June - Day 2

Day 2: Tell us all about your favourite craft gadget and why it’s just the bees knees OR Craft something that has a summer theme

Hello blogworld,

Oh dear I'm suffering today - full of cold, again!  I'm really looking forward to when summer finally, properly starts and I am not getting colds every two weeks!

Right, I thought I'd do this one earlier in the day as my weekends hardly ever go to plan and I find I run out of time all the time!!!

So, as I joined this late, no craft from me - but I can tell you what is my favourite craft gadget.  It is my Cuttlebug!!!

Oh my how did I ever get along before it??  I have to admit to getting one fairly late on in my card-making career - only about 4ish years ago, before that I stamped and cut those images out into squares (mostly) or I stamped on any old scrap of shaped card I could find.  I used stickers a lot and pre-cut shapes and heat embossed if I needed embossing.

Then the world of the 'bug opened up and I was in heaven!!!!  I have to admit here the only reason I picked the 'bug over the Big Shot was the style of the 'bug - I thought it looked nicer than the Big Shot.

I emboss with it, I increased my die collection astronomically and I use it to help make almost every single card I make.  OK I might not use it every time, but if I don't use it, it's only because I'm using a shape I've already pre-cut.  I almost had a fit when I broke my C-plate recently - hubby was going food shopping past a local craft shop and I made him go in and get me a new plate same day!

So there we go - my favourite craft gadget.

See you tomorrow.

Sarah

A post a day in June

Hello blogworld,

I was just having a few minutes checking my Dashboard before switching off and saw that Jo was joining in with this little project:

Well I popped across (I think you're all aware of how nosey I am by now!) to see what it was all about.  What got my attention was the phrase - 'Do you need a kick to get you blogging again'.  Ummmm, yes??!!

So within 5 seconds I'd decided to join in - lets see if I can keep up!  It's either a word or craft prompt.  Now I think it's unlikely I'll be able to keep up with the craft prompt everyday (do you know how long it takes me to make a card?!) but I can talk, oh yes I can talk.  So I think I will probably being doing the words, but you never know.  

Day 1: How did you get into crafting / Craft something that it pink.

Well it's unlikely I'll make something at 10.25pm - so instead how did I get into crafting.  My first proper craft project was many moons ago - a tiny little cross-stitch kit from a magazine.  I was 19 - newly moved out of home and newly married and bored on the train journey home.  Plus a friend of my then hubby's (yes he is now the ex!) was expecting a baby and the little project was a picture of a duck.  That then slightly escalated to many years (15 in fact) worth of cross-stitch projects - many of which adorn the walls at home.

The complete end of cross-stitch was when I was in hospital having my daughter  (nearly 6 years ago) - I'd taken in an Aida fabric blanket and was stitching a Winnie the Pooh design for her, realised quite a way into that I'd counted wrongly and was stitching across two threads instead of four, got very p'd off and threw it in the back of the cupboard.

I'd dabbled in cards, from around 9 / 10 years ago, a very bad day at work one day had prompted me to get a card making mag and make the little project on the front, but it had been a side hobby to the cross-stitch.  So there I was, 6 years ago, at home with a baby, annoyed with cross-stitch and found QVC and Creat and Craft - well, as they say, that is history.  Now I nearly have a craft room to accommodate the paper craft and am on the point of selling my cross-stitch kits on ebay!

Looking forward to tomorrow now - maybe I'll try and keep the posts shorter though.  Gawd don't I waffle!!!!

Night all.

Sarah

Here we go, here we go, here we go...

heeeere we gooooo!!!!

Hello blogworld

And how are we all today - first I want to share some good news before I do the serious stuff - guess who actually turned up yesterday and gave us a start date???? Yessss, it was the builder (and the Building Inspector) and the building works start a week on Monday!!  Next week we are clearing out the office and other rooms -Monday 10th June is B Day.  Yipppeee!!

So now we've got that bit of excess energy out of the way - lets get down to business.  I'm here on this lovely June morning with my DT card for the new challenge over at FlatFriends - this month Emma has drawn us a fabby sketch.

I think it can be kept very simple or dressed up with accessories and below is my take on it.  Apologies in advance this is a very lacklustre attempt at a card on my behalf, doesn't do Emma's digis justice at all.  It's been a busy old week what with it being half-term and I just ran out of time to do something better.

So here we go:

Front shot:

Close up:

The Arty Farty:

I used:

Emma Canning - FlatFriends dig : bit of a sneak peek here I think as it's not out yet!!

coloured with my Promarkers

Dies:

Memory Box

Papers:

Unknown

Anything else?

Brass flower and brad

So there we are - why pop over to the challenge blog and see the fab creations from my Teamies, they are much, much better than mine!

Hope everyone has a good weekend and hopefully I will be back next week with cards and building pictures ;-)

Sarah