Up and Under. . . . . . . . . .Not a Tribute to Eddie Waring!!!

Good morning everyone. Hope this finds you well.

I haven't had a great weekend as the cold, which had started to improve, triggered chest issues again but feeling better yesterday.

Busy doing some samples for Daisy's as they are on Hochanda next week........it keeps me off the streets. I've even done a bit of messy crafting with pastes and masks, whooda thought lol???

I have also succombed to the delights of a Press Too Impress. John has been extolling its virtues for weeks and I had managed to resist. However, after goofing up stamping a large stamp on a sample twice, I reached to my store stock shelf and took a Press Too Impress off it............it was either try that or pull my hair out.

Well, I am well and truly converted. Its brilliant and I only wish I'd listened to John earlier (don't tell him I said that). Its great for doing my dib dabbing on floral stamps.

Now, back to today's card. This is one of the samples from John's JND launch shows (told you I had done a few lol!!!).

Its kind of a take on triple stamping but double and undulating.............you know I have to be different.

Ingredients

Cream and black card

John Next Door Quattro Mask - Drops (used to emboss)

John Next Door Summer Flowers stamps

Black pearls

The central panels undulate up and down and down and up, which I think you can see on the above photo.

Busy week again with samples, blood test, dentist and doctors but hoping to catch up with a friend I went to school with. We try and meet up once per month to put the world to rights.

I will be back on Thursday with this month's MAWTT DT card so until then, be good.

TTFN

Ang x

Ps...........for those of you not subscribed to my websites's newsletter, to celebrate one month of the website being up and running, there is some new stock and a couple of special offers, one of which is 10% off when you spend over £30 (and of course, that would mean free postage too for that spend).

More new stock coming shortly.

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!!!

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

John Next Door Goes Large. . . . . . . .

Good morning everyone. Hope this finds you well. Welcome to Joan. Thank you for clicking "follow". Very kind of you and much appreciated.

What an exciting day as today is the day that the John Next Door brand is launched. Its been a long time coming and such an achievement for John. He's been teasing you all for the past 5 days but I think most of you had guessed what was coming.

I'll be featuring some cards and projects over the next few days made with John's terrific new products.

Now, today's card was the first one I made as it was the first design that came into my head as soon as I saw the stamps.

Ingredients

White and black card

John Next Door Summer Flowers stamp set

Black archival ink

Various distress inks

A very simple card but hopefully it showcases the stamps in all their glory.

So lets raise a glass, of whatever your tipple is, to John and his new venture. He's a genuinely lovely guy who deserves every success and as John would say. . . . . . . enjoy!!!

TTFN

Ang x

P.S. Maureen, Pinky maybe, Perky debatable. . . . . . .in fact, I only keep them larger so the weight pulls the wrinkles out of my face. I'm 86 but I only look 45 !!!