Sunday Stamper - Week 88 - Hip To Be Square

Morning Stampers ... have you noticed I am not in my usual place??? Do I look different? Aha, that is cos today I am having to post from....THE BIG COMPUTER! My laptop has passed away (or at least, it will have once I have removed my boot from it...why are computers so annoying, you just get used to it, it understands you, you understand it... and then it goes and plays silly beggars and annoys you so much that you inflict harm on it....ROFL) so Grim has allowed me onto his pride and joy purely to post the new challenge...he just knows how rubbish I am with computers and how I break things, unwittingly of course, but clumsy is, afterall, my middlename ROFL First of all...THANK YOU for all your lovely entries last week... it was lovely to see so many new faces joining in too. I used Random.Org to pick out a winner...basically, using the usual formula, every entry assigned a number in order with date/time posted and then picked out this way...the lucky number was 7. Without further ado, I am pleased to annouce the winner of the "Sponsors" candy from The Artistic Stamper is....

Clarky J - congrats and please email your addy etc to me and I will pop your candy into the post.




Moving on...the new theme this week is....hips....ahahaha, got you going there... really it is SQUARES... and I used some 2" squares of Stampbord to make a little hangy piece. The base is an 8" square canvas oil board which I first painted with ... Traditional Tan (why use anything other when this is THE perfect paint!!!) and then layered some stamped tissue over it using Beeswax to fix it down...the stamping was done with StaZon and are Crafty Individuals stamps and an Artistic Stamper script stamp.





Now, once this was done it was way too in my face, not subtle at all (and, afterall, subtle is my middle name...along with clumsy LOL) so I layered another sheet of plain tissue over the top, using more Beeswax over the top...and then watered down some of the Trad Tan and blended this over the top using Cut & Dry foam. I used some little sprinkles of gold embossing powder to jazz up the edges and randomly over the bumpy bits just to add a bit of emphasis and to close the piece in I dragged a black StaZon around the edges too.




The tiles are all inked with a combo of Adirondack Foam Pigments and Chalk Inks and Colorbox Pigments. I have found that these pigments seem to work the best on Stampbord...basically, just heat set between colourings and stamping...and then I used a scratchy tool to scrape away bits of the images to add some highlights.




Each tile was then UTEE'd with three layers altogether so you get a really cool ceramic look..which doesn't really show up on the photo's too well. I edged all the tiles with gold Krylon to make them nice and neat and then to blend them more into the background I swiped a StaZon around the edges, just roughly, which toned them down a bit.




The stamping was all done with black StaZon and are a bit eclectic this week... no real theme, just some random images that are some of my faves and are from *in no particular order* Crafty Individuals, PaperBag Studio's, Stamp Francisco, Prima, Stampers Anon and The Stamp Bug... I have to admit, this piece is totally unlike the idea I had in my head...so that project, hopefully, will be made today...and will be the One World One Heart giveaway tomorrow :O)) If you are wondering what I am waffling on about, there is a link in my sidebar for you to click on and get transported to the place that is setting it all up...several friends joined in with it last year and loved it...so I thought I would give it a go this year!




Anyway...back to the hangy piece...I added some eyelets and rusty wire for the hangy bit and added a little bead that I nabbed from an old bracelet and a Philiosophy Tag which I dabbed with gold paint and wiped off so the gold stayed in the indentations. Finally, I added some micro beads randomly round the edges, again, they don't show up too well on the pics and some more of the heavenly golden pearls that I am fast running out of now!



To join in with the challenge, all you need to do is make a piece of art, be it a card, ATC, altered, tis up to you, incorporate the theme and some stamping and then pop back and leave me a comment on this post with a link to the place you are showing your piece... then I can hop over and visit you :O)) The challenge will remain open until 23:00 on Saturday 30th January...so you have all week to play!

Thanks for looking and I hope that you all have a great week!

Hels x

Sunday Stampers - Week 86 - Tiger Feet...

