Ooooop's...I Did It Again!!!

These stamps arrived at the shop today and were obviously orphans looking for a new Mummy to love and cherish them.........how lucky was I that they chose me........lol!!!

Aren't they just gorgeous? You can click on the pics for a closer look.

All I need now is some time to have a play with them.

The Artemio sets are about A5 size and are £8.99 a set.....what fantastic value eh?

No cards to post tonight as unfortunately the heat today just about slaughtered me and all I was fit for when I got home was a lie down on the bed near an open window......and guess who fell asleep and didn't wake up until nearly 10pm.
Hubby has gone to bed now as he is on an early shift so I don't want to start with the heat gun and stuff. I am just going to creep quietly upstairs and maybe design some templates for new cards or sort out some files on my computer......I'll see what I feel like when I get back up there.
I hope it's a bit cooler tomorrow as I just don't cope very well with hot weather and I have a class with eight ladies in the afternoon.

Thanks for dropping by.
Sheila-x-

Snowing Again!!!

Who could ever get tired of making Christmas cards when you have this beautiful Basic Grey Figgy Pudding range of papers. Aren't they just yummy?
The card I have made today is a DL card but on it's side for a change and I used a compass to round off the end of the front flap for a slightly different look.
The snowman is the from one of the new clear stamp sets from Kars. I stamped and embossed him onto Ice Diamond card using Versamark and Winter Wonderland EP then gave him a pale wash of Adirondack Stream and painted the holly leaves a little darker. His nose is Sakura Glaze pen so it looks nice and shiny in real life.
Finished off with a snowflake brad, some hand drawn stitching and inking around the edge for definition.
The greeting is also from a Kars set which is all Christmas greetings.

Thanks for dropping by.
Sheila-x-

And So It Begins!!!

The 'C' word is starting to get mentioned an awful lot in conversations now at the shop so I thought I had best knuckle down and get some cards designed seeing as we have our first totally Christmas workshop on Thursday.
This one just sort of fell together all by itself really.......lucky for me........lol!!! I had this piece of Basic Grey paper on my desk which inspired the design.

Swirl is Bazzill cardstock cut with a Sizzix die. Tag is Sizzix too and has been covered with the reverse side of the paper used on the card. Stitching is hand drawn and then a pale wash of Adirondack Stream has been added around the edges and finished off with Stickles.
The snowflakes are stamped using an image from a new clear stamp set by Kars......a lovely little set which has the cutest snowman on it. They are stamped onto Overhead Projection Film for inkjet printers using Brilliance Moonlight White and embossed with Crystal powder. They have been cut out and attached to the tag with foam pads hidden behind the crystal centres.
Wording has been added with a tiny peg alphabet by Hampton Art which was 99p.

So........one down......gawd knows how many more to go........lol!!! Perhaps I shall feel a bit more in the mood for them once I have had my week's holiday in August.

Bye for now
Sheila-x-

Manic Does Housework!!!

Yep...........that's the shock/horror headlines on this blog today..............lol!!!
Now that my workroom is finished I thought I had best get to grips with all the jobs that have been put aside so I have spent a couple of days catching up with those......despite still having unplayed with stash. Still I have managed to get on top of the dust and had a bit of a play this afternoon using a new Cuttlebug die and embossing folder set. I had an order in for a wedding card so it was a good excuse to play with it.
The scallop circle and plain circle are Sizzix dies and the heart is the new CB die which you cut and then put into a small folder........and hey presto it embosses detail in just the right places. I added a few tiny punched flowers with crystals for the centres and that was that job done.
This will be a useful die for me as you know how much I hate making wedding cards.

We had such a performance with a lost order/delivery at work last week. We seemed to have been waiting a long time for the delivery so Deb phoned the company to see what had happened to it and to cut a long story short we were told that the delivery company had said that they had phoned us for a delivery time and that we had refused delivery...........I think not......we wanted that stash. So the company sent us a replacement delivery as our original order was stuck in Belgium. The order arrived overnight by last Saturday but there was so much stuff out of stock since our original order..........but then guess what..........Wednesday the original parcels arrived...much battered and some repacked.....even so we got all the stuff that was now out of stock and were able to take out some of the things that we had sold out of.
Unfortunately this means that I am now virtually destitute as I bought sooooo much stuff you wouldn't believe how much. Loads of new Cuttlebug stuff, about nine or ten sets of stamps, jars of gorgeous poinsettia flowers and tubes of paper flower, papers, packs of encaustic card (love this for inky backgrounds)..........and I can't remember what else.
Three of the new sets of stamps were from Prima and they are just yumptious but I didn't get to play with them yet......hopefully will sometime this week.

Well I am totally worn out with all the domestic activity so I am going to have a quick browse on some blogs and then I am off to bed.
Night night.
Sheila-x-

Pearly Celtic!!!

Here is the card I should have posted last night......sorry I was just too weary to come down two flights of stairs to the computer as I don't have internet access upstairs at the moment.
Anyway the technique for the celtic images is one of my favourites. The stamps are from Dovecraft and I have stamped and embossed them onto some smooth card using Versamark and clear embossing powder. Then I brushed colours from the Perfect Pearls patina set over the embossing and reheated it....gently so that the powder is absorbed into the embossing. The colours went perfectly with this paper from K & Co.

Right well DD is cooking my tea so I had best go and book an ambulance.......lol!!!
Might be back later as I am off to play with my new stamps from Prima after tea.
Bye for now.
Sheila-x-