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Wednesday, 30 July 2008

A Peary Merry Christmas!!!

Oh gawd.........that title is soooooo scraping the bottom of the barrel......LOL!!!

Here is one of the cards I have made for the Bondaweb class tomorrow.
At last I have my bird Cuttlebug folder and I have used this on some Coredinations cardstock which I sanded lightly and then dabbed over with a gold Brilliance ink pad.
The pear is a Cricut shape from the Joys Of The Season cartridge which I used as a template to draw around onto chipboard.
Once cut out of the chipboard I added a couple of coats of gesso and then used Adirondack inks in butterscotch, caramel and ginger to add colour to the pear.
Once dry I overstamped with a music image using the caramel ink pad which isn't showing too well in the photo. I may change that to ginger in the class tomorrow.
Next thing was to cut a piece of Bondaweb to the shape of the pear.....omitting the leaf and melt it onto the shape. This was then brushed with bronze and gold Perfect Pearls and reheated.
I stamped the card blank with the music image and gold Brilliance and smudged some ginger ink around the edges before layering the card and finishing with a stamped and layered sentiment.
The music stamp is from one of my Prima sets and the greeting is just a small cheapo stamp I picked up from somewhere.

I often get asked where I buy my Bondaweb so here are the details.
I use Therm O'Web Heat and Bond Ultra which is available from Hobbycraft....usually in the sewing department. It comes in either a one metre pack or a roll. If you buy the lightweight one it doesn't work quite so well as it tends to heat away to nothing if you are not careful.

I will try at some point to do a step by step tutorial with pictures for this technique in the daylight as the light in my room at night is not brilliant until hubby gets around to doing something about it for me.

Thanks for dropping by.
Sheila-x-

Tuesday, 29 July 2008

Sorry-Christmas Again!!!

Sorry for the lack of blog posts the last couple of days. The heat is making me cranky and all out of whack with myself. I just can't concentrate on anything much at all except trying to cool down.........even resorting to wearing wet t shirts........Ooooo'er Mrs!!!...............LOL.
Despite the heat the ladies in my two classes today have been elbow deep in Christmas cards and the card above is one we made with the Holly Doodles stamp set I designed for TandaStamps last year.
The card design is new and I have used the Swiss Dots Cuttlebug folder to emboss onto Poinsettia Coredinations cardstock which has then been lightly sanded.
The holly image has been stamped and embossed onto a piece of the same card and then again onto a piece of designer paper from Making Memories. We cut out those leaves and added them over the other image on foam pads. A bit of matting and layering with a squeeze or two of stickles and the job was done.
Just want to say a huge THANK YOU to the lovely Judith who had read about my struggle with the heat and came to the class armed with a Sheila Cooling package of a face spritz, a 4711 Ice cooling stick and a pulse point lavender gel. I was really touched. Judith you are a star!!!

Well I have to get back to work now. I need to design a couple of new cards with the Bondaweb technique ready for a class on Thursday. Once that is done I have three days off and hopefully will spend the weekend stamping and getting messy now that I am getting more comfortable in my workroom. I am still a very untidy crafter and I don't suppose that will ever change so most days I have to clear my work table before I can even think about doing anything........lol!!! Trying to train myself to be better but you know what they say about teaching old dogs new tricks....ha ha ha!!!

Thanks for dropping by.
Sheila-x-

Saturday, 26 July 2008

Such A Lucky Mum!!!

I don't know what I did to deserve her but every day with my daughter is like Mother's Day. Not that she buys me stuff every day you understand but today she went out and got me something I have had my eye on for a little while. I badly wanted the Klimt Bauble UM stamp set by Elusive Images last Christmas but had bought so many stamps already that I couldn't justify getting them. So my angel saw them in town today and bought them for me...........she is just so fab......fancy her remembering that I wanted them.
It's looking like the space I have freed up by sorting out stamps for the car boot is going to be filled up again quite quickly......LOL!!!
Not had much time for cardmaking today and I really wanted to finish off the things I started yesterday but hubby wanted a barbecue so I have been making marinades and salads for that. Then I finished packing and loaded up the car for tomorrow as we will have to leave home at about 6:15am.........arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrgh!!!
Going to put my feet for a bit now.
Bye for now
Sheila-x-

Friday, 25 July 2008

Roll On Winter!!!

Coo this heat is killing me. I am thinking the move upstairs may not have been such a good idea......it is soooooo hot up there and I have spent today trying to work through a banging headache as I am packing up lots of goodies for the car boot sale on Sunday.
Sorry I have no cards to post. I have made quite a few but they are not quite finished as I got a bit excited yesterday playing with my new Scor Pal. Takes a bit of getting used to but so far I think it's fab.

So any crafters in the Leicestershire, Staffordshire, Derbyshire areas looking for bargains this weekend....get yourselves down to the Car Boot Sale at Moira Miners Welfare. It is advertised as opening at 9am but I think they let people in before then as far as I remember. DD and I will be there [unless the weather is going to be really bad] and we have lots of bargains. DD has given up jewellery making and has mountains of beads for sale.
I have loads of papercrafting items including grab bags of unmounted stamps.

Bye for now.
Sheila-x-

Wednesday, 23 July 2008

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-