Paper trails

I am trying to take advantage of the sunny days as we have them, when the wind is in the right direction which means our Naya is really warm and a sun trap, even getting up to 18 some days. I start off with several layers, gradually peeling them off and pulling my sleeves up. 

I sit just away from the table, as today, when I was trying to pick up stitches for the armholes of the purple jumper, when I realised that I was getting ´driver´s arm´, quite a marked difference from lilly white to a gentle tan. Now I am not a sun worshiper, as in I can´t be asked to sit or lay in the sun doing nothing just to resemble being a lizard, but I think I may have to shift sides to even up the brown bits.

A couple of days ago it was just not possible to do this, so having seen Fee´s post 

http://www.feeslittlecraftsstudio.com/

I decided to have a play.

Rebecca and Antoni had left a couple of little pressies each the last time they were over for us to open for Christmas, well as Christmas didn´t happen I had mine when I got back, this was one of them

Absolutely brilliant, so many blades, very easy to change system with the stone to resharpen the blades as and when.

As I am not really into paper craft as such, apart from a butterfly stamp we used for our wedding decorations and saving bits n bobs, as you do, I didn´t have pretty papers or paper embellishments, but I did have some card.

First attempt at box making as Fee describes in her tutorial

Except I forgot the belly band!

Second attempt, getting there! 

Except the butterfly punch was broken, so call for help, no point in having an engineer in the house if you dont call on their expertise. There was a time of well this has had it, unless I......drill through here, put pins in there and..... well he did, and it worked, yeah!!

Long way to go, but after cutting the boxes I had left over card so made a little gift tag

Yeah, I know, no where near the wonderful creations card people make, but we all have to start somewhere, I´ve got some Angelina fibers somewhere, have to hunt them out

I even had a thought of using the glue gun to make some of the embellishments, so using waxed paper, drew the shape and tried to trace........... Ah yes well, it seems gone are the days when I used to use a 00 nozzle for icing cos as you will see this did not turn out well

Not wishing to blame my tools, but it was not really controllable enough, any way, nothing lost, rather frustrating really with the way my gun (mis) behaved

However, I did splash out!! MIL gave me some money and instead of it getting buried amongst usual finances, I decided to buy an envelope maker

So along with a pack of paper, I had 2p left of my money and they delivered to Spain, win win

Just have to be patient

take care

xcx