Tuesday 31 January 2012

Sneaky Peekings...

... in more ways than one! I have been busy making samples ready for the shows on Thursday - more about those in a mo. First, I want to share a piccie with you of a certain little black and white furball who is pretending to be asleep on my chair. I say pretending because you can see he is sneakily peeking out of his peeper... he knows that I need to sit there... just like he knows that the seat is warm and right next to the radiator. I don't know, I nip away from the desk for all of five minutes and come back to this! What to do though? He looks so comfy, I would feel too bad if I budged him up... just as well I have another chair... you can see quite clearly who is the boss of Chez Sheridan!


Anyways... samples.. galore! Oh lala, I have had a right good old inky time the last few days with these. And... I had one of those "I wonder if...." moments too! I can't tell you what, nor can I tell you what with... yet. All will be revealed on Thursday... when I have to keep my fingers X'd that I don't goof it up... mind you, I have had a few of those goof moments already... remember the "bottle in the ball" incident?



Well, I had better get moving. I planned to blog yesterday with an Art Parts piece I made for the last shows and completely forgot... I will pop back later with that... in the meantime... I have got to go and move chairs about and make sure I don't disturb his Lordship and then crack on with the sample I am working on at the moment... I know, it is late but... Grim is on lates so I am playing night owl this week!



Oooh have you been watching all the news from CHA? I am quite beyond excited at all the new stuff that is being shown... all that Idea-ology... and Distress Pens (cannot wait) and all those deeeevine Studio 490 goodies which I will need ALL of! What are you excited about from the new releases? Do tell... incase I have missed something that I will want... I mean need.. of course, we all need stash lol Thanks for looking... have a lovely day... TTFN!

Hels x

PS... don't forget... my taggy giveaway from Saturday... deets are HERE :O))

Sunday 29 January 2012

Sunday Stamper - Week 190 - I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles + Candy Winner!

Goodly Morning Stampers and a very happy Sunday to you all! Well, what a fantastic response to last weeks challenge! Thank you everyone for your lovely comments and entries... it sure does make it very rewarding to know that so many of you love this little old challenge! I have a very special guest theme setter this week.. more of that in a mo because I need to tell you who won the Candy from last weeks challenge. So, there were 77 comments and as promised, if you entered as well, I doubled up your number so you had two entries which made 94 in total. I have asked Mr Random.org to help me pick a number and he chose... # 31 which tallies with the entry from CLAIRE. Thanks Claire, if you could email me your addy please? Right, on with this weeks challenge.




As suggested earlier, I have a special guest setting the theme this week... let me introduce Kate who suggested the song title I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles and the theme... BUBBLES. As soon as I heard this suggestion I had to leap at it... love the song and love the theme! ** it reminds me of when I was a nipper and my Dad used to sing it to me... we used to harmonise... ah, happy days...** To join in with the challenge is simples, make a little something, add in some stamping and the theme and then pop back here to leave a comment with a link to the place you are showing your entry. As ever, if you don't have a web place to enter, bung me an email over and your entry will still count! The challenge will remain open until 21:00 Saturday 6th February 2012.


So... that there pic is my entry - a little ATC sized chunky canvas that I have had kicking about for about 281 years... I got a bargain box full of them online and it is the last one.. and now of course, I need more... cos I have fallen back in lurve with the size.. humph! I used several Claudine Hellmuth Studio paints... mixing some together to get the right colours - I love how you can do that and they don't go all muddy! The colours I used are: Pastel Yellow (base), Dash of Red mixed with Dab of Yellow to get a vivid orange, Altered Orange mixed with a Dash of Red to get a gorgeous salmon pink and Teal for the colouring in bits.


I applied the paint using a spatula (and no, not the one I usually put my make up on with lol) so there are dragged patches... I like the rough look of that on the canvas. I added some stamping using Gesso (black and white) and Dylusions background stamps... I bobbed a smidge of Dab of Yellow through a dotty stencil using Cut & Dry too... forgot about that layer! I used Word to print out my words... using Adler font... and glued these on with Multi Medium. I stamped Wilbur (isn't he so cute!) and Puss Puss on copy paper, painted them in and stuck them down with Multi Medium too. I used an "All" Stabilo pencil (amazeballs for writing on ANY surface) to edge around the words and the characters and then blended the lines a bit with a fine paintbrush and smudged with my favourite tool... my finger!


