I am still here!!!

HUGE HUGE THANK YOU to my crafting buddy Tracie Jane, for my fantabulous award - You are very sweet and kind. If you havent stopped by her blog, you must. She makes stunning cards and I love popping over to see what she does with Poppicrafts products. It is very rewarding to see what people create with my products as every one of them is unique and makes me smile.

Just to let you all know that I am still here and well, and thank you for your kind comments and stopping by. As some of you already know, I have packed most of crafting stash away (big sad face) while our building work is being carried out, so I wont be blogging for a while. Hopefully when the new craft room is done I will back at my desk beavering away!!! I am focusing on the shop at the moment and have just received my new delivery of grosgrain ribbon. Cant wait to get my hands on it and play. (hurry up builders!!!) Next week I will have more blooms in stock, crochet flowers, MORE ribbon and mountains of brads - Yippee!!! So there will be lots of new kits over the next few weeks. I do stop by as many blogs as I can. What with half term next week and my little soldier will be having his 5th birthday, I will be rather busy. 5? I can hardly believe it, he is growing up before my very eyes, telling me on daily basis that he his nearly a grown up,but he still has his childlike moments that make me smile for days. My mum was talking to him the other day about bees:

"There arent many bees left in the world now Riley and they are very important as they give us lots of food"

"How do we know that nanna?"

"Because the bee doctors have looked into it and there are far less than there used to be"

He paused for a moment.

"Nanna, are the bee doctors people or bees?"

How cute is he??? Me and mum had visions of these little bees buzzing around with suits on and briefcases under their wings...

Poppi has been unwell this week, but of course being female, she has been very brave and soldiered on. She wanted to go to pre-school and play with her friends, but she was just so sleepy and floppy. I cannot bear it when they are unwell, but I have to say the amount of snuggles we had was just lovely. I really cherish moments like that as they dont last for long do they? Riley is already of that age where he will hold my hand but would much rather hold Poppis, when we come out of school. I have no doubt that I will wake up one morning and holding my hand or kissing me goodbye at school will be embarrassing for him. So all these little moments are very precious.

Anyway, thanks for popping by and I'l be back "making" soon, cant wait!!

What a fab surprise!!!

I won some gorgeous blog today, from Kath who was holding a competition with reference to the nightmares that we face, trying to read those silly word verifications when leaving a comment on blogs. What a lovely surprise it was to open the post this morning! I have to say the flowers, images eyelets and brads are lovely and I shall enjoy playing with them later, but the card is just so beautiful! Being a cardmaker I really appreciate the time and care involved to make such a wonderful card, Thank you Kath, my card is on the mantelpiece for all to see, it is a beautiful creation and you have really made my day!!! Mich xx

couple of quick makes

Life has been a bit hectic of late. Riley and Poppi were a bit under the weather last week and we are having a bit of building work done, so I seem to be spending my life hoovering and having that awful dust taste. You hoover up, turn round it seems to have settled again. Oh well, it'l be worth it in the end - cant wait!!

Found the time (and dont pass out in shock) to actually make 2 cards. My card box is empty, so I desperately need to make a few. It is my friends birthday this week, so just had to use the pink petticoat turtle images, for his card. The second one was a joint effort between me and my step daughter, who came to stay at the weekend. She is 11 and was very proud of efforts. I think she enjoyed it, she did make one of her own, but we forgot to take a photo.
Hope you are all enjoying the glorious weather. Mich x

Supplies are: Pink petticoat images and papers. Ribbon, photo hangers, Buttons, blooms and velvet - Poppicrafts. Hand doodling, faux stitching.

Thank you Sharon!!!!!

The fantabulous Sharon has given me "you make my day award" I feel very very humbled, as over the last few weeks I have been a very neglectful blogger. What with school holidays and work, I have not had much play time. So THANK YOU Sharon, you are very kind and you most certainly make my day, as when I pop over and see the cards that you have made from your purchases (or competition win - yes I did spot the chocolate heart ribbon you used!) they all cheer me up no end!!! It is lovely to see all my customers creations.

I would like to pass this award on to anyone who pops over, as recently there has not been much to see, so you all make my day, for being so kind and patient, waiting to see if ive posted.

Mich

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OMG! How exciting...

...for me anyway!!! Had a flick through Papercraft Inspirations and found this. Poppicrafts in P. I magazine, how amazing is that??? And its all down to Sharon de Meza for using Poppicrafts products on her fantastic commission work. Loving the cat card - sooo cute!!! So if you pop by Sharon, i'd like to say a HUGE thank you. To say you have made my day, is an understatement.

Mich

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FLORAL RIBBON TUTORIAL

A while back a couple of people asked me to do a tutorial for the ribbon flower card that I made. This is my first tutorial so here goes:

1. Cut 8 lengths of ribbon at 8cm. I chose 10mm mini floral satin.

2. Add sticky dots to the bottom end of the ribbon. You could also use a tape runner or double sided tape.

3. Loop the top end of the ribbon round to sit on top of the sticky dots on the bottom end of the ribbon

4. do this to all 8 pieces of ribbon.

5. Punch a 5cm circle from plain cardstock. Alternatively, you could hand cut a circle, as it will be hidden underneath the flower anyway. Cover the circle with glue dots or DST, ready to adhere the ribbon.

6. Arrange the looped ribbons around the edge. I found it best to lay them down lightly first. Then when you are happy with it, push them down to adhere properly. ( sorry about the blurry pic)

7. This is what the reverse side will look like. You can then opt to add more ribbons to this side in the same way if you wanted it to be layered.

8. I chose to add a 2" chipboard flower, 2" spotty bloom and 1" pink bloom to the top and a 3" chipboard flower to the bottom.

9. I made a hole straight through the middle and held it all together using a green jewel brad.

I hope this was of use to some of you and look forward to seeing your interpretations. Supplies are: Ribbon, blooms, chipboard, brad and photo hanger - poppicrafts. Papers - Pink petticoat.
TFL and have a great weekend.
Mich
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New shop, now open!

Just to let you know that the new look Poppicrafts shop opened today! If you want to have a look at the new design its here I hope you like it - I do!! Hopefully I'l be back on track now, to get some cards made.(oh no! maybe not, another ribbon delivery tomorrow) Ive just been so busy sorting out the new website, ordering new stock and oh yeah, entertaining the little dinkies who tell me every 5 minutes that they are "bored". Mind you I can remember saying the very same thing to my mum at that age. Rileys friend has a birthday party tomorrow and Poppi is invited too, so im sure that wont be as boring. We ordered some bits and bobs that arrived today. It was funny, Poppi spent most of the day in her new swimming costume and shoes and then got all upset because she couldnt wear them in the bath (the shoes, that is, not the swimming costume???) and Riley loved his new school trousers that much that he wanted to wear them too. How odd.... Its clearly the little things that amuse them. Buy them a toy and they play with it for 2 minutes. Buy them a school uniform and pair of shoes and they are content for a day. And over the last week, Riley has swept the floors, made the beds (well sort of) done the hoovering, made tea.... The list goes on. He is a good lad and when he does things like that without me asking, it makes me realise how thoughtful he is at such a young age. Poppi just sits there and tells him what to do next. Good for her, thats what I say. Make the most of it, put your feet up while you can....

TFL

Mich

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