Unity Stamp Blog Hop

Hello everyone,

The GIU (Growing in Unity Gals) from July and August are hosting a blog hop this weekend and I'm very excited to be taking part. Well I say I'm excited but when I was making my card my son may have said something else as I wasn't very happy! Everything was going wrong, embossing didn't melt properly, stamping was blurry, watercolour splashed badly but perseverance won out! I finally created a card that I'm happy with.

I used some Ken Oliver's Liquid Metals and Color Bursts to create my watercolour background (I had to do this three times!). Then I stamped and heat embossed the floral heart from the Being Who You Are -KOM February 2018 set. After throwing out the first heart as the embossing started to come off I tried again and then I had to fussy cut it out as I blurred the embossing of the sentiment I used, also from the KOM set. It was not a good crafting day! Interestingly enough, I much prefer my final card than the one I was trying to create in the first place, it's funny how this works out when you are paper crafting. Here is what the card looks like:

 To finish off I stamped 3 little hearts from the same set and cut them out carefully too. Some washi tape, black thread and gold Heidi Swapp Color Shine and the card is finished. I hope you like it.

Please hop on over to the other blogs and leave a comment so that you are in the running for a prize.

1. Jennifer Mitten https://jenmitten.blogspot.com/
2. Jeanie Marie Hays https://thewashihorse.blogspot.com/
3. Denise Sayers https://thecraftyledger.blog/
4. Sue Nagata https://foleysfriend.blogspot.com/
5. Aimee Phillips https://aimeesstampingadventures.blogspot.com/
6.Helen Smit https://helenmazengarb.blogspot.com/             THIS IS ME!!
7.Jo Avery https://dottypuddingdesigns.blogspot.com/
8. Teresa Godines https://purplebunnypapercrafts.blogspot.com/

Thanks for stopping by.
Take care and happy crafting,
Helen xx

Life Update

Hello all (or my future self when I eventually read this again!),

Wow, I haven't blogged in so long and life has definitely changed a lot. For starters, I am now living back in my childhood home as I have rented my house out. I am in the final planning stages for a big adventure next year and my life will be very different in 2019.

In the crafting world I have stepped down from the Kitaholics Kits design team and during late August and all of September I took a break from all my other commitments. This was mainly due to everything that was going on in my life. I was part of my school's musical production and that was a very hectic but wonderful time (I was the back stage manager, don't worry no one had to hear me sing!). Following this I got sick, only a cold but still it knocks you about and makes it difficult to teach a class. Then I had to start packing, organised a garage sale and sold lots of my belongings and then got ready to move. It was the week before moving day that I noticed some spots on my torso and lucky me, I somehow had caught shingles. Now finally, I'm in good health, I moved and life is getting back to normal. Albeit I now have to drive 46kms to work and back each day.

Having said all that I have still managed to create a few pages and one video during the last few months. Here they are:

This page has a process video for it, so if you're interested, pop on over to my YouTube channel and have a look at it.

Well that's it for now. Even though it's the last day of the school holidays, I'm off to my classroom to do some work.

Take care and happy crafting,
Helen xx