Crafty Haul

Hi everyone

Just thought I would come on and tell you about the fab demo day I was at with Katie (my daughter) at
Paperworks, Linen Green, Dungannon.  Lovely wee store filled with lovely goodies, such as Prima, Trimcraft, Tonic, Papermania and much more.  Ruth Hamilton was demonstrating different range of crafty goodies, tonic, trimcraft, xcut etc, just click on her name and see all the lovely projects she has made.  She also has her own range of digital stamps.

Here are a couple of photos of what I bought at the store

What is in the photo

Trimcraft Santoro London - Mirabelle Collection - Mergirl

Forever in Time Ribbon Tape - Piano

Forever in Time Ribbon Tape - Tape Measure

Docrafts Papermania Bare Basics - 8x8 Hessian

Docrafts Papermania Madame Payrauds - postal Frame

Docrafts Papermania Tissue Paper - PMA169204

Hessian Ribbon

Prima A4 Paper Pad - Jodie Lee Designs - Delight Collection
Prima Everyday Vintage - Love Letter Kit.

These collections will go lovely with the las lot of Heartfelt Creations stamp and die set I bought.

I also ordered these dies from Create and Craft and they arrived yesterday as well

Some Tattered Lace Dies
- Butterfly Panel
- Rose Panel
- Beautiful Blooms


Thanks for popping by my blog and if you like what you read please click on the follow button, also remember to hop over to Ruths and the Paperworks sites and see what they are up too.

Karen Xxx

Happy Easter

Happy Friday Everyone

Well another week has flown by, and were at the tail end of another month.  Here is my card for 

Brown Sugar Challenge  #87

Our theme this week is Easter

Here is my Card for our sponsors.

The image I used this week is Egg Tower and I coloured it using my promarkers.  I used a spellbinders die from the card creator range - A2 Fancy Ribbon Ribbon.  I went round the edge with Spun Sugar distress ink.  The papers I used was from Papermania Colossal Paper Pack, Easter Themes and I also used spun sugar around the edge.  My sentiment is from a stamp set I purchased while I was in florida its from Hero Arts code is C498 and is cut out with a labels twenty eight die.  The Silver mirror swirls that are under the flowers are from the Jewel Flowers and Flourishes Die set from Spellbinders and the Corners are also a spellbinders die set called Frame One from the Die-D Lites range.  The flowers are stamped from the Majestic Morning Blooms set HCPC3580, Vintage Morning Background set from Heartfelt Creations and cut them out with the co-ordinating die, with flat back pearls for centres.

Our sponsors this week is

Bugaboo

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and see the cards from the rest of the design team.

#85 - Brown Sugar Challenge

Hi everyone

Friday again Fridays been and gone, apologies everyone I can't believe I've messed up my scheduling again you would think I would know what I'm doing now (seemingly not, lol) so that means its a

Brown Sugar Challenge.

Our theme this week is Paper Piecing

Front

This is a kinda DL card with about 1 and 1/4 cut away to show the inside of the card (see below) using up the left over free paper from my last project I got in a magazine.  I used and Martha Stewart border punch on both sides of a piece of blue card stock and a narrow strip of hessian ribbon down the center, with two little fasteners from pinflair.   The image was printed on white card stock and die cut with a spellbinders labels and paper pieced with the same back ground paper.  this was them mounted onto a piece of brown card stock and embossed with a cogs embossing folder.  the sentiment  was from lily of the valley round sentiments and punched out using a stampin up punch.

Inside

I put in a white insert with a happy Father's Day sentiment stamped onto a white card stock again die cut with a spellbinders label die and inked around the edge with vintage photo.  I also attached a piece of the backing paper down the outside of the insert.

Our Sponsor for this week

Stitchy Bear Stamps

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Storage for my Masks

Hi everyone

Was watching Ali Reeve on a recording I had from create and craft and she was showcasing a

little storage container for the 6 x 6 mask she produces.  As usual by the time I got round to watching it

the items were sold out.  Being one of those people with very little patience waiting on things coming back into stock I decided to make my own version.

From this pile of masks

To this neat storage

Items Used -  

Chipboard, 

Tyvek,

Double sided tape, 

Recollection Steampunk Botanica - (bought this on my last trip to florida)

Core-ordinations card stock

Charm from stash

Utee to dip flower in.

Many thanks for dropping by my blog.

#83 Brown Sugar Challenge

Happy Friday Everyone.

Oh my its Friday again and its time for another brown sugar challenge.  I do believe my time is going faster as I get older.

Here is my Card for our sponsors.

Here is a list of items I used to make this project.

