The Stampman 3rd Annual Awards



Good Evening!!  Well in around 24 hours time we'll be seeing in the New Year so whatever you're doing enjoy!  As for me I'll be sat in with OH watching it on the TV and popping outside to watch the fireworks.  I've only been out 3 times for new year - 1990, 1991 and 2005!  I really dislike the massive queues for the bar and pubs charging silly prices to get in, not my scene!  I also strongly want to be with my kids on New Year too, I don't think my parents ever left us so its just something I've always done :)

Right-o onto my post which is The 3rd Annual Stampman Awards yay!  Each year The Stampman ask you to proudly display your favourite creation from the past year.  There is a £30 Stampman gift voucher up for grabs and 4 runner up prizes!
For this I'm showing my favourite Stampman project and my favourite overall of the year although you just show your own personal favourite.

This one is a Stampendous stamp called Crowscape which I was demonstrating at Port Sunny.  I was trying various colour ways and inks and this one was a christmassy version using red and gree distress inks and embossed with moonglow.

As it was near Halloween I did a yellow/orange/red version which seemed to go down well as customers kept asking if they could have it so I made this one so many times lol!  Its a lovely stamp which you can find here.



My favourite overall, gosh thats a toughy!!  I think this one by Teddy Bo was a definate favourite, I sent it to an old friend called Lyn who's birthday is Christmas Eve.  We may not speak all year *but* I always send her a card and it is always one of my best of the year ones.  I mean imagine having your birthday on christmas eve or christmas day!!  I met Lyn on one of the cardmaking forums years ago and as I said we may not be in touch all the time but I never forget :)



So please do pop over and join in and have a look back at your work this past year!

Done and Dusted

Phew Christmas is all done and dusted and I've got a little time to chillax, hope you all had a great one! 
It was my birthday a couple of days ago and i got spoilt!  My dd bought me a wii and my arm is wrecking lol!  Got over exuberant on the fencing game on sports resort!  With fibro you have to be careful and know your limits so i think I've pushed it ooops!
Anyway gotta tell you my new years resolution is to blog every day during 2012 (unless for some reason i have no internet connection!) so it will be this n that, works in progress, kids, life through my weird viewpoint so you never know what I'll write ;)
So to get in practice here's latest pics from past few days...Well actually i can't work out how to post more than 1 pic from the blogger app for android so I'll try lol!
My nan aged 91 having her 1st ever skype with her sister Joan in Perth, Australia, she's not been over since 2006 (nan travels quite a bit!) so that was lovely for them :)
Miss Moo dressed as snow white ahhh and Ethan sparko with dads phone after angry birds session!
Toodlepip!



Merry Christmas!

The big day is finally here yayyyyyy!!!!  This year is the first year both my little ones have been entirely aware what's going on and taking it all in with the lights and tinsel so they're so excited bless.  I let them open a present this evening that 'silly santa had left at nannas by accident' and Mols gets so excited with everything, it was a floor jigsaw but she was totally over the moon ahhhhh!

Hope everyone has a lovely day and you get everything you wish for!  I know I got one thing I really really wanted, a pair of trainers that are black and turquoise and they have a swirl on them that looks like the Hero Arts swirl stamp, I sooooo wanted them lol!  Mind you knowing my OH he'll give them to me for my birthday and make me wait the 3 extra days lol!


Onto my recent makes, I've been sooooo busy making stuff lately including earrings that I've not had nuch time to blog nor photograph them all so these are the ones I have.  My DD gave me a last minute order for card wallets so made 3 of them, well actually thats a bit unfair, she didnt give me a last minute order, I left it till last minute lol!  Anyway have done them and they've gone off to new homes :)

This first one is an image by Hannah Lynn from Crafts & Me, I actually saw pics of Hannah drawing this in various stages so I was thrilled it was a digi.  Its a Christmas stamp but can easily be used for easter and general birthdays/greetings too.  Its so pretty so really enjoyed making this, have made a couple of the candle boxes using them but didn't photograph them as I think you guys would get boredz of seeing them lol!

I coloured with promarkers and the new letraset metallics, the background is moonshadow ink (yum!!) and I used a martha stewart punch around the page punch on it.  The chipboard snowflake is from Home bargains :)

I'd like to enter this into...

2 sisters - Snowflakes
Secret Crafter - Anything goes
Sweet Stampin - Sparkle and Bling
Divas by design - christmas
Charisma - Anything goes
Crafty Purple Frog - Christmas
Crimbo Crackers - Snowflakes
Stamps r us - Angels
Whoopsie Daisy - Sparkle & Shine

Next up is one I made a couple of weeks ago for the Crafts and Me challenge but just didnt get time to blog and whatnot but I'll share it on here.  The image is by Sara Burrier and is called Poinsettia.  She actually is quite long with a flowing dress (Look at bottom pic) but I zoomed and cropped her.

This is the first of the image wallets I've made that open up and have flaps inside and I put the present onto a label which was a show and the date it is and popped that inside.  The image is by Teddy Bo and is coloured with promarkers and flexmarkers.

I'd like to enter this into...

Raise the bar - Christmas
Joanna Sheen - Christmas Wishes
I love promarkers - Anything goes
My mums craft shop - Anything goes
Papercraft Star - Tags/Gift card holder
The Crazy Challenge - Christmas
One stitch at a time - Anything goes

Inside of the wallet

Another image wallet using a Teddy Bo image, the inside is similar to the one above.  Snowflakes are from Home Bargains
Would like to enter this into...

Crafty Catz - Santa Hat
Addicted to stamps - Snowflakes

And finally the last wallet using the Poinsettia stamp again in a different colour scheme, I mugh prefer the wings on this version!  I coloured them in pastels and glittered with glamour dust.

The 2 tags on the inside of this use the image again, the first one is Poinsettia in her full glory and the 2nd I did a mirror image of just the face area.

I'd like to enter this into....

Cardmadfairy challenge - Tags
Stampin for the weekend - Anything goes
Cooking it up with Katie - Anything goes
Crafting for all seasons - Christmas
Digistamps 4 joy - Christmas
Flutterby Wednesday - Open
Simon says stamp - BINGO (Gems, glitter, ribbon)
Sarah HUrley - Colouring
Truly Madly Crafty - Christmas images & Colours

Right I'm offski, long day tomorrow!  BTW you'll be seeing a lot more of me in the new year as my resolution or challenge to self is to blog EVERY day!  I have the blogger App so that will help but it may just be a couple of lines, bits about the kids, what I'm messing with or a big post like this, we'll have to wait and see!