Where have I been!!!

 Hi thanks for all of you have stuck with me  and I hope that you are all healthy and well.  I have been having a really busy time this last couple of years, which is why I have been absent.

My husband and I have fostered children for over 20 years but a couple of years ago we decided that we were going to wind down.  I had a full time teaching job and having troubled teens was getting harder as we were getting older.  We decided that we would do the last few years fostering younger children so we took a three sibling placement two girls aged 6 and 2 and a baby boy aged 10 months.  The social services had no option than to go for a full care order in the end and were worried that if they couldn't find adoptive parents for the group or the would split them up once one of the girls turned 7.  

I had looked after these kids for 10 months at this point and I was devastated at this news.  Anyway to cut a long story short and a lot of soul searching we took all three of them on and we are now their official special guardians until they reach adulthood with court given parental responsibility for their care and any decisions regarding their future, they are effectively our children now and call us mummy and daddy.

There are some days when I think I must have mad as a hatter to do this given that we are both the wrong side of our mid 50s but I really could not imagine life without them now.

I will be having hip replacement surgery soon (I hope) an I worry about how my husband will cope but I know we will mange some how.

They have been with us for over two years now, and we love them all so much and our 31 year old son finally has the siblings that he longed for, obviously we involved him in our decision even though he has a family of his own (we have grandchildren older than our trio).

    

I still craft when time allows and I do hope that I will get back to making crafting videos sometime in the future.  I have been getting to grips with vinyl and sublimation crafts as I have got to grips with my Cricut Maker.  I still use my scan n cut but mainly for cutting out stamped images these day.  I got fed up with price of the new mats and you can't get economically viable dupes for the cricut.

These are my most recent makes 

I have taken early retirement from teaching so I can concentrate on raising these three children with my husband.  I thought I would miss my job because I loved teaching, but to be honest Ive never been happier (well if I could get rid of the arthritic hip pain).

Please post below the crafts etc that you might like me to do if I get the chance and I will see what I can do.  Take care and keep crafting!

Its been a while

 I haven't been creating much recently, but I am hoping to ease back into it slowly.  

I just felt that it was all getting a bit much, working full time a as teacher and with covid 19.

I decided that after recovering from covid and then viral meningitis, I needed to take things a bit easier and cut down my workload.

Whilst I know that many of you understand that I only produce videos and files for fun and to service my fellow crafters not to make any monetary gains.  I was a bit put out that some where leaving negative comments, which I found astounding.

Anyway enough of that I have a thick skin usually and don't let things get to me.

I have produced a file (no video), to make a card for a family member and posted on FB and some of you were interested, so here it is ready for you to download. SVG

Enjoy with my compliments, please do not distribute, copy or sell my files.

Thanks Beverleigh 10

teddy elf placeholders

 As promised here are my teddy elf placeholders.  Too late for this year but could be used next year or change the colours up and you could make them into another theme.

Link to cutting file and the SVG file.

Please don't sell my files.

Thanks 

Beverleigh 10

New Burnley Fan

As many of you are aware my son lives in The Newcastle area 

We recently celebrated the birth of our second grandson Theo Allie.

We are nailing his colours to the mast early here’s a photo of him with our Jack. 

Inlaid rose butterfly design

This is a pretty design that can be cut in an array os sizes to suit any of your projects.
This is how the file came out:

If you wish to use the same butterfly and rose as me you can find them by clicking the link and downloading, butterfly here and rose here.

If you want to learn how to create the file then please visit my You Tube channel here:

where I have a video that's walks you through the process step by step.

If you don't have the time or the inclination to create your own file then feel free to download and use it from here.  Please do not sell my files or claim them as your own, I would appreciate it if you credit me with their creation, as I am trying to build my blog and You Tube channel and just pooping along to the link and liking the the video by giving a thumbs up.

It's disheartening when people do not recognise how much work goes into to making these files.

Thanks in advance you can download the file in FCM format here and SVG format here.

Happy crafting love Beverleigh 10

Geometric backdrop for projects

This one is a lot of fun ad you could adapt to use different shapes.  If you want to learn how to do it then watch the video on my You Tube Channel here: 

This is what the file looks like:

and here are two projects that I have made using the file:

If you would like the file for free then you can download, then you can download the file here in SVG  and FCM here.

Hope that you will have fun with these.

As always please do not sell any of my files but feel free to download and make and sell your own projects.  I would just caution that some of the fonts and images that I use are free for personal use only, so you might want to double check before selling.

Please tell your friends where to find me and thanks for your continued support.

Happy crafting love from Beverleigh 10 xxx

welcome baby card

Hi this is a card that was mostly created on the scan n cut.  I am offering this as a free download to my blog followers.

I think he is so cute:

I hope that you like it you can download the file in SVG format  and FCM format.

If you watch my video I show you some great pens that can be used on the scan and cut to draw with.

Please do not sell my files, but feel free to download and use them in your own projects.  I'd appreciate it if you followed my blog and subscribe to my You Tube channel too.

thanks for your support 

Enjoy and Happy Sunday crafting.

Love from Beverleigh 10