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 310 - Allsorts Challenge!

Good Saturday Morning to everyone!,

How are you all?  Hope all well and looking forward to your weekend.

This morning is our usual Allsorts Challenge post and today our team member Mervi has asked the Team to show some projects using -

Die Cuts 2 or more!

Well as you all know this won't be a problem for me as I love my dies so a great week ahead on the Challenge site I am sure. Please pop over to have a look at the other members makes and the great prizes on offer.

This is a card that I have made for a friend of mine that is going to be a certain age! (the numbers on the card give the game away but I have kept it a little subtle!)

I have used more than 2 die sets - the flowers are from Heartfelt Creations and it is the Sun  Kissed Fleur stamp and die set, the tag is from a Tim Holtz die and the little bit of border is from the Sue Wilson range.  I have stamped the background with versamark and embossed with white embossing powder and then coloured using distress inks - Peeled Paint and Broken China.  A little blending around the edges with the Broken China brings it all together.

We have some fabulous Heartfelt dies and stamps on our website letscreateartandcrafts.co.uk if you are a Heartfelt fan and it is always free p and p on orders over £10.00! 

We have also loaded all of the Sheena Douglass new perfect partners range that are featured as a Weekender on C and C this weekend.  They are the most gorgeous flowers - stamps and dies to match and we can guarantee that we can beat the prices on TV! check it out if you love Sheena's work.

Must dash now as I have to get down to the shop and then this afternoon is my Friend's birthday party so I hope she likes the card.

Hope that you all have a fabulous weekend and please leave a comment for me - you know \i love to hear from you all.

Thankyou, as always for popping in 

Bye for now

Jo xx

Allsorts Challenge - Anything but a Birthday

Good Morning Everybody,

Firstly, I need to apologise for not blogging this week.  I don't normally moan but I have had a difficult week with health problems and all focus has been on my work.

Anyway back to the Jo that you usually get!!! 

It is Saturday so that means its Allsorts Challenge Day and today our lovely Team mate Tracey has asked us to create around the title...................

Anything but a Birthday!

I think this is a great title and will show us some fabulous creations for lots of other occasions I am sure.

I am throwing a little Love into the mix! with a card design that could be for an Anniversary, Valentine or a Wedding card.

I have used one of the Crafters Companion Create a Card dies which I love as it does all of the work for you.

I have teamed it with one of my most favourite stamps from the lovely Sheena Douglass.  It is the Rambling rose stamp, one of her very early designs when she was working with Creative Expressions.  I love to stamp it several times and decoupage it up.  On this occasion I have coloured the image with pro-markers.

Also this week I have been busy making samples for the Tattered Lace Pick of the Week shows (which have proven to be a Pick of a Day! as it has sold so quickly!)

This is one of the samples I have made using the new Royal Anne die and matching border

They really are spectacular dies.

We are away at the Annual Trade Show from Sunday for a few days and can't wait to bring back some fabulous ideas and gorgeous goodies so keep an eye open for lots of these coming up on the blog soon.

Just a quick reminder that we still have the February special discount on our website until tomorrow evening.  You will receive a 10% discount on your order which will be taken off at the checkout. Please dont forget to put the code FEB14 in to get your discount.

 

I am promising to be back to some normality and post on each day that has a 'T' in it!!

so Saturday - done!, Tuesday and Thursday are on their way so hope that you can keep popping in and leave a comment if you have time.

Thankyou, as always, for spending the time to pop in,

Bye for now

Jo xx

Week 282 - Allsorts Challenge - Simply Christmas

Good Morning Everybody,

Well it is Saturday and that means another Allsorts Challenge and we have a great Challenge from our lovely Brenda who has asked for projects with the title ~

Simply Christmas

and this is the card that I would like to share with you all today ~

 I have used a combination of embossing folders, dies and stamps.

The background is one of the Christmas Die-sire Create and Card and I have inked in all over with Vintage photo distress ink and then used Treasure Gold over to top to give it the lustre and shine.

The postbox stamp is a Molly Bloom and I have used pro-markers to colour with and then covered the snowy areas in ice diamonds from Pinflair to give it a real Christmas look.

The poinsettias have been cut using a Sue Wilson die from Creative Expressions and the holly die is a Marianne design.

The size of the card is 7" square.

