Getting Organised!

Those who have followed this blog will now that I am an very tidy crafter

I like everything to be easy to get to and neat

My Spellbinders and other thin dies have been driving my nuts as they were all just still in their orginal packing in a box - neatly but it was not working well

So I have made a new book to hold my dies

I used mount board that I had left over from some framing I did

I cut it down to size and then I used some of my 12 x 12 stash of paper to cover it

I have had this paper about 18months and have not used it

I then stamped my Little Suzy stamp that I have had since I started card making

I love this little duck as he seems to be jumping for joy

He is coloured using promarkers

I then cut him out using my Spellbinder Nestabilitie label die

I inked the edge to destress it a bit

I then dry embossed some black card

using my sizzix with a new embossing folder from Prov Craft

It came with the black card that when sanded has purple showing through

This is a first for me as I have never sanded my work before

I then used the left over bit to make the label to cover the words

I then thought I would get out my heat gun and embossing powders

as its been ages since I have used them

Again I did a first for me I used clear embossing power and embossed it three times

To give both label a glossy finish and I hope this will project them a little

I used my bind-it-all and some left over wire to bind the book

My crop-a-dile was used to putch the holes for the ribbon to go through

so I could tie the book shut

Ribbon again is from stash

Inside the card I used some magnetic kids sheets of the world that I brought from Tescos

I cut it into two inch strips and attached it to the centre of the page

The dies then sit nicely on this and are held securly

Then as I am a little OCD I have labelled each set of dies

by doing them in word and the cutting them out.

It has taken me quite a few hours this evening

thats why I am blogging it at this time in the morning lol

(2.45am British Time)
I am really pleased with how this turned out

I am entering it into the following challenges:

My Time To Craft - Up in the Air ( the ducks jumping)

Simon Says - New Beginnings ( New Storage for my Dies)

Cute Card Thursday - Out With the Old ( Lots of old stash used)

Art Walk Friday - Share Some Art

Secret Crafter - Tons of Texture

Speedy Cats - Embossing

Simply Create - Embossing

Winter Wonderland - Lets go Dotty

Sorry for such a long post but it you have lasted all the way to here

Thank You

x Nicky x