Help Wanted!

I am currently having a major purge in my craft room as I have decided I have far too much stuff, and a lot that I know I will never use. Items will be appearing on here and on eBay if you are interested. 

The rest needs to be totally reorganised so that I know what I have got. So I’m looking for ideas and suggestions from all you fellow crafters. 

What I want to know is:

Do you store your stamps by make or theme? 

If it is a set containing images and sentiments do you split them up? 

Do you catalogue them?

If so what do you use ? 

I’m sure I’ll think of more things to ask but that will do for now.

Rudolph Day April 2022

Once again it's time for Rudolph Day. This time I have taken ispiration from a number of posts where a shadow box die has been used. Amongst my stash of NBUS I had this Paper Rose die and thought it could be used in a similar way.

In my other stash I have a pad of Christmas paper with Scandinavian designs that I seem to find difficulty in using. Ithink it's the colours that throw me! So I cut a frame in cream to tone with the papers and then cut strips from two sheets and positioned them in the cut outs.The frame is a perfect fit for a DL card. A fairly simple design but a bit fiddly getting the papers just where I wanted them.

Challenges entered:

Rudolph Day

NBUS

Snippets Playground - the frame was a snippet and I've now got snippets of the papers!

The Holly and the Ivy Christmas Challenge

Giveaway Results.

Happy Easter to all my readers!

Thank you to the people who commented on my Giveaway post. I have now done the draw the old fashioned way!

Congratulations to no 1 - Liz

And

No 5 Aunty Sue

Please email me at zouavecardsdotgmaildotcom with your address and I will get them in the post next week.

Fuschia

After a fraught few days - five- I finally managed to get back into Bloglovin yesterday. As I use it to read all the blogs I follow I have had quite a few to catch up with.

I finally got round to using this lovely Penny Black stamp. I used Zig watercolour markers to paint the image and a water brush to blend and move the ink around.

I actually stamped it on white card but it looks very creamy on the photo. The mat is also much closer in shade to the purple on the flowers than it looks here. Both the white and purple mats are out of my snippets drawer.

I would like to join in with the following challenges:

Happy Little Stampers Watercolour Challenge 

NBUS Challenge

Pixies Snippets Playground

Bloglovin

Anybody else having problems with Bloglovin? I haven’t been able to access my feed for the last two days. I just get a message saying Sorry can’t find that page . Help ! 

Jamie’s Card

April's a busy month for making male birthday cards for me. Three in nine days!  This one is for my stepdaughter’s boyfriend. 

I created the image on Craft Artist then cut it out with a stitched rectangle die and mounted it onto a yellow mat .

Challenges entered: Fab ‘n’Funky - masculine

Giveaway!

As part of my big craftroom purge I am doing a giveaway! There are two bundles of Little Claire stamps, Bundle A  - all DL sized, and Bundle B.  All have been lightly used, but are in good condition. Unfortunately due to the high postage costs I am having to limit this to UK only.

Bundle A

Bundle B

If you are interested in winning either of the bundles please leave a comment on this post. The closing date for entries is midnight on 15 April 2022.

I will do the draw over the Easter weekend.

Good luck!

A Masterpiece for Rudolph!

No not one of mine(lol)! I recently saw a post from Miss Di using the Penny Black Materpieces made Simple toppers which inspired me to get some. The title of them is very apt as they do make simple cards that really are very nice. 

I chose to use a pale blue card with a shimmery gold mat. Very simple. The hardest part was finding a rectangle die that was the same proportions - this was the best out of the many I've got - but is still not quite right. The sentiment was just stamped with gold ink., and I added some Wink of Stella to the snowy bits for a bit of sparkle.

Challenges:

Rudolph Day

NBUS - the topper

Snippets Playground - the mat

Anyone for coffee?

Roy's birthday is coming up soon and I was feeling a bit stuck for ideas for his card. I was sure I had bought a stamp sometime ago especially for it, but there was nothing sitting on my desk that looked remotely suitable, so thought I must have dreamt buying it. The trouble was I couldn't even remember what the image was! So Plan B got put into action.  Coffee!

The stamp set is from Altenew . I used a piece of gingham paper to represent a tablecloth, although that well known chain of coffee shops that he frequents for his flat white certainly doesn't have any!

Typically as soon as I had finished this card and was clearing away I found the stamp I had bought. Oh well it will come in handy for next year - if I remember I've got it.

 

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge - Food and /or Drink

WOYWW

I haven’t joined in with WOYWW for absolutely ages but thought it was a good idea to show you why I haven’t been producing any cards. This is my desk.

And then there is the floor!

We’re having ceilings plastered in one of the bedrooms and bathroom so crates of stuff from them are currently living on my floor!  I’ll be so pleased when I can put everything back.