Craft room update

Good morning all, hope you are having a good week. Today I thought I would show you the progress we are making on updating our craftroom.

The room isn't huge, about 12' by 10', but not small either, but with two of us occupying the space it was starting to feel really overcrowded and cluttered. 

So we decided to have a little makeover, which turned into a not so little makeover, but we did resist the temptation to take down the wall and extend into the kitchen lol. 

As you can see it was just sort of gathered together before, nothing matched and we just used what we had for desks and furniture.

And squeezed as much as we could into the space lol. But we decided it was time for a change so chose some plain white cabinets and a walnut block worktop. 

New cabinets going in

We spent most of last weekend emptying the room, building and fitting new cabinets and then putting everything back in. 

two new workspaces, one each ;o)

As you can see the main DIY work is completed, but not the organising of everything into their new homes.

Lovely big cabinets to house all of our goodies.

But it is amazing that by just changing the colour of the furniture, how much lighter and brighter the room feels. 

shelves in desperate need of sorting!

We seriously need a sort out of some of the craft stuff, especially all those magazines that are just stored on top of the Ikea unit! But we will get there, a little at a time lol. 

Thank goodness for Ikea cabinets, they hold loads.

And yes, we do have a Bigshot, and an Ebosser, and a Grand Calibur and a Cuttlebug!!!! lol, well we did combine two craftrooms into one lol. 

Starting to take shape

It's still very much a work in progress, but we are enjoying seeing it take shape. 

Oh - more cluttered shelves, but we do have the odd couple of soft toys to look at too :o))

Hope you have enjoyed this little tour of our room. We will update the pics once it's completed.

Take care and I'll see you soon.

xxx

Even more stash! AND a card!! [Image heavy]

Happy Wednesday! [or hump day as it's affectionately known]

The middle of the week and as far from the weekend as you can get.  Booooooo ;)

 

Last night I dragged this..................  

 

  .......into the craft room to unpack.  This is what came out of it!!!! 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I'd actually forgotten I had some of this\0/

I think we should seriously consider whether we need to buy anything again this year!

 

So on to the card. 

I made this for my niece who will be 26 this weekend.

The bear came from a pre-printed set which I coloured in neutral shades with flex markers. 

The matt and layer is a hexagonal Spellbinder die. 

The sentiment stamp was a freebie from a magazine. 

The buttons and papers are from my stash.  You can't see very well but the rolled flowers are made with the pink floral paper. 

Hope you like it.

 

TTFN Jude xx

Craft Room Update

Good morning all!  Yes I'm back in the world again having been between abodes for the last few days, without proper access to my craft cave or study!

 

Leaving my old house hasn't been as big a wrench as I thought it would be.  In fact I've settled quite nicely in with Jen and Alan.  The cats are certainly at home although they still aren't brave enough to venture far from the craft room.

 

Over the last couple of days we've made a few changes in there.  The glass table from my kitchen is now an extra workspace and fits well into the room.

 

 

Alan has added a couple of shelves to start moving some of the newest additions up off the floor so we can actually get in there to craft! In fact I made a card last night for my niece whose birthday is next weekend. She shares it with Jen's son Daniel, and the day after is my son Edward's birthday, so lots of cards HAVE to be made this week lol.

 

We are all back to work tomorrow so we will be spending a few evenings this week finishing clearing the bungalow and unpacking the bags, boxes and suitcases which seem to be multiplying every day.

There is still alot to do as the whole house is over run but at least we are getting there -

s-l-o-w-l-y!!

 

Here are a couple more shots of the stash merger and once we are finished we'll share how it looks.

 

TTFN Jude xx

My craft room is crying.......

Oh dear, yes my poor old craft room is crying under the weight of all the boxes and bags that have been piled in to it lol. But it's also singing about all the new, yummy, crafty goodies it's now got. ROFL.

 

Anyway good morning all, hope you are well today. I thought I had better blog again today as I'm not sure that Jude could even find her computer, never mind have something crafty to blog ha ha. Just look at the mess that was once my craft room/study!

 

 

And that's just a bit of the stash, the rest is in other piles lol.

 

 

Today's card has had to be one I did last week for Mum's birthday, as I haven't been able to do much crafting this week. I say not much, as I am still managing to sneak in the odd hour!!!

 

 

This one was a bit of a cheat as I copied the idea from a magazine that the papers and stamps came with. I just really liked it and thought it was a fun image, and I knew mum would appreciate it lol.

 

 

I coloured the image with Promarkers and cut it out by hand. I used a 6x6 white card blank and half covered it with the spotty paper layered on to black card.

 

 

The postcard also came with the magazine, so I used it across the middle and added the sentiments stamped in black Memento ink.

 

 

I cut the sentiments out by hand and added them to the card with some red gems and finished it with some red dotty ribbon and a bow.

 

 

It's a really simple card, but hope you like it too. Thanks for stopping by today, I'm off to help with the big move again! see you all soon.

 

xxx