DryAthlete - Week One Almost done :)

Morning folks!

There's been times this week when I would have liked a glass of wine, but I didn't let it bother me, I like having a glass of water or tonic water in my wine glass instead (I can pretend right?).

I wonder how many out there have given up already? I wish everyone doing the DryAthlon well, they're all great doing this for such a good cause.

I'm wanting to finish off sorting my craft room today, deciding between what I 'need' and what is ready for the bin (sniff sniff, all you crafters out there will feel my pain!).  So, best get on with it! I bought some new Tim Holtz 'stuff' the other day, so hoping to get some crafting done too ;)

Until next time, thanks for stopping by my crazy Claireabella world folks.

Claire x

DryAthlete!

Hi folks!

I've decided to do my little bit for charity and ditch the booze for the whole of January, becoming a "DryAthlete" and raising money for Cancer Research.

You can text donations to SWAL66 £(amount) to 70070

I know a few friends and family who have either battled or sadly lost their lives due to this horrible thing, so I'm doing this in memory of them, and to help to hopefully one day find a cure for the big C, so please dig deep and donate if you can.

Throughout the month of January, every Sunday, I will let you all know how I'm doing. My target is £150. If I can work out how to add my 'just giving' page to a post, I will :)

I'm also going to be donating 10% to Cancer Research of every one of my handmade card sales in January.

Thanks for stopping by my crazy Claireabella world folks, until next time...

Claire xx

I'm baaaaack crafting and blogging :)

Hi everyone,

Hope you've all had a fantabulous Christmas, I have and got very spoilt!

So, you know how I could never work out how to blog properly? Well, I luuurve my iPad and voila, I found blogger app, so, let's see if I keep blogging up :)

That's all for now folks, just wanted to see if this works :)

Thanks for stopping by my crazy Claireabella world folks :)

It's been a while

Hi,

It's been a while since I posted on this blog, no excuse, but easily done, tomorrow turns into next week, next month before you know it!

I've been quite busy with card orders and making gifts.  I've even tried jewellery making.  I will put some photo's below for you to have a look at...

I will try and blog a bit more frequently ;)....

Thanks for stopping by my crazy Claireabella world folks..until next time.... Claire

Wow!

Hi,

I am shocked but nicely surprised at the number of people reading my blog! thank you SO much, it really means a lot :)

So, what have I been up to this week? Well, on a personal note we have a very proud household, we went to an awards ceremony on Saturday for the RAF Air Cadets and James won cadet of the year! It was a lovely surprise...

I have been busy again this week, preparing lots of cards as usual, a 40th Birthday card for Darren's boss at work (picture below) and also I took some step by step pictures of his main card (from the office).  I will post the step by step tomorrow, but here for now is the picture of our card for him, Happy 40th Rich!

Here's a sneeky peek at the card step by step that I will post tomorrow....

My lovely other half, Darren, is also 40 in a couple of weeks, so I have made his party invitations, will try and post a picture of that too......
Thanks for stopping by my crazy Claireabella world folks..until next time.... Claire

A Birthday card

Three posts in one day, my my!

I was asked to make a 65th Birthday card at short notice as my customer searched and searched for a 65th Birthday Card with Dad on and couldn't find a card with both on, so I came to the rescue! I was asked to include Dad, 65th, gardening and beer, here's a picture of what I came up with...

The centre part is quite special, it squidges! I put some gel in the middle and it looks like bubbles! My customer was SO pleased with it, we all enjoyed squidging the middle bit, it was quite funny!

If any of you would like a tutorial on how I did it, watch this space.. it was SO popular I have been asked to do a similar card (with the squidgy beer bit) for a 40th birthday, so will take some pictures and do a step by step tutorial for you :) I like to try and cover all of the "workings" so that people are left wondering "how it's made", anyway, it's a tidier, more professional finish...

I hope that you like my little take on crafty heaven today.

Blowing a kiss to Harry Moseley www.helpharryhelpothers.com a brave brave star x

Thanks for stopping by my crazy Claireabella world folks..until next time.... Claire

I've been busy cleaning my craftroom - Tips on cleaning scissors!

I've been busy this morning tidying my craft room and I was quite shocked because I have lots of scissors but gradually every one has had some glue etc on it and rendered the scissor useless!  So, rather than buying new, I decided to clean up the ones that I had (all 17 pairs of them! I found a few more after the picture below was taken...).  It is really easy to do, I don't know why it took me so long to get around to it!!

So here's what I used:

Stick Away (from Crafters Companion) - Excellent product, I use it for just about anything!
Tin Foil
Kitchen roll, baby wipe or cloth
and of course your scissors that need a new lease of life.....

First of all, spray your scissors with a bit of Stick Away and leave to soak for a few moments, then wipe with your cloth.  If the glue is quite dried, spray again and again until clean, it doesn't take too long :) In the picture below you can see all of the wool and ribbon fibres that have stuck to a favourite pair of my scissors, I haven't been able to use these for ages :(

When your scissors are clean, give them a dry with your cloth and then cut through some tin foil.  The idea of cutting through tin foil is to sharpen the blades.

There you have it, scissors just like new, I told you that it was easy, and we have a few more pennies to spend on other crafty goodies :) My favourite scissors are back, yay! :D

Thanks for stopping by my crazy Claireabella world folks..until next time.... Claire