Morning Stampers, Happy Sunday to you all....

Many thanks for all your entries last week...loads of beautiful faces to see on my hops :O)) This week the theme is... FEET....you can add a tiger in if you like but that is the only song I could think of with feet in the title...and once I had put this piece together I couldn't get over the amount of times I had stamped feet *not stamped my foot I hasten to add LOL* To join in with the challenge all you need to do is make something, use stamping, incorporate the theme and then leave me a comment here with a link to the place you are showing your art. This theme closes at 23:00 Saturday January 16th '10.




I made a Shadow Box for my entry, painting it first with...*no prizes for guessing* Traditional Tan paint and then blobbed some Rock Candy Cracklepaint all over the top. Once this had dried I used Purple Pansy and Jazz Blue Glimmer Mists to colour the frame, the beauty of using the Glimmer Mists is you can control the colouration...and the mists drop into the crackles too. The centre was made up using a template of card that I pre-cut and then inked the card pieces with Old Paper then a few with Dusty Concord and the rest with Broken China...matching it in with the frame.





All of the stamped images are by PaperBag Studio's again...I am being a good stamper and not just favouring one make at the moment *not sure how long that will last though* All the images were stamped with black StaZon - I find it better to use a permanent ink for this type of project in case I splosh something over the top...it doesn't get ruined then!




I added some metal bits and bobs, the little hooky thing at the top is actually a boot button hook...I have had this for yonks and just thought that it went well with the amount of feet I had stamped....I made a metal rose using Ten Second Studio Pearl metal which was coloured with the Glimmer Mists...and then used the large Flower Power stamp from the Artistic Stamper, backing the metal onto black card and then sticking together with a Grungeboard flourish behind it. The rest of the metal bits are mainly Idea-ology. I filled up a mini bottle with beads just because I always seem to add one of these bottles into every shadow box I do!





Thanks for looking...have a great week and I hope that you don't get too snowed in...it is snowing a bit here at the moment...I would like another big drop so I can try and make a snowman...better than the effort I made last year LOL

Hels x

Sunday Stampers - Week 85 - I've Just Seen a Face....Plus Candy Winner

Hello Stampers ... Happy New Year to you all...may 2010 bring you lots of health and happiness... not to mention very inky fingers too :O)) A HUGE thank you to everyone who joined in with the challenge last time... it was great to see so many lovely pieces of art and to have so many comments too :O)) I used a very special mathematical solution to be able to chose a winner of the Mega Candy...basically, every comment that was left over the three posts I made, I assigned a number to, then if you joined in with the challenge, you got an extra number...makes sense huh? I used the Random.Org generator to chose the number *one day I will learn how to get the picture from there, to here, so you can see the result!!!* ...which turned out to be #42....so....drumroll.....the winner is:

Laura from As Happy As....congrats hun, please can you email me your addy details and I will pop the candy into the post for you. I got over 50 comments in total so I am adding some more bits and bobs to the stash too :O))

On with the new challenge...I had a little think over the holidays (don't panic, I was sitting down so didn't exert myself!) about the way the Sunday Stampers format is...with the song title for the theme etc...and decided that I like it that way...and it keeps me on my music quiz toes trying to think of new titles all the time LOL So, the theme this week is going to be Faces. It is easy to join in, all you need to do is make a piece of art, include some stamping on it and let me know about it with a comment here. Simple! Just like me ROFL Include a face in your art...this opens up huge possibilities and means that you can make just about anything really...and yes, I do love to see cute cards too...



I got a lovely blank mirror for Christmas and today I got all inky with Chalk Inks and Stampbord, making little tiles to fit around the edge of the mirror and scratching away some of the image to highlight the designs. I prepped the wooden frame with ... no prizes for guessing.... Claudine Hellmuth's Traditional Tan paint (what did I do before this product!!!)





