Ribbons!!

It is week 20 over at on our challenge blog 'Anything Goes'
and the theme is Ribbons

I have weaved some different widths and colours of ribbons together
and made it into a little cushion

what do you think?

It measures approximately 10" x 10"

There is very little sewing involved so it came together pretty quickly.

I took some navy, pink and grey satin ribbons, pins, cork board, interfacing and the iron. I cut a piece of interfacing 10" x 10" placed it on the cork, face up. Pinned my ribbons along one edge alternating widths and colours to make it interesting. Turn the cork board and then the same on the next side. Next is the fun bit, to weave them.

When I was pleased with the pattern, placed a damp cloth on the top and gently ironed to attach the ribbons to the interfacing to hold them in place. I then cut a piece of navy cotton fabric to make the back of the cushion. Machined stitched around three and a half sides, turned the right way out. Stuffed with a nice soft filling and then hand stitched the rest.

This could also be done on a smaller scale and used for panels in cards with no need for stitching.

So get out your ribbon boxes and see what you come up with.

Link them to our challenge blog so we can pop over as we would love to see them.

Happy Crafting.

Lynne xx

Christmas Bookmarks

Here are some more of the Christmas bookmarks I've been making.


Peeled Paint, Shabby Shutters and Barn Door DI inks for the backgrounds. For some I applied the ink with foam and the others I wiped the DI pad on to my heat sheet and spritzed lightly with water.



Dried with heat tool, stamped with Staz On in Browns and Greens added scraps of Cosmo Cricket Mitten Weather papers punched snowflakes, poinsettias, and holly, card candy, all finished off with Stickles and ribbons

Hope you like them.

Lynne xx

Quick Christmas cards for Charity.

One of our customers raises a lot money for Bluebell Wood Children's Hospice.

A couple of weeks ago she was asking if I had any ideas for making some quick Christmas cards for one of her fund raising events. Theses are a few of the cards I came up with. I forgot to photograph them all! I know I am always doing that.


The first one is a mix of punched leaves in an assortment of greens to make arranged in a circle. The white flowers are Dovecraft, the packs contain a mix of white flowers and leaves for 99p yes, a bargain. I have layered two of the flowers together with silicone, edged with Stickles and liquid pearl centre. The sentiment is Craftwork cards with added ribbon.

For this one I cut the base wreath on the Cricut with the 'Joys of the Season' cartridge in a dark green a few more assorted punched leaves. The red flowers are from Dovecraft a spotted ribbon bow and Craftwork card sentiment. All the flowers are edged with Star Dust Stickles.

This one also has a base wreath cut on the Cricut more white flowers and punch foliage added finished with a bow and sentiment and Stickles.

I hope Diana and her team of ladies managed to sell them. Diana started raising money for Bluebell Wood Children's Hospice when she was 72 years young, that was over seven years ago, she has now raised £69,000 and is an inspiration to us all. Well done Diana!

Christmas has come early!

Here is my entry for this weeks challenge over on

'Anything Goes'

'Christmas has come early'

After deleting the early entrries at the beginning of the week, when editing the post I decided to add mine as a link! Play safe if you know what I mean and I was the 100 entrant!! Wooohoooo!

This is just one of a set of book marks I have made with a Christmas theme. I have inked the back with Peeled Paint and Shabby Shutters DI, stamped around the edge with Pine Needles added a torn piece of Cosmos Cricket from the Winter Mittens 6 x 6 pad Cuttlebug and Martha Stewart snowflake, card candy, Stickles and white pen checked ribbon to finish off. If you haven't joined in yet with this weeks challenge, there is still time as it runs until Tuesday evening 7pm.

Hope you are all having a great weekend.

Happy Crafting Lynne x

Great stash arriving daily....

There have been more deliveries of Christmas goodies this week at Craft Den including these beautiful Prima Poinsettias:

'Snowdrop'

'Snowflake'

'Poinsettia'

Packets of plain white Prima blooms in 3 sizes.

These are fabulous for colouring with Copics, they also look great with Stickles, Glamour Dust, glitter to name but a few to added.

