Crafting Haul - July 2018

There's one thing that I can think of that's not good at getting started back on my favourite hobby.... my bank balance!!! Been playing lots and also surfing online and getting ideas lots, so ended up buying lots of fabby craft products so I can play.... they are abit of a bargain too so its not too bad I suppose....

So below are some of the items I have bought recently!

So I've been looking at distress ink a lot, but I didn't really have the space for the large ink pads so wanted to get the mini ones..... I went to a local-ish store called Rejects, and spotted these - they were such a bargain - £4.35 for each pack!! I couldn't believe it so I bought the 4 different ones they had on the shelf, was quite proud of my wee bargain there.

 This Hero Art's ink pad set - I love, I've seen some lovely layering stamping completed by other crafters and loved it - so I bought this to start - I have some layering flowers which I got last month, so these will be perfect with it. I got these of Amazon via one of the 3rd party companies which I've used many times - its supermart USA. I've not had a problem yet, and it normally arrives within 2 weeks. I think I paid around £6 for this set.

So with my day job, there are times when I need to work away, and earlier this month, I was away for a few days and had just one too many coffee!! LOL I ended up staying later than I wanted and spotted one of the company I liked on Facebook that they had a wee sale on, so popped on the website to have a look and ended up spending another 13 quid! It's brilliant for the amount I got though! I got the free gift for club members, which are ice cream/dessert toppers card set, a stamp set, some 3d foam squares (im running low!) 2 magazines which came with free toppers/card making set as well... So looking forward to using these. These were from Hunky Dory website

In the last few months, I found my favourite craft shop!! I dread to think how much I have spent with them so far!! The store is called craft stash, and the things they have are brilliant - the above 2 pics are just a selection of what I bought recently, I got too excited and started playing with others before I took a picture. 

So been playing with my perfect pearls that I had with dovecraft, what I found with those was that it left a point bit when I lift and I have to flick it to flatten, so tried the Nuvo drops and they were brilliant - it didn't leave the point, so ended up buying more from Craftstash as they were really good price... think they are £2.99 RRP but they were selling some at £1.99.. what I found was that they were doing an offer where if you get 3 for £5! so I ended up getting 6 lol.... then beside it I also bought the Nuvo crystal glaze as well. 

In their bargain section I found those dies for 2 for £2!! they're normally over 4.99 each so well chuffed with those and will be playing with them shortly!! 

As I said I have bought more things but not had a chance to take a photo before I started playing.... oops!! next time Im sure I have more in the post to come lol!

Off to do some crafting now - will take some pics of the cards I made, some are from kits others are new techniques I'm trying out after seeing some crafting videos.

Toodles!

Life got in the way @_@

OMG how long have I not blogged?

Only just logged back in and have no idea how long I have not blogged!!

Well probably a few things - my little boy arrived - and he's now 3.5 yr old??!???! how did that happen... and I really think for the last 3 years my husband has taken over the office and I could not get in to craft! I moaned and groaned and annoyed him enough to tidy up enough that I can get in to my crafty space and do some crafting!!

Loving it, but my skills has somewhat gone rusty - so trying hard to do various things and testing to make sure to update my skills 😊

As usual I keep buying crafting things - so will hopefully use loads of my stash and post some new cards... there will be posts of just cards I made, some are quite simple as got a couple of free craft kits - handy actually to get my rusty mind moving.....

Having said that I have still been catching up on blogs to get inspirations - I just found it hard to make time to do some crafty projects - lets make a change to that!

Until next time 😉 Stay happy, worry and stress free!!!