Ooops!

Norm's Notes 31.

Today I have mostly been in A and E.

I have broken my arm.

I fell off the ladder doing the hedge yesterday!

Sammy has been administrating to my needs.

Thank you all for visiting my posts

this past month. Hope you have enjoyed yourselves.

On this fitting note I bid you farwell.

Back to you Mrs A. 

XOXO Norm.

Fine Print.

Rest assured Norm's fracture is only a small one but he is loving all the attention he is getting from Sammy.

It was only a short fall and you would think that  he'd be used to swinging around at heights but then remember he was hand reared so has no inkling of what a real jungle is like!!!!Lol.  He will though be out of action foe a while!!

Cut above the rest.

Norm's Notes 30.

Today I have mostly been cutting the hedge.

Just need to stretch a bit further.

Finished

XOXO Norm.

Masterpiece.

Norm's Notes 29.

Today  I have mostly been painting my masterpiece.

Using my new water colour pencils.

Getting there.

Nearly finished.

What do you think ?

XOXO Norm.

Fine Print.

Norm used  High Hopes Rubber Stamps 'Winter Fun Monkey' M-143  as his image to paint..

Weeds? What Weeds.

Norm's Notes 28.

Today I have mostly been trying out my new weed killer.

Looking good.

Sorted!!!

 Norm. Where has all the Orange blossom gone?

XOXO Norm.

Fine Print.

Just in case your wondering what the large upturned pot is doing in the background surrounded by pebbles, it's going to be a Mud Head just like the one in the Lost Gardens of Heligan  (only a smaller version.)

It is Norm's next project!!!

Ten Green Bottles.

Norm's Notes 27.

Today we have mostly been taking our empties to the bottle bank.

We had to make several trips.

He He ! Bet your all singing along now!!

XOXO Norm.

Ear, Ear.

Norm's Notes 26..

Today Sammy has mostly been trying on her earings

She couldn't decide which looked the prettiest with her new top.

So she put all 3 pairs in !

XOXO Norm.

Swing Time

Norm's Notes 25.

Today we have mostly been playing on our swing.

It is so not your turn Norm.

Yes it is.

XOXO Norm.

Valeting.

Norm's Notes 24.

Today I have mostly been polishing the car.

XOXO Norm.

Kaleidescope

It is time for a new challenge over at

#61 Butterflies + K is for Kraftcard and/or Kaleidescope.

So I would like to see  Kraft card used 

along with your Butterfly/ies of course.

If you use the optional colour then this time

it is to use multiple  colours as in a 

Kaleidescope.

Here is my inspiration cards for you. 

1st card uses blue cardstock for the base.

I have used kraft card to die cut the window frame

which is  Crafts-Too Stitch hole Rectangle dies PCD98.

The image is by Hunkydory from their

Little Book of Shimmer which I have trimmed down

just very slightly so that is sits within the framework.

Butterfly is die cut using memory box Theo/ Whidbey

and kraft card.

Stickers and sentiment is a multicoloured sticker sheet.

2nd card used a pink base card and iridescent ribbon.

Image is from the same book as above along with the sentiment

Butterflies are multi coloured puffer stickers.

Image is adhered to the left over piece of kraft card from

the die cut used above. 

3rd card  is lilac cardstock used to make the base.

Kraft card and another piece of the lilac card are layered up

on top. The image is from the same Little Book of Shimer.

It has a covering of acetate which is adhered to the image using 

multi coloured brads.

 (from my recent win over at

Pixies Crafty workshop.)

Butterflies are Starform iridescent stickers

and the sentiment is glitterations.

Hope  these give you some idea of using multi colours on your project

and that you will play along with the challenge.. 

I'm looking forward to maybe seeing some mixed media

backgrounds on your projects.

Surprise me!!!!

Plastered.

Norm's Notes 23.

Last night we got plastered.

XOXO Norm.

New Necklace.

