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My eldest Son is 11 today whoo hoo!!!!! To be honest with you, wasn't sure if he was going to make it as I have come close to strangling him this week!!! Was he excited or what!!! Anyway, we got up early to open his presents and he's extremely happy because he got his mobile phone so he's gone off to school with a big smile on his face! I still have Sam home so we are just baking Lewis's birthday cake. Thought I would share the cards I made for Lewis. The first one is from Sam........ ......and this one is from me and Tony........ Two more stamps I've had for a while but have never inked up!! The images are High Hopes and have been coloured with Promarkers. Papers are Basic Grey, sentiment is also High Hopes. The large blue brads in the top card are from Poppicrafts and the green clip (which says "laugh" on it) is Making Memories. For the bottom card I used some giant eyelets from SU, ribbon, stickers, rub-ons and plastic tags all from my stash. Finally...

The challenge on Stamp Something this week is a sketch by the talented Katharina of Whiff of Joy stamps and here's the sketch..... and here's my take on it........ I know it's not exactly the same but I adjusted it slightly to fit in with what I had. The image is Good Luck Charlie from Whiff of Joy as is the sentiment and Charlie has been coloured with Promarkers. Papers are from Dovecraft (part of my SS package!) and ribbon is also from Dovecraft. Hardware is from Making Memories. There's some scrummy candy on offer this week so do pop on over and take a look at the fantastic creations by the other DT members.

As promised, I'm back with my DT work for Stamp Something . This week the challenge has been set by Alex and wow, did she test me!! The challenge is to make a scrapbook page of 8.5 x 11 or 12 x 12 but nothing smaller and the theme is "All About Me". However, that's not all of it!! It must include the following:- (1) three buttons (2) four brads (3) two different ribbons (4) some sort of lettering for the title (chipboard, paint, stickers, stamps, etc) (5) at least two stamped items (6) five facts about yourself. There are a couple of reasons why I found this a real challenge - firstly, I haven't done a scrapbook page in a long time, mainly because it takes me quite a while to complete one page. Also, the theme was a problem for me......I never scrap anything about myself unless I really have to, and I never seem to be in photos as I'm always the one behind the camera!! Taking all that into consideration, I really made an effort to get this one done in record ...