Reward Offered For Return Of My Mojo!!!

Well I don't know where it's gone but my mojo has definitely not been here at home with me this weekend. I've not felt too fab since coming home so tired on Wednesday night....must be my age. I don't feel ill.....just a bit out of whack.
Everything I have done in the way of stamping has ended up in the bin or the recycling box. I think maybe I was trying too hard so I stopped and made up a few cards to put in the stand at the local shop using my PC Crafter Creatables instead.
Images are from Whimsical Seasons.
I have just started a vintage card which seems to be going alright so far.....fingers crossed!!!

I'm off for a veg on the sofa for half an hour and then I had best get my stuff ready for work.
Bye for now
Sheila-x-

Whacked On Wednesday!!!

Cor blimey.......don't know what's up with me tonight but I felt absolutely shattered after I got home from work.
Managed to get my prep done for tomorrow's class and was just about to have a fiddle with something else when all the power went off. Had to negotiate two flights of stairs in the pitch black and then try to find some candles and something to light them with. Luckily power was back within half an hour but I've gone off the idea of starting anything now. Hubby is due home soon and we need to sit and have a serious chat about something so I am going to call it a day upstairs.

I have had a couple of queries regarding Bertha Big Bite......lol!!! Bertha is the new Mark 2 Cropadile which has a six inch reach rather than the one inch reach of the Mark 1 and it's proper name is a Big Bite. It punches holes in two sizes and sets eyelets and gromlets. Please don't search for it under the name Bertha. I name all of my big tools........Jimminy (Cricut), Sidney (Sizzix), Sally (Sidekick) etc.......just me being mad as usual.

Time to put the kettle on I think so see you tomorrow.
Bye for now.
Sheila-x-

Hero Arts Collage Christmas!!!

Today's card is one I have been rolling around in my head for a couple of days.

Although I like collage stamps I have to admit to prefering individual stamps to make up my own collages but I did rather like this HA stamp.

I just wanted a fairly simple look without a lot of colour so I have stamped and embossed in silver onto a gunmetal grey pearlised card. Trimmed and mounted the panel onto Bazzill-Rain (my favourite colour) and then removed the scene panel.

Stamped another scene panel onto the non textured side of a scrap of Bazzill-Rain using a black ink pad and then coloured the snow areas with a white gel pen before adding Frosted Lace Stickles using a fine paintbrush. The picture is tiny and applying the Stickles from the bottle just swamped it.

Added punched snowflakes and gems and a touch of glitz to the holly berries with the Stickles.

Paper is K & Co from the Peppermint Twist range and I added the punched border by marking with a pencil and punching with Bertha Big Bite.

It turned out exactly as I wanted it to first time....no embarrassing mistakes in the bin.......lol!!!

Hope you like it.

Thanks for dropping by.

Sheila-x-

Tidy......Moi.......Oh Yes!!!

Sorry no pics to blog tonight.........I have spent all day tidying up my workroom ready for going back to work tomorrow (can't believe 12 days have gone already). I shall need to be a bit organised as we have quite a few classes booked and prep is a nightmare if my work area is too untidy.
Didn't get everything done that I wanted to while I was off. Just felt too lacksadaisical and I think I was a bit over ambitious thinking that I would get all of the decorating done as it is a lot bigger job than I had anticipated. Ah well there are always the weekends and as long as it is done before Christmas I am not too fussed.
Right I am off for a bath and a read and then I have to prep for my class tomorrow afternoon as far as I can. I can only do so much as I have run out of the Basic Grey paper I need so will have to finish off at the shop in the morning while Deb does her class.
Bye for now
Sheila-x-

Festive Bling!!!

Card background, snowflake border and bauble images all stamped using a stamp set by Artemio and black Brilliance ink.
Scallop and plain circle dies-Sizzix.
Thanks for looking.
Sheila-x-