that’s what I have made today, and my desk is covered with them. I need to get them together and assembled in the small bowl I have. Then I can display them with the grandkids pictures.
I am quite surprised I got them done as it has been a busy day with visitors and a lunch out but I always say I work better when I have lots to do.
More tomorrow I hope…
OK so now I should be up to date as this is officially Wednesdays post.
I have been looking at Shimelle’s class for a while thinking that I didn’t really need to do it but yesterday I gave in. Her latest is all about using
up all that stash that is accumulating, including things like brads, buttons and ribbons. I though it might stretch me a bit as well. I got the first prompt today and there will be 3 a week so I should be able to keep up nicely. The plan is to make use of the prompts at the weekends when I can definitely have some time to scrap and it will also make the Texas album a bit different.
Where did 2 days go? I am quite cross with myself, I have not updated here since Sunday so. This post is for Tuesday which will mean I can say I just missed one day, as long as I post later.
So what has happened in the crafting world for me. Well I had the privilege to win a lovely stamp in the blog party at http://www.your-creativemoments.co.uk/ on Saturday, I will be showing that off as soon as it arrives. I also asked a question about the alcohol ink pen during the party and the lovely Claire answered that yesterday. You can see her explanation on the blog here.
I have been keeping an eye on QVC as well, they had a TSV yesterday, very pretty and cute but not me somehow. I did order some stamps though, acrylic and classic flowers.
A bit off topic but on the subject of QVC I received a delivery from them and the item was faulty. I phoned them yesterday morning and they couldn’t be more helpful. I got a heartfelt apology and they arranged to have it collected at my convenience. I so wish customer services were like that in other companies.
So, if it all goes to plan I will see you later.
That is what I have now, after playing with stuff earlier. I got a couple of LOs done, suppose I will have to create a slide show soon and get them uploaded, there are probably enough now.
Once that was done I decided to play. I have a pretty stamp from hero Arts, it has a blank centre and grasses and seed heads round the edge. Unfortunately I don’t have an acrylic block quite big enough to use it properly so I have been playing, Today I used Versamark and out the paper on top, trouble was I couldn’t then quite see were I had inked it so it was a bit of trial and error and the odd pick up and catch the light, till I decided to use Perfect Pearls. I spritzed them, that not only sets them but tend to intensify the colour a little. Then I stamped a poppy in the centre, used Distress Ink in red, then water brushed the colour to highlight the flower. I then sprayed some sparkle mist over the top and ruined the whole thing by spraying too much. I had fun though!!!!
I took out a subscription to one of our crafting mags recently and, though it has been a struggle, the DVD which was the subs offer at the time, finally arrived today. I won’t bore you with the story, probably because I am pretty bored with it myself. Suffice it to say that I now have it sorted and may well not renew when my year comes up. i will just order it through my local newsagent instead. i can’t be bothered with all the hassle and having to deal with customer service staff who try to wriggle out of things.
Enough! I have the DVD and it is all about stamping, one of my favourite things to use. There are some old and some new things to try and I need to watch it again and make some notes then give things a go.
I really hope I can get to do some real craft tomorrow!
I have had a long day at work today which is quite unusual these days, we seem to have got our working days organised so we only do the odd full day and it really comes hard when it happens. never mind, it brings the cash in!
This means that I won’t make the attic today. I have only occasionally been an evening scrapper as I have had it by the time supper is done. This evening though I will be doing some titles for the Texas LOs. I have a few in mind and have a ‘lite’ version of the software I use right here on my netbook so I can sit in front of the TV and so them.
That’s what happened today. I managed to sort out the envelopes for the invites, and left them behind when I came downstairs. I did a very quick, very simple LO as well, that came out of trying out a TH technique which didn’t quite work as expected but I loved the effect.
Basically I cut a rectangle with round corners using a Coluzzle template. then applied distress inks in 5 colours, using the blending tool. The nest bit was the bit that didn’t do as expected. I inked up a stamp with Distress Ink then misted it with water and stamped onto the shape. Took the heat gun to dry it off and the stamped image was supposed to bleach out but it didn’t. I got a muted version of the image and it looked great. Now as much as I like Tim’s stuff I can’t always see how I am going to use them but this was perfect.Somehow I had chosen colours that went with a couple of photos so I used it as a base for the title. As before this LO will be in a slide show sometime soon.
I have been really busy with work, trying to rectify problems caused by others, always seems to take 3 or 4 times longer than it should.
So the only craft today has been to watch some stuff on QVC and I have to say I was bored so I turned it off.
I want to plan some sketches this evening, more LOs from TX. Then I can get some more done.
Hope your day has been more exciting than mine.
Will it mean more time to craft, I hope so.
I finished the cards today, they are all slightly different as the main image is hand tinted with Distress Inks, the embossing on the main card is also coloured with the same ink, I used a cotton bud for that.
I just have to get the addresses on the envelopes now.
