Just having a little break for some lunch and then back in the study for a bit more crafting this afternoon.
Today I've started to make a 'new home' card for my Brother-in-Law as he is getting his flat soon and I just couldn't think of a manly card to make him but then had an idea while eating my peanut butter covered bagel this morning.......SHRINK PLASTIC!!!! I've made a little doodly house and cut out 'new home' in the shrink plastic too. As the house was quite big (1/2 A4 before shrinking) it stuck to itself while shrinking and after burning my fingers trying to sort it I gave up and started another one but this time dusted it with talc which prevented it from sticking and I now have a perfect shrunken house!
I'm also making some birthday cards this afternoon for birthdays coming up and.....a first for me......using crafting CD's to print out bits for some cards too!
I recently brought two CDs from Fee J (you may know her from Jammi Panda which has been on Create and Craft TV). I purchased Magical Dreams:
A
cute CD ROM full of amazing, colourful full of Unicorns, Angels and
Moonbeams that will bring your card making & scrapbooking to life.
Decoupage & embellishments sheets teamed together with coordinating
backing papers and inserts in landscape & portrait orientaitions, t
bag tiles, 3D frames, coordinating png ribbons, bows, lace borders and
alphabets, plus a whole host of assorted toppers for your crafting
pleasure.
And I purchased Love Be Mine
An
amazing CD Rom, Cute quirky characters, teamed with some generic papers
and embellishments that coordinate with the characters, perfect for
creating a host of Romantic cards for Romantic occasions like Valentines
Day, Engagement, Weddings even just cutsie friendship cards and more.
Great for cardmaking and scrapbooking.
If you want to purchase either CD pop over to http://www.feej.co.uk the CD's can be used on both Macs and PCs and you can print straight from the disk, nothing to install and no need to use a crafting programme!
I still also have my Hedgehog Gardens Adventures CD which I've not printed from yet either! I've got my Nenah cards at the ready....just have to sort out the printer as I think the inks have dried up a bit from not being used!
Have a lovely weekend!
I keep looking for Hedgehog craft items which look sweet and while watching Create and Craft I saw Peerless Designs Hedgehog Garden Adventures and fell in love with it as some of the hedgehogs look like my hedgehog Spike.
It finally arrived yesterday after waiting just over a week for it and I can't wait to print out some designs to make cards and bookmarks...I just need to sort my printer set up so I don't have to run my laptop from the living room into the study/craft room each time I need to print (it's a wireless printer but for some reason my laptop decided it didn't like to talk to it wirelessly anymore)
I've never used CD crafting before and recently with Quick Cards magazine got a copy of 'My Craft Studio Elite' and found that I can import the images into the programme. The CD is also great, as if you are lucky enough to have a circut or similar cutting machine, the CD has cutting files to print out some lovely hedgehog boarders. I would really like the new Circut mini but I just don't have the room, my parents even offered to get me one for Christmas!
I can't wait to make some amazing cards with this CD.
Mine was purchased from Create and Craft but is now no longer available from them (I only got it last week) but can be purchased from Peerless Designs.
I will leave you now with a little snap of our little hedgehog Spike