And...to make the whole thing look a bit fancier, I used a gold Krylon pen around the edges...however, my photography!!!!!!! Yes, I know, I say it every week *yawns* but I really am rubbish with a camera ... so imagine how much trouble I had taking a picture of a mirror, when I didn't want my goofy reflection in it...in the end, I was lying on the kitchen floor, with the frame in front of me, trying to make the flash thingy work without it drowning out the colours...ah well, I promise, I will try to learn how to take photo's this year...cos it is becoming a bit of a joke LOL




Anyway, back to the project....All the stamped images are from PaperBag Studio's...I loooove their stamps and have been neglecting them lately so it was nice to have a play with them. I used a black StaZon for stamping...I find this to be the best permanent ink to stamp onto Stampbord with...it kinda soaks in without it ruining the image or the colour underneath...and the scratching...well, that is another lesson I need to learn, I went a bit bonkers with the only tile I hadn't used a face on...trying to make it pop...and ended up with it looking a bit manky, but ... I did use that sentiment for a reason...we all have "ugly days" right? Only me then? Well, I thought, I could be having one of my "ugly days" and look in the mirror and see the reflection...and then read the sentiment and remind myself that underneath all the flesh and spots, I reckon I am a stunner **for new readers, please, laugh...for peeps who know me...yes, you already are rocking aren't you?** And...this little tile here...well, the sentiment is just perfect...cos ... I will look in the mirror....read the sentiment...and remember, it is MADE for me LOL




I think that is enough waffle for one post...Just one more thing to say ... THANK YOU to everyone who joined in with the Sunday Stamper in the last year...it is incredible but the challenge has been running for nearly 2 years now...in the next few weeks there will be another Blog Candy for the anniversary...so, again, thank you all...it is so good to share my art and visit so many talented crafters....right, I am off before I get all soppy and sentimental.....

Hugs Hels x

Sweet and Simple

...A simple 10 minute make card today...using a sweet Paperbag Studios stamp that has been lurking in my stash for yonks and not yet used!




I painted her in with Distress Inks and stamped a Stampington grid stamp onto more cardstock using two colours and a spritz of water to make it smudgey...I stamped it again and cut out a few of the squares and popped 3D foam behind them to raise them up. The little sentiment is from an Innovative Stamp Creations sheet.




Short and sweet today...am off back to the sofa to put my feet up...my poor old back is paining me again :O( Hopefully with a bit of a rest I will be able to get inky and messy again tomorrow...am missing my craft room LOL Thanks for looking....

Hels x

With Love.....From Me To You!

Morning,

I am taking part in a swap where each member makes a little something special for the next person on the list. The swap is nearly finished now and I have made my last two pieces and sent them out.




Here is one of the ones - yes, it is another Suspended Art (love that new name) piece using the usual mountboard, Grungeboard and inks.




The colours I used are Mustard Seed, Spiced Marmalade, Worn Lipstick and Fired Brick. Applied direct to the pre-gesso'd mountboard, (which I had actually used the Gesso and a dotty stamp to make a different background), I blended the inks and then spritzed using water.




The stamp is another of those gorgeous ones by PaperBag Studio's. Stamped in Timber Brown StaZon and then highlighted with Glossy Accents, I added Grungeboard letters and pieces from the Nature pack. The Grungeboard was coloured with Distress Ink and then I used Distress Stickles to add a little sparkle to the pieces. All the above inks, Stickles and Grungeboard are available from The Artistic Stamper.




I used some mini clips to make a hanger, using some gingham ribbon and a couple of large beads to secure it. Finally, as ever, I used some beaded braid - oh, I do love this fringing and I will be selling it soon on eBay - please watch my Blog for the details as I will be selling it soooo cheap that you will be able to buy three times as much for what you will pay in the shops!!!! Bargains!!




Anyways, I hope that you have a great day - it is blowing a gale here in Luton, I have some washing for the line but am worrying that it may just blow all over the neighbourhood and I certainly don't want my "not so smalls" waving at me from a nearby tree LOL

Thanks for looking and I hope that Shaz, who this was made for enjoys it as much as I did making it.

