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For ideas, inspiration and tutorialsSorry ladies its been a while since I have posted anything to my blog but my health has been suffering. As some of you know I have severe anemia at the moment which is leaving me rather tired and lifeless which hasn't gone down to well with my arthritis and other problems, therefore I haven't done any crafting to post on my blog to share with you.This weekend I perked up a little bit as Amy came back to visit from Uni, we haven't seen each other for over a month and she's really hard to tie...
Christmas
is catching up upon us really fast. For my workshop this evening the hostess asked if we could make gift card holders for her make and take, these are becoming very popular especially when buying for teenagers..... I used the Scandinavian Season Stampset, this set has slowly grown on me since being added to the new idea book & catalogue. I wanted to stay with traditional colours so I used - Old Olive, Whisper White cardstock and inks. I have decorated the tree with some Dazzling Diamonds...
WOW!!!!!!!
What a fab time I had at convention despite the awful weather we had. Shaz and I arrived about lunch time on Thursday and decided to take a little walk, the heavens just opened and we gotsoaked.......but I managed to find this to duck into to keep dry....Fancy travelling all that way and finding an old fashioned telephone box. I had an early night as I wanted to be up early ready for registration on Friday morning and to trade my card swaps. We had some really good speakers after our lunch...
more card swaps
This is the second batch of cards I made for the swap and I was pleasently surprised at how the colour combination went really well together and looks clean and fresh.The stamp set is Garden Whimsy and I stamped the sentiment in Basic Gray and the images in Certainly Celery.I popped some Whisper White card stock through a cuttlebug folder before matting it onto a Basic Gray card base. After matting the sentiment on to some Certainly Celery card stock I edged this with some Basic Gray cardstock...
Card swaps………
Stampin' Up! is holding their first ever European Convention, and I'm really excited at actually being able to go. I'm looking forward to actually putting faces to names on our forum, meeting the staff from HQ especially Chris and Eileen and of course demonstrators from France and Germany.In preperation for this some of us have been busy beavering away making card swaps to build up our bank of ideas of how to use different stamp sets. So today I'm going to share my first batch of cards with...
Sparkling Christmas…….
Over at Shaz's last night we made this fabulous desk calander and matching cards. Using one of my favourite Stampin' Up! Christmas stamps Silent Night.We used Aqua Painters to colour the image before adding Dazzling Diamonds using Heat and Stick (yes I was allowed to use the glitter but only outside as I love to bathe in it....LOL)I think that I may be making a few of these as gifts this year.
New home
Over on the Stamp shack we have been taking it in turns to host a variety of different challanges for others to play along with, this week it was my turn. I didn't want to do a reciepe, colour or sketch I wanted to do something different then I thought about the stamps I had laying around that rarely get used, yes I know you all must have one or two that are hidden away but not forgotten. So I came up with the challange to use a "roller" stamp either as the main focal point (like my sample) or...
This has to be my favourite layout of the weekend.Suzzane added a paper "Dollie" to our weekend challange kit and I thought what the heck am I going to do with that........ after looking through the photographs that I had with me and in my box of papers that I had left from old layouts, I deceided to ink it up with a creamy brown ink pad and came up with this layout. The photograph is from my neighbours Hindu wedding cermony it was a wonderful experience.
Well we're nearly straight the carpet is being layed this morning then its just the part of putting all the furniture back.I just wanted to share these scrapping pages with you they are from a couple of the challanges that Suzzane arranged for us at the retreat. I had great fun doing these!!!!!!!!!
another 2 layouts
as promised I said I would share some more scrap booking pages with you from the weekend, especially as I'm still up the ladder painting.....
Firstly I must apologize for being a bad blogger these past couple of weeks, you now how it goes and I haven't been able to do much crafting either except at the weekend I went away on a Scrapping retreat with the ladies from the "Golden Green" crop that I attend. I had a brillant time and did loads of scrapping, so my posts over the next few days will be of layouts that I finished whilst there as my darling husband is decorating the living room and needs an assistant...LOL. Here are two...
Fab time……….
What a fabulous time I had on Saturday meeting up with people for the second year running....... it was a shame not all of you could make it though....maybe next time roundDee let us try metal embossing I really enjoyed it (wont tell hubby though he'll just moan at expense lol), Trudy and Joanne showed us how to make a domino box and gave us a domino to alter to place in it... and Sabina made her famous cookies........hubby said they were spot on!!! And me I held a mini workshop were everyone...
