Christmas Cards

I said that I wasn't going to make any Christmas cards this year, but I have made more this year than ever before.These are made using papermania Enchanted Christmas stamps and coloured with pro-markers and a bit of stickles to give them some bling.

Fat page swap on Do-Crafts Forum

Hi here is my first attempt at a fat page. A 4x4 page to swap with  other forum members. The theme is halloween or orang/black. Stamped image coloured with pro-markers. Also an album made from cd sleeves
to keep the years swaps in.

First attempt at shabby chic

Hi everyone, It's October already but with the weather it still feels like July. What a crazy world we live in. Well I've had a go at shabby for the first time from scratch. I don't know weather I like it or not, perhaps you could make a comment on how I could improve it.

Christmas stocking bunting

Hi again,just finished another christmas project, and here's me who aid I wouldn't celebrate Christmas this year. I have made more things than ever. It will look good in my new shop window, when I eventually get the keys.

My first Chritmas cards

Hi all, thought you might like to sse my first Christmas cards of  2011, I  said that I wouldn't make any this year, I tell fibs as well LOL.
The candle card is made using papermania stamps and craft planet self adhesive paper.

The wreath is made using Sheena Douglas stamps, both are coloured with Pro-Markers.

A key holder for my new home

As well as finding a retail shop I have had to find somewhere new to live, the house I'm in at the moment has 9 rooms and I rattle about a bit. But lucky me the shop I have got has a flat above it, 2 birds with one stone as they say. So I have created this key hook. I bought the frame because it reminded me of a beach hut. So I painted it added the lines, stamped some Molly Bloom and stuck a photo of me aged 5 on a donkey. I think it works quite well.

Mininsewing book

Well September already, what a quick summer we have had. For the last 6 weeks I have been negotiating retail premises to open a craft shop. All of our married life my late wife and I dreamed of opening a craft shop, and at the age of nearly 60 I am going to live the dream and open BarjanB Crafts. I have found the perfect shop situated in the Leicestershire village of Newbold Verdon. There is plenty of room for the shop and a fabulous work room area . So I will be planning lots of demonstrations and classes for everyone to enjoy.I am waiting for solicitors to finalise everything, then it's all systems go.
The mini sewing book is a thank you gift for a dear friend, who has been a great help over the last few months, she will probably read this blog and not realise it is for her...... Thanks Mo! Hope you like it.