Week 227 - Autumn Colours

Hello Fellow Crafters!

 

I hope that this finds you well and have enjoyed a busy week playing with all of your crafty stash!

I have had a busy week with a couple of shows on Create and Craft demonstrating the fabulous new collection from Spellbinder D'lites and also have had 2 lovely workshops at the shop using Sheena's gorgeous Christmas design stamps.  It was also a lovely fellow member's birthday - Pat! today so we were all forced to eat cake!

 

We also held our 2nd Let's Create Together day at our local village hall and the fabulous Leonie and the Krafty Hands boys joined Caroline and myself teaching lots of Christmas ideas to 53 very eager ladies.  It was a fabulous day and if you were one of our lovely crafters I hope that you enjoyed the day as much as we enjoyed organising it.

We have booked another day for February and it is full already!!!

 

This week on the Allsorts Challenge blog our lovely Catherine (who joined us on Sunday all the way from Harrogate!) is hosting and she has chosen ......................

 

AUTUMN COLOURS

 

as our theme for the week.  This can be any crafting project as long as it has Autumn colours included in the design.

 

Thankyou to our sponsors for this week who are:

 

Digistamp and Crafty Ribbons.

 

This is my design that suits the theme really well and I love working with these colours as they are bright, cheerful and very rich.

 

 

 

 

The stamped image is from the Katy Sue designs Fashion stamps drawn by the lovely Sandra Wright.

I have used pro-markers to colour the image and distress ink to soften the edges.

The background paper is out of my stash.  You can't see that well but the flower centres have micro beads in them which I stuck with glossy accents.  The die cut frame is from Marianne Designs.

 

Please pop over to the Allsorts Challenge blog to check out my Teamies lovely designs for this week's theme.

If you pop in to check out the blog please stay a little longer and pop a comment in - I love to hear from you all.

 

I have another busy week at the studio coming up still demonstrating with the Spellbinder D'lites they are still exclusive to Create and Craft until 11th October.

 

I am in the studio:

Monday 3pm and 7pm

Tuesday 1pm and 6pm

and Thursday 10am and 4pm.

 

Thankyou so much for taking the time to check out the blog I really appreciate it, as you know.

Have a fabulous weekend and I hope to see you all really soon.

 

Bye for now

Jo



Week 190 - Flower Power

Hello Crafters

Well what a week I think the car could take itself to Peterborough to the studio!! I have had a ball using all the new Spellbinder dies and Embossibilities and they are all soooooo gorgeous.  I would love to hear what you all think to them.  Stock is disappearing really quickly now and I am back in tomorrow to do another 2 shows.  I think I am going to need a snow plough to get there though!! All of a sudden the snow came and it really has made quite an impact.  I just hope that we dont have any more tonight.

Back to the job in hand.  It is our lovely Tracey who has chosen this weeks challenge for Allsorts and it is

Flower Power

What a fantastic week last week with so many entries - I havent quite got around to finishing off my commenting but please be assured that I will finish it off tomorrow at the latest.  There were some amazing cards made out of dies and punches.  What a difficult task to choose a winner.

The card I have chosen to show you is this one

This was a card that I put together for the Spellbinders last Pick of the Day with the Di-Dlites and this card shows you 3 of those dies Garden Weave, Flower Burst and a Frame.  This was one of my favourites as I love the Flower Burst die as it has do much detail and could be used for so many different occasions.

A little ink and some pearl glue was all that was needed to complement the dies.

We have 2 lovely sponsors this week at Allsorts and they are

Ribbon Girl and you can find them at

www.ribbongirl.co.uk/

and 

My Heart Pieces

at

myheartpiecesdigitalstamp.blogspot.com/

Thank you for your sponsorship.

Dont forget that I will be choosing a winner of the Blog Candy on Sunday so if you havent joined in yet it isnt too late.  You will find the information on post just before this one.

Sunday is when Mark and I go to see Strictly come Dancing in Birmingham so I hope that the weather improves.

Must dash now as I need to get to the studio in time for the 10am show.

Thankyou, as ever, for popping by and I hope that you all keep warm and take care if you have to venture out and about.

Bye for now

Jo xx

Week 188 - Dies and Punches

Good Morning!

I hope that this finds you all well and hopefully snow free so far! Oh I really hope that it doesn't come down like they are predicting - everyone keep their fingers crossed.

I have some amazingly exciting news today that I can share at last with you all - I have had to keep it real quiet until today under strict instructions!

Firstly I would like to share my creation for this weeks Allsorts Challenge the title for this week has been chosen by our lovely  Sarah and  is .................

Dies and Punches

Now this fits in really nicely with my exciting news .........................................  which I will tell you about in a minute!!! 

This is the card that I have chosen to share with you 

This is a really simple card that I have made using Spellbinders D-lites.  The 4 repeated dies are Grateworks which I think really lends itself for using as a background.  The cut is so fine and the best way to adhere these fine dies are with Crafters Companion Stick and Stay spray.
The middle focal point has one die from the Medallion 2 set and the flower is the Daisy Flower Topper set which is one of my favourite flowers from Spellbinders.  Adding a little ink to each layer with a few pearls in the middle really finish it off.
As I said a really easy, simple card but showing you how versatile the D-lites dies are to use.

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Thankyou to our fabulous sponsors this week who are
CRIMSON CLOUD .http://www.crimsoncloud.co.uk/142-crimson-cloud
AND
A PASSION FOR STAMPS http://apassionforstamps.blogspot.co.uk/


Now I think that you have waited long enough (I hope you do find it exciting after all this waiting!! lol)
On Sunday I have been asked to Demonstrate the World Launch of this years brand new latest releases from Spellbinders!!!!  wayyyyyyy
It is a very exciting weekend for C and C and this starts today at 5pm - they will be filming live from the CHA trade show in America (they have sent Nigel and Leonie over!!!!!! oh what mischief they will get into I am sure) and they will be filming and linking this over to C and C.
On Sunday I will  be demonstrating all these amazing new dies and embossing folders at 2pm and 4pm.
I will also be on at 10am demonstrating for Joanna Sheen so another busy day.
If you are a Spellbinder addict these shows are a must see so that you can see the very latest designs.
If I get a word in edgeways I hope to show you some lovely demo's using these.
I hope that you are as excited as I am to be doing it and hope that you can tune in and send an email to let me know what you think of the new designs.

Well, after all that blurb I will leave you to pop over to the Allsorts Challenge Blog
to have a peep at the other DT's work which is fab as ever.
I hope that you enjoy a lovely weekend - I Know I will!! and pop back next week as I will be showing you some of the samples that I will be demoing on Sunday's show.

Thankyou so much for popping by and please leave a comment if you have a minute to spare.
Enjoy this week's Challenge
and Bye for now
Jo xx