Day Off

I decided to do the ironing the end last night and no crafting at all. I have a couple of busy days ahead of me. Thursday and Friday I am at management conference at the Eden Project in Cornwall that my company is organising. And then we are off on our family hols at the weekend - nothing too glam, just to Jersey. Wednesdays are my day off, so I should be busy packing but no my lovely Bellas have kept me occupied and I have made another card for the UKS September challenge. But I was good, I did do the housework first!!! Of course I should be concentrating on coming up with a design for my christmas cards. I have been looking at all my stash, but nothing seems to fit the bill - they have to be glitzy!!!

So my card is using DCWV Pocket Full of Posies paper, lilac pearlescent card that I embossed using my new Sizzix Texturising plates. I have watercoloured Winobella in orange and did her dress frill using a purple Sakura glitter pen. The glasses are also coloured using the clear Sakura pen and the bottle, I coloured using a green Sakura Glaze pen. I then added a Bazzill Bling flower with a couple of paper flowers in the middle all attached using a purple crystal brad. Added a couple of rub on sentiments et voila!!! Quite pleased with this one - I like the bright colours!!!

I did a christmas card the other day for the same challenge.

Welcome

Hi to anybody who is reading my very first attempt at a blog.

I love visiting the UK Scrappers website http://www.ukscrappers.co.uk/ - I was bought a Craft Robo (or Robo Cop as I like to call it) by my darling husband a couple of months ago and I was advised to use this website as there is always plenty of help to be found on there - and what good advice it was. I have downloaded numerous templates for the Robo Cop and have actually made some of my own after following all the fabby tutorials.

Then I started looking at other forums on the site and have got a bit addicted to the card making one. I love entering the challenges and have made several cards for them. My favourite to date was for the September challenge using a sketch from the Page Maps site http://www.pagemaps.com/. I made a monochromatic card using Doodlebug papers, glittered butterfly stamps, Bazzill card and a dreaded peel off!!

I am hoping this blog will encourage me to keep making cards so that I have something to post on to my blog. So please keep revisiting my blog to see what I get up to. I hope it isn't too boring and hopefully as my card making skills improve you will start to see some fabby cards.

Right I am off to colour some beautiful Bella stamps that I bought from First Class Crafts http://www.firstclasscrafts.co.uk/ on Friday which popped through my door on Saturday morning - what service eh?