I hope that you can find the time to pop over to the Allsorts Challenge blog to check out all of the design ideas from the Design Team.

Thankyou to our fabulous sponsors this week ~

  Cuddly Buddly

so thank you to them for their generosity.

 I also need to add a little apology as I didnt realise that whilst I was putting projects on my 30 days of Inspiration I repeated a design! whoops and things were going so well!!

So to compensate this is another Christmas project ~

This is another of Sheena's Christmas stamp range.  I made this for a customer who wanted a card making for some very close friends who are keen walkers in the countryside so I thought this fitted the bill nicely.

So, we are straight now! definately 30! and Jean was thrilled to bits to win the blog candy.

Mark and myself are meeting friends and going for the day to London today to have a look at the Poppies at the Tower so I will let you know all about it next week.

Thankyou for popping in and please leave a comment if you have a few minutes.

Enjoy a fabulous weekend and hope to see you next week.

Many thanks

Bye for now

Jo xx

 P.S dont forget to put the clocks back tonight! an extra hour in bed! 

xx

 

 

DAY 25 - Christmas Inspiration

Good Morning Everyone,

Well, I can't believe that we are on our last 5 days of inspiration and I hope by now that at least one project has inspired you to get cracking with your Christmas projects.  (I am sure that most of you are all done!)

Today we have a card from Tonic and was on the Christmas Craftinator about a month ago.

This is the Rococo mug and I have cut it all in white cardstock and then used my pro-markers to colour all of the different elements and adhered them together.  I really enjoyed making this one it was fun!

I should have opened the card to show how I have folded it back. I stamped a christmas message from Sheena's stamps and embellished around the edge with the branch stamp again from Sheena.  This was stamped using Forest Moss distress ink. The corner is also a Tonic 

This is the Rococo mug and I have cut it all in white cardstock and then used my pro-markers to colour all of the different elements and adhered them together.  I really enjoyed making this one it was fun!

I should have opened the card to show how I have folded it back. I stamped a christmas message from Sheena's stamps and embellished around the edge with the branch stamp again from Sheena.  This was stamped using Forest Moss distress ink. The corner is also a Tonic.

I am back on Ideal World today showing you how fantastic the Bow Maker is! 

Nancy launched the Pick of the Day last night and it is flying!

I am on at 1pm and 4pm!

Thankyou for popping in this morning and dont forget time is running out to put your name in the hat for the lovely blog candy! to qualify just leave a comment on this post. Don't worry if you don't have a blog or you don't have a Google account, just put your comment in and use Anonymous from the choice given, but don't forget to put your name at the bottom of the comment or I won't know if its you if you get chosen at the end of the 30 days!

Must dash now hope to see you tomorrow,

Bye for now

Jo xx 

DAY 20 - Christmas Inspiration

Good Friday Morning Everyone!

Thankyou for joining me for some more Inspiration and today I have another little number using Sheena's fabulous stamp range.

The stamps used are from the Little Bit Festive range - City Christmas.

Such gorgeous stamps to use and especially when you stamp with Distress Inks ( Faded Jeans) and drag the colour out using a damp paint brush.  I am sure you have all seen Sheena doing this technique. 

I also tried out embossing acetate with the snow embossing folder and painting white gesso all over the acetate.  It worked so well.

I have domed the acetate over the stamped design to give it more interest.

Thankyou for popping in again,

Hope to see you again tomorrow,

Bye for now

Jo xx

DAY 9 - Christmas Inspiration

Good Morning!

Monday morning came round a little too quick! but another week and lots of hours ahead to do some more crafting! and another week for a daily blog of Inspiration for Christmas.

Today a little number using another Sheena stamp from her recent collection ~

I inked the stamp with blackVersafine ink and then embossed it with clear embossing powder to give it a lovely lift and then coloured the poinsettias in with Poppy pro-marker and popped glossy accents on the top to enhance them further.
The apature frame started off with forest green cardstock, I cut an apature out using a grand Spellbinder, embossed it using Sheena's holly folder and then highlighted with some Treasure gold.
It needed a little more so I have used Sue Wilson's poinsettia dies to make a couple of flowers.
Very few materials required and such a quick card. If you needed it suitable for posting at the cheapest rate then leave the flowers off, this still looks great.
Enjoy the rest of your day and if you have a minute please leave a comment - a comment left means you will be popped into the draw for blog candy at the end of the 30 days of Inspiration.
Thankyou, as always for popping by,
Bye for now
Jo xx

DAY 7 - Christmas Inspiration

Good Morning Crafters,

Thankyou so much if you are still following on my daily mission to inspire you with some Christmas crafting.

