I suddenly realised I had a birthday card to make, not easy to do when you're in christmas card mode, but despite that and the grey weather we are having I produced a hopefully cheeering card, now on with the christmas ones.My sewing machine is standing looking very neglected but It's no good starting stitching just yet so it must wait!!, it's day will come - after my holiday!!

She's so Cute!

Two christmas cards made using a Sarah Kay design rubber stamp , I know she's quite cute but I really like her, I'm in christmas card mode and trying to make a good few before I go off on a holiday soon, then hopefully when I'm home again I can get back to my stitching, the books and course work, luckily the course has no time limit so I should be ok. We had our new fire fitted today and the furniture should arrive beginning of november so we're getting there - slowly - I'm hoping to be all straight for christmas at least.

Ink Dusters

Ink dusters, or to me they just look like shaving brushes but they certainly do the job of applying ink and giving that faux brayer look. This card I did when we were having a cotswold craft night and I was so pleased with the result I really was guilty of boring Jan and Wendy with the finished card, I used my Hobby Arts - Scene it - stamps to add the finishing touches.
The photo is of Jan, Wendy and I on the park and ride bus going in to Oxford - not a craft shop in site tho'!

Altered Beermats

The theme for the latest Art n Soul challenge on flickr is an altered coaster, autumn/nature design.I covered a beermat with embossed metal, my favourite Cuttlebug owl folder, distressed it with black acrylic ink and added die cut metal leaves that had been alcohol inked for the autumn shades. The back of this mat is covered with backing paper as is the back page, I added blank pages to make it into a notebook.

Caravans,Cotswolds and Collage.

Just home from a lovely long weekend in the very wet Cotswolds with Jan and Wendy (links to their blogs in my right sidebar) and our other halves, despite the weather we had a lovely time with a visit to the Artisan stamping show near Warwick and crafty sessions in the caravans. I actually managed to complete a collaged board bag in vintage style, under Jan's tutelage, and we tried out our new stamps and ink brushes( that look very similiar to shaving brushes but with them you can get the brayering effect with out the brayer.) The bottom photo shows my new crafty goodies from the show - just a few.

Still Here??

I seem to be taking an unplanned blog break at the moment due to weekends away and 'life happening' and of course, to avoid wasting both fruit and veg, i'm still chutney making!! Hopefully next week i'll have something to post as i'll be spending a long weekend with Jan and Wendy and we've all packed our craft bags, we'll be off to a craft fair on friday so new goodies to play with as well. I treated myself to a Cricut machine a couple of weeks ago and haven't even had chance to play with it other than checking it was ok and in working order.

Back Home

. I found this lovely old photograph in a second hand book shop in Southport, i couldn't resist her and think she'll transfer very well to fabric for a future piece of work. We had a lovely week caravanning in Southport altho' the weather wasn't very kind to us, I spent time with Viv both crafting and shopping and we also included our OHs in the eating sessions. Home again to a very upset house, as we are waiting for new furniture to arrive and in some cases be chosen. I have a few projects on the go but nothing to be shown at the moment.