Lovely in Lace

Have you been watching the pick of the week shows on Create and Craft this weekend? No? Well you don't know what you've been missing!!The newest Kanban kit is the Pick of the Week (shows can be seen today at 8am, 6pm and 9pm. It's a beauty and there is loads in the kit :)

The DT were lucky enough to receive a kit last week so we could make samples for the show and it is very lovely and very feminine and a joy to work with
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These are a couple of the samples I made for the show

  

Thanks for dropping by, see you later. xx

Denim and Lace

Did you catch the launch of the new Denim and Lace kit from Kanban on Create and Craft on Wednesday? If so and you managed to buy one then you are in for a real treat....if you didn't then you don't know what you are missing!!! It is a stunner and without further ado let me introduce you to our little owl friend who appears on this luscious kit.

The design team were lucky enough to get the kits a couple of weeks ago so we could make samples with it and we all agree that it is a beautiful kit to work with. The kit includes images and frames, florals and stripes, assorted shapes and there are even inserts available to but to co-ordinate with this kit.

If you are in the Yorkshire/Lancashire regions tomorrow and have a bit of time on your hands then see the advert below as to what you could do to fill that time ;)

Kanban Crafts

Aspire Crafts
2nd Floor New Mill
Wellington Mills
Quebec Street
Elland
West Yorkshire
HX5 9AS
Come and meet some of the team. We shall be open from 10 - 4pm with special offers and free "Make and Takes". And if you like our new kit "Denim and Lace", we shall be demo-ing with it and we will be taking orders 

I shall be there with the team and as this is my first time out with 'the TV stars' please come and say hello and offer me your support :)

I shall look forward to meeting you but if you can't make it then just keep an eye on Aspire Crafts The Home Of Kanban, the very new Kanban Blog or you can see us on Facebook too.

Take care x

Love & Marriage....

love & marriage, go together like a horse & carriage!! I won't do any more, my singing is dire lol.

Another selection of cards for hubby to take to work when he is djing at a wedding. I used an assortment of digi stamps from Pink Petticoat and Digistamp Boutique, some paper offcuts and lace, ribbon, gems and flowers which were in a pot on my desk. 

See you soon

Butterflies Flutterby

A pinch and a punch on the 1st of the month! Right that's got that out of the way so that we can move on with things!! I realise that this is the 2nd of Feb but I actually started rewriting this post yesterday morning as I wasn't happy with the one I wrote last week....I got a bit side tracked though which is why I'm just finishing it now lol (I've been weather watching on the Watering Hole  web cam in Perranporth. It's quite frightening as a huge chunk of sand was removed from the beach in the last storm last month which left the Watering Hole, the pub on the beach, very exposed and not far from the edge. I just hope that it's still standing in the morning after more terrible tides have hit on yesterday morning as predicted.

So yes, let's now get the ramblings in check so that you understand what I'm talking about :) It is new challenge day on the Crafting Muskateers blog and the theme this month is

"Butterflies"

and this month we are sponsored by Dreemees and here is a bit about them

"Dreamees is run by mother and daughter team Carol and Hayley Bignall."Founded in 2010, Dreamees has grown from strength to strength over the past months. We've managed to secure stands at shows around the country (venturing from Worcester up to Sunderland and across as far as Manchester & Hull!) and have recently decided to aim for larger shows including Whichcraft and the NEC (Nov 2012). With over 15 CD Roms and a range of polymer stamps that grows weekly, Dreamees has successfully featured in many leading papercraft magazines such as 'Complete Cardmaking with your PC', 'Papercraft Essentials', 'The Complete Guide to Digital Crafting' and soon to be 'Creative Cardmaking'.
Dreamees became manufacturers of Polymer plates in January 2012 and have since supplied growing and established businesses, along with providing custom stamps for paper crafters.
As of November 2013, Dreamees have appeared on Create & Craft TV multiple times and continue to do so."

My card

Made using 

 Kanban Ruby Anniversary Toppers #901537

Gold mirri card

Acetate Butterflies

Lace & Gems were from my stash

I love this card and I hope you do too.

Thanks for looking.

In a swirl

We have two more fabulous sketches again this month on the Kathy's Waffle Sketch File blog and we would really love it if you could join in with us.

 

 

I bought this Kanban stamp in a sale last week and it cost me 90p! I decided to have a play with it and see what it looked like without colour, actually I did add a little colour - I gave her lipstick :) When I saw Kathy's new sketch for this month I couldn't believe how well this image fitted the sketch so all I did was to add a couple of pieces of left over card and heart paper by Pink Petticoat, ribbon from Craft All Day and a brad and some diamantes from my stash and it was finished.

