Hobbies and Crafts

No, it's not that.... it is with normal printing... once you glue, the inks run, as they do if you spill a drop of any other liquid on them.....lol... I remember years ago, there used to be a fixative for things like pen and ink and charcoal drawings... R used to use it when I first met him, he is quite a gifted artist, mainly wildlife, although he hasn't done any for years.... I just wondered if it was still available... I'll have to go to the Range, now, won't I?? lol

I use Kodak photo paper or the HP high quality one.... I found the others were nowhere near as sharp and clear, or as long lasting, so don't work out cheaper in the long run!

Well... really must get ready to go shopping... I am still in my jimjams, lol.... but I have a load in the tumble dryer, a load in the washer, and I have emptied and re-filled the dishwasher... what is it about that job that I really, really hate?? I have also ironed half a dozen shirts for R... that really gets me brownie points, does that, lol

Final question for the moment.... X-cutters or the Fiskars ones? with the templates... which is the better? If it is the Fiskars, I will buy the frame to stop them slipping and save me the risk of bleeding to death... or at least bleeding all over my creations!

Love

Daff xxxx

Daff, what do you mean by stopping printer ink running? Do you mean on photos? I don't have a problem with mine at all. Have you perhaps got the setting on high gloss paper when you are using non gloss? Or are you using cheap printer paper. I usually try to use Kodak, although not sure if it is still being produced now. will have to look round. I did try some very cheap paper and the ink wouldn't dry on that.

Morning all..... Sarah, Hi. Ann isn't REALLY tidying you know.... she is looking for hiding places for her glues to keep them away from me when we meet up next, lolol ;¬))

Well.... pouring with rain here... first page neatly tucked into it's album... and all stuff for next page is gathered around me..... but first, I have to go out... to the carpet places to buy some gripper rods for the rugs. I have to get the lounge looking reasonable before I start, to give me a clear conscience, lol

Is there some spray or something that will fix printer ink so it doesn't run? I looked at laser printers, but can't afford the one I wanted so got the Kodak esp 5 one... the photos on that are very clear... I also have one of those scanners that will scan slides and negatives.

Oh... and the carpet places are close to the Range, in Cardiff, lolol!! ;¬))

Love

Daff xxxxx

Sarah, good to see you on here anyway and at least you got some cards made. I had a sort of half tidy of part of my craft room/office this weekend, the bit in front of me is fine but the books shelves around are pretty bad - want be tidy until I get a few more books read Lol!!!

Not been around much lately and sadly not because I've been scrapping. But I did manage a bumper card making session at the weekend only because I packed a bag of supplies and took myself off to my OH's playpen and set up in the office there. We got to spend some time together (kind of) and I made over a dozen simple cards in an afternoon (i'm hoping to sell a few more at an upcoming event).

Today has been spent decluttering and i am pleased because I even tackled part of my craft room, not the bad corner though - the one behind me while I type where everything I've used but not got around to pointing away ends up. I need to do it because the pile is blocking the door of the built in wardrobe and I need to get in there LOL

*blushes and curtsies to Jean!* thank you.... some of the glue was still wet, lol It sort of has a look of those children's first wooden jigsaws, I thought......

Ninja Lady.... thongs? Well... Speedo's have even been banned in some places as too risque, haven't they? lolol I am so pleased others get in a pickle with glue and stuff.

You should see me wallpapering!!

I haven't made it to that scrapping wotsit yet... the site isn't open at the moment, so no way of linking and contacting them. I am one of those people who need to watch someone and then copy.... a couple of times, with questions, and stuff...... reading destructions, or even looking on a video very often means gobbledygook to me!

Well... suppose I had better go and find some stuff to go with the fish for dinner....... at least if I feed R well, he won't ask too many questions about how many pennies went flying out of the account today, lol!

Love

Daff xxxx

Ninja lady what a varied life you do lead..... converting swimming trunks to thongs? How on earth|? With scissors? Pity we can't be flies on the wall!

Ah! glue dots. When i first started doing this I always used glue dots and they were fine, the dots were on the cardboard roll and not on the paper strip, since they changed them and made it the other way round I just can't get on with them, pull the glue dot off and it misses the target, immediately shrivels up and attaches itself to your fingers or whatever it lands on!!!! Given up with them now Unless I absolutely have to use them.

