s/o No Traffic - What was the last purchase you made?

Trying a new craft...diamond painting.

3 stamps from Paper Nest, which just arrived last week.

Two of them are the Girl Wizard and the Boy Wizard that are obviously influenced by Harry Potter. Someone had posted an adorable card on the Queen and Company Royalty Facebook page that featured the boy wizard stamp, and the broom shaker from a Q&Co. Halloween set. The shaker set is out of stock, but at least I have the stamps.

The third stamp was a girl at the beach stamp, just because she was cute. I’m sure I will find a way to use her on a card. It’s summertime.

Look up diamond painting for adults on amazon..,they aren’t expensive. Get the round drills as they call the stones rather than the square ones. I watched a couple of videos on YouTube...kind of relaxing and not much thought needed. My neighbors have been doing them for a year and are enjoying them. As crafts go, this is an inexpensive one. Don’t buy from China as it takes way too long to arrive. A lot like counted cross stitch. They actually use the DMC numbers for the drills.

I really like that pumpkin but not the square frame around it.  Have you got the die yet, I’m wondering if you can cut away the frame without messing up the pumpkin.

GiantsFan and azcrafty, so far I’ve only used them to make my swatches but I like The firm foam instead of the felt pads that most dye inks use.  Also really like the colors but mushroom was not a good name for that color.  It’s almost a black, it’s so dark.  I was expecting something more along the lines of a brownish gray color.

I ordered a Halloween gift bag die set from HSN and while I was there, went ahead and ordered a Christmas tree die set too. The Christmas trees will be cute for cards.

I also placed a decent order from Taylored Expressions. I got several dies and stencils, plus a flocking kit. I already had the matchbox die so I bought a couple dies to “dress up” the matchboxes—like a Santa and an elf set. There were also some small dies on clearance that were like $2 each so I got a few of those. I got bacon and eggs because that’s been ds’s favorite breakfast and he starts school this week, so I thought that might be cute to use. I also got the burger and fries dies because they were cute and cheap.

Yesterday, I got my scrapbook.com order of a stamping storage cart and a washi tape holder that I’m using for Queen and Company shaker toppings/shakers. Of course, there were a couple dies, stamps and stencils in that order too. One of the stencils is 6x6 and says “we’re all mad here “ in a cool creepy font.

Karin Markers from Marker Universe. (I bought one of the smaller sets.)

I am terrible at watercoloring, and wanted to try these out. I also bought a couple of different watercolor papers, since the one watercolor paper I had, did not blend very well.

I tried Arches Cold Press and Hot Press, Acquarello Hot Press, and had the Tim Holtz Distress Watercolor Cardstock on hand. Arches was by far the best paper - although a little pricey.

I stick to mostly CTMH stuff and have a large order coming this week from them (stamps, paper, ink).

But I did order 2 sets of slimline dies from Kraftgali in late July.

I already have Lawn Fawn’s magic iris die and I just bought the two camera add ons to go with it. I’ve also pre-ordered a couple of Wild Whisper Designs paper lines for scrapping.

Thanks Restless Spirit.  I'm adding that die to my cart.

Since covid I’ve been shopping a lot. I won’t list them all as it’s A LOT! But I did also sell some stuff to help pay for it. But excessive-
Cutterpillar pro
Cutterpillar glow and glass mat
Karin Pro brush markers are coming the full set
5 Karin burniston pop up dies, the xmas tree, the house with the fence, the 3 tiered cake, the cupcake, and the flower pot
The full set of taylored expressions inks, envelopes and paper. I debated between this and concord and 9th but I already have the Catherine pooler minis. I wanted my inks to match everything and I don’t love the Gina k cardstock.
A ton of copic refills
The taylored expressions sentiment strip storage
The taylored expressions grid paper you create your projects on
A ton of the new lawn Fawn stamps and dies with birthday $$
A bunch of the stuff from art impressions to do with watercolor technique with tombow brush markers. That is very relaxing. I tool the class at GASCand as part of the class kit you could order a lot of the stamp sets at a 30% discount
Auto ship for the new Spectrum noir triblend brush tip markers. I love my copics but the triblends are great for on the go. I have the bullet but I want to try the brush. Clearly I have a marker obsession issue!
1 diamond dots set to try with my son

I haven't been shopping much this year, and haven't been card-crafting much either.

I think the last few things I bought were:
Trinity Stamps slimline frame dies, and grass/hill/cloud edge dies (made a couple of cards)
some sentiment dies from The Ton which were discounted (I've used a couple)
Shimelle Never Grow Up 6x8 pad and die cuts (used a few in my scrappy projects, cards to come)
Bloom Street papers, die cuts, stickers, butterflies (used a lot! bought more. used more)

and before that, a few months ago:
some Tim Holtz blueprint stamps which I have barely used, despite having some good ideas for...
and Tim Holtz hipster animal stamps, which have been fun

and the thing that I overspent on and haven't used yet:
MFT gift card stamps, dies, and plastic holder thingies. I've used a couple of the sentiment stamps but haven't made a single gift-card card with the other stuff. I really need to! Especially because I think that will be big this Christmas...

Most used purchase this year (besides Bloom St) is The Ton Transformation butterfly stamp, which is gorgeous. I could make a lot more cards with that stamp without getting bored.