A circular challenge!

Hi All!
Hope you are all okay.  Been busy getting ready for half term and holidays.

I do think I am starting to get addicted to challenge blogs and here is my latest attempt at the Stamp Man Challenge blog - Circles.

Its funny how inspiration and ideas hit you.  The idea for this card started in the early hours of one morning when I was struggling to sleep.  Originally I was just going to do a circular card with circle shaped flowers, then I was looking through my Cricut Cartridge books and I came across this circle with the branches (I think it was the Story book cartridge) and then I adapted my idea.

I created the background to the card by covering a card initially with old paper distress stain.  Then clear embossed elements of TH Papillon stamps on this and then went over it with tea dye and frayed burlap distress ink.  The green circle/ branch was cut using the Cricut and then sprayed with heirloom gold perfect pearls and edged with bronze acrylic paint.  The butterfly was stamped and coloured with fired brick distress stain and then another butterfly was stamped onto acrylic with black Staz on which was stuck on top of the coloured butterfly to give an element of depth and movement (although the acetate does not show up very well on the photo...)


The flowers were great to create but a bit messy!  I tore strips of canvas (from a roll) and coloured them with distress stains (wild honey and spiced marmalade) and then dried them - this is important otherwise they won't stick while wet (believe me I know!!!).  The canvas is then twisted and stuck on to a small round piece of card.  It is a bit fiddly I have to confess but I love working with canvas.

The card was assembled and then voila!!

Hope you like it.

Bye for now! Tx

The card was assembled

Samples galore!

Hi everyone.  I always say I am busy don't I.  Well I am with working and doing the crafting thing.  Have spent the days off from my 'proper job' (this is how my parents refer to it!) over the last few weeks finishing off the samples for my craft classes at Samuel Taylors in Brighouse.  Oh I did take a little time out to play with the new seasonal distress ink colours of course and made a cool halloween tag (Not taken a photo of this yet but will do and post!).

Thanks to all the ladies who came to see me demo on Saturday at ST's in Brighouse - it was really lovely to meet you all.  It means a lot to me that some of you gave up spending time in the glorious weather to sit and watch me - and for some of you that was 3+ hours.  That takes some stamina to listen to me prattle on for all that time!

So back to my crafting....As you will see I now have my Stamp Man Blinkie on my blog - chuffed to bits that I came in their top five for their monochrome challenge blog!  See 19 September post for my successful offering.

What have been working on.  Well first I did my Xmas configuration box:

The first pic is not very clear but you will get the idea.  I am particularly proud of my angel!

Next I made Christmas cards:

And then I made some calendar wall hangings:

All these are classes I'm doing over the next few months at Samuel Taylors.

Told you I have been busy!
Bye for now
Tx