Our Birthday Weekend

Good Morning my lovely crafty Friends,

Hope you are all well and looking forward to the weekend.

Today I have some fabulous news and some sad news.

Firstly the sad news. Unfortunately I am having to step down from the Allsorts Challenge Team as other things have become more pressing.  I have thoroughly enjoyed being part of the team for over 4 years and I have seen some fabulous work from both members of my team and also from the lovely crafters taking part in the Challenge each week. This has not been an easy decision but one I must take.
 

So now for the fabulous news! Let's Create has been nominated for the Best Independent Craft shop in the Midlands area! we are soooooo pleased and can not thank whoever nominated us for this enough.

Voting starts during September and so we will have everything crossed!!
 

 I have some lovely photographs from our birthday weekend and would love to share them with you.

It was a tremendous success and so many of our lovely customers came along to celebrate thankyou to everyone that came along to the demo day and the workshop.

 

 

 

 

As you can see a brilliant day had by all! 

I will still be posting on my blog on a Saturday morning so hope that you can still pop in to say hello and see what we have been getting up to!.

We have a children's birthday party at the shop today 10 10 year olds so lots of messy play ahead!

Have a fabulous weekend whatever you are planning and see you soon,

bye for now

Jo xx

 

 

 

 

 



Week 318 - Use your favourite colour

Good Morning!

Thankyou so much for popping in and a quick post today as it is our birthday weekend at the shop this weekend and the fabulous Sheena Douglass is coming to demonstrate today and hold a workshop tomorrow and there is lots to do!! can't wait though it is going to be a fabulous time.

This week for Allsorts it is my turn to host and I have chosen :-

"Use your favourite Colour !"

as the theme for the Challenge this week and

as you can see from the clue in the title I do like all shades of red - I think that it really brightens everyone up and it is cheerful. This is the card I would like to show you using red!

There is plenty of red in this project starting off with the poppies from the Victorian Florals collection of dies and stamps from Sheena and these have been coloured in using Aqua Tints.
The background has been made using the wonderful Brushos and I am pleased to say that we have got them re-stocked on our website again letscreateartandcrafts.co.uk if you would like to have a go at using these fabulous crafty goodies.  Remember p and p is free over a £10 purchase.
Thankyou for popping in and please pop over to the Allsorts Challenge blog to have a look at the Teams inspiration for this weeks theme.
Thankyou so much for popping in and hope that you enjoy a lovely weekend. I will pop some photographs of our birthday weekend on here so that you can have a peep.
Bye for now
Jo xx



Week 323 - Inspired By Summer

Good Morning my fellow crafters!

I hope that all is well with you all and after having a week of glorious sunshine in Fuerturventura both Mark and I are feeling tip top!

I thought I would share a photo of our lovely holiday

 

 

A lovely chilled out holiday doing absolutely nothing for a week!!! perfect!!!

This has refreshed us for the next few months of very busy times with our Shops birthday weekend with the fabulous Sheena Douglass doing a demo day and a workshop! happy days!!

I cant believe that Let's Create will be 5 years old! where has that time gone.

 

Anyway - back to today! our lovely teamie Tracey has asked us for some inspiration using the title -

 

Inspired by Summer!

(if I had had time a nice scrapbook page of holiday would have been lovely but maybe for another time)

 

This is a card that I made for our very dear friend Gary and he was with us on holiday so a beach theme was appropriate.

 

 

This is a stampendous stamp and I used pro-markers to colour.  I highlighted the sand with some sand coloured embossing powder around the chairs to make it look authentic. Just simple matting and layers with colours taken from the main picture made the rest of the card and the kraft card tag with the sentiment on.  I love making cards for friends.

I hope that you like it and please leave me a comment I love to hear from you.

Please pop over to the Allsorts Challenge blog to have a look at the lovely inspiration from the team members and have a go to be in to win some lovely prizes from our very generous sponsors.

Thankyou so much for popping in and see you next week.

Bye for now

Jo xx