The Artful Cat

Cat - a small, soft-furred,four legged domesticated animal who, rightly or wrongly, believes in exercising superiority.

Today's crafting challenge has been - who will dominate the craft table. Obviously the cat believes that if you leave the table or chair it becomes theirs to lounge all over. Then the cat thought it would play a game - let's paw and bat the paper on the floor and watch my owner pick it up. I've given in, raised a white flag and resigned myself to watching Eragon with my son and having a glass of wine!!

BoBunny Bits and Bobs

Whoa what a week - 3 classes and a BoBunny demo. Thanks to a group of ladies who would call themselves 'The Card Making Virgins' I was set the challenge of showing them how templates work. So they selected making an elegant slipper from the toe tapper templates, and I introduced them to some of the BoBunny double sided card range including Beau Jardin, Splendor, and My Darling. They were delighted with their cards.



I also must confess that I am a bit of a magpie for craft products with wow packaging and BoBunny have sets of co-ordinated tins with brads, flowers and scrummy buttons. The tins are shiny, useful and have magnetic bases - perfect for stacking more of those bits and bobs.
Any way will leave you with a selection of cards made using some of the products from inside the tins!!


Wishing you a Happy Crafting Week.

More Harlequin Rose

I have been like a child in a toy shop wanting everything out to play with at the same time. I'm so glad we (my husband and I) made an effort to tidy the house for Christmas! Nevermind I did say to myself that the craft stash cupboard needed a sort out.Anyway let me introduce you to more Harlequin Rose - she's a FABULOUS plate of stamps for every hungry stamper out there. She works in any colour theme - black and white is SO classy, chocolate and teal so scrummy and a colour way I never really use shimmering pink and black.


And then we have hues of lilacs, greens and silvers - having looked at this colour combo I can see a new flower boarder in the garden this summer



Wishing you all a happy new year filled with creativity to do those things you love.

Hommage To Dawn...

One of our fellow demonstrators Dawn set the crafting marathon off with a version of a stationery box she had made just before Christmas. Well here is our version, using the new Harlequin Rose stamps from Elusive Images. I'm going to put a set of stationery items inside but as yet the stamps are not released so we will have to wait and see.
Thanks for Looking - more tomorrow

Im so excited!

Why? well today is the official start to my 'me time crafting space' My friend Siggy is as I speak travelling from Kent and we are aiming for a crafting marathon. I even ventured into my hiding hole where I keep my secret stash of specialness and have brought out some gorgeous papers and stamps. Perhaps I need to attend a paper stroking clinic!!Hopefully we will be able to upload some of our creations.
I also wanted to say thankyou to all who have blog read, blog commented and blog encouraged over the past few months since I started, and to those ladies who have attended workshops thank you for your continued enthusiasm. Here's to a New Year with the prospect of even more exciting goodies.

The Faerie and the Unicorn

If you're still looking for the unicorn she's on the front of the boxed card guarding the entrance. The stamps are from Elusive Images and the castle was cut from the paper dolls cricut cartridge and layered up and them glimmer misted.
I keep promising myself that tomorrow I will make the family christmas cards but like tomorrow they never quite appear!!! It's a good job we're still in the season of Advent - a time of preparation - there's plenty to do
Happy Advent

Snowy Play Days

Well what a day - I was woken up at 4.30pm by a snoring husband who was so obviously enjoying his sleep that he insisted on sharing it with the whole house. Unable to go back to sleep I sat and watched the snow fall - it was so peaceful until the dog decided it wanted to play snowball fights at 6.30am !!
That was it I had gone passed a set of stamps and a cricut machine. It had to be done, I could watch the snow and play. Here is something I put together for Graphicus Open Day tomorrow (a sneeky peek)I used Joys of The Season cricut cartridge
Looking forward to seeing you there