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Tuesday, October 07, 2014
Kraftyhands October Challenge
Right I found this hard, but most of you out there will find this challenge easy!
Tag! Make a Tag challenge! Is the challenge for october at the Kraftyhands Challenge blog
Now I struggle with tags, the same as I struggle with scrapbooking, I really dont get the point, of them for some reason, ATC's are the same!
But that was the challenge so here's my Attempt!
Now I will admit, that this is a bit of a mishmash, but actually I am quite pleased with how it went together.
Kraft Card, for tag base,
Green ribbon from Fantastic ribbons Christmas collection,
Merry Christmas Dies from Rob Adams
Nordic Santa paper stack from Kraftyhands,
and a sheet of printed decoupage from Santa's Little Helpers CD, which I printed out on the run up to Last Christmas!
Spellbinders Holly Accents dies.
Gold Mirri card
Gold paint pen,
Gems and pearls
This is quite large, nearly A5 in size, so I cut the top of the tag in a decorative die by Go Kreate, sometimes they have lucky dip bags, and you get an assortment of dies, so I dont know what its called.
then I cut a piece from one of the Nordic paper stack, for the main layer of the tag, and wrapped it with the green and gold ribbon, I have a lot of this ribbon, but its a lovely double sided wide ribbon, so though I have 2 very large rolls, I do use it sparingly as its very heavy.
I used a sheet of the 6x6 paper stack, to fold into the tree on the bottom left.
next was to cut the Holly Accent and corner dies in the green paper from the paper stack, and gold mirri, overlaying the green offset, to create the gold edge.
The decoupaged Elf had been printed last year on glossy decoupage paper, so I just had to cut it and use pinflair for dimension, before mounting it in the centre of the tag,
The Merry Christmas was cut from gold glitter card by Papermania.
then I just ran round the edge with the gold paint pen, and threaded the ribbon through. Final touch was the gems and pearls for a bit of sparkle, as there no additional glitter used.
So, If I can do a Tag, then I dont see why you cant! Go on have a go, and link to the challenge at Kraftyhands
Hugs
Lou
Tag! Make a Tag challenge! Is the challenge for october at the Kraftyhands Challenge blog
Now I struggle with tags, the same as I struggle with scrapbooking, I really dont get the point, of them for some reason, ATC's are the same!
But that was the challenge so here's my Attempt!
Kraft Card, for tag base,
Green ribbon from Fantastic ribbons Christmas collection,
Merry Christmas Dies from Rob Adams
Nordic Santa paper stack from Kraftyhands,
and a sheet of printed decoupage from Santa's Little Helpers CD, which I printed out on the run up to Last Christmas!
Spellbinders Holly Accents dies.
Gold Mirri card
Gold paint pen,
Gems and pearls
This is quite large, nearly A5 in size, so I cut the top of the tag in a decorative die by Go Kreate, sometimes they have lucky dip bags, and you get an assortment of dies, so I dont know what its called.
then I cut a piece from one of the Nordic paper stack, for the main layer of the tag, and wrapped it with the green and gold ribbon, I have a lot of this ribbon, but its a lovely double sided wide ribbon, so though I have 2 very large rolls, I do use it sparingly as its very heavy.
I used a sheet of the 6x6 paper stack, to fold into the tree on the bottom left.
next was to cut the Holly Accent and corner dies in the green paper from the paper stack, and gold mirri, overlaying the green offset, to create the gold edge.
The decoupaged Elf had been printed last year on glossy decoupage paper, so I just had to cut it and use pinflair for dimension, before mounting it in the centre of the tag,
The Merry Christmas was cut from gold glitter card by Papermania.
then I just ran round the edge with the gold paint pen, and threaded the ribbon through. Final touch was the gems and pearls for a bit of sparkle, as there no additional glitter used.
So, If I can do a Tag, then I dont see why you cant! Go on have a go, and link to the challenge at Kraftyhands
Hugs
Lou
Saturday, October 04, 2014
Alys Inky Fingers
Hi Guys and girls
well you know me always on the look out!
So I subscribe to Alys Inky Fingers stamp club every month, which means that every month, a new set of stamps, and a suggested layout arrives, not only that I also get a discount at shows, and stuff like that. I bumped into Aly at the Leigh papercraft show recently, and bought one of her dies, or maybe 2 I cant remember, and eventually got round to cutting it , It was one of her Molly Moo Dies, a corner, which when I had seen it I thought Hmmn.....I wonder...........
So I put it through the machine, as you do, new die, dont know how it will cut, and Oh My Goodness!