Hugs Hels xxx

Sunday Stampers - Week 48 - Under The Moon of Love

Morning Stampers,

Thank you to all of you for joining in last week and the week before....once I have posted this weeks theme, I will set off on the Blog journey and visit you all to look at your fab entries.

This week the theme is Moon. The song title is an old fave of mine, yes, I guess I am showing my age, but when I was a girl, I loved Showaddywaddy :O)) I am wondering if those of you in Europe and the US will have heard of this song....if you haven't I am sure you will be able to find it on Google - it is very catchy and hopefully you will be humming it all day long :O))

The inspiration for the colours used in my entry has come from the most revolting bruise I have on my tummy, which was caused by the steering wheel airbag going off and whacking me - I know, how can anyone get inspiration from a bruise???? Well, the colours are just so amazing that I had to use them LOL

I have a little piccy of the bruise, it is only a small pic as I didn't want to put you all off your Sunday dinners but you will see what I mean about the colours. The bruise is very sore but it is getting better and is nothing compared to the leg bruises I have, and there is no way I would show you those! ;o))



I have made a tag using Distress Inks to get the colours I wanted, masking the moon stamps and the young couple stamp, colouring over the masks and then painting in colours onto the images. The moon stamps are from Stamp Francisco and the couple are by Paperbag Studio's.



The little hearts are by Invoke Arts and the background is a dotty stamp from The Artistic Stamper. The sentiment is also by Stamp Francisco and it is taken from my most favourite ever film which is an old black and white weepy starring Bette Davis and Claude Raines and is called Now, Voyager. If you have never seen it I urge you to find a couple of hours one afternoon, get a big box of choccies and a big box of tissues and watch it - it is a true love story!




The little stars were stamped and the coloured with silver Krylon pen, cut out and then stuck onto wire, so it looks like the couple are holding the stars like a bunch of balloons.




This week, I am dedicating the Sunday Stamper to my husband Grim who has been an absolute star this week following my accident - looking after me and dispensing cuddles and love which has made me feel a whole lot better.




Finally, if you would like to join in with the challenge this week, as ever, all you need to do is use something stampy in your creation, include the moon from the theme and then just leave me a message here and I will pop and see your creation. Again, apologies for not being up to visiting you all this week, I am on my way now to catch up!

Thanks for looking

Hels xx

Taking a Journey or Two

Morning Peeps,

You know sometimes you fancy getting a bit creative but you either haven't got time or energy to make a big project? Well, last night I felt a bit crafty but my pain has been really bad this last couple of days - more so than normal :O(( so I knew that a big project was going to be impossible. I don't want to let the pain start taking over and ruling my crafty life aswell, because I think that a hobby is so important to making oneself happy. So, I made two ATC's using Journey as a theme and when I set out to make them I wanted to get two completely different looks, which I think I managed LOL

ATC #1

This is a hinged ATC ... I went thru a phase a couple of years back of only making hinged ATC's so thought I would revisit this stylee.




I cut some plain white cardstock to ATC size and tore one of the ATC's down the middle. This made the front piece. Next, I picked my stamps, using a sentiment from Stamp Attack, a Tim Holtz collection word and some Paperbag Studios images. I inked these with black StaZon and stamped straight onto the cardstock. Next I blended Mustard Seed, Spiced Marmalade and Fired Brick Distress Ink over the surface of the ATC's. I spritzed water into my hand and flicked at the inked surface to create a splotchy look.




I masked the man and woman image and then overstamped this piece with a Tim Holtz collection stamp which is huge and is made up of random numbers. Using Fired Brick for this stamping, I added a spritz of water direct to the inky stamp to make it a little smudgey. I removed the mask and then coloured the man and woman using Distress inks and a waterbrush.




