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 12 - Christmas Inspiration

Good Morning!

Well what do you think of this fabulous weather - in October we are being spoilt!

Enjoy it while we can!

the gardens are still looking healthy but Mark is worried that all this warm weather will mean he has to cut the grass again before the Winter sets in!! 

Today I would like to share a card project that we are doing in class this week - 

The theme for the workshops is Hobby House projects and this card has been made using one of Clare Rowlands fabulous designs that she has drawn for the Hobby House and they have been made into Art pads which contain a total of 30 images and it was a hard task trying to choose the one to use!

I have coloured this fabulous snowman in with pro-markers and distressed the edges with weathered wood distress ink and sprinkled with Ice Diamonds from Pinflair.  It is hard to pick up how lovely they look and how the light catches them.  All the backing papers are from the Nordic Christmas pack from the Hobby House.  Buttons, bakers twine and tag are also from this kit. 

I have used Kraft card to layer up the papers and the image.  

A spellbinder snowflake cut in pearl card finishes the design off a treat.

I love using Hobby House products and equally love coloring so this was a pleasure to make.

I hope that you have enjoyed checking it out as much and please leave a comment to let me know what you think.  Remember leaving a comment will give you a chance at winning the Blog Candy at the end of the 30 days of Inspiration.

Thankyou, as always, for popping by,

hope to see you again tomorrow,

Bye for now

Jo xx