You may be wondering where Ive been since my last post. Its been a while. Or you may not ;) the end of 2018 absolutely sucked for us, it was a tough time but Im happy to say the light has well and truly shown at the end of the tunnel! :) So, what happened? In August our beloved exotic mongrel ;) <3 Dougal got diagnosed with a tumour on his liver. By the time they found it, and he started having symptoms, it was 6cm and we were told we had 3-6 more months with him. The following month my mother-inlaw developed Atrial Fibrillation, and in the following 6 weeks had four admissions to hospital before it was under control. In the same month our beautiful McKenzie - the 2nd of our exotic mongrels ;) - was diagnosed with a brain tumour and we lost her two weeks later. Eight weeks later we lost Dougal. To say we were heart broken seems not enough. Its bad enough losing one of our dogs, let alone two, and so quickly. There was no scrapping. I just didn't feel like it. Too much stress in too short a time definitely takes a toll!
Around Christmas I finally felt like creating again, and made some layouts as gifts, and Christmas stockings for name places at Christmas dinner.
One of favourite companies, 49 and Market <3 I love the fussy cut-ability of their papers! This one uses their dimensional stickers with Cottage Life collection, still one of my favourite paper collections, and the large chipboard piece is from Dusty Attic.
This piece was a little different for me, its uses 7 Dots paper and pieces from the cut outs. Chipboard this time is from Blue Fern Studios. That big word is from Robbie Bell - I purchased this at SENZ a few years ago, its wood and embossed beautifully!
The last layout is again 49 and Market, this time the chipboard is 2 Crafty. The paper is again Cottage Life and Ive also used the dimensional stickers again too.
So Christmas place names. These were actually supposed to be banners. They're from Kaisercraft, and I thought they would make awesome place tags. The bamboo names at the top of each stocking came from Love From Seventeen - they come plain and Ive embossed them gold, they're actually supposed to be used as name tags for presents but I changed it up a bit ;) The paper this time is a really old BoBunny collection, Noel - one of my favourite Christmas collections, love the colours!
This is mine. The Burgundy paper was actually plain so to shoosh it up a bit I used a BoBunny stickable stencil and their gold glitter paste. The cluster at the top was created out of fussy cutting some of the holly and punching out some leaves with a new Holly punch I had from Stampin Up.
Lastly, did you know I have a facebook page where I pop all my projects, with details on how I created them? You can find it here.
Everything also is added to my Pinterest page, and you can find that here.
Happy New Year Everyone!, see you soon :)
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