My Planner Journey.....so far!

I started to find that a note book just was not enough at work and I know I had my electronic diary in Outlook, but I needed a planner. The Managers started having a Collins coil diary housed in a leather folder, but I was not a manager at the time. So I went for a Filofax A5. That way I could have a diary and notes. I was into Red and got a cherry Red Filofax classic that was reduced to £38, bargain!

I ended up getting a pen to match, you can just see it, I am a bit obsessed with pens as well. :)

The A5 was and is great but I would have liked a smaller one to fit in my bag when needed, and I stalked Ebay and ended up with a personal and pocket to match.

A Filofax family arhhhh. Makes me so happy!!

BUT

At the end of last year I thought I would have a change from red (my work bag was red as well). So I went for turquoise/duck egg type colours. Sooooooo My work diary is now that colour to match!! They laugh at me at work I love matching things.

Got the business diary inserts, and a matching pen.

Then I founds a lovely place on face book called Mrs Brimbles Happy Place. I now have a subscription to a monthly stationery box, a lyradori travellers note book, and I have pre-ordered a rose gold (matches my new purse) Websters pages travellers note book, and am so excited about it coming!

I made a diary charm for the travellers note book.

This insert is smaller but it is the same colour so I had to use it!! The floral folder I made last weekend. It is laminated and I made it in a way were I could make a cut after I laminated it which them gave me a pocket as I had folded the paper before laminating.

A few sticky notes that were in the front of the smaller insert. This book was in my handbag before I added it as an insert.

This insert I bought with the cover. I have printed a chart which I am recording all the data from my Fitbit. I have glued them into the insert and it has made the pages really nice to handle. I am recording my exercise as well (this is not taking long to do at the moment!).

The last insert is blank at the moment, and is surrounded by another folder that I have made.

I have a pouch for some of my stickers and extra Papermate Joy pens and a pencil with a pencil cap on it.

Watch this space for my Rose Gold Websters pages!!

Decorated Wooden Tag

I decorated a wooden tag last weekend as a gift to my Stampin Up mum - my up line Julie Kettlewell. She is opening her own little crafting paradise and all her classes are going to run from this new venue, so I wanted to send my best wishes, and a good luck message. I hope she liked it, it should have been delivered now.

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More cards made last weekend

I made these last weekend and they have been appearing on my Stampin Up Facebook page over this week, so I thought I better let you all take a look at them as well. Check out my Facebook page and any questions just contact me at any time. Hope you have all got over eating all those pancakes on Tuesday!

I have been trying to use up some scraps of paper.

Stampin Up Stamp set Awesomely Artistic

I am loving having a dragon fly in the Stampin Up Catalogue. The stamp set Awesomely Artistic lets you make lovely back grounds as well. At the moment I can't get away from Pacific Point colouring :)

Sorry for the lack of words I am a little short of time at the moment, and last weekend I was not up to much, but I am starting to catch up a bit now especially with the washing and ironing!

Clear embossing and water colouring

I have been trying the Stampin Up water colour paper. I have clear embossed an image onto the paper and then water coloured over the top using the aqua painters and my ink pads. I love the effect and it is very easy to complete. I did sprinkle some salt over the images to see if I could get an effect and you can see it has pulled some of the ink back off the paper and left a mottle effect.

The inks do not blend like other inks, but there are times when you do not want them to blend and make a different colour.

Let me know if you would like any further information or click the pages on this blogg to get to my Stampin up shop. Happy crafting xx

More Christmas cards

A few more Christmas cards and some tags made and I have used some Stampin'Up items, but also some other stash as well.

Until stocks last (as some are from the winter book) the links are below.

Stampin᾿ Up! Supplies

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Peaceful Wreath Photopolymer Stamp Set	Wonderful Wreath Framelits Dies	Flurry Of Wishes Photopolymer Stamp Set	Holly Jolly Greetings Clear-Mount Stamp Set
Wild Wasabi 1/2" Seam Binding Ribbon	Marina Mist 1/4" Cotton Ribbon	Silver Sequin Trim	Snowflake Elements

Stampin Up Ribbon Trees

I have had the chance to make some more Christmas cards, but am still very behind and need to be making them nightly really to catch up. The trouble is I have started to swim nearly every day after work so do not feel like it when I get home. I have just got to try harder and fit it all in.

On these cards I have been using the tree punch to punch a tree from some Stampin Up card stock and then add some double sided tape to the top making sure it wraps over the back as well. Then I have been covering them with ribbons to make a great textured card topper, They look great on a tag as well.

You can get the supplies from my store apart from the ribbons on the blue trees they are old Stampin Up stock. This is a great way to use up any ribbon scraps you just can not throw away!

On the one below I used white embossing powder, which did not turn out too well, I think I could have done better, but I love the one above. This used the Stampin Up white ink for the snow background.

The below ribbons are no longer available apart from the silver sequins and the Pool party cotton ribbon.

Stampin᾿ Up! Supplies

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Tree Punch	Old Olive Baker's Twine	Pear Pizzazz 1/4" Cotton Ribbon	Wild Wasabi 1/2" Seam Binding Ribbon
Pool Party 1/4" Cotton Ribbon	Silver Sequin Trim	Rhinestone Basic Jewels	Marina Mist A4 Cardstock
Wild Wasabi A4 Cardstock	Whisper White Craft Stampin' Pad	Teeny Tiny Sentiments Clear-Mount Stamp Set	Holly Jolly Greetings Clear-Mount Stamp Set
Whisper White A4 Cardstock	Whisper White A4 Thick Cardstock	Gold Stampin' Emboss Powder	White Stampin' Emboss Powder