WOYWW?? June 27th 2012

morning! what is on my work desk?? a helluva lot of mess!! I had a market last Saturday {yes last!} and i still haven’t unpacked due to feeling rough since, but it is my job for the day as Mr.C’s OCD wont cope much more!

So imagine if you will i stood in my living room at my desk and took photos whilst turning 360 – you will soon understand why Mr.C is getting twitchy!!

lots of mess on here trimmer, my new Emma Bridgewater bag that my best friend Maria got me for my birthday, bits that didn’t get finished in time for the fair and general mess!

 

The window sill next to desk full of samples stamps and catty boxes!

 

Boxes of my displays

the dresser where the computer usually lives and the new home for the printer as i got peeved keep taking laptop to printer in the hallway!

 

Laptops current position on dining table with children colouring in back ground – at least we all sitting together hey? lol

So as you can see once back from school run i have my work cut out for me to return it to some form of normality!

Until next time

Ttfn

 

Whittlesford Market

Hello all, me and my lovely best friend Maria took my wares to the Whittlesford Saturday market held in aid of the schools out of hours club, and they raised a good amount to help with the running of the club.

Here are a few photos of my stand and displays

Was lots of fun and i can’t wait for the next one

Until Next time

Ttfn

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My Christmas card club!  I was asked a few times late in the year last year to start a club for making Christmas cards in time to catch the last post so this year i have planned it into my diary. 

Have you ever wanted to send gorgeous handmade cards at Christmas, but didn’t know how to get started or think you had the ability?? Let me show you how easy it is to make gorgeous cards that will impress your loved ones and be so much more personal than a shop brought card.

Join me at the Christmas card club this year and I’ll show you how.

 

 

 At each session you will make 10 cards {5 of each design; both modern and traditional designs} and you will have everything provided that you need to complete the cards including envelopes. At the end of the 5 sessions you will have 50 beautiful handmade cards ready to send out before the last post!

Wow you’re family and friends with beautiful handmade cards this year.

For only £12 per session

**Early Bird Booking Offer**

If you book and pay for all 5 sessions before the end of July 2012 you only pay £50 a saving of £10!!

Card Club Dates

Thursday July 19^th 2012 – 7.30pm-9.30pm

Thursday August 2^nd 2012 – 7.30pm-9.30pm

Thursday September 6^th 2012 – 7.30pm-9.30pm

Thursday October 4^th 2012- 7.30pm-9.30pm

Thursday November 8^th 2012 – 7.30pm-9.30pm

To book your space please call Me on 07583 371239

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Until next time

Ttfn

Whittlesford Market

This is where you will find me this weekend come and say hello if you are near

Until next time

Ttfn

We Love Hostesses

We do love our hostesses they are the core of our businesses, and Stampin’ Up! thought that June and July would be the best time to reward hostesses and show them just how much we appreciate them.

Stampin' Up! are helping us to show our appreciation by offering you the chance to earn a whole £30 extra  in FREE hostess Benefits!!

For more information see the table above or contact me for more details.

{click on images to enlarge}

 

Mr.C had the half term holiday off the other week, and as it was my birthday the following week my mum, granddad me and Mr.C went off for an early treat for my birthday; first a meal at Watford TGI Fridays {not something i would recommend or repeat in a hurry!} and then off for our time slot here;

Can you guess where we are?

I have tons of photos to scrap in the future, once they are done i shall share them with you all

Until next time

Ttfn

Join the Paper Party!

Sorry i know i am late in telling you about this but you do have time to take advantage of this fab offer.

So during the month of June when you buy three packages of Designers Series Paper you can choose one for FREE!!!

What a perfect time to stock up on all  your favourites, if you would like to treat yourself to some papers or any thing else then get in touch.

Until next time

Ttfn

OMG!! A whole month!!

O my gosh!! I am so sorry i have not blogged for over a month!! I can’t believe it has been a month!  I am sorry for my absence, family life has unfortunately got in the way but i have been crafting so i do have lots to show you in the coming weeks.

So lots to tell you including 2 promotions from the lovely people at Stampin’ Up! and new class details.  But i will come to those later.

ETA: I have just realised that this is my 100th Post!!! Woo Hoo!!  Thank you so much for sticking with me all this time even though I'm terrible at posting regularly i promise i will get better :) xx

I have a Market coming up at the end of the week, so i have been super busy getting myself ready. Here is one of the cards that i have made;

This card is made using the lovely Bright Blossoms stamp set from the Summer Mini and the gorgeous 2011-2013 In Colours i just cant stop using these colours they are so gorgeous that i am using them all the time.

