Cross fingers for a creative 2013

Happy 2013 to all my fellow crafters.

I was lucky enough to receive a Gelli Plate from my sons for my christmas present, and I finally found time to play, first I watched a couple of You Tube vids on How To and then I had a go myself.

This is my printed page, not my normal colours but I liked the contrast and brightness,

and then this is it finished, with a bit of letter love on it, some zentangling and doodling and two modesty plasters, LOL

Hope you like I really enjoyed it and cant wait to have another play, however work is calling, bah humbug.

I also received another lovely present, a Kindle Fire, I am an avid reader and wasnt sure that I would enjoy e books, but im beginning to convert, and have found so far its quite easy to get books at reasonable prices, 99p. Which is all good.

Can I ask people to please comment on my post if they view it, as I'm beginning to get a complex, LOL.

More Cards and playing with Bump

so I have been finishing off my xmas cards, first up are my cards for my three men

and then a straggler which didnt make the photos last time

and December is a busy month for birthdays, so here are my efforts, including using the bump stencil technique from Paper Artsy

still got to make my dads for xmas eve, gonna have a go using Kim Costello's Easter Promise from this months Craft Stamper, will let you see the results next time.

To everyone who reads my post, may you all have a joyous Christmastime with your loved ones

(whispers) helloooo

OMG its been a month since I posted, I have been busy doing bit and pieces for christmas and getting ready for hibernation, though from the state of my blog you would think I had already gone into hibernation.

i spy a few card toppers using Jo Capper-Sandon for Stampotique

and then a birthday card for my niece

just a taster of what ive been up to, i need to take some more photos.

here comes christmas . . .

Yup its less than 8 weeks to the big day.  Normally I would not be thinking so far ahead, but I was lucky enough to win my first ever Blog Candy from Paper Artsy, a set and a Mini from JoFY new Christmas stamps, so they have been sitting on my desk calling to me. Now I don't often buy new Christmas stamps as went so mad the first few years I was making cards, have enough to last me a lifetime . . LOL

So without further ado, here is selection of the cards I have made so far, all using the same stamp because I love it

 

 

It's been a while . .

Above is my nearly finished piece from a class I attended at the Craft Barn last Sunday with Sussex Girl, AKA Claire Boelema.  (Just need to varnish it)

The class was run by Andy Skinner, now I have some of his stamp sets but hadn't been to a class of his before. I really enjoyed it and finally after all these years and many attempts got image transfer to work, with Andy's tried and tested technique.

Now due to us creative luvvies not being able to decide what to do, choice of colours etc, we didn't manage to finish the piece on Sunday but had all the parts to do so at home.  So I have spent a happy week after work finalising various bits, loved Andy's technique for singing the edge of paper, unfortunately had to redraw the E on rejoice as it went up really quickly, LOL.  Also had a lovely picture to put in the hole but managed to ruin it, so had to search for a different image.  All in all a fabulous project a great class and some new techniques learnt.

Now this week I also had the luck to finally win some blog candy after many many years, I commented on JoFY new Christmas stamp range on Paper Artsy site, and won my choice of a mini and a set (Ichose the candle 08 and the hanging bauble set 06), cant wait to start creating with them for christmas, but still a wee bit early for me, maybe in two months time . .  LOL

So thanks for stopping by, hope all are well and enjoying crafty things.

MWAH !