Kraft card at LhoSM

Another challenge is starting at Lovely hAnglar or Sweet Magnolia.  This time we'd like to see kraft card/paper on your creations, as well as either a hAnglar or Magnolia product, please.

I'm never usually very happy with the male cards I make, but I do like using kraft when I make them.  Here's what I did for my DT card

I coloured the hAnglar boy with Prisma pencils and kept the layout fairly plain, using some Kraft Funday card from MME and a little bit of twine, leaving me plenty of room to add a sentiment when I know who will be getting this!

Our sponsor this fortnight is the Ribbon Girl

Lifelong crafters Mother and Daughter, Mary and Andrea were tired of having to buy full rolls of ribbon and lace when they only needed one metre.  Because they love ribbons and all things pretty, they decided to open their own online shop in 2010 and make small quantities of beautiful products easily available to all crafters. Mary owns the shop and runs it on a day to day basis as well as keeping the website updated while Andrea looks after the social side,  The Ribbon Girl Blog and the Design Team. They specialise in supplying small (or large) quantities of ribbon, twine, gorgeous vintage style lace and seam binding ribbon, tiny pom-pom and ric-rac trim, all sorts of buttons, fancy pins, a multitude of charms, pearl and crystal flourishes, wool felt squares, seasonal and unusual embellishments, mulberry flowers, sticky tape and accessories to card makers, crafters, scrapbookers and cake decorators. They stock only the best quality products and only offer for sale goods that they would personally buy and use themselves.

 

Hope you can join in the fun!

 

Tracey xx

 

 

A new form of therapy

I'm counting the weeks to the end of term.  One and a bit really, but as I'm off on the school trip to Paris I've only got one working week in school.  Yay!

Everyone at work is tired and we're at the point where you feel like you're trying to wade through treacle every day.  I feel like I could sleep for a week but at the same time I'm struggling to wind down when I'm home.  But now I've discovered that paper piecing is the most relaxing form of crafting ever... no fussing over toning colours, no bleeding of ink, just stamp onto different sheets from a paper pad, cut out and stick!

Of course, it helped hugely that I chose this sweet image to paper piece, so there was no fiddly cutting out either!  I stamped onto Maja Life by the Sea papers and also onto a die cut square of Neenah cardstock.  I mixed and matched the cut-out sections of the image and stuck them down, adding a pale blue star-shaped brad in the stamped star on the sail.

All I had left to do was mount the image onto a square of Bazzill and stick the lot onto my card base.  Simples!

So what made me paper-piece this card?  Well, paper piecing is the challenge theme at Sweet Stampin' this week.  So bring your stamps, paper and glue and come over and play! We're being sponsored by Stamp and Create, so there's a fabby prize of a $20 voucher for one lucky winner!

Enjoy your Saturday!

Hugs

Tracey xx

Christmas Fairies

 

What!  Did someone say Christmas?  Yes, folks it's time to let you know about the latest challenge at Christmas at Sweet Stampin'.  The theme is Christmas Fairies and I found I was spoilt for choice over which fairy to use... Lili of the Valley, Mo Manning, hAnglar, Magnolia...  there are a lot of Christmas Fairies out there in blogland!

I opted for a Sugar Nellie fairy as we're being sponsored by Funky Kits, home of the fabulous Sugar Nellie stamps





Here's what I did

 

 

I stamped the image onto watercolour card and painted her with DIs.  Lots of Glamour Dust and Stickles were used to make it nice and sparkly.

 

The sentiment is by Magnolia, again stamped on watercolour card.  I used Maja papers and gave the lower half of the card a scalloped border using my Spellbinders wavy borders die.  Some rose ribbon and a doily were added, leaving me with a card which has some depth to it but is still flat enough for posting.

 

Hope you can join us at Christmas at Sweet Stampin' this month!

 

Hugs

 

Tracey xx

 

Bingo!

There's a new challenge at Lovely hAnglar or Sweet Magnolia!  We've got a Bingo Board for you to work with this fortnight

I went with the bottom line for my DT card

 

 

I stamped Tilda and coloured her with Copics, adding my Sparkle with Glamour Dust and Liquid Pearls.  My papers are from a Bildmalarna pack and I matched these with some WOC flowers and a huge taffeta bow.  The pearl is from my stash.

 

My lovely teamies have made the most gorgeous inspiration projects so do grab a cuppa and hop over here to take a look. 

 

Hope you can play along with us this fortnight - there's the chance to win a GDT slot with LhoSM for one lucky winner!

 

Tracey xx

Beautiful Babies

Good morning!  I'm here to tell you about the latest challenge over at Sweet Stampin'.  This week our challenge theme is Babies and I went with a Wee Stamps digi for my DT card:

I coloured this sweet image with my Copics and opted for peach rather than the more traditional pink.  I layered up papers from Magnolia and Basic Grey with a square doily and kept things simple on the embellie front, opting just for a cream ribbon and a little baby bottle charm.

Hope you can play along this week. As ever, the Sweeties have made some gorgeous inspiration projects, so hop over here to take a peek.  We're being sponsored by the wonderful Nikki at Bunny Zoe so there's a store voucher up for grabs.  I wouldn't mind that myself!

Enjoy your weekend!

Hugs

Tracey