I heart Stampin Up!!!!

Went to my first ever Stampin Up party last night!! Twas very fabbo!!!!

It was hosted by Anna and the demonstrator was Monica from http://monicas-passions.blogspot.com/. What a fab lady, almost as mad as me!!!!!! She had some lovely products and great samples.

We made a card using the Simply Said stamp set, which I then just HAD to buy and I made an extra sneaky card at the end using Unfrogettable.

My ribbon has covered up this lovely sentiment, it says "a friend is someone who makes it easy"

Happy crafting

Jules

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ATC Crazy

Well this afternoon I made my first ever ATC's!!

Its for a challenge on UK Scrappers that my friend Anna is hosting and it was to do Sugar Nellies so I thought why not. Had to do 10 of exactly the same which was a bit tedious but they are done now!!

Photos aren't the best but you get the idea, I was quite pleased with the result but think I'll stick to cards!!

Jules

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What a weekend!

Well its Wednesday already and I still haven't written about the most tiring weekend ever!!!!!

I finished my show on Saturday night after 3 months of rehearsals and solid performances for a week. Of course then I had to attend the after show party, would have been rude not to!! I wasnt drinking though so at least I had no hangover to deal with!!!

I then had to be up bright and early (after getting to bed at 3.30am) for the Great Northern Papercrafts Extravaganza. We were taking Sue from Slumber Cards. It was a great day altough my feet wouldnt agree with you!!!!

Managed to not go over my budget too much, have a look at all my lovely goodies.
When we dropped Sue off she had bough myself and Natty a bag of Molten Brown goodies as thank you for the weekend. THANK YOU Sue, they are lovely and are strictly off limits in the bathroom from anyone other than me!!!!

J

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Natty K Blog Candy

Natty is holding a fab Blog Candy challenge to make a pink card. Well when I think of pink I always think of baby pink so I thought I would go for hot pink instead.

This card was made for a buddy at work (Craftwork Cards) whose birthday it was this weekend. I was a bit cheeky and added her age to the jumper!!!!

• Card Blank from CWC
• Paper from CWC
• Ruffle from CWC
• Sentiment from CWC

Think I am just in time!!!

Jules

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The Full Monty

Quite a sad time as the Full Monty is now over!!! It has been FAB and has far exceeded my expectations. Wasnt quite prepared for the reaction and appreciation the whole show would get and also that I would get as an individual performer, what a buzz!!! Its certainly back down to earth with a bump.

I have added a couple of quick piccies. I feel I need to explain that I was playing the role of a 70 year old woman (I am 34 really). The part I was playing is not in the film, it has been written in for the stage show. If I had to explain who I was like I would say Estelle, Joey Trebianni's agent in Friends!!!

Anyway this is how I normally look!!!!

And here I am as the fabulous Jeanette complete with "ageing" make up courtesy of the lovely Faye. It looks a bit weird on the normal camera but I am told under the lights it look effective!!

Will post more piccies soon!!

Jules

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24 hours to go!!!

Well in 24 hours time I will be very nervous!!! This is my biggest part (pardon the pun!!) for at least 6 or 7 years!!!! Thank you to those of you who have followed my ramblings and those who have sent me Good Luck wishes!!

A special thank you to Natty K, Anna and Sue who are my blogger friends who are all coming to see the show. Special thanks though to Sue who is travelling up from Bristol to Leeds to come and see the show, it means a lot

I will leave you with one last card, it needs no explanation, was made for one of the cast to give to his Mum!!!!!!!!!!

See you on the other side!!!!ARGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Julie, or for the next 6 days Jeanette Burmeister!!!

A big thank you!

Just popping on really quickly before our Technical rehearsal (arggh) to say a HUGE thank you to Sue at Slumber Cards and Michelle at the Card Grotto for sending me wonderful Good Luck cards which I received today, they were a lovely surprise and they mean a lot, I will put them up in the dressing room at the theatre

Photos to follow tomorrow, its too dark now!!

J

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Getting good at posting

Well I am being a good girl updating my blog this week!!! Thought I would get plenty of cards on this week as next week is going to be MAD!!!!

So yesterday my Mum & Dad took the boys out for the afternoon and during the course of the day I managed to make 21 cards yesterday!!! Granted some of them are very simple but hey less is more after all!!!!

Here are a selection of them!!!!!

• Card blank in Gelato from Craftwork Cards
• Paper is by Reminisce called Tying the Knot
• Stamp is by Funstamps (Natty bought me this for Xmas and its the first time I have used it!!! Oops!!!)
• Scallop square using Woodware Super Duper punch
• Sentiment from Craftwork Cards
  

Card blank, stamp, ribbon, sentiment all the same as previous card

• Background is Cuttlebug Divine Swirls
• Used a nestabilities rectangle that Michelle S kindly sent me! (Thanks Michelle)
  

OK this one is one of the more simple quick fire cards I made!!

• Card blank from Craftwork Cards
• Cuttlebugged metallic card from Craftwork Cards
• Ribbon from a Little Silver Hat kit
• Scalloped shape is a Ruffle from Craftwork Cards
• Stamp is a new one from the bargain Dovecraft range (99p each)

And finally two more cards like yesterdays efforts but with a different colour scheme, teal and brown.

