Acrylic Stamps for sale

Autumn Leaves 2008 Designing With calendar £15




***SOLD***Little Cotton rabbits stamp set - all trimmed from rubber sheet - one stamp used once £20
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***SOLD***KI Memories Calendar Icon stamp set - brand new & unopened £5



***SOLD***Banana frog Scribble Flowers - set of 7 stamps - 3 of the stamps are heavily ink stained but this does not affect the quality of the stamps £8***SOLD***Autumn Leaves Second Nature by Rhonna Farrer - a few of the stamps have light staining £10

***SOLD***Autumn Leaves Sentiments Circles by Katie Pertiet - again a few of the stamps have light staining £10

More Stuff for sale - Quickutz dies

Quickutz Stamp RS0303 single die £3
Quickutz stamp cancellation singles die RS-0304 £3
Quickutz single die RS-0026 £3
Quickutz Bottle cap die set - 6 dies: 2 wavy edged circles, 2 circles, 1 small middle labels die, 1 large middle labels die £14
***SOLD***Quickutz Snow Angel Alphabet & Number set
This set includes uppercase, lowercase, numbers and punctuation.

Quickutz Upper Case Alphabet - Eliza ***Retired*** £30

Dollhouse....coming soon...maybe?

Dollhouse - trailer

The new series from Joss Whedon...coming soon to the States, Canada & Oz apparently.

Someone at the BBC please, please, please pick this up soon :)

Kirsten 2May 08

Basic Grey, 7Gypsies etc and idea books for sale

Brook peek-oh-book undecorated chipboard album from Creative Imaginations
£6 (incl P&P in UK) Sold pending payment
Lilykate ribbon pack by BasicGrey
Includes 8 rolls of ribbon measuring 25" each

£4.50 (incl P&P in UK) Sold pending paymentAlso for sale but not pictured- Lilykate 6x6 paper pad
36 pages - complete & unused
£4.00 (incl P&P in UK) Sold pending payment


BasicGrey bracket album
£4.00 (incl P&P in UK) Sold pending payment

BasicGrey rub-ons/transers - WHITE!
£1.50 (incl P&P in UK) Sold pending payment

BasicGrey Sublime Gatefold Mini Book/album
£4.00 (incl P&P in UK)

K&Co Raw Chipboard mini album & shapes set
£3.00 (incl P&P in UK) Sold pending payment

7Gypsies ATC matchbox kit
Contains 1 box, 1 cover and 12 ATC cards
all come blank for you to decorate as you wish
£2.50 (incl P&P in UK) Sold pending payment

Fast &Fabulous idea book/magazine from Scrapbook trends
£6.50 (incl P&P in UK) Sold pending payment

Room to room magazine from Papercrafts Inspirations Magazine
Slightly curled at corners hence reduced price of £5 (inl P&P in UK)


Payment by Paypal (please add 30p per paypal transaction to cover costs), or by cheque or postal order.

Thanks for looking - hope you see something you like.

Sizzix dies etc for sale

Brand new & sealed - complete uppercase alphabet. These can be used in both the BigShot and the Cuttlebug and as they are the thicker dies they will cut through a variety of materials eg chipboard, felt etc. - Price £35 (includes P&P within the UK)

Sizzlits die £2.75 (incl UK P&P) Sold pending payment
Sizzlits die £2.75 (incl UK P&P)

4 die set Sizzlits dies £10.50 (incl UK P&P) Sold pending payment

14 sheets of textured, leather look paper
in assorted colours
£1.50 (incl UK P&P)

Payment by Paypal (please add 30p per paypal transaction to cover costs), or by cheque or postal order.

Thanks for looking - hope you see something you like.

Magnolia Stamps for Sale

I am having a bit of a clearout - have to pay for those extra classes at scrapaganza some how :)
Please email me at thefineartofstampin@gmail.com if you are interested in purchasing any of the following stamps. All prices include postage within the UK.

£6 (Incl UK P&P) Sold pending payment

£5.50 (Incl UK P&P) Sold pending payment

£6 (incl UK P&P) Sold pending payment

£6 (incl UK P&P) Sold pending payment

£6 (incl UK P&P) Sold pending payment

Payment by Paypal (please add 30p per paypal transaction to cover costs), or by cheque or postal order.

Thanks for looking - hope you see something you like.

Marathon!

Well I have just been emailing my messages of support to a friend of mine who is taking part in this years Marathon des Sables
Where on earth she gets the determination and strength to do it I'll never know - certainly wouldn't be me that's for sure!

Still busy working away on some Stampin Up projects.

I made up some cards using a one sheet wonder and I think I'll try and organise a class locally to make this set once I find a suitable location. It actually takes more than one sheet to make all the cards as you might have guessed - the "one sheet" refers to the stamped sheet that looks like patterned paper)
if anyone is interested in coming along give me a shout :)


Oh and I've just discovered a brilliant book (or three). I read through Twilight by Stephanie Meyer and am half way through the next one in the series "New Moon". If you like Anne Rice books then you I would imagine you would like these too. Off to see if I can find thethird one on Amazon.

