Todays Demo cards

I was demoing at Crafts U Love and had fun using the paint palettes, Hero Arts christmas cat, dog and giraffe stamps and the fun Pixle and Pookie stamps from Stampendous. Also added doodlebug papers, white fun flock, glitter and a few other bits and pieces.

Had a lovely day there, lots of people to say Hello to, faces I recognise and friends popping in too. After that reality check with a trip to Tesco to get the food shopping. Came home to a bomb site!! wasnt expecting much more.... Did I tell you what time my husband got in last night? Hmmmm I expect he felt bad all day, not bad in that he shouldnt have got in late, I mean bad hungover bad!

Watched Ugly Betty last night... wasnt expecting that at the end! :(

Here are the cards.

Check out Stamping Bella

Em is celebrating world cardmaking day with 2 new bellas - one she has shown the other not yet and she has also show off two beautiful flowers, some words AND she will be shipping POSTAGE FREE for today and until midnight tomorrow! This includes us UK and International too :) The new Bella is too cute for winter cards. Go here to see it

Kreations by Krissy now open

Another shoppers announcement - Kreations by Krissy is open for business and you can get ther fab Hanna stamps from here. They are offering FREE SHIPPING - yes EVEN TO US IN THE UK for the Month of October - order now and tell her you saw them here :)

These stamps look great.... did I order... Hmmm guess you might find out one day. (or not) LOL

Stampin up! UK website is online!!

The day many of have been waiting for has come! Check out their website www.stampinup.com and go to UK site. Catalogue isnt online so no idea on prices. All the relivent forms are online BUT you are told not to send in before 9th November.

I can not wait, this is going to be my christmas pressie. ;0)

Expression Tutorial

OK, this is a bad tutorial, but I was in such a rush for a few reasons, 1/ both boys were asleep and 2/ my camera batteries about to die!

Paula (see UK blog list) showed me the other day how to make a 6 x 6 envelope using the Cricut Expression machine using a piece of 12 x 12 card and the 12 x 24 mat. Ordinarily you can not make a 6 x 6 out of a 12 x 12 but with this clever paper placement you can.

You will need

1/ Expressions Machine - Crafts U Love is a great place for them

2/ 12 x 24 Mat - Again you can get these from Crafts U Love

3/ Piece of 12 x 24 paper if possible

4/ 12 x 12 paper

5/ Plantin Schoolbook cartridge that came with your expression.

OK for starters Paula suggests cutting the envelope on the big mat with a piece of 12 x 24 - this just helps with the placement of the paper, but you should be able to judge the placement even from these bad photos.

So here I have cut the envelope. 12 x 24 mat must be selection, FIT TO PAGE, ROLY POLY function - here we have a 6 x 6 (just over) envelope

Take the green away. You can either now use the outside of the cut out as a guide for the paper or as I did I looked at the mat where the image has just scratched the outline of the envelope and place the paper. I will draw some lines with a permanent pen to show me where I place the paper for next time, not across the whole mat, just the very top and the side bits where it is not sticky.

Now you need to cut the side that are overlapping away. I very crudely did it in the next picture and I stuck the mat in the machine.

Now remember to tell your machine you have 12 x 24 mat in there and let it assume there is a full sheet of paper. FIT TO PAGE, ROLY POLY. and you will get a 6 x 6 or very close (slightly bigger) envelope.

Thanks to Paula for experimenting with, I would have never thought to do this but am so pleased she did as 6x6 is my preferred card size. BTW Paula your directions home were fab, lot more straight forward than they way I got there!! :0) Hope the boys didnt leave you with too much tidying and WOW your studio is lovely, no scrap that, your house is lovely!

Guess what I found the other day.

Looking through my big bedroom cupboard I found a big box full of stampin up sets! There was me thinking "woe is me, I only have 40 ish sets" and I found another 20 or so!! Whoo Hoo How did I forget having them :)

Busy day today so not sure I will have any cards to share :( Just made a yummy macaroni cheese for tea YUM! Caiden sleeping and I am off to pick H up shortly.

Another cutie

Another cute House Mouse stamp, well actaully its a Happy Hopper stamp. These two little bunny friends are going to a fancy dress party and decided Bees would be a fun theme, I have to agree they are too cute! For these I used some watercolour paints, only the second time I used them so pleased they turned out OK, I got them from crafts u Love and I am sorry blogger is playing up and doing me head in! sometimes it just play up with spacing ect http://www.craftsulove.co.uk/paints.htm see link here, its the top item, the palette, how very cute! They sent me one as I am demoing them Saturday so I thought I had better practise! I used them with my waterbrush as I dont own a decent normal paintbrush. Not bad for second attempt! Oh and nearly forgot but Kitty has this cute little stamp in stock at http://www.firstclasscrafts.co.uk/ so dont miss it, they are hopping out quickly!

B47 ;0)

Grrrrrr I need to moan

I just noticed Royal Mail are planning two 48 hour strikes, one starts Thursday and the other I think it said Monday..... So post is going to be right up the creek without a paddle for a good while Dont they know us crafters need our fixes regularly??

Moan over, thanks.

Awww isnt it cute?

I have mentioned before I love House Mouse, I have a lot and havent used them for a while, when I made a few cards a few weeks back it rekindled my love for them and I got a few more from First Class Stamps Here is the first card I managed with them.

These little guys are going to sleep well tonight arent they? Lavendar having a calming, soothing effect.

I have as always kept it simple and let the main image take the full lime light. Coloured with pencils, white card was cuttlebugged, zoomz were added as decoration. Thanks for looking!

Now for some chatter.... roll on Friday! why? Ugly Betty is coming back and I am SOOOO EXCITED! I loved the first series and cant wait for it :) Husband is pleased as I think he said Spooks was coming back and Heroes too. The winter is great for vegging infront of the TV.

Bellas Bellas everywhere

Just a quick note any UK readers www.firstclasscrafts.co.uk have bellas in stock! including the new sweetiebella  and other new ones!! Give her a call to see what she has :)

 

 

1st October!! YIPPEEE

This month is the month we are supposed to be hearing a little more about SU coming over to the UK!! I can not wait!! WHOO HOO! I have two blogs set up, if you are wanting a SU rep then I can join up to one of them :) There you can learn about all things SU, Stamp Camps and offers. The other is for people that will want to sign up as a rep and want the back up of having a person to sign under rather than just the company. We will be having our own exclusive stamp camps too :) for us to discuss all things SU, what works for a party, what doesnt ect and above all else have a play!

Another wall frame made yesterday

After finishing my coaster hanging I was inspired to decorate a frame that I have had hanging about for ages. I have one of these on the wall with pictures of Harvey and his name in chipboard it much more simple. This one I went to town on, lots of bits and bobs used to make it. This frame is BIG, to get an idea the size the background paper is 12 x 12, yep, a full sheet! and then there is another 6" to the left of the paper.

OK here is what I used : Cricut Plantin Schoolbook card for words, Doodlecharms for bugs, 12 x 12 paper and card. The photo is 8 x 10 I believe, Prima flowers and Doodlebug Jewels used for the centres of flowers (who says boys cant have flowers?) Zoomz on the bugs shells.

I love it, its something like a memory page but better still you can see it all the time :) I am definately going to spend more time on making things like this :)

I hope you are liking my "out of my box" creations. Its fun to try different things sometimes.

I am pondering on adding the words either "forever" or "always" to the bottom of the frame in the opposites attract font.... might look cute :)