Just Too Embarrassing!!!

OK........so today is obviously National Dork Day and I am honouring it all by myself.......lol!!! I seem to have gone and deleted some of the pictures from my blog by accident......like my header......duh!!!
I was fiddling about in my Picasa thingy last night and there were some pics that had like 6 images so I deleted 5 and it looks like I maybe shouldn't have done that. I'm all in a grump now as I could without spending time putting it all back but I will because it just looks odd. In future I will be keeping well away from my picture gallery.
ETA.......how strange..........pictures are back and I didn't have to do anything..yay!!!

I bet you're all thinking that I have posted a very strange card tonight but you know I am always going on about my addiction to paper and various other crafty materials......well tonight I have had a very big sort out of my paper stash as I have an alcove upstairs which I want to use just for storing paper and I though that if I sort it properly now that it will save me a job when I finally get up there. So this box which measures about 13 x 18 inches is just a tiny part of my stash. This is all of my paper pads and stash of 12 x 12 which has been cut in half.......originally to fit in a drawer.
Then I also have four 12 x 12 storage cases that are full to bursting. One for Basic Grey, one for K & Co, one full of the paper from Costco and one full of assorted companies........and that is only what I have sorted so far........lol!!!
I did manage to get away from work today without buying too much.....just a 6x6 BG Two Scoops pad.....and maybe I bought two boxes of Doodlebug Paper Frills. I might even have bought a PM Craft Tote in pink and brown and there could possibly have been a couple of storage boxes and a set of BG Stamps........but shhhhhhhh don't tell hubby as he is going to have to carry it all upstairs.

I'm going to get off to bed now so that I can get up at a reasonable time in the morning. I may be able to start my painting later in the day so I need to get my other jobs done in the morning.
Bye for now
Sheila-x-

Fancy Pants!!!

Does everybody have days when they feel like they are going to disappear up their own wahoo? The last two days have certainly seemed like that for me and I am absolutely cream crackered.
Good excuse then to come home from work and get stuck in to some stamping and design a card for my workshop tomorrow to replace the one I was going to do but can't because all the things I was going to use have sold out. The ladies that are coming do have this set of Fancy Pants stamps and would like some ideas for using it .

I am really loving turquoise and red at the moment so I have stamped this stunning corner stamp onto a square of Basic Grey Charmed from the Blush collection....soooo yummy.
I have then taken a piece of chipboard and stamped the large flower image in a very pale chalk ink........just enough to give me the shape of the flower to cut around.
The flower was then inked with a red pigment ink and embossed with UTEE twice.
After it had cooled right down I added more red ink and sprinkled with gold detail EP and then dipped again into UTEE and heated.
While still hot I sprinkled black detail EP into the centre and out onto the petals and heated again.
The flower was glued to the card with thick tacky glue.
I don't think it needs anything else on it really but I shall keep looking at it while I am working and decide if it does.

I have done a few classes at the shop lately using the Wax Paper Resist technique and the ladies have been having trouble finding the wax paper. My friend Kerry very kindly e mailed me to say that she has found some HERE Thanks a million Kerry.

I can't believe I have only just noticed that my Blog Counter has gone through 50,000. I'd best sort out some Blog Candy........keep your eyes peeled for that. It may not be for a week or so as we are awaiting a delivery of utter gorgeousness at the shop and I'm sure there will be something fab in it for a prize.
Thank you so much to everyone who visits and especially to those who return again and again.

Well best go and get my class packs ready and then I am going to pack some more stuff into boxes to go upstairs.

Bye for now
Sheila-x-

Flying Visit!!!

Sorry this is such a quick post tonight but I am soooooooo tired. Had a very busy day and didn't get home until 6:30pm which is way later than usual.
So I am just posting this quickie card I made...........those DCM'ers have started something now. I am timing myself on just about every card I make since the Friday dare..........lol!!! This one took me all of twenty minutes.

