More Chevrons!

Told you I love this die at the moment! This card is for the dies to Die for challenge here. Love the sentiment too. Paper/card SU, Die-namics chevron die, MFT stamp set and die - both from dies to die for.

Castle Card

A card for my neice - 6 yesterday. Using some papermaina papers, butterfly cut out and mounted for dimension, with a little bling for good measure. PTI circle dies (plain and zig zag) and framed out, along with die-namics chevron dies (again).

40th Birthday Card

Well, the kids are back at school, and the cupboards and fridge re-stocked, so I thought I'd take a break from clearing and sorting to play with my new die-namics dies that arrived this morning.

This is a card for my sister-in-law who turns 40 this coming weekend.

Brighter than what I usually go for, but I think it works well. After all, I have a mountain of card I really should use.

Die-namics dies - chevrons (love these, and I can see a few more cards using them coming up) and numbers

PTI - limitless layers dies and framed out #1 die and stamps

SU - cameo coral, pumpkin and summer sun card and inks.

More Ramblings

Not too much crafting has gone on around here lately. We decided to take the plunge and actually move the kids into seperate rooms - something we've been talking about now for some time (at least 12mths?).

So, the small pink one emptied her room out into the living room. We (mostly hubby) painted, and moved the big blue one into her old room. This involved lots of sorting, and a little 're-arrangement' of the bunk bed - it now only has a top bunk, and space underneath. So, son number 1 happy.

Meantime, son no. 2 and the pink one have been sharing the floor in the boys room. This was to be room no 2 to be decorated. So, it also needed to be emptied, allowing it to be 'pinked' up a little. Meantime all 3 are sleeping in the first bedroom to be done. I was relieved to come home from work to find most of the pink stuff in the pink bedroom - I'm fed up of tripping over her stuff, that in the week and a bit it took to get back into her new room had gradually been spilling all over the living room.

So, room no 3? Thats here. Where the pc is. So, phone line needs to be moved and lots of grown up stuff needs to be found a new home. Dispersed across the house. So, there is much sorting. I have a huge pile of paper recycling. Another huge pile of filing. And just 'stuff' to sort through. Still, we made a space on the floor for the middle one to sleep on. And I guess this week will see more sorting, a bigger recycling pile, and a full dustbin.

Oh, and jigsaws. The Easter weekend saw us completing (almost) lots of jigsaws, so we can pass them on. Now we have jigsaws all over the place too. With just 1 or 2 pieces missing. We keep hoping to find them, as we continue the whole sorting thing.

And odd socks. I was hoping that the big clear out would mean I could reduce my 'odd sock tally'. But no. It seems to have gone up from its average of 17 to 20. I have 20 odd socks. How can this be? Lets hope that further clearances can reduce this. I was kinda hoping the clearances would reduced this number to less than 10. Maybe even just 1 or 2. But no. Its still up there. 20. I guess I'll give the clearances a little longer, then call it a day, and bin them. I expect they'll turn up then.

Anyway, enough rambling. Stuff to sort. And kids to get ready for school again tomorrow. When at last I will have the house to myself. For a few hours anyway.

A London Themed Card

This is a card I made for a demo at work (shhh don't tell them, I've brought it home to photo - I'll have to take it back next week).


Its an easel card - you can see it a little more clearly from the side.

Papermania/Do Crafts, mostly from the portobello range, the acetate was a bit of packaging, stamped with stayzon ink in black.

A card

I have been doing a couple of demos at work in the last couple of months - for Do Crafts. I got given a big box of stash to work with. Most of what I've made is at work - I ought to bring it home and photo some of it. But this is one that I do have at home. Its all Papermainia products, apart from the sentiment, thats PTI. I used a card sketch from Clean and Simple Cardmaking.

Hopefully I'll get back into making at home soon. Just not feeling too inspired at the moment.

Pinterest and mad ramblings

No pics today. I joined pinterest. I've been pinning. But wondering if really, I should start making? And discovered this cool tool that lets you see if stuff has been pinned from your blog (waves a happy wave - hi guys). I was amazed I'd had stuff pinned. Wow! What an ego boost that was.

My current excuse is I've been ill. Perhaps not quite flu, but I've had aches, and temperature, and been completly knocked out (lost a few pounds too - always a bonus when your ill). I've had flu before, and thought I was dieing. I wasn't that bad this time. But I'm still completly exhausted. And my brain can't focus. I went shopping yesterday, made a list, and stuck to it. Normally I'll make a list, and ad-lib a little. Not yesterday. I'm sure I'll discover I'm short of stuff later in the week. Anyway, the weekly shop was cheaper than normal. Which is also worrying me. It does mean I have missed stuff off.

And I made a list of stuff to do today too. So far I've only managed the washing. But then thats a given, I have a special relationship with my washing machine. I feed it daily. It rewards me with clean damp clothing. I get twitchy if I'm running low on supplies for my washing machine. My children keep me well supplied with stuff to feed it with.

But I keep thinking I must make something, not just pin. Perhaps next week. When I'm feeling better. And all that excess cotton wool in my head is gone.