Holiday Girl and Jam Jars

Good evening to all my lovely friends and followers tonight's post is to showcase the new release stamps from All Dressed up Stamps for July there are four new gorgeous designs just perfect for your summer cards.

So here they are and  you can buy them all now from the All Dressed Up Shop This is another fabulous release from Wendy and  again its very difficult to decide which i like the best..

Day Dreaming

Holiday Girl

Mermaid Kisses

Jam Jars

For my Design Team makes I used two of these fabulous stamps Holiday Girl and Jam Jars I hope you like them.

Holiday girl

Close up

Card Recipe Holiday Girl

6x6 Blank Card

Stamp is Holiday Girl from All Dressed up Stamps painted with Derwent Inktense Pencils

Papers are Maja Design Summer basics from Live and  Love Crafts now closed

Dies are LDRS Gilded Ovals set from Dies to Die For.

Sun die is from eBay

Stitched rectangle die is Lawn Fawn

Metal coat hanger was from Live and  Love crafts

Bakers Twine is Docrafts and I fussy cut the clothes to hang on the end.

Sentiment and shades sentiment are part of the stamp 

Flowers are from my stash

Pearls from the Pound Shop 

Jam Jars

Close up

Jam Jar Wall Hanging Recipe

Heart Shape wooden  photo frame was from Michael's in Florida it cost a $1 and I painted it with lavender Acrylic Paint

Stamp is Jam Jars from All Dressed Up Stamps painted with Derwent Inktense Pencils

Wooden Love sentiment is also from Michael's

Wooden double hearts I bought at the last Harrogate craft show

Jute String to make the hanger is from Whitby Crafts

Well I hope you have enjoyed seeing the new release stamps and my two makes. I think it will be hard not to take a look at them all in the shop and also there are some more inspirations from the rest of the Design Team HERE

I want to also apologize as I've not been around much this week but we had three days away in North Yorkshire for our Wedding Anniversary which was on Tuesday we stayed in a very lovely hotel it was just perfect. So I'll be playing catch up over the weekend. I do hope everyone is well and  enjoying a lovely weekend.  Love and  hugs Carole x

 

Here Come The Holidays

Good morning to all my lovely friends and followers and its Wednesday once again so time to launch the last challenge of 2015 over at Crafting by Designs  The Here Come the Holidays Challenge will run until the end of December with a bumper bundle of prizes from a massive five sponsors

Oak Pond Creations

Prize - 3 single digis

Dr. Digis   

Prize - 2 digis images

Flatfriends

Prize - 2 single digis

Alicia Bell 

Prize - 3 single digi images

Prize - $12 voucher to store

I've made three projects for this launch using stamps from Oakpond Creations, Flat Friends and Aliciabel

This is my first card  from Oakpond Creations called Reindeer

Close up

Card Recipe

6x6 card

Kraft coloured paper is LOTV and the gingham I think is a Docrafts pad

Kraft card is Crafters Companion

Image is Oakpond Creations Reindeet painted with Derwent Inktense Pencils

Ribbon is from Michaels in Florida

Reindeer Button Whitby Crafts

Liberty Bells are from Live and Love Crafts

Christmas Sentiment Tags from LOTV

Stitched Rectangle die Lawn Fawn

Red Stickles

My next project I'm sharing is a Twas the Night Before Christmas Door hanger using Santa's Been from FlatFriends

Door Hanger Recipe

MDF Door hanger from The MDF Man at GNPE

Base paper is from a 12x12 sheet I bought in Live and Love Crafts sale last year

Stamp is Santa's Been from FlatFriends painted with Derwent Inktense Pencils stamped twice and  fussy cut

Lace is from Dainty Crafts Washington

Christmas Ribbon is from Crafty Ribbons

Wooden presents and bauble are from my stash

Wooden Christmas stockings are from Dawn to Dusk Crafts Ross Papercraft Show

Twine my stash

Sentiment is LOTV Christmas Grungy Messages

My final card is using an image from Aliciabel called Christmas Snowsphere

Card Recipe

I made the round card from a square card

Stamp is Christmas Snowsphere from Aliciabel painted with Copic and Promarker Pens

The sentiment is part of the stamp I stamped this twice and  layered it onto the base

Red pompom trim is from The Ribbon Girl

Lamppost is Joycrafts

I sprinkled the base and snow with Twinklets and also used some Gesso and Twinklets on the lamp post

Well quite a bumper bundle post but well worth going over and entering a card also keep an eye on the Crafting by Designs Blog as there will be reminder posts during the month featuring some great Guest Designer Cards.

I hope you are all enjoying the week keep warm. Love and  hugs Carole x

Country Snowman

Good morning to all my friends and brilliant followers.Well I know what you are thinking a Snowman card when Christmas is over well yes it is. This is this weeks theme at the Crafting by Designs Challenge Snowmen I do hope you enjoy the challenge we have two great sponsors.

 Sami Stamps

Prize - $12.00 credit to the store

and
Stitchy Bear

Prize - choice of 3 digi images up to $10

 

I  decided on an image from Stitchy Bear called Country Snowman. I went for a more CAS design stamping the background card and fussy cutting the image. Not sure I'll ever be able to do true CAS style !!

 

 

Card Recipe

6x6 card Craftwork cards

White Tim Holtz card

Silver mirra card

Tree stamp Docrafts several years ago heat embossed with silver embossing powder

Stamp Country Snowman coloured in Promarker pens and  fussy cut

Shabby White Frantage

LOTV sentiments

Narrow tinsel tied with ribbon from my stash

Wooden snowflakes Whitby Crafts

Tim Holtz paper distress tool

 

The more I've thought about this theme I suppose its OK because if we get snow in January we would build snowmen well not me personally !!

 

If you love snowmen then this is just the challenge for you hope you can enter something. Hugs Carole x

 

 

 



Halloween

Good morning to all my friends and  followers. Todays post is a Halloween card I've made for Crafting by Designs Halloween challenge. The challenge runs for one week and our sponsors are.

 

Alicia Bel

 

The prize this week is three digital stamps of the winners choice.

 

The image I've chosen for my card is Lily Monster. This is the first time I have fussy cut an image but I quite liked using  this technique.

 

 

 

Card Recipe

6x6 Blank Card

Image Lily Monster Alicia Bel painted with Promarker and Copic pens then fussy cut. The image was stamped onto Desert Storm Neenah card from Crafters Companion.

Background paper from Joann stores Florida

Spiders web ribbon from GNPE

Sentiments from Michaels craft store Florida

Orange card and gems from my stash

 

I'm not a big fan of Halloween but I quite enjoyed making this card. I also hope some of you may find the time to enter one of your Halloween cards into the challenge.

  

I hope you are all having a great week and doing some interesting things. Thank you for the lovely comments on the wedding card you are all so kind. Hugs Carole x

 

I'm entering this into Crafty Sentiments Designs Trick or Treat and The Shabby Tea Room Spooky Wishes