Some cards...

Blogger seems to be back to normal at least so here are a few of the samples I have been making for my workshop this weekend.

Busy week this week. Went to the SECC craft show on Thursday with Mum. It was surprisingly quiet and we were able to get round all the stalls fairly quickly. I was quite restrained and only bought a few things:

• some rolls of fingerlift double sided tape from the £1 stall
  
• some ribbon
• the cutest little Scottie Dogs from Meiflower
• some cellophane card bags
• and I couldn't resist the Sizzix Skull & Crossbones die

Then the rest of the weekend was taken up with rehearsals and Kirsten's ballet show. It went really well. No photos allowed, though at least we can get a DVD of the show later.

Been busy making up lots of sample cards. However blogger seems to be playing up tonight and won't let me upload my own photos for some reason. There are some pics on my other blog if anyone is interested :)

Some "Simple" cards

Not been the best of weeks this week - in my two days off work I have been to a funeral one of the days (my dad's closest friend - it was difficult watching my dad stand up and give the eulogy. I felt so sad for him) and then today I was at the dentist...and not just for a check-up! Even had to miss my usual Friday lunch with the girls as my mouth was too numb to eat anything until later.

Anyway one bright spot was that my kit arrived on Wednesday and I had a chance to play with my lovely new stamps. Here are a couple of the cards I made using the Simply Said set.

Stamping again

I've spent a lot of time these last few days over at Splitcoast Stampers - there are so many fantastic tutorials to follow and the gallery is just stuffed full of fantastic work.

I followed this tutorial to learn how to transfer a stamped image onto a candle. It was so easy and I was pretty happy with the way they turned out.

This was my first attempt using stamps from Stampin' Up!'s Heartfelt Thanks set.


And then one using a Sugar Nellie stamp - I can't wait until my Sugar Nellie bunny stamps arrive in a couple of weeks. I think they would make a lovely new baby gift if stamped on to a candle.


A simple card and again I used my new Heartfelt Thanks set. I randomly stamped one of the images using white ink on black cardstock to make the background image.

And for this one I painted Twinkling H2Os directly onto the base stamp then stamped the second stamp (as shown in the card above) on top of the first image. I was pretty pleased with the way my first attempt at Two Step Stamping turned out.

Spring already!

K&K have been off school for their mid-term break this week and the weather couldn't have been any better. We have been for walks up the hill and along the front. Kirsten and her friends spent yesterday afternoon playing down the beach!

View from the sun dial over the town

First ice-cream cone of the year

When we have weather like this I truly appreciate how lucky I am to live where I do.
All photos taken this week

London baby!

I make no apologies for not updating this for a while. Work was completely manic up until the end of January then we were away to London on 1 February. We flew down on the Friday morning (Kenny & Kirsten got to miss a day of school) and got to our hotel about 12 noon. Luckily they let us do an early check-in for a tenner so we dropped the bags off and headed over to the British Museum for a while.

Robert having fun in Eqyptian room!

Had a quick look on Blade Rubber stamps on the way back but didn't buy anything as most things I could get cheaper online.

Back to the hotel to get changed and then wandered down to Leicester Square. Went to Chiquitita's or something like that for dinner. Food was not bad but the service was atrocious! Caught a number 9 bus (one of the old routemaster style buses) along to Kensington to the Royal Albert hall where we had tickets for Cirque Du Soleil. The show we went to see was Varekai which was reallyt excellent but maybe just not quite as good as La Nouba in Florida.

Day 2 - we spent most of the day on the open top tour buses and on a boat trip down the river (something neither Robert nor I had ever done in the seven years we lived in London!).

Kenneth, Kirsten & Lula at the Houses of parliament
London Eye (look out for alien's underneath!)Had a mooch about Covent Garden later on and stopped to watch one of the entertainers who was juggling some sharp knifes and eating an apple whilst riding a 10ft tall unicycle - the kids enjoyed that one!

Kirsten and I had a quick trip to the bead shop in Earlham Street then we met up with the boys and wandered all around Covent Garden area looking for Ed's Diner. We gave up and walked back over to Leicester Square then luckily found another brand of Ed's that we didn't even know existed. Nothing much on at the cinema so we spent the evening what used to be the Trocadero (not sure if it's still called that) where the kids went on the dodgems etc and Kenny even had a shot on a Buckin Bronco!

Day 3 - Back on the open top buses again (the ticket was valid for 48 hours - thank you Mr Tesco and your Clubcard Deals tokens :D ) We stopped at Downing Street although the street is barricaded off now. If you stand at one spot, on your tip toes, close one eye and squint slightly you can just about make out the door of number 10! Kirsten didn't want to see this for political reasons you understand...it was because it had been on Dr Who! LOL

We then walked over to Buckingham Palace for the changing of the guard (again something neither Robert nor I had ever done during our time in London) and then back up for a wander round Chinatown before we picked up our bags for the flight home.

Note Kirsten's new hat!!!