Sunday Special #1111228597

Yep! Lost count so from now on random numbers will be allocated!!  What a lovely Saturday!  I had a card for a parcel to collect from the post office!!  I knew what was in it but still excited.com!! And here is part of the contents:

 I also got three white pens of various thicknesses and happened to have my pack of 5 black pens in my handbag so there was no way I wasn't going to play!!  Half an hour later in the pub.......

 The long line of 'splats' was the first mark made!  Trying to get the ink to flow in the Posca pen!!  The ink trail went right across the book and onto my leg, foot and the pub floor.  I know have really cool purple converse with white spots!"

Developing nicely!

 

And I think the front is done! This book is going on my holiday with me.  I'm going to do some backgrounds on the pages and leave some blank.  I can then get my daily craft fix filling it in with sketches and doodles!!

 Later in the afternoon we had our 5 year old grandson over for a sleep-over.  He was playing with his PlayDoh so I thought I'd introduce him to Martha Stewart Crafters' Clay so we could make something permanent!  Here he is mixing up his favourite colour, purple!

Look at the concentration!

And the moulds - mix of Karantha and Martha Stewart.  And here's what Liam made:

Pretty good for a first go!! I showed him how to gild them this morning but didn't get any photos.  He used Cerise Gleam for the little face and Silver Treasure Gold for the others.  Hoping I've created another crafter!  I only needed to show him what to do once and he got it straight away!!

And Finally...

My Father's Day Card!

For once I have something that fits with a couple of challenges!  I would like to enter this into:

 Hels' Sunday Stampers  Week 262 'Guys'

and also

The Artistic Stamper Monthly Challenge June - Makes for Men

Matches my OH's little occasional table perfectly!!

Thanks for looking!

Ta ta from me!

Sunday Special Number 2!

Wow! Sunday already! But at least it was sunny today!  A quick photo call of this weeks activities:
One (little) book of ruination completed last night:

Yay! Only 2 more to finish!  Here's his big brother that he hides inside....

I've only done the front cover so you'll have to wait a bit before I show the finished product!

Yesterday morning was spent at the Artistic Stamper with the lovely Jennie trying not to tread any wax into the carpet (otherwise I'd be barred for life!  I even got the 'Pointy Finger' oh yes!  I was very good tho so I think I'm allowed back?)   Anyway, This is the outcome of our 3 hour workshop:

Very subtle colouring for me! (and not sure why this one is on it's side?) Lurve the new Distress Paints! I do tend to use them with a lot of water in a water coloury way (but then my background is water colour/pen and ink so maybe not surprising?)

The flower and honeycomb are made from moulds.  The rest of the canvas is also covered in wax! How cool is that! (actually the wax was ...ahem....warmish?  Got a sore thumb ;-)  ) Oops, sorry! Sore thumb is from a nasty paper cut!  Who knew crafting could be so dangerous??!!! I love my canvas and was hoping to do one today....but the sun came out!!!

Before I go I'd like to enter the following challenges:

Anything goes at Hot Shot Craft

Texture at The Artistic Stamper

Anything Goes at Crafty Emblies

Paint at Ink on My Fingers

Thanks for looking and bye bye from me!

I wasn't going to blog this.....

....but as the Sunday Stampers Challenge is 'Shiny' this week I thought it sort of fitted!

It's my very simples Silver Anniversary card that I made for my lovely Nick (how he's put up with me for 25 years?? As my Mum would say 'he needs his bumps felt' Lol!!)

I used the free Craft Stamper Magazine stamp, stamped with embossing ink and embossed with Ranger Super Fine Detail embossing powder in Silver.  The words were added using Weathered Wood Distress Marker and embossed in Silver (bet you couldn't tell they were hand-written lol!).  I then drew the little hearts in Fired Brick Distress Marker to add the finishing touch. Finally matted onto Silver Glitter card (Create and Craft) and onto a white card blank.  Very simple but I rather quite like it! More important though, Nick absolutely loved it!!

Anyhoo, short and sweet today! but before I go I'd like to enter this in:

 The Sunday Stampers Week 250 Challenge 

Do pop along - Hels has put together a real treasure trove of Blog Candy to give away this week and ....ooh what gorgeous Candy it is too!!

Bye bye for now from me! (I might be back later for WOYWW - depends on whether the pesky laptop plays nice with the camera - took me about 6 attempts to get them to talk to each other to download the pic above...gggrrrrrr!)