Christmas Celebrations

I hope that everyone had a fantastic Christmas, I know that I certainly have. After a pretty rubbish year I have had an amazing Christmas and boxing day with family which made it all worth it.

Just before the festivities I received a new free gift from the wonderful magazine people. It arrived in one piece this time and was a very nice surprise. I am aiming to at least of opened the box within the next 3 months as I'm afraid it is one of those messier time consuming products which look fantastic but that you have to put the time in for but to be honest I'm more a cut and stick girl. I did however see a gorgeous flower soft me to you bear which looked and felt amazing as it gave the illusion of fur. I will try to have a play soon. 

I was lucky enough to receive Samuel Taylor vouchers for both my birthday and Christmas so the day after boxing day I went down to have a look. It was the start of their sale so it turned into quite a massive spending spree. I purchased a new guillotine as mine is getting abit blunt and with it only being a small travel one I thought I would splurge and get a 12 x 12 cutter. This should save on paper as at the minute I have to waste some of the pattern by cutting the card the way it will fit in the machine and not necessarily the way that looks best or is most efficient. I also got a craft tote in the hopes it will encourage me to craft away from home as I can stash all my goodies in it. They were my sensible spends. The rest of the money went on anything that took my fancy or that I had seen during the year and liked but for whatever reason hadn't bought. I was pleased that I was able to get a mix of card making and scrapbooking goodies. Yet again I have ended up with alot of stamps which seems to be a reoccurring habit at the moment even though I'm not really a stamper. This is something that will have to change in the new year as I now have quite a collection of stamps and so I will be having a play with stamping techniques and colouring in in the new year. Strangely I did not come home with any die cuts which is what I have tended to go for before and that I had actually gone to get. I am wanting a corner die cut, some sort of flourish, but just can't seem to find the perfect one so am going to leave it until the right one comes along. Any ideas on this please let me know.

Published Humphrey Card

Previously I mentioned that I had sent in some card samples to Simply Cards and Papercraft in the hopes that they would publish one of them. well guess what, they have! I had to pay to purchase the magazine but as I was dying to find out which card they had published and to see it in colour print it was worth it. Luckily the lady from the magazine had told me exactly which issue it was in, which is the current one issue 105. Ive been going round showing everyone whether they are interested or not.


Aswell as getting put in the magazine I was sent a free gift. I seem to be having a lucky streak for these at the minute. Unfortunately the postman decided to bend the product and so has damaged part of it. This is why I can never get my magazines with free gifts or papers delivered as he tends to destroy them. I had won a sheet of die cut snowflake chipboard by Woodware. I emailed Simply Cards to thank them for the gift but to explain what the postman had done and the wonderful lady is going to send me out another gift, a more robust one she has stated so hopefully the postman wont mess if this one. Yeah more gifts.

I won!

I can't believe it but I won the crafty hamper!

I couldnt believe my eyes when I got the email. The news totally topped off what was already an amazing craft bargain day. I collected the hamper yesterday morning from Lili Of The Valley and was amazed by the size of it, its huge. I hadn't looked at it properly when I signed up for the raffle but its massive. Unfortunately I didnt have time to open it as I had some cards to make, house to clean and then a birthday meal to attend to so had to wait until night time to have a look. There is such a wonderful range of goodies in there from stamps to paper packs, ribbon to glue, charms to glitter. I did a little count and worked out that theres just under £200 worth of stock in there. I am so grateful and thankful for this prize it is amazing and has really made my year especially with it been so close to my birthday and christmas. As alot of the stock is christmas I will hopefully have some fantastic christmas cards to make next year with it. Although I would love to dive in and play with it all now I still have plenty of christmas stash to finish off the cards I still need to make this year. I still get to play with alot of stamps, inks and flowers in the new year though. Brilliant.