Paper collection is from a free give I got with a magazine from the Nitwits Collection and you wouldn't think its from a christmas collection.  The Brown card stock is embossed with an Indentz lines and dots and the blue card stock is embossed with an m-bossability kickin' rubber and both card is from my stash. I used my promarkers to colour in the images - colours cocoa, shale, light grey, blush, coral, satin and also antique linen and cadet blue from my flexi collection of pens.  i also used some card candy but I didn't have any the colour I needed so I used my promarkers to change the colour from white to the colour on card.  The scallop circle is done by using a punch from stampin up and the sentiment  is from the circle sentiments from Lily of the Valley.  The strip across the bottom is a strip of paper with a brown ribbon on top from again stampin up.

I really enjoyed working with this image from our sponsors
so please nip across and have a look of all the great digi images.

Dr. Digi's

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#81 Brown Sugar Challenge

Happy Valentine everyone.

What can I say were at the time of the week for another challenge from

Brown Sugar

Theme - Use a Die Cut or Punch

On my card project this week I used a white blank card with red card stock from Core'dinations - Roy G. Biv using a A4 embossing folder from Sue Wilson collection Cascading Hearts and lightly sanded it back.  The image - Vase of Hearts is from our sponsors below and coloured in with my promarkers.  I used Spellbinders labels 28 to die cut the image out and I also used Heartfelt Creations Dies Raindrops on Roses HCD743 on either side of the image and the corners as well.  Also on the image if you can see I punched out little hearts from red mirror card and stuck them over some of the hearts using little foam pads.  The sentiment I done on my computer in word and printed it out.

Our Sponsor for this week of

Digi Stamps 4 Joy

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#79 Brown Sugar Challenge

Happy Friday everyone.

What can I say were at the time of the week for another challenge from

Brown Sugar

Theme - Feathers

This is a easel shaped card using blue and black card from my stash.

In this challenge I used an image from our sponsors and coloured it in with my promarkers.

I got myself some new dies from tonic that was launch on the c&c world launch shows a couple of weeks ago and this one you can see in the picture above is the Regal Circle Doily.  I cut is in the blue card and then cut it in the black card and used some cosmic shimmer gilding wax around the edge of the doily.  I'm still not 100% sure that I actually like this gilding wax but it does have a nice smell.  I used some feathers from my stash and the little dazzler is from Wild Orchid Crafts.  

At the back of the topper there is a black lacy ribbon going across, this is made from a tonic punch called Regal Border which matches the doily.  I cut out two strips and cut them down with scissors stuck them back to back and then place a very thin strip of the blue card onto it and some clear gems.  The stopper bar across the bottom of the card to keep the easel up is again a strip of black card with a strip of blue card threaded into a little buckle from a die set called Ribbon buckles from Spellbinders.  Again it has the silver gilding wax rubbed over it to make it stand out a little.  The sentiment is from a set of stamps I got free in a magazine and is stamped with black archival ink on a white card and I went round the edge with Salty Ocean Distress Ink.  The punch dies used are from Stampin Up - Scallop Oval and the Large Oval.


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A day for Daisies

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Challenge #77 for Brown Sugar

Well its Friday again and that means it challenge time for 

Brown Sugar

Theme - Anything Goes

This week my card is plain and simple using card from my stash some stampin up ribbon and a few gems.   I coloured the image with my promarkers.

Our sponsors are

Fitztown

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Pringle Storage

Hi everyone

I promised to myself in 2014 to do more crafting and also more blogging on various things and also on the things I make.  I was watching a stream by Jean (The Musical Scrapper) on Saturday night she was doing her streamathon video update on her desk calender/organiser and I decided to start on my storage for my pens and things.

I always buy my kids Pringles for their Christmas stockings (including big kid hubby) and I told them to save me the tubs.  

I wash and dried them out and then cut them to the size I wanted the containers to be.

I covered them with papers from my stash (apologies don't know the brand).

I attached some hessian ribbon around the top and overlapped the edge to cover up my rough cutting and then attached cream vintage over the top.  I had some string cream pearl strand so I then attached them on top of the lace.  I used hot glue and glued them together once I had them placed where  I wanted them.  I attached a last minute container at the front of it to store my tweezers

and here is my finished project with all my tools in it.  I must admit I am pleased the way it turned out and it has pride of place on my desk.

#75 Brown Sugar Challenge

Hi everyone

Can I say a big thank you to Kim for having me back and as you can see I still can't get this scheduling mastered yet.  Apologies for the delay in the upload.

Our challenge for this week is

Theme - use ribbons and twine.

I have used an image from our sponsors

Robyns Fetish

Coloured in with promarkers, the plague is made from old cereal boxes glued together

Using paper from my stash.  I used yellow ribbon and lace for the handle to hang it

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