First Blog

Well, here goes, my first blog!

As i type this I am sitting in my garden, the lovely summer sun is here, yay! makes us all feel better doesn't it?!

It's been a busy few weeks here at Claireabella's, I had a long awaited knee operation three weeks ago and i'm still getting back on my feet, it's quite frustrating not being able to sit in my craft room for long and create, but i hope that soon I will be back on my feet!

Loopy Lou (the dog) is just crazy, but loving that i'm at home with her at the moment. 

So, what's been going on in Claireabella's crafting world?

Well, first off, I have been introduced via Twitter to a fabulous new designer, Suzi Shepherd, Suzi designs digi stamps and they are just amazing.  I bought some digi stamps from her Etsy shop and emailed her some photos of my cards.  As i type this, I don't know how to link to Suzi's Etsy shop (Suzi - help!) but when I work it out I will post it here! here is the link to Suzi's blog - http://www.thatssosuzi.blogspot.com/ go take a look!

Unknown to me at the time that I bought the digi stamps, but Suzi had her first launch of her stamps the same weekend on Create and Craft by Ally from Dimension Fourth.  Oh my, how exciting that must have been!!! I am really made up for Suzi and I hope that we can get a good circle of crafting peeps that buy her stamps and make some wonderful things with her creations! The latest Twitter news is that she is designing some new stamps for Ally, can't wait to take a peek!

All a bit of a whirlwind really, but yesterday, I found out that my work is going to appear in a crafting magazine (Cardmaking and Papercraft), the article will be on my wedding invitations! I was SO made up when I heard the news! I hope somehow and somewhere on this blog to attach photo's of both the cards I made using Suzi's stamps and my wedding invitations, err, not sure how to do that one, but i'm sure that one day I will look at this blog and laugh, we've all got to start somewhere right?

So, like you peeps, I read blogs that promise to blog daily, weekly, whenever, a lot will depend on how i get to grips with the technology for this blog, but, hey, give me a chance, we will have a laugh along the way....

Ah, ha, I've just found a "link" button, ooh and an "insert image"....which one do I press? 50/50 or phone a friend? or just take a chance?....

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

Claire