on the naughty step

I gave in to selly telly and bought the tattered lace large stepper die....in my defence I did have a £10 voucher to spend....

it does make a very tall card so now to make either a box or an envelope for it to fit into.....
the flowers are from the tattered lace pressedrose set although why they called it that when there isn't a rose in it is beyond me....
I am back in my craft room having fun...I hope you are too....thanks for popping by today.

a couple of thank you cards...

another stamp that has sat unused since buying it....not that old but really I must use some of this stuff.....

its a Phil Martin stamp....Bohemian Vintage Banner embossed onto kraft card with prills for the centres of the flowers...and a lot of ink splattering....I kept it flat for posting ...
I hope you are enjoying your day today and maybe doing a bit of crafting....

playing with inks...

I had bought a whole load of alcohol inks a couple of years ago ...I really thought they would have dries up...(as had all my crafters companion spectrum noir refills)...but no they were fine and after watching a couple of youtube demos I decided to have a go at a messy background....I used a sheet of  Yupo...goodness knows when I bought that....

doing the background was fun but stamping on top was a nightmare...I used versafine...which didn't dry...so I put clear embossing powder on top and then discovered that yupo doesnt take well to heat...it being plastic.....my what a learning curve this has been...at least these unused stamps from Indigo blu finally after about 5 years in a draw got inked up....will I be doing it again well yes as I really like the background effects.....
I do hope you are having a lovely day whatever you are doing...and thanks for popping by today.

a fun christmas card...

although I have to say that buying these dies was a nightmare...I bought them from e bay thinking they were from a firm based in the uk..which was their claim.....no .....when the paypal receipt went through it was to China...the first lot of dies they sent me was an alphabet set not the dies I had order...then followed a long and protracted e mail exchange trying to get the correct dies...which arrived 10 days later and turned out to be cheap knock offs...a lesson to me ...only buy from the firms I know and not from e bay.....the cheek of it was they were using the original packaging in their advertising....rant over....

well at least I made a card from them and got a free set of alphabet dies but I really will be more careful...they weren't even cheaper than the originals which had to come from Holland...lesson learnt
thanks for popping by my blog today and I hope you are enjoying your weekend

problems with blogger...

for those of you who are wondering why you are no longer getting comment left by me it is because after the last update blogger now doesn't let ipad and apple users leave comments if you have an embedded comments box on your blog....easily solved...
go to your blog settings...
click on settings
click on posts,comments and sharing...go to the comments section
and look for comments ....
comments location
click on the box that says embedded and using the drop down box choices change to
Pop up window....and save your changes
this will allow comments to be left again...it only takes a moment to do..

thanks.....

birthday cards using old stash...

well these are a couple of cards made with the Dawn Bibby cupcake collection...nice to use up old stash....

I hope you are having a lovely day what ever you are doing ....thanks for popping by my blog today.

my last card for uncle Mark....

sadly this is the last card I made for my dear old uncle Mark ...he dies very peacefully on Monday and I shall miss him...the last of my aunts and uncles and the links to my parents....

I used heartfelt creations stamps and papers and the sentiment is from Phil Martin .....
I shall be going to the funeral today to say goodbye to a real gentleman...