Oh dear

Is anyone still out there............

What can I say I have been really bad these past few months. 

We (by that I mean the royal "we") have been to the Ross Papercrafts Shows at Rainton and Grimbsy and a week on Saturday (25th October) I yes I will be at Stamperama in Flitwick in support of the East Anglian Air Ambulance. I can't wait, it will be my first show since May and boy have I missed chatting away to all you nice people! So please if your in the area that day why not come along have a chat and support a great cause! Check out their website for more info http://www.stamperama.com

I have also been playing with my paints again!

Since Little Lady started school/swimming we seem to get a letter (or two!) every night so I decided that I needed a better way of filing it all, our poor breakfast bar was disappearing under a sea of "important" letters. So I bought some cheap clipboards, decorated them and now they are hung neatly near the front door with all letters and notes neatly filed!!!!

This is Little Lady's

Do you recognise the stamp I used???? Yep its Lizzie Doodles, Little Lady chose it herself and helped to finish it off!

And this is Little man's

As for the other two I am just adding the glaze and will share them with you when they are dry!

Oh and Little Lady she is loving big school, the best part being lunch times where her and her "bestiest friend ever!" play with the big kids - I dread to think what she gets up to! And Little Man well he is a star, keeping me on my toes and growing up very fast on Friday he hits the big 10 (weeks!) where does the time go - if I am not careful he will be off to school before I know it!

Playing Catchup

So many things have happened here at Crafty Roo HQ I am not quite sure where to begin, I guess I should  start were I left off nearly 1 month ago!

BIRTHDAY

Well Little Lady turned FOUR, when/how did that happen? Sometimes I don't recognise the grown up young lady staring back at me or more accurately the teenager answering me back! 

To celebrate the big day she had a birthday party which she planned. She gave me a list of games she wanted, now I know what your thinking "how difficult can it be to do pass the parcel?" well this is Little Lady I am talking about so she wanted "proper" carnival games......

So we had Hook a Duck, Giant Skittles, Score a Goal, Whack a Mole, Pop a Balloon and Bean Bag Bucket.

Oh and of course a sheep cake 'cos that's what all 4 year old's want as their birthday cake!

NEW STAMPS

We also have new stamps!!!

We have some fabulous Christmas ones........

 

Some new additions to our Build Your Own Range, these new ones are all sentiments and you get to create your own greeting - I have to say these are great to work with especially for last minute makes!!!!!!!! 

 

Some spooky Halloween ones

  

And as requested Cogsworth has been made into a stamp.

 

So if you are fancying a new stamp or two for those crafty makes why not check out our website.

NEW ADDITION

I guess this has to be the biggest bit of news! 

Baby Roo finally arrived.

Our little Man is the spitting image of his big sister at that age apart from he has far more hair! However that's as far as the similarites go! He is the most chilled out Little Man I have ever met, as along as his belly is full he is one happy little chappy! I can't wait for him to get a little bigger and we can all start crafting together!

GIVEAWAY

Finally, do you fancy winning some of the new Crafty Roo Stamps? Well why not check out Issue 70 of Creative Cardmaking........

End of the School Year!

I can't believe Little Lady has finished school, it only feels like yesterday I was packing her off on her first solo adventure 

and she has now completed her first year at school (well nursery!)!

 Boy has she grown sooo much this year, she has gone from a little girl who was shy and nervous to an independent young madame who happily walks into school all by herself, well with her "bestist friend ever!" She is really looking forward to September and is driving me crazy asking how many more days till she can go to school! 

Before school finished she was awarded the "Queen of Calm" award for always making sure everyone gets a turn, calming any situation and having a calming influence on others! I couldn't be prouder! As for a photo - yep I forgot my camera - at least I remembered the assembly!

So in true Queen of Calm style she decided she had to make a present for her teacher, but not just her group teacher but all of them because "they all help me!" So, what can you make for 8 YES 8!!!!!!! teachers!!!!

An apple of course.......

All painted by little lady! She even wrote all the tags herself....

Yes I know what you are thinking the tag was 30cm long! And with each tag she wrote she told be why each teacher was sooooo special! 

And for those eagle eyed among you do you like the "Thanks" stamp? Well watch out on the website as it is coming very soon!

Creative Stamping

SOOOOO have you seen it?????

Well a while ago you may recall I mentioned a secret project, well the time is here and I am so excited to share that Crafty Roo Designs is in Creative Stamping Issue 18!

 If you haven't seen it I would really recommend it as you get an A4 sheet of stamps FREE!!! They might not be Crafty Roo stamps but they are still fab! And as for us you will find us on pages 30, 31 and 32......

Happy reading!!!!

Soooooooooo.......

Where does the day go? Every time I close my eyes I seem to have lost another hour!

Anyway, the other day I had some exciting news to share and here it is....

Do you fancy the chance to win 2 sets of Craft Roo stamps? And get to read a fab mag full of brilliant ideas, well why not check out Issue 69 of Creative Cardmaking

And as for the stamps you could win, well, its a set of Lizzie Doodles 

 

AND Daisy Doodles.

So what you waiting for????

Lots to share......

Wow it has been a while since I last sat down to chat! Many things have been going on here at Crafty Roo HQ.

First up Little Lady is in her new bedroom, I ended up painting

• Jake, Izzie and Cubby (from Jake and the Neverland Pirates) 
  
• 1 duck
• 1 frog
• 2 hippos
• 1 lion
• 1 elephant
• 1 giraffe
• 1 donkey
• 1 pig
• 2 sheep
• 1 cow
• 5 chickens! 

 I should I have known when it comes to little lady, painting her room was never going to be easy! She chose everything herself including the stunning purple carpet!

Now the work begins on Baby Roos room, if little lady gets her way it will feature Fireman Sam - I don't think soooooo!

Also I have been busy designing some new stamps which are in production this week! So here's sneaky peep....

If that's not enough why not pop back Friday for some very exciting news..........

Promises

I bet you all thought I had disappeared! Nope I had just been Little Lady knapped! It's a long story, I guess I should start at the very beginning. 

Last weekend (well the one before that!) was my very last Ross Papercrafts Show for a while, for those of you who came along you and saw my waddling will understand why! Baby Roo is definitely effecting these old hips of mine, so I have to admit defeat and take a little "time off" but we will be back in September (well Mr Roo and Crafty Nic will!) and I will definitely back in November! I will update the show dates shortly!

While we were at Ross I got asked a few times how these little beauties had been made.......

Well all it is is Kraft card, with Rich Cocoa Memento Ink stamped onto it and coloured in using very soft coloured pencils, nothing more fancy! It gives you a fab effect and can be used for any design!

So I can hear you all ask what I plan to do with my "time off" well I am in the process of designing some new stamps mainly for Christmas but there will be a few other things too. And making lots of new samples to share! So stay tuned!

But probably my biggest job is keeping my promise to my Little Lady. From the moment we started talking to Little Lady about Baby Roo we talked about her moving bedrooms and for a little girl that doesn't like change it's a big deal! That was until she realised SHE could decide how it was decorated! From that point she was all for it, except I was busy so I made a promise, and in our house a promise is something you never break, maybes and mights can be changed but promises nah! 

I promised when I did my last show I would start to paint her new bedroom (here comes the problem part!) with anything she wants, over the past month she has had a plan brewing in that giant noodle of hers. So for the past week and a half I have been locked in her new bedroom painting, every time I think I have nearly finished she wants something else adding! But the end is sight her carpet arrives tomorrow so today is the final day of demands!!!!!!