DAY 22 -Christmas Inspiration

Hello Again Everyone!

Good Morning to you all and thankyou for popping in again.

I would like to firstly say a huge thankyou to everyone that came to Clare Rowlands fabulous demonstration yesterday - as always it was an amazing day with so many popping in to enjoy Clare's unending crafting magic (and the cake and coffee went down well too!)

The inspiration that she gave us all was fabulous and the samples that she displayed were brilliant.

These are just a few of the projects that we so enjoyed looking at ~

I am sure you will agree that all of these are incredible such a clever lady.

We have persuaded her to come back and run a workshop in the New Year so keep an eye out for more details on this.

Now for my Day 22 of Christmas Inspiration for you.

My apologies for the photograph for this one.  The flash has caught the pearl linen cardstock that we have used so it is a little bright but hopefully you can get the idea.

This is the christmas tree die from Sue Wilson's collection and this is one that we did in this weeks workshop so you will recognise this one is you were there.

The halo above the tree is simply embossed and then the tree has been cut and adhered flat onto the cardstock. this was then matted onto some blue glitter card and embellished with blue gems.

The side panel was lovely to make and everyone went home very sparkly after playtime!

We used a new product in the Frantage collection and it is a mix of Mica pieces , glass glitter and very fine gems and the finish was stunning and quite tactile too.

This was matted again onto blue glitter card and then we finished off using the holly Sue Wilson die to add dimension in the corner and a bow on the opposite corner to balance.

I hope you have enjoyed today's inspiration and also Clare's amazing work too.

Thankyou as always for popping in and hope that you enjoy your Sunday - a much needed day off for me with a little parchment sneeked in I think!

Dont forget to leave a comment to be in with a chance to win the blog candy.

Hope to see you tomorrow,

Bye for now

Jo xx

Week 280 - Allsorts Challenge - Cream and Brown

Good Morning Everyone!

Thankyou so much for everyone who has taken the time to comment on my Christmas Inspiration blog posts again this week.  Keep checking them out for the following week - it wont be long now until we reach 30 days and then we can choose a winner of the blog Candy.

Today at Allsorts it is my turn to host the week's Challenge and I have chosen ~

CREAM AND BROWN

and this is what I have chosen to show you ~

as you can see I haven decorated a plaque with various crafty goodies including ~

A vintage picture (sorry but this was in my stash!)

Frantage embossing powder and glitter,

Flowers from the Hobby House,

Organza,

Pearls of strings and to finish string to hang it with.

I have distressed the edges of the pictures and around the edges to give it the vintage look overall.

I hope that you approve!

I love decorating plaques as I am sure you all know by now and especially in this collage way.

Please pop over to the Allsorts Challenge Blog to check out the other team members lovely work and please leave a comment to let us all know what your thoughts are.

Our amazing sponsors this week are:

and

Thankyou to both of them for their generosity.

Today is a busy day at the shop as we are having the last demonstration of this year and the fabulous Clare Rowlands is coming along to do Hobby House and Molly Bloom.

If you are in the area please pop in there will be lots of tea and cake as usual!

Thankyou for spending the time to look at my post and please check out the one following for some more Christmas Inspiration.

Bye for now

Jo xx

Day 4 Spellbinder Samples and Allsorts Challenge

Good Morning Everyone,

Happy Saturday to you all! and as we know Saturday means Allsorts so I thought I would mix the Challenge for this week with another Spellbinder sample. 

The Challenge this week has been set by our lovely Sarah and she has asked for us to show a sample with Buttons and Bows.

I have chosen this sample which I haven't had chance to demonstrate on one of the shows yet.

 

 

This maybe isn't the best photograph of all time - maybe the gold card on the pine coffee table wasn't such a good idea! but I hope that you can see the design.

I have used the Antique corner cut four times and joined together to make the centrepiece for the Wonderful Locket which sits on top of these corners so well.  The cameo is my button and you can see the organza ribbon with the satin rose on the top.  I have also used Flutters, a Die Di-Lite, and embellished the top wings with Frantage embossing powder.  I used some of the Frantage around the edges to bring this into the design further. 

 

We have two fabulous sponsors this week at Allsorts and thank you to

Crimson Cloud

and

Cuddly Bubbly

 

Pop over to the Allsorts Challenge Blog to check out all the other Team members ideas and hopefully feel inspired to take part in the Challenge yourself.

 

Here is another Spellbinder sample to finish off todays post.

 

 

I have used one of the gorgeous 3D Embossibilities and inked up the folder with a brayer. When you emboss this the ink will press into the debossed areas of the folder.  This is called the Letterpress technique and is especially effective with the 3D folders.  The blue is where the ink has been pressed into the design when it is run through the machine.  I have covered the middle part of the design (Labels 34 shape) with Glossy Accents to highlight the area.  Ribbon, pearls and a couple of

Flutter di-lites finish the design off.

I have 2 shows on Create and Craft today at 8am and 2pm and tomorrow I have one at 12 noon.

I will pop some more samples on tomorrow so hope that you can pop by to have a look.

Thankyou for visiting today and please leave a comment if you have time.

Bye for now

Jo xx