Happy birthday Mark

Hi all,well as much as we all love the sun I am finding it too much,especially being stuck in the office most of the time at the moment and its a sauna!
Anyway enjoying being in my craft room at the moment and this is a card I made last night for my brother in law.



Ingredients used - Urban stamp 'shore thing' by Michael Powell. Coloured with my beloved promarkers and mounted onto card and paper from stash. Used sizzex labels 'majestic 2' for the stamped greeting and sentiment from stampin up 'made for you' set. Shells and anchor were also from stash and I just knotted some twine to finish off.
Right I am off to collect hubby from work and sort out tea x

First card in new and improved craft room

Well I couldn't resist,had to dive in there Sunday evening and make a card,just been waiting for the glossy accents on the dial to dry.
Think my angle for taking photo was wonky lol but it looks ok in real life :-)



Ingredients used - Dreamees stamp ( they have no name on packing! ) which I stamped twice and coloured with promarkers then cut out second image.
Labels 8 nesties, buttons from stash,glossy accents ( which take forever to dry ) and the hi came from my new dienamics 'happy hellos' die set.
Am just counting down the days til I finish work a week Friday for the summer holidays x

My craft room

Well despite being incredibly hot, not enough time and to my hubby's despair I did it! I dismantled the bed in the craft room as decided that my visitors which aren't many can make do when they come to stay lol
Started the marathon move around at 9pm last night, restarted at 6am in the morning and finally finished at 3pm as needed to also sort out the chaos I caused elsewhere lol
WARNING - picture heavy



So this is the bargain desk I bought ( £10 ) and been storing in our bedroom for ages and its now against the wall where the bed was. Shelf unit is a old cutlery drawer from a car boot sale. Distress markers are in the bag



My storage unit for punches, £2 and I painted white



The coloured drawers hold stamps and the unit to the left was rescued from the school skip and holds paper, cards,and other stuff



More stamp storage and buttons in the top pots, unit £4 ( I think ) from a car boot sale and painted white



To the left of my work desk, memento dewdrop inks in the basket,distress ink holder,papers,case holds my dies



White unit rescued from local chemist, metal drawers hold card scraps



Trolley holds 12 x 12 papers and my promarker storage



Unit holds wool and view of my work desk which was also going to be thrown out at the school
Well that's my tour of the craft room finished and now too tired to craft lol x

A week long card!

Hi all, well I can't believe how long it has taken me to make one simple card! I started this card last Thursday and there it stayed on my desk until today.
It's just so busy at work at the moment preparing for the end of term and new arrivals in September that I have not had time to draw breath.
But anyway pleased to have finished this card so some sense of achievement in the craft area lol




Used my new stamps from the Taunton craft show. Image and greeting is from the stamp set ' Pms and a gun' and the frame set 'Ornamental frames, both by Acid drops & What nots company. Coloured with promarkers, papermania textured card, gems and paper from stash.
Am sure you are all enjoying the lovely weather but have to admit to being glad it was cooler today x

I am going to see Timmie aka Tim Holtz

Am so excited as have booked a workshop with Timmie and I can't wait,it's not til August so need to work out how many sleeps lol



Staff and parents at work must have thought I was mad whooping in the kitchen lol
Going with some lovely buddies from Docrafts and we are all jumping up and down!
Need to start preparing my plan of attack for the day,oops I mean how I am going to get my hands on him with out fainting :-)
Here are the Details of where info is.
Off to calm down now x




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Am in love with cute fireflies

Ok I am not going mad but after watching this Video had to order this cute stamp and die set as I loved the fireflies




They arrived Friday but as body had given up from a 10hr work day only got to use them today. Cased the shaker card re above video but left off some of the decorations and tip for next time is to remember to swipe the acetate with my anti static bag to stop the fireflies sticking lol




Am in a clean and simple card phase at the moment as that's all brain can cope with lol
Hope you are enjoying the weekend and sunshine x

Having a play

Am slowly working my way through all my new crafting goodies and this card is made using my new MFT stamp set and matching dies.
Hadn't anything particular in mind when I started out,just needed to unwind making a card after a hectic day at work.



Ingredients used - MFT 'peaceful wildflowers' stamps and coloured using memento inks and the matching die set MFT die-namics 'wildflowers'.
Card and ribbon from stash and greeting is stamped. Excuse the dodgy ribbon bow lol
And yes two of my flowers are floating so reckon this card is destined to stay in the card box! But it was good therapy.
And to prove I do make a mess when I craft



And once card was made all tidy again :-)



Anyway thanks for visiting me,it's much appreciated x