day at school. Oh and Eeyore of course.

Embellies are Prima flower, K & Co epoxy, B G die cut sticker, button and alphabet, Papermania pearls and punched leaves.

February calendar page

Here is the Feb offering featuring DD2 last Feb when snow caused her to have an extra day on school.

Embellies are Primas, BG buttons, Papermania pearls, Fancy Pants die cut shapes

January calendar page

Here is the Jan page featuring our gorgeous Boxer dog.

Embellies are Prima flower, Woodware punched leaves, Sizzix die cut flower using Kaitlin by Crate Paper, stickers are 7 Gypsies and K & Co butterflies. The button and alphabet stickers are B G.

OMG I'm back

Where have I been? I have been crafting honest, but life has also been heaily in the way most of the time for me to get here. Anyway I was meant to be putting more of my USA holiday 1989 LO photos on here and I haven't got round to it ...... so far. I will do one day. but for now here is a calendar I've made for my outlaws for Christmas.

I set the members challenge on the Charmed Forum this time.

The first is to make a desk calendar. Can be any size (depending on your desk), with or without photos if a larger one and I would like you to add the following: Punched or die cut shapes, ie flowers, tags, frames ...... Blingy things ie dew drops, glitter, s/a pearls, gems ....... Sewing ..... or doodling

The second is to make a crafty Christmas present for somebody. This could be anything, like covering and decorating a notebook to personalise it, making a post it notes decorated holder thingy (technical term there ), make an address book, make a shopping list holder for a pad (to go on the fridge maybe), decorate a phone note pad holder, make and decorate a photo frame or ........ anything else you can think of. Use whatever form of embellishments are suitable for your chosen gift idea but include some ribbon, and chipboard somewhere and somehow.

Here is the front cover of my desk calendar.

All the papers are K & co. Flowers are die cut Wild Raspberry from K & Co and the felt embellies are Fancy Pants.

9.25 on the rim

Our final view of the grand canyon was as we left. At 9.25 we went to one of the high viewing areas to take the last photos of it. (like we probably didn't have enough already lol).

Papers are Papermania Retro (for a change), buttons are B G, flowers Prima, G/A is K & Co and letters are Papermania.

Always Changing

Sunrise is very like sunset. The main difference is that is starts of very cold and warms up. Lol. Colourwise it is as sunset but in reverse.

Papers K & Co Happy Trails. Alphabet is Papermania. Journalling square is Creative Imaginations.

Sunset

As our hotel was just 10 mins from the edge of the south rim of the canyon it was easy for us ot make a date with watching the sun set. Watching the sun set over the canyon is very colourful. The rocks change constantly as it gets darker.

Papers and Grand Adhesions K & Co Happy Trails.

Bright Angel Trail

There are trails all through the canyon. I actually wsn't keen walking down this trail into the canyon because so much of it means walking on a norrow trail with a huge drop. I don't do height well so felt quite un-nerved by this, as did the 2 people with me. This trail was close to our hotel.

Paper K & Co Happy Trails and G/A K & Co Happy Trails- Grand Canyon.

The Grand Canyon

I went through a whole roll of film and a half to take shots of the canyon whilst flying over it. that's a good 50 photos. It was hard to whitle them down but I managed to get 8 shots on this one LO by making a couple of mini albums.

The whole flight was an amazing experience and I would do it again.

Grand Adhesions are K & Co Happy Trails - Grand Canyon.

Fly the canyon

It was the trip of the holiday. Flying over the Grand Canyon. The joke of this photo is that I took a photo of any old plane and ws going to tell people that I went on that plane. In reality I DID go on that plane. Lol.

Paper K & Co Happy Trails. Chipboard stars from American Crafts. Papermania letters and ribbon.

Oak Creek Canyon

On the way to The Grabd Canyon we passed through Oak Creek Canyon. It is very much used as filmland especially for westerns. Up hair pin bends you get some amazing views. Sadly they were into the sunlight for me so aren't as clear as they could be.

NO paper this time just C/S. !!! Ribbon and ric rack from Papermania. Chatterbox sticky alphabet letters. Embellishment from Jolees.

Bus Trip U S A

So on with the 1989 USA holiday LOs. (and you thought I'd finished or forgotten lol.)

We made a stop out in the desert so we could see seguaro cactus up close. It also gave us an opportunity to capture the tour director and bus driver on camera.

Papers as usual K & Co Happy Trails with a G A from the collection too. Chipboard letters are thickers.

Annie card

My friend Karen is having a 4th birthday celebration for her shop site Charmed Cards and Crafts and has some fab competitions running.

This is my entry for the blog candy. And what blog candy it is. I'm very late with my entry (life in the way and all that !!!) so fingers crossed it's a high number picked lol.

Papers used are the gorgeously jazzy WRMK Nonsense, Bazzill Basics and Bling C/S, flowers are a Prima hydrangea with a paper rose in the centre and McGill pine punched leaves. Sentiment is from Anita's. The lovely stamp is one of Lou and Karen's Delectable stamps - Annie with Teddy.

Good luck to any other participants.

Blog candy give away

http://charmedcrafts.blogspot.com/2009/07/another-blog-candy-with-twist.html

Karen is once again teaming up with Graphics DIRECT in giving away a huge set of 72 copic pens. Go visit, take part and you never know your luck.

Seguaro Cactus

These cacti are absolutely enormous. It takes years for them to grow and if there is one on the plot of land you want to build on it is protected. Not so nice in this area was the Teddy Bear cactus which if you get near enought to touchit leaves its spines in you and the more you try to get them out the deeper they go. I stayed well clear.

Paper from K & Co Happy Trails. The title now is a laser cut photo I bought with Arizona already cut in it. (handy as that is where I was lol) but this shows the LO before I changed it. Doh!

Camel rocks

Not to be outdone, Scottsdale has a set of rocks in the shape of a lying down camel. (It's all in the right angle thing.)

For a change for me there is NO paper on this LO, just C/S. Flowers and Arizona embellishments are from some Arizona embellishments I had. Velvet ribbon and s/a pearls are Papermania.

Rocky Road

Out in the middle of the desert there are lots of
rocks that take on the appearance of something.

The top photo is said to be Geronimo (his face)crying for his land and the lower photo shows bell and cathedral rocks. Both are in Arizona.

Papers and die cut from K & Co Happy Trails, Stickopotamus stickers and Thickers alphabet.

Montezuma's Castle

A stop on the tour took us to this strange 'castle; in the rocks. It is a National Monument and gets lots of vistors, sadly you can no longer climb up the rocks and into the castle itself. (phew!)

Paper from K & Co Happy Trails, chipboard stars from American Crafts, Prima flowers, page from Making Memories journalling pad, Stickpotamus stickers and Papermania alphabet.