Welcome to the hop!

Hi everyone! Welcome to the Witt & Sass & Beth Duff Designs Blog Hop! 

***Firstly I have everything crossed that all my friends being effected by Hurricane Florence are ok. I made this weather related card along time before anything about the hurricane appeared on UK news outlets so it wasn't intended to relate to real world events in any way!***

Forces have united to bring you a load of DT inspo projects using two recent release stamps sets, Fabulously Gobsmacked from Witt and Sass and Beth Duff Designs Adventures Abroad - London! (The London Set will be released on the 21st Sept, you can see it here in the W&S Facebook Group Hop Post til then.)

Here is my Shaker Card using the building and vehicles from BDD London Set and "Bloody Brilliant" from the W&S Set.  ( I added my own bit about the rain in Candy Square BTN.) I also coloured a bus in dark grey and lobbed off the top to make a taxi! And Tower Bridge has been converted to the Houses of Parliment, with a bit of snipping!

I tried a different method for the shaker rather than foam pads but went a bit cray with the sequins and now London has serious flooding issues, oops!  I thought adding rain to proceedings would make it more English! Brads and Baker Twine from the stash. Image coloured with copics. Background coloured with distress inks. Paper from Lawn Fawn Perfectly Plaid.

Also once you have completed the hop, make sure you go to look at the stamp sets, pick your fav sentiment from either and leave a comment on either the W&S Facebook Page, or the Beth Duff Designs Facebook Page. (Comment on either, it's fine!)

Carry on with the hop using the links below!

Mindy

Marcia

You Are Here: Annabel :You Are Here

Amy

Emma

Fawn

Annie

Rachel

Niccole

Beth

Hop Day Five!

Day five of the hop already, half way kind of! :) If you are looking for the hop post with all the details on, please GO HERE Thanks :)

Whilst I had my Kanban card kit "Keep Britain Crafting" out I thought I might knock up a couple more cards for personal use, for my partners Cousin and my BIL.

The card on the left, for my BIL, I wanted to title " Hazards for cyclists" as he is a keen cyclist and I realised I had done him a card possibly with things he hates on, lol! oops. Card faux pas! :) Hope he chuckles.

The card on the right, for my partners cousin I chose because one of her relations, Giles Gilbert Scott was the guy that designed the Red Telephone Box. Quite a claim to fame :) Wish someone in my family tree had done something exciting!

Day out in Landan :)

Just wanted to share a few of the photos of a super day out I had with my friends Helen and Audrey in Landan back in July! It's taken me a while to write it up, collect the photos and make the post, I'm soooo slow! :)

We figured it was pretty unlikely that we would ever get to go to the Hello Kitty Cafe in Shibuya Japan, or Hello Kitty World (Hello Kitty Sanrio Puroland),so when we heard that a pop-up Hello Kitty Cafe had opened in Landan, we jumped at the chance of going!

Hello Kitty Sanrio Puroland

Hello Kitty Sanrio Puroland)

So we caught the train to London Euston on a rather miserable soggy day and were there in no time. (Possibly due to nattering all the way there!) The train was very busy, but Euston wasn't too bad and we made our way to the British Library which we had been advised was good for cafe/people watching potential. The shop was awesome too! Unfortunately it was bucketing down by the time we had finished in the shop so we had to go for a drink (and cake) in the indoor cafe. Here are a few photos from the library that I took for instagram.

We'd planned to do the Japan Centre or Carnaby Street between the library and our 2 o'clock booking at the Hello Kitty Cafe but it took sooooooo lonnnnnng to get across London in the taxi we had to go straight there. We had awesome taxi drivers that day, helpful, friendly, rounding down the price!

The Hello Kitty Pop-up Cafe was downstairs in a cafe called Cutter and Squidge in Soho.It's only open til the 31st August so hope you've already booked if you wanted to go!

Here are Helen and Audrey before the food arrived! Innocent of the fact we were about to be overwhelmed by sugary goodness! :) We were lucky to get the best seats in the house, complete with Hello Kitty themed cushions! Here are Helen and I , modelling a couple of them!

       

Below is the menu, cutlery etc on the table. We had booked for the "tea" so we didn't get choices apart from our hot drink!

Here are some of the gratuitous food shots! There was so much! Everything was amazing. Even if it was a little odd, it was still delicious! :)

  

After not doing the feast justice at all, they packaged up our doggy bags and we popped back up to the counter to buy some Merch! I got a super exclusive Hello Kitty mug and reusable Hello Kitty landan themed shopping bag. Love them both! :) Tho I am slightly scared to put the mug in the dishwasher!

 Image from Bloomsbury Angel - https://twitter.com/bloomsburyangel

After that it was STILL raining so we got another taxi to Artbox, which had been recommended to us to buy kawaii items! It was just round the corner from Covent Garden, the final stop on our day out. Artbox wasn't as big or as packed with goodies as we had hoped for but we still got some awesome stuff we probably wouldn't have got anywhere else but Japan (please ignore the whole of the internet rather proving this statement to be twaddle.)

After Artbox we walked round the corner to Covent Garden, where it was STILL RAINING! and we popped into the central market area for toilet stop and mooch. My friend Grace's sister (Kat!) had recommended Paul's Bakery for a stop off and it was an excellent suggestion. The rain finally stopped as we walked over to it (2 mins from the central square) and we were a bit shattered by that point, (all that sitting and eating!) so a bit of very comfy Paul's luxury was just what we needed. (Thanks Kat!)

 Image from Mapping London - http://mappinglondon.co.uk

Popped to Paperchase and then straight back via taxi to Euston Station, where a very kind man (Do I sound like a nana when I say that?) allowed us to catch a slightly earlier (than our ticket officially allowed) train to go home!. I was pooped! :)

One of my favourite days ever! Thank you Helen and Audrey :)