Create & Craft Shows...

Good Morning Everyone

I now have my show times for my fabulous Serif Pick of the Day next Tuesday!

I am soooo excited to show you these kits, each and every one is beautiful in it's own right and I just know that they will have your creative juices flowing and those crafty fingers itching to get started!

I know that there are lots of new Serif Craft Artist Professional users out there because you all grabbed it when it was free recently! So I will make sure I spend time showing the basic tools and then the more advanced, so it's a good idea to record some of the shows so you can watch back...

I also have a couple of Hunkydory shows on Monday too! I'm covering whilst Anne-Marie is swanning about in Florida on her honeymoon... I know she'll be loving it and I'm not jealous at all (well, maybe a bit! lol)

Anyhoo, here are my show times... Wednesday is a bit confusing so I'll try and do it the easy way! lol

Monday 14th - 5pm and 7pm on Create & Craft with Hunkydory

Tuesday 15th - Serif POD Launch at 9pm and then 11pm on Ideal World

Wednesday 16th - Serif POD 8am, 10am, 1pm, 4pm, 7pm (last chance) on Ideal World

Wednesday 16th - Serif POD 12noon, 3pm, 5pm on Create & Craft

Hopefully, I'll see you there!

Remember to email in to say Hi... I will give something away at the end of the pod... probably a collection of some of my samples and I'll be sure to sign them for you lol x

Here are a couple of layouts I've done as samples, to give you a taste of what's to come :-)

Happy Crafting!

Create & Craft Shows Next Week...

Evening All

What an incredibly busy few weeks I've had!

It seems ages since I was at Hayling Island, but my feet haven't touched the ground since the week before Hayling!

I love my job!

I just want to say a big thankyou to all the crafters who came to Hayling Island, I absolutely loved meeting you all... you were brilliant!

I also need to say thankyou to all my glamorous assistants who helped me set up and tidy up my workshops... :-)

So, after a fantastic 4 day deal on Create and Craft this week, next week I'm taking it easier.. well, that means I will be in the shop more, not actually resting lol! 

I have a few shows that I'm doing for Hunkydory and these are the times...

Tuesday at 12noon

Thursday at 11am

Friday at 8am

I'm also back for a fabulous Paperclinic on Monday 30th 11-1pm (loads of tips on this show!)

I will also be able to tell you about a fabulous Pick of the week show I have coming up in May, but not yet ;-)

Anyhoo

I'm off to have a cuppa and start planning my Craftathon at the shop which is next Sunday!!!

Happy Crafting!

Stampavie Card :-)

Evening All

As promised, here is the photo of the card  made using the stamp I coloured in last night..

I love the Stampavie stamps, so lovely to colour in and then the fun part of decorating the card around the image :-)

As usual, I have used my pro-markers, the border is from my Woodware Crafty Edger (also on the website) and the flowers are a Woodware Multi Flower punch (also on my website lol)

8x8 Kraft Card Blanks and the pink card is by Hunkydory (soon on the website lol)

I sell the polka dot ribbon by the reel too on my website lol :o)

Remember - have some Stampavie Stamps (Including this one) on my website... 

Quick Link here - Stampavie Stamps 

Hope you like it

Happy Crafting!

Create & Craft Shows...

Good Afternoon Everyone

Just a quick post to let you know about my Create & Craft shows this weekend...

I will be doing the Fabulous Hunkydory Blockbuster!!

If you haven't seen this yet.... I'll give you a tip... It's brilliant! Something for everyone!

And a fantastic, price!!

I will be on ..

Saturday at 12noon and 6pm

Sunday at 11am and 5pm

Hope you can watch :o)

Happy Crafting!

Cards from yesterdays show....

Good Evening Everyone

As promised, here are some photos of the cards I made on my Stampavie show yesterday...

I love Stampavie, so it was actually harder for me to choose which images I wanted to use as they were all lovely!!

Anyhoo, hope you like them :o)

If you want to know the names of the ones I used and which papers etc, give me a shout.

Happy Crafting!

New Scrapbook Page...

Good Evening Everyone

I thought I'd share this scrapbook page with you...

The photo is my favourite one from a whole load (that will no doubt be scrapped soon) that were taken on one of the Formal Nights when we were on our Hawaii'n cruise...

I have also used this photo to create a 3d frame (like the ones I do with Tilda and Edwin) as a gift to my partner for his birthday last week... believe me, it took ages to get it 'just right' ... even down to moving the little ink spots on the page so they were right! lol

I also made a co-ordinating card to go with it :-)

I may even show you one day, but at the mo, it's for him to enjoy :-)

I love sharing my Craft Artist Pro scrapbook pages with you and it humbles me when so many of you have sent me messages to say I have helped you to start scrapping your memories and treasured photos :-)

I have used elements from several Digikits, but let me know if you want to know where any of the bits came from lol

Anyhoo, here it is... I hope you like it :-)

Happy Crafting!