Now, I have got an old bottle of Stickles and it is all finished... not a single smidge left in it because, I don't know about you but I am very stingy and I always take the stopper out of it and then cut into the bottle... there's looooads left in there you know. So, I saved the stopper bit and used the base of it to add "bubbles" in the black and white Gesso. I smidged some Black Gesso around the edges to close the design in and then finally... used Glossy Accents to fill up some of the bubbles... and voila, finished mini canvas... oh apart from the feet which are little Maya Road cotton reels. All of the goodies I used are available from The Stamp Attic... paints, Stampotique & Dylusions stamps etc :O)) (just sayin'!!)

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Here are a couple of pics of the totally gorgeous creations that Kate has made as her entries... check out the CUTENESS of this little fella... as you know, I don't normally "do" cute but sometimes I just get swept away with the adoreableness (is that a word? Well, tis now lol) And then Kate has done an inky piece too... seriously... she is a talented gal... please do hop over to HER BLOG and leave her some lurve... she is my first proper guest setter... and I hope the first of many because... as much as I lurve this challenge I am kinda running out of ideas! Big thanks to Kate for this FAB theme!!!



So, if you have a song that you love and it can incorporate a theme... please just give me a shout... leave a comment or send me an email... there isn't a pressie for doing it... but you will be left with a warm fuzzy glow for helping out a batty old moo... me, that is, self confessed and all that... because, don't tell anyone but... I got all engrossed in my arty stuff the other day and remembered I needed to nip to the Post Office. So, off I went in Ferdy... and when I was walking around the shop I thought "blimey these shoes are uncomfortable"... to look down and see... slippers! Yes folks, it has happened, I have made the slide into old age effortlessly... no wonder people were staring and young children were pointing and laughing... thank goodness I hadn't still got my jammy's on!!! Right, I will leave you with that rather unsettling image and say... as ever... thanks for looking and... TTFN!

Hels x

Saturday 28 January 2012

Saturday Show & Hels... Pom Pom Tissue Wrap Flower

...I thought it about time to do another Show & Hels... and I have been asked a few times this week if I could do a step by step on how I made the Pom Pom flower that was on here the other day. So... I have spent a happy couple of hours with the camera (apologies now for the rubbish photography and the yukky hands lol) Here we go... oh but before that... a little look at the finished tag... which I should add... I am giving away... more of that later on :O))





So... here's what you will need:

Tissue Wrap - either flavour work for the flower
Tiny Attacher
Scissors
Distress Ink & Blending Tool





STEP 1
Tear off a piece of Tissue Wrap to measure approx 20cm - it doesn't have to be an exact measurement... near enough will do :O)) Fold the wrap in half and then in half again.




STEP 2
Hold the folded edge of the strip in one hand and cut into the opposite edge - you need your snips to cut down about 2/3rds of the strip... and a couple of mm apart - again this isn't an exact measurement, remember the thicker the snips, the less fluffles you will get on your finished Pom Pom.




STEP 3
When you have snipped right down the length of the strip, wind it loosely around your index finger.




STEP 4
Using the Tiny Attacher (or if you have a baby Bambi stapler instead), staple a few times into the join to keep the whole layer attached.



STEP 5
Once the layer is fastened together you can ruffle the snipped bits out. You will see in this photo that the folded edges of the paper are showing. This will give you a less fluffled look.




STEP 6
Alternatively, if you would like a more fluffley look, snip along the top edge before you wind it around your finger and fasten... or if you have done the above step already and decide you prefer the fluffley look, you can just go in a trim it... tis up to you :O)) **don't look at that pink stuff on my finger... it isn't really there... I haven't really been using it on show samples ;o))**





STEP 7
Tear a piece of wrap off to measure approx 15cm and repeat the folding and cutting process. Once you have done that you can snip the edges off as before... or leave them if you want a less fluffley (yep that word again) Pom Pom.





STEP 8
For the final layer you need to tear off about 10cm of wrap. Once you have folded it (as before) snip off about a 1/3 of the length... this makes it easier and less bulky when you come to assemble them together. With this layer only snip half way down it, instead of 2/3... this makes it more pliable... any more than half way down makes it too flimsy.




STEP 9
*uh oh, those fingers again... you can't see them can you?* Once you have snipped along this layer, wind it around your little finger... the tighter this layer the better for assembling.




