K & Co Card!!!

A friend managed to pick me up one of the reduced packs of K & Co papers that were about a couple of months ago and the paper I have used for this card was in it. Such gorgeous colours and I love the images on it.

I've spent most of today sorting out stuff for a class tomorrow......that's if it's going ahead. I haven't heard from Deb and I don't like to ring her as she wasn't very well when she got back from her holiday. She caught quite a nasty cold.

I have also been sorting out my rather embarrassingly large stash of flowers and putting them into colour co-ordinated bags so that I just need to get out the colour I need rather than having to search every packet for the right one.

I am redesigning my workroom and as soon as I can afford it I am going to replace my mish mash of units with a couple of Expedit units from Ikea and fill it with gorgeous red boxes to hold all my stuff. Everything will be labelled and I shall be able to find any little thing I need..........well that's the theory anyway.........lol!!!

Right.....I'm off to tidy up, pack my bag and make some more cards.

Thanks for your visit.

Sheila-x-

Angels!!!

Although I buy new stamps every year for Christmas I do have boxes full of old favourites which I will never part with even though they don't get used. Most of them are good old fashioned rubber on a solid wooden block and they will never see the inside of a microwave or touch an acrylic block as long as I have them. The stamp used for this card is one of them. It no longer gets used for classes or for my own cards but it was perfect for what I wanted to do today so out it came.

I have stamped the image onto the silver glitter card that doesn't shed it's glitter and embossed it with Seafoam White EP.

Once cool I have sponged over the whole piece with Memories die inks in Port Red and Hunter Green. These are quite dark colours when used on ordinary card but using them on the glitter card softens them........which is just what I wanted.

I then removed the inside of the halo area with a craft knife and matted the piece onto pure white glitter card and then silver before mounting onto a card blank of the silver glitter card.

The letters are DCWV left over from last year and they have been decorated with punched silver stars.

The picture is the best I could get on a murky and wet afternoon. The silver looks very dark here but IRL is much lighter.

I can't believe what hubby did today. He went and bought me the Kodak printer when he went out shopping this morning. He says it's my Christmas present. How bloomin' fab is he?

I hope it's OK as I have read some very mixed reviews on it.

Well I have made that one card today (couldn't be bothered with the ones I started yesterday) and you should see the flippin' mess I have made. There's stuff everywhere and I badly want to go and tidy up but DD and hubby want me to watch a film which I believe is a horror...........so guess who is going to be watching from behind a cushion....lol!!! I am such a wuss.

Hope you're having a great BH weekend.

Thanks for dropping by.

Sheila

Oh Good Grief!!!

I can't believe it's nearly a week since I blogged.
Well at least all the jobs that went by the board while I was looking after the shop have been caught up on now and I have been up in my room for a while today. Got a bit of sorting out done up there and also started some cards. Nothing finished yet but they will be tomorrow and then I'll have something to blog at last.
DD is going out tonight so hubby is treating me to fish and chips for tea and then we are going to watch a film..........and don't ask me what as I am too embarrassed to tell you........lol!!! Oh heck..........no it's not rude......lol..........just not my normal thing to watch.
I am loving this cooler weather. My feet are freezing and I have my fluffy socks on.....yay!!! Bring on the winter.
Thanks for dropping by.
Sheila-x-

Nearly There!!!

Hi There,
Apologies for the lack of anything crafty again. I have had such a busy week at the shop. Not only have I had lots of customers I have also changed the shop around a bit and had a good clean......made quite a few spiders homeless..yuck!!!
The only stamps I have touched have been the ones I have been moving or tidying.
I only have today off and then I am in for three more days until Deb is back in on Thursday so I am pretty whacked right now.
Stayed over at the shop on Friday night to get some of the messier moving finished but once it was dark I felt a bit uncomfortable being in a lit shop and went upstairs to settle down for the night. Oh boy I had forgotten how noisy towns are at night. So much screaming and shouting and the language......phew it just about singed my ears.......lol!!!
Don't know if I dare say this without touching wood but.....I have had a whole week without a migraine.....yay!!! The first whole week for ages.
Just finishing off the washing now and then I might manage an hour upstairs. Was hoping to spend the morning up there until dinner but DS put the kybosh on that by phoning to enquire........did I leave a pair of running shoes at home when I moved out? Hello..........you left home fourteen months ago son. Oooh he does make me laugh. Anyway he still popped round after work even though the shoes were nowhere to be found and he has taken off with me breadmaker. Be lucky if we see that again this side of Christmas. He borrowed a DVD of hubbys last Christmas.......one of his presents I might add........and we just got that back a couple of weeks ago.....lol!!!
Well I'm off as another load has just finished.
Thanks for dropping by.
Sheila-x-

ETA.......I meant to ask........does anyone have the Kodak ESP All in One Printer? Just wondering what it's like as I have my eye on it as a replacement for my Epson DX4450 which will no longer print properly.
I did speak to one lady who wasn't so keen on it as it wouldn't recognise the opacity level on some fadeout pictures she was doing. It just kept printing the original picture. She was using images from My Craft Studio so I was wondering if it's just that that is the problem or if anyone else has had the same problem with a different programme.
Any info would be appreciated before I part with any money.

Wax On......Wax Off!!!

A card made using the wax paper resist technique. This has been embossed in a Cuttlebug folder before being ironed onto the gloss card.

Chandelier stamp is from a Prima set of clear UM's.

Ink used is Adirondack Cranberry.

Well I am proper put out today. Can you believe that my hubby forgot to pick me up from work? What a plank!!!

He was nearly an hour late so with being late home I bet I won't get much crafting done tonight as my printer needs a bit of messing with. It's not working very well.

I have cleaned the print heads using the programme for my printer but it still has faint lines across anything printed off. Could do without having to buy a new one if this one decides it's had enough.

Thanks for dropping by.

Sheila-x-