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Happy Friday ....... I can't believe we're on the last day of November ..... only 24 days to go until Christmas!!  Are you all ready for the big day?  No ...... Me neither! Let's see November out with a little reminder about the latest Uniko Challenge . It's Challenge #50 and the theme is ......... Celebrate As you can see from the gorgeous inspiration photo there's an optional twist too ........ GOLD.  Perfect for this time of year.  In fact looking at the photo now, I'm thinking New Years Eve and parties ...... but hey! let's not get ahead of ourselves shall we ...... it's not quite December yet. I'm still making Christmas cards ........ and I've a few more to go yet.  Here's one based on this month's challenge ...... I've taken some of the colours and added in the optional twist with a touch of gold heat embossing The sentiment is from the Uniko Festive Sentiments set ..... I love the two different fonts that are in these stamps a...

Happy Wednesday ....... A very wet, and very windy Wednesday here in the Isle of Man .... or as we say over here 'it's blowing a hoolie!!'  I have to go out in it later too, not looking forward to that! Let's quickly talk Artist Trading Coins again shall we ......... circular pieces of artwork, measuring two and a half inches in diameter, and like ATC's (Artist Trading Cards) they are made to swap. If you haven't made any yet, trust me when you do you'll be hooked! Here's set number three ....... Let it Snow! made for a Christmas Swap that's currently going on on Facebook ......   They're made from little MDF circles, painted with PaperArtsy Fresco Finish Acrylic Paints , and then I've stamped and heat embossed the snowflakes (from Tim Holtz Swirly Snowflakes ) using a sparkly white embossing powder ...... The words (from the Happy Little Stampers  Let it Snow stamp set) have been stamped using Black Versafine ink and heat embossed in clear...

Happy Friday ....... Well that was a busy week!  I don't know about you but I'm definitely looking forward to the weekend. It's been nothing but Christmas, Christmas, and more Christmas this week.  Cards, baubles, late night shopping.  We had the Christmas lights switch on in town last night, more shopping, and even more Christmas cards.  I even posted my first one, and ........ wait for this ....... I BOUGHT a Christmas card this week !  Oh yes I did!!!!!  Have you seen the price of them these days ..... I only bought the one, it's very nice but, it cost me a small fortune!!  Let's hope I don't need to buy any more!! Anyway enough of all that ....... I'm playing along with a Blog Challenge today.  This month's challenge from County View Crafts is all about Artist Trading Coins ....... one of my new addictions! I've recently joined an ATC/Coins Facebook Swap Group , put together by Kylie, the brains behind Happy Little Stampers and also Kylie is...

Happy Sunday ...... I do hope you've enjoyed your weekend. It's been a little crazy here, trying to get back to normal after our trip across to the UK.  We're almost there though ..... just the ironing mountain to conquer now.  That can wait until tomorrow I think! It was workshop day yesterday ....... the annual festive crafty get together.  A little early I know but, December is getting pretty booked up already! I haven't done a workshop for a while so it was nice to see everyone.  We had a full house too, with a couple of new faces,  so it was a busy day ...... full of glitter and sparkle and lots of fake snow.  We had  Christmas tunes playing, lots of mince pies and of course ...... chocolate!  We were definitely in the festive spirit ...... I definitely was at the end of the day ..... I'd earned it!! We made pretty Christmas baubles using products from Lavinia Stamps  ......  these were the ones I'd made as samples ........ They are...

Happy Friday ..... Well we're home!  The crossing wasn't too bad, a bit like a roller coaster in places ....... up and down, side to side ...... but we had a cabin again so we slept for most of it. We crammed in as much as we could whilst we were in the UK ....... sadly not enough time to see everyone though. It's business as usual again now.   There's exciting DT stuff to do, I've still got a couple of tags left for the 12 Tags event, and I have a  Christmas workshop tomorrow (Saturday).  Things are getting a little Christmas crazy around here and it's not even December yet!!! Speaking of Christmas though, I'm catching up the 12 Tags of Christmas with Loll & Friends  ...... Here's my tag, or should I say tags, for Day 11 ...... Inspired by the girls from STAMPlorations, I've used some of the fabulous festive sentiments from their Christmas Typografia range I love large sentiment stamps and these are perfect for creating really quick and easy, ye...

Happy Thursday ...... What's this .... no tag? No, I've got something a little different today ...... Artist Trading Coins. If you're not familiar with these, they're just like ATC's (Artist Trading Cards) except they're circles.  Two and half inches in diameter and, as with ATC's, they can have any design on them or be any theme, and they are mean't to be swapped. I recently became a member of an ATC/AT Coin group on  group on Facebook , started up by the lovely Kylie (Addicted to Stamps and More) .  There's quite a few of us on there now, from all over the world, and the idea is we swap our little works of art with each other.  There's a swap going on for November, we have to create a set of three Coins with a Christmas theme.  This particular set will be winging its way to Australia very soon! These coins are made from MDF, which is a great surface to work on.  They can be made from card though ..... perfect if you have a 2.5 inch punch. I ga...

Happy Wednesday evening ...... Yes it's me again!   As you all probably know by now, and if you don't then where have you been?!!!! ....... it's the time of year when the lovely Loll Thompson hosts her  12 Tags of Christmas with Loll & Friends It's year number 5 for this fun event, but sadly, this is the final one. So, whether you're a regular to this event or, you've never played along before, this year is your last chance! We're at Day 10, and there's been some amazing tags so far ..... so much gorgeous inspiration. Check out  the blog  ......  I promise you, you won't be disappointed. As you know I've been playing along all week, but today, I'm thrilled to say it's my turn to be Guest Designer ...... thanks for having me again!   When Loll invited me to share in the event, this little guy had just appeared in the craft room.  He's called Bundled Up ..... he's from Penny Black ....... and he's just sooo cute!!! I love h...