WoW Daff, what a girl...its very good . we will have to buck our ideas up ladies we will soon be shown up.... I love it, lovely idea, thankyou or sending it....I have done some more older ones so will send you a couple..What ashame we are not nearer one another we could have scrapbook club.....

love Jean xx.

Like Ann I have previously used bought chipboard shapes but now I have the die cutting machine and the newly purchased deep cut blades I'm going to have a go at cutting my own chipboard shapes.

One of the Cricut cartridges I ordered from America was called Home Accents and there are some very nice motifs that can be used as frames which would look great cut out of chipboard and then painted, inked or covered with paper.

I'm just in the process of doing a page of my grandson and oldest son to put into a deep box frame to give to my oldest as part of his birthday pressie at the weekend - chocolate brown background so may cut some of the frames from chipboard and cover them with creamy/beige papers to frame the photos.

I've managed to finish the patchwork blocks and just have two pairs of Speedo swimming trunks to convert to thongs - don't ask!!!! My second oldest asked me to do it for him and his mate yesterday before they go the Spain on Thursday. I shudder to think what their wives/girlfriends are going to say!!!! They've got some sort of prank in mind....

Anyway, just got to do that quick job and then I can get back to scrapbooking - yayyyy!!

I did laugh at Daff's misadventures with the glue - I have the same problem with sticky dots - they get EVERYWHERE but on the page. I've just bought a glue pen to eliminate the need for sticky dots so hopefully in the future my stash of papers won't be glued together with sticky dots that have escaped.

Bring it with you when you come (*thinks, will she remember?) Yes I will show you how I do things (I will lock up liquid glue!!!!

Your next project sounds promising. Have you got a picture/photo of a flower that you can blow up on the computer to use as a template for your central flower? One idea in a magazine or book I have seen recently is a central photo in a circle with all the other photos cut into circles round the large circle. Same sort of idea. Oops, should have read your post more carefully I see you got there before me! How about each small photo in the centre of a smaller flower?

I use chipboard shapes but have not yet cut my own.

Ooooooh.... guess what!! I was such a good girl... avoided Hobbycraft... went to Dunelm for the plastic tablecloth I keep forgetting whenever I go out..... and we have a new Dunelm, with a small, but very nice craft section!!

Jean... I have e-mailed a copy of my plaskool page, lol... Ann, would you like one, too, or shall I bring it up with me when I come over?? And pretty please will you show me how to use your favourite tools and do your favourite techniques if I promise *Does Brownie Promise salute thingy* not to squish glue everywhere?

My next page is *Who is the prettiest Flower in my Garden*..... I want a central photo of Princess Dynamo... nestled into a mat that looks like a flower... and the photo I have in mind doesn't show her face.... then all around it a series of smaller photos of her watering the various bits of garden, none of which show her full face, with finally the last one showing her face!! I have taken loads of close ups of the flowers, and want either to use those greatly blown up as mats or backgrounds... or try and make material *petal* type ones....... I also have some old silk roses that I am happy to cannablise (sp, I have mislaid my spellchecker, lol)

Ninja Lady... I saw some chipboard stuff.... they were very nice, and I was tempted to buy.... but kept to stuff that is basic at the moment!! Do you cut your own?

Love

Daff xxxx

I cant wait to get started on the G.R. book, but it would be good if I had some background pictures, Liz has sent the hedgehog pics and a beautiful rose, so that will go on her page... Ann thanks for your garden pics,just need to get them printed off,

Ninja Lady, thats a good idea. and thanks Ann i have had a look in A***sso watch this space...

happy scrapping all.

Jean x

Morning all.... I have just finished my very first page, lol.... I have two others all in the planning... and now have all I need to complete them, but they are for my mum, and I wanted to practice a bit first!! For this one, I wanted a style which was bright, cheerful, childish, and Playschoolish, lol... it is the introduction page for my little granddaughter's visit last week.....

I thought it would be a good one to start with, as I wanted the effect to look childlike, so if I messed up too much, it would fit in with the style, lol I am fairly happy with it, although I couldn't get the chunkier paper in the colours I wanted... the main sheet is bright yellow, and looks like it has been made from paper mache, and I wanted all the matting to be the same... I have used felt, though, so it doesn't have quite the same *feel* about it, but looks ok.

