Being crafty...and a Giveaway

The last few days I have revelled in being miserable - I tell you (and Mr P will certainly vouch for that),

I can do miserable better than anyone :))))

Despite my healthy living lifestyle, I have piled on the pounds like no ones business and naturally that started my "woe-is-me" misery. Add to that man-flu (I don't do common colds, when I get the sniffles I turn into a whining mess, just like a dude) and to top it all off, after a sleepless night I was greeted with a migraine of the evil kind yesterday. It took me a good 12 hours to get it under control, with prescribed medication, a lot of bed rest and fluids. So, this morning I could not wait to get out of bed and start being positive again.

Ms Migraine, tentatively made herself known to me when I got up, but one pill later and she's put back into her box. I can always tell that I have her under control when I go on the computer and after an hour of starting at the screen I am neither feeling sick or headachy - result on that front :))

So, with that one ticked off, I decided to turn my man-flu into a common cold and all of a sudden life doesn't look so bad. The added love-rings, well I have to tackle them another day. For now I just want to create.

Recently I have missed being subbed to a monthly paper crafting kit and to tell you the truth, most of them out there are neither here nor there. They either have too many embellishments, too much cardstock, too much product of just one manufacturer....I don't know, maybe I am hard to please (insert heavy nodding from Mr P)

But now I am sure I have found the Kit that is perfect for me - and what is even better, you can start a subscription with the smaller version and this is only £10.00 including postage to the UK. Enter Quirky Kits Lite.

I found that the amount of papers, cardstock and embellishments in this kit are just perfect for me - but if you would like a little more of each, then you can subscribe to the full Kit for only £22.00 including postage in the UK.

These kits are available every two months which makes it even better value in my eyes, either £5.00 or £11.00 set aside each month - for the scrapper on a budget definitely worthwhile.

Anyway, I got my first kit yesterday and could not wait to get started - and the frugal scrapper in me, made sure that even made use of the packaging...but more of that later.
Let's have a look at the first layout I made with it.

**click on any of the images to enlarge/sharpen the view**

See that big flower?
That was created by hand cutting four different sized circles from the tissue paper in which the kit was wrapped. A little spritz of Cosmic Shimmer, a little crunch, layer them on top of each other
(with a dot of glue in between layers) and glue a flat backed pearl in the middle - eh voila:

And then there was a little note from Quirky Kit owner, Leonora about the subscription but I loved the kraft paper so much that I simply flipped it over, ran a Fiskars border punch along the edge and it tucked behind the picture

But that was not the end of my frugal adventure...oh no. You see, Leonora uses different pieces of washi tape to pack up the kits - and there was no way I was going to throw that super cute heart washi and the polka dot washi away. I simply peeled it off the packaging and stuck it in my layout.

And while I was in a creative mood, I razzled up a card for the recent challenge over at the Some Odd Girl Blog:

As for the giveaway - well it is not from me, but my super talented friend Nathalie. Look what you can call yours with a little luck:

Nat has just "move" virtual home and if you check out this post you can get the skinny on how you can be in with a chance to win that package above.

Good luck!

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