STEP 10
Using the Tiny Attacher (or Bambi stapler) staple in as far as you can... you will see that the staple doesn't fit right in... you just need to make sure it isn't going to come undone. *you still aren't looking at those disgusting nails are you?* Once it is secure you can then start to assemble your layers together... and you can snip down the size of the little one if you prefer a stubby look for the centre of the Pom Pom... that's what I have done with mine.




STEP 11
Not really a step as such... just a pic of what they should look like before assembling.





STEP 12
Use your finger to guide the little layer into the 2nd layer... the hole in the middle should make a snug fit - if it doesn't, don't worry... you can add a little glue :O)) Once you are happy with those two layers, open up the hole in the third layer and fit the other one into it... again, a snug fit but... glue if it isn't.





FINISHED - BEFORE INK
You can see that the layers all look nice and fluffley... and the middle is nice and stubby... like the middle of a daisy perhaps?





FINISHED - AFTER INK
I added ink to the ruffles using Spiced Marmalade and a Blending Tool... I concentrated the ink in the centre so it is a smidge darker... for the finished tag, I added Fired Brick around the longer layers.



TA DAH!


That there is my finished tag... now, I mentioned earlier that I would be giving this away... well I am! To be in with a chance of winning this tag is very simples... leave me a comment here... that's all! I will draw a winner at random and announce on next Saturday's post (4th Feb). Right... tis waaay past my bedtime... I got all engrossed in this at about 11pm and I am sitting here shivering now cos the heating has gone off and I am verrrry chilly! Thanks for looking... please do let me know whatcha fink! TTFN

Hels x

PS... I can't remember who asked... the music score I take my pics on... is proper sheet music... aquired from the popular online auction site ;o))

PPS... thanks also to ... Alison Horne... the thingywotsit from yesterday has a name! A Diorama!! How cool is that!!! x

Friday 27 January 2012

A ThingyWotsit...

...for the life of me, I cannot think of a name for this piece... I am sure that the style has some kind of proper name but.. I don't know what that is so.. it is... a thingywotsit! *which is the word I always use if I lose my train of thought... happens regularly lol*


So, I have had that Cabinet Card Alterations die in my collection for several hundred years and have still not used it... how very remiss of me! I was perusing my Alterations collection yesterday and spotted said Cabinet Card and made an exekertive decision to use it... right there and then. So I did! I cut several "frames" from cream cardstock - I have got the main die and the Movers and Shapers one that fits into the middle... making the frame cutting simples. I cut one frame from Crowded Attic paper and the back piece from the same paper - tis the one with the map - one of my faves! Next I glued the back to another back cut from cream card - making it sturdy and did the same with the front frame. Including the back and front there are 6 layers in total.


Next I cut some tickets, styled labels, mini Cogs/Gears and the mini Jalopy - all from cream cardstock and all Movers & Shapers dies. That little Jalopy... tooo cute! I smooshed a wash of Old Paper Stain over the front and back pieces... as soon as the Stain was on the paper I gave it a soaking with water, this just dulls the print down ever so slightly. Next I went in with Frayed Burlap DI and blended it all over the frames that are sandwiched in the middle (I know you can't really see them but I wanted it all to tone together) I used more Old Paper Stain for the tickets and label and then edged them with more Frayed Burlap (tis top of my fave colours at the moment!)


The tickets and label were stamped using Jet Black & Vermillion Archival ink... the little sayings for the tickets were stamped twice, once onto the ticket and then onto scrap in Vermillion, cutting out the main words and popping them onto 3D foam just makes them pop a bit more. The Jalopy was treated to a good coat of Black Soot Distress Embossing Powders so it is rough looking... as were the Cogs... but for those I coloured with Black Soot DI and then embossed with Vintage Photo Distress powder. Then... I pilfered a bit of packaging from some Grungeboard... and cut it into strips and glued these to the backs of the tickets and labels...



Once I had the components all ready, I started layering up the frames... and bobbed the strips of packaging in between the layers... so these are all "floating" and can all be moved about until they are where you want them... meaning you can change your mind so the ticket/label which is your fave can be put towards the front... and moved back again. The embellies are a mix of Idea-ology and charms I have in my stash... check out the mini Eiffel Tower and the ickle Penny Farthing... too cute! The finishing touch is my latest ... ahem... aquisition (!) I was mooching around that famous auction site the other week and spotted this really old date stamp (well, not that old cos it is 1972 onwards... but you know what I mean...) anyways.. I used Vermillion archival to stamp the dates... I like how they look like they are part of the paper design... a happy accident!




