and another one!!

Hello everyone! I hope you are having a good day. Had a small bit of sunshine but it's now all grey and threatening to rain again :-( I hope wherever you are things are a lot brighter.

I was so excited to use some of my new stamps that i've made another card already! I'm on a roll. I decided to use an 8x8 card as i've only got 3x3 and I feel really restricted with that size. I'll have to hunt down some 4x4 as I think that will suit me better. 

I have adored these two stamps for ages, so when auntie gave me some crafty spending money, I knew I had to get them. The magnolia paper is just too cute as well! I hope you like it. 

Magnolia and distress inks go so well together. It really relaxes me sitting there colouring/painting them.

I'm entering this card into the following challenges:

TOMIC- anything goes

I'm going round to mums to stay tomorrow night and to watch the football. COME ON ENGLAND!! I have to get excited about something football wise as I am a very unhappy Spurs fan right now, after they have got rid of Harry :-(  I do wish we could keep a manager for a good long spell to get some stability with the team and squad, but obviously it wasn't working between Levy and Rednapp. (sorry to non football fans who have phased out by now! lol)

I hope Ireland manage a miracle tonight and do over the Spanish, but unlikely. At least the Irish fans always look like they are having a great time.

Right, i'm off to make a quick thank you card for my auntie to take with me tomo, as she lives with my mum (as does my nanny-it's a full house!).

Thank you for any comments left, they are really appreciated as sometimes I feel that only other crafters really "get" card making. xxxxxxx

I've actually made a card!!

I know it's a shocker! lol I had to make a few cards for some birthdays this month, but have only finished this one so far. It's for my lovely 12 yr old cousin and was a good excuse to use some of my coloured images. I hope she likes it! 

(I need to re-adjust that bow to make it sit nicer)

I was so excited to get my glitterpot order with lots of yummy magnolia stamps. I will make my auntie a thank you card with some of them now.

It's lucky I'm a football fan and i'm loving having 2 games a day as it's keeping me sane while i've felt so nauseous and wiped out this week. I will go and colour some more of my new images this evening, while the next match is on.

I hope you are all having a good week and have been some of the lucky few to have sun today. I've not had much and we are expecting lots more rain on the weekend :-( Really getting me down as my house can be quite dark being north facing, so I pray we will soon have some summer.
Lots of love and enjoy your evenings xxx

I {HEART} DISTRESS INKS!

Hello everyone! I hope you have all had a good week. What crappy weather we've been having. I really do hope we have some much needed sunshine soon.
It's been the wettest drought I've ever known. People in Africa who really suffer, would dream of our "drought" !!


I've had Emily all this week as it's been half term. Her poor mum misses her so much but she says as long as Emily is happy she doesn't mind. So we've been doing some colouring again and I've taught her how to use distress inks. We are now both in love with them! I love how delicate you can make the colours and just how easy they are to blend (once you have the right card!).

I feel like i'm really getting to grips with them and have really enjoyed sitting there creating little pieces of art work. I hope you like! (no cards yet, as my craft desk is piled with clothes and allsorts and needs a major tidy up!)

(This one needs some shadow added under the mushroom.)

I need to finish this one off with the black shadows as it really adds depth to them. 

I just adore these stamps! They are always a pleasure to colour. 

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Now here are my Emily's efforts and I only showed her such a small bit before she went for it. She loves them. I was very proud of her and love how she even says that she is proud of herself when she does one well. Bless her. 

Hasn't she done so well. I really love that she has a love for crafts too and I know it'll be something we can share all our lives. 

I am ridiculously excited tonight as my auntie has had an amazing month at work (running her own pet shipping business) and she rang me and said she was giving my sis and I £100 each, so of course I went right onto the Glitterpot website and spent that in less than 10 mins!! lmao. I can't wait to get even more gorgeous magnolias and the doo hickey fence die that i've wanted for ages! It's actually scary how quickly that amount of money can be spent! Although as I'm too poorly to have a normal social life, I think it's so worth it as crafting is my therapy and something I can do (unless i'm having a relapse). maybe the NHS should prescribe craft vouchers!! lol

I've sent Emily home as I am wiped out so am going to have a relaxing, quiet weekend and will do some more colouring. I wish you all a happy weekend and hope you get some crafting time too. Lots of love xxxxx

Happy Jubilee weekend everyone!! I hope you are all having a nice time so far and will grab some jubilee craft bargains! lol

Well.... my crafty mojo has finally come back and i've started to have a practise with colouring with distress inks, now that I have the right water colour card and stazon. I am loving using them but certainly need some practise.

Here are a few examples: I need to blend the face colours/shading better but love how it's come out on the clothing.

I adore the new Magnolias! So cute as always. I only have a very limited number of distress ink pads, as they are not cheap, so i'm just practising with the colours I have so far. 

I was excited to see the offer at LOTV and can't wait to get my new stamps. I'd be over the moon if I was one of the lucky ones to get their money refunded! I could then buy more! lol 

I'm having trouble finding some cheese cloth. I thought wild orchid crafts did it but I can't see any. Any suggestions about where to buy some?

Anyway, i'm off to find some bargains! Happy long weekend everyone!