The front piece was overstamped, again using the same ink and method but this time with a Tim Holtz collection diamond pattern. The inside of the front piece was overstamped again in the same way but this time I used a Tim Holtz collection swirly image. *do you notice that I seem to looooove Tim Holtz collection stamps? LOL




A quick blast with the heatgun to dry off all the inks and then a quick blend on the very edges of the ATC pieces using blending foam and Walnut Stain ink finished the inky part. I added some Grungeboard hinges which I cut from swirly uncut Grunge and then embossed with Fired Brick Distress powder, adding a little arrow of Grungeboard decorated in the same way and finally... a little Muse Token from the Tim Holtz Idea-ology range, fastened with a brad.





ATC #2

Have a I ever mentioned that my all time favourite paper in the whole wide world ever is... The Avenue Collection by Crate Paper? Well, it is! So being as I have not used this paper for yonks, I decided to use it on this ATC, combining it with a sentiment stamp by Penny Black and my favouritest ever butterfly stamp (that has been hibernating recently) which is from the Brush Strokes range by Penny Black.




I cut some card to the ATC size and then covered this with some plain cream paper from the Avenue range, I next tore some patterned paper so it was 3/4 across the width of the ATC and matted this onto a piece of black card, which I also tore.




I stamped the sentiment onto some more of the cream paper using a black Versafine pad and then edged this with Charcoal Chalk Ink. I matted this onto some more black card, making the bottom of this sentiment torn. Next, I stuck all the layers together and added two black brads top and bottom of the ATC and popped the sentiment onto 3D foam.




The butterfly was stamped twice, using black Versafine, onto patterned paper and cut out. I stuck this to the ATC using Glossy Accents, curling the wings to make it look like it had just fluttered in for a snooze. I added some little sticky back pearls to the body of the buttefly and finally stapled some ribbon and pearl string to the top of the ATC.




I really enjoyed making these two ATC's you know - it is good to revisit your old faves, using fave techniques and papers and it has given my Mojo a bit of a boost too :O))

Thanks for looking - have a great day and I would love to hear what you think of these two pieces of artwork :O))

Hels x

Sunday Stamper - Week 42 - Black & Gold

Morning Stampers,

Thank you for joining in with last weeks Sunday Stamper - I hope that you have all had a great New Year and are all set and ready for a brand new year of crafting :O))

This week the theme is based on the song Black & Gold by Sam Sparro - a really catchy tune which I love - and love even more ever since Tom and Camilla did their first jive to it on Strictly!!

So, you guessed it ... the theme is Black and Gold. A simple theme this week, all you need to do is make something, ensure you use stamping in your artwork and use the colours black and gold.

For my entry, I got a little carried away and made an ATC and a 4x4. The ATC is also going towards the latest ATC swap I am part of, so I am a bit chuffed that I have already got started on my swap list for January :O))

ATC:




Made using mountboard as a base, painted with Antique Brass Metallic Cracklepaint and then once this was dry, painted with gold Dabber. The stamping was done using black StaZon and a PaperBag Studio stamp. The embellishment is a Muse Token from the Tim Holtz Idea-ology range - as is the Trinket Pin. The sentiment is also from PaperBag Studio's, stamped in gold and embossed onto black mountboard. The little heart charm is from Scrapz, as are the PaperBag Studio stamps, and the ribbons are from my stash. A little word about the metallic Cracklepaint.......YUM!!! If you haven't tried it yet, ooooh, you are missing out. I got mine from The Artistic Stamper who also have a sale on this week :O)) bargain time!!!







4x4:





Again, black mountboard and Antique Brass Cracklepaint. The stamping which was done with gold embossing and black embossing is using two of the fabby swirly flourishes from The Artistic Stamper. The sentiment is a Stampers Anon Tim Holtz collection stamp and the laughing lass is from PaperBag Studio's. For both the ATC and the 4x4, I used a gold Krylon on the edges just to finish them off neatly.




To join in with the challenge, please make your piece of artwork and then add a link here to the place where you are showing it.... I will pop along to have a look at your little work of art later.