Anyways... I think that is it for how I made it. I am still non the wiser for a name for it. Any suggestions gratefully accepted! I had thought about popping it onto a card but when I held it up to one it looked a bit daft... so I just cut out an easel stand and stuck that on the back... a stand alone thingywotsit! Right... stuff to do... namely samples for the shows next Thursday... the old war wound is having a right old flare up at the moment so I am taking it easy... or at least... trying to! Thanks for looking!! TTFN...

Hels x

PS... don't forget, just a couple of days left to enter into the Sunday Stamper Candy draw... HERE are the deets....

Thursday 26 January 2012

Grungy... Ruffles...

..isn't that just one of the best words? Ruffles! If you say it loads of times it sounds really daft too lol Anyways... Grungy Monday this week is focussing on the Cracklepaint Resist technique... see HERE for lovely Linda Ledbetter's blog and HERE for Tim's YouTube vid showing how to do the technique.



I had a little play earlier in the week and have already entered once... however, I don't know about you but for me, if I start to use something that I have been ignoring of late, I go a little OTT and end up making more than one thing with it... Cracklepaint is in my spotlight this week... and I had painted several tags with different colours - you know, just to see which ones I liked best. Some of my Cracklepaints had gone all thick and ikky... so I just walloped some water into them and stirred them up and voila, they are useable again! Hurrah!



This particular tag started life with Milled Lavendar CP being roughly painted on it. Now, I have never really been one for the Milled Lavendar pad, being as it is a bit pale.. I lurve the Stain version and now I really love the CP version (and can't wait to get the PEN version!) Even though the CP is a light mauve colour, I decided to use Victorian Velvet DI to colour the rest of the tag and then went around the edges with Seedless Preserves. In all honesty, I haven't used Victorian Velvet for well over a year... why? I have no idea.. it is a stunning colour! I think I shall be revisiting my pink phase! The resist part of the tag was done using Pumice Stone DI and the large background on the Papillon set... I also used Pumice Stone and clear embossing powder to make the little butterflies pop off the background a bit too... they aren't too noticeable in the photo though... I could blame the light, the camera or just admit... I am a rubbish photo taker (can't even call myself a photographer lol)




What do you think of the pom-pom flower? It is made from Tissue Wrap that was cut into strips, folded over four times and then snipped into with my Tim scissors (nice and sharp to the point) and then wrapped around my finger and stapled to keep it fastened into a circle. As I went along I moved from index finger, to ring finger to little finger so each layer (there are 3 of them) is smaller and fits together nicely. I then ruffled the flower up and blending some Seedless Preserves over the top and use hot glue to fasten it to the tag. The leaves are cut from some printable canvas that I found in the clearout last week... cut using Tattered Leaves and coloured with Crushed Olive and Forest Moss Stains.




Right then... time for me to go and get inky again... I was tired earlier but have got my second wind so there's only one thing for it... hot coffee, Smooth 70's on the radio and me with a pile of diecuts and ink... ahhh, bliss!! Thanks for looking... have a lovely day! TTFN

Hels x

Wednesday 25 January 2012

WOYWW... And The Winner Is...

...ok, who did it? I know it was someone... fast-forwarding a whole week! I say this every Wednesday I know but still... this time next week we will be in February already! Anyways... Wednesday can mean only one thing! Time for the bloggers of the world to unite in a hoooge bloghop to have a nosey at each others desks/floors/cupboards... The phenomenon that is What's On Your Workdesk Wednesday... hosted and devised by Julia Dunnit... all the deets about this are .. HERE!


So... my Room of Stash remaind pristine = yes a whole week later and it is still spotless... I am still tidying away after each crafty make... and picking up bits off the floor... and cleaning my desks... ooh-hooohoo... I am a reformed character! **and will have to be careful, I may choke on this Halo lol** On my desk today is the finishing touches for a little folder book thingy I have made using those deeevine new 7 Dots Studio papers and some delish Stampotique stamps for The Stamp Attic... all the deets of how I made it etc are HERE on the Stamp Attic blog!


Right... on to business... WOW and thrice... thank you all for your lovely comments last week. I had 82 comments... and Mr Random.wotsit has picked #74 which belonged to a comment left by BECKY... congrats to you and please can you email me your addy so I can pop the book into the post for you? :O))


Right enough of my wafflings... busy day doing painty and inky stuff... hurrah! Oooh but before I go, a quick reminder that the Sunday Stamper is celebrating its 4th birthday this week so there's some candy up for grabs... **points up to the top sidebar!** Thanks for looking.. TTFN

Hels x

Tuesday 24 January 2012

Do You Want To Know A Secret?

