DAY 15 - Christmas Inspiration

Good Morning Everyone!

I hope that today brings you peace and quiet with lots of relaxation and perhaps a lovely roast Sunday lunch?

Mark and myself are still away and today we are running a workshop at Inspirations in Preston (Hunkydory)

Today I have a card that I really enjoyed making and love the simplicity of it too.

The die cut image is from last years collection from Marianne and if you cut it and leave it in the die you can stencil through it with ink and get some fabulous detail on the skates.

The background at the top is one of Ali Reeves Special touch masks and it has been simply embossed through a machine and inked over.  While the ink is still wet cover with Aurora Sparkle embossing powder and heat to fix it.  If the ink dries quickly just go over it with a Versamark ink so make it sticky again. This gives a lovely sparkly sheen to the card.  A wooden button and bakers twine adds some dimension.

The bottom half of the card has been covered with fabric from Hobby Fun.  A piece of ribbon with text on it through the centre finishes the project.   It is a 6" by 6" card size and is quite flat to post too.

I think I will make some more of this design for friends at Christmas.

If you have time please leave me a comment and you will be entered into the blog candy draw which will be picked at the end of the 30 days Inspiration.

Thankyou and enjoy the rest of your weekend,

Bye for now

Jo xx

Week 263 - Allsorts Challenge - White, gold and one other colour.

Good Morning Crafters,

How are you all? What a gorgeous week for the sunshine - well, in Lincolnshire anyway!

I love the sun it makes everyone feel so happy and people smile and look so much more cheerful.

 

Mark and I had a great day at Inspirations in Preston last Saturday thankyou to everyone that came to watch my demonstration. We had a good chat and a laugh as usual and sneaked some crafting in in between!!

 

This week at Allsorts our lovely Helene is hosting and she has asked us to show you a project using the colours White, Gold and one other.  Well I have chosen pink as my additional colour and it rather dominates the canvas that you will see here ............

 

The gold is in the form of Treasure Gold wax which is my favourite crafting product at the moment. It is simply fabulous to use and creates amazing results with little effort.  The white is in the sentiments and the words and in the flower.  I have used a Special Touch mask to create the flowers and used paste through the mask.  This was dried and then coloured with the Treasure gold.  The butterfly has been moulded out of Paper clay from a Martha Stewart mould. The flower is a Tim Holtz Tattered Floral die which is my absolute favourite flower die.

 

I hope that you like the design and that you can spare a few minutes to leave a comment for me.

We have a busy weekend coming up but for once it isn't for work!! It is our gorgeous Daughter Kate's 21st birthday and we are having a family get together to celebrate. I hope the weather stays fine as we are having a BBQ in Mark's Mum and Dad's garden!!

Please keep fingers and toes firmly crossed for us!!

Also before I go I am on Create and Craft on Friday (20th) at 1pm with some more stunning Hobby House products and you will never guess but it is Christmas!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I know you read correctly!! It is the launch of Create and Crafts Christmas - I am sure it gets earlier each year!.

 

That really is all for now,

enjoy the weekend and week ahead,

keep well and pop in again.

Bye for now

Jo xx

Week 140 Free and Easy February!

Good Morning Everyone,

Today's post is my card for the Allsorts Challenge which is entitled Free and Easy February and this is my offering.  This card is using one of my favourite crafting products - Artists Spackle.  For those that haven't used it before have a go. It is a dimensional paste that you can use in so many ways.  For this design I have used it with a Special Touch mask (not sure which one but will pop it on later when I have a look what it is called!)  I then used gold mica powder and Wild Honey distress ink to colour.  It may take a couple of layers of distress ink but it is worth it.  I have also added some roses that I have made using a punch, I love making these and whenever I put them on a card it is admired.  The Spellbinder border and gold mirri card, pearl cardstock for the background just finishes it all off.  I think this would make a lovely Wedding card and also a Golden Wedding too. 

I hope that you like my offering for today I certainly enjoyed making it and I hope that you have something that you can pop into the Free and Easy February Challenge over at Allsorts.  The other girls on the DT have also posted some stunning cards so I hope that you are inspired by these.

Thank you for popping by and please leave a comment I am always so grateful for all your comments.

Bye for now and hope that the snow doesnt get too bad for you, what an excuse to craft though!!!

Jo xxx