Norm's Notes 22.

Today Sammy has mostly been making herself a necklace.

XOXO Norm.

Painting.

Norm's Notes 21.

Today I have mostly been painting the shed.

XOXO Norm.

Christmas Layers

Time once more for the girls in the Christmas Card Club

to show our makes. The theme this time is 

'Use Lots of Layers  'and was set by Maureen.

Those Monkeys are still creating havoc so 

my cards have had to be very quick this time.

A quick delve into my used christmas card box

and I came up with this CAS card front. It did have a

a holly die cut adhered to it though so that was one layer sorted!

I used  a red card base and used further red and dark green

cardstock to layer up.

Card front was trimmed down to fit  and adhered on top

making it 5 layers in all.

How many layers is lots? Lol.

Then I turned to my Christmas stash of 

dies, digi's ,stamps, stickers, papers and embossing folders

to see what I could use .

I came across this pre coloured digi  called

Starlight Starbright by Sassy Cheryl from 

Paper Creator. His snazzy scarf caught my eye

and I sorted some tartan papers to go with it

They are all freebies from Making Cards.

Nov and Dec Christmas editions 2015

Used a green base card this time and layered up the tartan

papers using a darker green card stock.

6 layers including the image !

Silver sticker sentiment from my stash.

A Spot of Lunch.

Norm's Notes 20.

Today we have mostly been having lunch in the garden.

XOXO Norm.

It's a Snail's Pace.

Norm's Notes 19.

9am

Today we have mostly been racing our snails.

1pm

3pm

 3.30pm

Mine won. you owe me 50p Norm.

That's not fair mine never came out of it's shell!!!

XOXO Norm.

Fine Print.

No Snails were harmed in the making of this post..

Filling Up.

Norm's Notes 18.

Today I have mostly been filling the Newt pond up.

XOXO Norm.

Headless.

Norm's Notes 17.

Today I have mostly been cleaning the statutes.

Sob!!

Do you think anyone else is going to notice 

the heads dropped off?

XOXO Norm.

More Vases.

Back again for more inspiration for

#60 Butterflies + V  is for Vases and /or Vanilla.

Another 3 cards using various images in my stash.

First up another Penny Black Stickeroos

'Painted Vase' #10-191.

I used Vanilla Ice shimmer cardstock for the base card.

I layered the image onto Pistachio green card.

The sentiment and butterfly stickers from my stash.

Second card uses silver mirror card and this is the 

best picture I could get of it. 

I have used  champagne Pearlised cardstock for the base.

Layered up with mirror card and then a slightly smaller square

of vanilla parchment paper.

The stickers are from two different design sheets.

Flower, sentiment and buterflies were on one sheet.

I placed the flower down first and then adhered the vase sticker

over the top to make it look like the flower was in the vase.

The vase and the 4 corner pieces were on another sheet.

I have used silver sticker lines to create the box frame.

A simple but classy design.

Last card uses pink cardstock for the base  card

Layered up with Vanilla Ice Shimmer card

die cut using Stitch Hole Rectangle dies 

by Crafts-Too.

The image is from Hunkydory

in their Little Book of Flowers.

Tiny pink butterflies were the fall out from a punch

I had used on a previous card seen here.

The sentiment is a silver sticker from my stash.

I didn't want to mask the picture behind so this is acually

stuck to believe it or not a shirt collar stiffner I just happened

to have on my desk. It was in a pot on my desk unforgotten

but then I accidentally sent the pot with contents flying onto

the floor and in picking up the ensuing mess found it. 

There is still a week left to play. 

Raining Cats and Dogs.

Norm's Notes 16.

Today we have mostly been sitting under our umbrella in the rain.

XOXO Norm.

Mole Patrol

Norm's Notes 15.

Apparently we have a Mole in the garden!

Today we have mostly been looking for him.

Did you hear Something?

No nothing there!

Look behind you!!!!!

XOXO Norm.