Some more makes from this last week - not had a great deal of time.

We were at the Disney store today. Of all the toys, Sarah chose Stitch.   Then we came home and spent the afternoon painting together - great fun!

Quality time!

A quick make with Stampin UpVases in Vogue and Tiny Tags.  Using up scraps of Old Olive cardstock and some Basic Gray. Stamped using Memento Tuxedo Black and SU Old Olive. Coloured with ProMarkers.  Simples!!

One old stamp and one new! We Three Kings from Stamposaurus - got it at the show and totally love the clear image you get! This is the first time I've used it.  I'm totally hooked on Christmas!  Started Christmas shopping today!  These images are coloured with pro markers.

Black and Gold

Another inspiring Wednesday night with friends and here are the outputs! All on a black and gold theme. Some recent purchases from last weekend and some stuff I've had for ages (as I realise I need to use up stuff in order to make space for more!!)

and another! the "tweets" was such an obvious choice!

Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep!

Covered a wee note book..  I could be addicted to these little birds.. cut loads of bits to piece together incase I'm ever stuck for something to do!!

Tweet tweet

Made these little guys using punched circles.. using up scraps again.  Really liking these! The beak is made from a little heart and the wings are the wings from the SU bird punch.  Great way of using different colours together!

Some Rudi toppers - Fun to make!

No scrap of paper is too small!

This little card is 6.5cm x 6.5cm.  Thought it would make a nice wee gift tag!

Haven't used this rudolf die for ages.

Suzette Ketto

A quick make with one of my new stamps. I love these Ketto stamps - they are so easy to use! She's stamped on Very Vanilla cardstock and coloured with Copics (Blush, Baby Skin Pink, Skin White & Yellow Green).  Card base is Old Olive and the dotty paper is from the Jolly Holiday collection (proving it's not just for Christmas!)

Whew! What a busy weekend it's been. Busy but great!  Rather than add another post with no pics I thought I would add this one of some soaps I made recently - they are bubble gum and cherry scented and smell gorgeous!

I've got lots of new stuff to play with now - I will try to photo it first before tidying it away.. although I think playing my new LOTV Christmas stamps may take priority. It was all I could do to resist buying all of them! 

I may find space for the stamps but I don't think I'll find anywhere for my new paper pads! (they just jumped into my hand saying "buy me, buy me"! what could I do??)

Play time!

16 christmas cards made tonight - a record for me! Must have been the inspirational chit chat and motivational craft talk! No time for photos though.. maybe tomorrow!

Bright and Cheery Birthday!

Made to order for a friend at work.  The papers are from the Pebbles Inc "Happy Go Lucky" range - they are lovely!

Spent a wee bit of time tidy up a tiny bit of the craft room today - and it's amazing what you find! I found three brand new stazon ink pads in Pumpkin, Vibrant Violet and Forest Green. Then I found my heat gun - hadn't seen it in ages! So decided to have a play with my new Heat and Stick powder from Stampin Up, and some gorgeous gold micro fine glitter! Great fun.. although the room, and me.. is now all sparkly!  Tidied out a whole load of 12x12 which I will never use too.. now to find a good home for it!

Some more new Stampin Up goodies - all ready for making my christmas cards now!

A busy day today so not much crafty time. Did take some photos of some new stash! and one make!

Martha Stewart micro beads - yummy!

A fiskars paper crimper - I don't know how I have survived without one until now!!

SU! Longfellows!  This was only available as a hostess gift so I'm feeling very lucky to get them!

Not had time to play yet!

Tasty toppers. 

 (scraps again - I've decided to keep using my papers until the bits that are left are sooo teeny tiny it would be impossible to make anything else!)

A wee note book (had to use that last scrap of tartan!)

And some more toppers!

What a good day it's been!

A couple of little cards - again, just using up scraps!!

I'm really liking these natural colours.

Gift Bag - Basic Grey Sweet Threads

Made another gift bag. These are so lovely to make - and these papers are just gorgeous!

Loads left so might make co-ordinating birthday card go with!

Using up some scraps again. I just love this tartan paper. Used the Stampin Up Christmas bauble punch and chopped the bottom off to make the vase (thanks to Theresa for this idea!).  Then run the punched shape through the cuttlebug using the Swiss Dots embossing folder (it's such a good folder for so many uses!)

The black card is bazill (orange peel finish) so it embosses really well, and the teeny flowers are red bazill bling - the die is a QK one I've had for ages!

The sentiment stamp is Penny Black and the stems/leaves is Stampin Up from the Sweet Summer set. 

Might make some more like this (after lunch!)

True Friend

I'm really liking the pink and green colour combo! This card was inspired by the paper from "Out of Print by Basic Grey. Then I used up some scraps of Anna Griffin cardstock for the layering. 

