I'ts Crafting Time - DT Sketch Challenge

It’s Crafting Time provided a sketch for my final DT project.

Design Team Sketch.

Materials used:

American Crafts “Sixth Avenue” for the background.

Patterned papers from graphic 45 and Crate Paper.

Snowflake border and heart: Fancy Pants Designs, blue droplets: KaiserCraft, ribbon from stash.

Oh Christmas Tree.

Material used:

Crate Paper Portrait Collection – Something Blue (Red).

Fancy Pants – Tradition stickers from Crafting Time.

Mulberry tissue -  World Market. Cardstock embellishments; ribbons etc. from stash.

Method:

I scrunched up a piece of the tissue paper, smoothed it out a little then spray glued it to the red background paper. 

Spray glued the ribbon & gold net bow before arranging on the page. 

Mounted the close up photo of my 2011 mantelpiece decoration on a piece of green cardstock and placed on the page.

Then added the Oh Christmas Tree, believe, stars & redbird stickers, & cardstock embellies to finish.

A quick and easy page to do.

Twiddleybitz

A recent Design Team  project for It’s Crafting Time called for me to use this interesting pair of Twiddleybitz Fancy Corners.

I recently changed the header image on my Normandy Life blog to a photograph of our home taken by the Senior Partner using the ipad.

I thought it would make a great subject for a scrapbook LO.

Materials used:

Twiddleybitz Fancy Corners, inked with Adirondack ColorWash -  Lettuce and given a shabby look using Distress Ink - Fired Brick and a dull gold pigment from stash.

Basic Grey “Hello Luscious” background paper & DCWV “Old World” Textured Mat under photo.

The frame and other embellishments & alphas from stash.

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be-witched

The theme for my latest DT project for It's Crafting Time this week is Orange, Yellow & Black so with Halloween just around the corner I chose a witchy theme for this piece.

Materials used.

18x10 cm piece of calico, Adirondack Color Wash – Butterscotch, Ranger Inkssentials black tag (ICT), Prima Flower, scrap of vintage black lace, flying witch image from the Graphics Fairy, buttons, ribbon and quilt batting from stash.

I frayed the calico around the edges then sprayed it with the color wash, glued the tag in place then machine stitched the black lace over the top. Printed the image onto a re-purposed manila envelope and made a “cushion” using a scrap of calico, distressed with Ranger Archival Ink, stuffed with the batting and fancy stitched the edges.

Made a ribbon bow and stuck it and the flower to a corner of the cushion. Wrote “be witched” onto a strip of yellow scrap paper, added the yellow and orange buttons and ribbon.

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 DT members and a link to the ICT on line store.

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Peacemaker

Helen & Nina at It’s Crafting Time recently sent me the Tim Holtz mini compass mask to play with, this is what I did with it!

I spread a thin layer of gesso over the paper, (TH idea-ology Destination range), blotted it with a paper towel to dry then placed the mask randomly on the page misting with Adirondack Color Wash, in Denim, then with Perfect Pearls mist, Perfect Copper. Using a blending tool I added some Distress Ink, Fired Brick.

Then I started layering.
A page torn from a vintage French schoolbook, over that, two photographs of the schooner Peacemaker, which I took when she was docked in Savannah, Georgia, 2010.
Then a variety of embellishments from stash.
To finish the layout I stamped “The Journey awakens the Soul” & flying birds using Archival Ink, Jet Black.

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there you will find a link to the online store.

 They stock thousands of wonderful craft supplies, 

including the mini compass mask that I used here.

Sepia Tones & Cream

My latest LO for It's Crafting Time follows the theme "Sepia Tones &Cream" and who better to model  these beautiful soft shades for me than my neighbours cows?

Visit the It's Crafting Time blog here for more details and why not check out their online store  (with over 3000 items) whilst you're there?

Nina & Helen just stocked up with washi tapes in fab colours and designs, if you don't see what you're looking for online just contact them to ask if it's in store.

It's Crafting Time - Sketch

This is the LO that I created from a sketch, provided by It's Crafting Time, to the Design Team to interpret.

Patterned background paper, journal tag and strips are from Crate Paper’s Hampton and Clambake Sailing collection.

The embellishment cluster and stars are from my stash and there’s a hidden journaling tag inside a Tim Holtz idea-ology Kraft glassine pocket, tucked behind the photo.

The photo was taken as we strolled around the harbour at Shelter Cove, H.H.I South Carolina, in 2009 when our friends from Texas came to visit us there.

Hidden journalling reads:

We always enjoy our time in Hilton Head, especially when we can spend it with good friends. When Susan & John joined us in the spring of 2009 we were thrilled to share it with them. It was the Cox’s first visit to H.H.I. but I don’t think it will be last.

DT Challenge - It's Crafting Time

Recently I posted details of my "Journey" mini book but left out photos of pages 2 and 3.
Well, here they are.
Tucked inside page three is a tag I made for my first assignment as a member of the   It's Crafting Time
Design Team.

The theme: "Faces"

Pages 2 & 3.

tags, tags and more tags!

the one of the left is the Senior Partner & I

with the beautiful Amalfi coastline as a backdrop

what a great vacation it was, despite the rain

on the right, a Tim Holtz inspired tag using idea-ology products

For the "how to" details of the TH tag click on this link
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to go the blog

and here for the ICT online shop where you will find some of the materials that I used
and many more Ranger/Tim Holtz products, to tempt you.

Journey - mini album

A few weeks ago I spent a lovely afternoon in the company of some French scrappeuses 

where we all made a fabulous little mini album under the direction of Marie-Nicolas,

 a great teacher, demonstrator, blogger

and member of so many DT's it would take me to long to mention!

The "Road Trip" kit that Ma-Ni provided was sensational,

all we had to take along were several pieces of card cut from a cereal box 

and the usual kit of glues, cutters, hole punch etc.

The aim during the afternoon was to assemble the album, 

do some embossing using Ma-Ni's Big Shot, some machine sewing 

and to avail ourselves of her amazing collection of stamps. 

Photographs and other embellishments were to be added at our leisure at home.

My idea was to create a souvenir book of our trip to Italy this past April

but I think it went a lot further than that 

as I embellished, added tags, extra inserts and other "stuff" from my stash.

I know there's a lot of photo's and a lot to take in,

 but the eagle eyed among you may have noticed that I haven't shown you pages 2 & 3. 

There's a reason for that and all will be revealed in my next post 

that will feature my first It's Crafting Time DT assignment!

Hope you'll come back to see those missing pages, soon.

It's Crafting Time - new Design Team

It's Crafting Time have just announced their new DT and I'm in it!!

I'm thrilled to have been asked to join the new team and am looking forward to working with everyone associated with ICT.
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