We are off to watch the Opening of the Olympics (on tv)

And that we, means Wasabi and I, and yes our Spanish flag is with us, waiting to cheer the Spanish athletes.

Excited!

On Tuesday morning I received something that really made my day and left so excited that until today i forgot to post it here. It is the first copy of my second book, Celtic Handmade cards, published by Search Press. I am really happy on how it has come out, love the cover and the general design of this series, also I am quite pleased with the cards which I tried to be different and inspiring for those in search for men card ideas.
The book will soon be available to buy, maybe even as soon as a couple of weeks, but i will let you knos when that happens. For more info, click here.

Also, I would like to say that i had a lovely time up North demonstrating at the Big Weekend at Dawn Bibby's shop. So many new and known faces! My parents and Omar came with me, Omar and I stayed at dawn's house and I booked a hotel for my parents, well not the whole hotel, but a room in a hotel. As I thought, Omar really enjoyed playing with Dawn's three dogs and now he wants to get one. Not sure how Wasabi would like that!

Happy Birthday, Julie

PS: Sorry It took me so long to post it. It is rather late but still qualifies as your birthday!

6 years on

Last Saturday Omar and I celebrated our 6th wedding anniversary and in our true fashion we didn't do or get anything to celabrate. Really, it is not a conscious decission, it just happens that we always forget to plan something special.
I did, however make a card and as i didn't have (or could not find) any happy anniversary greeting I opted for an old KI Memories Mr & Mrs word fetti (I know that wordfetti are made by Making memories, but I forgot what the ones by Ki are called). Also I decorated the inside with several quotes referring to married life and love from the same KI Memories product. They are brilliant, although I bought them long time ago I keep using them.

By the way, tomorrow I will be demonstrating at Crafts U Love. Helen Meighan -if you like punches and/or peel offs, you will adore her work-, Stamping Caz -the queen of colouring- plus Kim Fee and Wendy Horrod. For more details, click here.

Done some cardmaking for fun

It may come as a surprise to some of you, but I rarely make cards for my own amusement anymore. Most likely, if I make them it will be for a magazine, class or other type of commission.
The thing is that I don't really send that many, so I have already boxes full from articles and classes. When I feel creative, then I scrapbook or do a mini album which allows me to be artistic but also do something with my photos (have thousands) and memorabilia (boxes full of that too!).
But today was a weird day because I just wanted to make a card using some Stampin Up and Penny Black stamps using Craftwork Cards ruffles and the plain and simple white card (the BEST to stamp and colour in by far!).
I am pretty happy with the result, and hopefully I will keep doing it more often. (Fingers crossed!)

New layout

Right now, my favorite paper company is Making Memories, specially their die cut papers.
So I could not resist the new Noteworthy papers, ribbons and journaling notebook. Also I used the Prima felt lace in the back.

So, no big sporting news today, but I am still feeling happy about Nadal's victory a week ago. Thanks for all the messages and comments left. I love the fact that so many non Spanish people were supporting Rafa. Anyway, hopefully I will be posting more crafting entries.

Nadal

I was going to post something craft related this morning, then got distracted because Nadal vs. Federer match was about to start (Wimbledon final), and after so many hours, we, Spanish people, have another amazing sporting success after last Sundays Eurocup. After an epic final (BBC's words) Nadal won!
You may think that I am a sports fanatic, actually I am not. I just like when true sportsmen win, and if they are Spanish, well that is a big massive plus.
So, thank you Nadal for yet again making me proud of being Spanish!

(By the way, for those who don't follow royalty, the Spanish dignitaries that Nadal greeted after greeting his family are prince Felipe and princess Letizia, he is the crown prince of Spain! What a moment!)

¡ Viva España!

What else can I say right now?

After a working weekend

As I mentioned in the last post, I spent last weekend teaching in Dawn Bibby's Studio. I loved the experience, as it was the first time I was teaching there.


This is the mini album we did on the Friday.


On Sunday, Kirsty Wiseman and Esther came to visit Dawn, so I finally met Kirsty. I have been in love with her absolutely fabulous photos for a long while so to meet her in person was really nice. She is exactly as I thought she would be from reading her blog which was nice.

Topaz weekend

This weekend I will be teaching (Friday and Sunday) and demonstrating (Saturday) at Topaz Crafts, Dawn Bibby's shop. So come along!