I have stickled around the edge of the flower but it doesnt show up very well


Thanks for looking

J
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P.S 4 DAYS TO GO!!!

New cards!

I bought a new stamp on Monday, its a Hero Arts, Doodle Leaf Flower, not really my usual style but they had a lovely card in the shop made with it and it caught my eye!!!

So I have managed to make 2 cards this morning in between sorting the boys out as they are on school holidays where we live this week.

• Card blank from CWC
• Bazzill Bling from CWC too!
• Hero Arts stamp coloured with Whispers pens
• Mothers Day stamp by Inca
  

Products as before, organza spotty ribbon from Ribbon Oasis I think!!!

Close up of the flower, stamped image again and mounted with foam pads.

Hope you like them
J
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P.S 5 DAYS TO GO!

Thanks Tara

My mate Tara from Tara's Designs has sent me this gorgeous Good Luck card for my show the Full Monty which starts in 6 DAYS!!!!

Wish you could see the show Tara, thanks for thinking of me, it means a lot. Should have told my hubby to order one from you too instead of the shop one he usually gets me, but hey at least he gets me a card!!!!

Right off to rehearsal, more thongs to catch!!!!

J

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Lucky me!

Yesterday I received this gorgeous PIF candy from Gina from the Card Kabin, thanks Gina. I love the card you made!!!! Hopefully will have time to use everything soon!

Simple cards

Been a bad blogger but I have a good excuse, THE FULL MONTY starts in 8 days time!!!! arghhh. We got to see them get down to their thongs for the first time on Friday, gosh the audience are in for a shock!!! I will say no more!!!!

Anyway been busy making Mothers Day cards, here are a few of my more simple designs they are all 12 cm square cards.

• Card blank from Craftwork Cards size 5
• Enchanted papers from Craftwork Cards
• Butterfly greeting Craftwork Cards
• Lettering cut out from Zooballoo Cricut font (thanks Nat!)
  

• Card blank from CWC size 5
• Ruffle from CWC
• Stamp by INCA
• Flowers cut using Retro flower punch

• Card blank CWC again
• Cupcakes paper CWC
• Wording on PC cut out with Woodware punch and chalked
• Stamp by Inkadinkado

Thats all for now

J

PIF Candy winners!!!

I am a bit late with this but my 3 PIF candy winners are

Tracy K

Anita Knits

Tara D

Please could you mail me your address to julie.kettlewell@ntlworld.com

Then I will get some candy out to you asap. Its your job now to do a PIF on your blog!!!

Jules

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PIF Candy!!

Well I won some Pass it forward Candy on Gina (Card Kabin's) blog!! Woo hoo!! So now I am offering some candy to the first 3 people to leave me a comment!!. If you win something then its your turn to do some candy and so on and so on, the hopefully the whole world will have candy!!!

I'll be watching my inbox!!

J

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Slumber Cards blog challenge

Sue at Slumber Cards is offering some lovely blog candy of some of the new Sugar Nellie stamps!!!!! The brief is a lilac card. Well its my Mum's birthday on Thursday so thought I would make her a lilac card!!!!

The stamp is Papernation, I have had it for ages and never used it. My Mum has an allotment and grows her own veg and stuff so the stamp is ideal!!

• Card blank - Craftwork Cards
• Paper - Making Memories
• Stamp - Papernation
• Sentiment and Butterfly - Craftwork Cards
• Flowers - Prima
  

Hope you like it Sue!!! And hope my Mum does too!!

J

Time is running out!!!!

Two weeks tonight is the opening night of THE FULL MONTY - arghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

The nerves are kicking in already, don't know why I am nervous I am one of the few who keep my clothes on!!! Those poor fellas!!! Do they really know what they are letting themselves in for???

Anyway back to craft. Here is a card I made for a friend of mine who is gay, he asked for a card for his boyfriend so I thought these little monkies can be any sex!!! He was pleased with it anyway.

Photo a bit naff, can't seem to get a good one these days!

J

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Tagged!

Hi there, sorry about the lack of blogging, just about keeping my head above water with everything thats going on in my world at the moment!

Anyway I have been tagged twice by Tara and Melanie to do the Middle Name Game. You have to describe yourself using each of the letters of your middle name, if you havent got one use your maiden name!!

My middle name is that 70's classic girls middle name LOUISE. Nearly all my class at high school had this as their middle name, so here goes!!

L - loves crafting, musicals, singing, dancing and having fun (but I guess you knew that anyway from my blog!!)

O - on a diet, have lost 16 pounds so far, another 14 to go to get to my target!!!!

U - under pressure, I have so much going on at the moment, this is how I feel!!

I - ice cream, love it and so do my boys but cannot have any at the moment!!!

S - Starring in the Full Monty the Musical in less than 3 weeks - argh!!!!

E - Evan and Ross, my 2 gorgeous boys

These are a bit boring but I found it hard having 4 vowels in my name!!!!

Right I have to tag someone else now!!! Gosh all my pals have done this I think so can I leave it there???

Jules

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