The colour scheme here is Wisteria Wonder, Pool Party and Crumb Cake.  Finished off with a few off the teeny basic pearls and some Wisteria Wonder bakers twine.

As you may know in the UK we have had the diamond jubilee which was a lovely time to have all the family round, me and the girls made a fresh cream ‘Vicky’ sponge and because i like to craft i just had to top the cake off with some cute cake bunting.  What do you think?  I also cut a makeshift union jack to drape across before sprinkling with icing sugar.

Hope you like my projects, i will be back tomorrow with details of the promotions from Stampin’ Up!

If you would like any products used to produce this project then please contact me craftylittlemoo@hotmail.co.uk

Until Next Time

Ttfn

My new Face book page

Hello all hope you are well just stopping by to let you know i have finally got around to starting a facebook page for my commisioned and handmade cards here it is;

please like my new page for my card making https://www.facebook.com/CraftyLittleMoo

and please remember me when you next need party invites or a birthday card :)

I have long made cards for commissions and have taught card making classes in S/W for a while now but i have just got round to creating a FB page more cards will appear over the coming days and will be regularly updated

cards range in price from £1-£3.50 and all include and envelope and come packaged in a cello bag ~ my cards are completely handmade/stamped.

Until next time

ttfn

WOYWW? May 2nd 2012

Morning! quick one as i need to tidy up before my friend comes to make more mess(craft!)

As you can see if really need to tidy up! makes a change from it being tidy every Wednesday!  This is what happens when you have a class on a Monday Night then can’t be A’d to tidy up on Tuesday but unreasonable the family wants to eat at the dinner table so here is the ‘old scoop and drop, deal with later’ move!

 

You can see my brand new SU score board that went live yesterday in the new Summer Mini Catty i need some time to use it for more than scoring card blanks! Although it does that very well indeed! lol

How do you WOYWW?? i hop randomly and then i go back and hop on people that have commented on me (those numbers really help people :) ) and then some times i go back through the list one by one.  How do you WOYWW??

 

Thanks for dropping by until next time

ttfn

P.s for any one who is wondering still about punch soup you can find the post here

WOYWW May 9th 2012

Morning all quick post as today i shall be stalking the window for the UPS man as i have NEW STASH on its way today :D Hurrah!!

As i have a few friends over for a crafting BYO sesh on Friday night i thought i should tidy my desk so i took this photo last night after tidying had been done.

Thought I'd give you a few different shots this week mix it up a bit as it were, i am sorry last week i didn’t get time to comment on everyone that commented on me but i did have a look at your desks i will do my best today.

Happy WOYWW!

Until next time

Ttfn

My Girls

Morning I showed this scrapbook page a few weeks ago that i had made at a Team Stampin Day well at the weekend i finally got round to finishing it. So here it is;

 

My girls on a rare moment of not squabbling with each other! Two seconds after this they were pulling each others hair again! Yet they look so angelic in this photo.  I love Black and white photos as you’ll probably notice because i use them such a lot. 

 

Here’s the arty angle to show the flowers and the cute little butterflies all cut on the big shot from the Hostess set of Designer Papers and coordinating cardstock.

 

{Products used all SU: Cheerful Treat Hostess Designer Series Paper; Fun Flowers Bigz L Die; Little Leaves Sizzlits Die; Beautiful Wings Embossilits Die; Timeless Type Alphabet Dies; Petite Pennants Punch; 3/4” Circle Punch; Just Perfect Alphabet Stamps; Scallop Trim Border and coordinating cardstock}

If you would like any products used to produce this project then please contact me craftylittlemoo@hotmail.co.uk

Until Next Time

Ttfn

WOYWW? May 2nd 2012

Morning! quick one as i need to tidy up before my friend comes to make more mess(craft!)

As you can see if really need to tidy up! makes a change from it being tidy every Wednesday!  This is what happens when you have a class on a Monday Night then can’t be A’d to tidy up on Tuesday but unreasonably the family wants to eat at the dinner table so here is the ‘old scoop and drop, deal with later’ move!

You can see my brand new SU score board that went live yesterday in the new Summer Mini Catty i need some time to use it for more than scoring card blanks! Although it does that very well indeed! lol
How do you WOYWW?? i hop randomly and then i go back and hop on people that have commented on me (those numbers really help people :) ) and then some times i go back through the list one by one.  How do you WOYWW??

