What a great show!

LOL, not me, Happy Stampers North West festival at Port Sunny ;)

OK, we have had lots of laughs about this photo that the lovely Jennie Boxall took of me early today and iNSTaNTLY put on Facebook, and I mean instantly!!  Mind you, I don't think I could have resisted if roles had been reversed ;)  So yes, I am still speaking to her lol

My phone battery died fairly early on so my plan to take photos of the event didn't go ahead.  I just managed to get Tracey to take a photo of me with the gorgeous Paul B, who was on pain of death not to come and say hi

I had an absolute ball demonstrating this morning for Paddy at Paddy's Stamping Place, then catching up with friends and doing a touch of shopping this afternoon.  I'll share my goodies with you tomorrow, and some pics from the the art exhibition last night :)

a bit of silliness for my PDCC #43

Errr!

Hmmm!

Why?  Well, I decided just to spice things up a bit with a bit of silliness to bring out the smiles :)  I love cute monsters, and have a small collection of them which used to live in my classroom :)

Julie's beautiful inspiration photo this week in the Play Date Cafe is all 'my' colours - blues and greens

Aren't those colours so refreshing looking?  I was glancing through my stamps with a few ideas playing around in my head for these colours, then my eye caught my set of monster stamps that Julie very kindly sent me a while back, and I was hooked!  So nothing beautifullly elegant from me this week ;)

I also realised I hadn't decorated an envelope recently either!  This is a tiny envelope that fits an ATC perfectly...hmm, now there's an idea ;)

This week, we have a UK guest designer - Paul Browning!  Paul has been with us in the cafe from the very beginning and plays every week, to such an extent we were worried when he didn't!  It was all ok though, he'd just nipped off for a holiday!  And don't forget our regular design team:

Julie Ranae
Suzanne Czosek
Stephanie Kraft
Savannah O'Gwynn
Lisa Somerville
Ruby 2 Shoes

So hop on over to the cafe to see all the wonderful design team inspiration, and to meet our new 'private blend designer' :)  We have a great prize this week for the winning entry, courtesy of this week's sponsors Creative Inspirations

your choice of 12 colours from

Creative Inspirations

[sparkly paint, yum yum!]

new badges at the play date cafe

Paul B may never forgive me for this but hey!  I wanted to let you know that we've had a makeover at The Play Date Cafe and Paul very kindly made us a load of new badges :)  Aren't they funky?  Thanks Paul, they really are great :)

I'm teaching Art Journaling 3 at The Cubby Hole, Crewe today which I taught last week at The Stamp Attic.  We'll be making those 'pants books' again lol!

Lorraine, Helen, Joan

Penny, Carol, Lorraine

Joan, Sylvia, Kay

There will be even more inky yumminess later in the week as the wonderful, gorgeous, fantastic Dyan Reaveley is sending me some of her new water-based dye inks :)  I can't wait!!!