This is just a quick post to share the card I have just finished! It is similar to a scrapbook layout that I made! Its a beautiful little cut file from Miss Kates Cuttables!!!

I am not a massive scrapbooker, I have made a few smaller pages and I have also made a few digital scrapbook pages but I decided that it was time to start scrapbooking a bit more! I take soooo many photos of my baby that it seems a shame that they are just sat on my computer not being used!!! My first proper layout is an Easter Layout and I have used the Treasure Box Designs Easter Train! It is just so cute I totally love this cut! I am now using my Cameo far far more than my Cricut at the moment so everything that I have cut has been done with the Cameo! The base of the layout is DCWV texture cardstock not that you can see it as its covered! The cloud paper is a digital paper I found lurking on my PC, the spotty grass is DCWV and the plain grass is also DCWV ( I really love DCWV wish it was easier to get here in the UK ) almost all the elements that have been cut are from DCWV with the exception of the chick!!! After alot of inking ans stitching I am really pleased with the final result!!! All I need to do now is add the piccies!!!

I really love making Mother's Day cards! I have only made a few this year but this is my fav as I have used alot of yellow which I never really use and I think the end result it lovely, it's so bright and happy! The base of the card is cut from the Wild Card cartridge using my cricut, the MUM topper is from the silhouette store and cut using my Cameo machine. The cream and yellow flowers were purchased from Hobbycraft and the lilac flower I made myself!

I ran a facebook competition for Stacey's World, the winner would receive a free card for sharing my facebook page! A winner was chosen and she requested an Easter card for her niece! I never make Easter cards so it was such a lovely change. I have been hanging onto these Easter papers by DCWV for ages, this just goes to prove my theory to my husband that eventually everything will have a use!!! I used an 8"x8" scalloped card base and set to work stitching the layers together using my new John Lewis blue mini sewing machine ( which I love ) I also used my cricut and the Mickey Font cartridge for the lettering! The chipboard bunny was also from DCWV and I finished off with 3 gems from a bit of bling! I am really pleased with the end result and it was such a lovely colour palette to work with!

I haven't blogged in over a year!!! I was busy having a baby!!! He is almost 1 now and this past year has just flown by!!! I am hoping to put a bit more time back into my blog but we will see how it goes as my little man keeps me uber busy!!! I haven't made many cards over the last year but I have managed to do a bit of digi scrapbooking, its mess free and I can do it wherever I am. Hope you like!

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!!!!

Well I have finally launched my online shop!!!! My wonderful husband has worked very hard to get it just the way I want it!!! All I need to do now is fill it!!! I have a few bits on there so far but it's got a way to go!!! But I am most excited about my very first digital stamp!!! Her name is Buttons!!! She is on the cute side of macabre shall we say!!! I love love love her and connot wait to get creating with her!!! She is the first in a long line of images to come from Stacey's World but here she is. . .




She is only £1.49 so pop over to www.staceyworld.co.uk !!!

Just want to make this quick, here are a few pics of the mother's day cards I have been making using the wild card cart!!!

I was in work the other day when I received an email from Steadtler Hong Kong!!! I was super surprised to learn that they wanted to use some of my pictures on their official Steadtler Hong Kong facebook page!!! They have used 3 of my projects. . . a cupcake bracelet, a pair of cookie earrings and my Twilight inspired apple necklace!!! Just though I would pop a link here for all to see x x x

My Fimo

I have been a busy bee trying to get ahead of myself for Mother's Day! I need a few cards for personal use ( I always send my dad a mother's day card as he looked after me and my brother when my mum left ) and a few others but I also try to sell a few card here and there to fund my habit!!! I have made a few with the same sort of concept in mind, this helped me to get quite a few cranked out in one go! The cards are just a bit bigger than C6 and are both black bases. The one card has a silver mirror card layer with a bazzill card layer which is matt and gloss stripes! Onto the bazzill card I have stitched a lace border and I have stitched a ruffle ribbon border which I have fallen in love with thanks to a video over at my pink stamper!!! I have added a handmade fimo rose and some gems for a bit on bling! To fonish off the fron of the card I have used Don Juan amd cut the word MUM, I have given it a pink shadow and 2 black layers for lots of dimension then added 2 more gems for effect!

The second card has a piece of card from my minds eye stiched onto a piece of plain white card this has been attached to the black card base! I have used my new favourite stitching technique ruffle ribbon along with another lace border! I have finished this section of the card with some paper flowers and attached them with a brad from american crafts to a card flower that i have cut with the big shot!!! Again this card had the gems and the MUM layered wording. the inside of both cards consists of a pattern card with a white layer stitched onto it!

Although I have ended up with some similar cards ( only 2 pics here but I have more ) I am pretty pleased with them. i think that I might use this method more often as I find that I am quite unproductive at times!!! Too busy thinking about the next card before I finish what I am working on!!! Naughty stacey x x x

I have been let loose with the pink card!!! I Got to make some valentines cards this week and here are my efforts... The love bug is from create a critter and the elephant is from the paisley cart!!! Both cards are A5 in size! the embossing folder is papermania and the pattern paper is a DCWV download!!!!