The Finished Article

Evening all,
Just a quick post tonight. I wanted to share with you the notebooks I made for my lovely friends this Christmas. As money seems to be a bit tight for everyone we decided to handmake our pressies for each other this year and had great fun in the process.

I made a simpler version of one of these notebooks a few months ago but these needed to be a bit special. I must add that I recieved 2 wonderful handmade gifts in return and feel this will become a Christmas tradition.
Hope to post again soon as I have quite a few new projects to share with you.

Happy Crafting

Hugs

Clare

Pretty in Pink

Good evening peeps,
Well a little late but I would like to wish you all a very Happy New Year and I hope you all managed to have a little break over the festive period.
Wow finally I feel well enough to get back to my little corner of blogland and share with you a creation using another beautiful Tilda stamp. The papers are from the Love stack by First Edition and are just so gorgeous to use.

Promarker Colour Recipe:
Skin: Blush, Soft Peach
Hair: Sandstone, Cinnamon, Shale
Dress and Hair Flower: Pale Pink, Baby Pink, Antique Pink
Shoes: Cinnamon, Shale
Butterflies: Baby Pink, Antique Pink
Grass: Flexmarkers - Chartreuse, Aniseed, Sea Green

I am entering this card into the following challenges:
Just Magnolia - #138 'Anything Goes'
Passion for Promarkers - #130 Theme is 'Thank You'
I Love Promarkers - #98 'Buttons and Lace'
Totally Tilda - 'Thank You'
Magnolia Down Under - #128 'Anything Goes'

Thanks for Looking
Hugs
Clare

F is for...........Frosty

 Good afternoon hmph!!Apologies my post was scheduled to appear this morning but Blogger seemed to have other ideas. Also just spent the last 2 hours trying to correct my lovely background that had shrunken to a ridiculous size (deep sigh!)
Ok so I have climbed off my soap box and my rant is over, back to normality (well sort of).
I am sharing with you today a frosty creation for the F is for Frosty challenge over at ABC. This time we are sponsored by the fabulous Lily of the Valley who has kindly donated a £10 voucher for the lucky winner.

Again not an easy card to photograph but I have done my best. This first shot shows the front of my card which when opened reveals a complete circle of frostiness!

A birdseye viewof the open card. The glitter and bling does not show so well but you get the idea. A great way to showcase lots of scrummy Tilda's.

As always I coloured using my trusty Promarkers and then layered these cuties onto snowflake embossed panels.

Hope you enjoyed my creation and I look forward to seeing your entries into the ABC challenge.

E is for.........Embossing!

Morning all,
I hope everyone of you is well and not suffering with the many bugs that seem to be going round.
Well it's time for yet another fab challenge over at ABC and this time we want to see your wonderful projects using Embossing. We are sponsered this time by the fabulous Ribbon Girl so grab your embossing folders or embossing powder and get creating.

I have just received these beautiful clear baubles into the shop and I couldn't wait to get them filled. For the first I used this oh so cute deer stamp from Stampavie. Coloured with Promarkers and mounted onto a panel that was embossed with a Cuttlebug snowflake folder.

For my second bauble I chose to use the beautiful angel from Magnolia, coloured simply with Promarkers and then filled with pretty little irridescent heart confetti.
Apologies for the photos but these are really difficult to get a good photograph of.

D is for...........Dazzle

 Hi all,

Yeah time for another challenge over at ABC again. This time we want to see D is for Dazzle! so make sure you add plenty of glitter, sparkle and bling! We are sponsered by the fabulous Bugaboo Stamps this time and they are offering one lucky winner their choice of 7 digis, so well worth an entry.

I chose to cover a plain brown paper bag with a whole host of scrummy papers and a gorgeous collection of Magnolia stamps. I have coloured with my trust Promarkers as usual and added loads of Stardust Stickles and scattered plenty of gems.

Promarker Colour Recipe:

Tilda with Snowheart
Skin: Blush, Soft Peach
Hair: Raw Sienna, Terracotta, Henna
Hat, Scarf, Gloves and Boots: Forest, Pine
Top and Skirt: Poppy, Crimson

Santa:
Hat, Suit, Gloves: Poppy, Crimson
Hair: Cool Grey 2
Belt and Boots: Cool Grey 1, 3 & 4
Parcels: Forest, Poppy
Bag: Sandstone, Cinnamon

Fence: Sandstone, Cinnamon

I am entering this bag into the following challenges:
Cupcake Crafts - #168 'Two's Company'
Totally Gorjuss - #106 'Christmas Traditions'
Stampavie and More - #155 'Anything Goes'
Stamptacular Sunday - #138 'Punch It'
TOMIC - #24 'Use a Paper Bag'


Happy crafting and thanks for all your wonderful comments
Hugs
Clare
xx

Floral Christmas

Good evening all!
Wow how fast is Christmas approaching, is it just me or did October just fly!. Well hopefully I will be able to catch up with my posts very soon as I have exhibited at my last show of the year now so I can concentrate on other projects.
I wanted to share with you a Christmas card I have made using yet another gorgeous stamp sheet from Chocolate Baroque. I love this poinsettia image and once stamped it just cried out to be decoupaged.

 As usual I have used Promarkers to colour my image which was stamped onto kraft card then further images were stamped onto smooth stamping card and were used for the layers.

I tore the bottom of the kraft card, distressed the edges with Frayed Burlap DI and added some faux stitching before attaching it to a white A6 card.

I am entering this into the following challenges:

Crafty Catz - #107 'Anything Goes'

Cute Card Thursday - #190 'Reds For Rememberance'

Paper Sundaes - #94 'Rectangle'

Allsorts - #128 'Anything but Square'

Passion for Promarkers - #125 'Kraft + 1 Other Colour'

C is for...........Crochet Flowers

Good morning all!!
Firstly I want to say a huge hi to all the lovely crafty ladies I met at the Bury St Edmonds papercraft show on Sunday. The whole day was amazing and it was great to meet you all and can't wait to see you all again next June.
Well today is all about the fab new challenge over at ABC. this fortnight we want to see your creations using 'Crochet Flowers'. So grab your flowers and let your imagination run riot. This time we are sponsored by the fabulous Lacey over at Stamp and Create

I have chosen to use this Gorguss Girly 'I Found My Family In A Book' and teamed her with the beautiful DP's from Prima's 'Printery' collection.

I am entering this into the following challenges:
Sweet Stampin - 'Anything Goes'
Totally Gorjuss - #104 'I Remember' (haven't made paper dolls since I was a kid!)

Promarker Colour Recipe:
Skin: Blush, Soft Peach
Hair: Raw Sienna, Terracotta, Henna
Dress and Boots: Tea Green, Grey Green
Tights: Ivory, Vanilla, Cinnamon, Shale
Scissors: Warm Grey 3
Book and Paper Dolls: Vanilla