Make and Take 1

To launch all their Christmas stock my local garden centre had a fun day and they had John Glossop from Creative Expressions doing four make and take sessions. I had to miss one to take my little girl to a classmates birthday party for a couple of hours. This was the first session.

We did some embossing on acetate to make the butterfly and some triple embossing on the chipboard flower. I had to leave this one early so I finished the background papers last night at home - used slightly different colours as I only own 2 distress inks. I scrunched the paper wiped the ink, sprayed with water and ironed. Repeated until covered. The other paper was just coloured with foam and stamped. Again I used slightly different stamps to finish it off. I'm really pleased with the effect.






I'm entering this into:

A spoonful of sugar distressing

Quilled Christmas card

Another Christmas card. This one is a fairly simple quilled snowflake with some free NitWit papers and a foil snowflake.











I'm entering this into:

- Take a quill pill challenge 3

- MSE winter wonderland

- Totally Papercrafts Snow and snowflakes

- Delicious Doodles challenge 1 

60th Anniversary commission

My Mum's friend had a 60th Wedding Anniversary this week so Mum asked me to do a big card. I made this star card using the crafters companion ultimate pro. It's decorated with Papermania Henbury Lane papers and quilling.












































I'm entering this into:

- Digidoodles anything goes 
- HodgePodge anything goes
- Craftycreations beautiful insides

Catch up after half term

Last week was half term, my daughter just started back today. We did a fair few craft projects getting ready for Christmas.



We made soap and bath bombs in mini cupcake moulds - chocolate scented to match the lipbalms. I'll make some boxes to put them in and DD can decorate and give to our family.

DD has been invited to a few birthday parties. For the one little girl we made a memory wire bracelet - I'm a convert after the one I made for my Mum and invested in a few supplies from Sanctuary Beads on eBay. She made the pinky one and I made the other two for family.




She also made all the Christmas cards for her classmates.

I've had a good craft week too. I won my first candy :D




A beautiful selection fromSamuel Taylors. It had some lovely things that I haven't played with before. Haven't had the time to play with it - just looking and stroking :) I'm hoping to have a day to play next week.

Today was my craft club we played with resist techniques and distress inks.



I'd like to enter this one in the latest MSE challenge.





I bought Do Crafts Creativity magazine and I am on page 78 with a card I made for the competition





Lastly added to my stash with these quilling dies - great fun.




Phew - long post! Should have restored order and be back to normal by next week.

Letterpress

DoCrafts have been selling their letterpress for half price, and I spent my eBay earnings on it. I love the effect it gives. It needs a bit of practice - my first attempts were dreadful. These are the cards I've made with it.

MSE birthday cards

I received two beautiful cards for my birthday from the MSE forum.




Thanks Padster!




Thanks Jowri!

Craft Club Week 2

Just had my second week at the craft club this morning. Was good fun. We made two cards with a lovely autumnal feel.




This one was made from a selection of x-cut botanical punches, with inked edges, stuck onto a die cut hoop. A few wire spirals made from garden wire are stuck in there too.




This one was a distress ink background (my second attempt - made a complete botch first time). We stamped with water and blotted to create a white shadow and then stamped with ink on top. You can't really see the effect in this photo though.

Craft club week 1

We made 2 cards this week. First one is a really simple and elegant Christmas card.




There's a snowflake embossed pattern. There was a sentiment that I didn't have time to stick on but I lost it on the way home. I like it as is though.

This one was using distressing inks.




I found the proper ink applicator made it much easier to get a smooth effect. We squirted water and blotted to make the snow effect. Didn't have time to colour it in during the class, so I painted with cosmic shimmer watercolours when I got home.

Wedding Invites

These are the wedding invites I'm doing for my little sister.




She bought the basic cards with the love heart sweet on. I'm making shaker frames with a quilled mouse and an embossed mouse on the back. All fit with her themes.

More Christmas cards

I made a big batch of cards last week with the Smirk Christmas kit.


The kit was only £10 and I've not used much at all.






They are all very simple as the backing papers are very decorative.












The remaining papers are simple so I can do some stamping and more elaborate cards.

Iris folding

This week I've done some iris folding from a kit I bought a little while ago. While I like the effect of the folding I don't like the expanse of white on the front. Not sure what I will do - would have been easier to do something before I stuck all the folding but what fun is easy :) ?

First Cristmas cards of 2010

So I made my first Christmas cards. They were made with some Dufex topers I bought in the sales last year.

Quilled thank you card

I made this card for the weekly challenge on the Do Crafts site. It has a Henbury Lane background paper with quilled circles and a Papermania element tag.