Summer Inspiration

I'm getting lots from being outdoors, in the garden and reflecting on what summer is all about. This time of year is all about getting together with family and having some fun in the outdoors, plan a barbeque, or go away for the day and take the kids out to do some thing interesting and fun, or even let some one else do that, and hang out in the back garden, worship the sun and drink long cool ice teas. No doubt even when you do plan for a quiet afternoon you have family coming anyway wanting to share your piece of sunshine, but what ever you do let it reflect in your crafting, i have found that it makes me want to clear out the old stuff and get new stuff and organize my space, which is basically what i have been doing.

This year as you know i signed up as a demonstrator with Stampinup  and in previous years as an avid fan have collected so much, well as much as i didn't want to part with my beloved stamps have seen so much in this years annual catalogue, i don't think ill miss them. I'm so excited for you to see the new catty, you wont be disappointed at all, i have a wish list as long as my arm.

So i have been creating a few projects to wet my palate for when the new goodies arrive

I cased this from another Uk demonstrator on youtube pootlespapercraft, she is awesome, and her projects are great, so i thought i would showcase some of the new in colours from left Calyso coral, Island indigo, Wisteria wonder,Pool party and Lucky limeade,  i love these colours so much its a shame that they are going but i have fallen for the new  2012-14 in colours,

So watch this space you guys will keep you posetd till the new catalogue comes out,

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New catalogue Sneek peek

You can now E-mail or message me on Face book to order your new catalogue, due out on the 1st of July but for now you can feast your eyes on these.........

and also get your hands on these Best of stamps sets Limited Edition one a month will be released clear mount only £13.95

A new beginning for craft

 

2013 see’s me making a lot of bold decisions in taking my craft forward, seeing my confidence grow with my artwork and, enjoying the time with my family now that i am a grandmother of a beautiful baby boy,  Joseph Morgan.

I have done a complete 180 degree, and now my Holly is growing up and becoming a beautiful little girl, she has inspired me to do all the things I ever dreamed of doing. I have recently signed up as a demo for Stampin’ up, if you haven't heard of them they are an international craft company bringing to you the finest craft items ever and I am a massive fan and have been for a number of years, I have took the plunge and will be motivating other people to try out this fantastic hobby with me and my Stampin’ up colleagues.

So as a rule, I will be posting at least one craft, and one Fine art post a day, or every other day, i don't want to burn out now do I, and I hope you can enjoy this fantastic journey with me.

This is a ceramic jug,that has gone in for glazing it is a coiled jug, and its purpose is to be filled with celebratory scrumpy cider, believe you me it is bigger that the picture does it justice, I have given it a very authentic dark brown glaze to finish and it has pear cross sections engraved down the back and the handle, its shape has been designed so that it can be poured without having to lift(bonus if you have had too many) as it is quite heavy.

So here’s to all you devoted crafters out there, and to all you budding artists, I salute you.

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Yummy Scrummy

Just a quick post today its very rare that i post on a week end  but,wanted to share this with you, my partner Paul and daughter Holly have been baking so, I quickly made them up these cute cake toppers, I used cherry cobbler SU/CS and whisper white and stamped back and front secured with a hot glue gun and cocktail stick, although the cakes have not been decorated yet I could not wait for them to do that and decided to take some picks anyway, what do you think.

and here’s the back view,

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Pick a square

 

It was such a choice, great idea for a challenge though, I actually found myself putting a glass on each corner, and centre of my card to decide where i wanted my image, excellent idea, as the challenge goes simply less is more. I am combining this challenge also with Flower frenzy over at simply stamping challenge, I stamped a Non SU stamp rose on to the right hand corner of my card,i then stamped it a couple of times with leaves on to more whisper white CS and layered it up,  at first i did it in early espresso, which i really liked, and then i thought well what if my rose was red so i then stamped in Cherry cobbler, with Basic grey leaves and this was very nice(although i say so myself) i love SU colours as they are so vivid and strong the sentiment is a retired one from SU, from my stash and i have flittered with glitter to finish. Hope you like it.

And here is a close up for you.

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Two of a kind

When you have a 12x12” piece of card stock you can quite easily make two cards as i found doing this one i had too many images of a small nature so i decided to spilt them in to two different designs here’s what i come up with

The images are from Pink Petticoat from their reduced section and they will be retiring so grab yourself a bargain, i printed on to SU Whisper white cardstock which gave me a brilliant result except you have to leave it overnight to dry completely or it will smudge with your pens (whichever medium you prefer to use) water colouring is out of the question as it will buckle your paper and smear your image, papers are from lily pad and the ribbon was from a Thornton's chocolate box that was bought for mother day for me, which matched my cherry cobbler red cs perfectly (happy accident) so here’s the close ups

Happy crafting folks see you soon xx

Less is definitely more

 

Here is my entry for the LIM challenge the theme is white on white, no coloured images. I have layered up whisper white cardstock on to 4x4’’  easel card and used dotted embossing folder, on to a plain layer, i then added an oval sentiment on to a scalloped oval, then added white vellum flowers and used a pearl brad and a couple of gems, ribbon was taken from my sisters sewing stash its like a ribbed white cotton ribbon very understated my other white ribbon was to wide for this size card. Hope you like it.

 

 

and here’s a close up.

Altered Items

Candles are not a thing i would have ever dreamed of altering but when i saw some candles my sister bought from a gift shop that had a sentiment on i thought i can do that, so i did and after trial and error here is what i came up with,  i went on various websites like split coast stampers to see if i could find some tutorials there wasn't many, but i thought i would put my spin on it, i made these for Pauls moms birthday, using SU cardstock, i think it was wild wasabi, (if you know please correct me) i made Alice bands for the outer two and the middle one i stamped a sentiment on to tissue paper, ( i mean the kind you gift wrap with not the toilet kind) and used my heat tool to kind of fuse it on to the candle, well it looked ok, i was chuffed to bits any way what do you think?

Buttons and Bows Challenge

http://simplystampinchallenge.blogspot.com/2011/05/challenge-6-buttons-bows.html
I have entered this card in to the Simply Stampin challenge, i have used simply sweet stamp set with very vanilla card stock and layered crumb cake under my image and chopped the corners off on one side to give a kind of retro look, then used old an old olive designer button and grosgrain ribbon to finish along side my paper roses. Hope you like it.


And here’s the close-up

Please feel free to leave a comment, be kind please i bruise easily lol.

Simply Stampin’ Challenge #1

 

Finally i bite the bullet and submit one of my projects for a challenge. Its a new challenge on a very new blog which is why i think this one was worth going for, i must not be so hard on myself next time as i feel i have followed the sketch but added my own touch on to it, why not have a go yourself go to http://simplystampinchallenge.blogspot.com/ and see for yourself there is some awesome candy up for grabs.

Ingredients included:

12” by 4” SU Early espresso cardstock scored at 6”

5/38” x 3/38 SU cardstock Really rust

5/15” x 3/14” SU cardstock Very vanilla

designer series paper choc chip/really rust

SU Punch embroidery border

polka dot embossing folder cuttlebug

SU stamp set Sweet summer SAB

Early espresso 1/8 taffeta ribbon

 

Sweet Summer

This time of year you always have some rain some shine but, no one cares, because we know summer is just around the corner, and that inspired me to design some thing simple and summery.  Using this Sweet Summer set from stampin up  i created this scene in early espresso ink, and coloured in using my watercolour brush, stampin up old olive and pumpkin pie ink, finished with a length of early espresso one eight inch stitched ribbon