You have been warned ! As I mentioned yesterday I got a care package from a kind friend back home, and as promised  (if there is anyone following this blog ) my next few attempts will be with my new stamps and inks.

Got all carried away with with the Baroque Motif stamp as you can see.

I used rich razzlelberry ( just love that name ) and wild wasabi
inks from SU along with their Baroque Motif stamps. hope you like it

A really good friend of my from England knowing my stash situation , or should I say the lack of it sent me a care package yesterday. It was mainly full of Stampin Up goodies and my most invaluable glue dots.

I will be giving my beloved  crafty Individuals stamps a rest for a little while and boring you with my new ones , although this card does use CI backing paper see just love them so much.

I used Crafty Individuals Backing paper which I copied onto photopaper and inverted the colours to give me a glorious green blue colour ( can’t really tell by the photo) then I embossed with white embossing powder From SU added blue and green ribbon and the SU sentiment .

Hope you like it.

Marie x

I feel really guilty (again) have been sitting in my craft room ah hem…… if you can call it that for the past three months , ensconced far away from the family only to emerge for food and bathroom privileges oh and of course to show to the  other half my latest creation.
Before I started this new love affair with card making I used to send him cards all the time but since I started I have made them for everyone else except him, I show him of course and he nods his head and says oh that’s the best one yet every time, but I havn’t actually given him one.

I thought today I would remedy that but before I could finish making it he’s upped and gone out ! So who knows maybe I will give it to him next year. !

I used my trusty Silhouette to cut the heart and stamped the image with Stampin Up Baroque Motif stamp and sentiment with black and white ink.

As I wrote in my previous diary entry I had ”  A  Stash ” or so I thought but it turns out that I don’t really have one at all ! There is always something missing I always seem to be waiting for something else to complete it. My most common used phrase is  ” if only I had ……….. there is no end to it, and its seems that I can hardly finish a project because I’m missing that vital something that will turn it into a decent card.

I have turned into a shopaholic , a craftoholic .I spend more time searching for new goodies than I actually do making anything ! Of course by the time my new goodies are delivered I have moved on to something else something even more essential , yikes !

My desk is piled high with inks and sprays and mists and brushes you name it , its here staring me in the face begging to be used  daring me to put them to the test, but I cant because I just don’t have  that missing ingredient .

Maybe it will be in my next parcel !

Would just like to say a big thank you to all my buddies on the docraft site  (you know who you are)
for all the help and encouragement they have given me during the short time that I have been sharing my addiction with them.

This card is for a particular buddy Sarah Liz ( and her eight kitties) who has recently broken her foot ouch ! get well soon xx

I used Crafty Individuals backing paper and stamp with Ranger distress embossing powder ( as we both like them)

Ok I had fallen in love with the idea of card making but there was one major obstacle to overcome…….I live in Greece, ” obstacle ” I hear you say what could be wrong with that ? Well nothing if you want sun sea and sand but if you want to obtain  ” Your Stash ” plenty !. That’s another thing, on all of the card making sites I looked at everyone kept mentioning it and people were asking me about mine. Firstly I didn’t know what people were talking about and secondly I was too embarrassed to ask as everyone seemed to have one except me.

When I eventually found out what it meant I set about obtaining mine, which wasn’t and still isn’t easy I can tell you. Everytime I went to my local craft shop and requested the most basic of items I was met with a blank stare , ink pads choice of black or blue, wooden stamps no, embossing powder forget it ! I was in trouble how was I going to get a stash.

My credit card and I have become great friends of late its found it’s new place next to my Mac as opposed to my purse, I even know my account number off by heart some achievement for me.

I had to buy everything via The Internet without being able to touch it or sniff it !
My first purchase was The Silhouette die cutting machine I saw a demo on YouTube as you do and fell in love. So here I was with a fancy die cut machine and I hadn’t even made a card yet !
 I saw a pattern forming every day I discovered essential crafting items which of course I just had to have . Every few days a parcel would arrive, hubby started raising his eyebrows as another package from England was delivered. Oh the sweet anticipation of it all what would be my next delivery my glue dots  ( can’t even get them here ) or my fabulous stamps or ink pads. I was slowly but surely acquiring  ” a stash ”  I felt guilty and exhilarated at the same I had  ” a stash ” at long last I had arrived !

Yes it’s finally happened ! After months of soul-searching and moping about the house cupids little arrow has finally found it’s mark.

I wasn’t sure if I would ever feel this way again but I’m glad to announce that yes! I’m in love and it feels wonderful.

It all started a couple of months ago when I was watching a video on YouTube about card making techniques ( Don’t ask me how I got there, one minute was looking at holidays in France and the next thing I know I’m on The Two Peas in a Bucket site watching Jennifer Mcguire) The rest is history as they say.

It started as it always does with me a harmless flirt but before I knew it I was watching everything I could find on YouTube about the subject and there’s so much ! Countless sleepless nights later I was hooked I had found my new hobby, I was going to make cards and brilliant ones at that ! I had found my niche at long last hooray !

Let me just explain one thing about me I fall in love quite often. There have been so many romances in the past acting classes, aerobics,aqua aerobics, horse riding, cookery classes, pattern cutting, pottery classes, shoes ,yes shoes  (isn’t that a hobby ? ) the list goes on and on. Every time I think this is ” The One “, this is the keeper not just a passing fancy but after a few months I start to loose interest. It’s not my first thought in the morning or last one at night and it’s just a matter of time before I fall out of Love.

Of course I have bought all the equipment, got all the books, paid for all my lessons in advance and just as quickly as it came it’s gone !

So here I am three months down the line still in love, still spending my nights and weekends in front of YouTube bleary eyed ink stained fingers not to mention the mess ! Not only my little crafting space but the house.  Will it last ? That has to be seen but it has one main advantage over all my other loves or should I say infatuations……… SHOPPING ! There’s so much stuff to buy , its endless, I want eveything and I want it now !.

Got to go my ink pads are calling .

Tomorrow  Now I know why they call it A Stash.