...over on the Simon Says Stamp & Show blog this week the theme is to include a song title in the entry... all the deets are HERE. Aha, well, tis a simples on for me seeing as all my Sunday Stamper themes originate from song titles. And... Linda Ledbetter's lovely Grungy Monday challenge this week has the Cracklepaint Resist technique... the deets for which are HERE on Tim's YouTube channel and HERE for Linda's blog :O))



So, I made a tag... I know adventurous huh? Actually it is a bit more adventurous than normal for me because I managed to get the ickle sewing machine going again (after being banished to a shelf for the past few months because it made a weird noise and jammed.....) The song is "Do You Want To Know A Secret" by my favest band in the wholest widest worldest... The Beatles. The Cracklepaint of my choice was Milled Lavendar which is such a delicate colour... far to delicate for my big paws so I popped some Broken China, Dusty Concord and Seedless Preserves DI's over the top before stamping some nibs and a flourish over the top to make the resist.




I added a teensy tag to fit across the tag - making the "secret" bit... and stamped the word Dream in Jet Black Archival Ink. The little tag was coloured with the same DI's and overstamped with some Tim stamps and more black Archival and machine stitched onto the base tag. I made a little hole in the base tag and popped a Hitch Fastener through it and then used a mini paperclip to keep the tag-flap closed. I stamped another tidgy butterfly, coloured it and then stuck it on to be 3D'd.


The Ornate Plate also has some secret writing behind it... that is another Tim stamp, stamped in Coffee Archival and then the large butterfly (which was snipped from the Crowded Attic stack and coloured) was stuck over the top. I also added the swallow which was swiped with Picket Fence Cracklepaint and then squidged with Milled Lavendar Distress Stain.


I think that is it... this tag was actually born this morning at about 9.30am... and it has taken me ALL day to get it finished... you know when you have the idea there but nothing is making it right? Well, that is how today has been... I also have three other tags that have been Crackled... all in different colours... and all just sitting there looking dejected. I am going to go back to the desk of stash and try again... well, after I have got the tea on ... mmm, pork chops and roasties tonight... nomnomnnomnom... Right! Enough of my waffling already... Thanks for looking... TTFN!

Hels x

Monday 23 January 2012

Two Cards... Studio 490 Styleee

...I have a confession to make! You know I always say that I am not really fussed for making cards? Well, ahem... I have started to really enjoy it! I know, I know, I keep saying that I will make a few cards a week and not *buy* any more. Well, this year is the year I really do revisit the old cardmaking hobby... and I can't think of any better stamps to use than my beloved Studio 490's. I have got three baskets brimming with tags... and whilst I keep saying that I will stick them on a card and use those... I don't. And... I actually butchered a crop of last years tags last week, pilfering the Idea-ology off them (my other ressie is to recycle more lol) Anyways... these here cards have been made using only the Studio 490 Dimensional Rose Art set.


Card 1 - Rosey Delight




I cut a piece of Crowded Attic paper to measure 5" square and popped it onto some grey Bazzill cardstock after blending Fired Brick DI around the edges and sanding them with an emery board.
I made another little mat in the same way and stamped the large flourish using Forest Moss DI. The little rose was made by stamping the rose flower stamp onto three of the little 2" square snips in the Crowded Attic stack - to see step by step on how to assemble the rose, CLICK HERE.


The sentiment is actually just one word, masked off from the larger sentiment using Post-It notes and Jet Black Archival ink. I blended more Fired Brick over the top, sanded the edges, snipped into the ends to make them pointed and popped this onto more grey Bazzill.


Card 2 - Flower Delight



I can't take any credit for this design... so I will let you know that the inspiration for this card came from a project in Wendy Vecchi's Book I, page 12/13. The base of the card is 5" square black cardstock. I cut a mat of cream cardstock and coloured it with Wild Honey Distress Stain and edged this with Vintage Photo DI. Then another piece of black card makes a mat for this. The squares are 2" in size and coloured with Wild Honey and Tumbled Glass Distress Stains... using a Wrinkle Free Distress technique. Two of the squares are stamped with the large background from the set using Coffee Archival Ink and one is stamped with the large flourish. The last square is stamped in Jet Black Archival with the sentiment... one of my faves!


