Cancer Research UK - Coast To Coast Walk

Hi everyone!
Thank you for all your lovely comments on my last card!

This is just a quick post, as I wanted to let you know about my friend, Megan, who is going to be walking a Coast to Coast walk to raise money for Cancer Research UK with her dad. She is fourteen, the same age as me.

She will be walking from St. Bee's Head in Cumbria on the edge of the Irish Sea, all the way to Robin Hood's Bay on the North East Coast, 192 miles in total!
She and her dad's goal is to reach £1000 in sponsor money and I just wanted to let you know that if you would like to sponsor her, however little you can donate would be much appreciated, and the more sponsors they receive, the closer they will get to reaching their goal. Even as little as a pound can make a huge difference.

Click here if you would like to sponsor Megan and her dad or if you want to find out more.
Thanks so much for anyone who sponsors, I know Megan will be so pleased and grateful!

Bye for now, have a lovely week!
Love, Georgia xx

The Big Day

Hi there everyone! Happy New Year! Well, today has been a busy day for my family whilst I've been at school. Today we got the keys for our new house and my parents and grandparents have been busy all day cleaning and unpacking and tomorrow the removal van is coming to collect the bigger furniture to take down to the new house.

Then, Friday will be the big day when we will be leaving our house and moving into the new one, so I just wanted to let you know that I won't be around for a couple of weeks because it will take a while for an internet connection to be set up at the new house.

Thanks for all your lovely good luck messages and best wishes, I really appreciate it and will hopefully be back soon with some cards for 2011!

Have a lovely week!
Love from, Georgia xx

Top 10 Cards of 2010

Hiya! I hope everyone had a fantastic Christmas and are enjoying some time off from work and school if you haven't gone back already.
I just thought I'd show you my Top 10 Cards of 2010 before the end of the year and this will also probably be my last post before we move house in early January. I'm going to use some of my Christmas money to go out and have a look in the Christmas sales and choose some new accessories for my bedroom at the new house, so I'm really looking forward to that!

They're not in any particular order, but I just had a look through my blog and chose ten of my favourite cards, so here they are!

My first card is a card I made with this cute Mo Manning digi-image and some Basic Grey papers that my mum, Tara kindly bought in a pad for me, which I love! Thanks Mum!


Here is a card I made with Indian Tilda and I really enjoyed using these bright colours and these pretty Prima Hydrangeas.

I love this cute Penny Black image that I won in some blog candy a while ago and this was the first time I used Glossy Accents, can you believe! I love these pinky-red Basic Grey papers in the Nook & Pantry range pad!

I think these papers are from the Nook & Pantry pad as well and I love this cute Tilda with the presents!

I made this card with some of the goodies I bought from the NEC back in March for my step-grandma. I think this is my favourite card of all from 2010 because I love this Tilda image that Chris sent me, thanks Chris!


This card was for my mum and dad's sixteenth wedding anniversary and even though it is a bit more simple than my normal style, I was really happy with it when it was finished and it was for a special occasion.

I was really happy with the bright summery colours on this card and I love these papers from a PaperMania pad my mum treated me to.

I was really pleased with this card when I made it because it was quite different for me because I'd used bolder colours and had started to layer my cards a bit more.

I just love Tilda images, as you can tell! Here is another Tilda card with some glossy lettering dome stickers, (top right-hand corner) which I bought not long after I first started making cards before I had a blog!
I made this card for the Crafty Calendar Challenge when I was running it before, for a challenge themed around humour. Hee hee, I thought the sentiment was funny!

Well, that's it from me for 2010. I'm looking forward to when we're all settled into our new house and I can start making cards more regularly again. Plus, me and my mum are going to be able to share our own craft room at the new house, as there is one extra bedroom!

Thanks so much for looking and for all your lovely comments this year, I reallly appreciate it and hope everyone has a wonderful New Year!

Love from, Georgia xxxx

Merry Christmas!

Hi everyone!
I just wanted to wish everyone a brilliant Christmas and happy New Year! I hope everyone gets lots of great presents and has a lovely time over the Christmas break!

I'm really looking forward to a yummy Christmas dinner and lots of fun time with family, so I hope everyone has a great Christmas and I'll be back to crafting in January hopefully, after we have moved house.

Thank you for all your lovely comments this year, I appreciate it so much and I'll be back soon with a list of my favourite cards I have made over 2010.

Bye for now!

Lots of love, Georgia xx

Customised Magnet

Hello! I know I said I probably wouldn't be back until after Christmas, but I'm off school today, so I thought I would make my own fridge magnet with a little clear piece of plastic I found in my room. I haven't got a clue where it came from or what it is, but I got inspiration a while ago, from Kim's blog, Paperbabe - you can find the post here.

