New Papers

How gorgeous are these?

New My Mind's Eye Quite Contrary Papers and matching embellishments arrived at the shop today and I really do think they are one of the best collections from My Mind's Eye, equally great for boy or girlie pages and some fab designs for card making!

With tomorrow being our last day of trading from the current shop premises I will have these available from tomorrow as I know many of you have been waiting for these to come in.

As I have mentioned our last day, I also just wanted to say a BIG thank you to all the customers who have popped in the shop this week. I have been completely overwhelmed by the amount of support and loyalty as we go into the next phase of the shop. Let's just hope it's not too long before we can reopen in new premises. But until then I will working all hours to get the on line shop finished and launched and I hope to see lots of you at our forthcoming classes, crops and craft days to be held at various locations in Dorset and Hampshire.

Have a great evening!

Sarah

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5 Sticks for an Egg Layout

Here is the finished layout that I was working on in my last post. I got a new reel of foam tape yesterday so managed to finish it off today. I am so much happier with this page than the original one. I used a complete mixture of papers (I think the trees are My Little Shoebox, the yellow numbered paper is Basic Grey and I'm really not sure about the striped one as it actually had nothing printed on it!)

The photos were taken a few years ago at an Easter Egg Hunt at Kingston Maurwood Animal Farm. Children had to find 5 differently coloured lollipop sticks that were hidden all over the Farm and grounds to win an Easter Egg. Great Fun!

Right, I'm off to make pasta for tea now! Will be back later for a look around blogland. Don't forget to leave me a comment so I know you have visited, I can come and visit your blog then too!!

In Progress

Happy Sunday!!

My hubby was out last night so I took the opportunity to do some scrapbooking. I spread out my papers and stash all over the lounge floor .... put the TV on .....and scrapped until late...!!
What better way to spend a Saturday evening?!

I actually took apart a layout I had done a few months ago that I was never happy with and rescrapped it. Something I've never done before.

I can't show you the finished layout as I have run out of 3d foam tape and I need to attach some embellies and journalling with it before I take a photo. So this photo shows the "in progress" stage!! I'm much happier with this version than the original page before I tore it apart.

What have you planned for today? It's Hannah's last day before back to school tomorrow so we are having a family day out, just not sure where yet!

Thanks for stopping by, do leave me a comment and let me know if you have ever re done a page.
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What a week it's been!

Yay, for Fridays! Even though I work in the shop on Saturdays I still love Fridays, it must go back to the days before Hannah was born when I worked full time Monday-Friday in an office. Friday was the day I would leave a bit earlier (flexi time was great!) and the weekend would begin.

Okay..Shop stuff...I normally blog my everyday chatter first but just thought we would do things the other way about today.

~ Creative Card Making Issue 13!!! ~

Now in at the shop and it looks to be a great issue!

Even Hannah has had a look through it!! I am looking forward to reading it properly later.

I hope those of you with children on half term holidays have had a great week, thankfully the weather has been okay down here apart from a couple of rainy days. Hannah has managed to pack in a lot of activities, I have taken Hannah swimming and we had a lovely afternoon on Mudeford beach with friends on Wednesday and we had a girlie morning of shopping and coffee shops. She's also been to the cinema to see "The Princess and the Frog" with Daddy and today Grandad took her out for the day whilst I was working in the shop.

Tuesday was Pancake Day...
so we had lots of fun making and eating pancakes! Yum!

Hope you have a fabulous weekend, whatever you have planned!

Sarah

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Happy Valentines Day

Happy Valentines Day!
I hope you are having a lovely day!
I was a very lucky girl this morning to receive these beautiful roses from my wonderful husband and also a box of chocs....truely spoilt!

I thought you might like to see his card. I kept it very simple, with a Forever Friends topper mounted onto red paper, matted on silver mirri card. The background is more of the red paper and My Mind's Eye paper (from the Dancing Girl collection) on a white square card blank. A piece of ribbon is knotted around the topper before I fixed it to the base. A rub on greeting and little heart gems to finish off. I'm pleased to say he liked it!

Onto a few shop bits I wanted to tell you about......

We have decided that our last day of trading at the shop will be Saturday 27th February, that will give us a week afterwards to move out. We will be having lots of special offers and promotions over the next 2 weeks. On offer at the moment are......

Bazzill Card 12 X 12 sheets ~ 3 FOR 2!! So that's Buy 2 get one free!

