Happy Mothers' Day to all those Mummies out there.

Here are a few ideas for those of you who may be looking for last minute ideas.


1. Is a card I made for a commission, who specifically wanted a picture of lilac on it. I found this on a free image website, printed it out twice and layered it up with foam pads. The background and circular message was made on the PC in Word.

2. Was done using my Cricut with the Wild Card cartridge and Design Studio to weld the frame and Happy Mothers Day message together. Then I cut some flowers (cant remember which cart) and a butterfly and its shadow from the Home Accents cart. The flower and butterly both have a layered look and are 3D.

3. Was a rose from the same image website as before, done the same way with foam pads. The background and circular message are the same. The rose was stuck onto a piece of home made silk paper which I found in my stash.

4. Was just a simple little card. A circular message stuck onto a couple of girant purple Heidi Swapp flowers, little gem hearts are stuck in the corner, and the edge is punched before sticking onto the base card.

I see a repetitive theme here, think I may have a thing for purple?

and the answer is.... you get rid of a load of it and you put the rest in a cupboard!

Well the re-furb is done. The friends are wonderful and I owe them biggest big time ever.

This I am ashamed to say is the scraphovel before the refit. As you can see it was rightly called the hovel. There was barely room to swing a cat, let alone have me and three kids in there scrapping (which happens when the nephew and neices come over).

Mon to Wed. - P and K cleared my room while I was at work.
Thursday - Lil' brov and I brought the flooring and paint stuff and generally took advantage of his staff discount at the DIY store. Then K and I painted.
Friday - P laid the laminate flooring.
Saturday - day off I was at the theatre (which I'll tell you about later)
Sunday - Lil' bruv and I went to Ikea to buy desks, got home and found we had the wrong legs!
Monday - Go to Ikea with K and get the legs changed, buy another unit and a couple of funky things to go on the walls. Put the legs on the desks and get PC up and working again. Yay!
Tuesday - K comes round to help build units, but does most of it cos she is a hero, and I feel crappy.
Wednesday - Start putting stuff back into the former scraphovel, oh look I have a bedroom floor!
Thursday - Finish clearing bedroom, can't clear everything out of the landing cupboard as I seem to have less storage now. Get everything in and straight-ish
Friday - Yay get to play! Have lost my voice with the aforementioned crappyness.

There is still sorting to be done, but that can happen gradually when I feel like it. Everything is up and working again though. I love P & K and Lil' bruv.

Here is the end result. Isn't it lovely?

Now I can sit in my beautiful ex-scraphovel, and create some lovely things to show you all.

Maybe.

Well the crop came and went, and so did another one. I did make a couple of LOs but mostly made Mothers' Day cards. So where are the piccies I hear you cry? Well the camera has them but the camera and half my scraphovel is currently in bags and boxes around the house. My very dear bestest friend (give me 10/10 for grovelling) is coming to pack the rest up for me over the next couple of days.

Then.... insert drum roll.....

We are finally going to paint this baby, maybe re-cover the flooring (which it really needs) and get some new furniture. So hopefully by the time I get to blog again, I will be able to show you the before and after photos.

Trouble is, how do you get so much cr*p into such a small room (its only 2 x 3.5 meters) without it looking like it does now?!

"Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life." ...Steve Jobs (co-founder of Apple).

I thought that was an interesting quote, since that's kind of what we are all doing by writing and reading each others blogs, (well I know 4 of you read this one sometimes).

Anyway I digress, I am off to one of my monthly crops tomorrow. I really love the two crops I go to, it's a day out with friends and I get uninterrupted crafting time.

But...

The packing up and deciding what to take is terribly stressful. I can't take all my stash with me, so I need to decide what I am going to work on and take what I need (which inevitably never happens as friend K will witness).

So far I have nothing prepared and nothing packed up. I need to print photos, find papers and embellies, cut titles etc.

But...

I am sat here blogging and reading blogs, I've had a little nose on a ng I frequent, and I'm listening to music.

Why?????

Answers on a postcard please.

Ok I'm going to do it now, I promise :-)

I am easily excited. It doesnt take much.

A trip to Ikea. A new Expedit bookcase. Meatballs and chips for tea. A grand total of four followers on my blog! You see what I mean?

My brother and I ventured to our local Ikea last night to get me an Expedit while they were still half price. The idea is that I am going to clear out and refurbish my scraphovel but thats a way off yet, so the Expedit is a big brown cardboard monolith lurking over me in my bedroom. Hmm maybe I should 'alter' it?

Hope it doesnt fall over in the night and squish me!

Mothers' Day is coming up.

I guess I had better work out a couple of cards for the boys at work who will forget, and hope I can save them at the last minute.

This is a bunch of flowers I made for my Mum last year when she was in hospital and wasn't allowed to have real flowers. She isnt with us now, but these sit on my desk and still look just as bright and cheerful.

The vase was a baby food jar covered in patterned tissue paper. The flowers are cut on the Cricut using Accent Essentials cart, then stuck either side of the stalks using foampads. You could use gardening wire or something like that for the stalk, I was lucky I found an old green cane decoration in the pound shop that I chopped up. The centres of the flowers are metallic stickers from Paperchase.

Welcome to my blog.


I've been told I should have one - so here it is, and since it needed a name, I came up with Serendipity (as in happy accident) and Paper cuts (cos thats mostly what I do).

I use my Circut mostly but have been known to break out a scalpel or pair of scissors now and then to chop up paper into little bits and stick them back together again. When I put it like that it seems kind of pointless, but you all know thats not true, right?

Here is a little taste of things to come. This is a card I made for valentines day last week. The inside says "not stupid".

The words were welded together and also welded to the back of the card, using Design Studio. The pale pink is a vellum liner I made so I had something to stick "not stupid" without it showing through the holes in the front.

I hope the recipient found it as funny as their other half and I did.