Happy New Year

Happy new Year everyone.

It's been a busy start to the new year. Decorations are all down, house is clean and hubby and the boys are all back to work, college or school. I, on the other hand, have another month off before I start my new job. Hopefully, this will give me the opportunity to have a huge and very necessary, sort out of my crafty stash and my wardrobe.

My first crafty make of the new year is for the January challenge over at The Crafting Café. The theme is Lots of Layers and we had images from the fabulous Bugaboo. I chose the snails because they are a little reminder of my last job.

I mat and layered using craft card and black cardstock. The background papers are new this month from Docrafts and form part of the Little Meow collection. The sentiment is a Lily of the Valley one.
I printed off the image several times and then decoupaged it to create even more layers.

 

I'm off now to make a list of what crafty items I need from the loft so that I can start my samples for my up and coming demos for Docrafts, a list of which is now on this blog. Would be lovely to see you if you could make it.                                                                                                                      



 

 

Crafting Cafe October Challenge

Hi all.

Just wanted to share with you my project for this month over at The Crafting Café. The theme is Think Pink, very appropriate seeing how October is Breast Cancer Awareness month.

The sponsor this month is Aurora Wings and you must pop over to the web page to have a look at these amazing designs. The image I chose is called Autumn Rose. I used a technique that I have been dying to try for ages, separating the image into sections and inking. This was the first time in ages that I've had my Distress Inks out.

 

The background paper  and embellishments I've had in my stash for ages, so these had an airing too!

Hope you like it and do hope you'll pop over to The Crafting Café and join in this month's challengex

September challenge at The Crafting Cafe

Hi everyone,

It's been a long time since I posted and it's been a very busy time in the Moore household. My eldest has left school , had his prom, GCSEs, started college and also got a job, all in the space of 5 months. Oh and I started a full time job too!

Any how, this month over at The Crafting Café, the challenge is Shades of One. Now, people that know me, know that  a lot of my cards tend to be like this any way, especially with the beautiful Capsule collections from Docrafts and it was to one of these collections I turned for this challenge.

I chose to work with one of the beautiful images from one of our sponsors, Scribble and Scrap Crafts. At first, I was going to work with the black collection but, if truth be known, I couldn't find all of the elements I wanted in my stash, nothing new there then. Finally, I turned to the gorgeous Parisienne Blue collection. I chose some pretty lace ribbon and a journaling note from the collection as well as a couple of the stunning papers.

All it needed to finish off were some pearl adhesive stones, some blue tinted roses and a sentiment. Job done!

I hope you like the finished project. Do pop over to The Crafting Café blog to have a look at what the other members of the DT have done and join in the challenge.

Thanks for stopping by.

Lou x

July challenge at The Crafting Cafe

This month's challenge over at The Crafting Café is Feeling Fruity and our sponsor is Lacy Sunshine digi stamps. I chose to work with the image called Cider Apple and picked some colours that I don't work with very often.

 

 

 

I coloured the image with some soft pencils for a change and made an easel card with my scalloped and plain oval dies. hope you like it and would love you to join in our challenge this month. Your project can feature fruit or use fruity colours.  

A couple of commissions

This week has been quite a busy one in crafting terms. My new kit came from Docrafts featuring some lovely new collections to work with over the next couple of months. I have also been working on a couple of commissions.

The first was for my friend at work to give to her husband who is a keen fisherman. I used a Pinflair Background Artist image and then blended my distress inks to add colour. My friend loved the card and I was really pleased with how it turned out.

My second card was a Wedding Acceptance with the colours for the wedding being pale sage green, a bit of a challenge, you may think. I was lucky enough, however, to have this lovely lace paper from the new Docrafts Botanicals range. I just added the wording, some ribbons and a flower charm and  job done.

 

 

Am now off to create a few more projects for my second demo of the weekend. A woman's work and all that. 

The Crafting Cafe June challenge

Hi everyone.

Here we are again with my project for the challenge over at The Crafting Café. This month's theme is Love and Marriage and our sponsor for this is Bugaboo Digital Stamps. I had never seen these before, but what a fab set of images we had to work with. I chose Ava and Deacon Love word for my project.

I coloured the image using watercolour pencils just using black and red. The paper and lace trim are from the new Docrafts Midnight Blush capsule collection. I mat and layered the image and sentiment onto black card and then die cut some little red hearts to accent.

I really loved working with these images and will be popping over to Bugaboo to buy some more.

Hope you like this month's project xx

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.