Crafting cafe May challenge

Hi everyone,

It's that time of the month again when I post my project for The Crafting Cafe blog. This month's sponsor is Oak Pond Creatons. I hadn't heard of these before but the images we were given to work with are adorable. Pop over to our blog during the month to see some other really cute images. As we are a gardening family, or rather, mom,dad the kids and hubby are, I chose The potting shed. Couldn't resist this cute little chappy.

I coloured the image in using watercolour pencils, die cut it and inked the edges and mounted it onto a die cut scalloped oval. The sentiment is handwritten and the flowers and leaves are cut using X Cut dies.

Hope you like it. Happy crafting and don't forget to join in our challenge.

One for the boys

Hi everyone.

I'm a little bit late this month with my DT entry for The Crafting Café. It's been really busy since my last post. My eldest hit 16 and is about to leave school in 3 weeks, we had Mother's Day and Mum was 70 the same day and the following week was Hubby's and sister's birthdays. However, it is done.

The theme of this month's challenge was One for The Boys, a very suitable choice in a house with a husband and 3 sons! This month's sponsors were Kenny K and Delicious Doodles who both provided some fab images to work with.

I chose the Kenny K image and used the cover mount from the April edition of Docrafts Creativity magazine for the sentiment.

Hope you like it.

Crafting Cafe March Challenge

Hi everyone,

It's that time of the month again when I show my card for the challenge over at the Crafting Café. This month's brief was to make a clean and simple card using one of the lovely images from LEJ designs.

Now, some of my lovely crafty friends know that I don't do CAS cards very often, they are sooo out of my comfort zone, so I hope you like what I've done.

 

 

 

I haven't coloured the little doggie image at all, just die cut it off centre and matted it onto some black card using the new big nesting dies from Docrafts. I then cut out an easel card using the same dies from an 8"x8" card blank. The stopper on the card is just a bow. I just added a little bit of bling and hey presto, my finished project.

 

Please pop over to the Crafting Café and join in our challenge. Would be great to see what you come up with x

Battlefields of France

Hi all. Blogging twice in a month, what is the world coming to.

My middle son has been given the opportunity this year, to visit the WW1 battlefields of France and Belgium with his school. This got me thinking of a card I made last year using a beautiful stamp from Indigoblu called Blazing Poppies.

I kept the card quite simple, for me anyway, using quite a limited palette. The image says it all. I just stamped part of the image around the edge of the card, stamped and coloured the main image and die cut it using one of my XCut dies. the sentiment was from another Indigoblu stamp set, Live, Love, Laugh.

 

I am really proud of my son as he had to answer 3 questions as to why he thought he should go on the trip and the children were chosen on the basis of those answers. Although he's only 13, he came out with a really good reason as to why we should never forget WW1 and the horrors that went with it.  

Hope you like the card and you never know, there may be another post from me at some point this week. Well, it is half term and it would be rude not to spend some of it creating.

Thanks for popping by.

Happy New Year

Hi all

Again it seems like ages since my last post but I have some news to share with you. Since I last posted, I have been picked to be on the Design Team for the Crafting Café blog. Each month we have a challenge and this month's sponsors are WOW! embossing powders. The theme of this month's challenge is embossing, either heat embossing or dry embossing. I chose dry embossing and used the Twelve Days of Christmas range from Docrafts. Yes, I know it's only February but I like to have crafty stuff with more than one use and to this end, I turned it into a Valentines card.

Why not pop over to The Crafting Café blog and join in the challenge. We also have a Facebook page too.

Home Sweet Home

Hi everybody,
Can't believe it's been over 6 months since my last post and what a busy 6 months it has been. I have had lots of Docrafts demos and been lucky enough to play with some really fab goodies.
Today, I wanted to share with you something I made for my demo in my friend's shop, Beacon Crafts in Sedgley. Helen has a really lovely litle shop which sells craft items, wool and haberdashery, it's a proper little Aladdin's cave.

 

 

 

This is made from a kit from one of my favourite companies at the moment, Tando Creative. The kits are great because you can  decorate them any which way you want. here, i have inked the backgrounds and then stamped some flourishes on the houses and the roofs have a little harlequin pattern on them.

 

I hope to be using more Tando products in the future as they are so easy to work with and make lovely gifts. I'm sure one day when Mum and Dad have visited, I'm going to find this has disappeared off my wall, she keeps dropping hints x

 

Thanks for stopping by today and I hope to have more for you very soon

 

Lou x

 

                                     



 

 

 

While the cat's away..........

Hi all,

Spent a fantastic day at the NEC yesterday at Stitches, the trade craft show with my dear friend Helen who owns a lovely little craft shop in Sedgley called Beacon Crafts.

Anyhow, because of this and also spending a very lovely weekend with hubby and the boys and also  a baby shower for my friend Jodie, I haven't had much time to play since last week's offerings.

As some of you may know, hubby and I are both scout leaders, I do the little ones, the Beavers, and Gary does Cubs. On a regular basis, the Cubs go off on camp for the weekend and this means that hubby and no 3 son disappear to do scouty things. On one such weekend last year, I had a bit of time on my hands, 2 whole days, where the housework seemed to get forgotten and my 2 big boys did their own thing, so I had to craft and this is what I came up with, a photo frame without a photo!

 

 

I hope you like it, and I'm off now to continue with the cat and mouse theme, I'm upcycling a mousetrap !!!!!!

Thanks for stopping by

Lou x