artquest the pitfalls

Heck I love my artquest watercolours so much but today I realised they have a fault. I bought some fab new Penny Black christmas stamps and when I went to paint the stamped images.....they looked bad....because there are no real solid colours. All of the sets I have are sparkly with lovely metallic and pearlescent lustres and sheens to the finished images but I wanted to paint the cats and dogs and pearly and metallic just doesn't look right so no finished images as I need to find something else to colour them with. So away went my lovely new stamps and out came some much loved rubber stamp tapestry ones and I made a christmas card......and gues what????.......Its another brown one....those ribbons are slowly being used......then they have to be because LSH's ribbon kit for October is ....yep brown.....oh well I have been asked to make more of the mini photo albums and Ben Madigans will be yummy halloween colours and I have plans for those already....roll on October....eek I'm wishing my life away for ribbons. LOL.

Brown Again

Yep twice in a week....brown, what is the world coming too. I made several cards today and they all had brown ribbon somewhere on them including the one in the picture of a stamped teddy watercoloured with Marvy pens and a stamped happy birthday greeting. I really like stamping so much. Someone asked a question on UKS today ......"name your top 3 stamps"......so after about 15 mind changes in five minutes I gave up....I have so many stamps that I don't even think I could choose my top 3 manufacturers let alone stamps....I could probably do my top 3 most used stamps at the present time and this little bear would certainly be in there he is so cute......who made him ....I really can't remember offhand but I have had him for a long time and I think he was part of a set which consisted of him, a greeting and a pawprint.

Dining Room Disaster

Yep disaster struck our very own dining room tonight.....Jay and I were sat having our meal when part of STASH MOUNTAIN collapsed all over the floor....oops I got a very "I knew that would happen" look from Jay......I didn't laugh....I was really restrained but it was really hard. So how did this disaster occur.....well we have a spare dining chair at the side of the door and for several months now stash that has been used and done with and a couple of albums that I bought and didn't get taken away and varying other paper related items have gradually been put onto said chair and today it obviously all became too unstable resulting in the paper avalanche at teatime. Ever the optimist I see this as a very good thing as whilst I was picking it up I found a pot of utee that I knew I had somewhere.....a stamp that I need to make some atcs for my friend because he liked the ones I had done and several packets of sticky ribbon which Justine and Ffion can use on their CJ's. Not so bad after all then but I bet you don't need 3 guesses as to what I will be doing when I have dropped Ffi at school in the morning.

On the scrap front a very productive day as I have almost made my 24 pages for my calendar swap and 2 sets of covers....I can't really put pictures up as they are for a swap so todays picture is the first thing I ever altered....an a....it was a very last minute thing as I joined the altered monogram swap at the last minute.....I chose an a because I thought it would be a very useful letter. It is handcut from chipboard, Inked background is cats eye chalk Bisque (I love that pad)

stamped using more cats eye pads and Cardio Tapestry Stamps and mod podged....So glad I did this swap as it really gave me a taste for altering which I now love.

Where does the time go

Eek I don't know but I wish it wouldn't go so flipping fast. It seems like only yesterday that I plucked up the courage to join my first ever CJ (Circle Journal) ......Well it wasn't yesterday, last week or even last month......It was a whole year ago ......it has been to lots of different places including over the Irish Sea and now it home and full of lots of peoples lovely work. It is fabby to see other scrappers work in real life. Things look so much better irl than in photographs...well the photographs I take anyway.. My CJ for example is so much prettier sat here in front of me.....so sparkly it makes you want to pick it up and touch it...not like in the photo where it is just another journal......I think it might be time for a new camera.....I only have a compact point and shoot....oh okay who am I trying to fool ....I have decided to take the plunge and buy a new camera and am now trying to justify my decision.

Fame at Last

Well Nelson has his Column, JFK has his airport and now me I have my own ribbons named after me. Well you have to start somewhere and I am after all still alive (only just according to my UKS teamies the Pink Fluffy Fairies:lol:. Very pretty ribbons they are too. How do you get a set of ribbons named after you I hear you cry. Well I was challenged to use my latest Ben Madigan ribbon kit.....easy I hear you say......no it wasn't they were brown and I DON'T DO BROWN. Anyhow I made the mini photo album a few posts down and low and behold Jaynes Addiction....you can see them in the picture.......so much better than brown don't you think and whats more .......I get the very first ones.....no problems using these I think.

Baubles for stig

Baubles especially for stig.....can't remember the make of the stamp but I love it. The baubles are painted with art quest watercolours(two different sets) onto black card. This picture does them no justice as these paints are absolutely stunning irl.

Today is rubbish....Ffi went back to school and I missed her like mad.....even my new stash that arrived this morning couldn't cheer me up......and it was Penny Black stamps and Rusty Pickle Adams Family paper so if that couldn't do it then nothing can. Everything was dreadfully quiet and my mind was in another place almost seven years ago (those of you who know me well enough irl will know where it was and that I am not a total nutcase) ...... In a nutshell I'm sad and my mind is working overtime.....its going to take a few days before I get used to not having Ffi where I can see her me thinks.

A pumpkin

A pumpkin for the very demanding woman over the sea.....yes you:lol: