Post Christmas sales

Well they don't wait till January now do they? Christmas day wasnt even over and the shops were announcing sales.

Well I resisted until yesterday and then gave in and went to Hobbycraft to see what goodies they had and if there were any bargains to be had.




And see what jumped into my basket? It was all alone on the shelf so I couldn't leave it there could I?

So today I have been playing with it. I really like it and think I might have to go back and get some more cards for it!



:-)



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The piccie is of some parcels I've wrapped using brown paper I stamped with snowflakes. I always fancied using stamped brown paper as giftwrap and did it this year.

Have a great Christmas everyone!




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Merry Christmas!

Gosh its over 6 months since I last blogged - how bad of me!

I have no particular excuse, its just between work, crafting and home there isnt a lot of time left in the day, particularly as I still quite like to sleep sometimes :-)

Anyway, as Christmas looms, I hope you all have a good time, however you spend it.

:-)

ally

Happy Birthday WOYWW

WOYWW is 1 today!

I had grand plans for a fabulous thing to decorate my office and commemorate the birthday, but sadly none of them got further than the darkest recesses of my mind (probably just as well for some of them). So instead, last night, I threw this little string of paper bunting together.

The papers are all made or rather sprayed by me, being off cuts of bigger bits I made with my glimmer mists. It doesnt show in the piccie, but they are lovely and pearly and sparkly. I have them hanging from the shelf unit over my desk.

So now I shall sit here with some loud music blaring, a glass of something cold and sparkly (lemonade) and browse some of the other birthday WOYWWs.

Happy WOYWW everyone, and thanks Mrs Dunnit for giving me an excuse to blog at least once a week.

:-)

WOYWW - again

Wow this has been going for very nearly a year. Who'd a thought it.

This is the glimpse of my hovel this week. There are some new additions - 2 packs of glimmer mist sets - yep they now come in little 1oz bottles in themed sets. I like the smaller size, much easier to use store and you get more colours for your money. I got 2 packs with some birthday pennies and have been spraying everything in sight.

The card is another fun rugbyheadedman digi stamp from my friend Amanda. We had a request to do a teddy boy and and Amanda came up with the goods for that and also threw in an Elvs impersonator which I couldnt resist blinging up with some stick on gems.


On the other half of the desk, stands a bottle of champagne (well methode tradicionale for the wine snobs) which I have decorated with ribbons, flowers and a big tag for a colleagues birthday tomorrow.



We have new neighbours at home too, so I need to go off and make them a welcome to your new home card now, so I have an excuse to go round and say hello.

Till next week....

:-)

WOYWW

Nothing particularly crafty on my desk today, its full of lovely cards and goodies, cos its my birthday.

I had a lovely load of cards, mostly edible pressies, which is somewhat worrying, and some money for crafty goodies. My brothers girl friend bought me a tin of krusty kreme donuts, and my best friend made cupcakes for me, most of which didnt survive the day but the box that one of them was in is very pretty.

On the other bit of the desk are some cards I made with one of the stamps I got at the flea sale at the weekend. I really love this stamp it looks gorgeous stamped in black on a fancy background. The backgrounds here were done with Tim Holtz Distress Inks and then sprayed with some glimmer mist. The darker spots are slate glimmer mist and the paler card has marshmallow glimmer mist which doesnt show in the photo.

The card just sneaking in on the left is also stamped onto a distressed ink background. Its a really old stamp that I was going to get rid of, but I think will have a new lease of life. It too looks good on the inked background and the lady on the stamp can be inked or coloured in copics and layered.

Hope you all had a good day too.

:-)

New Stash!

I was up early (for me) today. Sunday morning are my chance for a lie in but today, I was up and in Tidworth by 9.50 waiting eagerly outside Kraft Crazy for the Flea Sale to start.

By midday I was back home with a big bag of lovely new (to me) stamps to play with. I got a really nice selection and fab bargains too - which you can see here.

Since I also took along some of my old stamps and stuff to sell, it was a good opportunity for a clear out. I did take along a few things to sell, but I also found a few stamps I had forgotten about and have been inspired to play with again using techniques I have found since I last used them.

So a very good and creative weekend on the whole.

:-)