just chatting & some work in progress
Good afternoon ladies.
Just to bring you up to date - I had my ultrasound yesterday following a week of injections, for the consultant to see how things were going.
I am pleased to say there is no sign of a DVT & the consultant is very pleased. I will be keeping an eye on my leg as obviously I don't want that to happen again, especially as now I have taken a deep breath & braved a flight to Cyprus earlier this year. I think Bob may have another trip lined up for next year, as our friends in Alicante will be celebrating their Golden Wedding Anniversary.
So what I have I been up to craft wise?
I am doing some re-organisation of my craft room - which really is a never ending task, because I keep changing my mind as to how I want things. I am really pleased with my MDF Die Storage boxes & Stamps Away - who trade as Clever Cuts, have now brought one out for stamps. It has acrylic shelves for your stamps to stick to - & you can use both sides - so yesterday I ordered one of those. I also ordered two of their Pen Storage blocks. I am going to put my Promarkers in them. At the moment they are stored flat in boxes in a drawer - so it is a case of out of sight out of mind.
Just before taking my recent break I was watching the Hochanda craft channel & John Lockwood of Creative Expressions was on demonstrating. He showed 2 quite interesting techniques. One was embossing a piece of card & then going over it with Cosmic Shimmer Sparkle Texture Paste. Gave a great effect. The other technique was using the Paste again - but first he die-cut a decorative panel in a piece of card, then cut another piece of card the same colour & glued the 2 together. Next he spread this texture past over the design & when the excess was scraped away the paste had gone down into the pieces that had come out in the die cut pattern. So yesterday I thought I would give that one a try.
Here is a photo of the result;
Just to bring you up to date - I had my ultrasound yesterday following a week of injections, for the consultant to see how things were going.
I am pleased to say there is no sign of a DVT & the consultant is very pleased. I will be keeping an eye on my leg as obviously I don't want that to happen again, especially as now I have taken a deep breath & braved a flight to Cyprus earlier this year. I think Bob may have another trip lined up for next year, as our friends in Alicante will be celebrating their Golden Wedding Anniversary.
So what I have I been up to craft wise?
I am doing some re-organisation of my craft room - which really is a never ending task, because I keep changing my mind as to how I want things. I am really pleased with my MDF Die Storage boxes & Stamps Away - who trade as Clever Cuts, have now brought one out for stamps. It has acrylic shelves for your stamps to stick to - & you can use both sides - so yesterday I ordered one of those. I also ordered two of their Pen Storage blocks. I am going to put my Promarkers in them. At the moment they are stored flat in boxes in a drawer - so it is a case of out of sight out of mind.
Just before taking my recent break I was watching the Hochanda craft channel & John Lockwood of Creative Expressions was on demonstrating. He showed 2 quite interesting techniques. One was embossing a piece of card & then going over it with Cosmic Shimmer Sparkle Texture Paste. Gave a great effect. The other technique was using the Paste again - but first he die-cut a decorative panel in a piece of card, then cut another piece of card the same colour & glued the 2 together. Next he spread this texture past over the design & when the excess was scraped away the paste had gone down into the pieces that had come out in the die cut pattern. So yesterday I thought I would give that one a try.
Here is a photo of the result;
Doesn't it look great?
But, have you spotted the ghastly disaster? Yes - I've got paste around the edge. He didn't have that & I can't work out how he avoided it. So I have emailed him & now just waiting to see if he replies, & more to the point can he put me straight on this.
Obviously with that slight disaster - haven't tried the other technique where he used the paste on the embossed piece of card.
Right talking of crafting - I have a wedding card to make - so I had better get on with it.
More tomorrow I expect. 'Bye for now.
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