crafty bits from the week x

hiya ladies x I have a few things to share with you today , firstly I have join the crafty girls over on the UK and Ireland craft swap on face book  it is my first time to admin and host on a craft page or site and I know I am just going to love it over there with my co hosts  Yvonne , Louise  and Debbie too x please stop by the face book link above and say hello to us all and please join us, in some of our swaps  .
Secondly I have been crafting a bit this week and here are some photos to prove it ;0
the L.O. below is one I finished today for my granddaughter Emily
I used graphic 45 papers and lots of my own handmade embellishments too

Here is some cards form this week too x

this is one of my favourite techniques at the minute , the cardboard layered with tissue paper and the sides encrusted with diamond dust and then teh cluster of flowers and the beautiful butterfly all from I am roses 

thanks so much for stopping by and  happy weekend crafting to you all 

crafty hugs 

xmaggiex 

Cute as a button x

Hiya Ladies , now dont faint ...its me again!!! and with more buttons ;) this time I created a 12"x12" Lof my beautiful granddaughter Emily x She literally is " as cute as a button " and I  had not scrap booked in a while so with a little inspiration from Ger over at Little Snippets that arrived in the post , among other things ( to be shared later ) was a fabulous array of embroidery frames , onceI tore open the parcel ( literally ) I knew I had to use them and with buttons still lying around from the challenge over at By the cute and girly  the other day I knew what I wanted to do , frames , buttons and Emily .....Lay out !!!!
here is what I came up with

Emilys fav colours are pink and purple ...can you guess by this lol?
she loves flowers and butterflies , I call her my flower fairy x
I used... Bo Bunny glitter paper , jazmyne breeze
             Lace frame.... Littlesnippets
             Embroidered flowers..... Littlesnippets
             Butter flies my own decoupage creation x
             paper and card and buttons from my stash
gonna enter this into By the cute and curly monthly challenge
thanks so much for stopping by x
have a very happy crafty weekend x
xmaggiex
           

new layout

hiya everyone x just thought i would share with you a layout i did for my daughter nicole . it is a layout of my granddaughter emily who just turned 3 in december x



i am entering this into Crafting Ireland sketch challenge

thanks for stopping by and happy crafting to you all
xmaggiex

my first layout and a giveaway !

hiya everyone , happy friday to you all
I have a couple of things to share with yo today , firstly my blogger friend Elizabeth has reached 100 followers on her you tube channel and is having an amazing giveaway , check it out here
she does great you tube video's and will fill you with inspiration .

Secondly I have done my first ever lay out for a challenge over at cardz n scrapz the lovely Dianne is hosting this montha and the theme is School , so as my gorgeous granddaughter Emily just started play School I decided to use this as

my inspiration . I had great fn doing this lo and think I might be addicted ???

Thank you so much for stopping by x
happy crafting
xmaggiex