Back in my CRAFT room

It's taken me a few more weeks than expected to get back into my craft room apart from a magazine commission I had to finish.  Crafting had to go on hold until the painting was finished and the new bed was assembled.  But I have good news apart from some glossing I'm truly settled in the North East.

To help me get back into my crafting groove I've been lucky enough to be asked to be a Guest Designer over at C.R.A.F.T Challenge Blog however I've not had a great start with getting this weeks card very late over to Jo.  It's all those Bank Holidays that have frazzled my head, but anyway I thought I'd still share details of the challenge here,

05.05.2011 - Challenge 101 - Sketch - Digi's With Attitude

Here's the sketch:

The sponsors are offering  a $10 CAD ( Canadian Funds) gift voucher for Digi's With Attitude! shop as a prize.

Here's my card:

Supplies used:

Digi images - digi's with attitude

Papers - Cosmo Cricket Material Girl mini deck

Cardstock - Core'dinations - Core Impressions Basic Grey Ornate collection and Roy.G.Biv pad

Die - nestabilities

Copics used:

Face - E000, E21, R20

Hair - E31, E33, E35

Logs - E71, E77

Eyes - YG11, YG23

Top & shoes - B000, B02, C3, C5,C7, YG11

Fire - Y15, Y17, Y38, YR04, R37

Just so you don't think I've had no fun over the last couple of weeks, I thought I'd share this photo with you.  Me on the trampoline with Debbie's two youngest boys, the gorgeous Ethan & Jacob.  Thanks so much for letting play and teaching me how to do a back drop.

They'll be at least one post a week for the next month, whilst I'm on Guest Design Team duties and hopefully more now I'm settling into my new craft room.  Although I  still need to unpack properly in there!

xxx

The unpacking begins

So since my last blog update there's been a fair bit going on, namely a very busy trade show and a move of house up to the North East, about 5 minutes away from the office.  So whilst I've settled into going into the office everyday, I've only just started to open my craft boxes and the first box I've opened is my Papertrey Ink supplies.  It's a good job really as the girls over at A Passion for Papertrey have asked me to be there featured stamper of the month.  So I've been busy beavering away and will share my first card for them tomorrow.  In the meantime here's a card I've made tonight , featuring the lovely up, up & away stamp set:

So hopefully I'll be back a little bit more regularly but don't hold your breath just yet as there's still alot of boxes to be unpacked.  Plus work is mega busy, but that's exciting as I have a warehouse of Core'dinations cardstock and an eCraft machine to play with.

In the meantime a massive thank you to all my friends for their support over the last couple of months.  I'm truely a very lucky girl to have the people in my life that I do.

xxx

A Little Bit of Love

I was so excited to be contacted by the lovely Emily O'Brien from VoucherCodes.co.uk to submit a Valentines project for them.  So here's what I created, a set of 5 cute little Valentine cards.  So whether you're sending one to your sweetheart or you just want to let someone you know how special they are these little cuties are ideal.  Making a set of cards is great, as once you've got your design then you can just replicate, making them super quick to make.

I was also inspired by challenges at:

CRAFT - Valentines

Creative Card Crew - for a loved one

Stamptacular Sunday challenge - hearts gone wild

Allsorts challenge - It must be love, love, love

The Crafty Pad - Love is in the air

 All supplies used from Papertrey Ink:

Card stock - pure poppy, dark chocolate, new leaf, simply chartreuse, aqua mist

Patterned paper - bitty dot basics

Stamps - Tiny Treats

Ribbon - pure poppy

Inks - pure poppy, dark chocolate, new leaf, simply chartreuse, aqua mist

Copic Ciaos

Stickles - xmas red

Dies, circle and scalloped circle nestabilities

I hope you've made your Valentine's card, although you can always sneak out to supermarket in the middle of the night if you run out of time!

xxx

SWALK 3 Sneak Peek

Wow, who stole the rest of January!  I'm super busy at work what with a trip to Paperword in Frankfurt and getting ready for CHSI (Stitches) - the UK craft trade show.  This Friday I'm at Inspirations by Cardcraft Plus in Preston, so I'm busy getting ready for that too.

We've also got a brand new launch this Saturday, it's 6 more gorgeous SWALK stamps and I'm so excited as one of the stamps is the iconic SWALK kissing couple and that's the one I've used in my Sneak Peek.

I've also been inspired by challenges at:

Papertake Weekly - have a heart

A Spoonful of Sugar - let's see some love

Try it on a Tusday - Hearts & Flowers

Supplies used:

All items available from Crafter's Companion

SWALK stamp - a little kiss

Cardstock - Cored'inations Ebony & Ivory pack

Embossong folder - Cuttlebug script

Flower & scroll die - Marianne

Copic Ciao's

Faces & skin - E00, E21, RV10

Hair girl - Y00, Y21, TR31

Hair boy - E50, E31, E33

Girls clothes - RV29, R46, C1

Boys clothes - C1, C3, C5, C7

Gingham ribbon

I'm so in love with Cored'inations cardstock.  As you can see on the card above I haven't even used any patterned paper!