I leapt onto the website, here, and ordered the rest of the dies she had! Then, as I do actually have Alys phone number, that was it, on the phone "Have you got any more Dies?When are they coming in, and oh I just placed an order.....blah blah blah"
Up shot of it was that she was filming the next day over at British Craft Network HQ, you know that new crafty fix I keep blathering on about? So why didn't I meet her there and grab the rest of my order, quicker than posting it out, etc.
So Next morning shot off to the BCN HQ, got lost on the way, had to be directed by phone, oh what a day that was!
Well I couldn't go empty handed could I? So the night before I quickly made this card, which I forgot to photograph, so this has been taken at Aly's for me, and emailed back, we did try to send it via phones, but I have trouble with photo's on a Blackberry, so that didn't work, and its taken sometime for us to manage to get the picture back to me!
I had seen the delicacy of the corner die, and immediately thought Snowflake! Which luckily Aly hadn't seen, though she did see flowers!
So the Corner die was cut 6 times, then scored from the 2nd 3rd and fourth points towards the centre, then lay one on top of the other, and offset them slightly, add a silver Pearl and hey presto, Half a snowflake!
The main image is one of Aly's stamps, from the aforementioned club, and came in a set. But I only used one, stamped in black soot, then stamped without re-inking. The main image was stamped with versamark, and silver embossed.
The whole point of the card was really to show off the snowflake, so I kept the card quite simple, a shaped card blank in Black, an layer of silver mirri embossed with Crafters Companion Snowflake folder, some black ribbon in the background, to break the shine of the silver, and the black white and silver topper matted onto black and silver mirri. The sentiment, came in the same set as the trees, and some clear glitter was added to the base of the trees, and the edges of the snowflake, though I think in future I will nick the white gel pen idea, so effective!
Now when you look at Aly's shows at the places where you can see her Face, you might spot this card in the region of her head, lol
But I have "stolen" loads of tips and ideas from the shows on BCN, some from Aly, some from Sharon at Glitter perfect, Rob Adams, Tricia, Sue, Mike and Ian, Kay Rutter, Kay Halliwell-Sutton, and am enjoying the slower more relaxed pace of shows on BCN. Such a nice change to sit and watch rather than stress out, and be hurried into making choices.
Now I am buying what I want to, not what I am being forced into, and I am a lot happier!
Right got some stuff to do, this has been a long labour of love with my dictation program, so I am off, to finally get some crafting done today.
I do have more from Aly, but those will have to wait until she has the items in her hand, and I will remember to photgraph them first!
Hugs
Lou
well you know me always on the look out!
So I subscribe to Alys Inky Fingers stamp club every month, which means that every month, a new set of stamps, and a suggested layout arrives, not only that I also get a discount at shows, and stuff like that. I bumped into Aly at the Leigh papercraft show recently, and bought one of her dies, or maybe 2 I cant remember, and eventually got round to cutting it , It was one of her Molly Moo Dies, a corner, which when I had seen it I thought Hmmn.....I wonder...........
So I put it through the machine, as you do, new die, dont know how it will cut, and Oh My Goodness!
I leapt onto the website, here, and ordered the rest of the dies she had! Then, as I do actually have Alys phone number, that was it, on the phone "Have you got any more Dies?When are they coming in, and oh I just placed an order.....blah blah blah"
Up shot of it was that she was filming the next day over at British Craft Network HQ, you know that new crafty fix I keep blathering on about? So why didn't I meet her there and grab the rest of my order, quicker than posting it out, etc.
So Next morning shot off to the BCN HQ, got lost on the way, had to be directed by phone, oh what a day that was!
Well I couldn't go empty handed could I? So the night before I quickly made this card, which I forgot to photograph, so this has been taken at Aly's for me, and emailed back, we did try to send it via phones, but I have trouble with photo's on a Blackberry, so that didn't work, and its taken sometime for us to manage to get the picture back to me!
So the Corner die was cut 6 times, then scored from the 2nd 3rd and fourth points towards the centre, then lay one on top of the other, and offset them slightly, add a silver Pearl and hey presto, Half a snowflake!
The main image is one of Aly's stamps, from the aforementioned club, and came in a set. But I only used one, stamped in black soot, then stamped without re-inking. The main image was stamped with versamark, and silver embossed.
The whole point of the card was really to show off the snowflake, so I kept the card quite simple, a shaped card blank in Black, an layer of silver mirri embossed with Crafters Companion Snowflake folder, some black ribbon in the background, to break the shine of the silver, and the black white and silver topper matted onto black and silver mirri. The sentiment, came in the same set as the trees, and some clear glitter was added to the base of the trees, and the edges of the snowflake, though I think in future I will nick the white gel pen idea, so effective!
