It's surprisingly difficult to type when your hands are covered in paint

The reason i am covered in paint will be revealed in next week's blog, but i find it strange that i can type with monster nails, but not with paint covered fingers. Must be the lack of tactile sensation on the keys. I am currently using only two fingers to type.

Anyway, onto this week's makes.

This is one of the Lion King flectere dies i bought, for a whopping £40 plus off the actual price. The dies make it really easy to colour in the pieces, as it gives you a guideline to where you need to put the shading.

A work colleague has had an accident, so i thought i would make her a card. The background is kraft resist paper with Lindy's sprays, which work really well. I've used the flowers and jars stamps and dies on watercolour paper. I saw on another person's blog that they advised cutting some extra stems so that it looks like the flowers are in the jar. I did this, but i also stuck one of the flowers straight through the lid of the jar, to have at least one that went all the way. I also added the extra flowers behind the ones that were in the jar to add body. The jars were added onto the card with thick foam pads, to give me the extra space i needed for the background flowers.

I also made a necklace, using leather cord for the 1st time. I wanted to use green and silver, but i only had end cords in gold, so i improvised by using embossing powder on a silver tree charm, and glue a cabochon on it.

Here is the stitching update too.

I almost made it a month with no takeaways and no craft purchases, but caved on both yesterday!

Ems

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