Journal Your Christmas

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This is last year's album. I've not decided whether to take part again this year (when you sign up for the class you automatically get sent fresh, daily prompts every year - pretty damn good value, if you ask me).

I'm feeling quite unfestive for some reason, not sure why. I'm usually rubbing myself up against Christmas in an unseemly fashion by November, but it seems to be passing me by this year.  I do like looking at last year's album though. It captured a lot that I'd already forgotten.

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ATCs

Jackie came to stay this weekend. We did a lot of scrapping, drinking and cackling, while the menfolk of the house hid in other rooms, looking nervous.

On Saturday we went to the Happy Stampers Festival at Port Sunlight. Man alive, it was busy! And hot! I must have had heat stroke or something, because I came THIS close to buying Magnolias (sorry if you're a Magnolia fan, but well....Moomins!!), but thankfully Jackie slapped me around a bit and I came out of my fug and bought a load of cool Stamp Camp stuff instead. (And some cheap Magnolia knock-offs by Kars, but I trust you'll have the good taste not to mention them.)

We bought way too much, and coming out, giddy on the heady combination of rubber and pheromones, giggled and snorted at the site of four nervous looking old ladies as they drove verrrrry sloooooowly and caaaaarefully round a roundabout. Smirk.

Then we got in our car and smartly drove round the same roundabout, the wrong way.

(I knew when we pulled onto it that it didn't feel quite right, but I couldn't figure out why. Hey ho. Instant Karma, I guess. )

Anyway some ATCs from a little fiddling session we had. The fairy stamps are by The Stamp Man, the text ones are Stamp Camp. Am determined to fill up my ATC spinner that two years ago I ABSOLUTELY HAD TO HAVE AND ABSOLUTELY WOULD USE, which currently houses about 6 ATCs.




Jackie made this last one. Good, innit? Go on her blog and bug her to start posting again. I miss her calm and reasoned take on life :)

Big. Letters.

Mmm, big Christmas letters. Bought them in Hobbycraft, covered them in book pages and threw some shit at them. Stop me if I'm being too technical for you.

Love the "L". The "L", I can't get enough of.

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Not so that "O", though. That "O" may have to go.

Am buzzing along on 3 hours sleep in 36 hours. 4 year old has some sort of chest infection and can't sleep for coughing, bless him. Feel a bit jitttttery at the mo. Expect I will start being able to hear my hair growing soon or something.

Ages since last blog post,. Been so long Twittering, appear to have lost ability to speak in full sentences. Like Geoffery Palmer. In Reggie Perrin.

Stress Free Scrapbooking

This is the title page for Shimelle's Go to Press: Stress Free Scrapbooking on 2 Peas. You get a daily prompt and loads of stuff to print off on your printer, something I normally only use for photo printing, so I'm looking forward to seeing how this pans out.

I've run the title vertically because I'm doing 8x8 and hope to bind it with the BIA I seem to remember buying a couple of years ago, so I've got to leave an indent on the left for wires.

BTW, it's resting on a packet of Eccles Cakes, which are undoubtedly one of life's small pleasures! Off to scoff one now in fact.

"Well thank you very much, Jerry!"

I made this card for a wedding I'm going to tomorrow, using kit scraps from the ATDML retreat (ta for the extra butterfly, Jackie :)).

The reception is in a bedouin tent. I have no idea what that is, but it sounds a bit suspect. I trust that there will be no beardy-weirdy tree-hugging type nonsense expected of me.

The tent is pitched in a farm field up in the hills. Apparently the only toiletry facilities will be portacabin loos (shudder - I feel an attack of the Margot Ledbetters* coming on).

Made this card using some scraps from WRMK Nonsense pad - £12 bargain from QVC until they went and put the price up.

*no, that is not a euphemism for "the shits", thank you. Although actually, come to think of it...

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More Promarkers

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Anyway, yes, Promarkers!!!

I made a couple more cards with them. Bearing in mind that I am an absolute duffer when it comes to colouring in using any other medium, I'm really pleased with the results. I think as I get more experienced* I will manage to whack in a bit more shade and do a bit more blending. I've already learned that when it comes to blending you have to be ruddy quick - leave it anymore than a couple of seconds and you're done for.

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I used the Letraset non-bleed paper. This stopped most of the ink bleed, although not all of it. The stamps are a new Hero Arts clear set, I got them from Sir Stampalot.

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*This suggests future frequent use. Regular readers know that this will never, ever happen.

Is it hot in here?

Happy National Scrapbooking Day one and all!!

Ladies, if your other half refuses to let you observe this most sacred day, tell them they are oppressing your cultural beliefs and can be sued under the Human Rights Act. Ha, that will show them!

I bought an iron today. Actually I bought an iron last Sunday but it was cheap and rubbish, so I bought a better one today. It's made me feel a bit wobbly inside.

Behold the Russell Hobbs Slipstream!! Or, as I like to think of it, The Beast.

2200 watts of throbbing power. Grrrrrr!! Look at it: proud, defiant. I don't dare put my delicate rosey-wosey ironing water in it, I think it would spit it straight out. It dominates the ironing board with its weight, its girth...

Am rather scared by it. And also slightly aroused. Hopefully this will encourage me to iron more.