A tag and a card

I don't think I shared this card before. It was for a BG contest, using Obscure, funky papers but quite difficult to use. Great fun to make this one, and lots of handcutting too!
Also I've been tagged by Kate! Thank you :)

4 jobs I have had

Dental Nurse a long time ago
Workshop Coordinator of a Social Enterprise
Pizza Chef ahh those student jobs...
Craft Tutor

4 places I have visited
Malmo in Sweeden
Lyon in France
Quite a few places in Greece
Camden in London

4 places I have lived
Rural Wales
Isle of Lewis
The big city of Aberdeen (a metropolis to me!)
Rural Angus

4 faovourite foods
Sushi
Twiglets
Sunday Roast, any of them, we're having chicken today.
Creme eggs

4 places I would rather be
My craft room
On a warm beach
By the fire
Snuggled in bed when there's a storm outside

And I'm going to tag... Lisa, Lynne and Nic, in honour of making friends made on the internet and living to tell the tale!

and CUT!!!

Hooray an escape from Christmas, (is anyone else a bit fed up of crackers, tinsel and excessively wrapped toiletries filling the shelves?) Anyway, this weeks dare is set by Tracie, and it is to use handcutting on a card, any theme too so I get to escape the festive frenzy (not that I don't like it, but Decembers the time for Christmas...grump...mutter...moan...)

This card is totally inspired by, but not using any, Rusy Pickle pirate papers I got at the SECC. Somehow they just didn't work when I put them with the lettering so they're back on the shelf for stroking.

The only thing that isn't handcut is the card blank. I used stamps by Hero Arts and StudioG, Prima flowers, papermania brads, a skull from the same font as I used before about a month ago and doodling.

Penny Black alpha stamps here for the congratulations, whispers colouring pens (I'm sure theres a more grown up name but hey...), doodled borders and Pink Petticoat paper. I didn't feel scared doodling direct onto the PP paper cause I knew I could always print another sheet if I mucked it up! Didn't cut the letters individually this time though.

I quite like handcutting really, I use my alphabet stamps and cut them out more now even if it does take longer than using my dies. Thanks for stopping by my blog, have a crafty day.

Rhi :)

Ribbon Recipe

Yep, more ribbony loveliness from the DCM blog. This time a recipe to use...

4 brads/eyelets

3 circles

2 rectangles

and lashings of ribbon!

Ribbon is as before from Ribbon Oasis. One of my favouritest places to get ribbon from, the mini kits are fabarooo! Now I've been a bit over Christmassified so I decided to ignore the festive seasons approach and make a card for any occasion...

The felt ribbon is lush and I love the stitched edge, makes it look like you've spent ages sewing it lol! The Christmas ribbons DCM entries are all amazing but there's still plenty of time to enter and win some ribbon, you can never have too much in my opinion!

Monday monday

Didn't it get dark early this evening, I don't know why it came as a shock but it always does. Ahh well, not long til spring and plenty of crafting time meanwhile. Here's a couple of things I made over the weekend, both for Just Bex challenges and using scrummy Pink Petticoat papers. First a swing card, I just love these papers, so funky.

Next I turned this box...
Into this! Much prettier. I can't say Im a huge fan of altered stuff as practical storage, in my experience things decorated with blooms and ribbon seem to fall apart very quickly in my craft room. Maybe I expect too much from my storage lol. Still, these washing tablet boxes have a fab click shut action cause of the cardboard tabs inside so I reckon I will actually use this, probably to take bits and pieces to classes.

See you tomorrow for a fab Little Extra challenge from the Daring Cardmakers!

Stash yumminess

Oh dear I think I overused exclamation marks in my last post. Must be the excitement of spending the day with two fab friends who I can witter on to about paper stuff and they know what I'm on about (Now I was tempted to put a '!' there but I'm being restrained...). As promised, here's some stash pics...

Delicious fabricy goodness from Elsie and 7Gypsies gaffer tape...
Random papers and some huge monograms to alter for me and Matt.


Dies and brads...


Oh and a big round corner punch... forgot that one cause its out of its packet and being used already. Plus a couple of mags for a pound each. Very restrained don't you think? I was after some cool colours of felt but there was only one stand that had it, and not a great selection so yesterday I toddled off to my local craft shop and got...


Felt!

and these stamps for a pound each...
I made some stuff yesterday too but I think I've probably pushed blogger to its limit of photos allowed in one place without it having an emo fit and throwing them all off, so I'll come back with them soon.

Ribbons Galore

I'm so late posting my Dare cards for yesterday but I have a very good excuse! Girly chats and craft shopping! Yesterday I went to the SECC craft show with Lynne and Nic, and it was a fab day out. Was quite restrained with my purchaces really! I got just in time for Ugly Betty followed by QI and fell asleep straight after! Anyway I'll come back and tell you all about it later but meanwhile here's my Dare cards, this week sponsored by Ribbon Oasis, Ribbony Christmas Cards!

This funky ribbon is the perfect match for the Pink Martini, flirtini papers. Its like they were made for each other. Stamp by Autumn Leaves on DCWV card. A retro ish Christmas card this one!
This gold ribbon is lovely for accents, DCWV paper, Cuttlebug embossing, sizzix star and BG notch border!
Pics of new stash to follow!

Another JB challenge

Phew, a mega busy day here. Not much I can share though and a load of admin *insert sleepy yawning smiley here*, but I can share this card I made for one of the challenges on the Just Bex forum. To make a fastening card with some sore of closure.

Mine uses BG Blush, which Im feeling ok about using as Mellow is lush and my new one to keep for stroking! And I used 5 pieces out of my 6x6 pad cause I decided to cover the inside and back too which is stripey like the front. Stamps are the same as the previous post, delicious, I love them, and the papermania pearl brads look so antique wardrobe/ belt buckle!Its foggy and cold here tonight so I think a spot of sofa snuggling and telley watching is in order!