Kim's gorgeous magnets put mine to shame, but I just thought I'd have a go, rather than putting the piece of plastic in the bin and then I can give it to my mum when she gets home from work.
It was really quick and easy to do, so I don't know how useful anyone will find it, but I put together a brief step-by-step guide on how I made it.

First of all, I stamped out and coloured in my image using Pro Markers. The background is a little patchy, as I personally always find Pro Markers a little tricky when it comes to colouring large spaces, especially with pale colours. The image is Smirk.

For the plastic outer-layer, I'm not sure where you would get clear plastic from, (sorry, that's not very helpful!) but you could even used acetate if you wanted, but it would be a little less sturdy.

I cut my image slightly bigger than the piece of plastic, I could trim off the edges after. I didn't want to risk the image being too small. Bear in mind that if you use an image that is large than the piece of plastic, not all of the image will appear on the magnet, as you will have to cut some of it off. You could check out Kim's post though, as she has made some magnets made from one image, but split into separate magnets, like a jigsaw.

Now, you need to attach the plastic layer to the image. I had to rack my brains a little on this one, as I wanted to stick it on without any glue being visible through the plastic.

It's not a perfect solution, but I decided to use double-sided tape, as most double-sided tapes are transparent, once you have peeled the backing off.

I then stuck a little magnet onto the back of the image, which was now attached to the plastic. To do this, I used some more double-sided tape.

Now, it was ready to stick onto the fridge! It's not perfect and not as good as Kim's gorgeous magnets, but I just thought it would be fun to do and very easy too!

I can't believe how close it is to Christmas now, and I break up from school on Friday, yay! It's always great fun on the last day of term too, as we have a non-uniform day, an inter-form talent show, which is fun to watch and we finish at midday instead of quarter-past three.

Thanks so much for looking and have a lovely week!

Love, Georgia xx

Blogging Break

Hiya everyone,

This is just a quick message to let you know that I am taking a little blogging break at the moment, because we will be moving house very soon, so things are a little hectic here, and my craft supplies aren't very accessible at the moment. I think I've lost my mojo a little bit too - I don't know whether that's just because I'm not in the mood to make a card or just because we've been so busy recently.
It won't be too long, but I'm just a bit pushed for time and I think I'll properly get back into crafting after Christmas, when we're moved and settled and I can treat myself to a few new craft goodies, like some much-needed Bazzil cardstock! :)

Thanks for understanding and I hope to be back soon! I'll definitely still be coming round to people's blogs though to see what they've been up to in the meantime!

I am so, so, so excited because I am going to the Clothes Show Live 2010 tomorrow on a school trip because I am studying GCSE Fashion and I can't wait! It's at the NEC in Birmingham and we're travelling there by coach, so I hope the weather's OK! It was absolutely fantastic last year and I am so happy to be going again!
I will hopefully post some photos on here, like I did last year.

Thanks again for understanding and for all the lovely comments people leave on my blog, I really appreciate it!

Have a lovely week! :)
Love, Georgia xx

Something Different

Hi everyone! Sorry I haven't posted in so long, I've just lost my mojo to make cards a little bit, which I think is partly because of the fact that I'm moving house in a couple of weeks and we'll be starting to pack pretty soon, which I think has just put me out of the mood for getting crafty, for some reason.

Anyway, at school every Thursday at school we have a special afternoon where we are off-timetable and do something different that we wouldn't normally do and the activity changes every new term, so at the moment, I am doing crafts. We are doing different types of crafts, like cardmaking (yay!), ceramic-painting and jewellry-making, which is what we did last Thursday.

A lady came in who owns her own craft shop in a town near where I live and gave us tutorials on making jewellry, and I found it really interesting and relaxing to do and really enjoyed it and I was really pleased with the end result.

I made this necklace and matching earrings to give to my mum for Christmas, so she has had strict instruction to not look at my blog for a while, hee hee!

I also made a little label out of card to attach the necklace and earrings onto, but I don't want to wrap it because the earrings keep coming out of their holes, and it's just easier to give it to her as it is.

I've also bought her a set of Russian dolls, as she's always said how much she likes them and I just thought it would be something she'd be really pleased with.

I missed school on Friday, because I had a sore throat and a bad cough and cold, but I was feeling a lot better at the end of the day, so I went to see Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows at the cinema with a couple of friends, and it was fantastic, I loved it! I would definitely recommend it to anyone thinking of going to see it, it's brilliant!

My cough got worse over the weekend, so I stayed off today as well, but I think I'm going to back tomorrow, I'm glad I still got to see Harry Potter though!

Thanks for looking and have a lovely week!