30% off all wooden Rubber Stamps

Peel Offs ~ 40p each or any 10 for £3 !!!

Bags of assorted ribbons for just £1

~ Watch out for more offers over the next 2 weeks ~

Once I have moved all the stock out I will be working on the website in readiness for the launch of the on line shopping and arranging Craft/Open Days and classes/workshops in the Bournemouth and Dorset/Hampshire area.

Very exciting times ahead!

Enjoy the rest of your weekend!

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At last....we have a Winner!!

BIG apologies it has taken me so long to announce the winner from the My Mind's Eye draw. Thank you to those of you that left a comment. I know there are various systems like the Random Number Generator thingy but I just stuck to the old fashioned method of writing names on bits of paper and popped them into a basket then I got my daughter to pick one out....and the winner is .... Anne!!

Congratulations Anne, If you would like to e mail me your address I will get a prize off to you.

There will be another chance to win a prize soon!

Soon!

I will be announcing the winner of the MME Draw from this post very soon. After a manic weekend I just haven't had chance to pick the winner out. Sorry!

It's Saturday!!

I hope you are having a lovely Saturday, whatever you are doing. It was so lovely to see the sun out today, and it definately felt a bit warmer....really made me feel as is Spring is finally on its way.

I think the Spring like weather was my inspiration for these 2 cards, with the colours and butterflies.

I used my new Martha Stewart loopy Punch and the New Clear Stamp Cupcakes set from Woodware, coloured with promarkers & white gel pen, doodlebug paper, pink bazzill and dot ribbon & papermania gems to finish. The cake is actually made up of 3 seaprate stamps from the set. Using different combinations of the stamps you can make up lots of different cakes and ice cream sundaes.

The butterflies on this card are made with the NEW Woodware punch I mentioned on my previous post. Aren't they gorgeous? I attached them just down the centre and added gems so the wings are raised up slightly. My Minds Eye Little Sprout paper (punched with Woodware inverted corner punch) and bazzill card (which I punched with the MS Loopy punch) for the background, ric rac ribbon to finish.

Hope you like them. All punches and stamps are available in the shop.

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Punches

I treated myself to a new Martha Stewart Loopy Punch today and I'm already loving it. I made a card using it today but left it at the shop so haven't got a pic of it to show you!


A few other Martha Stewarts came in on a delivery today, only a limited number of each design bearing in mind I have to keep stock at minimum levels ready for the move. I'd have one of each if I could...!!


And whilst we are on punches, introducing .......

.........the new Butterfly punch from Woodware! This is gorgeous, cuts and embosses at the same time. I have been having a play with it today so should have a sample card using it to show you tomorrow. So glad its Friday today, what ever you have planned I hope you have a good
weekend!

Finished another!

Just a quick post tonight as hubby is cooking tea and it's almost ready!

I only managed about 30 minutes scrapping last night but it was enough to get another layout finished!

This is a photo of Hannah at about 14 months old and journalling is about the way she would look up with her big blue eyes and ask "Push Me?"

Oh, yum tea is ready!

Thanks for looking!

Happy February!

Happy February!
1st Blog Post for February, although I'm really not sure how January went by so quick, at least a new month makes me think Spring and the warmer weather must surely be here soon.

I have been really busy working on the website this week and uploading pictures of stock to the on line shop, it is a long job but I'm making good progress. Having worked on it most of yesterday I really needed a break by the evening and so I did some more of this...

Sorry, if you were expecting a card or scrapbook layout!! I have recently starting knitting again...having not knitted anything since my late teens...I have had to almost start again...I had forgotten how to knit.

Wondering what it is going to be????

Legwarmers!!! Hannah is cold when she is at her weekly dance class so when I came across a pattern for making them I got started!

Papercrafting will always be my first love but it is nice to have a change every now and then. What other crafts do you do?

This afternoon I had a sort through of all the unfinished layouts I have laying about my craft area, some are in clear bags with the paper and photos and some are half done and need titles and embellishments, some I started so long ago I had forgotten about them. In total I have 11!!

Me thinks I need to set myself the challenge to finish them before I start anymore new ones!

Just in case you have popped by hoping to see some layouts, here's a couple I made a while ago which I don't think I ever got around to uploading to the blog.

Apologies for the poor photos in the lack of decent daylight these days.

Thanks for stopping by!

Sarah

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