Still not right

For those of you that know me it will come as no surprise to hear me say that I'm just not right. Technically, that could be said of me by way of an introduction however, in this case I'm referring to the virus.

It hasn't completely gone yet and seems to be having great fun toying with me. I think it's gone and there it is, back again. It's not just me that it's treating this way, the dirty rotten thing is two timing me with Kye and to make matters worse it's now visiting Du (he does seem to have it quite bad).

At least it didn't stop knitting on Monday or the card/scrap club on Tuesday.

This week we looked at the new die cuts from Rayher, which I'd love to show you but didn't remember to take a photo of them, no surprises there.

I will take a pic tomorrow, but basically they're in several different themes and are double sided in different styles/colours

There are baby things, alphabet, frames and flowers, in the garden and roses. I chose to use the roses first, assuming they would be the least popular and found myself getting completely carried away with them, that I didn't get round to using any of the others.

This one is your basic bouquet shape, ribbon wrapped, with four of the small rose mounted on 3d foam. A little gold Stickles dabbed in places and mulberry paper.

Same idea, but this time the roses have been turned over to the pink/red side.

This one is the waste from a peel-off.

Card is made by taking a third of a 12x12 page and then wrapped in a piece of card stamped with Mica Magic ink. Roses are decoupaged with 3d foam. Card closes with a Velcro coin.

Scrapaholix tomorrow morning and it's basically a full house - yippee. It's a monochromatic kit with felt, all good fun. All is ready except of course the shop, but that won't take long. If I get a chance I will post up a pic of my layout after.

Before I go, here is the completed jumper that I made for D in the yarn of the month (of which there is not much left). Ideally, I would have liked a photo of her wearing it but that would mean the planets would have to be aligned, no war, etc - it's just not going to happen.

Sickness Bug

Errgh!!! I've been infected.

My lovely seven year old monster has been very, very poorly with the horrible stomach virus that is doing the rounds in the whole of the county (so it seems). He's missed a couple of days at school, seemed better and went back for a day, on his insistence and then got sick again the following day so missed the rest of the week. Not one to miss out on anything I began to notice a curious rumbling early Thursday and by that night I was nursing a bowl and well you don't really need to know the rest.

Safe to say I've had a bit of a time of it, am going out to the local for a bite to eat this evening, more as a way of spending time with the hubby, rather than to eat, must try not to gag.

Anyway getting back to the matter in hand. Before I leave it any longer and before all of the yarn of the month has gone. This is the jumper I made for D from Sirdar Juniper as promised. It's been on show in the shop all week and has really pushed the yarn out of the door.

Oops that's not the right picture is it..... that's because I don't seem to have one on my camera (blast, if I had a brain I'd be deadly). At least this proves I'd finished knitting it and if I remember my camera, brain and to do it (in that order), I'll take a pic of the jumper proper on Tuesday and upload it.

Last Tuesday evening I did my demo using the Papermania Chip-Board Embellishments. Personally, I think most of them are a little flat in colour (not all of them), but for the price they are a bit of a bargain and cover well with acrylic paint.

One of the paisley shapes, covered in gold Adirondack Dabber Paint and then adorned with gems to make what I hope is an Indian inspired card.

This one has been distressed with the Dabbers and mounted on 3d foam, the backing paper is a DCWV one from the Spring Stack add a little ribbon and voila.

This one is pretty much how it came in the pack, tie a little ribbon around it and mount it on 3d foam over some card punched hearts, add co-ordinating card and dots of pink Gel Pen.

This one has been painted again and the background paper is also another from the Spring Stack. The heart in the top left corner is also from the pack and has had a little red ink rubbed round it to tie it in with the colour theme a little better, ribbon again.

Quitting while I'm ahead now, I have some bits and pieces to get ready for Scrapaholix which is this Saturday and I want to try and put a few more rows up on this....

I managed to get the whole front of the wide neck baby pattern from Debbie Bliss (nice quick one), whilst Coni drove us to Clonmel to do the shopping earlier. It's in Rialto Aran and the stripes are improvised.