Cherished Friend

Hi Crafters,
Hope you are enjoying your day?
This is a commissioned card that I made recently, I love using decoupage and had a few sheets left in my draw, these roses were gorgeous and already glittered.

Recipe

Decoupage sheet - sorry no make

Spellbinder dies - Labels 40 Decorative elements,

Matting Basics and Resplendent Rectangles

Jus-Cutz Dies - Nested Decorative Shapes No 6

Stamped Sentiment - Kaisercraft Friendship Sentiments set

Wide Organza Ribbon

Pearl Brad

Peel-offs

 

Challenges:
TTCRD - Anything Goes
Papertake Weekly - Sooo Girlie
A Creative Romance - Something Old (Decoupage sheet)
Brown Sugar - #121 Use 2 or more colours
Sister Act - #84 Anything Goes
Creative Fingers - #57 Anything Goes
 

See you soon,

 

Lorraine

Sugar Nellie GDT

Hi Crafters,
I was so excited to be asked to do a Guest Design Spot for Sugar Nellie after entering their Competition in August. Each of the entrants will get to do a Guest spot and today is my turn.
I have made two projects using Sugar Nellie images for you today, here is 'Geisha', she is new and will be in the Funky Kits shop soon.

 Recipe

7" x 7" card blank

Geisha image provided by Sugar Nellie

Promarkers

Digital paper

Papermania Oriental Stamps

Beads and findings from stash

 

I matted the image on several layers of coloured card to match the matting on the background and tie it all together. The Oriental symbols are from a Papermania stamp set that I have stamped and embossed with black embossing powder and made a type of scroll by rolling up the two ends and placing a hanging bead arrangement from it to match the decoration in the Geisha’s hair.

 

I'd like to enter this in to these challenges:
Papertake Weekly - Sooo Girlie
Creative Fingers - #57 Anything Goes
 

My second project to share today is using 'Love Letters' and it's an altered box.
Isn't she gorgeous? She is from the Simply Sassy range.

 

Recipe

Kraft box

Image - Love Letters

Promarkers

My Minds Eye papers - Adventure

SB Floral Ovals

La, La Land Crafts - Filigree corner die

Sue Wilson - Faux Quilled Leaf die

WOC and Prima flowers

Recollections kraft foam letters

Wooden 'Memories' Buckle

Gemstone brad

White Satin Ribbon

 

The image gave me the idea to make a keepsake box, for precious memories and letters.

The papers have been inked around the edges and layered up to make panels for the box sides and top. I mounted the image on to the floral ovals die cut, love this die cut it's so useful and pretty. Added the filigree corners and ribbon with the gemstone brad to cover the knot and arranged the flowers. Lastly I added the kraft letters to the side. This image was so much fun to colour and quick too. 

Challenges:

Not Just Cards - #6 Anything Goes

 



I'd like to say a big thank you to Karen and the Design Team for inviting me to play today.

Thank you all for joining me.

 

Lorraine



 

Craft Room Pictures

Hi Crafters,
As I mentioned recently my hubby has been fitting out the small bedroom as my craft room and I am so pleased with the results. I had an insulated room in the back of our garage for the last four years and although this was quite adequate at the time, I had outgrown it. It is surprising how much we crafters can accumulate over a few years :/
It has taken me two solid days to carry everything in to my new room and arrange it where it will hopefully be accessible and to hand. It was great to start with a blank room and decide what storage was best for me and not have a hotch-potch of different storage gathered over the years as I had in my old room. I am a really lucky lady and I do appreciate it so much. I have a lot more work space than before and I can spread my things out when creating which will be great. I still have the odd couple of items to get, like a new door handle and some curtain tie backs but these are minor items. A few people have asked to see it when it was finished, so here are a few pics:

Looking in from the hall

Paper/card storage and die cutting workspace

Punches and Inks

Where I will sit and do all my card making. I closed the blind as there was a glare on the camera towards the window plus it only looks onto a wooden fence across the driveway, lol. I put Lizzie's (one of our two cats) bed under my desk in the vain attempt to stop her from pestering me on the desk top but it hasn't worked as yet :/

 A separate computer space. Hopefully this will help me to keep focused on one thing at a time. I had the tendency in my old room to get distracted from what I was making by looking at the computer all the time, now I will have to move my chair over to see the screen, I'll let you know how that goes, :)

Finally a space for my Silhouette Cameo so it has room both back and front for the cutting mat to move freely. Also on the shelf I have a small display area for some of my favourite makes and some crafty gifts from friends.

My Ikea units, something I've wanted for a long time. The storage boxes on top are full of my cards for my craft stall.    ...and if you are still with me this far, my last picture is of the back of the door where most of my ribbon reels are now housed.

.. and that's it!
Hope you liked my little craft room tour -  crafty posts will be resumed shortly -  starting tomorrow with my Guest Design spot for Sugar Nellie.
See you there,

Lorraine

Guest Designer at The Shabby Tea Room !

