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Wednesday, 15 February 2012

WOYWW 141 and the Craft Room Workout!

It has been a really busy week, and I couldn't believe it when I realised that the last time I blogged was a whole week ago! And here I am again, wondering where that week went lol!!  I think I've learned my lesson about scheduling classes so close together.  I have run 4 classes in the last week, and what with packing kits, sorting the toolkits after each one ready for the next, and finishing my samples for the NEC trade show, I am pooped! 


So, I thought I would share with you what I've spent the last 45 mins doing................

 BEFORE...... this is the Cuttlebug work station, aka the kitchen counter (can you tell???? lol!) 


and you can just see at the bottom right of the pic, a big carrier bag full of......... loo rolls.


I needed to flatten these, and a pile of kitchen roll tubes, ready for a future class where we will be making TP mini albums. For those who have never seen them, these are cute little mini scrapbooks/brag albums made from.............you guessed it..... loo roll inner tubes!


Now for the AFTER............


A whole carrier bag full reduced to a few square inches! All neat and ready to go. 


Now for that workout bit, it took 45 mins of manual labour on the Cuttlebug to achieve this, and it was hot work! Who needs Zumba classes when you have a Cuttlebug and a bag full of loo rolls???  Doesn't sound that great, does it!!!??

An now for something completely different.........................  this is the men's Valentine's card I made for the WOW! Embossing Powders design team blog. Random hearts and sentiments stamped all over the inner pop out section and embossed in Platinum, and the sparkly heart dangling in the aperture is embossed in 2 different colours, one on each side of the heart so you get a really cool effect as it rotates.






OK,  I am off to load up the car for tonight's class, and when I get back, or possibly tomorrow morning, I will scoot round as many desks as I can in the weekly snoopathon hosted over at the Stamping Ground


Thanks for stopping by


debs x

10 comments:

  1. Hey, I use some of these kitchen counters too - I love your card!
    sandy

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  2. Love the card! It is super cool! Hey a work space is a workspace! You should share a finished loo rool mini next week. I'd love to see it! Thanks for sharing! Have a great WOYWW!- Amanda #149
    PS-I am giving away blog candy in honor of Valentines Day Candy! Pop on over!

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  3. i love that, cook and craft, Great workspace, Happy WOYWW 141, thank you for sharing,# 52

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  4. Love the Valentine card. What a great idea to make little books with toilet roll tubes (Hazel, WOYW #136) x

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  5. I LOve making TP albums their great fun I hope your class went well!! your card is beautiful x x Have a good week, Hugs May x x x x

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  6. Would love to see how/what you do with TP albums, i have heard of people using TR in their crafting before but didn't realise they was flattened to make books mmmm something i will have to research on google tomorrow, anyway hope you had a great class, have a lovely week Lou x

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  7. Love your beautiful card. I have never seen toiletg paper album so would love to see it finished.

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  8. I love what crafter's use to craft - loo roll is popular I reckon! Take care, thanks for sharing & hope you enjoy this week's WOYWW. Zo xx 86

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  9. Thank you for hopping by my WOYWW this week. Yes, I can't wait to play with the flower dies :) I am going to take a look at your blog - love to see the flowers you make by hand :)

    Celestial Things

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  10. Thanks for sharing your projects...you have been a busy girl! I hope you post the loo roll album as i have not seen one yet.

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