Love, Georgia xx

An Award

Hi everyone,


Just a quick post tonight to share with you this fabulous award I was nominated for by Caroline, thanks so much for thinking of me Caroline!
For this award, any bloggers who are nominated can claim a free digi-image from Digis With Attitude Digi Stamps, which you can do by clicking here if you have been nominated!

You also have to name three things which make you different, so here goes!

- I'm on Team Harry Potter and I hate Twilight (eek, that might ruffle a few feathers, ha ha!)

- I'm always myself and don't act a certain way to impress.

- I love sprouts and Marmite, ha ha!

I would like to pass this award to all the lovely people who stop by my blog and give me so much inspiration with their stunning cards!

Thanks again for the award Caroline!

I'm off to do my Christmas shopping tomorrow - me and my mum are going on the train to Chester, I've been looking forward to it for ages, yay! I love Christmas shopping! :)

Bye for now and have a lovely weekend! Wagner had better go out of the X Factor or I think I'll scream! :)

Love, Georgia xx

Sweet Motivet Fairy

Hello, I hope everyone's having a great weekend and getting into the wintery mood, ha ha! Can you believe I've already bought a Christmas present for my mum?! It's just that I wasn't sure how long it would be in the shop for, so I just decided to go for it and get it a little earlier than everything else, but I won't tell you what it is, as she might read this!

My mum went to NEC in Birmingham to meet up with lots of lovely crafting buddies yesterday, as many of you will have done too, I guess! I decided to sit this one out, but I will hopefully be going in March next year, as I'll hopefully have some birthday money to spend!

While she was there, she bought me a gorgeous Annalee paper pad, full of stunning papers, which I love! Thanks Mum! :)
...And I just had to use some on this card, did you really have to ask?! :D

I am entering my card into these challenges:
Kaboodle Doodles Challenge - 'Make It Vintage'
A Spoonful Of Sugar Challenge - 'Relish To Embellish'
Cupcake Inspirations - Photo Inspiration

Materials:

Image: Motivet

Sentiment: Stamps Borrowed From My Mum

Colouring: Pro Markers

Glitter: Stickles

Cardstock: Bazzil

Papers: Annalee

Flowers: From My Stash

Lace: From My Stash

Pearls: The Hobby House

Doily: From My Stash

Glimmer Mist: That Special Touch

Here is a close-up of the flowers (decorated with some glimmer mist, pinched from my Mum, hee hee!):

I hope I'm back soon, but I might not have chance to make any cards during this week, as I've got three of my exams coming up, one on Tuesday and two on Thursday, so I'll be revising. I hope everyone had a great Bonfire Night, by the way! There were tons of fireworks around our area, wow!

Anyway, thanks so much for looking and I hope everyone who went to the NEC had a great time and got lots of nice crafty stuff!

Have a nice week! :)

Love, Georgia xx

Halloween Cutie!

Hello! Wow, it seems like ages since I've posted on my blog! It's a really nice treat when I do get chance to sit and make a card though! I didn't like this card to begin with, but now that it's finished, I'm really pleased with it!

I would have posted it sooner, but my little brother took our camera away on his residential trip with school to Shropshire, so I had to wait to photograph it when he came back yesterday. I missed him a lot!

I'm not a huge Halloween fan, but I thought I'd make a Halloween card for this time of year, so I found this cute little cat from Mo's Digital Pencil! We don't really celebrate Halloween in our house, but my mum will be taking my little brother out trick-or-treating, as he likes the sweets! I'm inviting some of my friends round and we're going to watch the film, 'Gremlins.' I've never seen it, but it's rated 15, so I was wondering if people think it's scary or not if you've seen it? I was just wondering out of curiosity.

Materials:
Image: Mo's Digital Pencil
Sentiment: Printed Off Computer

Papers: Basic Grey - Green At Heart

Cardstock: Bazzil

Flowers: From My Stash

Bat: Cut Out From Cardstock

Border Punch: Martha Stewart

Colouring: Pro Markers

Jute Ribbon: Bunny-Zoe's Crafts

Gems: The Hobby House

Glitter: Craft Planet

There are lots of great challenges at the moment, themed around this time of year, so I'm entering my card into these challenges:

Kaboodle Doodles - Autumn Colours

Cupcake Craft Challenge - Scary Creatures

Stamp Something - Halloween

Cupcake Inspirations - Photo Inspiration

Basic Grey Challenge - Autumn/Harvest

Stampin' For The Weekend - Halloween/Fall

I'm definitely looking forward to the X Factor tonight! I also can't wait until I go to The Clothes Show Live with school again in December, I got some military boots today to wear when I go, I love them and am really looking forward to it, yay! :)

Here's a picture of them, so you know what I'm talking about:

Anyway, thanks so much for looking and hope you're having a lovely weekend!

Lots of love from, Georgia xx