Finally, I'm back

It has been so long since my last post, but I kind of lost my mojo for a while - still having difficulty, I sit down and the ideas just don't seem to come, I blame the fact that the new series that have started on Watch are just sooo good - have you seen Grimm and Alcatraz?!

Anyway, whilst sitting watching telly the other day, I had the idea for this card, the layout is sort of the Sketch Saturday layout from this week, and I'm really proud of this card as it is one for the boys, which are always more difficult, the image is a Mo Manning digi (so lovely!) and I've used my speccies to colour it in, the papers I've had forever and the alphabet stamps are from a set I unburied and I've had but not used for at least 6 years! (bad isn't it?).

Speaking of finding stuff, as I was digging through stuff, I found a whole load of images that I've already got stamped, some are my own and others were given to me in swaps, however I cannot believe they are just sat there, I even found a whole load of images that are not only stamped, but are even ready coloured!!!  Okay so quite a lot of them are Christmas images, but even so I really need to just sit down and use these images.  It's also given me the idea that I could just stamp out a whole load of images and when my mojo is lacking I could sit and colour so that when the mojo returns I can get on with cards a lot quicker.  The Boys Toys card took about an hour and a half to make, but most of that time was spent colouring the image.

Anyway, hope you like, and hopefully I will be back slightly sooner with some more cards - need to, I've agreed to do a craft fair with my buddy Alison.

TTFN

Testing

OMG I think I've finally got this working - please excuse if I don't do a big explanation of this card, but just being able to share is amazing!




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Finally a card

Well, it's been a long time since I made a card - have to say this Christmas was not the best what with my mother in law passing away and my daughter finally discovering that Santa doesn't exist, you can imagine the disappointment that caused! (though she does still want a stocking every year. Anyway, as a result of all of this, I haven't made a card in ages (& managed to delete one of my blog posts by mistake)

 Not even sure if this post will publish so going to keep it brief - hope you like

It didn't post - had to switch on the laptop (hey ho), sorry for the quality of the picture, I used the camera on the Ipad in the anticipation that I would be able to post that way.

Sorry!

I can't believe it's been nearly a month since my last post and also nearly a month since I last switched on my laptop - but I do love my IPad!

I have been making things, and I've been spending lots of pennies, mainly on Crafters Companion products - have become quite obsessed with their products, but they are so good and such good value, it's difficult not to.

One of the CC things I bought (well, several) was the Snowman products, all of them, CD's and stamps, they are fab, so fab in fact that I had to use them to make something really special.  So armed with a tutorial that Sara Davies did on the CC forum during birthday week, I made 24 individual slider boxes and then stuck them all together and created this.  I've wanted to do one of these for ages but until I saw the tutorial (using the ultimate pro) I didn't know how to make the slider boxes, but they are soo easy, it was great.  All of the papers used on the advent calendar are from CC as well, and of course the gorgeous snowmen stamps, and to top it off, I used my CC Spectrum Noirs to colour the images.

I have so much more to show you, but I will have to save that for another day - hopefully not so long next time!  I'm going to enter this card into the Crafters Companion Monthly Challenge, which this month is 'Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow'.

No Card today

Well, so far this week I've made nothing, not a bean - not even finished colouring in Humphrey, so I've nothing new to show, so I thought I'd put up the photos of my Exeter stash:

I spent soooo much money, but I had a lovely day and made a snowman out of the strangest clay I've ever played with (called jumping clay and you can find it here).  I even got to meet and talk to Stephanie Weightman at the end of the day, she was so lovely to talk to and very kindly let me have my photo taken with her.

Anyway, hopefully I will be able to get in a crafty weekend and will have some bits and pieces to show you soon (must get out those inks - forgot I'd bought them!).

World Cardmaking Day

Sorry for being a bad blogger - did try and post this via my IPad, but will have to investigate better how to get it to work as some of the buttons don't seem to like the IPad (hey ho).

I am really loving Crafters Companion products at the moment and this latest card is a case in point, the image and papers are from their The Snowman CD, the sparkle on the snowman (if you can see it) is from the spray and sparkle iridescent and the sentiment is one of the snowman stamps.  I turned it into an easel card so that it will stand up (and stand out) on the craft table I'm sharing at my friend Alison's charity breakfast tomorrow.

Anyway, short blog post today - hope you like the card and I'm entering this into the Crafters Companion World Cardmakers Day challenge.

Gilding Flakes

Well, when I went to Exeter last week I bought some gilding flakes and glue and skootchy sponge - I've wanted to have a go with these for ages, and I really wasn't disappointed, they are FABULOUS!!!

Very short post as I want to go and watch some telly, the stamps are Inkadinkadoo with simple matting & layering - hope you like & back soon (off to catch Holby City).