Thanks for joining in and looking - have fun getting inky and messy.

Hugs Hels x

Going Green

Morning Peeps,

Oh dear, I have been struck down with Man Flu!!!! Yes, my dearest Grim has been incredibly generous and passed on his dreaded lurgy to me...so I am speaking to you thru a bunged up dnose and with a sore throat....hence the early hour of Blogging...couldn't sleep!! *actually, I have a bit of a sniffle but I thought I would big it up LOL

I felt a bit better last night...had a really bad day with the old pain...so I decided to make another canvas, similar to the one I made for the Sunday Stamper.




I began by colouring the canvas with Olive Green and Dark Moss Chalk Inks. To blend the two together, I used a blending tool with Cut n Dry - I find this is easier than applying the inks direct to the canvas, and it is kinder to the ink pads too as the canvas can be a bit rough.




Once blended, I stamped my new fave stamp, the dotty background by The Artistic Stamper. I used Olive Green StaZon for this bit.




I then selected various shapes of Stampbord and coloured them with the Chalk Inks. I used various images to stamp them up - mainly PaperBag Studio's, Crafty Individuals and a new company to me called Art Journey...these stamps were a pressie from Linda...so thank you Linda, they are gorgeous!! I used the Olive StaZon again to do the stamping and then scratched onto the Stampbord, used a file to rough up the edges and then used Artistic Stamper clear UTEE to make them into tiles.




I edged all the pieces of Stampbord with gold Krylon, not that you can see this on the piccies but when viewed from an angle, the gold edges just make the piece look more finished.




I arranged the Stampbord pieces onto the canvas and then stuck them down with Glossy Accents. I also stamped round the edges of the canvas but I forgot to get the photo's of the sides!!




One of the piccies is a duplicate, by the way, mainly because I usually place a towel on the work top to do my photography...and AlfieCat, who loves to lay on towels, jumped up and made himself a bed right on top of the canvas, thank goodness it was all dried otherwise I would have had a sticky cat!! LOL




Am off to find the Lemsip now and groan a little bit at Grim in the hope of some sympathy!! :O))

Thanks for looking.....

Hels xx

Sunday Stamper - Week 38 - Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue....& Candy Giveaway

Good morning Stampers!

Oh, what a beautiful morning.....it is just my kind of morning....Jack Frost has been busy with his paint brush! We have a beautiful blue sky with sunshine and the thickest frost. I was out in the garden at 7.30am taking photo's....brrrrrr....it was freeeeezing but worth getting cold toes just to see the delights of Winter. Here are a couple of the photo's I took:


Anyway....enough of my waffling about the weather!

First of all, thank you to all of you who joined in with the challenge last week. I saw some fantastic works of art on my hops through all your Blogs :O))

This week I am still using the "colour" theme for the challenge, however, to make things a little bit special there are two colours to use in your artwork. The challenge theme is Brown and Blue.

As an added bonus I have made up a little package of Blog Candy for one lucky entrant to win....but more of that later :O))

For my entry, I made a canvas. I used Colorbox Chalk Inks - Sky Blue, Prussian Blue, Creamy Brown & Chestnut Brown - to colour the canvas and the Stampbord tiles and for the actual stamping I used Timber Brown StaZon.




I started by colouring the whole canvas with Sky Blue ink and then blended the Prussian Blue around this, leaving a large patch of paler blue in the middle. I used my heatgun to dry off the ink otherwise I would have still been waiting now!! Next, I took the Creamy Brown ink and blended this all around the edges, overlapping with the Prussian Blue. Finally, I used the Chestnust Brown to emphasize the edges of the canvas. I again used my heatgun to dry the inks. I have found in the past that if I don't heat dry the Chalk Inks, they have a tendancy to stray onto fingers, clothing and furniture LOL




I took nine 2" square Stampbord tiles and repeated the colouring process on them. The bonus of using Stampbord with the Chalk Inks is that they dry pretty much straight away. I then got to the best bit...the stamping!




