First of all I like to wish everyone a Happy New Year. Secondly I would like to say sorry for the lack of post last year. It was partly to do with a family situation, and also the fact I had trouble with the tablet I use to write this on...

Hopefully I have sorted the problem out, so full steam ahead

New Friend

Hello all -  I'm still alive.....

If you are wondering where I have been. Well the answer is, I had trouble with my newish iPad (He was new to me anyhow ). I learnt I could write posts easy on the iPad. But couldn't upload photos, maybe my brother new of a way but didn't want to share and I couldn't go back to my old nexus7 as it was slowly dying. (Its still dying)


Until the other day when my Godmother said I could have her kindle fire.  Has she was upgrading to the latest version.  At first I was a little unsure about it, as I always thought the kindle is just for books. How wrong am I?


Today my Godmother pop around for coffee and a chat with my mum, she also dropped off the kindle.


I've decided from now on this is what I will be using from now on to blog...


See you soon 

Happy New Year

Wishing all my readers a very Happy New Year!

See you in the New Year.

Small Easter Haul

Today I decided to go into town do a bit of retail therapy. I roughly knew what I wanted to get, some foam and cardstock, plus some other bits too..

Before you start to wonder where I am going to put it all too. I honestly can say I have projects for most of this. Yes there is one or two things I'm not sure about what I'm going to do with. But I do know I will find projects at some point to use them up.

So this is what I got!

The first shop I stopped off at was The Works.

The paper grass I got for an Easter project and the foam eggs are actually for a Mother's Day project

The next shop i went to was Poundland. Only got a few bits.

Next and last stop before home was wilkos.

In the coming weeks I'll hopefully be using up what I got, and if I do I will be using the tag 'easter haul - 2017... 

Dino Christmas!

I believe it is safe for me to share this now.

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I'm writing this in November, but I won't be sharing this till about two days after Christmas day... Just playing! save.

Today is the 13th of November and I decided to make my dino nutty friend. Her Christmas card and sort out what I'm going to send.

This is the little card I made.

Isn't he super cute!

About a year ago I made some plain note cards and card holder.. (I guess that is what it is called right?)

I made the above after having the idea of making these up for friends. This is the only one I made and I fell in love with it.. I planned to make more but never got round to it.

 Maybe next year I will only time will tell!

The last thing I sent was this dino pattern and yarn..

I got the kit free from 'Lets Knit magazine' a while ago.

I knew I would never use the pattern..

Please let me know what you think?

Autumn loaded envelope swap

In the middle of October my dino nutty friend and I decided to do a Autumn theme loaded envelope swap.

Either one of us has done one before.
 I've been watching video on YouTube how to make/do the loaded envelope.

Honestly more I look at how to make them, I realise there isn't any rules. Okay mainly the loaded envelope is made from gift/treat bags. But really you can make them from gift bags to envelopes you make it how you want it! Anyway it's what I have seen online..

So here is my Autumn loaded envelope.
(My first one)

Here's how the front looks. 

Here is some of the goodies I have sent.

The leaves came of TheWorks and the pinecone came from Wilkos . The gold yarn I got a few years ago in my local craft shop and the eyelash yarn I got free from a magazine. The ombre 

effect twine is from Lawn Fawn, I bought it from Seven Hill crafts 

I used my new xcut die the wreath to get this autumn feeling wreath.

The card above is full of goodies. I used my new washi tape from bon bon kawaii. I made the autumn/Halloween embellishment after being inspired by Yenny which you can find her on YouTube, Instagram and Facebook storytaleshop .

I love these pumpkins, I got from Poundland. 

I just knew I had to send one of these.

In the picture above is some random die cuts, washi tapes and some pinwheels I have made. The envelope with the rosette on are diecut pieces to make rosettes or banners.

Last but not lease leaf stickers and autumn/woodland animals washi tapes are all from Bon Bons Kawaii .

If you would like to see better pictures of the washi tapes and stickers above please hop over to my Instagram @busybeecraftz link is at the top of the page.

Hopefully the next post will be the one my friend sends..

Birthday Flipbook

The first week of October is one of my friend's birthday.. Last year I sent her my first attempt of a pocket letter, which I shouldn't confess wasn't great..

This year I wanted to send her a flipbook.

 Which is all the craze at the moment in the world of crafting, snail mail.. I should confess I have been practising..

My friend loves the colour of turquoise / blue

 and dinos. 

The first thing I made was her birthday card...

I love how this turned out, so flaming cute!

Then I made a dinosaur bookmark and the flipbook.

This is how it turn out.

The front page had a pocket for the birthday card I sent and a tag flap housing the Dino paper clip..

                           

Inside on the first page I was another pocket, with paper I used to make the Flipbook and some Halloween embellishments I made inspired by Yenny @storytaleshop on Instagram..

The little envelopes on the pockets had some washi tape samples

Above is some of the embellishments I made , these are the ones I sent.

Middle page I sent some different colour beads. The next page I put some happy Dino stickers on and attached a tag flap with what I'm up to on!

Below are the goodies I sent her

Last year I sent her some dino stamped pictures and kept some for myself. But I never used them so I popped them into the Flipbook too. With some flowers I diecutted myself

Above is some of the other goodies I sent, one side had gems and the other side I sent some brown and gold Dino stickers.. I got those years ago at the Dorchester Poundland..

You can get a better look on my YouTube channel.

Please let me know what you think?