Sunshine on a rainy day......

So what do you do when you have a couple of hours free on a Sunday and it's raining so hard, there's no way you're going to venture out of the house? Well, in my case, you make a little colour swatch book!





I actually started this project a few months ago but only got as far as cutting out the card....so today I sat down and actually finished it! The aim of this book is to help me keep track of the various colours of marker pens, watercolour pencils, ink pads and paints that I have - I'm hoping that it will also help me match colours to other projects.







There is a section for the watercolour pencils, another for the markers (mainly Tombow but there are also some Sakura and other gel pens), and lastly one for the ink pads (Versacolor and Colorbox chalk) and paints. For the backing papers I limited myself to one set of freebie Rusty Pickle papers that were given away some time ago in Scrapbook Magazine (plus one sheet of Doodlebug for the front cover). I used Pink Paislee and Arctic Frog letter stickers for the titles (the 'book' word on the front comes from a Boden catalogue!). Final touch was a bunch of organza and thin satin ribbons in matching colours. Oh, and I had FAR too much fun with all my Stickles!!! :-)








In other news, I am VERY chuffed to report that my local organic shop has taken a batch of my cards to sell on a return-or-sell trial basis - fingers crossed for the next month! Also, the editor of my company's in-house magazine has very kindly put an ad for my little online card shop into the latest issue - the magazine goes to all employees in the group, so over 2,000 people! WOW! I was so amazed and pleased, I can't tell you!

Twinkle Twinkle........

..........little star book! Yes, after much prevarication, I have finally finished the star book for little sister's 1st wedding anniversary. I'm not sure why I was so scared about doing this (something to do with mucking up the glueing of the decorated pages I think) but it was actually really easy to do in the end and I'm really, really chuffed with the result! The hardest thing was picking the photos to go in (landscape pics just didn't work, so we're missing some group photos). I'll definitely be making more of these in the future, but I think they might be a bit larger next time!

Here's the list of materials: Costco papers on the covers, sage green, cream and pale grey cardstock, Basic Grey Periphery (Chardonnay, Pinot Noir, and Bordeaux) on the inside pages, rub-ons from just about everyone you can think of (Basic Grey, Lil Davis, K&Co, Papermania - I think the only ones missing are Doodlebug!), plus buttons and blossoms from stash and lots of Stickles!!!