Birthday card for a handy man

This is what I wanted to post yesterday, Helen made this card for Ian's birthday earlier this year. Sorry Helen, you can run, you can hide, but I'm still showing your card:) No actually Helen happily agreed for me to show you her card.

Helen has used the tool and screw brads, I have added them to our website here. I finally managed to get the photos on the website today. It is still a mystery as to why I could add them at the shop but not from home, umm, odd! There is probably a good reason why, anyway the brads have been available for a while and have been very popular. The good news is that we have some left in stock, the bad news is that Woodware have run out so if you fancy getting some, do order them quickly!!

I've put some close up pictures below.

Also, I wanted to say thank you to everyone who has entered to win the blog candy so far and also for the messages you have left me, much appreciated.

Jill

PS: We've had a lot of people ordering the Stampendous Jumbo Snowman Perfectly Clear set, just wanted to mention that if you are looking for it, we have it in stock here.

Close ups of tool and screw brads

Slight disaster!!

So sorry to anyone who visited our website this afternoon and found no pictures, I had a ummmm SLIGHT disaster today, I was deleting old pictures from our website files and all was going well until I decided to multi-task something else at the same time.

I obviously didn't notice as I did it but when I went to delete the next file I realised that I had deleted ALL the photo's from our website, thousands of them that have taken years to put there!! Thanks to the help of a great tech support team they are now restored, PHEW!! Thank goodness for backups! Let that be a warning.... when did you last do a backup? I didn't 'fess up to tech support that as it is my day off, I was also ironing at the time of the mishap! Wouldn't do to let the men know about that, but I bet they suspected something like that had happened!

Thank you to the ladies who placed orders this afternoon anyway, it must have been like shopping in the dark!

Yesterday's post here didn't go much better either, I intended to add something to the website and tell you about it but it didn't work, hence me meddling about today trying to make more space on there for new stuff. I guess it wasn't that as it is still not working for me!! Anyway, I shall save all that for another time.

I've decided to post more photos taken of the flowers Kay sent me for my birthday, just to cheer the page up and also seemed relevant after being annoyed about something I read earlier. With all the hassle of the pictures, I didn't get round to publishing the other thing I was going to mention yesterday, but it is there now, it's about Julies Open Window blog candy. I follow Julie's blog and read earlier that she has had some terrible news today about where she lives, if you visit her blog you will read about something that really shouldn't be allowed, all for the sake of another road that'll have a knock on effect on nature. If you visit, you'll see why I picked a sunflower.

Anyway, you may wish to follow Julie's blog too, she is planning lots of fun things there. She had her own stamp store in the US for years, and is very talented!

Jill

PS: I know that the main photo needs rotating, sorry but I'm photo problemed out for today so it'll have to stay that way round!

Julie's Open Window Blog Candy

Pop over to Julie's Open Window for a chance to win some great candy, although based in the US, Julie is offering the prize internationally. Julie's blog is fairly new but growing very quickly and she has lots planned for the future, so worth keeping an eye on!

French Country Funky Flowers

I hope you are having a nice weekend, or should I say had, as it is nearly over as I post this.

This was a quickish card to make using Kay's Funky Flowers and Fancy Flourish stamps. I coloured the main image using French Country Starburst Stains, the same set as the giveaway. I misted the pre-printed background paper before stamping the flourishes over the top. I also stamped them on the yellow mount. The wording is from the flourish stamp sheet. Yellow and white brads plus a little white yarn are used as embellishments.

Another mini puzzle

Here's another of those mini puzzles, 180 tiny pieces in the packet, with no picture to follow.

This one was made up by Anne who spent hours on it, yes it would have been much quicker if there was a picture to follow, anyway Anne said she enjoyed the challenge. Thanks for sending the photo to me Anne. Anne said you may find it useful to know that the exact finished size is 9.5 x 14.5 centimetres.

As I mentioned before when Jill M and Brenda put theirs together, you can use the pieces as individual embellishments or make up the complete puzzle and add it to a card as it is with a greeting or, if you want to take it further, alter it by painting and stamping your own image. I have painted pieces with the Ranger Acrylic Dabber Paints, they work well on the surface albeit a little fiddly when painting the individual pieces, but what fun would it be if we didn't get our hands messy!!

The packs can be found here on our website, they are £1.95. As there are no pictures on the packs we can't be certain of sending particular designs but Anne asked us to pick out 4 different ones and hopefully we have. If you order more than one pack then that is what we will try to do.

I also thought they would make ideal Christmas cracker/stocking fillers, I reckon they will keep someone happy for a few hours on Christmas day when all the repeat films are on the telly!!