Diary of my week... up to now!

Good Morning Everyone...

What an incredibly busy week I've had! I can't believe it's Saturday already... where have the days gone? lol

As most of you probably know by now, we are having a complete rebuild of our kitchen at home, there have been so many workmen in and out of the house over the last 3 (yes, 3!) weeks that I feel I have known them forever! lol

Next week sees the beginning of week 4 of the kitchen which, I'm pleased to say, should be the last week...

It has been exciting, but very stressful, watching the old kitchen disappear and the new one take shape day by day...  now all this is wonderful, but imagine the fun I'm having trying to work around this with no cooker or water in the kitchen etc!... imagine how many times I've told myself 'it will be worth it'! :-)

In between all the chaos at home, it has also been soooo busy at the shop, with a workshop every day we are open :-) 

Deliveries from Woodware and Hunkydory on the same day, that took us two days to unpack, price up and get on the shelves so everyone can see the lovely new goodies :-) 

(I love deliveries though and usually end up adding most of it to my own stash lol)

I've also been stamping and colouring and making cards and prepping for my forthcoming create and craft shows next Tuesday... I love this part and it's always a pleasure to sit and design new cards :-)

There are some fantastic HOTP and Stampavie products for next week that it genuinely has been lovely to work with them :-)

Add to this, 5 Mothers day card orders that I had on Thursday! lol 

In between all of this, I have been doing my prep work for my Hayling Island workshops (I can't wait for this) and been trying to think of new techniques that we will be able to do within the workshop timescales! lol

My Hayling Island prep is ongoing and there is two weeks left to go! Will I be ready? Hope so! lol

So today brings us Saturday, another big workshop this morning at the shop 

(yep, all is ready and I am actually prepared for this one) lol

I love my workshops, love chatting with everyone and catching up with what we have all been up to over the week... and, naturally, sitting with a cuppa and a cake ;-)

Sundays and Mondays are days off, well, that's not 100% true as I am usually preparing for Create and Craft shows or my next workshops, but I am at home so I can work in a more relaxed pace... (with lot's of cuppas) I can't remember the last time I actually had a day where I wasn't doing some sort of work.... 

Work that I absolutely adore doing!, is it really work? lol :-)

Anyhoo, it's nearly 8am so I need to get off to the shop and get the kettle on for all my lovely Saturday morning group :-)

Have a fantastic, crafty weekend and I will see you on Create & Craft next Tuesday!

Happy Crafting!

Create and Craft Shows..

Good Evening Everyone

I have some very exciting news for you...

I have been asked if I would do some Create & Craft Shows next week for Bramwell Crafts... Now if you don't know who Bramwell Crafts are, quite simply they are the company who bring us some of my favourite brands of products... such as Stampavie, Bo Bunny, Hot of the Press, Kaiser Crafts an Cricut to name but a few...

So, you can imagine, I didn't have to think too long lol

Now, most of you will know that the lovely Mel usually does shows with these brands and I am very happy to be representing such a talented team on Create & Craft :-)

To clarify, I'm not replacing Mel, just sharing her workload :-)

So, next Tuesday, you will see me as follows..

8am - Fantastic Hot Of The Press show (some brilliant, superb quality products in this show!!)

1pm - Whoo Hoo - Stampavie Show (You simply HAVE to see these beautiful stamps!! I love them 

already!

6pm (although this show time may change) - More Hot Off The Press

In case you can't tell... I am very exited about these shows!!

Hope you can watch

Happy Crafting!

Leonie and lil ole me... nutters!

Hi Everyone

I thought I'd just pop these smashing photos on of me and Leonie from the NEC this year... 

I know some of my Blog followers aren't on Facebook or Twitter so won't have seen these yet....

Leonie was working very hard (ahem) and I was spending hard (no change there then!) so we had our 5 minutes of madness for the camera ;o)

Hope you like them.... she's a love and has put the photo of me with my tongue out on her Blog, so this way it's not just me looking a nutter!! 

Happy Crafting!

Couple of Cards For You....

Good Morning Everyone!

What a beautiful sunny Sunday!

And, I have a day off! Whoo Hoo! Now, you'd think that with a proper day off that I would have a rest from Crafting... nope, not me lol

I have Stamped some beautiful Sarah Kay images ... [ some exciting news about this soon too :o) ] and they are crying out to me to colour them in... who am I to argue? lol

Before I do that though, I wanted to pop a few photos of cards we have done at my workshops over the last couple of weeks...

As you know, I love my stamping and colouring in :o) so we do that alot lol

Hope you like them... 

Happy Crafting!