The image is Lili of the Valley, coloured with copics. The fairy wings are covered in Stampedous Shaved Ice (as am I, and my desk!!)

I'm going for a cup of tea now - to warm my hands!  It's freezing here today!

Anna Griffin Bag Template

One last quick make.. using the Anna Griffin template and Anna Griffin papers.. much easier to do with the Hougie board. 

A little note pad.. using scraps!

To Woo!

Brr! How cold and miserable is it today?  Gave in and have just put the heating on.

No crafty time so far today - been out at a ceilidh.

This was a quick little make to use up these owls.. still have 4 more to use.

You know when you read something that makes you laugh.. you want to share it?  well, I did.. and here is my big smiley laugh... enjoy and share with whatever tickles your fancy.. 

Dasher again!

Here's Dasher again.  This time, stamped in Cherry Cobbler (which is an almost perfect match to these papers from Basic Grey - love the tartan!!)  The greeting is from Contempo Christmas. Holly is a Quickutz die I've had for ages.

Stampin Up Dasher

This is Dasher.. from Stampin Up! Using up the scraps of Early Expresso and Old Olive on papers from Basic Grey Jovial.  Used some of the shaved ice as snow... boy, is that stuff messy! and I thought glitter was bad!! Great fun though!  

More toys!

Can't wait to try this Shaved Ice by Stampendous! 

 I think it will add a lovely snow effect to Christmas cards!

Amazing Service!

 I can't beleive how quickly this arrived! I only ordered from Charmed yesterday and the postman has just delivered it about 5 minutes ago!  Really am impressed!

I've not bought any Basic Grey for ages.. had a look at some of their recent releases and just had to get them!

So here is..

Sweet Threads (got this is 6x6 and 12x12!)

Out of Print

Jovial

Just looking through these gorgeous designs.. drool, drool and double drool! ;-)

And the parcel contained a lovely wee freebie of Prima flowers and some lush grosgrain ribbon!

FAB!

More playing required!

Trendy Trees

Ok so I seem to be following an owl trend!

This card is made with;

Stampin Up Trendy Trees

SU Owl Punch & Boho Blooms

SU Papers and Inks from Neutral (Early Expresso) and Brights (Old Olive)

A little bit of SU linen thread

The greeting is from SU So Happy for You

.. and the wee heart is gilded with Crafty Notions gold gliding flakes

Matryoshka Woody

After getting my craft room to an "almost" tidy state I found loads of card kits that I've bought over the years (because they are very tempting!!) but to be honest, I never use them!  So, as they are taking up SO much room and I need to make space for loads of new stuff I'm going to try and use them up!

Here is the first very quick make.  I do love the colours!  

The ink used on this one was a Versa Color Bamboo.

Loads of owly bits left so might make some more!!

What to do?!  Housework done!  Might make some Christmas gift bags now!  New stuff to play with! Pics to follow soon!

Do you ever get the urge to shout about how great life is when there are too many reasons to list?   Makes me realise how very lucky I am!  And I'm reminded daily!

Profound,  I know!  lol!

All these new crafty goodies are making me excited for GNPE!! not long now! 

Been playing with my new SU stamp set... and now all my new goodies have arrived I know what I'll be doing this weekend! .. well not on sunday though as we're going to a ceilidh! Brilliant fun!

Woo Woo!

All excited! the first of my two orders of SU! goodies came!

Two lovely stamp sets... Delightful Decorations and Dasher!  Loads of lovely paper and inks.. and the Spiral Border Punch.. and the lovely freebie...

It's really gorgeous!!

Stampin Up Good Neighbors

Another quick one.  The houses are cut out and stuck on to the cream card - I left spaces between the houses and the roofs which looks much better than in the photo.

Stampin Up! products again (Love them!!). This time its cardstock from Neutrals and Subtles, and the papers from Elegant Soiree.  Inks used are Baja Breeze, Marinal Mist, Wild Wasabi and the clouds are Bashful Blue.

Not a great pic this time.  But here are a couple of quick thank you cards and tags.

Using some scraps!

New Home Card and Gift Tag

Something different and definately not Christmas!

A new home card made from my new Pink Paislee papers. Love the colour combinations and the matching bazzil cardstock.

Made a wee gift card from the scraps!

Feeling sorry for the postie!

Lots of new goodies to play with - the poor postman must be tired out!

I went a bit American Crafts daft!

And got some lovely papers from Pink Paislee!

Just waiting on my two SU! orders and some goodies from ebay!

Here are some pics of the gorgeous colours! (180 sheets of 12x12 gorgeous textured cardstock!) 

Brights...

Tropicals... 

Christmas...