It's here at last and absolutely fabulous!
Just a quickie today as I am up to my eyes in it. I did, however remember at the last minute that hubby needed a wedding card for the wedding this evening and as I'm still working on my Create and Craft samples for the new Funky Hand cd..Wishes & Kisses so what better thing to use as I have sheets of printed paper in front of me :)
As I mentioned in the post above (you're not seeing things, I managed to change the date so it stayed at the top!) The design team received our Wishes and Kisses cd during last week and it is fabulous. Anice has got some really gorgeous papers into the collections. I use my other Funky Hand cds quite a bit and this one will definitely get used too :)
I'm still working on my samples for the Create and Craft show on 15th June but got a request earlier this week for 7 sympathy cards so I decided to use the new cd for this one. You will all appreciate just how difficult it is to make 7 cards of the same subject for any one person, especially when they are all being sent to the same person!
I know I've said it before but the quality of goods from Kanban is fantastic and a joy to work with. Everything I've come across so far, from the card/toppers to the self adhesive gems to the foam pads are just such good quality, they are definitely worth investing in :) (and I have to add, I haven't been asked/told to say any of the above, it just knocks my socks off every time I receive a parcel!!!)
So onto this week's cards. I received a parcel earlier this week with the new Rule Britannia sheets in it and they are great with an element of fun!
......and a yummy sneaky peak!!
I got some new Kanban goodies last week so have been making samples with those and have also made the most of the weather this week as I missed it all last year with being at the shop 24/7 (or at least that's what it felt like!) My garden was seriously neglected last year as I seem to be the only one who can weed it so consequently it has taken me three days to weed the back. On Sunday I went outside at about 9.30 and it was 8.35 when I finally went in. (We had a bbq so I didn't even have to go in to cook dinner). It is now done and planted with bedding plants so I can relax a bit. I have also enjoyed working outside in the sunshine and am developing quite a tan so I won't look too pasty when we go to Cornwall next month :)
I had a wedding order collected today, I made two wedding cards yesterday and decorated an album and keepsake box and now have an order for 5 sympathy cards :( This week is going to be a real mixed bag of work.
I've got a goodun this week, well I think so at least :) This was made for hubby's aunty's 80th birthday yesterday and it was a bit of a rush job because I only decided on Sunday that I would make one for her!
It's here again folks! I've just received some new products from Kanban and they are just fabulous, the qualitly is second to none as everything is printed onto 300/350 GSM card, the mirri card is to die for and the sparkle and shine on the gems is amazing too. I think I may be smitten :)
Anyway onto the cards
Wednesday? I'm very late with this post today, I meant to prepare it yesterday but forgot about it and this is the first chance I've had to upload it.
So here is my desk for this week
It's my turn again to post my project for the Get Funky! challenge which this month was chosen by Ruth.
...is fair of face. I'm not actually sure what relevance that has to my post but I couldn't think of another title with Monday in it :))
So what have you been up to this miserable manky weekend? I haven't done anything apart from work work work, but I don't seem to have achieved very much. I did my DT work for Kanban this week and got that emailed over and I made a couple of wedding invitation samples and apart from cooking a Sunday dinner (miracle because I don't very often!!) and having my mum and dad over for an hour, that was about it. I've had such grand plans for this week but none of it is turning out as I planned lol
Anyway, I can now show you the invitations which were picked up last Friday.
I don't do many personalised keepsake boxes as a lot of my couples have a Post Box they use this after the wedding to keep their treasured memories in. However, I have done a couple for different weddings for the lady who ordered this one, she was one of my brides five years ago.
The pink fascinator was collected on Friday by a rather happy client. All she wanted was a few fluffy feathers in chocolate brown adding to the sides of the hair piece along with a couple of crystals.
This is what it looked like before
I might just try to remember to schedule a few blog posts for the coming week as we have been promised warm sunshine around Wednesday and my idea is to get on top of everything on my to do list (including the dreaded h*******k) and sit in the garden and make jewellery! So do I believe the weathermen (and women) or not?
Anyway, my Funky Friday project this week is a Wordbook from Funky Hand There are Wordbooks on the Papercraft Factory cds as well as "stand alone" wordbooks available from the web site as downloads. I chose to use papers and elements from Surprise from the Happy Happy Birthday cd
These Thursdays are certainly rolling round at great speed now aren't they? I was going to state that ridiculous comment, that I'm sure I've made before, 'it will soon be Chr*****s' but then I realised that I have two holidays to look forward to between now and then, so I won't bother. It probably doesn't help that I'm writing this on Sunday so it isn't so long since Thursday after all!! :)
It's ages since I took part in WOYWW so I thought I would give it a go today. This is the official day of the week when we get to snoop at craft spaces around the world! If you want to know more about it take a peep at the blog of the 'Chief Snoop', Julia's Stamping Ground and you will see more of what we're up to.
I've a couple of different photos of my desk today, the first is as it was when I got up this morning, not good to open the door at 7.15 and have that lot facing you :)
The Get Funky challenge is live for the month of May and Ruth is the lovely hostess who has set the challenge. Her brief is Polkadots and Flowers and as long as the two main requirements AND a Funky Hand item you can enter our challenge!
The freebie paper for this month can be found on the Funky Hand web site here.
It's just a very quick Funky Hand card today as I'm up to my eyes with jewellery and samples for a change, it's ages since I've made any jewellery. I also have another fascinator on my desk to add feathers to and the rest of my tiaras to photograph, edit and price so hubby can get them uploaded onto my web site.
Rather late I know. This week has been dire, does anyone else think Bank Holidays are a pain. They throw the whole of my week out and I end up trying to do far more than I'm capable of in the hope of catching up because I dared to have the day off lol.
Right, enough of my whining, that's not what this post is about so onto my cards.
