Sale-a-bration Blog Hop

This Sunday, 24th Jan I'll be taking part in a Sale-a-bration blog hop. The idea is to create a chain of blogs that will lead you from one to another showcasing creations made using the current Sale-a-bration sets. Hopefully it'll get your creative juices flowing and inspire you to get stamping with these exclusive sets. I'm really looking forward to it and hope you manage to stop by all of them. I'll have more details nearer the time.

It's my Mum's birthday today, I've made a card in the nick of time which I'll show you later today.

Have a good one.

Jo :)

Good Neighbors

Good Neighbors is one of the exclusive FREE sets that's currently in the Sale-a-bration catalogue. This is my first card I've made using it and I have to apologise for the plainess as not a lot of thought went into it - I was concentrating more on the colours. The colour inspiration came from a skirt I saw Monica wearing at Convention - thanks Mon, mwah! I've probably got the colours all wrong but this is what I thought at the time....Choc Chip, Sage Shadow and More Mustard - beautiful. Right I need to get on. I have a few birthdays this week and lots of things to do for an event that Jenny Moors and I are hosting on the 30th January. We've planned a Stampin' Extravagaza! We are fully booked for this one with 27 eager ladies attending but there will be more events to come over the year. If you're interested in attending one of our future events, please email me at jodumbleton@aol.co.uk and we will notifiy you as soon as the information is available. Keep a look out at the beginning of Feb for the projects and photos from the day. It's going to be fun! Tfl, Jo :)

A little delivery

Yesterday a little delivery arrived for me which was some dies I bought in a sale. I'm sure all you fellow crafters can appreciate that as soon as you get something new it has to be used...well that's exactly what I did last night. I should of been doing some other stuff but I couldn't concentrate with these 'bargains' lurking in the corner. The cry to be used was that bad that I had to use the stamps which were already on my desk so yes you guessed it....it's Love You Much again!

The frame was larger than I thought so I had to make a 15cmx15cm card base in Kraft. Love Kraft, I don't know how I ever managed without it before.

I'm cropping tomorrow, it's the first one of the year and I'm so looking forward to it! Not that I get much crafting done, I tend to do alot of gassing and drinking tea when I'm there - can't wait.

Have a great weekend and tfl,

Jo :)

Back to Christmas

My best friend Karen has asked me to post a little more often as blogland seems a bit quiet at the moment, so I thought I'd dig out some things from Christmas that I never got round to showing you. So for today only it's Christmas again, without all the trimmings though.

This card and chocolate treat I made for all my Stampers 8 ladies. That cute little chocolate face of Father Christmas was bought back in November whilst in Germany at Convention... crumbs that seems such a long time ago. The card was from a sketch somewhere, can't remember where, not when you see the length of my blog feed. Does that make me a bit of a stalker when I have 100 blogs in google reader?? lol Anyway I used Sparkly and Bright for these - I'll definately be using that one again next year.

During December I went to one of my crops and I got everyone to make a gift card holder.

They're really easy to make and can obviously be used for any occasion. We used Merry Moments DSP, Season of Joy and the So Swirly Wheel. So there you are, I didn't get round to taking pictures of all the Christmas cards I made or even the ones I receive, and I had loads, but a belated thank you to all who sent handmade ones, I've kept them all. Tfl and see ya soon! Jo :)