One of my fav cricut cuts is the scallop card from Wild Card. I use it quite a bit!!! Here I have used a spring green gingham glitter card to make my nuts about you valentines day card!!! The squirrel is from Create a Critter, my second fav cart I think as everything on there is just so bloody cute!!! I have cut him out and given him lots or shading with a brown ink pad, then I have adorned the left hand side of the card with some paper flowers, a rosette made using the Tim Holtz die and some butterflies!!! The card is a similar design to my mother's day cards from last year!!!

Here are the rest. . . as you can see I am huuuuuge now and can't fit behind the wheel of my car anymore he he!!! But not long left now!!!

We started taking pictures a bit later into my pregnancy as you could only really see my normal belly which nobody really needs pics of lol!!! Anyway here are the first few we took with my hubbys phone x

I have been out of the craft room and into the kitchen over the past few days. I have been trying a few new things. I wanted to try to improve my cupcake decorating a bit beyond slapping buttercream on top. my first decorating venture was to make a cupcake that looked like a flower, now I had some help from Youtube, I found a fab tutorial!!! The coloured sugar I made myself as I am having trouble driving at the moment as my baby bump isn't fitting behind the wheel lol!!! Also I have tried quite a few times to make french macarons and failed totally, however today was my day, I got a new recipe and I was determined not to be beaten by these tiny french treats. My determination worked and here are just a few of them. I filled some with a homemade coconut and chocolate ganche, some are filled with whipped cream and most are filled with the new Cadburys Philadelphia spread and whipped cream!!! They have turned out to be delicious but I have found you cannot just eat one!!! The pics have been taken with hubby's phone as it is too dark not to get a good shot so he made them look funky with an app on his phone x

Well it's a new year and I have alot to look forward to this year!!! I am just over 6 weeks away from having a baby boy which my husband and I are super excited about. We have decorated his little room and we are all stocked up on baby essential, not going to go as far as to say we are prepared as I am pretty sure we are in for a huge shock but it's one we cannot wait for!!! I seem to be rather lacking in the nesting dept however, so thought I would take this opportunity not only to join in on WOYWW but also to show you all the shamefull state that my craft room has gotten into!!! Back last year we moved my craft romm to the middle sized room in the hope that more space wouls mean more organisation. . . all it really menat was that I had more room to buy more things!!! Then we got pregnant and crafting fell to the bottom of my to do list. I think that if I dont get it sorted this week then the chances are we will have to seal it shut and stick a biohazard sticker on the door!!! So the aim is to be back here by next wednesday with a nice tidy craft desk and room for that matter!!! Here are the awful pics in question. . . WISH ME LUCK!!!

I found these awesome plastic teeth a while ago and I have been wondering what I could use them for. I totally forgot I had them until I was looking for something to finish off a card. I decided that I could use them to make super cute keyrings and team them with some of my fimo sweets. I have called them Sweet Toof, was toying with calling them Toof decay but they are too cute to be bad for you!!!

Without question Christmas is my favourite time of the year!!! I cannot wait until next year when I will have my first Christmas as a Mum!!!!!! But this Christmas will still be pretty cool. For the last 5 years I have done the big family thing which is always nice but this year I want to do Christmas my way so I am hosting it at my house and we are having my brother and his girlfriend and our best friends so I am super excited! To get me in the festive mood I have made a pretty good start on my christmas cards so here are my 8 x 8 cards to start with . . .








The swirl tree is one of my fav cricut xmas cuts, it is just so stunning it really needs very little adding to it and the snowflakes well whats to say I love snowflakes!!!

Well it has been a busy busy few months for me and as a result my poor blog has suffered terribly!!! I found out a few months back that I am pregnant, after a few years of trying my husband and I were over the moon!!! For the first few weeks I couldn't even think about crafting as all that was whizzing 'round my head was babies babies babies!!!! Then when I finally rejoined planet earth the dreaded morning sickness beckoned, I was so ill that I had to be admitted to hospital to be rehydrated! All that is over and done with now and me and baby are getting along much better!!! I found out last week that we are having a baby boy, and he has recently started whizzing around and kicking like mad, and each kick just feels amazing!!! Wea re going to call him Hunter Nicholas Halabuda and i am pretty sure he is going to be a swimmer going by how much he loves to swim around at the moment lol!!!

Here is a pic of Hunter's foot from the scan we had last week, and the other pic is from the scan I had when I was in hospital, it was earlier than normal so he is tiny x

The greeting was discovered by a friend of mine on facebook after many clues!!! Now I was not going to give away many clues but due to his constant awful guesses I had to help!!! He did not get the card however it was given to another facebooker!!! Next time I will ban him for participation lol !!! There will be another competition shortly and it will run a bit longer!!!

The card is made using the create a critter cart which I just love. I cut Captain Tentacle out and embossed him and plonked him onto some Karen Foster pirate paper!! Add some stitching and some distressing along with a computer generated greeting an we are done!!! It is now available on my shop www.staceysworld.co.uk

I have decided to have a competition!!! Just a little bit of fun!!! If you can guess the missing greeting them you can win this card!!!! No limits on how many times you enter!!! The first person to get it right wins!!! Simples!!!!