I'm still here, just!

I have been so busy I have hardly had time to think, but finally I think I am getting a little space to get on with some crafty projects again.

Spring is springing at last and its time for me to move back into my craft shed after the really long cold winter. This is the view from my shed window at the moment - a host of golden daffodils! The birds are busy nesting and the garden is full of beautiful baby rabbits, there are so many distractions!!

I have decided my craft desk needed a major blitz to try and give myself as much space as possible to work. In the process of the major sorting though, I got distracted by smaller jobs like colour coding my buttons and flowers!

Last weekend, I had a lovely trip to the Stamping and Scrapbooking Show at Alexandra Palace. Normally I only go up for the day, but this time I made a weekend of it with my Craft Stamping Quartet companions Jo, Judith and Lesley. We hardly ever all get together in real life, so this was a rare treat to spend some quality time together and it was the first time I had actually met Lesley, although we both agreed it felt like we already knew each other!!

I had such a brilliant time, bought lots of lovely stamps and other crafty goodies that I am gradually making time to play with. The sun shone all weekend, and going for two days, meant that Sunday gave me the chance to really spend time watching the brilliant demos of people like Linda Brown and Linda Elbourne, Hels Sheridan, Barbara Grey, Bev Rochester and Tracey Dutton. What inspiring people they are and incredibly hard working, demoing virtually non-stop for two whole days.

Just to prove I have been doing some inking, here is a set of four tiny cards I made with one of the freebie stamps from Craft Stamper magazine. I bought these tiny black card blanks in a moment of madness at a craft show a couple of years ago and they have been languishing in my card blank box ever since.  I realised they were the perfect size to mount this stamp and I made a set of four to share with my crafty pals. I coloured the main images with a range of blending Adirondack dye inks. The circles were coloured with Inktense pencils and then I added Glamour Dust glitter over the top. I mounted each image on a blending colour glitter card panel.

Hope you are enjoying your weekend!

Elaine xx