Christmas has come Early for me

Well ive decided to start early and get my cards out of the way so here is one of many from the very versatile stamp set from stampin up, called Happy thoughts, off the top of my head,  and im using the bird stamp and ive coloured it with my Flexmarkers, reds and brownslayered on to a die cut circle card blank

Well thats all for today, hoping to see you again.

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Organising your space

Who likes getting organised? I do, and with this neat little filing system you can store all your recipes and favorite meal plans away in this gorgeous wooden tote.

Floral recipe card holder

Hope you like it
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Day out

Here is a little view I thought I would share with you today. 

Look at this view... one of my many days out working with Aunty Jojo..... we had been to the Shepton Mallet show at Somerset and took a detour on the way home to look at this beautiful place in Bath. 

I thought you would like to see it.... I miss it already but hope to be back at some point soon!

Which of you crafters have come to visit our Tonic stand and see us working our magic... Guess where we are going to next?!

Our craft Community

It came to my attention today that I am not a lone crafter, that there are many crafters out there who do craft alone and are unaware of other crafters within they're community.

We are, or should be obliged to reach out in our own communities and introduce ourselves, and what we do, to engage people, and to give them the creative inspiration to try something new.

As a crafter, i have been in the privileged position to be able to carry stampin’ ups mission statement, To inspire people, to help them to create some thing new and to share what we know, this has led to me meeting some wonderful people, from all over the country, from Glasgow to Somerset and many other places.

I have a passion to make people happy doing what they love best, and showing them that there is a lot of crafters out there who may go home and craft alone but they go home with the realisation that crafting is a global, international and nationwide passion that we all share, so i have been doing some soul searching, and have been looking at my very first projects that i ever made. Remnants of left over craft sales that have stayed with me because i have been to embarrassed to

consider re-selling as i had moved on from them, and have improved on my skills but that is exactly why i needed to re-connect with what i initially wanted to do those years ago, and that was to share what i know, and to share the passion, and the creativity that i have to make people happy and that still stands today.

So i would like to introduce myself, my name is Sharon Cuffy and i am a crafter, just like you, and this is what i like to do, would you like to have a go.

If you do i would like to start some workshops in my local area promoting the idea of making your Christmas a handmade Christmas, and I'm here to help you create something beautiful to gift at a special time of year. Do you want to join in well you can you just have to register your interest, date and times to follow in the coming weeks. When we have enough people we can get together and craft together not alone.

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Bringing you a little sunshine

 

I cant believe how much rain we have had this week its certainly stop me from looking for washing to do, i was almost ready to take my curtains down and strip the beds, beat the mattresses with my broom (well that's how i ,like to do it) and down it came.

My day started off with a jolt and i got up and heard my electric meter beeping it was about to run out, so i rushed to get dressed and run round to the shop to get to top up my card, from then on in my day started to go a bit pear shaped, then i thought to myself, you know I'm going to do what i want to do today, and stay in my craft room all day, as it was my daughter holly, stayed at her friends all day and stopped over for game night.

So that was that i got busy, i did a bit of tidying first off and cleared my desk.

 

Once i had done that here is what i created again using Tonic dies, the layering dies this time the rectangles which i absolutely love.

The cardstock is Stampin ups Melon mambo, Old olive, Crumb cake for the base and Blushing bride, the sentiment is from the Lotus blossom clear set from stampin up, along with the image which is a three step stamp set.

I really enjoyed making this card, i hope you like it too

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Peaking to early maybe!!

I'm not sure but my crafting is so much more fun now that i don't have uni and course work and other distractions, i can craft on a night and not worry about being too tired for classes, so i think I'm on overdrive a bit because i have a new level of concentration, and all those new and lovely products i have been acquiring from the shows are now coming out to play.

First off i want to acknowledge all the new lovely people i have met through the Tonic workshops and all the lovely tips and tricks i learn from other crafters, its been such a joy, and to remind you of the Tonic workshops that are coming up at Sandown on the 3rd-5th of September,

Cant wait to see you all there, we will be on stand n06, don't quote me I'm going on memory near the food court and near the coffee shop, so even if you don't do the workshop come by and say hi so the card i want to share with you uses Tonics layering dies ovals, which i love 14 dies in a set and i  have also used flex markers to colour in my image. the image is Rapunzel by some odd girl all mounted on a 6x8 easel card.

I am entering this in to a challenge with the crafting musketeers challenge 28 use a sketch and here's the sketch

And here's my card i must say i thoroughly enjoyed a chance to colour again,

 

And as usual a close up of the detail and thanks so much for stopping by