Off to bed then.
Night night.
Sheila-x-

It's All Gone Pear Shaped!!!

I had the urge to do something messy after doing cards for the local shop for most of the weekend and here are the results.
The background is Distress Inks which have been spritzed with water and then a copper Moonglow Spritz.......this doesn't show too well in the photo though.
Once dry I stamped the foliage which is a stamp from a Fancy Pants 12 x 12 set. I have then embellished it by drawing an inner line to the leaves and swirls in the berries with a gold gel pen.
The Magenta Florentine stamp has been stamped and embossed using Versamark and then a mixture of gold and copper EP's.
I then decided to add a text background and stamped the Rubbadubbadoo text using Saddle Brown StazOn.
The pear is a die cut from the Cricut cartridge 'Joys Of The Season' which has been coloured using a variety of ink pads and Moonglow Spritz. I then stamped over it using a crackle stamp......unknown make.
Three paper fasteners were added to fill in the top corner.
The final card measures 5 x 7.
I hope you like it.

Well the builder has been and looked at the two jobs we need doing and we should get the quotes tomorrow and an idea of when the work can start. The steps are the most important as the old ones are quite dangerous now.

Hubby hasn't been too well all weekend. He had a dizzy spell at work on Friday night and had to be driven home but refused to either call out the doctor or go to the hospital. I have insisted that he goes to the surgery tomorrow as this is the second time that this has happened recently and I am very worried because he is just never ill........ever. He has worked at his job for 28 years with not a single day off sick. He does have trouble with his ears now and again so although I would prefer that there was nothing wrong with him I am thinking that it may be Labyrinthitis or something like it.

DD took me out for an airing yesterday and we ended up at Bridgemere.....we just like the drive there. She treated me to a set of 36 tubes of acrylic paints and a bottle of black gesso which I am dying to use but am resisting until I get upstairs and have got a bit of room to spread out. I bought a stamp for 29p, a reel of gold and a reel of silver very fine wire in the sale at £1.49 and a Sizzlit die of a lily flower.......hey big spender....lol!!! I need to save a bit of money for my island work unit so thought I had better be good.

Anyway I am off to me bed after a nice cuppa as I have work in the morning. Where did the weekend go?

Night night
Sheila-x-

Tagged!!!

I've been tagged by Susan but I will let her off as I haven't been tagged for quite a while..........lol!!!

I have to answer five questions and then tag five more people so here goes.......


TEN YEARS AGO........

Oh how difficult to remember. I was working at a garden centre as a display co-ordinator where I designed and built all the seasonal displays.....yep I am a dab hand with a drill.
I think our holiday that year was to Port Grimaud in France but not totally sure without dragging out the photo albums. I may be a year out either way.
My baby girl was 18 in the January.
I lead such a boring life that this is all I can remember.

FIVE THINGS ON TODAY'S 'TO DO' LIST...........

1 Sweep and mop the kitchen floor and clean living room.
2 Make a card for DS's 25th birthday tomorrow and a new home card for him for when he moves out on Friday.
3 Pack some more stuff away for the move.
4 Meeting with builder who is going to build us some new steps in the garden and alter what is now my workroom to make a utility room.
5 Pack the stuff I need to take to work tomorrow.


Snacks I Enjoy.........

I'm not really much of a snacker so I'll just say my favourite meal at the moment which is Reduced fat Cathedral City cheese with mixed leaf and raw beetroot salad, pineapple and a small chunk of crusty bread.


THINGS I WOULD DO IF I WAS A MILLIONAIRE...........

I'd give a good chunk of it to charities and buy our kids a house each. Then with what was left I would buy a place for us somewhere gorgeous in the country big enough to open a craft centre where I would do crafting holidays.


PLACES I HAVE LIVED.........

Staffordshire and Derbyshire..........how boring am I........lol!!!


OK so I am going to tag the following people...........

WENDY

DAWN

ELLEN

CHRISS

KIM

Thanks for dropping by.

Sheila-x-