Midnight

And so it continues, quiet and peaceful while everyone snuggles in their beds I snook out for a picture.

quite eerie for a normally busy street

Who lives in a box like this?

So the dorbell rang and I was handed this large heavy box, I love parcels.

I carfully opened the box to find it was full of foam worms!

Who could live in a box like this?

An Asda bag full of foam worms before I got to my goodies but boy was it worth it.

Ok so I went a bit wild the sizzix sale is still on. My receipt said cost of goods £50.85 a saving of £191.65 Wow how good is that?

As you can see from the above image, I trebled and doubled up on some of the dies I figured that both my Mam and Chris's Mam would love them too so perfect gifts.

Flourish Medalion

As I only used part of the medalion stamp from Stampin Up on the last card I made with it I thought I would make one showing the whole of this stamp but this time using a classic black and white theme.

A black 14 x 14 base card and a patterned paper from Papertrey ink cut slightly smaller.

Medalion stamped onto white card with Momento Ink then mounted onto a slightly larger black card, I went on to stamp the centre of the Medalion again and cut this out added pearls a white button and ribbon and used double sided foam pads to mount this in the centre of the first medalion to give a 3d effect

Thomas Kinkade Cobblestone Bridge

Cobblestone Bridge rubber stamp by Thomas Kinkade, I used a brayer to ink up the stamp with blue ink as this helps to give an even coverage on detailed stamps.

I used papers from Stampin Up (Bella Bleu) and used the EK Success border punch on the blue paper.

Attention to detail...

I used the Oval All stamp set and the Oval Punches all from Stampin Up to make the sentiment, I coulered the sentiment with Copic Markers.

The flower was made by punching 3 circles of the patterned paper, dampening them with water and scunching them into a tight ball then carfully unfolding them and threading through the linen thread then tying in a button and finishing with the bow.

Announcement for La Pashe

Well I was saving this until after the trade show in February but I thought why wait? so....

I would like to introduce you to the newest member of the La Pashe Design Team

Alison (Ali) Watson I know you will love her work just as much as I do, her colouring is second to none , if you haven't paid her blog a visit in the past I'm certain you will be a regular visitor in the future, hop over there and take a peek http://stampingheaven.blogspot.com/

Welcome to the Team Alison I know the other girls are as excited about you joining us as I am.