HELLO I am so excited because there are so many lovely new craft tools, paper craft collections and dies being launched. The new stampin up catalogue is about to be launched which is very exciting, do crafts have some amazing new collections coming out and hobby craft have some great new products out to. So what have i been buying? Lets start with my ali express order. I ordered some stamps and die sets a coffee one, jar and flowers set and a unicorn set as well as some dies which i will show you in another blog. Ali express if you haven't order from them before they are a company in china that sales dies and stamps at amazing prices but you have to wait for them to be delivered anything up to 2 months although most of what I ordered had arrived with in one month. This is the unicorn card I made quickly just trying out the stamps. But this is perfect for little girl cards. I also got some a stampin up dies including one called text you later which i used with do crafts wood elements collection to make this card for my niece. I think the stamp set is lovely because its great for teenagers. I also picked up these two magazines because the stamps and dies looked great. I love coffee and tea stamp sets These are great you could make lots with the stamps and it has some really great ideas inside as well as some lovely new items coming out. With the two cards above I used the free stencil which i really enjoyed using and they give a great look. I don't really use stencils, although I could cut them on my silhouette so perhaps that might be something to look at in the future. Then I decided to get the papercraft essentials magazines because the bear was so lovely and the dies are cool as well. I did make a quick card just to see how it worked. I think this is a great card I just stamped on to craft paper then then die cut the glasses and bow that came with the magazine. The problem I have now IS STAMP storage so I really need to invest some time into that. Moment Magazine. I am a bit of a sucker for magazines although I try very hard to be selective in what I buy but just lately some of the magazines I really like have disappeared from the shelves. So guess the lesson is to keep buying the ones you really like. So I figured I would give this magazine moment a try. Well now from the title you can guess its all about finding calm within your life. Lets talk about the good points. It is very pretty with lovely colours and graphics just the sort of thing I like and its on paper rather than that glossy paper most magazines are on. So to me it always feels more like a book so something I should keep. It looks at self care, is practical, easy to read and has some great tips. Plus it looks at craft and really did have some good points. It's enviromentally friendly and this months issues features some beauty products as well as useful products for life. With sections on the home, health, fitness and the spiritual self but on a gentle level. It also had some great free zodiac cards. The negative. It didn't tell me anything I didn't really know. (that might be because it is something I am interested in, to be fair). It didn't catch me, some of the articles were short and a bit dull only my opinion and some of the pictures just didn't grab me. I would have liked to have some inspirational calm quotes on nice papers. It did have one which I do like and actually it inspired me to use some magnet tape I have had for a long time against a plain bit of wall in my kitchen. Anything in the kitchen gets greasy!, its inevitable and I wanted something I could change often depending on the season and mood. So now this wall will need some more nice papers with quotes on and considering the amount of vinyl I have it shouldn't be to hard to fill this up. I will keep you posted. So if I am honest I have so much work to do that I really shouldnt be taking time out to write this blog, plus with a much needed holiday coming up as well but actually it was really lovely to take the time out to bring you this blog.
Whilst it looks like I have gone a little bit crazy a lot of what you see will be used within my business so that is a great excuse to do some paper craft. I have something really exciting that I am working on over on my web site. Yes did I tell you I now have a web site!. Click on the link bellow to see my web page and whilst I do have a blog which will cover a few stages of some of my makes it wont be anything like this one. But you can see why I am getting distracted from my blog. Take care and thank you so much for reading best wishes from Lucy.
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