Wishing you all a Very Happy Christmas

                           Just popping in to wish you all a Very Happy Christmas.....

 I’ve not posted since end of October because of being unwell  but I’m certainly on the mend now and will be back in the New Year....

Hope you all have a lovely Christmas

Anne

Stampin Up Christmas Extravaganza day...

 What a fabulous day I had yesterday at Jenny's (stamping  moments)Stampin Up  Christmas Extravaganza day....we made some great projects and my favourite one was this beautiful framed scene we created  from the Hometown Greetings thinlits set  we also added some LED lights which turned it into a fabulous night scene...

This picture of the LED lights on isn't very good as I took it today in my craftroom when it was light...but you can see the effect its gorgeous and I certainly want to make more...

We also made a selection of cards using the Merry Mistletoe set which we were given...

Lovely winter scene using trees from the set and some beautiful glitter card

I really enjoyed making this clothes peg wreath and found it very relaxing sticking all the DSP on (both sides) ..and it means if I make another one I can use up all my odd bits of Christmas DSP...we added the reindeer from our Merry Mistletoe set....

 

Just loved Christmas card using more of the SU thinlit dies.....I'm afraid I was tempted and did give in to buying the Hometown greetings thinlits set...

 

This was the lovely table give we all had....

Sorry my photographs aren't that good but I took them on my mobile phone  wanted to share them with you today....

Thank you Jenny for giving us such a great crafting day once again... 

Anne 

  

Thinking of you....

 

Hello crafty friends ....It's been a while since my last post...we've been away and also I've just been really busy no time for crafting but I needed to made a really quick card for a male neighbour who is very poorly at the moment...a very difficult card to make so I've just kept it very simple using a Hunkydory topper and just added the ivy die to take the plainess off, sorry about the awful photograph but it was a card that needed to be made very quickly and it was something to post of my blog!

I've got a craft fair in a couple of weeks so I must try and make a few more things for that...I'm busy sewing advent calendars at the moment.

I do try a pop along a look at your blogs in the evenings but apologies for my blogging friends who I haven't visited for a while... Once November is over things should quiten down...then I need to make crack on with some Christmas cards...talk about leaving it to the last minute...

Anne

 

Cookie Cutter Christmas...

I am still trying to be good and getting rid of some of my crafty bits (which I have done!)...but I have a lot of small bits of DSP and card so when I recently had a SU party I bought the Cookie Cutter Christmas set which is ideal to pop onto small cards...

 

I've only managed to make a couple of cards this afternoon but thats a start...thought I would give some of these small cards to my grandchildren to give their friends at Christmas..I am sure they would also like to make some of these cards themselves..

Thanks for stopping by..

Anne 

Parchment and Groovi...

 

A few friends and I got together for a 'play day' with Groovi plates and this is one I managed to complete with the help of my friend Janet on the gridwork...its not perfect t but I'm ok with the results...its just practice... the problem is when you have more than one hobby its making time for all of them...but stamping is still my first love...

This card is going to a lady who is about to celebrate her 50th birthday... oh I wish!...

Hope you have a great weekend whatever you are doing.

Anne  

Mixed Media Workshop with Janie Burnett-Bleach

 Five of us did a brilliant workshop with the very talented Janie Burnett-Bleach yesterday who also designs stamps for Hobby Art....
None of us had done anything like this before but thoroughly enjoyed learning. 
 I was quite happy with my finshied Canvas ...the design is not mine but Janies..three of us did the same, Jill did a beautiful canvas using the Dandilion stamps and Val  used the Dragonfly stamps  ..Janet and Eileen had just needed to  finish off theirs at home.... can't wait to do another workshop.

 

 I'm not happy with the colours on my bird but I want to do another canvas using this stamp set which is called Nature Reserve (Hobby Art) designed by Janie..I also added a few small bits of gilding flakes in a couple of places in the background.  Off to Hobbycraft to buy some Acrylics....

Anne

September craft club meeting...

 This month we played with Brusho's and some Pixie Powders...we only touched on the simple ways to use them e.i. backgrounds, using die cuts etc.  This little S U black cat was given to me by my friend Jill...it looked purrrrect on my card.

 I found a piece of stamped leaves in my scrap box so I got some inks and tried to do Autumn colours...I only needed to die cut a couple of leaves to use in the corners 

 This card was very quick just cut out a butterfly and corners and again found a snippet of DSP which matched perfectly.

 These lovely dies I cut out at when visiting my lovely friend Gill when we were on holiday last week...just added a few few birds and a pale moon.

 

This I think is my favourite card ...my friend Gill very kindly cut the peacock out for me and all I had to do was to 'make' some peacock colours using my brusho's and as the inks so such a long way I also had enough to cut out come leaves and flowers as well...

I would like to revisit brusho's in club next year and try using stencils and texture on backgrounds.

Hope you all have a lovely weekend...

Anne