Christmas Stamps. . . . . . .Birthday Card

Good morning everyone..................me again.

No further developments to report about the snogging neighbour and The Family Flash. The problem with being home most days is that you see all this strange activity. Its far more interesting than TV lol!!!

Now, today I am back with one of John's show samples. I, like John, like a bit of value out of the old craft gear so I looked at John's new stamps and thought "can I get another occasion out of them other than Christmas?"

So, I ended up with birthday card.

Ingredients

Cream, beige, brown and ginger card

John Next Door Confetti Embossing Folder

John Next Door Build a Wreath stamp set

John Next Door Spring Flowers stamp set (sentiment)

Presscut Circle die 

Memento Dewdrop inks in Rich Cocoa, Desert Sand and Peanut Brittle

Cosmic Shimmer Berry Red Pearl PVA Glue

Gold coloured pearlage

To do the centre, I used a craft knife to cut around the sprigs and popped the circle die under the flaps and then cut the circle out.

Would make a nice Autumn or even male birthday card methinks.

Well, busy day today putting new stock onto the website and pricing stock for the pop up shop at John and my workshop at Ansty.

There are still some spaces available so if you decide to pop along, that's fine. Details are on mine and John's sidebars.

Have a great weekend everyone.

TTFN

Ang x

More From Next Door. . . . . . .

Good morning everyone. Hope you are all enjoying the odd snippets of sunshine we have had.

I have been busy with computer things and getting out and about with friends too.

A warm welcome to Angela, who has kindly clicked the "follow" button.....very much appreciated.

Thank you for your kind comments on my buddlejas (said the actress to the bishop.....).

I should explain that I am on The MAWTT design team so when I post about their challenges, its as a DT member, not as an entrant to the challenges. However, its very kind of you to think I would be in with a chance of winning, if I were.

Karen, I don't think its a petal pairs punch I used as I have a couple of those and they are bigger.

Now today, I'm back to the samples I made for John's first release of JND stamps.

Ingredients

Cream, purple and lilac card

John Next Door Spring Flowers stamps

John Next Door Autumn Flowers stamps

SB Carnation Creations dies

SW Trailing Ivy dies

Memento Dew drop inks (Grape Jelly, and Sweet Plum)

This is a stepped triple stamping card. I stamped the bottom of the cream layer, chopped the bottom into 2 equal strips and mounted them on to purple card.

I then layered them up with foam pads, 2 deep on the bottom strip, then stepping down to 1 deep on the next strip. . . . . . . hope that makes sense?

Methinks its another busy week ahead with bits and bobs and back at the doctors. He's now picked up a Vit B12 deficiency so I'm on that and Folic Acid now too. Thank goodness we don't have to have an MOT certificate to go out and about or I would have failure stickers on my bumpers (oooh, errrr Mrs!!!).

Hopefully see you back here in a couple of days.

Have a great week.

TTFN

Ang x

John Next Door 2nd Launch. . . . . .Slate Heart

Good morning everyone. Hope all is ok with you and yours.

Thank you for your lovely comments on my cards made with John's 1st launch John Next Door products. Today, at 7am on Hochanda, John is launching his second release of products, including stamps and masks.

Now, you know I like to be different and when I saw this slate heart in Poundland, I knew exactly what I was going to do with it. It is heat embossed in white.

For anyone who hasn't stamped or heat embossed slate before, I will give you a couple of tips.

Choose the flattest slate you can get for even stamping. 

You will still need to anti static it before stamping too.

Slate obviously behaves differently to paper. You heat from the top but it takes quite some time for the powder to do its thing, as that patch of slate needs to get quite hot for it to melt so be very careful where you hold it. As it also then takes a good while to set as the slate stays hot for a while, I find it easier to do it in stages, rather than all in one go. Let the slate cool in between.

Ingredients

Hanging slate from Poundland

John Next Door Summer Flowers stamps

John Next Door Spring Flowers stamps

John Next Door Butterfly Frames 

John Next Door Flower Circle stamp (sentiment)

Versamark

Stampendous white embossing powder

Hope you manage to catch some of John's shows today. I promised him that I would surface from my warm nest to watch the 7am show (if ever there was a time I needed caffeine lol!!!).

He did ask if I wanted to go with him to help set up again but with the prospect of a 4am start, I graciously declined.

Back again tomorrow with another show sample.

TTFN

Ang x

Ps.......Haemoglobin now back in the normal range, hurrah! Finally, a good test result lol!!!