This is a lovely stamp from our equally lovely Sheena Douglass.  It really makes you feel warm inside when you see this image all coloured.  I have used pro-markers to colour.  You will see that I have used a twisted easel design for the card and have used cinnamon sticks as the easel stopper.  Tie one or two sticks together with some organza ribbon.  You can easily buy cinnamon sticks from a good supermarket or health food shop. I have used Spellbinders Labels 1 as the base for the stamped image and a sentiment from the stamp set in the corner.  I have also used glossy accents on some of the image to highlight.

I really enjoyed making this card and it would be lovely to send it to any of your friends and family at Christmas.

Many thanks for popping by for todays inspiration.  

I have posted twice today as it is Saturday and Allsorts Challenge day.

Dont forget a comment will get you in with a chance to win some Blog Candy at the end of the 30 days.

Bye for now

Jo xx

Day 3 - Christmas Inspiration

Hello my crafty friends,

Well day 3 already of my Christmas Inspiration and I hope so far you are enjoying the ideas. 

This project was one from last weeks workshop with my lovely ladies and they seemed to enjoy putting all of the elements together. 

We were using Sheena's stamps and as ever they are fabulous to use and make a simple card or a busier one as this is. 

The card base has been made from Kraft card which makes a nice change.  The finished card size will fit into an A5 envelope.  All the stamping has been done using distress inks and a damp paintbrush to colour the image further. Some twinkle in the snow and on the trees, ribbon, twine and a few die cuts finish off the card.

I hope that you have been inspired with this one today and pop in tomorrow to see another idea.

Dont forget to leave a comment to be in with a chance at the Blog Candy.

Thankyou for popping by,

Jo xx

Week 271 - All Sentimental

Good Morning Crafters,

How are you all today?   It has been a busy week following a very successful Birthday celebration last Saturday.  Sheena was  absolutely amazing and demonstrated her fantastic new range of Christmas design stamps and embossing folders.  I would have like to have shown you some photographs but I am waiting for Mum to send them through from her camera as she was in charge of taking the photographs on the day!

We always run a raffle for special events at the shop and the profit from the raffle goes to one of our local charities.  We raised £93.00 this time and we are going to send it to the Emergency Blood Bikes - Lincolnshire section as they are in need of funds to keep giving us this amazing service.

the first prize was £150.00 hamper full of crafting goodies and one of our lovely customers Heidi Rice was the lucky winner and this is a picture of Mark and myself presenting it to her on Tuesday.

She was thrilled to have won and we are so pleased that she did. 

I also had some Birthday Blog Candy up for grabs and the prize was a choice of a set of Sheena's Christmas stamps and the lucky winner picked at Random is .................................................................................................................................................................

...................................................................................................................................

...................................................  Carolyn B !!!!

Thankyou Carolyn for the lovely comment and well done!  please email me on lets.create@btinternet.com and let me know which set of Sheena stamps from her latest collection you would like!

 

As it is a Saturday morning it is also our Allsorts Challenge and it is my week to host the Challenge this week and I have chosen ~

 

All sentimental

 

as a title for you to have a go at for the Allsorts theme.  I love to put a sentiment on a card design or a canvas and there are some fabulous sentiments available either by using a rubber stamp or  computer generated. 

 

The design that I have decided to show you is this one ~

 

 

I really enjoyed making this card - we made it in a workshop a couple of weeks ago when the theme was Crafters Companion Die-sire Dies. I love these very clever dies they really are so easy to use and create a fantastic result. The one that I have used here is called Enchanted.  I chose not to use the middle die section but used a die-d'lite frame to make an aperture so that the sentiment can be centered on the design. I cut the die out of craft card and then used chalk inks and inked through the die. The sunflowers are from Cheery Lynn and love using these as they are

 so pretty. The sentiment is from a set of stamps from Paper Artsy.

I hope that you like the challenge and you will have a go this week.  We have 2 fabulous sponsors this week giving away some great prizes ~

Buttons for Brains

and PPR Papercrafts.

