My Ally Pally Weekend

Hay peeps

Finally got around to uploading my pics {and stealing some from friends}

SATURDAY

As always there were lots of familiar #PATWIT faces about

Was lovely to catch up with Helen, Gabrielle, Lin, Julie, Jo, Brenda, Astrid, Helen and Lesley, Lin, Leandra and Sam.

I did all my shopping and got almost everything I had on my want list.

I really missed my partner in crime Gillian who couldn't make it this time and Alison who's off sunning herself in Turkey!

For my very nosey readers I've done a utube stash haul vid.

I also got to meet a few of the lovely ladies from the UKIreland SwapGroup i'm part of.
Nicky, Tina, Mandy and Lyn {who's not in the pic}
Then it was drinkies after the show with the #PABrigade

SUNDAY
I got to spend a perfect day with 2 of my favourite people Sandy {an AP virgin} and Lily,
along with Sandys entourage of people {her 2 daughters Kimmy & Jojo and hubby Chris}

We all had an awesome time and Sandy only had to go in the naughty corner once lol
I also bumped into Kirsten, Siobhan {forgot to get pics} Brenda and Astrid again along with Jenny M and Jennie B.

All in all it was a super weekend, the weather was amazing as was the company.
I wish every weekend could be so good.

Stay Inky

Ally Pally Weekend

So I just had a fab fun weekend spent at the big stamp and scrapbooking show.
My darling Mummy made this weekend possible and I thank her muchly as I love meeting up with friends old and new xo I just wish everyone didn't live so far apart.. But anywhoooooo.
The first thing was to get this shot

Then the hordes arrived and took over the PA stand..

Leandra and Lin were straight into demoing the fab new paint colours and new stampage..

And Gillian was showing off her samples getting Lin to shop shop shop lol

Helen and Lin B on their phones while Lin and Anna just mill about.
Then I headed over to annoy Sam Poole and the MDF man.

I only managed 1 shot of the #PAtwit meet up we had after the show on Saturday, Not as many as in april but it was still nice to rest the feet and have a little natter with everyone before heading home.

On sunday I managed to snap Don and Val of Snazzy's before things got going

Here is Gilly and Leandra ready for their day of demo's

The calm didn't last long as soon it was busy busy 

The crowds gather

To the point I couldn't get near.. Gilly was in her element!

Me and my pint size pal Alison... {she's on her tiptoes you know lol}

Then I found Lucy and Lin mooching at the PA stand once it had quietened down.

And that was all the pics I got.. I was too busy nattering and watching demos oh and a smidge of shopping

The pics came out a bit fuzzy but i'll share um anyway.. I also got a tray, set of draws and lots of hardware from the MDF man but forgot to take a pic.

So that was my weekend.. How was yours?

Stay Inky

The Best'est Weekend Ever! Part #2

As promised here are the snap shots taken on day 2 {sunday} of the Big Stamp & Scrapbooking show.
Having done nearly all of my shopping on the saturday it left sunday free to watch lots of demo's like the lovely Jo showing off her skills.

Then Leandra managed to throw Gillian in at the deep end and do a bit too. She resisted for about 2 seconds before getting into the swing of things.

Then I went and pestered me old mucka Hels

Nabbed the lovely Sam Poole for a shot while she was skiving from demo duty

And also caught Val {of Snazzy's} playing with pan pastels

 Don however was doing... well... not alot lol although he will argue he was working hard!!!

The weather was alot brighter on the sunday, usually we have heatwave weather for the ally pally show but this time it was very hit and miss, we got totally drenched after the show saturday..( you may have seen the great shots of Gillian fashioning some smoking hot rain head wear.. NO.. check out near the end of Sam's post HERE )
and sunday was... well... very windy but nice and warm so all was good except this dodgy pic lol

Alison also came back for a second helping and we caught up with Lucy too.

 Alison even followed me home.. (I'm kidding of course) we happened to bump into each other on the way home after the show, which was nice as we got to natter a bit more.

It was an awesome weekend with lots of laughter, fun and friendship alongside all the crafty stuff. The best way to spend any weekend. Thanks to all of you who made it special, I can't wait to do it all again in aug/sept for the Finnabair class!
I'll be travelling home tomorrow so will be back to normal blogging of crafty makes soon after hopefully.
Till Then..
Stay Inky

The Best'est Weekend EVER! Part #1

So as many of you know this past weekend was Ally Pally's Big Stamp & Scrapbooking craft show.
It's been a year since i've been able to attend so was a tad excited.
On Friday afternoon I met up with one of my best'ies Gillian

Then Saturday morning, this was the calm b4 the storm!

That didn't last long as trouble turned up in the form of my other best'ie Lily

and she started shopping straight away lol

B4 I knew it the place was teeming with PATWITS {paper artsy twitter peeps}

This is lovely Gabrielle

 Sam{21Ski} This was the 1st time we've met in person after knowing each other online for about 5 years.

Another first in person meeting with the oh so talented Carol Q

Then I got some hugs from a familiar face both online and in person, The slightly crazy Alison

Leandra was in full demo mode on the PA stand.

As was Lin, showing us all how it's done.

Then it was all hands on deck

From left to right Michelle, Leandra, Darcy & Lin

 Michelle and Darcy took over for a bit

Then it was time for more hugs

and stuffing of faces with some scrummy cupcakes Darcy handmade.

OH MY GOD melt in the mouth lemon yumminess I tell ya

{Lily, Me and Helen with an extra arm..which was Gillian's}

Emma was being all shy hiding behind her camera, Then I found her and Sam in the massive queue on the PA stand where poor Mark was working his little behind off!

Right I think that's enough pics for today.. I leave you wanting a bit more.. and I'll be back tomorrow with more pics from Sunday.

Stay Inky

Butterfly Wishes!

As alot of you know I am now up in London in readiness for Ally Pally this weekend,
SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEELLLLLLLLLL {sorry i'm a wee bit excited to see all my pals}
But b4 I left I did manage to make my entry for the following challenges
 Country View Crafts Challenge with their 'Butterflies' theme and
IndigoBlu Forever 21 Challenge with their 'Words & Phrases' theme

I've used one of my prize stamps from IndigoBlu 'Elizabeth Bennet' and coloured her with copics.
My first colouring attempt at the larger flowers wasn't quite up to par so I stamped them out again, and when I was happy with the colours I cut them out, mounted then on top with some foam mount which added a nice dimension to the overall look.

I also did the same with the butterflies although the teeny tiny butterfly was cut from paper at some point and was randomly found on the floor the day I was making the card....spooky!

The wording is also an IndigoBlu stamp from their 'little voice' set, stamped onto a tag and then mounted onto a nestie die-cut shape, as was the main image. Don't ask me the names as they have all gone clean out of my head!

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If you are attending Ally Pally you will find me lurking at the PaperArtsy stand with my good buddy Gillian and the rest of the #PATWITS so if ya see me do stop, introduce yourself and say Hi, I love to meet fellow craft folks xo

I hope to get lots of photo's so will be back to share them some time after the weekend.

Till then...Stay Inky