Orange Cupboard!

Thought I'd post my 'cupboard' picture as I forgot to take it to the meal last week.

After Anne's 'cupboard' experience in Paignton I promised I would show everyone a pic of an Easyhotel room!! They are obviously sold as budget rooms, this cost £30 I think for one night - room only! TV and windows were extra.

The pic on the left is stood in the doorway looking right.
The pic on the right is me then squashed in the far corner of the bed looking at the door.
Strangely enough I couldn't find an angle to get the bathroom in, it is almost like a portaloo (including shower) experience and is immediately opposite the door.

Not a lot else you can say really but for central London for one night after getting back late from seeing my favourite George Michael it did the job and we trotted off to Starbucks for brekkie the next morning.

Deer Friends

As promised, this is another bestseller this year, another clear stamp from the Smirk range, with a rather amusing line underneath.

The stamped image has been coloured in copics, and layered on red card.

The base card has a piece of cuttlebug snowflakes layered on it, then wrapped in some fab spotty ribbon.

Another cheery (yet quick) card.

Must crack on with some more orders!

Smirk Christmas

Todays entry (so Janet doesn't complain again!!) is a bestseller for this year!!

It uses one of the rather amusing Smirk Christmas clear stamps. I have simply stamped this and cut out with an oval punch, then coloured with copics and used Anita's gems for the baubles.

The card has a few versamark snowflakes on and a peel-off to finish.

Hopefully this one will make people smile! I'll add another one of my Smirk cards tomorrow (when I have a picture that isn't wonky!).

More Christmas

Still on a selection of my Christmas offerings I have been peddling at work!

This one uses the Church from Stampin Up Silent Night set which I stamped in Brilliance Pearlescent Beige on cream card. I then used some ivory flower soft for a subtle snow effect.

This is then just simply layered with a strip of cuttlebug snowflakes at the side and a stamped greeting.

Lots of orders to sort at the weekend and sold another 2 A4 cards today (the blokes at work like to buy large cards with names on which is kind of handy!).

Come back tomorrow to see what I've found for Janet then!!

Post for Janet

Janet kindly pointed out to me this evening that I had been rather slack on posting!! In my defence I have to say I have been busy (in between working) with christmas card orders for work.

I have added a couple here, they aren't the fanciest cards, but for work they have to be something that I can repeat and won't take days to make.

The Forever Friends card is A4 and uses a sheet of the 'Santa's on his way' paper pack. I've added some stickles, funky foam snowflakes and a bit of glamour dust and a greeting which I've layered. Quite effective for a quick card.

The second card is the lovely iris folded tree that Janet demonstrated at craft club.

Again, I made this with colours I know I can duplicate several times, a strip of cuttlebug snowflakes and the great Stampin Up punches with a greeting on. I really like this design too.

I have made more cards, I will see what else I can blog and then somehow hope to get some more special cards made before Christmas - which is now much closer than I really realised I think!

Enjoyed our lovely Christmas Crafty meal at Prezzo this evening and thanks for the lovely cards I received.

Jill

Parchment

Just a quick report on our weekend away - and a finished project!

Had a very good time in Paignton at a parchment weekend with Christine Coleman and Alison Yeates. I haven't completely stuck this project down in case I decided to add any subtle colouring round the border.

We started on the outside border which took some time. Then the inner border which drove me nuts and seemed to go on forever. After all that work we were then horrified that we had to emboss the rose in the middle. After a 'practice' rose we all went for it and were pretty pleased with the results I think. I certainly learnt alot about embossing and used several tools I had never had before (I do now!!).

Our practice rose then turned into our second masterpiece, with mixed results and much more frustration I think. This still needs to be finished so won't get posted for a few days as I have a few things I really must sort out - although I have had a small go at it since I got back.

I am certainly itching to play with lots now, even though I think we must of clocked up about 20 hours of parching at the weekend, might even of been more if we hadn't had a couple of traumas just before midnight on Saturday - possibly played too long that day!

Many thanks to Anne, Karen and Janet for their company and Karen for the lifts and excursion to Totnes for supplies. We certainly enjoyed ourselves and will always have a giggle at Anne's 'cupboard' and the hokey cokey mints for some time to come I think.

Christmas

Finally I have stopped feeling quite so ropey and had a birthday card breather so I can make a few christmas cards.
Started with the lovely Penny Black fantasy tree which I have had all year (yet again with visions of being very organised for xmas, ahh well!).

It was stamped in versamagic chalk white on to black and accented with black diamond and frosted lace stickles.

Also stole Mum's cuttlebug to add a background of snow dots, some great spotty ribbon and used the fab Stampin Up oval punch set for a greeting.

The card was also finished with the fab card candy from craftwork cards.

I had to then use something cute for my next card!

Found these Penny Black chaps in a bargain bin (so I had to!). Coloured them with copics and used glamour dust to accent the hats. Some Papermania background paper and card candy were used for fun and a Hobbyart word stamp - a card that makes you smile I think!

Lots more to play with - must crack on!