Busy busy busy..

Good morning!! Goodness it's been a while since I've been here!  It's been a very busy end to the summer holidays, with lots of lovely outings with my family, and extended family visiting too!  Does mean you don't get a lot of time for crafting.. or when you do, you feel far too tired to do so!

Then there is that major challenge that comes along that sits itself firmly on your craft table and refuses to move (or even to tidy up for you...).  It's name is Crafters block.  Goodness is that one a hard one to move!  So sadly, I haven't got much to show you while I try to push that thing out of the way.  Thankfully, though, we are rapidly approaching the time in the month where new craft magazines come out.. I am waiting for the one I have on subscription (thank you in-laws :) ) to come noisily through the letter box and land on the floor with the thud of possibility :)  (seriously, who thought it was a good idea to put a letter box so high up in the door?  Every time we get post it hits the floor with such a thud, you'd swear it was an argos catalogue and not just the bank trying to sell you a credit card!).

On the plus side, though, the other week I did get an exciting delivery!  I was naughty and treated myself to some lovely papers and stamps from Lili of the Valley.  (It turned out to be very naughty as later that week I had to pay to fix my car.  Something really difficult apart parting with money for your car!!).  I've admired their range for a long time, but never really bought anything until I went to a craft festival several months ago.  I'm not really one for buying online, I like to see the papers and look through them before commiting to buy, and I also want to see the size of the stamps.  Having had a chance to see them at the festival, and admired the many pretty paper packs, I gave in to the lovely sale they had on, thinking it as a little early birthday present to myself (which isn't until October, but hey, spreading the cost!!).

Due to how busy I've been, I've only recently had chance to play with them.  I bought six of the character style stamps and so I decided to have a play at stamping them and colouring them in.  Or at least, that was the plan, until my five year old saw them and decided that he, too, would like to colour them in...

I did manage to make two cards with two of the stamps, though, so I'll quickly share them with you.  Also, I'm pleased to note, Trimcrafts competition for this month is on colouring in.  My medium of choice, currently, is distress inks and the self watering paintbrush, which I used on one of the cards, and that will become my first entry for their competition.  My other card was coloured in with Letraset promarker, which was a kind gift from my husbands grandfather for Christmas a few years ago.

Anyway, I've talked enough!  Here are the cards...

I hope you like them!!  The papers I used are from Lili of the valley, too.  I think the biggest praise I can give to them is that when I bought the papers, I liked each one of them and wanted to use each one..  I normally find with paper packs that there are one or two that I just wouldn't use.

Well, have a lovely day!! I'm going to go dry my hair!

Sara
The Heavy Handed Crafter