Posted in Mumbles on April 11, 2013 | 2 Comments »
On Simon Says Stamp And Show Blog Challenge this week the theme is fly, which naturally means anything with wings is fair game! Lately I have a passion for butterflies and also happened to get my mitts on a new butterfly stencil so I decided to run with that!
Unfortunately I have no step by step pictures this time mainly because I got carried away and forgot to take pictures!
Some close up pictures
Posted in Mumbles on August 4, 2012 | 3 Comments »
I have just found out that an old friend of mine from the craft industry died of cancer on 11th July of this year; Robert Gornall of Once Upon A Stamp, it is a huge shock.
I met both Rob and his partner Gordon years ago at Port Sunlight Rubber Stamping show when they were both just starting out with their rubber stamp business.
Rob was a bright friendly character who always had a smile and had us in fits of laughter with his sense of humour, witty put me downs and sharp quips.
I saw Rob, Gordon and Barney the dog regularly as they would make the long trip from Nottingham to Merseyside once a month to attend my rubber stamp play days that I used to run in a function room above a pub. He would always have us in fits of laughter and introduced us all to the wonders of Friendly Plastic and would give us impromptu demonstrations on how to use it and show us his wonderful creations.
Both my grandparents met him and thought he was utterly charming, my nan much to my amusement was convinced we were going out together because we would always kiss each other on the cheek and hug whenever we met each other. I still remember her quizzing me in the car asking me all about him and then her face when I told her he was gay!
Rob played a very large part at our Creative Cards Stampede Weekend back in 2003, his Friendly Plastic class was the most popular one and we had members literally fighting and bitching to get a seat in his class first much to our amusement and bafflement.
It all seems like a lifetime ago now!
Rob was a larger than life sparkling character who made the crafting world a brighter place, he will be missed by many. When I look up in the sky tonight I’ll know the brightest star up there is you showing off your ‘pope’s ring’.
My deepest condolences go to Gordon his life partner of 20 years xxx
Posted in Mumbles on July 29, 2012 | 2 Comments »
I am in the process of importing all of my recent blog entries from Lost Muse Journals over to this blog in order to get this blog up to date again.
As you may or may not be aware I abandoned this blog a few years ago when I became ill and almost gave up on creating art altogether.
Last year I decided to try my hand at art making again because I realised just how much I missed it. I was still very much feeling lost and in the wilderness so to speak so I didn’t feel like I could face blogging on this blog again because I wasn’t ’that person’ any more if that makes sense at all.
Recent ill health has left me art-less again for 2 months and I took a sabbatical away from the art world to play computer games (as you do) But now I am back again ready to art and blog once more and raring to go.
Somehow it doesn’t feel right going back to my other blog ‘Lost Muse Journals’ because I don’t feel lost any more, I found my muse again and to continue blogging on there makes me feel a bit of a fake!
So I decided to come back home to my original blog, import all the blog entries over from Lost Muse and give this blog a bit of a revamp, facelift and overhaul (which is still ongoing)
Watch this space
Posted in Mumbles on April 22, 2012 | 3 Comments »
Remember the give away I announced a while back to win a stash of 36 handmade artist trading cards??
Yup that was waaaaaay back when it was actually SUNSHINING in England….well Ive finally got my act together to do the drawing for the winners… *faints*
Remember there are not 1 but 2 lucky winners being picked to win a set of 36 handmade atcs each!
There were 43 participants in the draw in total:
I entered the numbers in the random number picker widget over at random.org and….
The winners are…………drumroll please!
Which means the winners are:
35. June @http://dezinaworld-junesartyretreat.blogspot.co.uk/
and
2. Greta Gubbins
Congratulations to you both!
Please can you send me a private message on Facebook with your mailing details so I can send your atcs to you! My facebook profile url is:
Posted in Mumbles on April 11, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Reblogged from Lost Muse Journals:
Yesterday I decided to have a look-see amongst my collection of duplicate Artist Trading Cards Ive made over the years for various swaps, challenges and what not and almost gave myself a fright when I realised how many spares I have amassed over the years!
Those of you who have followed my various newsletters, blogs and websites over the years (thank you) will no doubt be well aware that I have a tendency to go a little OTT when I am enjoying making something; after all why bother just making 1 single atc when I can go overboard and make 10 of them huh?
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