Thanks for dropping by and don't forget to take a peep at the inspiration over on the Waffle
blog :)

Free ribbon!

If you want to try to win yourself some free ribbon head over to Sarah's blog and enter.

Then when you've done that you should really visit Sarah's Facebook page, she sell the most scrummy lace and ribbons! I've had to get myself a bigger lace jar and every time I say 'that's it, no more' she brings out some more! Well, it's just polite to buy some rather than just look, don't you think? She does sell other craft stuff as well as ribbon and lace but I never seem to get past that bit lol

Back soon.

PS Tell Sarah that Jackie sent you ;)

Star Card, Star Album

I'm not exactly sure what these little books/albums are called as everyone seems to call them differently, I call them an album as I put photos in mine :)

It's my to host the Get Funky & Craft blog post for this week and as I had a commissioned album to make I decided I would use that as my project.

Cover 2 pieces of thick card with patterned paper and decorate the front. Make sure the paper is cut large enough to overlap on the inside by about an inch but don't decorate it as the first card will be stuck to it to form the first two pages.

Place tape onto the outer edges of all of 5" and 51/2" cards and to all four edges of the 6" cards..

 The cards which will form the album pages  

Some of the 6" cards will need tape on all four edges these form the 'star' and will be stuck onto the front and back covers

Decorate as you wish, I used off cuts of Funky Hand papers from a vast selection of papers, off cuts of lace and ribbon and bits which always seem to 'lurk' on my desk :)

 and start adding a collection of your favourite photos,

 journalling,

 and verses.

 These little albums make wonderful gifts

 and keepsakes

  and are appreciated by all who receive them.

 Happy crafting and thanks for dropping by :)

I can sing a rainbow

I've just looked up from what I'm doing and this is what I can see from my studio window

Now I know it's only a rainbow but I thought rainbows always followed rain. The thing is....we haven't had any!!! We have had beautiful blue sky and sunshine but no rain. Please excuse the pile of dead wood on the front lawn. We had a new fence erected last Wednesday and secretly hoped that the fence man might have offered to get rid of it for us but he didn't. lol Hubby started getting rid of it a few weeks ago but broke his shredder. He returned it to the manufacturer and they've sent him a new one so he has no excuse now the snow has gone :)


So onto my cards.


The first one was commissioned by my window cleaner who has just been to collect it

The image is a freebie decoupage sheet from a craft magazine, I can't remember who the love heart stamps are by but I have a sneaky feeling it might be Heidi Swapp. The paper flowers are from the Range and I just coloured three of them with burgundy Promarkers. The black element on my cards comes in the form of the gems in the centre of the flowers....they are black diamond. The burgundy card is a double sided metal and is gorgeous. All of the pieces on this card are from my ''Snippet'' folders.  Backing paper is Mr & Mrs by Pebbles Inc and the ribbon etc is from my craft boxes.


I shall be entering my card into the following challenges

• Going Buggy - Lace & Butterflies
• The Secret Crafter -  Red, black & white with texture
• Di's Snippet challenge

Before I go I would just like to say how sad I was when I heard yesterday that Whitney Houston had died. Such a waste of a life and such a waste of that fabulous voice. I know I shall remember her as the lovely girl who sang I have nothing in the Bodyguard rather than the very messy singer who lunged round 'performing' on the X Factor Strictly a couple of years ago.


Thanks for stopping by.

Funky Hand cards

I just love my Funky Hand cds and store the 'scraps' left over from making samples in their very own plastic wallet. As I am now heavily into my 'make use of the scraps' phase I am surprising myself at how many cards I'm managing to get out of said oddments. The following cards have been made this week using mainly scraps from the Create and Craft shows last month plus a couple of other pieces left in the folder.

Diamantes, sentiments, charms, ribbons and lace from my stock.
Now for the next lot!!

On a roll

Using what was on my desk from other cards/projects I made another card. This time I used Laura's sketch from 2 sketches 4 you

Materials: papers - magazine freebies, flowers - Dianne's Die Cuts, Nestabilities, MS punch, lace and dew drop from stash

I've got enough stuff on my desk to make another 100 cards I think so I had better give it a tidy so I can get on with my album! I'm working on a square of about 10 square inches on an A3 cutting mat...........not good when I'm also on a six foot table LOL.

