Living in a box!

Sorry about my prolonged absence but I have just been so busy and am still working between two laptops! DH bought me a new one for Christmas as my old one kept telling me I had a hard drive problem but after a couple of weeks the wifi stopped working so the only way I could get onto the internet was to use a cable. This hasn't proved to be very good as every time I moved my laptop the cable fell out. In the end I had to reinstall all my work etc back onto my old laptop so I could carry on working. After many searches of the internet and much talking with HP it has resulted in him doing a complete back up of my new laptop and reinstalling of Windows. He is now in the process of installing everything back on to the new one (and the old one still keeps shutting down on me and still has the hard drive problem!) so hopefully this week I should be back to normal. I have been missing FB messages and emails so if you have been trying to contact me then I apologise. Please leave me a message and I will get back to you asap. As well as the dicky laptop I have a dicky printer too so am having to use DH's printer at the mo to print out my work. Oh and to top it all, my mobile keeps freezing too, I have to take the battery out and leave it for a while then put it back in and reboot it. I don't know what I've done but technology and I just aren't getting along at the moment and I thought it was all supposed to make for an easier life lol

So I must have made hundreds of cards and wedding bits since I was last here! We have had a few new Kanban kits too so lots of samples have been made, which is why I'm here today. The new kit is called Hugs and Kisses and is exclusive to Create and Craft as the weekender. You get 100 pieces in total and there is a £10 saving on the normal price plus free p&p which is another saving of £2.99! The design team got the kit to play with a couple of weeks ago and have come up with loads of different samples between us. I will start my samples off by showing you two ways in which I used the die cut pop up boxes. I used one in the usual way then made a gift box with another. The nice thing about these boxes is that they are all double sided and some are foiled too, it's a lovely kit.

The remaining shows are at 2 pm, 7 pm and 9 pm today, I hope you can drop by and take a look.

Thanks for dropping by and I WILL be back tomorrow :) (I'm going to schedule my post now as my grandson is coming to stay tonight.)

Funky Friday

Crikey what a day...I worked really had today and got to where I wanted to be so I could break off to watch a bit of telly this evening, I came in here at about 9.15 pm to upload this post as I kept forgetting during the day but then got distracted by something else then Alan Carr came on. I might just get this done in the remainder of Friday (unlike last week when it went just past midnight so I missed Friday all together)

I hope all our 'friends' in Scotland are ok in that horrible weather. xx

My card this week is using the Kathy's Waffle Sketchfile sketch and one of the fantastic new downloads which will make up the Oh Come All Ye Crafters series from Funky Hand and they are just fab. I will be uploading more over the weekend but you will have to watch this space for the release date. We have been given six more than are on the web site at the mo so that we can have a play and believe me, you won't be disappointed :)

 The papers for this card is from "Make A List, " The image is separate but they are still Funky Hand images which are new for this year. Everything apart from the pearls on this card are from Funky Hand, even the piece of ribbon which is the last of the ribbon we were sent about 18 months ago, I kept losing it, but at least now it has been used!

I actually love the way the box has turned out. They were made using a set of templates I bought a couple of weeks ago by a very talented crafter (and Kanban teamie) named Emma Goddard from Emma's Cards Uk and the papers from above.

Right, that's it for now. I will be back over the weekend with more from the new downloads.

Take care and thanks for dropping by :) x