I went, I saw,

I spent and then I spent some more and more!

Hellooo blogworld

Me again, here I am being a bus (nothing for ages then twice in a day) or something like that anyway!

So I promised some pictures of my new stuff - somehow it didn't look as much when I laid it out on the dining room table as when I was carrying it around at the craft fayre!!

Dies, dies and more dies oh and some paper, embellies, doilies and a stamp (bargain that was!).

DST, Artbin storage (already had the nesties), ribbon, lace and mettalic mesh - ooooh you should've seen the examples of bows and flowers - gorgeous!  Now if only I can do the same!!!!

My postal spend - shed loads of flowers and a new bottle of Crafters Pick.  Had the other bottle for roughly two years?  Thought it might run out soon!!!

The only things I didn't take pics of was my new glass cutting mat, beads and plain white heavy paper for the inserts that I'm going to start putting in my cards.

Ummm, think that's it.  I could've spent more but I'm now hanging on until my birthday and will self-present some craft stuff then.

Oh and the craft fayre saga - well the first stall I stopped at I spent a fair amount and went to put it on my Visa - only to be told that my pin had been blocked, so the lady did the transaction as cardholder not present.  None of the stalls took AmEx so I had to revert to cash - blooming good job I'd taken a wad of cash otherwise I'd been stuffed.

I did try to phone hubby (he'd taken Emily away and out so that I could shop in peace) but he has a  rubbish phone and I couldn't get through to him (note to self - fathers' day present new phone and not a fiver one from Tesco this time) to see if I could Switch stuff.  All OK in the end as I didn't spend as much as I thought so that one credit card and a large chunk of cash later I was done.

Of course, then I had to try and find said hubby and child.  Ended up swearing at the damn phone and wandering around in the blistering heat trying to find the car.  Eventually found the car, but not the family.  Still I got 20mins to sit and look through all my purchases!

Off to bed now, and dream of all the cards I'm going to make with all my new stuff - ahhhh, bliss!!!!!!

Sarah

So sad

Hi blogworld

So how's we all doing then?  I'm a very happy bunny as I had a lovely day out on Sunday, well mostly anyway!, at the craft fair and have brought myself lots of new goodies.  The spending carried on until Monday morning as some companies were missing and I still had things on my to get list.  You will start to see the new things trickling through soon - there's even some on this card!!

I've had the post part of my spend arrive this morning so I'll take photos and do a sharing post later today and explain what it was that annoyed me on Sunday!!  Be prepared for one of Sarah's sagas ;-)

The so sad part is that Pollycraft is closing down, I will really miss Paula's digis - they are absolutely brilliant I've already done one mega bundle deal and I'm very verrrry tempted to go back and do another - but I wouldn't even mind missing out on the mega deals if she wasn't closing!   Then I went and missed the last challenge, I'd thought there'd be one to the last days of the shop but last weeks' was it and I missed it - pah!

I had my image all ready to go, but just ran out of time.  I then saw Paula doing a Linky Party over at Pollycrafts blog so I thought I'd link up with that.

Here's me card:
Front shot:

Detail of image:

Side view to get the depth:

I used:

Image:

Pollycraft - Swings and Slides: Lollipop: (which was my prize for being a Pollycraft Favourite - I was sooooo chuffed when I was picked and I was picked twice!)  It's coloured with my Promarkers and chalked for the background.

Papers:

First Edition:

Love Letters (new!)

Song Bird

Dies:

Nesties for the image and circles

C.C. Designs - Teardrop Border

Everything else:

Buttons from stash

Stickles glitter glue

I've been frantically making cards first half of this week as the second half is busy.  Then next week it's half-term here and that will be chaos, plus we've got people in the holiday let.  Oh, wot a busy life I leads!!!!

Cheerio

Sarah

A challenge, or two:

Sketch Saturday: Week #209

Oldie but a Goodie challenge: Anything Goes - everything except for one piece of patterned paper and the image are more than six months old.

I love Promarkers: Challenge #119 - Use a Digi

Probably the only New Year resolution I'm making

This is a sticky and will stay at the top until 27 May 2012

So this is a la Lisa at wishcraftcards (and probably a lot more bloggers / crafters, but Lisa is the only one I've seen do this!).

I just spent nearly £80 on stamps and I feel rather guilty!

So I am going on a stash diet (not a total ban as I couldn't do that) I'm going to wait for one more shop to re-open and then I'm not buying anything (except for a few digis and the absolute craft essentials - glue and card) until the next Lincoln Sincerely Yours papercaft show - which is the end of May.  Then nothing again until the next show - so I'm only buying craft things twice this year.

Oh My God - I really hope I can do this.  I have so much stuff it shouldn't matter, but you never know I might break down at some point. Stopping now before I change my mind and not post it.

So having seen that Abi and Susan are doing similar - I thought I'd make it official, join in at Fran's blog and hopefully get support if I waiver.  I mean to do this - it's just a daunting thought to begin with.

Sarah