DAY 30 - Christmas Inspiration - Last Day!

Welcome Everyone!

I feel a little sad today as this is the last day of my 30 days of Christmas Inspiration.

I cannot thankyou all enough for all of the fabulous comments and the feedback.

I have loved to read these everyday and I am going to miss them.

Thankyou also for all of my new followers, welcome the my crazy world and I hope the you enjoy following me.

Today had to be a design that I love (I have enjoyed them all but this one is one of my favs!)

There seems to be a little too much light on the picture but hope that you can still see what is going on with the design.  I have used the Rustic Wreath embossing folder from Spellbinders to emboss the design for the background.  I have then spent quite some time colouring with distress inks - vintage photo and walnut stain.  Then I covered the image in different colours of guilding waxes.  I have scuffed up the edges on both layers to keep the rustic effect.

The reindeer is also a Spellbinder design and I have used guilding flakes on double sided sheets and then cut the design.  It really works well with the intricate cut on the reindeers antlers.

Some organza bronze ribbon and hat pins finished this off a treat.

Well, this is it :( the final blog of my 30 days of inspiration. As I said before I hope that you have enjoyed it and please leave your final comment and I will be back tomorrow to announce the winner of some lovely stuff.

Thankyou a million times for your participation - without your lovely feedback it would be so boring!

I will be back on Saturday with the Allsorts Challenge but, for now, 

Bye for now

Jo xx

DAY 29 - Christmas Inspiration

Hello Everyone,

Firstly, apologies for the lateness of today's post.  We have had a problem with charging the lap top but all sorted now! 

This is the penultimate day! of our Christmas Inspiration and I hope that you are still enjoying it.

Today I would like to share a black and white little number.

This is a  stencil from the Sweet Poppy Range and I have used white matt paste through it to give this fabulous raised effect.  Whilst the paste is still wet I sprinkled white glitter over the design to bling it

up. I also popped some red pearls onto the design which adds that little extra.

Simple matting and layering with a little cord wrapped around the corners finishes the design.

Oh! mustn't forget the bow! 

This would make a quick card to make if you have a lot of cards to make this Christmas.

Thankyou for popping in, I really appreciate you coming to visit and hope that you leave a comment to be in with the almost last chance to win the blog candy.

Hope to see you for the last day tomorrow.

Bye for now

Jo xx

DAY 28 - Christmas Inspiration

Hello Again!

Well its day 28 (where has those dissappeared to !!)

Only 2 more days to inspire you and really trying to get to the 30 days without a blip!!!

Today I would like to share this with you ~

This is the Holly embossing set and I have used the corner part of the set - I have embossed it 4 times and matted it onto some cream card.  I have also highlighted the embossed area with Treasure gold.

I also embossed some craft metal for the centre square and I used the main 8" x 8" folder.

The Poinsettia is the Sue Wilson design and I have cut it in pearl red card stock and pinched the petals together using my tweezers to give it some shape.  I also sprayed them with some mica spray to give them more interest.

We have got the embossing folders in the shop to sell now so I will be making lots more samples to display, I love using them they give such a great embossed image.

A little ribbon and a flourish finishes the design off.

Please leave a comment to be in with a chance to win the Blog Candy at the end of the 30 days.

Thankyou for popping in,

Enjoy a lovely weekend and hope to see you again tomorrow.

Bye for now

Jo xx

DAY 27 - Christmas Inspiration

Good Friday morning to you all,

Well, day 28 and still going strong!! I really hope that you are not fed up with me! If you are getting that way not long to go now!!

Todays post is still following the theme with Molly Bloom but it isn't a card again.

It is a hanging plaque which could be attached to the front of a card (would need to be 8 x 8).

I started off with a ring of cardstock with a piece of acetate sandwiched in the middle of it.

I then stamped the cottage and the trees, coloured them with promarkers and twinkled with glossy accents and glitter.

The holly leaves have been cut on my Cricut using the Winter Wonderland cartridge.

They were glittered too, it was quite a glittery affair!  the berries are card candy.

the drift wood sign is another Molly Bloom stand, I added a little organza bow and some bakers twine to this.

The twine was also used to hang it up.

This was a great fun project and we all enjoyed making it in the workshop.

Thank you for popping in again,

Have you left a comment yet? time is running out to grab that blog candy so please leave a comment to be in with the running.

Must dash I am at the studio again today for a 9am and 7pm show.  Might even hit the shops in between shows!! or maybe just chill in the green room!

Bye for now

Jo xx

DAY 26 - Christmas Inspiration

Welcome to Day 26!

Good morning everyone and welcome to the last stretch of my Christmas Inspiration.

today I have a little project that the class will be doing tomorrow! 

This weeks subject is Molly Bloom and anything to do with these lovely stamps are just fabulous in my mind.

This is quite a quick little project using one of my favourite stamps for Christmas.

I have stamped Molly and then coloured in with pro-markers, used Vintage photo distress ink around the edges of a scalloped circle Tonic die.  I have sprinkled chunky white embossing powder, from Stampendous, onto the picture for snow flurries.

the base card has a 6 x 6" card and folded back for a one sided gatefold.

The background paper is a Kaiser and I have used an inverted corner punch to add interest.

Some ribbon and wooden embellishments finish off the design.

I hope that you like it and want to leave me a comment so that I can put you in the Blog Candy draw at the end of 30 days.

Don't forget that even if you dont have a google account or a blog you can still comment by making your comment and choose anonymous - but leave your name in the comment box.

Thankyou for popping in,

hope to see you tomorrow,

Bye for now

Jo xx

DAY 23 - Christmas Inspiration

Good Monday Morning to you all,

Well, I don't know! just where did that weekend go again!! but at long last I am able to tell you my fabulous news!!

I will be returning to your TV screens this week Tuesday and Wednesday to be precise!

I have been asked by the lovely Steph to join the Tattered Lace team to demonstrate on C and C and I am delighted to be asked! 

As you know one of my many passions in craft is die cutting and I am chuffed to bits to be asked to demonstrate for such a very popular company.

My first outing will be on Tuesday at 6pm (unfortunately for those of you that don't have Sky it will need to be watched on your computer) this will be demonstrating the brand new dies from the Starlights collection which is the Craftinator being launched by Nancy tomorrow.

I am back on Wednesday with a 1pm and 4pm show.

I hope that you will be able to watch and are as pleased for me as I am!

Well, back to the matter in hand today.

It is Day 23 of my Christmas Inspiration and my offering today is ~
A little Black and White number!

This is another project made using the Sue Wilson dies and this time it is the Noel Christmas die which is the main focus of this design.  I have cut the die in black and kept the black and white theme throughout.  The icicles are a Spellbinder die and I cut this in both glitter card and black cardstock and offset them to look like a shadow.  The background is a Crafters Companion embossing folder from the vintage range.  I have also used Tattered Lace poinsettia collection to make a little flourish at the bottom right and added a little organza ribbon.  A few little gems and some glossy accents finished the project off.  I love a black and white Christmas card and really enjoyed making this one.

I hope that you have enjoyed looking at it and if you have please leave me a comment.

I have had a few enquiries as to how to leave a comment.  If you are not registered to Google and dont have a blog you can still comment.  Go to the end of the comments list and simply make your comment in the box and after that use Anonymous to post your comment but please make sure you put your name in the comment box after your comment to make sure I know who to get in touch with if you are the lucky winner of the Blog Candy!

I hope that makes sense!!
Hope to see you tomorrow,
Thankyou so much for popping in,
Bye for now
Jo xx 

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