The flower is the rose flower, stamped twice onto Grungepaper and coloured with Fired Brick DI. I overstamped the numerical background using Coffee Archival and folded the flowers to make them dimensional. I bobbed a little Idea-ology Foliage flower onto it and then added a strip of Grungepaper that I coloured with Forest Moss DI and added a couple of the leaves from the rose leaf stamp. The finishing touch was added with the Foliage leaf and a brad. All of the goodies used on the cards can be found at The Stamp Attic *just sayin ;o))*


Right... I have a bit of one of those days going on today... pain is not good at all... not sure what I have done to make it so bad, maybe all that cleaning last week *does that mean it is a good excuse to not do any? lol* And... I have to take Ferdy for his MOT... he hasn't had one before so I am keeping it all X'd that he passes... if you hear some very loud wailing you will know he has had a hiccup! Thanks for looking ... as ever... TTFN!

Hels x

Sunday 22 January 2012

Sunday Stamper - Week 189 - My Eyes Adored You... Plus Candy!!!

Goodly Morning Stampers and a very happy Sunday to you all! Thank you all for your gorgeously golden entries last week. This weeks Sunday Stamper is a very special one... because... it is 4 years old today! Well, this weekend... but you know what I mean! So... I have a little bit of candy to giveaway - more about that in a mo. The theme this week is EYES. I am thinking anything that has a face basically, a nice and easy one :O)) To join in with the challenge is simples... make a little something - it can be anything you like, ATC, tag, card, altered art... pop back here and leave me a comment along with a link to the place you are showing your entry, I can then hop on over to visit you! If you don't have a blog/photo hosting thingy then you can enter by email... just bob a piccie onto an email to me and I will enter you into the draw too. Ohh, yes, the candy draw. Right... here's how to win: if you leave me a comment you will have one entry into the draw. If you leave me a comment and enter... you're name will be added twice. Please do tell your pals about the challenge and candy - you can copy the photo and stick it into your sidebar :O)) The winner will be chosen at random and announced on next Sunday's challenge. The challenge will remain open until 21:00 Saturday 28th January 2012.



My entry this week is a tag - I haven't made a tag for over a week! I know!!! I am slacking! I did a resist using Snowcap Dabber and then inked over the top with Old Paper Stain... drying this and then blending Weathered Wood, Pine Needles and Stormy Sky DI's. The chaps... they are my fave old fella's - they were stamped in Jet Black Archival and cut out and coloured with Tattered Rose for the skin tone and Walnut Stain blending around the edges. I stamped the hand and gave this the same treatment, using Pine Needles and a waterbrush to add colour to the cuff.



I went with the "more is more" adage when adding the Idea-ology and embellies... well, why have a square inch clear on the tag huh? Check out the little bits of wire mesh... oh how I would love to tell you that I maded these myself... but... alas... I didn't! I bought them from goodness knows where about 273 years ago and they have been...ahem... hidden underneath a pile of crud, found when I was revamping the old Room of Stash them other day... result!





So... the candy! Here's a little list of what is included: Crowded Attic Salvage Stickers, 2x Scrapbooks in a tin, 4" canvas, four mini canvases, 3 Maya Road Chip books, Fired Brick, Antique Linen & Faded Jeans Distress Stains, Biscotti Perfect Pearls Mists (my fave), a few Idea-ology Word Keys, some Brass Charms, a few little resin roses (too cool), a pack of pretty Prima Flowers and some Maya Road Kraft Envelopes. Oh and... my tag for todays entry :O))



So, there you have it! Who'd have thought that this little old challenge would still be running four years on? I certainly never envisaged that it would be and I have to say... it has been so rewarding to host it for all this time. At the time of conception (ooh, that makes it sound really posh!) I was still working full time and the only day I didn't have to work was a Sunday. So, I thought... do a challenge on a Sunday and then you will always be able to set it. Well, there were a few close calls when I had forgotten about it and had the Sunday to work... I think that the latest the challenge was ever set was about 2 in the afternoon. I have met so many lovely bloggers over the years, there are a few stalwart regulars who join in, which is so lovely to see each week... I am honoured for every single entry I have ever had and I truly appreciate you all. *shall stop before I start blubbing lol* Anyhoo, I am always scratching around for a new theme... so if you have one that you would love to see here, please do drop me a line and I will sort it out. In the meantime... have a very inky Sunday... thanks for looking and...as ever, TTFN!

Hels x

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