What I bought at the Reebok

Yesterday I went to the Make It! show at the Reebok stadium outside Bolton. I really like this show, because you get a good variety of smaller, independent exhibitors there, so there's a really good range of products, rather than the same old DoCrafts stuff on every other stall that you see at some other shows that I could mention - OK I'm talking about GMex and the NEC.

Anyway, this is what I bought:



5 Sakura Silver Shadow pens
5 Sakura Gold Shadow pens
Stampendous Ruffled Bloom stamp
Inkadinkadoo photo stamp
Set of Hero Arts text stamps
Cuttlebug Text Script Embossing Folder
Blonde Moments Sugar Dumpling 6" x 6" pad
Chipboard tag book
Pricking tool ('cos I broke my old one)
Tweezer scissors (in an attempt to improve my decoupage skills)
Bowmaker (to help me use my ribbon mountain)
2 sets of jewel brads in crystal and pink & black.
Set of Peel-off pens - well I don't really use many peel-offs but the pens were very cheap and I might be able to use them on other things.

The question is now - do I finally have everything I need in order to be able to produce some top notch artwork? Do pigs fly??

I'm dying to have a play with them all, but will probably have to wait until next weekend, when we have an extra day for the Bank Holiday - hooray!

My first post

Well this is my first post in my new blog thingy. As I set it up specifically to display my cards and other artwork, here's my first offering. It's a birthday card for my sister-in-law who also makes cards, together with a matching envelope which I made and lined with blue vellum to match the stamped swirls. Stamps used are from the Rhonna Ferrer Swirls and Flourishes sets from Autumn Leaves, silk flowers by Papermania held with Dovecraft crystal brads and a Papermania pearl brad. The greeting is a silver foil EZ-rubon.

I'm not very good at photographing my cards, so I might go back to scanning them in, as this isn't as sharp as it should be and the colours aren't quite right.

Thanks for looking.