Oops

Just a quick note to let you know that we're changing service provider and I'm having bother at the moment. The engineer has just gone - and left me in limbo I'm afraid. I'm not up to messing about with computers so it may be some time before I get up and running.

No crafting

I'm sorry to say that I can't do any crafting at the minute because I can't sit at my workbench. I've hurt my back somehow. I was sweeping the garage floor yesterday and when I'd finished I could hardly walk. I'm in agony when I try to sit down or when I try to get up. :(

This morning I went to see my niece's new baby. He was born early on Monday morning and is now at home with Mummy and Daddy. Eric still has pneumonia so wasn't able to come but our younger son, Tim, came to pick me up. He and his wife are expecting new puppies about now so DIL couldn't come either. Anyway, I decided I would show you a photo of William, seeing that I have no cards, jotters or anything else crafty to show you. Here he is with his pressie from Tim - only Tim would choose something like this!

We had a happy morning but I'm not having a very happy evening - these painkillers are worse than useless.

More Jotter Pads

Here are another two jotter pads that I've made this afternoon - well, I haven't MADE them I've just altered the fronts! lol We called in to Tesco after we'd been to the hospital so that I could buy some jotters. I love these stamps that I bought at the Bluewater Craft Fair in February but I have no idea who made them. I've lost the wrapper and so they are in a Really Useful Box with other 'unknown' stamps. If anyone recognises them please let me know the maker - there are three different 'seed clocks' in the set. These pads show two of them - I did make a pad with the third stamp but I'll have to keep that one because I scuffed the frontpiece as I trimmed it!  I stamped randomly in Distress Ink Forest Moss and then distressed over the entire piece with the same ink pad. I used Diamond Stickles to highlight the 'black spot' on the individual seed heads. One of the photos is much better than the other and I have no idea why - I did try to lighten the second one but it wouldn't play fair. 

I'm not entering any challenges with these jotters. They were just made in my fun time and in my favourite colour - GREEN!They'll probably be stocking fillers.

I hope you've all had a happy day. Thank you all for visiting.

Jotter Pad

When I had a stall at the country fair a few weeks ago I had every intention of taking some altered jotter pads. I had bought a few from Tesco and I was going to put new fronts on and put each one in a cello bag with a pen. I'm pleased that I didn't make them because the country fair wasn't a success. It catered mainly for a family day out and the adults weren't interested in buying, they were there to entertain the children. 

Anyway, on to my pad. On a panel of white Papermill card I randomly stamped the images in Memento ink in sepia. I'd used stamps from two sets, PaperArtsy Clocks 4 and Clocks 6. I then used Distress Ink in Faded Burlap over the entire piece. After I'd fixed the panel to the front of the jotter I used my Cosmic Shimmer bronze pearlescent glue to make pearl drops round the sentiment to make it stand out. I like it and I'm going to use it for my own shopping lists.I might make some more for stocking fillers.

I'm entering my jotter in to the following challenges:

Truly,Madly Crafty Challenges - Monochrome

Robyn's Fetish - No flowers anywhere at All

Creative Belli Blog - Anything but a Card

Simon Says Stamp - Anything BUT a card

Simon Says Stamp and Show - Depth of Distress

Red, white and blue

There are so many reasons to celebrate this year and red, white and blue says it all. I've used a Saturated Canary image by Krista Smith for the focal point and coloured her with my Promarkers. I coloured the inside edge of the Spellbinders nestie with Barn Door Distress Ink before removing the image from the die. The large scalloped card blank is from Craft UK. The red card is from Papermill and that was cut with a Spellbinders grand scalloped nestie square. I'd bought a Docrafts Papermania paper pad at the Glow, Bluewater Craft Show in February and hadn't got round to using it until I made this card. I did intend using it for the diamond jubilee street party invitations but as Eric was poorly that idea went out of the window! I used my corner rounder punch to cut the corners and then set the paper at an angle on the red mat. The image also had the corners rounded with the punch so that there were no sharp corners on any of the papers. I added some Union flag buttons  to two corners and I think that's it. They were bought at Bluewater too. 

I'm entering this card in to the following challenges:

Saturated Canary Challenge 20 - Red, white and blue

Papertake Weekly - Bingo, Buttons, Free, Punches

Joanna Sheen - Summer Daze

Gingerloft Challenge - Red, white and blue

Robyn's Fetish - No flowers anywhere at All

 Love to Create Challenge 21 - Anything Goes

#119 Summer Dress

The theme is Summer Dress for this week's challenge over at One Stitch at a Time. You can choose to use fabric, summer colours or show us your interpretation of the theme. I chose Love Seat by Stitchy and loved colouring this beautiful image. You can buy the image at the Stitchybear Digital Stamp Store and whilst you're there you'll see lots more that you will need! lol

I used a Spellbinders grand circle nestie to cut a large square Craft UK card  into a circle. The green leaf backing paper is printed from a Joanna Sheen CD but I cannot remember which one! Oops, sorry. The purple pearlescent card is by Payper Box. I coloured the image with Promarkers and after cutting I used Distress Ink round the edge.  The wooden sun came from Create and Craft and that was coloured with Promarkers too. The embroidered flowers are from a pack of embroidery motifs that I bought in the USA about ten years ago. They suited the colours in this image perfectly and I think are just a perfect finishing touch.

The sponsor this week is Joanna Sheen and the prize is a £10 voucher for her online store. 

I'm entering this card in to the following challenges:

Lollipop Crafts - Flowers in Bloom

Love to Create - Summertime Fun

Bearly Mine - Flowers

Crafty Sentiments - Bright Colours

Crazy Amigo Challenge - Summer colours, especially yellow, orange and red.

Die Cuttin Divas - Summer Colours - red, yellow and orange

The Paper Shelter - The Great Outdoors

The Sisterhood of Crafters - Going in Circles

Charisma Cardz Challenge - Summer

Cute Card Thursday - Here Comes Summer

Whoopsi Daisy - Use those Swirls

The theme at Whoopsi Daisy this week is Use Those Swirls. I haven't made a blue card for a while so the colour was decided. That was the easy bit! I had a lot of bother making this because my mojo just wouldn't appear. Eric hasn't been well and I think this has probably affected my crafting. Since initially writing and scheduling this post I haven't been well either. I was at the GP on Friday and am at the hospital on Monday to have an xray on my knee. I'm so glad that I had my DT cards made in advance.

I used this image from sheet 349 over at the Whoopsi Daisy shop. A sheet of four images is only £1.99 so it's very reasonable for such cute images.

Once again I used a small square Craft UK card blank. I coloured the image with my Promarkers and then carefully cut her out. I used a Spellbinders label nestie for the seat!  I used Distress Ink round the edges. The blue pearlescent card and the star paper is from Payper Box. All the swirls were cut with Spellbinder dies and using Papermill pale blue card.

I'm entering this card in to the following challenges:
Bunny Zoe's Crafts - Girls, Girls, Girls

Crafty Ann's Challenge - It's a Girl Thing
Stamping with the Dragon - Anything Goes
Sweet 'n' Sassy Digi Challenge - CAS with two layers
Great Impressions - Die Cuts or Punches

I've been to the hospital this morning to have an xray on my right leg. I will find out next week what's up, probably osteoarthritis flaring up. I've had it since I was a young woman but haven't had too much difficulty until the last few years. Ooh, it hurts!.