So in the run up to my scrappy weekend away I was adding the finishing touches to my packing, the star attractions for my planned projects arrived in the post:
The remaining bits and bobs of Crate Paper's Story Teller and Pretty Party lines. I planned to get at least 2 mini-books made.*
*I always seem to be good at the big thinking, not so hot on the "doing".
Come Friday morning I was packed and ready:
...for what must have looked like a 3 month expedition rather than a 3 day weekend away.
Considering the monsoon weather forecast I didn't think I'd need to pack these:
There was a moment where this was consumed:
Which could have adversely affected productivity, it certainly affected the speed with which I could stamp the individual letters of Polish names! Polish Countdown must be a barrel of laughs... can I have a consonant please Carol, and another.... and another... and another....
But it was probably why I never got round to using these:
We did take a break from scoffing cake and shuffling paper on the Saturday afternoon and even managed to see some of these:
Plus have a moment in the sun:
But then it was back to work in order to actually finish, ok... mostly finish the one and only project I got done!
There are just a couple of little finishing touches needed then I'll get it photographed. :)
The thing I learnt this weekend (apart from the realisation that yes, you can indeed have too much cake) which I shall pass onto any other Crate fans, was not to use Staz-on, chalk ink, dye ink, Versafine or pigment ink to stamp onto the new shiny Journaling stickers.
NO INK dries on these stickers; I went through an entire arsenal of inks trying to find one that worked - nada, zip, zilch.
The only thing that works is a journaling pen. :o( I really wish these stickers were still matt as you could stamp away to your heart's content, but shiny stickers... do not like.
I also learned that you can definitely have to much cake!
Posted by: Bev | Tuesday, 01 May 2012 at 09:10 PM
It was definitely a hard and sad lesson to learn... :o\
Posted by: Handmade by Natty | Wednesday, 02 May 2012 at 08:05 AM