Thanks for dropping by until next time

ttfn

Charlie.x

P.s for any one who is wondering still about punch soup you can find the post here

Mr & Mrs

Hello hope you are all well? On Saturday i decided that i was going to get stuck in to some scrapbooking.  I have not done a lot a scrapbooking its something i pick up and then don’t do again for ages.  At Peterborough the other weekend we used a Simply Scrappin’ Set called Tickets and Tags and i had lots of it left over so i thought i would scrap a picture of me and the lovely Mr.C as it was not too feminine a set and i really liked it.

 

Here’s a close up at an arty angle.  My favourite bit is the pearls put together into a flower for the middle of one of the big flowers.

I used the self adhesive die cuts that come with the kit and three of the designer papers and a Basic Grey 12x12 sheet that come in the kit.  These kits are fantastic value they come with 8 sheets of 12x12 cardstock,  6 sheets of 12x12 designer paper, and 3 12x12 sheets of adhesive die cuts for only £18.95!  All i added was some pearls and the adhesives.  I used the
Timeless Type Alphabet Dies for the Big Shot to cut the letters for the title.  

 

 

{All products used SU: Tickets and tags Simply Scrappin’ Kit, pearls, Timeless Type Alphabet Dies}

If you would like any products used to produce this project then please contact me craftylittlemoo@hotmail.co.uk

Until Next Time

Ttfn

Charlie.x

Punch Soup becomes a pretty card.

Morning again, Hopefully it wont rain today i am sure that as soon as we was told of the hosepipe ban that is all that it has done!  I don’t mind the rain because i know that we need it but the wind, now that i could do without!

So.. yesterday i told you about my punch soup, well here i will show you one of the ways that i use them.  A couple of weeks ago i went along to a training day in Peterborough hosted by Monica and Bekka and of course any get together means swaps! but Monica set a theme that seemed tricky to begin with.  The theme was ‘yellow’ now i don’t know about you but i rarely use yellow so i really really struggled with what to do for them.  So after trying so many different idea that i was not entirely happy with an idea struck me. 

So here is my swap using my ‘punch soup’

I stamped the blossom stamp from the Easter Blossoms set {Spring Mini} in Soft Suede then i set to shaping the little flowers. i started doing this on the palm of my hand but it soon started to hurt so after trying different ideas i fell on the idea of using a clean cosmetic sponge.

  I shaped them using a new tool that is coming in the New Summer Mini Catty which is due out on May 1st 2012!

I used the Simply Scored Stylus head to shape the flowers just by rubbing the middle of the flower this causes the petals to raise up and form this blossom shape.

As you can see i used all types of paper and card stock i quite like how all the different types sit well together. I picked them mostly randomly making sure that i had at least 3 yellow flowers on each one.

Finished off with a stamped greeting from the same set in a scallop oval made using the punches with a little flower with a pearl in the centre.

To make things easier once i had shaped the flowers i sorted them into colours and found that the best place to store them was an ice cube tray.

I store all of this in an empty Xerox box lid, as you can see this houses my punched bits any bits and pieces that i have stamped and have not made it to a project yet and spares from other projects.
I made 56 of these card fronts and what i had left over from the training day i mounted onto cards to keep for next Easter so i am ahead already lol :)
{Products used all SU: Whisper White Card Stock; Easter Blossoms Stamp set; Itty Bitty Shapes Punches –set of three-; Scallop Oval Punch; Large Oval Punch; scraps of card stock and designer papers}

If you would like any products used to produce this project then please contact me craftylittlemoo@hotmail.co.uk

Until Next Time

Ttfn

Charlie.x

Punch Soup

Hello again! Ooo get me two days in a row! lol I'll let you in on a secret…. i scheduled this yesterday lol scheduling is a busy bloggers best friend (if it works of course!) I have mentioned a few times my ‘Punch Soup’ and have been asked what it is a few times so i thought i would take the time to explain for you.

Once in a while usually when Mr.C is watching football i will grab my box of scraps and i punch out scallop ovals and bunting with the pennants punch, but i noticed that there was still loads of space left on these scraps of paper and card once i had punched them so i thought hand on i can get my moneys worth by re-punching them with the flower from the Itty bitty Punches.  And because it uses so many different papers and card that it reminds me of soup where i throw everything in and hope for the best.

Here is my ‘Punch Soup’ i love it looking all pretty in the poly bag these were scraps from mostly the Subtles colour family as they’re my favourite colour family.

I find that this way i tend to use up my scraps rather than them sitting in a box forgotten about.

Pop back tomorrow and I’ll show you what i did with them.

If you would like any products used to produce this project then please contact me craftylittlemoo@hotmail.co.uk

Until Next Time

Ttfn

Charlie.x

Cupcakes

Hello i am so behind with blogging so i am going to attempt to catch up as life just got in the way and then i got bloggers block! BUT i have been  crafting so there is plenty to show you, starting with March’s paper craft class which was based on Cupcakes!

