Card Kit at Last!!

Being unemployed at the time I decided to order one small greetings card kit a month, with the intention of using it to create all the cards the month it arrived and not leave the kit languishing in my stash pile somewhere. I found a great card kit from scrapagogo only 11.99 and that includes postage and blanks for 10 cards. With a delay due to royal mail losing the first kit, the replacement eventually arrived and I made pretty with it asap. Here are the cards I made and are now in the "ready when someone wants them" box in the house.

The January kit was full of delightful retro papers and was very inspiring to work with. So job done, 10 cards made for 1.20 each and I have a stamp and some leftovers too! Looking forward to getting stuck into the Feb kit now which arrived a couple of days after the replacement Jan one.

Busy, Busy

Its been a busy week since I last updated mainly interviews and form filling but happy to have some creative time today. I have pottered about and made a 6x6 little journal album for a new project as well as another one for Kate. Here are some piccies of mine.

Last minute cards

So there I am pottering on a gloomy grey saturday, playing about with the Inspirational Card Sketch for the week when my other half comes along and tells me that she needs a card for later today for a guy leaving her work. Smiling I say no problem and start using the exact same sketch for the second card. Result, two cards using old junkitz paper and using the same sketch.

Its funny, I look at all the papers I have collected in my years of crafting and think...I really need to use these up. It matters not that they may not be the latest most fashionable papers, what matters is that I like them and I wish to create with them.


I created these little flowers out of some lace with little buttons on the top, the chipboard piece just covered in some ink to take away the white.

Inky fingers

Had a good few days with inky fingers creating some stuff. Using the Monday Muse I made this birthday card for my friends 18 year old son. some lovely large chipboard numbers that i inked and stamped and of course decided to go for a rolled edge to the papers.



Striking whilst the creative bug and inky fingers were still hot I set about making a couple of star books, something I hadn't done in a while. It was great fun and they are always such a pleasant change from a regular card to give.


After drybrushing the card with some paint i could not wait to use up some of my new (got in the sale) Paper Artsy stamps.


Of course you can never have enough girlie sets too!

Document 2010

A new year, a new home and a new project from UKS & Shimelle called "Document 2010" I decided to use up an old bazzil basics gate album and some of my old crate papers to create an album for the project. Each month will then have a double layout of around 10 x 7.5 inches, leaving me lots of room for journalling. The basic blank album was black so I drybrushed for a messy, grungy look around the edges to start with and using some folded ribbon and bronze ribbon slides created a closer for the album. I had a wonderfully inky time making up the album and look forward to filling it over the course of the year.

Of course the first month of January will most likely be all about job hunting! hopefully February will be about starting a new job which I will definately need to keep me supplied in Herma. I have decided to go on a very strict stash diet. I have so much stuff that I have obviously just kept to admire rather than use. treating myself to 20 quids worth of stuff from ATDML for Christmas then subscribing to a small kit from Scrapagogo once a month is all that I am doing for now until I start earning some pennies.







I do believe that I am becoming addicted to creating little paper flowers with button centres, I loved the way they turned out on this album with the double sided papers.

Using up old papers

I'm still on a mission to use up as many old stash and/or kits or just papers in general that I perhaps won't use in scrapbooking but will use for cardmaking. This was a birthday set of papers given to years ago by who knows who, made three cards so far and counting! Should keep the girly cardstock well topped up for this year.

Grey grey grey

With so much grey sky I turned to the Basic Grey Challenge for my card today. Their colour challenge was fresh blues, greys and white. I needed to do a retirement card for an ex colleague so used this as an opportunity. Creating a card for a male is always hard so was happy to have a little inspiration.