Recently, I have built up my collection of PaperBag Studios stamps. I adore these stamps...and have been gradually adding to my collection until I had enough to use just these designs on one piece of artwork....in other words, I have stashed them away until I could do a canvas!! :O)) If you click here, you will be transported to Scrapz, where they have a great selection of these stamps at a great price too! I chose a Journey theme for the canvas, starting by stamping the little fella with the phrase "Every Life Has A Story". Using Timber Brown StaZon I continued to pick relevant images, stamping them onto each Stampbord piece until I had all nine ready. (If you look at the canvas from left to right, top to bottom, I have tried to tell a story throughout and end up with the lovely phrase "The Journey is the Destination". I hope you can also interpret what I am on about!!)




I next used some sentiments to pop around the edges of the canvas which all relate to my Journey theme and using the Timber Brown, I ran the inkpad around the ends and edges of the canvas to "close" it.

Now, you may have noticed that there are little dots all over the canvas...these are made using one of the fantastic new backround stamps from The Artistic Stamper. I decided that if I left the canvas blank and just stuck the Stampbord tiles on, it would look a bit bland, and I think that this dotty background really adds depth to the whole piece.




Finally, I went back to the Stampbord pieces and using a metal file, I scruffed up the edges so that the white base shows through. I used a Scratching tool and highlighted parts of the stamped images too...I find that Stampbord is a wonderful product to use, it is so versatile and smooth and lovely!! To finish the Stampbord pieces, I used a clear embossing ink pad and The Artistic Stamper Clear Ultra Thick Embossing Enamel. I did two coats of this on each piece so the end product looks like a little ceramic tile.



I stuck the tiles to the canvas using Glossy Accents as I find this is the best adhesive for this kind of project.....and there you are....finished!




Now, onto the important bit!!! The Candy :O))

I have collected together some bits and bobs to giveaway as Candy to one lucky winner who will be chosen at random. The winner will be announced next Sunday on the Sunday Stamper post. So, how do you go about winning it then? Well, all you need to do is leave me a comment with a link to your Blog, linking back to mine. I would love it if you did actually manage to join in with the challenge this week too...which is really easy...simply make a piece of artwork, use the colours specified in the theme and also you must use stamping somewhere on your piece :O))

The contents of the Candy total about £40 in value too....and here is a list of what you will win:



Unmounted Mini Mini Dotty Dot Stichels
Unmounted Stitchels Large Dragonfly
A 6x6" Crafty Individuals Christmas Paper pack (24 sheets)
A 5x7" Fredrix Canvas Board Panel
2 A6 pieces of Kling-On Repositionable Cushioning
A Pack of Basic Grey "Euphoria" Buttons
A Versafine Ink Pad - Black
A mini tin of metallic eyelets
A mini tin of assorted brads
A mini tin of assorted coloured gemstones
A House Mouse Christmas Stamp (he has been used a couple of times but is well loved)
A packet of Musical Notes Twill
A packet of Tape Measure Twill
2 Mini Square Canvases - two different sizes
A 10" x 4 1/2" Peel Off Sticker Size Storage Box

Here are a couple of photo's of the stash!!




Phew! That took me aaaages to type in....anyway, I hope you all are still awake and have a really good day....we had some great news here last night - Grim has his best friend Paul staying this weekend. They went to football yesterday and bought a couple of Lucky Dips for the Lotto last night...and... Paul got £10 on the first Lucky Dip....and then...checked the second one and guess what? He got FIVE numbers!!!!!! How exciting!!! Needless to say, Grim didn't win on his tickets but we are really chuffed for Paul....it is not often that we hear of people we know having a nice little win like that!

Right, I am off to get some breakfast now....happy stamping peeps and don't forget to link a post from your Blog to here to be in with a chance of winning the Candy.

Hugs Hels xx