Well hello peeps! I have recently returned from a very long vacation in Florida and I can tell you that The Sunshine State certainly lived up to its name! Three weeks and four days of absolutely glorious weather and so much relaxation that coming back to England has come as a bit of a wake up call. Well, it would be a wake-up call if I could tell what time of day it is. My body clock is definitely still on Florida time!
Unfortunately, between a trip to Hogsmeade and Hogworts at Universal's Islands of Adventure in Orlando and watching dolphins in the Gulf of Mexico from Siesta Key, I didn't get very much opportunity to post any comments on your blogs but I hope to catch up gradually over the next few weeks and I apologise for my absence.
I did manage to schedule my two recent posts before I went away and I had thought I was ready for this week's challenge at
where we want you to create anything but a card but I was wrong! One of the key criteria at Sweet Stampin is that you must use a stamped image (rubba or digi) somewhere on your project and I forgot!!! Of course I can't actually enter as a contestent so it doesn't matter too much for me and I did spend ages making my project but if you want to enter, and we hope you will, please don't forget to use a stamped image.
When I was growing up, my family used to play a card game called Rummoli (it's kind of like Newmarket but with more pay cards and a poker element). We always used a big cardboard board that my Mum drew out. We have continued to play very occasionally and I decided I wanted a more heavy duty board so I commissioned a carpenter to make my board from MDF to my specification. I sprayed it gold and used SU papers to decorate each section. I selected the appropriate playing cards from a deck of small cards obtained from a Christmas Cracker and cut out my letters using my Cricut. The whole board was then repeatedly glazed to protect the papers from wear and tear.
The board is fifty cms in diameter and is an inch thick with cut outs to place the money bets. When we were kids we used poker chips but as we got older we moved to real pennies. You can lose 200 of them in a bad night!!!