Take care, have a lovely Sunday (what's left of it) and thanks for looking :)

ICS

Sketches #12

Paper and image by Pink Petticoat

Gems are Anita's

Other items used are MS Doily punch and lace from stash

My craft goodies

... bought in New York.I had been looking forward to shopping in Michaels since we first booked the holiday in New York and saved £70 from my birthday money to spend on craft goodies but I was so disappointed when we got there. The shelves were empty so there was a really poor supply of crafty goods, no papers at all, so most of the stuff I bought was ribbons at a dollar a roll! I managed to get a couple of punches (the only ones they had) but there was nothing new that we couldn't get over here.

I did manage to get the Doily punch (as well as some paper flowers and a couple of gorgeous Anya stamps) from Tracy at Dies To Die For though and what a fab service she gives. I ordered on Tuesday evening and my stuff arrived this morning. I will definitely be using them again.

My postie also brought me my new DT stamp from DewDrop Craftz. It is one of the new Sally-Ann Hancock designs and he is Eric the Dinosaur and he is just gorgeous! Take a look at the blog too as there is a prize on offer for the winner of the challenge :)

My last 'pressie' is the gift I received from my Secret Birthday Fairy (which was the same as a Secret Santa). I organised it as one of the celebrations to celebrate the 7th birthday of the Crafts By Carolyn I got card blanks and envelopes, lace, ribbons, paper flowers, die cuts and assorted tags all in greens and yellow. Who was a lucky girl then :)

Happy Birthday to me!!

...........and a lovely day it's been too. I got some new crocs and an A3 cutting mat off DH (and my trip to New York next week ;)), a craft tote off the kids, some fabby pressies of a very special friend, another good friend owns a hair and nail boutique and she did my hair for me this afternoon as my pressie and I got some lovely dosh which I am going to change into dollars to take to NY next week :) Have I mentioned we go to New York in 10 days? LOL We have also been for an 'All you can eat' Chinese buffet this evening and I am totally stuffed!!

Happy birthday also to Purplepenguin (my forum twinnie), Prince Edward and Sharon Stone.......you can see Ms Stone and I are twins just by looking at us although we're not quite identical, slightly different shaped. LOL

I just finished and posted my samples for Debbi Moore and used one of Kathy's sketches for a quick and simple card.
Materials used are as follows
green card from Crate and Bazzill Bling
Floral glitter card and stamp from Debbi Moore
Lace and gingham ribbon from stash

Last one.....

...for this evening is the Inspirational Card Sketch #3

Yet another stamp I keep forgetting about! Who keeps putting all these stamps in my drawer? LOL

I coloured it with Promarkers and added Glossy Accent to the eyes, nose, paws and heart. Paper and brown flower are Papermania, the cream flower is Prima and the Sugar Coated brad is Doodlebug. The letters were cut using Wingo Zingo alphabet.

Not sure how much I will get done tomorrow as we have someone coming in the morning to pat test DH's disco gear and my craft stuff and I have a couple coming at lunch time about wedding stationery. I haven't got any of my stuff out yet so will have to get up early in the morning to do it.

Take care and thanks for looking.

Yippeeee

So what have I been up to since Saturday? Well, I had my first appointment at 10.00 am and sold a tiara. I then went onto my mum and dad's to deliver the OoS and seating plan and they are over the moon with them! We then went on to the next appointment at 7.00 pm and they weren't in!! We drove around the block and went back and they still weren't in so we came home. It so annoys me when people do this. She has my phone details so could have rung to cancel. I know anything can happen at any time but it doesn't make it any better when it happens! Moan over :)

I spent yesterday in the garden and we are now weed free and all the daffy bulbs have been planted.
I had a leaving card to make for a collegue of DH and a very good customer of mine! They work for a railway company and this is what I came up with

I just love the little Cuttlebug train and carriage and thought it was appropriate for this card!

My next card is the DCM challenge from Friday. I got a lovely bag of lace from a charity shop a couple of weeks ago so thought I could use some on a card. There was loads in the bag and it all looks brand new and cost me the grand total of..................50p!!! So, this is their brief OK, here's this weeks dare:Let's go Charity shoppingor Op shopping (as we call it in Australia)
I DARE you to visit your local Charity Shop & make someone else's
TRASH your STASH!
.........and make a GORGEOUS card from what you find.You'll be amazed at the special little treasures you'll find if you only take the time to look with CREATIVE EYES

and this is my take on it

I can't remember where I got the foil printed card from as I found it in one of my drawers! The lilac backing card is DCWV, the 'baby' is a Sizzlit die, the lace is from my cheapo bag and the little hands are from Crafts by Carolyn

I've also started the favours for mum and dad's do today. I've done the 3 children's favours and 10 adult so far. Will show piccies when they are done. I have also made a wedding invitation sample to be posted off tomorrow.

I must clean up in the morning too, I have a couple coming to see me about a stationery order!

Take care. x