Showing posts with label stampendous frantage. Show all posts
Showing posts with label stampendous frantage. Show all posts

Saturday, 3 January 2015

Week 282 - Cold and Frosty Colours

Hello my Crafty Friends,

Good morning on this chilly Saturday and today we are back with our Allsorts Challenge project and this week our lovely Team member Brenda has chosen ~

Cold and Frosty Colours
and this is what I have come up with ~




It certainly fits the bill with the colour scheme and is suits the weather today also.
The image is a topper from Marianne designs and comes on an A4 sheet with a choice of different images that were all perfect for this project. I covered the image with double sided adhesive and covered it in micro beads (this is difficult to get a good picture of these)
I used Tattered Lace Essential Circles to make the frame around the image.  I cut the Cherry Tree die, again from Tattered Lace, and then sprinkled Stampendous embossing glitter in patches onto the branches and heated it to set.  I also used the glitter on the frame to make this frosty too.
the cardstock was from my ever increasing stash and the woolly hat is a cute felt embellishment that we sell in the shop.  I thought it went well with the theme.
As always the Allsorts Challenge Design Team have come up with some fabulous ideas so take a peek at this at the Allsorts Challenge Blog.
We have 2 fabulous sponsors this week ~
and
Thankyou to them both for their continued support.

Also thank you for having a look around our newly released webshop, we really appreciate your positive feedback.
As a thankyou we are offering the first 50 people a 10% reduction on their order and
all that you need to do is go onto the website at letscreateartandcrafts.co.uk
and use the Code - JAN50
and remember that Postage is free over £10!
For those of you that have popped onto the blog for the first time this year I am posting every day during January to try and beat the January blues! if you leave me a comment you will go into a draw at the end of the month .
Thankyou so much for visiting, as always it is much appreciated!
I hope that you enjoy a lovely weekend and hope to see you again tomorrow.
Bye for now
Jo xx  


Saturday, 22 November 2014

Week 286 - No Design papers allowed!

Good Morning everyone,

Thankyou for popping in this morning - I hope that you are all well and have had a great week.
Last week was busy as ever with our fabulous Let's Create Dabble Day.  It was a fantastic day with lots of fun with wall to wall crafting and cake and tea - what more can we wish for!!

This week at Allsorts we have been asked by our Chief Team Member aka Brenda to show you a project that we have made without using design papers.  
I couldn't decide which one to show you so I have two!

A really quick an easy little number using Tattered Lace embossing folders and Tim Holz Poinsettia die and tag.  The card size is a 7" x 5" and I have embossed the corner of the Holly folder and then coloured it over with distress ink and Treasure Gold wax.  I have used the Holly border folder across the tag too.  The poinsettias were die cut and stamped onto with a music stamp from Sheena and then inked and spritzed.  Candy and vintage ribbon finish off the design.

The second design that I have decided to show you is using an embossing folder from Crafters Companion Vintage range.  I embossed it and then sanded the embossed areas down with a sanding block so that the ink soaked into the paper more and this has highlighted the baubles.  The sentiment is from Stampendous and I have used a little Frantage to embellish the corners. A bit of glossy accents, ribbon and bakers twine bow finish off the project.

I hope that this has inspired you to have a go at the Challenge this week.  Please pop over to the Allsorts Challenge Blog to have a look at the other Team members ideas and all the information about our lovely sponsors this week.
I have a couple of Create and Craft shows next week - Monday at 4pm and 2 shows on Thursday 12oclock and 3pm and this show is free p and p! Both shows will be using Tattered Lace dies. 

Thankyou for popping in and please find a few minutes to leave a comment if you can - I really appreciate hearing what you think to the projects today.
Enjoy a lovely weekend whatever you are doing,
Bye for now
Jo xx

Thursday, 16 October 2014

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

Thursday, 9 October 2014

DAY 19 - Christmas Inspiration

Hello Crafters!

Well Day 19 of Christmas Inspiration already!
Apparently only 11 weeks until the big day!

Today is a lovely mix of Marianne dies, toppers and lots of glitter and glitz.

The window, tree and branch are all Marianne dies (from last years designs - but still available)
the poinsettia flowers are also Marianne but are the punch and emboss punches. the background in the window is an image from Marianne too, these are perfect for window dies.
The season's greetings is a stencil from Sweet Poppy - I inked through the stencil and then covered it in double sided adhesive paper and covered in glitter.  The background is a combination of Stampendous Frantage glitters and mica and also flock.  These have also been stuck onto double sided sheets.
I really enjoyed making this and hope you like it too.
Thankyou to you all for your fabulous comments, I am really enjoying reading them and appreciate you all very much.  Don't forget to comment today - the blog candy could be yours!
Hope to see you tomorrow,
Bye for now
Jo xx