Before I log off for the day I thought I’d share some snaps from the past week, as it’s been so long since I did a crafty stash blog post or similar.
It all starts with my October calendar:
I was definitely channelling the lady in this image. Waiting for some goodies to arrive in the post.
I finally made up for my whole patterned paper embargo and scrapbook purchasing drought… Yes, it had been well over a year since I’d last purchased any paper other than a couple of 6×6 Lawn Fawn paper pads. I’d bought no new embellishments or 12×12 papers… that was, until I fell in love with this year’s Crate Paper Christmas release – Merry Days.
While waiting for the collection to come into stock in the UK at Hey Little Magpie, I’d been trawling the Internet for last year’s Crate Paper Christmas release Falala, and a few other items that had caught my attention in the past few months enough to be added to my wishlist.
I found lots of Falala in stock at craftelier.co.uk and was also recommended this store by a fellow crafter. Many of the papers were really well priced so into my basket they went. I bought multiples of some sheets as I knew I’d easily use those versatile designs with basic supplies.
Over at Hey Little Magpie I’d also loaded my basket with more festive supplies from Pebbles:
Yes, festive sloths were added into the mix.
I also saw that the Willow Lane embellishments had come back into stock as they were unavailable everywhere else, so they were added as well:
They will go very nicely with the choice papers I’d ordered from Craftelier for this line:
And also in my Craftelier order I’d included some fun unicorn stuff from Simple Stories, just too fun to pass up!
So it was just a matter of finishing the work week so I could get crafty this weekend. I hadn’t even realised that it was world cardmaking day yesterday until I saw some Facebook posts, so it was lovely to wake-up all ready to go Saturday morning, with my focus definitely on getting those Christmas cards started.
I’m glad to report I did get my first 10 cards made, all unique and different (I really struggle with making multiples of the same design unless it’s simple repeat stamping):
Sadly not quite as productive today, as I seemed to be channelling my inner-sloth when trying to come up with some card designs for that sloth paper by Pebbles:
But I have managed 4 cards today so I am just happy that I’m a step closer to getting my Christmas cards made this year as it really wasn’t looking good the past 9 months of this year!
I’ll hopefully get time and light to photograph my makes soon, but I still have a pile of non-Christmas cards to photograph and blog so not sure when all that will happen! lol
I hope all you cardmakers enjoyed a crafty weekend!
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