Circle Journal... About Me!

Well today I've been a very good crafting girl and actually spent most of the day playing with my Ally Pally stash and playing with my old stash as I have set a challenge on the craft forum I go on to make cards using old stash!!!! I feel knackered now as I've been on the go since 7am this morning in my craft room... looks like a bombs hit it though lol!

It's been a long time since I've managed a LO... I've found this one quite hard... I know the subject of 'me' should be a fairly easy one but I lack confidence and really struggle with doing something so personal... but I have to say I am really pleased with it! :)
I'm loving my new arrow set of stamps I bought, searched the whole of Ally Pally for an arrow stamp and found this set last thing!

As to the Use Old stash challenge, I pulled out one of my favourite alphabet sets from A Muse the clear polka dot set and Hero Arts peeking posies flower set of 4 stamps... These stamps were a must have when they came out and although I love them both they have been quite neglected recently!

Scallop Card Challenge

The challenge this week on a forum I go on is Make a Card With A Scallop, this is what I came up with... I love my scalloped nestabilities but I was determind not to use them this time as it's all I seem to use at the moment and my cards get too samey!

The Stamped image is a Tilda, she's sitting in a frame. To cut the frame I used my square nestabilities and a magnetic sheet to keep them in place to cut. Embossed the frame using the Cuttlebug Swiss Dots folder which is currently my favourite folder!

2 Cards For 2 Special Girls

Samantha

Kirsty

Sorry it's been a while... have been struggling with my cards lately... :(

Anyway these two cards are for 2 very special girls from the Postpals featured members of the month.. Have you heard of Postpals?!

If not please click on the link to see what it's all about.. it's a fantastic charity who are in need of volunteers and with the help of people like you & I we can help put a smile on a brave childs face by sending a card.

Thanks for taking the time to look.

Ally Pally this sunday.... sooooo excited :)

Copic Spica Glitter Pens

No cards to show today... having a bit of a 'fed up with the cards I'm making' stage... I'm sure I'll get out of it the way I got into it just feel like I need a charge of direction...

Anyway I wanted to pop up a post regarding the Copic Spica Glitter Pens... I've had a number of emails asking where I bought mine from so thought I'd let you all know!

I bought mine from Ebay from this seller below, very reasonable price and postage to the UK was cheap and quick... as far as I am aware you can't buy them in the UK yet!

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/COPIC-Atyou-Spica-Micro-Glass-Flake-Pen-Clear_W0QQitemZ290208832995QQihZ019QQcategoryZ11790QQcmdZViewItemQQ_trksidZp1742.m153.l1262

If you don't know what these pens are... let me tell you again!

I read about them and because I love glitter thought I'd give them a go!The clear is totally clear, leaving only a lovely sparkle behind, unlike Sakura’s Clear Stardust Gelly Roll pen which has a silvery colour with not much sparkle.

The main difference in the Spica glitter pen is that the sparkle is actually made up of micro glass flakes and they claim that they have twice the writing length of other pens. There are 12 colours to collect but the clear is great is my favourite you can even add sparkle on over the top of your coloured image.

You must keep these pens stored horizontal and you mustn't drop them!

If you like glitter you'll love these pens!!

Hoppy Easter!

Just wanted to wish you all that visit my blog a Happy Easter! Sorry I've not been about much recently, Fiance had a car accident last Monday, luckily for us he was fine but the car was not! It's been a stressful week for us as we've had to go car shopping and when you don't have a car you start to appreciate how much you need it! All being well we will get our new car next friday... I think it's going to be a long week!!!

It's my birthday tomorrow.... yippeee! Hoping to have one or two crafty items, I've had loads of cards!!... Might be a white birthday too judging by the weather reports!

Hope you all have a lovely easter and don't eat too much choccie!! :)

My First Tilda Card

This is my first tilda card using my new watercolour pens! Probably not the best example on these pens but I am in love with them.

The pens are called ZIG Memory Brushables, they have two brush tips. Each pen has a light and a dark of the colour so shading is made really easy.

We watched the demo at Stamp Addicts and were amazed at how easy she made it look and we were hooked! Stamp addicits sell them each but you can buy them in packs of 4. Bee Crafty currently have them on at a good offer of £6.70 per pack.

Talking of my love of pens my other recent buy is a clear Copic Spica Glitter Pen... have you heard or seen these?! I read about them and because I love glitter thought I'd give them a go!

The clear is totally clear, leaving only a lovely sparkle behind, unlike Sakura’s Clear Stardust Gelly Roll pen which has a silvery colour with not much sparkle. The main difference in the Spica glitter pen is that the sparkle is actually made up of micro glass flakes and they claim that they have twice the writing length of other pens. There are 12 colours to collect but the clear is great for wings (as above) or even adding on over the top of your coloured image. Have I talked you into buying one yet?! :)

Stevenage Stash

Only a week late lol... ooops I've been a bit up and down this week, think I've come down with some sort of virus :( It seems to come and go... anyway here's my goodies from last week at Stevenage, I had a fantastic time!

I did quite well.. hmm as you can see I bought one or two stamps... I spent more than I took (oops) but I blame the two Clare's that I went with for that as I had £5.00 left and then we went back to the Stamp Addicts to ask about blending pens, which we had bought at Ally Pally.. had to have one but then neither of us could remember how to use them lol... anyway we ended up coming away buying some of these watercolouring pens after watching the demo... I bought 10 watercolour pens (oops I forgot to take the piccies of these) and 2 stamps...

I've tried these new pens out and I am in love with them... I can't stop colouring in stamped images... not made many cards but I have loads of images coloured lol!

Mother's Day Cards

Here's 2 cards I made tonight, one for my mum and one for Paul's step mum!

Top card is made using the NEW (drool drool) Cuttlebug Swiss dots embossing folder and the build a flower dies... I have to say I am very excited about the build a flower set.. it's just so me!!

The Bottom card is a Penny Black stamped image, the flower has been decoupaged and both cards the sentiment has been stamped using those Karen Foster mini stamps, which BTW when I last went into Capture The Magic she had a load more, they have been discontinued for a while and rare to find, but a must have if you can get them!

Friendship Card

Thanks for all your kind emails and messages over the past few days, I really do appreciate it!

Here's a card that I made for a good friend, she's been feeling a little low recently so thought I'd send her a card to cheer her up.

Flower stamp are my Technique Tuesday love me not set and the sentiment is from one of the hero arts clear sets... I seem to have an addiction for sentiment stamps!

Anyone planning to go to Stamperama on Sunday in Stevenage?! Can't wait love that show, it's small but there's normally a great selection of companies there and of course loads of stamps to drool over!!

Sad News Today.

Non crafty post today... I got sad news this morning to say my Great Aunt Una passed away last night... she'd had a fall at home last week and was in hospital, she passed away there.

We've been planning to go over to see my family later on this year as they live in Jersey. Una was such a character, she was a really healthy and fun living 85 year old who still wore fluffy pink slippers with a little kitten heel. She really was a character, I'll miss her.