I'd better make a couple more samples.

xxx

A taste of ATC's

Well the rest of my weekend was as much fun as the start of it and I went on another wonderful walk on Sunday, even though it was rather wet and drizzly.  One of the best bits of the walk was that I got to make a new friend, the lovely Isla aged 5 for 2 more sleeps, as she told me.  I also learned all about horrible histories, skipped and sang follow the yellow brick road, or our version follow the muddy green field!  Once she'd grabbed my hand to get over a stile she didn't let go for several miles.  She's a fabulous little walker and did the whole lot without a single whinge.  What a little star.

As you can see by the time we got back we were slightly bedraggled!

Oh and Isla, I agree with you, pom poms rock!!

I haven't made ATC's for ages but made this little ATC book for Papercraft Essentials.  I'm popping these into challenges at:

The Crafty Pad - something new - new stamps

Just us Girls - colour challenge #67, aqua, coral and green

Supplies used:
Stamps - Paperartsy
Papers - K&Co Poppy Seeds designer mat pad
Card - core'dinations

So it's another busy week at work but hopefully I'll be back to post something on my blog soon.
xxx

Appley Dapply Nursery Rhymes Blog Hop

Hello and welcome to the Crafter’s Companion Blog Hop to celebrate the release of Beatrix Potter: Appley Dapply’s Nursery Rhymes CD and stamp set.

If you have landed here from Leann's blog  then you are hopping in the right direction. If not then you need to pop over to the Crafter’s Companion News blog to begin.

As a DT we have had a great time creating with the new range from Crafter’s Companion and to celebrate the launch of this stunning new collection on Friday 21st January Crafter's Companion have decided to give you a chance to see some Sneak Peeks and also have the chance of winning a fabulous Prize:

The Appley Dapply’s Nursery Rhymes CD and stamp set, plus a pack of watercolour card and a tin of 12 Derwent Watercolour pencils!

All you need to do to be in with a chance of winning this great prize is visit each blog in order, and then go back to the Crafter’s Companion News Views and Inspiration Blog to leave your link on Mr Linky. Along the way you will notice that each Blog will give you a letter - make a note of these as they will make a word which we will ask you for if your number is drawn by Random.Org on Thursday 20th.

PLEASE DO NOT TELL US WHAT THE WORD IS ON THE CRAFTER’S COMPANION NEWS VIEWS AND INSPIRATION BLOG, WE WILL E-MAIL YOU FOR THE ANSWER IF YOUR MR LINKY NUMBER IS DRAWN.

Here's my card, which was also inspired by challenges at:

Cupcake craft - something new

Papertake weekly - cold & frosty morning

Cute card Thursday - monochromatic

Stamp something - stamp anything

 

Supplies used:

Cardstock - core'dinations - whitewash and core colour

Patterned paper - Appley Dapply CD

Frame - Appley Dapply CD

Stamp - Appley Dapply stamp set

Colouring medium - Copic Ciaos

Punch - Martha Stewart

All supplies from Crafter's Companion

My letter is: R

From here, you're hopping over to Lynsey's Blog.  We hope you enjoy the sneak peeks and thanks for hopping.

xxx

Winter Walking

Whoosh, who stole this week!  It's been another hectic but fabulous week.  I've been up in the North East as we've lots of planning to do in the office.  I've caught up with friends, managed to go dancing, been cooked for and generally had a thoroughly enjoyable time.

This weekend I've escaped to Hucklow in Derbyshire to go Winter Walking.  It's fabulous as I get to spend time with some of my favourite friends, Gwyneth and her hubby Robert and Archi (with her broken arm) and her hubby Ian.

It's been food for the soul being out in the fresh air today.

So what do you do after walking?  Make cards of course!  This one was inspired by the challenges at:

Chicken soup - recipe #24 - the sunburst shape inspired me to use this cute pleated embellishment

 Meljen's Designs - square or round card

Paper Cutz - tags

Supplies used

Papers and embellishment - Scrap-a-gogo greetings kit

Stamps - just the ticket (PTI)

Ink - chocolate brown, Hawaiian shores, orange zest

This card was inspired by the challenge at:

Secret crafter challenge - with love - these colours just scream love to me

Supplies used:

Paper - in bloom (PTI)

Stamps - round & round (PTI)

Ink - true black (PTI)

Felt - true black (PTI)

Dies - PTI

Punch - Martha Stewart

So I'm off to bed now as it's up early for more walking tomorrow.

I hope you're having a great start to 2011, I know I am.

xxx