Firstly, I’d like to wish everyone a very happy New Year. I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas, and received lots of lovely goodies!

I’ve revamped the blog a little, ready for a fresh start. Hopefully 2009 will be a very full and productive year! The year is off to an odd beginning – my beloved Cuttlebug died yesterday. There was a very loud bang and one of the covers on the side of the machine popped off. I couldn’t see any obvious damage, but there is no pressure there to enable the machine to cut. Thankfully, when I contacted Provocraft they were very helpful, and a new Cuttlebug should be winging its way to me very soon.

In other news, I treated myself to a Cricut Expression just after Christmas, so you can look forward to lots of posts about that in the near future!

You are all probably completely fed up with Christmas cards by now, but I thought I would share a few of the ones I made and neglected to share earlier.

Stamps: Magnolia – Edwin & Tilda Kissing + Mistletoe – 2008 Winter Stamp Club. Coloured using Distress Inks.
Whiff of Joy sentiment.
CS/DP: Basic Grey
Embellishments: Satin ribbon. Nestabilities Scalloped and Plain Circles and Nestabilities Heart dies.


Stamps: Magnolia – Santa is Coming to Town, Christmas Tree, Santa with Presents and Gift stamps – 2008 Christmas Collection. Coloured using Distress Inks and Twinkling H20s.
CS/DP: Basic Grey
Embellishments: Wooden Snowflakes. Nestabilities Plain Circle dies. Crystals. Star shaped brad.

Stamps: Magnolia Bird stamp. Elzybells sentiment stamp.
Coloured using Distress Inks and Twinkling H20s.
CS/DP: unsure!
Embellishments: Ribbon and charm from stash. Plain and scalloped rectangle and circle Nestabilities dies. Metallic thread.

Now that Christmas and New Year are done and dusted, I am playing with the lovely stamps sent to me by Sugar Nellie, as I am part of the Guest DT at the moment. Cards and other creations with some of the recent releases coming very soon!

Before I go, Rach has some gorgeous blog candy on offer at the moment, so hop on over to her blog and leave a comment to be in with a chance to win!