The Treehouse

Inspired...

by Wendy Vecchi's Studio 490 blog I spent quite a while enjoying the pictures on Saturday night and I emailed Wendy on Sunday to ask how she achieves her lovely inky backgrounds. Well, she replied! Sent me a link to a video on the Ranger website  which was excellent once I finally got my computer to play it for me. I was all inspired and ready to go after I'd watched it, regardless of the fact that it was quite late at night! I have one of those Maya Road bird books which has been perplexing me for a while, now it's destined for some inking! I didn't start on the book last night, just had a little fun with a coaster, a Scenic Route bird, some Grungepaper and plenty of ink and stamps! It doesn't show from the scan unfortunately, there is quite a bit of sparkle on there. 

Will be punching a hole in it today and dangling it somewhere nearby.

Full of a cold...

yuk! I had no voice at all for most of yesterday, it seems to be working better today. No idea where I picked up this nasty bug but I will surely be glad when it's moved on!!! The sun is shining this morning - hoping that holds out as Catherine has a bowling competition to play in today. We've been sporting mad lately and this week have managed to clock up a league semi-final football match, a netball match, a cricket match, a swimming gala and today's bowling. That's not including the practice sessions or the visit to the Scout/Guide show on Friday night - what a week!

That would by why it has taken two - yes two days, to make a single card! I swear that colours matched better under electric light - in daylight conditions...I'm not so sure they go.

I have had a little splurge of crafting expenditure lately. Cara told me that Craft Stamper was worth buying...so of course, I went off and bought a copy. Well, she was right and on top of some nice projects there were also lots of lovely stamps so...{I need say no more as to the effect that this had on my purchasing abilities!}

Then I decided I would subscribe and the subscriber gift was a sheet of flower fairy stamps, in fact the Almond Blossom fairy that you see here ----------------------------------->

So, I was just feeling very satisfied with new stamps and desperate for an opportunity to get stamping when Catherine and I paid a visit to Borders - no, there were no stamps in Borders but...Hobbycraft is next door but one! In Hobbycraft, I fell victim to a pad of Coredinations black cardstock. I had a few sheets of their coloured stuff last year and thought it absolutely gorgeous and of course, great for embossing. The black is a lot of fun, each sheet has a different coloured core - absolutely brilliant with embossing folders and some sanding.

I was a bit down on my reading for March. I think I would have to say that my favourite 'new to me' books of the month were The Talented Mr. Ripley and Sue Grafton's books. I read a few more Eve Dallas books which I enjoyed and several more 1001 books. My last book of the month was a historical mystery book by Rose Melikan which I was really looking forward to, it's the first in a series of 3 I believe...it was ok, not gripping but I read through to the end and will probably read book 2 when it's available. 

I'm just about to start on Captain Corelli's Mandolin which is another bookring - I'm a bit dubious about this book as I recall my history tutor giving it a jolly good slamming for historical inaccuracy...and that is just the sort of thing that irritates me :o