Happy Birthday to meeeeeee!

Yup. It’s my birthday today, yippppppeeeeee! My first birthday as a mom, and only one more to go until the three-zero. {and i still act feel like a teenager}

I don’t have a lot planned for today, at least for me anyway – i have big plans for you guys. 🙂

Tomorrow we are going to a pirate costume party down by the river in Guildford, so i’m just finishing off some final touches to our costumes…more about that later!

To celebrate my birthday, i want to have a giveaway (well, two giveaways really!…read on). It’s going to be a mish mash of goodies from the craft stash, all packed into a box to ship off to a lucky person. I was going to take a photo but never quite got round to that…it’ll just have to be a surprise!

To be in with a chance of winning the first pressie, all I ask is you subscribe to our newsletter .In case you don’t already know – everyone who is already a newsletter subscriber will automatically be entered to all the Hungry Heffy Crafts giveaways. You gotta be in it to win it, as they say. 🙂

For an extra chance at being a winner, post the picture of my candy in your sidebar and add your name to the links below – simples!!! I’ll be picking a winner from everyone who spreads the word. This prize will be bigger and better-er, because we want you to tell your friends about HHC.

Winners will be picked a week from now, on Friday 2nd September and if there is no answer from the winners within 7 days, i’ll pick again.

(by the way, this is the first time i’m using inlinkz for a giveaway, fingers crossed it works)

Hi everyone,
This is the last of my layouts about my first month as a mumsy, in case you missed them, you can check out week 1, week 2 and week 3 here.

Its so weird looking back at these layouts, and its crazy how much I have already forgotten, i am just so glad that i have these little snippets immortalised in these pages.

This is the first page I made, and it’s Craig’s favourite. Once again I took inspiration from the wonderfully talented Nichol Magouirk. Love her style!

I used a technique tuesday stamp to emboss on vellum. I am LOVING this look by the way. It gives such a tactic feel to the page. I used my Stampa-ma-jig to make sure the words were (roughly) lined up. Oh, and i purposely started with Wednesday because my chicken was born on a Wednesday, so the start of this fourth week as a mom began on that day.

See those little tags peeking out? They were little titchy pieces of pattern paper hiding in my scraps box. Now they have a new life on this page. Sometimes with pretty papers i just cant throw them away no matter how small they are…especially that yellow paper which i loved – it is so bright and cheery, and sometimes its just kinda hard to find a nice yellow paper.

Hand written journaling for this one. Well, at least for the journaling which refers to Piper which i have cut intot journaling strips. For the bits of info about me for this week I typed up on the computer – can you see the wee box. I just made the pink border myself in photoshop.

Thanks for joining me as i scrapbooked this memorable journey of my new life as a mother. Its been five months now, and it really is amazing how much you pick up really quickly….

..and how much you just make up as you go along! heehee