I Remembered!!!

Here are the cards I should have bought home on Monday to photograph. Can you spot my once a year foray into the world of teabag folding. Thank goodness it's over and done with.
Love this set of Christmas stamps from Inkadinkado and the paper which is a Francoise Read design from Woodware. I think it's discontinued now but we still have a good stock at the shop as we liked it a lot.......and bought a lot.
All stamping is onto silver card using Versamark ink and Winter Wonderland embossing powder.
The tiny card in the middle is a Scrapling which is the piece cut from the bottom of an A5 card blank when I make a large square card. I'm OK making the cards.......love them in fact.......but now I have to make an envelope to fit them and I ain't so good at making envelopes......lol!!!

Set myself on with a right old job at the shop today. I sorted out the peeloff stand and made header cards for each section to make it easier to find things when people ask for a specific sheet. Hope Deb approves when she sees it tomorrow. A couple of customers did comment how organised it was so it was a job worth doing.

When I got home I had to make a sympathy card as one of hubby's workmates has lost his wife. So sad. She was only a few years older than me.

Just waiting for His Nibs to come home and then I am off back upstairs to finish tidying up. Don't know if I'll get anything else made tonight as I have made quite a mess shifting furniture around.

Thanks for dropping by.
Sheila-x-

Silly Old Bat!!!

Made some cards at work yesterday and thought I had put them in my bag to bring home and photograph........and I hadn't.......arrrrrrrgh silly old buffer!!!
I've been at home today (Tuesday) and not really made anything worth blogging. Just some stock for the local shop.......quick and easy and using up the last of some DCWV Nana's Kids paper I had.
Other than that I have been very housewifey today and did a cooked meal for tea and marinated and cooked some chicken to go with some salad for tomorrow nights tea. I am mightily impressed with meself as I am not usually so organised but DD has to fetch me from Ashby on Wednesday's so a quick tea is essential when she has to get ready to go to work herself.
Two more days at work and then I have thirteen days off. I am going to Arstairs......to finish off the decorating.........lol!!!
DD is on a rest week so we have made a plan and we're determined to stick to it.
Hubby has been threatened with dire consequences if he starts ordering complicated meals to take me away from my wallpapering.
Well I am off to get some sleep.....all this domestic activity has quite worn me out.
Bye for now
Sheila-x-

Ollyphant Autumn!!!

Took a day off yesterday and went out for a ride with DD. She took me to Bridgemere Garden Centre for one of their fabulous breakfasts and then we went a wander around the centre. Wow.....has it changed since the last time I went. They now have an Edinburgh Woollen Mill outlet, Cotton Traders, The Works and a second tearoom.
It was fabulous. DD got a couple of bargains from Cotton Traders and I just bought a craft magazine from HobbyCraft but it was nice to get out and away from work for a bit.
There was a man there from a Birds Of Prey rescue centre and I got to hold the most beautiful, enormous owl I have ever seen. He was called Muggle and I just wanted to bring him home and cuddle him.

Well onto the card. Yes the stamp is cute and so not my sort of thing but I have purchased a couple of these sets from Kars to practice my Gamsol and Promarker Techniques. They are quite good value for money as on most of them there are two figures plus accessory stamps.
The stamping is done onto a 4 inch Sizzix circle and layered onto the Sizzix scallop.
Colouring is done with crayons and low odour thinners.
Cardstock is Core'Dinations........no surprise there......lol!!!
Papers are Graphic 45 and MM.

I didn't come on the computer at all yesterday so I think I will have a browse around before I go up and get some work done.
Thanks for dropping by.
Sheila-x-

Golden Wedding Card-3!!!

Should have posted this yesterday but by the time I got home from work I was fit for nothing as it had been so hot in the shop and my head ached something chronic.
Today is lovely though. We have had a good old storm this morning which has cleared the air a bit thank goodness and it's quite cool now.

I don't think the card needs much explanation but the background is done on the Scor-Pal. Hearts are Sizzix and numbers are Sizzix Girls Are Weird Sizzlet Alphabet.

Just having a spot of lunch and then I am off upstairs to create......hopefully......lol!!!
Bye for now.
Sheila-x-

Golden Wedding!!!

Two of the golden wedding cards I made for an order this week.

The top card is a pair of champagne glasses from the Cricut Wedding Solutions cartridge but I have cut the tops off and added a layer of acetate to adhere the gem bubbles to.

The train pic was on my computer but I don't know where it came from. It was coloured so I altered it in my photo programme to be sepia toned and then cut and decoupaged the layers.

I've really had enough of this heat now. It makes me feel quite poorly and I haven't got anything done in the way of samples at the shop today because my head just would not work. Anyway the fan is on full blast upstairs so I might go up and faff around a bit now I am a bit cooler.

Bye for now.
Sheila-x-