Thursday 4 October 2012

Woyww




Yes I know it's Thursday, so I'm late but I always am. For everything. :)
This is what's on my work desk-
What a mess right!? It's normally try not to let it get this bad but it started to pile up after Saturday nights wedding card making and got steadily worse as the week has gone on.
It's tidy-ish now though I promise.........

This is an altered sheet of paper I'm working on, my new LOTV stamp I won from ebay a few days ago, (I was playing with my promarker colours now that I can see them all and I added some gloss to the wings and pompom bits but I actually really like this) and the last one is a Tilda stamp, one again I was playing with my colours. It's so nice to have them within reaching distance.

That's all from me today
Jelly
xx

Monday 1 October 2012

Mr Jelly has skills


I've always known it of course but everytime he makes me something new I fall a little more in awe of them. This is my new promarker stand. The end of the promarkers have a staples sticker (which are currently £1.99 bogof) which has been coloured with said marker. Love it!

Since I posted this last night after becoming over excited I've just took another look. Hmm messy!
I will take better pictures later peeps I promise.

On another note- pop over to http://bearlymine.blogspot.co.uk/ they're having a fantastic pair of give aways! 



Jelly
Xx

This is not just a wedding, it's an m&s wedding


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What a busy weekend I've had! On Saturday the mother in law and I had a coffee morning to raise money for Macmillan cancer care. We raised over £120 which I was really impressed with.

I realised that I hadn't uploaded a picture of my candy from Becky over at http://attic-crafter.blogspot.co.uk/
Here it is as a whole- (there is a paper pad buried underneath all of the goodies.)

And here's a close up of the charms.
I'm trying to persuade myself to use them and not keep them in a box so that I can stare at them lovingly.... my preciousssssssss.......
On Sunday a couple of our friends were married in Judges Hotel in Yarm. It was a beautiful wedding, the food was to die for, the bride glowed and Mr Jelly's friend kept the table updated with the Ryder cup results.
The title of the post comes from the Groom. I noticed this issue when I started to make their card. I wanted something along the lines of paper cut initials. However, their names are Mark and Stacey, so either it was an M&S card or an S&M card...... awkward! The Groom cracked the joke after someone commented on the wedding cake being nice- it was an M&S cake. None of us had realised that they’d also had the after wedding drinks shaped into the initials S&M.
In the end, after 2 long hours of fighting with my card makers block, this is what I came up with-
The stamp is a £1 Hobbycraft clear stamp (their own range), I've used old paper and concord distress inks, an edge punch my mother had given me that day, ribbon from my stash, pearls and love charm from the stash I won from Becky, pink bakers twine from dove crafts, roses and hat pin from WOC, a paper rose from a free cricut SVG file and papers from a block called dreamtime. If anyone wants further info or links just let me know and I'll dig them out.

I am actually proud of this one. I was slightly less proud when I realised that I didn’t have an envelope to fit. I ended up making a gift box for it and tying it in ribbons.

I am now on the hunt for 9” pizza boxes after reading on some helpful blog that these work well as replacement envelopes to protect your card.

Also- my card is photographed on a non stick sheet I’m using as my craft base. When I was in Carlisle and the lady was showing me how to use the distress inks she recommended I buy a non stick craft matt. After looking on the net for one and finding out that they were £15 I hunted blogger land for another suggestion. Another nice lady recommended that you go to the pound shop and buy their non stick baking sheet. It’s only A4 in size but it does the same job. For a pound. Can’t be robbed.
I really need to start making note of these blogs I’m getting hints and tips from but I read so many!

We've also been experimenting in the last week with the Hairy Bikers diet book. Mammy and Daddy Jelly (who shall now be known and grandma and Pops- which is Lucy's name for them) did a big batch cook. This is the filling for the pies-
It was bloody lovely and I will be making some in the near future. Pizza dough instead of pastry is the way forward!

Well good bye for now- hope this card maker’s block shifts soon!

