Lost in procraftination

I often think that too much craft stash can be a bad thing, although I have bought with good intention on using it straight away then something crops up with the mini-me and I get totally sidetracked in her drama.

But good crafting comes to those who wait and I am always relieved when I get to stand at my desk to craft.

Altenew new day 6x6 papers

Lawn fawn Quinns alpha

I found this technique on youtube called inlaid die cut words.  If you search Jennifer Mcguire she has some brilliant tutorials on how to do this. I made this one for my Husbands birthday last week as it wasn't too feminine or too masculine, it was just right as we had only just got married two weeks before so it's his first card as a married man, but to be honest I do make him cards all the time just because.

There are so many tutorials on youtube and I find this a great resource when I get crafters block.

What I would like to do is to get back into using ribbon and gems and buttons and other embellishments as the new products that are coming out now only seem to require sequins or liquid drops. It's hard not to want to cram everything onto one card but I do like simplicity also just like the card above, all it needed was some wink of Stella and that's that.

Well that's enough from me but I do have a backlog of blogs so you may see me later

TTFM XX

A little bit ginger

Well its took me a while to get this posted, but I have finally got round to it after a week at Manchester event city, meeting loads of lovely crafter's who are mad fans of Tonic dies.

It was a joy to see lots of new faces and a few regular ones, it was really busy for the workshops and I hope everyone enjoyed the fab projects we had for them.

The last post featured some gorgeous Christmas stamps and dies from Lawn Fawn, and I would like to feature another set for you, which if you go along to Once upon a stamp you will find them there at really reasonable prices.

Isn't this set great I had so much fun playing with it it features two ginger bread men one happy and this sad one who has lost a leg which has been broken off :( oh dear well he shouldn't be so tasty then should he. So what I have on my card is like mass assault  on a cookie ha ha, I was so tempted to use my red pro marker and put blood splatter's everywhere but i thought that might have been a bit graphic, because as usual here is a close up

Thanks so much for stopping by xx

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.

Thanks for stopping by xx

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

Thanks for stopping by

Wednesday Blues

 

Its mid week and I'm feeling the post grad blues more now because i know

that after Friday I'm going to have to keep both me and Holly(my daughter), occupied,

not just myself as i am trying to organise my days to be full and

productive, she isn't so easily pleased and can be hard work, especially

when she is in boredom mode.

Any way i have been having a really good play with my

new tonic dies and i am even more impressed with what i can achieve.

But still even though i have had some crafty time the grades I'm waiting for through the

post still have not arrived.

So I'm going to keep you in suspense until I've taken some decent pictures of my

makes which i am having to get to know my camera again and while we have

such beautiful weather it will look great outside so talk to you later.

Catch up time

To say that i have been very busy is an understatement, what with dissertation hand in and getting work ready for our final exhibition it is an emotional roller coaster, if i told you i have been that stressed i made my teeth bleed would you believe me, i didn't believe it either.

well i thought i would share a pic with you as i haven't posted for a very long time, trying to keep up with course work blogging seems like such a luxury nowadays.

Meet the guys from class this isn't all of us but there's a handful of character just in these few people their work is amazing and i hope to get to share there're work with you over the coming weeks leading up to the final show and also a bit of mine but like i always say its not always about me there is always a good team behind the best shows.

Best year ever

well so far it has been, I'm overworked and getting paid, but i wouldn't have it any other way I'm still a stamp in up demo, but I am a full time degree student.

I still run my online 24 hrs stamp in up store, but I'm also a Tonic workshop demonstrator as well, I know, how do i fit it all in, well on another post i will share my secrets with you, but i am wanting to bring you all up to speed with what's going on, on my side of the blogger sphere.

I have far too many pictures to upload, so i shall try my best to add at least 2 at a time, more will follow.