Omigod my man is on his way to pick me up and I am unshowered. Ooer. Okay, quickie.
Here are the gorgeous stamps I received today, bought on an impulse yesterday because they were reduced lots.
They're the Prima Build-a-frame stamps, and having swotted up yesterday via youtube on how to use them, I made myself a mask thingy for mitring the corners with and managed to do this to a sheet of 12x12
I was dead chuffed with that, I've got big plans for these stamps now, lol.
So I made this layout for one of Shimelle's challenges, which was to journal round the edges. I'm sorry about the lack of links, I will edit this tomorrow and add some, but for now I don't want to get caught in front of the laptop in my pyjamas when we're supposed to be going out!
I made the flower using the spiral-cut circle method that I've been seeing everywhere, and then I squashed it before something else did.
Okay, now have time to edit! I want to say that I'm really pleased I bought these stamps - I did click on 'buy now' and 'checkout' and 'confirm payment' with my eyes squeezed tight shut, because I don't have enough money to buy stash at the moment. Strangely, this hasn't stopped me, although I can ignore most of the sales quite easily
Anyway, this LO shows Daughter fixing the car door. Whilst we were leaving Tesco's, in a tearing hurry because tomorrow it was time to drive to Cornwall, I slammed my door shut and the window, which has to be manually encouraged to go down and up, dropped right inside the door. I did poke about as much as possible and came up with a strip of rusty metal which wasn't letting go of whatever it was attached to.
Now, this made me think that we were going to have problems using the car to go on holiday. However, there was a part of me that was convinced it could be fixed, and I'm delighted to say that Daughter appears to have inherited whatever gene created this conviction. When we got home she barged past me where I stood waving the Haynes manual around and bleating about my screwdriver collection, and started fixing things.
(My screwdriver collection is sad, and has been brought to its knees by Youngest, whose enthusiastic adventures in the back garden usually involve poking, slashing and flaying various objects with the help of the contents of my tool box, which then get abandoned in the grass. I have: Three eNORmous screwdrivers which are obviously for building suspension bridges with; a brilliant extending screwdriver which unfortunately incorporates a crappy storage system for the bits, all of which are gradually disappearing; an RAC kit which has lost not only some of its bits, but the tiny magnet which makes said bits stay in the top of the screwdriver; one remaining Philips screwdriver on which the hollow plastic handle is broken so that when I use it, skin is removed from the palm of my hand. Mmmmm.....)
So - Daughter fixed the door. I say 'fixed' because the window is now back where it should be. Anyone who has taken bits off cars, however, will be aware that the phrase 'carefully prise cover off' translates as 'spend ten minutes attempting to remove plastic bit with screwdriver before becoming impatient and applying a tiny bit more pressure, thus causing every lug or flange or whatever the damn things are called, to snap off and fly across the road, so that when it is time to replace the plastic bit/entire inside of the car door, there is nothing left with which to attach it'.
But apart from that it was fine...
We were also challenged by Shimelle (this may link to a random challenge, but you can find the home page can'cha???) to use four or more patterned papers in a LO. Here's mine:
I could do a load more in this vein - lots of scraps.
Still have a long list of challenges from Shimelle, including the photo ones that I haven't uploaded yet. There's an entirely reasonable deadline of Tuesday morning, so do yourself a favour and join in with a few challenges over the next couple of days...
