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 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

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