We made two cards and a pillow box gift box using the Create a Cupcake stamp set and matching builder punch, these are only available until the 30th of April as they’re from the Spring Mini so if you NEED them then you best get your order in asap as we don’t know if they will be back again.

 

And so on to the class;

Here they are all grouped together i like to display the night’s projects on a cake stand just because they look pretty and i have a ‘thing’ for cake stands lol! i think i own at least five now!

The Colour scheme was Crumb Cake, Rose Red and Pink Pirouette, with Whisper White.

 

I love how the builder punch makes it so much quicker to get these cards done no fiddly cutting out.

 

 

 

And here’s a close up for you.

You can see that on the simple card and the pillow boxes i popped a tiny pearl on the cherries – these caused tons of problems for the ladies as they kept flying across the room! lol

 

 

Don’t forget that the current Spring mini finishes on the 30th of April 2012 and all products from the mini will be unavailable to order after that, and we don’t know if they will return to us in the main catty in October yet, so if there is anything that you need  then email me today to get your order in :)

{Products used all SU: Crumb Cake, Rose Red, Whisper White, and Confetti White Card Stock; Stampin’ Spots Subtles and Neutrals; Very Vanilla Seam Binding Ribbon; Patterns Designer Series Paper Stack in Subtles – Rose Red and Pink Pirouette; Create a Cupcake Stamp Set; Cupcake Builder Punch; 2-3/8” Scallop Circle Punch; Big Shot Pillow Box Die; Pearls} 

 

If you would like any products used to produce this project then please contact me craftylittlemoo@hotmail.co.uk

Until Next Time

Ttfn

Charlie.x

WOYWW? April 25th 2012

Morning World just a quick post from me today as have tons of blogging to catch up on it seems my blog block is over and i can do it again lol so pop back later for some of my ramblings on punch soup. :)

Not a lot going on really had a massive scrapbooking sesh on Saturday and Sunday i was in the zone did 4 12x12 layouts and 6 double page 6x6 ones

The union jack layout was designed by Monica Gale for our last team training in April.  New photo of my little girls up on the wall and new baby scrapbook for little H started on Saturday {finally as she’s nearly two!}  Mr.C had obviously only just emptied my pop up bin as i always fold it down and he leaves it plonked in middle of desk.  Have a few punches to put away from a morning stamp sesh with my lovely friend Natalie, who i have recently got hooked on SU and all things craft ;)  The Kilner jar has just been emptied of popcorn kernals so now can be repurposed for storing my great nans button collection which passed to me when she sadly left us in January.

 

 

Until Next time

Ttfn

Charlie.x

WOYWW?? April 18th 2012

Morning all!!  It is very windy and rainy here in Saffron Walden i am already toying with the idea of lighting the fire and its not even 8 am!!

So here is my desk this morning bit messy the ice cube tray holds some of my ‘punch soup’ I'll tell you more about that another day, then there are the very pretty SU You are loved stamp set that i am using lots atm as it retires at the end of the month and i want to use it as its so pretty. My phone and purse seem to have ended up resting there as i was putting an order for more stash in last night for me and my newly addicted friend Natalie :) and then my note book and diary hopefully there’ll be more crafting happening later.  By this time last Friday i had made 25 cards o the benefit of Easter holidays and having no school run :)

 

Some people asked last week where i keep my stamps?  Well here they are up on a shelf above my desk (although i do have a box of retired SU stamps that i love under my desk) this is a vey tiny collection compared to what i had before my little H was born.  I used to have a walk in cupboard that many people had tried to convince me to change into a downstairs loo, full of stamps, when we moved Mr.C decided to start counting as we packed up and he gave up at 4000 with 3 boxes full still to go!!  I have since sold all of them as they were sitting unloved for the best part of a year although i couldn’t bear to part with my Penny Black collection i had started at the age of 8!! so they’re packed safely away under my bed i might give them an airing soon team them up with some of my SU card stock and Markers.

 

Happy WOYWW

Until Next time

Ttfn

Charlie.x x

WOYWW?? April 11th 2012

Hello! Not much on my desk this week partly cos we had a massive change around in the living room yesterday, so my desk is uber tidy today not powered up yet and 10cm missing off the desk to make it fit, but at least we have masses more space now in the rest of the room

So here it is in situ on the other side of the room all tidy and organised for now, it will be messed up later as i have a friend coming over for a play date as we are both child free today {well me mostly i still have the littlest one but she’s easy}

Until next time

Ttfn

Charlie