More John Next Door. . . . . . .

Good morning everybody. Hope you are well.

Thank you for your kind comments about the kidney scan. I should be relieved but knowing I've now got to have more tests etc to find out why my function has dropped, is not appealing. I don't think there are many parts of me that haven't been poked, prodded or manhandled during the last 14 months lol!!!

Welcome to Tracie. Thank you for pressing "follow" and joining our happy throng.......that's throng, not what you all first thought lol!!!

Anyhoo, I'm typing this on Saturday afternoon to schedule for Sunday and watching and listening to hailstones the size of marbles pelting the window. I could have sworn that it was August......you know, Summer ?????

I was worried for Sammy, a little sparrow that comes and sits with us on the decking or helps Mr D with the gardening, as one of them hitting him would have given him one helluva headache. I was meant to live in a warmer climate.

Now, its back to John's last show samples. . . . . . . making way for some new ones on Tuesday perhaps ????? Shushhhhh, don't tell anyone!!!

Ingredients

Cream and black card

SB Ravenna die (beautiful set)

SB Classic Oval die

John Next Door Wave Duo Mask (used to emboss)

John Next Door Spring Flowers stamps

John Next Door Autumn Flowers stamps

Black Archival ink

Black pearlage

I do love this Ravenna set. Nice large dies as I think they are a Card Creator set.

Thank you for the anniversary wishes. Mr D said to say thank you too. We had already been out with Nesta the evening before so we will probably have a meal out this week.

Thank you, also, for your views on Windows 10. Haven't got the new laptop yet. I did upgrade the RAM on my current one myself but I wouldn't bother upgrading the Windows as it is too old and trying to update Internet Explorer a couple of years ago caused it to have a hissy fit.

Jan and Jennie, hope you're  both enjoying your holidays.

Myra, I think you may be teasing about Maureen after seeing her comment. I'd guess she thinks Windows 10 is a double glazing company lol!!!

Suzzie, thankfully its only an oldish combined printer, scanner, copier that's hooked up to the golden oldie so only about £40 (around $52) if we have to replace.

Jenny, you are now officially our techno expert lol!!!

Well, that's me for today. Enjoy your Sunday and I shall be back on Tuesday. . . . . . . can't think what may be happening then lol!!!

TTFN

Ang x

Day 4 & My Favourite. . . . .And a Prize

Good morning lovely blog friends. Hope you are all well.

Another warm welcome to some more new followers, Lynette, Alison, Deniseann and Gill. Thank you for taking time to visit and clicking that button.

As I am now over 150 followers, I am offering a little Paddle Prize, details of which are at the end of this post.

Now, today's creation is my favourite made with John's stamps and I have made it for my living room so, Mr Lockwood, you can keep your paws off this one lol!!!

I used the clock mechanism from one of the Pound World clocks in an 8x8 box frame.

I've gone for this colour as it matches our decor. Apologies for the white stripe at the bottom left of the photo. Its a reflection that I just couldn't get rid of.

Ingredients

White card

White 8x8 deep box frame (The Range)

Clock mechanism 

John Next Door Spring, Summer and Autumn Flowers stamps

John Next Door Quattro Drops mask

Peacock Feathers distress ink

Black Archival ink

Magazine freebie numerals die with numbers cut from black funky foam

Teal gem on centre of hands

I just made a hole in the hardboard backing to accommodate the mechanism and painted the red second hand white with Tippex (hey, whatever is to hand has a use lol!!!).

Hopefully, it will get shown on one of John's shows. I am (hopefully) going with John today. An early start but a Maccy D McMuffin is adequate compensation for getting up before the birds lol!!!

Now, here is a snap of the little Paddle Prize for my reaching over 150 followers.

To be entered into the draw for this, you just need to be a follower and leave a comment on this post before 6am (GMT) on the 25th July.

Mr D will perform his pulling duties and the winner will be announced on the next post following the 25th. Thank you all and good luck!!!

I will be giving you a break tomorrow as I shall be back on Thursday with 2 posts, one at 6am and my usual MAWTT DT post at 9am.

I have some exciting news, well for me lol!!!, on the 6am post. . . . . . lets just say, today will not be my only sample appearances on Hochanda this week but shhhhh, don't tell anybody lol!!!

On that note, I need to get to bed (scheduling this Monday night). 

Be good and thank you, as always for your encouraging comments.

TTFN

Ang x