TWTWTW

For those of you of a younger disposition, the title was a TV prog back in medieval times when we only had three channels (That Was The Week That Was).  The office has moved, the phones have moved, the internet, thanks to BT, has not!! Emails are being forwarded from our domain server to my Blackberry, which is running red hot, poor little thing!  Normal internet service will, apparently, be restored by Wednesday afternoon.  I'll believe it when it happens!
Anywho, I have managed to get my CJ all prepared, packed up and ready to go.  Unfortunately I didn't make it to the post office before it closed for the weekend, so it won't start it's journey until Tuesday.  Here is a sneaky peek of the front page:

 The image is called Gypsy Moth and is by Josephine Wall who I really love, she produces the most amazing fantasy images.  The background is black card smothered in silver cosmic shimmer mist and the title is grungeboard letters coated with transparent croco (I'm running low on that now, must get a new pot!) and then spritzed with different coloured shimmer mists.  The stickers are DCWV Once Upon A Time.

In other news Charmed Cards & Crafts  blog has some fabulous blog candy on offer this month.  Hop on over for a chance to win t!m goodies (including his Compendium of Curiosities).

Hope everyone is enjoying the long weekend x

Circling Around

I've been messing around with this all day.  I'm in a circle journal, or at least I will be, it hasn't started yet - first posting date is May 1st.  Anyway, I have chosen Fantasy as my theme, anything fantasy related, dragons, fairies, fairy tales, wishing to own your own tropical island - anything goes really (except whips, leather and bondage - it's not THAT kind of fantasy, thank you!).  My book is a 6 x 6 and this is my DLO for it.  I was inspired by Tracey Dutton of Lavinia Stamps, and read her article in the August 09 issue of Craft Stamper to get some tips, then I tried brayering a background.  I've tried it before, and it was no more successful this time *sigh*, so I ripped my 'hills' and used cut n dry foam instead (but don't tell anyone!).  This is actually my third attempt.  The first one was, to be fair, just a trial run to see how different greens worked for the hills.  The second one I just wasn't happy with, and then I buggered it up (technical term) altogether by smudging one of the stamps, so I started again and I am happier with this one.  I have used, of course, a Lavinia fairy plus the castle and some mushrooms which you may be able to just make out in the foliage at the bottom.  The runny babbit is, of course, from Sir t!m's Spring Sprung set ( a purchase from Ally Pally yesterday) as is most of the foliage at the bottom.  The birds and the tree branches down the side are Crafty Individuals.  The mouse (is it Hunka Munka? I'm a bit rusty on my Beatrix Potter) is from a set of die cuts I seem to have aquired from somewhere - think it might have been free with a magazine.

Ally Pally was great.  The weather was fantastic and was lovely to be able to sit outside to eat lunch looking over London.  Unfortunately I didn't manage to find Helen :( but I did bump into Carmen a few times which was great.  I also got to see Hels demoing on the Artistic Stamper stand and while I was there was lucky enough to meet Alison as well.  Of course, the divine Ms Linda was beavering away on the LB Crafts stand and I got to meet her too. It really is amazing to meet people from blogland in real life, you feel as if you already know them!  

Enough waffle from me, off now to try and make the rest of my book for the CJ before I run out of time!