A good posty day today!

I recieved my Forever Friends stamped images, and 17 Cross Stitch cover kits! Then went out and spalshed another £15 on some more christmas card making bits (A Do Crafts Goody bag that has this cute reindeer rubber stamp in! My first ever big clear rubber stamp!) Quite pleased with it actually! Just wished I had more money then I would have bought loadsa bits from The Range! But then I would need a bigger house to keep it all... Cant have everything I guess lol Heres the photo of all my new stash :)

It contains: x3 12x12 Backing Papers (Including an acetate one!)
x20 Small backing papers (Including velums, handmade papers and printed papers)
x2 5 Blank Cards with printed/embossed patterns
x3 Stick On Embelleshments
x2 Merry Christmas Peel Offs
x1 Colours reindeer stickers
x1 Dimension Stickers (3d Stitckers)
x1 Card stock ABC stickers
x3 Papermania Pigment inks
x2 pots Glitz it glitter
x1 Acrylic Block
x1 CUTE reindeer clear rubber stamp
x2 Printed Ribbon
1x 5m Red Ribbon
x2 Stickles Brushes
x1 Glue stick

This is what made me buy this goodybag. I think he is sooo cute!

The card I have made for my mum...

Orange and yellow are her favourite colours, so I decided to base the card around these colours which I havent tried before. I am quite pleased with the result actually, although the tags are a bit streaky from my printer, but I still think it looks great (Ok, so I am bigging myself up but I am impressed :D)

Once again everything that is on the card (Minus the green piece of ribbon and Magnolia Stamp) are printed from Creative Park. I have coloured Tilda in using Reeves watercolour pencils and used a tiny bit of glitter for the candle. For the insert, I have printed the 3 presents at the bottom right hand corner and put this - When it comes to mothers, there are lots of them about, but you are the very very best, of that there is no doubt!

Quite Excited!

My dad has just rung me, and his GF's mum used to do card making and was going to put all her stuff on Ebay! But dad has decided to buy it for me! Apparently, theres loads of inks, rubberstamps, papers, glitters a caligraphy set and loads more :D Roll on October 25th when they come up!!

Am also going to see Nemo on Ice on Thursday, so really looking forward to that too! Its like christmas all at once :D

A new card for me :)

I have decided to take part in one of the challenges on Tilda & Co Blog - Challenge No 37, On a Budget - Something which I am until tomorrow! Here is what I have come up with

Total cost:
Card stock x3: 45p

Paper x1: 0.4p
Adhesive Gem: 0.5p
Total: 0.54p

I printed the background paper, flower, ribbon borders and tags from Creative Park for free (They are actually scrapbook papers, but they have some lovely stuff on there!). I Used a piece of hammer effect A5 card folded in half for the actual card itself, and coloured the Magnolia image in using watercolour pencils. Tah Dah, One card! Im quite impressed with it actually!

Crafty Krafts Comp :)

You can find a great competition on Crafty Krafts where you can win some cute Magnolia Rubber Stamps worth over £40! Get yourself over there and enter now!

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A week has passed...

And I have managed to do quite a bit this week!

I got a lovely parcel from Lynn from Stamping Mad forum - I cant thank her enough! :)

I want to 'Big Up' Creative Park and Freecycle! I needed a printer, and put an advert on Freecycle, and the following evening I picked up a Lexmark All in one Printer/Scanner/Copier/Fax! Well impressed (Apart from the ink costing a fortune!) Then, to test my printer, I found the Canon Scrapbook website, which has some FAB background papers and tags!

Alex has been out tonight, and I have managed to get these done:

They are both on white 'Hammered' card, and all the embelleshments are from Creative Park. I have added a bit of glitter on both cards, and stamped some little shiny stars on the second card using a whiskars stamp. The images are both coloured in using Reeves watercolour pencils.

I have had this blog how long now..

And promise to update it, but always forget!

So, I am going to diary and hour in each week to update this thing! (Gonna put a reminder in my phone so I dont forget lol)

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