2000... and counting....

WOW!  I have just published over 2000 blog posts!! (2003 even)...  In just less than 10 years... with (almost) daily post for the last 5 years! Cripes!

Who knew then that that is what was going to happen! (Try saying that fast!!!) And I still love those Gift Card Holders I made back then... although iPods etc have come on a bit since...

But a very quick share for you today... a Craft Spa mix of Clean & Simple meets Fun Fold... aka Super Simples!

And to celebrate that amazing number of posts... I have a challenge for my long term followers... or indeed anyone...

What is your favourite Craft Spa post... or project... or tutorial... ? Or indeed just anything that springs to your mind today! I would love that feedback from you... as I am beginning to evaluate what and where I go in the future...

Answers in comments... or via the Contact form down the RHS if you are more shy!!. or even by email by clicking here... Thank you!

More information on my daisies for you here... and more information on this Fun Fold variant sometime soon... 

3D Thursday - Everything Amazing #2

So I came back from training on Monday - having swapped out this card using Everything Amazing ...

And wanted to make something very similar  - and still clean & simple - but with a few folds!

So here you go...

More on this Pop Up Centre Panel Card version another day...

And yes it does fold flat... 

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Some more 3D Treat Packaging... the Blues & Neutrals

And so we come to the end of the two series... with the Blues & Neutrals range of team table favours... 

And as I had to do a quick double check... a bit of education for you today too!!!  The word "series" is both singular and plural...  according to https://preply.com/en/question/plural-of-series

So quickly back to my treats... which are all made but shared with no name... sad face!

Stitched Rectangle Country Home Green & Blacks chocolate bar box 

 Love this simple idea with 2 of the same size rectangles..

One glued for the lid and one not glued for the base... which is a great way of ensuring that the base fits inside the lid!

Botanical Tags chocolate feast bag ... 

Best Route Kinder wrap ...

Fable Friends "cute Geisha lipsalve" pillow box... cute outside and cute inside... and sorry not got the where-with-all (ie all the kit and sample!) to take another photo with the cute lip-salve...

And Lotus Biscoff biscuits in a Happiness Blooms wrapped Envelope Punch Board box

And so endeth the Ultra-3D-packaging & treats shares over the last fortnight... with which I hope you have found some inspiration... I certainly have... though I do  have the advantage of savouring the taste too!!

3D Swaps & Backorder update...

Just quickly popping onto share some of my 3D swaps from the Stampin' Up! On Stage event at the weekend... Some beautiful shares to be seen here today... 

But before I start with those... We have good news! 

Customs have begun to release some of the  products that have been held, which represent the majority of the delayed product shipments. So inventory and shipment issues will now start to resolve over the coming week... as we receive these items into our systems and they become available again///.

However... products with the out-of-compliance labels (mostly liquids and powders) will remain in customs for now as we work to resolve their concerns, and this process could take several more weeks. Thank you for your patience with this long backorder situation...

And so back to today's creative shares!! 6 light bluey ones for you today! 

Firstly a big shout out to everyone that swapped with me at Telford... and to those that gave me gifts too.... I am such a lucky girl! 

Secondly... these are just a few of the new 3D gift and packaging projects I now possess... as time has somewhat disappeared this week with one thing and another (including having my lovely son home from uni!!)... so I will take a while to catch up...

And there is so much to catch up on and share here... with both swap and gift shares... information from Head Office... 

Lots more information etc on the Last Chancers... and some new products too... 

So keep watching this space for lots of creativity ... and information... over the next few weeks!

Thank you Lucy Brown (Fable Friends keyring), Sally (Happy Tails Mini Tic Tac holder), Sarah Lavelle (Incredible Like You Butterkist wrap) Sue Wright ( Fable Friends Treat Holder, Tina Phipps (Daisy Delight magnet)... and the Piece of Cake tag (sadly with no name) 

And ... these are all carrying over apart from Incredible Like You... though do remember that bundles with 10% off now give you a saving now compared to buying the 2 individual parts after 4th June...

Birthday Cheer Lidded Box Frame Card for 3D Thursday...

A re-work of an old classic... a Lidded Box Frame card... for which you will find an original and the Tutorial here....

Updated using Broadway Bound papers... and the new Birthday Cheer bundle... perfect for whom I had in mind...

Talking of Birthday Cheer... which I have just opened and am very inspired by...

The dies are running low in stock in Europe... and sadly it is not carrying over into the 2019-2020 Annual Catalogue... so now only available while supplies last... so get them whilst you can...

And the Broadway Bound papers will likely be on the Retiring List come 15th April too... as it is so rare for any papers to carryover from year to year... 

Though as these have been really popular in these parts... I would really like to be proven wrong!

And an admittance... as this is the other card that I produced on Tuesday... which I made a very last minute mistake on... with my scream being heard for miles around (probably)...

Wonder how many of you can see it straightaway!?

Suffice to say... I then had to make another card to get one off in the post...

As I ripped up all the front when I pulled by sideways-on panel off!!! 

Rectification job for another day then! As I can never let things go to waste...

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Spirited Snowmen Bakers Box Light for 3D Thursday

Yes... I know... I said I was putting them (Spirited Snowmen) away!

But before I did.. I had another thought... and then I just couldn't resist combining this Bakers Box Light with this card...

Love the end result...

And for those of you that have already bought the Farmhouse Christmas Trio of Tutorial(s)... here is  a bonus fourth project for you! I just replaced the house with the Snowmen...

And added hand torn, sponged and glittered 11cm (4 3/8" )wide x about 2 cm(3/4") and 3cm (1 1/4") pieces of Whisper White card...

Shorter glued to the front of the light & tab...

And higher across the back from tree to tree (roughly) - so kind of diagonally... you want yours to go down to the floor on the base! Not a bit raised like mine (as I had a momentary lapse of concentration as I stuck things!!!) And (with hindsight!) I also wish I had put this behind the tree to the right hand side ( though I would have had to cut out a notch then for the tree box!)!!

All finished off with a 1 1/4" punched circle  - dazzled up with Wink of Stella - and Hearts Come Home stamped Santa on his sleigh!