Hi Everyone, hope you are well.
Today I am sharing my Guest Designer project for the new challenge at The Shabby Tea Room.
I decided to make a tag for a change....

Recipe

Image  - Bugaboo - Thanksgiving Brat

Promarkers

Doilies from stash

Stampin' Up sentiment stamp

Burlap cut to a tag shape and stiffened with card

Burgundy Seam Binding

We R Memory Keepers Silver Eyelet

Twine



For Challenge #240 you are to take inspiration from the photo below and the subject  'Grateful', and using burlap and/or twine create your project.

I do hope you can play along with us.

 

Challenges I'd like to enter:
Papertake Weekly - 2 or 4 legs
Passion For Promarkers - Lace
Little Miss Muffet - #98 ATG
Eureka Stamps - #115 Give Thanks
Crafty Little Fairies - Not A Square
Come and Get It - Thanksgiving Traditions
Not Just Cards - #6 ATG
 

Well that's it from me today, off for a little surf around your blogs,

 

Lorraine

613 Avenue Create Challenge #98 - World Hello Day

***If you are looking for my CCC project please scroll down to previous post, thanks***
Hi Crafters,
The weeks are flying by and it is time to bring you another challenge at 613 Avenue Create . As always it is Anything Goes but with an optional twist using the word 'hello' in any language to celebrate 'World Hello Day'.
I have turned a plain notebook in to a fab book for all your telephone numbers...

Recipe

Image - Flat Friends Boutique - Boy with Mobile

Promarkers

Papers - Simple Stories 6 x 6 pad 24/SEVEN

 

 

Again we have some fabulous sponsors this time with some great prizes too

https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/flatfriendsboutique

 

        http://www.disdigistamps.com/

 

and

https://www.etsy.com/shop/OddballArtCo

 

Check out the blog for some great inspiration and why not join in while you are there?

 

Challenges I'd like to enter:

Not Just Cards - #6 ATG

 

See you tomorrow for my Guest DT post at The Shabby Tea Room.

Bye for now,

 

Lorraine

 

 





Christmas Card Club Challenge # 24 - Tea Bag Folding/ Origami

Hi Crafters,

This is a day early but I have a DT post tomorrow and I'd rather do a separate post.

It's time for another meeting of our Christmas Card Club and this time it was Karen's turn to choose a theme.... and she picked a challenging one for me - Tea Bag Folding. I have never attempted it so after much 'Googling' (new verb, lol) I found some tutorials on the types of folds I needed to do in order to make my card. So here it is...

I think this is quite a basic fold that I used for the Christmas tree, there were a lot of examples on the net to choose from and the star frame was made up from 14 separate tea bag squares folded and glued together to make the frame size that I wanted. My sentiment was a blog freebie and I changed the colour in 'My Craft Studio'. The tea bag papers were also free downloads and once I got the hang of the folds it didn't take too long at all. I was going to tea bag fold the star on top of the tree but that proved too fiddly so I punched it out with a small X-Cut punch.
Hope you like my little folded tree card, I'd like to enter it in to the following challenges:

Bearly Mine Challenge - Christmas Cards

Crafty Calendar Challenge - It's All About Christmas

CHNC Patterned Paper Challenge - November Challenge

CHNC Christmas Extra - ATG

Scribble & Scrap - #31 ATG

TTCRD - ATG

Diva's By Design - Photo Inspiration
Crafty Catz - #255 Christmas is Coming
Brown Sugar - ATG
Sister Act - #83 ATG
Creative Fingers - #56 ATG



Do pop over to the other blogs in our group tomorrow, I'm sure there will be some interesting makes this time. Thanks Karen for a challenge that pushed my boundaries and made me try something new.
It's less than 6 weeks to THE big day and I still have lots of cards to make, hope you are managing to keep ahead of things though.
See you all again tomorrow for my 613 Avenue Create DT post.

Lorraine

Happy Birthday Hubby!

Hi Crafters,
It's my hubby's birthday today and although I have already shared my card to him a couple of days ago I did in fact make four cards for other family members to give him so I will share them as and when time allows. This one has another DIY theme...

Recipe

Image - free download

Promarkers

Personal Impressions 12 x 12 Designer Papers

Spellbinders Captivating Squares die

Spellbinders Tags die

'Happy Birthday'Die - Magazine Freebie

EK Success Corner Punch

Stampin' Up Star Punch

 

My husband is quite good at DIY he can turn his hand to most things so this image seemed to suit him well.

 

Challenges

Sister Act - #82 Anything Goes

Creative Fingers - #55 Anything Goes

Suzy Bee's Bloomin' Challenge - #54 ATG + Make It Male

Crafty Little Fairies - Not A Square

CHNC Patterned Paper Challenge - November Challenge

Scribble & Scrap - #31 Anything Goes

TTCRD - Anything Goes

Papertake Weekly - 2 or 4 Legs

Creative Moments - ATG/ Celebration

 

Thanks for visiting today and hope you are all well and getting plenty of crafting time.

 

See you again soon,

 

Lorraine