Thankyou to them for their generosity.

 

Today is a busy day as we are at the Hunkydory show at Stoneleigh doing Make and Takes. We are expecting 60 people in each class throughout the day so I think we will be kept on our feet!

I will let you know how it goes!

In the meantime thankyou for popping by and please pop into the Allsorts Challenge Blog to have a look at the Design Teams gorgeous samples and this will inspire you for sure!

 

Must dash now and see the lovely people in the workshop room!

Take care and please leave a comment for me,

Bye for now

Jo xx

 

 

 

 



Week 270 - Our Favourite Things and Anniversary Blog Candy!!!

Hello my Crafty friends,

How are you all? Have you enjoyed a lovely week with all this sunshine and of course the school holidays are well on the way - its great to see all of the children enjoying time out and especially with the sun shining.

This week has been particularly busy for us at the shop as it is our 1st Anniversary at the Tattershall shop today and we are celebrating by having the lovely Sheena Douglass to demonstrate.

She is a very dear friend of Let's Create and never fails to amaze us when she comes over to demonstrate.

We have been getting all of the latest crafty stash in the shop - it is very difficult being a crafter and the owner! you really need to get your hands on everything that is new but this, of course, can't be done!!

To celebrate our first, very successful, year in the Tattershall shop I would like to give away some Blog Candy and have decided that with our fabulous friend Sheena visiting it would only be fitting to give away a set of her gorgeous new Christmas designs. The lucky winner will be able to choice from a selection that we have got in for the demonstration tomorrow.

All that I am asking you to do is leave a comment on this weeks design and then next Saturday I will ask Random org to choice a winner.

This week at Allsorts we have been asked by our lovely Tracey to design something that shows everyone what our favourite things are.

This card really shows several of my favourite crafting items:

Colour, inks, stamping, embossing and guilding wax

The stamps are from Sheena (a coincidence I might add!) and the embossing folder is from her Indian designs.

The flowers have been stamped and embossed onto heat resistant acetate and then coloured on the back using fine glitter and dries clear glue.

The pearls are from pearl drops from Pinflair.

I love using colour and inks in my work - but I am sure you know me so well by now!

Please pop over to the Allsorts Challenge blog to check out the other girls favourite things - as usual there is some gorgeous work.

The sponsor for this week is Penny Black and we all know how fabulous these stamps are.

I must dash now as it is going to be a very busy day, I need to get the kettle on ready for our lovely visitors and put all of our lovely cake out! I will pop some photographs on here next week so that you can see the fun that we had.

I would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone that is a customer of Let's Create - you are the ones that have made our little palace so successful and I hope that we can bring many more Anniversary weekends to you. We really appreciate your support.

If you are in the area please pop in everyone is welcome and you will learn so much from the very talented Sheena.

Thankyou as ever for popping by and don't forget to leave a comment for a chance of grabbing a lovely stamp set!

Bye for now

Jo xx

Week 269 - time for tea

Good morning everyone,

How are you all? Well I hope and continuing to enjoy this lovely weather.

Apologies for my absence last week - I intended to post on the Tuesday that we came back from a long weekend in Norfolk with our lovely friends Caroline and John.  Unfortunately Mark has been a bit poorly this week with a bug and I have been in charge of the shop as Mr C had to have a few days at home :( He is on the mend now and back at work today. Understandably it left me a bit busy so I am afraid work had to come first.

 

The weekend was fabulous such as relaxing few days with lots of sunshine, ice-cream and fish and chips!! Norfolk has such unexpected beauty with pretty little villages and quaint towns with little boutique shops and cafes and the coastal towns are fabulous. It was also Caroline's 40th birthday so we had a little celebration on the Saturday evening!

 

Well back to the topic of today we have been asked by our lovely Sarah's turn to choose a theme for this weeks Challenge and it is ~

 

TIME FOR TEA

 

I think this is a lovely Challenge and I have chosen the following project to share

with you ~

 

 

 

 

This is mainly a Heartfelt Creation project with the stamp and the background paper.
The stamp for the tea cup China Fragments set and for the flowers it is the Tattered Florals die cut and stamp set. The papers are from one of the Heartfelt Creations paper packs.
I have finished the flowers off with some black micro beads in the middle to give them some definition. 