Now when you look at Aly's shows at the places where you can see her Face, you might spot this card in the region of her head, lol
But I have "stolen" loads of tips and ideas from the shows on BCN, some from Aly, some from Sharon at Glitter perfect, Rob Adams, Tricia, Sue, Mike and Ian, Kay Rutter, Kay Halliwell-Sutton, and am enjoying the slower more relaxed pace of shows on BCN. Such a nice change to sit and watch rather than stress out, and be hurried into making choices.
Now I am buying what I want to, not what I am being forced into, and I am a lot happier!
Right got some stuff to do, this has been a long labour of love with my dictation program, so I am off, to finally get some crafting done today.
I do have more from Aly, but those will have to wait until she has the items in her hand, and I will remember to photgraph them first!
Hugs
Lou
Wednesday, October 01, 2014
The British Craft Network
Okay this starts this morning! NOW to 9 pm.
you can find it here: http://www.britishcraftnetwork.tv/
Looks like I have 2 sets of cards on todays shows, so watch for Aly Higginbottom, and Kraftyhands!
But to explain!
These are pre-recorded shows, by individual companies. Companies that you find at the shows, that carry a wide range of items of crafty goodiness! So they arent just going to be promoting one set of stamps or one paper pad, they will show us what to do with our stash! What they sell in their shops they will be selling on the BCN, so its not going to be confined to one area.
To order from the company you go to the directory page, and you will find a link to their webshop. Then you can browse to your hearts content.
Oh dear! It seems that so many of us crafters are trying to watch, that we have crashed the website!!! Boy is this anticipated! I am so pleased, that we now have another inspirational outlet to spend our hard earned pennies, with out the middle man!
Right I am going to go and keep pressing that re-fresh button!
Hugs
Lou
you can find it here: http://www.britishcraftnetwork.tv/
Looks like I have 2 sets of cards on todays shows, so watch for Aly Higginbottom, and Kraftyhands!
But to explain!
These are pre-recorded shows, by individual companies. Companies that you find at the shows, that carry a wide range of items of crafty goodiness! So they arent just going to be promoting one set of stamps or one paper pad, they will show us what to do with our stash! What they sell in their shops they will be selling on the BCN, so its not going to be confined to one area.
To order from the company you go to the directory page, and you will find a link to their webshop. Then you can browse to your hearts content.
Oh dear! It seems that so many of us crafters are trying to watch, that we have crashed the website!!! Boy is this anticipated! I am so pleased, that we now have another inspirational outlet to spend our hard earned pennies, with out the middle man!
Right I am going to go and keep pressing that re-fresh button!
Hugs
Lou
Last Sneak Peek
This is the last sneak peek!
Today at 9am sees the launch of the British Craft Network, from 9 am to 9pm, on the internet!
To buy stuff from shows seen on the BCn you simply click on the links which will take you direct to the suppliers website. That means you buy direct from the suppliers, not through a third party!
Which also means that a savvy shopper can also avoid postal charges!!!
Spend the minimum each company sets, and you pay NO POSTAGE at ALL! Whoop, whoop, whoop! Spend under the companies minimum, and guess what, bet you'll pay less postage than from other sources!
So Back to today!
Kraftyhands will be on today with their New CD Butterfly Botanicals, which you can order direct from Kraftyhands, and this is my favourite card I made from the CD so I saved it until last!
All the postcard toppers printed on photo paper, one backing paper re-printed, some of the bunting flags, some twine, a cut file I designed myself, and is available via the MTC gallery for free, and some real pressed flowers from Joanna Sheen, and thats what I ended up with!
Hope you can tune in at 9am for the launch of the BCN!
Lou
Today at 9am sees the launch of the British Craft Network, from 9 am to 9pm, on the internet!
To buy stuff from shows seen on the BCn you simply click on the links which will take you direct to the suppliers website. That means you buy direct from the suppliers, not through a third party!
Which also means that a savvy shopper can also avoid postal charges!!!
Spend the minimum each company sets, and you pay NO POSTAGE at ALL! Whoop, whoop, whoop! Spend under the companies minimum, and guess what, bet you'll pay less postage than from other sources!
So Back to today!
Kraftyhands will be on today with their New CD Butterfly Botanicals, which you can order direct from Kraftyhands, and this is my favourite card I made from the CD so I saved it until last!
Lou
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