Can't wait to see your GR pages, Jean....

I have Fiskar templates and a couple of cutters... are the X-cut ones better?

Oh well... must go... off to the dentist soon! Oh... and Hobbycraft is virtually on the way back!! ;¬)) With a slight detour for Range.......... ;¬)) ;¬))

Love

Daff xxxxxx

Hi Ladies

Have been busy all weekend with family stuff- well I actually thought I ought to do some housework for a change so I blitzed upstairs and did ALL the ironing, plus mended some work trousers for oldest son. So, that leaves me with free time to scrap this week!!

I did slip out for a couple of hours on Saturday morning as the craft shop in Tidworth was having a Flea Market (where people bring their second hand craft stuff to sell off) and got a bargain - a Zutter binding machine for just £20.00. They're retailing in the shop for about £60.00. Just need to find time to play with it now. I also bought some chalkboard paint when we were in the Range so that I can paint the chipboard pages of mini albums and then write messages in coloured pencils for the journalling.

So many ideas, so little time.

Unfortunately no scrapping today as I have to get two blocks done for a patchwork round robin which I have to hand over tomorrow. Was just in the planning stage yesterday when my little grandson brought his parents to visit so had to abandon that for the rest of the day. It was worth it though!

Jean - the GR scrapbook album sounds lovely! And my personal printer sits down by the side of the sofa, just out of sight but easily accessible to plug into my laptop when I need it. I think it was just over £50.00 but I've seen them cheaper. The other one is upstairs with the main computer.

Hi Jean
You can buy really cheap printers these days so why not look around for one for downstairs then you wont have to rely on your daughter. We actually have not had much rain now for a week, dull and overcast some days but dry nearly all the time, T is for ever watering the baskets.

I fully expect one morning to come on here and find that Daff has glued herself into a page Lol!!!!

I am sure it is your body adapting to new medication that is making you feel tired. Don't fret about it, you will get back to scrapping when you are ready.

Love
Ann x

Hi, Ann, I am finding it hard to settle down and do some scrapping at the moment, keep feeling tired....must be the new pills, or not a lot of inspiration,I had hoped to go out to do some more snapping, but we are haveing so much rain, makes you wonder if it is ever going to stop.....
maybe its all being saved up ready for our holiday, fingers X. I am waiting for my daughter to scan some of the photos folk off here have sent me , then I can start the G.R.scrapbook...the printer is in her office up two flights of stairs, I was wondering if I can get a compact one to keep down stairs.....
Daff seems to be doing all sorts of stuff, the mind boggles at her description of her scrapping glue and all !!! but I know it will all be worth it in the end, cant wait to see the finished pages...what a lady......bless her...

love Jean xx

Not many people posting on here, are we all too busy scrapping or not doing anything so nothing to report?

Not many people posting on here, are we all too busy scrapping or not doing anything so nothing to report?

R will forgive you if and when you produce the first finished page Daff. Have you stuck it all down yet?

We went out for a run this morning, went to Costa Coffee in the old cattle market for a change and went to Home sense. They don't always have the same stock but seem to have all sorts of odds and ends. I got a 12x12 and an 8x8 scrap book £6.99 and £4.99 good value, not the same as the ones I have but the smaller one is Papermania with an antique type gatefold cover Not sure how well it will work, it is post bound but half the pages come from the left and the other half from the right.

I am still working on the first of my double page spread of granddaughter at Centre parc. Pleased with it so far although it has taken longer than others I have done.

Ann

*coughs gently*

ermmmm... forgot the *something quick for dinner* and guess who came home early???? Yep.... still nothing really done... well, not noticeable stuff, anyway... Still don't like the little ovals, but I have a better idea, now, lolol!!

But I bought LOADS!!....... felt in every colour imaginable, loads of stick on thingies..... a 12 x 12 plastic box..... foam thingies.... pearl beads... lots of ribbons....... double sided sticky tape....... well, allsorts, really, lol... R will be banning me from there!! Especially if I don't finish this page!!

Well.... better go.... I have some mince defrosting.... already cooked and in gravy... I have some potatoes boiling.... and there are some frozen-from-fresh green beans in the freezer...... gourmet meal, lol!

Love

Daff xxxxx