 

The design team have made some excellent projects too and so pop over to see them at the Allsorts Blog. Our Sponsors this week are Flonzcraft and Eureka Stamps
 

Today I am getting my samples ready for tomorrow's demonstration at Inspirations in Preston.  It is Christmas all the way and if you are in the area on Sunday it would be lovely to see you.

 

We also have a very exciting event at our shop next Saturday 2nd August - it is our 1st Birthday in our Tattershall shop and we have the fabulous Sheena Douglass coming to demonstrate. The event will be on from 10 am until 4pm, with refreshments all day and inspiration by the bucket full from Sheena. I am also going to put some blog candy up on my blog next Saturday to celebrate our Birthday weekend so watch out for this too.

 

 Thankyou for popping by and hope that you can find the time to leave a comment.

Enjoy a lovely weekend whatever you are planning to do and don't forget to join in the Challenge for some great prizes.

Looking forward to hearing from you,

Bye for now

Jo xxx



Week 256 - Allsorts Challenge Blog - Oriental

Good Morning Crafters,

I hope that all is well with you all and everyone enjoyed a lovely Easter Weekend.  We visited friends in Stevenage for a couple of days and it was bliss! time out with lovely friends, catching up and having a laugh. What more could we ask for.

This week our lovely Team Member Susan is hosting the Challenge for the first time and she has asked us all to design a project using ~

ORIENTAL

Fabulous bright rich colors spring to mind with anything Oriental and this is the project that I have decided to show you ~

We made this for a workshop a couple of months ago and the technique involved was using fantasy fibre and film. If you haven't tried using either of these really interesting crafty products it is well worth having a go. 

I have used both the fibre and the film - encasing the fibre folded into a couple of pieces of the film before heating. This makes it very strong and can even be machine stitched if you wanted to.

The stamped image is from Sheena Douglass's collection. They are really lovely sized stamps too.

This week our very generous sponsors are:

Flonz & QKR Stampede

Thankyou to both.

Please pop over to the Challenge Blog and have a peep at their stunning oriental inspirations and have a bash at the Challenge as well - 

I hope that you enjoy a lovely weekend and find time to fit in a little crafting!

Pop a comment in if you have time, 

Take care and bye for now

Jo xx

Week 220 - Use Your New Stash

Good Morning Everyone!

 

I hope everyone in Crafter's Blog land has enjoyed a great week.  It has been a super busy one at Let's Create.  Everyone is loving the new shop and workshops have been great in our new workshop room.

It still feels that we are borrowing this gorgeous building and not that we are here to stay!!!

I hope that you all had a chance to have a peep at Sheena's blog about the opening day.

 

It is my week to host the Allsorts Challenge and I have chosen .........

 

Use Your New Stash

as my Challenge.

 

I was thinking about a title when I realised that this one is ideal for all Crafters alive!! we are always seeking out new crafty bits and pieces and I am sure you are one of them!!

My new purchases are Sheena's new Floral Fantasy sets and I have also had the pleasure of playing with some of the new Spellbinders so I thought I would combine the two to make my offering for the Challenge.

 

 

I have used the Daffodil set and really love the detail and the size of these images,  they work for card making and for altered art pieces.  I have coloured them with Mustard Seed Distress ink and highlighted the flowers with Peeled Paint.  I then used Luminarte Radiant Rain pourables to colour over the top to create a gorgeous glossy, mica effect (I used the Verdigris set)

I also coloured the largest of the Spellbinder mat with the Radiant Rain too.

 

We are away on holiday from Monday we are a very lucky family going to visit my Brother and his Family in Bermuda - we are all looking forward to it so much.

I hope to bring back some fabulous photographs when we get back - some great material for some scrapbooking I am thinking!!

 

I have just got today to get a whole list of jobs done so must dash now and get on.

I hope that you can have a bash at the Challenge.

Please pop over to the Allsorts Challenge Blog to check out the other great designs from the Design Team Members. 

Enjoy your crafting week and hope to see you back soon,

Please leave a comment - I love to hear from you,

Bye for now

Jo xxx

 



Week 169 - A Gift

Good Morning Crafters,

I hope this finds you all well and happy.  This is a very quick post this morning as I have a very busy day - we go to the airport tonight after we close the shop and fly on holiday tomorrow for 8 days!!!!