Jelly
Xx

Wednesday 26 September 2012

messing about in boats

It's been a while since my last post and lots of things have happened. And I've been learning :)

I've had the last week off work with Hubby before his new university term starts. We hitched  up Bella (the caravan) and, with Lucy in tow,  headed to Skipton where we stayed in the lovely quiet Riverside caravan site. It's actually in Cononley which is a lovely little village right on the main train line. It has one of the busiest train stations I've ever seen so I confess we were disturbed by the trains going past every 15 minutes (plus the additional freight trains) and we were held up nearly EVERY time we tried to leave the village. And yet I still loved it and would go back.
While we were there Hubby's mum and dad came down for the day and we hired a canal boat from-http://www.penninecruisers.com/. We'd actually booked Jim (the boats are in pairs- Rosie and Jim, Jack and Jill, Bill and Ben) as Jim was a 4 berth boat but we were upgraded to Jill, who is a 10 person boat for free. Mr Jelly was soo excited to drive the boat I can't even tell you!
Lucy loved the trip and I'm sure you'll agree that she looked spiffing in her life jacket. She was so tired that by the time we got back to Bella she slept solidly for 10 hours.
I would really recomend this for anyone- as one of the MIL's friends pointed out it's cheaper than taking 2 kids to a theme park for the day (it was £80 for 9am until 4.30).

Hubby took me to the big garden center in Carlisle (it's part of the Strikes group) as it has a big craft shop as well as a gift section. While we were there a lady was demonstraing the distress inks. I've owned "old paper" for over 12 months and I had no idea what to do with it. I now own "fired brick" "mustard seed" and "sea glass" as well as a couple of blenders. I love it. I also bought a tub of glue and seal. Once you've stamped and coloured your image you run it over with a thin coat of glue and seal (trying to keep in the lines which you can see I failed to do) and once it's dry it resists anything you put over it- including the distress inks!

I also dug out my craft room and sorted out all of the old and out of fashion stuff. I have been making cards on and off since I was 12 so a lot of stuff was out of date.

While digging it out I unearthed my Cricut. I also had an old version of make the cut which thankfully I hadn't updated (as they're not allowed to talk to the Cricuts anymore) and I started using some downloaded svg files to put behind my magnolia stamps. I love it!

Last night I discovered I'd won the birthday candy from Becky over at http://attic-crafter.blogspot.co.uk/ Poor Hubby thought I was going to wet myself. I couldn't believe it! Thanks Becky!

Then this morning we had some bad news- I've had a pair of tortoise for the last 5 years and sometime in the last 24 hours the female has died. I have no idea what happened. I had complained about a month ago that I had the most backward torotises ever as they seem to have had their hibernation patterns backward for the last 3 years. But this morning George (my little boy) came hunting for food so I tried to wake Popcorn up. I'm very upset that we've lost her and Mr Jelly has burried her in the front garden so that I can plant a nice bush over her to remember her by. In the mean time George is currently living in a box in the front room so that he's in the warmth and away from their old sleeping place. I'm taking no risks and he will bet at the vets tomorrow when the reptile specialist is in. In the mean time Lucy and I are checking him every so often and the poor thing will probably die from exhaustion were we've been disturbing him. But rather safe than sorry!





Well sorry for the long rant but so much has happened to me!

Wednesday 29 August 2012

Here be pirates

This is the fist time I have used my Tilda Pirate stamp on a card. (can you tell that I've reccently aquired a new Magnolia stash?)
 
 
 
She's coloured in promarkers
The greeting is a hobby craft £1 unmounted stamp
The papers are kraft card and FEP spring feast - I really thing I need some more FEP pads. Everything I've made recently has been pink and green because I love this pad so much!
There is a little dovecraft glitter glue on the skull
The flower and brad are from docrafts as part of a big goody bag that I bought ages ago.
 

Tuesday 28 August 2012

Christmas in red and green

 
This is my Christmas Tilda. I haven't used any Christmas papers (mostly because I didn't have any) and the roses wern't the right colour- so I've coloured them in using my promarkers- the colour spreads really well. I also coloured in my doily- a nice light pink.
 
 
I used Promarkers
Tilda stamp
WOC flowers
some green dotty paper
silver leaves and crystal flowers that I've had for years.
A nice simple card.
 
 

Monday 27 August 2012

Christmas number 1

I actually love this card. This is my Tilda with presents. Another Leeds festival make.
 
 
 
I used Tilda with presets
a docraft noel stamp
Docraft glittered vellum
Dovecraft glitter flue
a plain card background