Sunday Musings

What a lovely day! beautiful sunny day, not a cloud in the sky, love it.
Had to get up this morning to take some painkillers and go back to bed until they kicked in, was so sore. 
Anyway, had a fantastic afternoon teaching some incredibly funny ladies at The Papeterie yesterday - they are definitely the rowdiest bunch so far.... but they were "amazing" lol I was explaining some other uses for promarkers to them yesterday and I don't think they believed me, so I said I would dig out this card to show them... on it I used white or light coloured ribbons and trims and coloured them with promarkers then basket wove them to make my background...

and here's some pics of my very studious students...

And I was really nervous about finally meeting Erika who was there doing an instore demo all day - and I had no reason to be nervous at all, I think we hit it off straight away, she's a lovely girl and we yapped away like we'd known each other for ages. She is however a terrible influence and she made me spend loads of money lol.


Now, how many of you bought card from The Papeterie stand at the SECC last month? How many of you live in the NE of Scotland and have been to The Papeterie? 
And how many of you would like to win £100 of crafting goodness?
it's sooooooooooooooo easy, all you have to do is make a card with products which are currently sold at The Papeterie and you'll be entered into their Spring into Summer Card Designer Challenge.
The challenge will run until the 30th April(noon) with winners being announced at 4pm.
1st Prize: £100 of crafty goodies
2nd Prize: £30 of crafty goodies
3rd Prize: £10 of crafty goodies
All you need to do is design a card made with products currently sold at The Papeterie with a Spring/Summer theme. Take them in to be displayed in store and we will also feature them on our website. Good Luck and have fun.


Aren't those prizes fantastic, I'd certainly love to be winner, wouldn't you?

Teaching Today

I'm teaching this afternoon at The Papeterie, so I thought I'd just sneak in this post before I go and have a shower.
Here are some of the samples I've made over the last couple of days - sorry about some of the pics, I forgot to take pics before some of them went into bags.
I have had this first stamp since it was released and am ashamed to say that it had never seen ink, and the reason it saw ink this week is because the lovely Janice asked me if I had any tips for colouring her hair. This is the best I could come up with - she very nearly got the better of me, not the easiest hair to colour.

Image: Goth Girl from Sugar Nellie, coloured with promarkers, red card and white tartan Kanban card from The Papeterie. Papermania dew drops, Papermania eyelets, waxed cord.


Next up are these gorgeous wee girls by Kanban, available at The Papeterie, now I've noticed them before but passed them by - but Willow chucked them in her basket during the week and I am hooked now that I've been playing with them, poor Willow doesn't get a look in.

 Image: Urban Belles - Birthday from Kanban, coloured with promarkers - I have used swiss dots and another embossing folder on white card from The Papeterie. The greeting is Hero Arts.

 Image: Urban Belles - Birthday from kanban, coloured with promarkers, white card from The Papeterie, Tim Holtz checkerboard texture fades embossing folder, spellbinders fancy tags, Hero Arts greeting, Papermania dew drops and shimmer dots 

Image: Urban Belles - Birthday from Kanban coloured with promarkers, red and white card from The Papeterie, Do-crafts embossing folder and a cheap as chips notebook from Asda.

And last but not least is this gorgeous Kanban Wooly Bear....

Image: Wooly Bears - Hamish from Kanban, coloured with promarkers, core'dinations card, WRMK yellow floss, WRMK eyelets


I'm also really excited to finally meet Erika today - she's demoing all day at The Papeterie, so if you're at a loose end, you know where to go.
And there's a couple of weeks left to get your entries in for The Papeterie's Spring into Summer Card Designer Challenge
The challenge will run until the 30th April(noon) with winners being announced at 4pm.
1st Prize: £100 of crafty goodies
2nd Prize: £30 of crafty goodies
3rd Prize: £10 of crafty goodies
All you need to do is design a card made with products currently sold at The Papeterie with a Spring/Summer theme. Take them in to be displayed in store and we will also feature them on our website. Good Luck and have fun.

Home Sweet Home

Hello hello, it feels like ages since I blogged but it's only been a couple of days - I think it's cos I've been so busy. 
And I've learned something - if I need to go to any shop then I need to remember to leave Willow at home with dad! She came with me yesterday when I popped over to The Papeterie and she proceeded to waltz round the shop filling a basket - she's becoming quite the wee crafter but she's costing me a fortune. But she has quite good taste, and I like the kanban stamps she picked out - you'll be seeing them soon.
The girls and I got our hair cut today, I bit the bullet and got about 6 inches hacked off mine - it was getting wayyyyyyy too long and unruly. Faith has decided she doesn't like her photograph taken anymore, and for someone who practically sticks her face up to the lens whenever a camera comes out this is quite a change of tune. And I took some sneaky ones of Willow, she looks so different with her hair straightened, I think she looks so grown up...

Now I should really have blogged this project when I made it, because I hung it up on my wardrobe door and forgot all about it - duh!
Now this gorgeous project is part of the Home Sweet Home ribbon kit from Angel Crafts...

Home Sweet Home chipboard shapes, white sheer ribbon with red dots, red sheer ribbon with white dots, red and white ricrac, red gingham ribbon are all from the HSH ribbon kit - all i added was white acrylic paint and some red flock to the roof and heart shapes.
Here's a close up to show you the pleated sheer ribbon, the ricrac and the flocked shapes.

I'm hoping to get some more samples made up tonight and tomorrow, and my mum and dad are coming to visit tomorrow - no rest for the wicked eh? lol