Turkey here we come!

But, before that ....................  calm ..............

I would like to show you my project for Brenda's excellent challenge this week for Allsorts (allsortschallenge.blogspot.com)

I thought this project that I did in a class this week would make a super gift.  

I have used a Spellbinder shape MDF plaque (we sell lots of these shapes in the shop and they have become really popular and so very reasonable)

I have crackled the background using Sheena's crackle technique with acrylic paint on the first layer, a layer of PVA glue and magnolia emulsion on the top.  To make it look even more distressed I have used Vintage Photo distress ink around the edges.

The decoupage that I have used is from the Jayne Shasky CD rom from the lovely Joanna Sheen which I sprayed with Spray and Shine from Crafters Companion - it finishes a decoupage off really nicely.

The sentiment is also from the CD rom from the Calligraphy section and again I have edged it with VP.

The foliage that was added to the edges is from one of the new Spellbinder sets - Fall Leaves.  I am really loving this one such a variety of leaves to use on so many projects.

Thankyou to our lovely sponsors this week:

and 

As always pop over to the Allsorts Challenge blog and have a peep at the gorgeous gift ideas that the girls and made - fabulous work this week and lots of ideas for giving crafty goodies for Christmas.

Must dash now I have lots to do before I can set off this evening.

I won't be around next week to post for Allsorts but please pop by the week after and I will fill you in on our holiday too!!

Bye for now and enjoy a lovely Bank Holiday Weekend,

Jo xxx

Week 165 - Case It

Good Morning Blogland!

Well did you all watch the Olympic Opening Ceremony?  What an amazing spectacular.  I managed to stay up until 11.30pm (lightweight I know) but I have taped the rest.  I hope you enjoyed it too - it makes you very proud to be British.

Anyway, back to reality!  It has been a very busy time again for me with some great workshops at Let's Create but also an excellent trip to Wales to demonstrate at a terrific shop Dandie Crafts which is owned by Debbie and Mandy.  A great day with a demo in the morning and a workshop in the afternoon.  Have a look at the photographs at the end of the post to see what an excellent day we had.

Back to the job in hand this morning, this is my offering for this weeks Allsorts challenge - 

The title that our lovely Emma gave us to work with was Case It.  We could take anything from the card design that she gave us and I chose to take the layout including the circle frame.  My main image is from Sheena's A Little Bit Scenic range which I have coloured using Distress Pens - really loving these they are so versatile (what else do we expect from Ranger!!)  The paper is from the Bo Bunny vintage range and I have used one of the new Cheery Lynn designs - the Sunflower - to embellish.

Thankyou to our Sponsor ~

as ever they will be giving away a lovely prize to our chosen winner.
Pop over to the Allsorts Blog and have a peep at the DT's take on Brenda's Challenge and have a go.

As mentioned earlier our trip to Wales was a great success.  We met some lovely crafters and were made so welcome by Debbie and Mandy who own Dandie Crafts - check the shop out if you are in the area. These are some of the photographs that we took on the Saturday.

Thankyou for making Mark and I so welcome.

We also had time for a little R and R and look at this stunning waterfall that we found!

Must dash, I have 4 Create and Craft shows next week and need to get some prep done!
Thankyou, as ever for popping in.  Leave me a comment I love to read comments from you. Let me know if you watched the Opening Ceremony!

Bye for now Crafters

Jo xx

Birthday Weekend!

Hello Everyone,

Firstly, sorry this post didnt go out yesterday as promised I had it all done and then blogger decided to have a blip!  so I lost it all.  After a few ?!?!?!?!  I decided to go to bed and have another go today! So here goes!

As I said we had so many great photographs taken over the weekend so I thought I would share a few with you.



Mark and myself with Karen Lines (Creative Expressions)
and Steve (Little Claire)

 These are our 2 birthday cakes, the first was brilliantly made by Jeanette and the second was a gift from Maria and Lynn.  They were both gorgeous!

An occasion at Let's Create wouldnt be the same without Mum's mince pies!
Thank you Mum!



Thank you to everyone that popped in over the weekend and we hope that you enjoyed the fabulous demonstrations.  Thank you also to the team that made everything happen.  Here's to the next year!!
Bye for now
Jo x