Re-stocks of the Basic Grey 'Jovial'

6 x 6 paper pads

12 x 12 double sided sheets:

'Winter Garden'

' Tartan Plaid'

'Merry Maker'

We also have the full collection of 'Oooh La La' from Craftwork Cards:

6 x 6 paper packs, borders, die cuts including: Mesdames, Paris Central, C'est Chic lots of lovely colours in card candy... why not pop in for a browse?

That's all for tonight, don't forget to pop by at the weekend for new on the blog candy!

Happy Crafting

Lynne x

The cutest witch and news of blog candy

There will be news about blog candy at the weekend.

Here is a clue!

Do you remember this young lady last year?

The cutest witch!

Find it hard to believe a whole year has passed!
Anyone know where it went??

WOYWW

Morning all, hope you are all well on this bright and sunny October morning.

I have just edited our challenge blog 'Anything Goes' and managed to delete Mr Linky! :-( if you had already linked please could you be kind enough to do it again, I know it is a pain and I am sorry, really I am, I will try not to do it again! promise....until the next time! lol

I thought I would join in with What's On Your Work Desk Wednesday (WOYWW) as I have not been able to for weeks while we have had Internet problems.

So what is on my work space this week? I have been working on the dinning room table again, not for much longer though as we are having people over at the weekend and if they want to eat, it is going to be a problem, a big problem!!! lol I am not going to show you the project I am currently working on until it is finished.

and this is one of the chairs! on top and underneath! lol Anywhere there is a little space, I can fill it!!! lol

So that's my work space this morning, now I am off to see what you have on yours.

Happy Crafting

Lynne xx

Christmas has come early

It is Tuesday evening and time for another challenge over at Anything Goes.

This week the theme is

'Christmas has come early'

Why not hop over and see what our very creative design team have come up with this week?

Happy Crafting.

Lynne xx

Blog Award

Sarah over on the stressed stamper blog, has given me this lovely blog award.
Thank you Sarah it was very kind of you to think of me and it has brightened up a dull Monday morning.

Now for the difficult part passing it on without upsetting anyone.


So here goes:

Angela

Ann


Chanelle


Doreen


Gez


Jo


Kathryn


Kerry


Kim


Natasha


Sandra


Sue


Tara

Virginia

Lets hear it for the girls!

A couple of people I would like to mention this morning: Chanelle made the Spotlight yesterday on Cards & Me with a beautiful card 'Sparkle & Gems'. Well deserved Chanelle beautiful card. The second person is Sarah (no blog) Sarah was published in Craft Stamper this week on page 59. Well deserved Sarah, fabulous ATC. Sarah you need to get a blog now! Congratulations to both of you hope you both have a great weekend and keep the ideas coming we love seeing what you have created.

We still have a few places left on our jewellery class

Saturday 2nd October -1.30pm - 3.30pm

We have now extended our range of card making goodies at Craft Den to include more paper stacks and pads, decoupage, die cuts and paper kits. New Christmas stash arriving daily so well worth a visit, and we would love to see you.

Recipe for my card: a couple of sheets of preprinted backing paper, Bazzill, Prima flowers, brad, charm, Craftwork card sentiment finished off with pearl pen Glamour dust and Stickles.

A side view of the flower, just love theses colours.

Two layers punched with Martha Stewart border punch down the side.

All products used on this card available at the Craft Den.



Our theme for the September ATC challenge is 'Autumn' hope you can join us. Our theme this week over our challenge blog Anything Goes is

'Going Round in Circles'

why not pop over and take a look.

So that just leaves me to say
'Thank Crunchie it's Friday and Happy crafting'
Enjoy your weekend Lynne x

Going Round in Circles

It is week 18 over on Anything Goes and the theme is
'Going Round In Circles' and that is just what I feel like I have been doing for the last few days! lol

We have had delivery after delivery at the Craft Den over the last couple of weeks. Everyday we have had lots of yummy goodies arriving, fabulous Christmas papers from Black Market Paper Society, DCWV, Bo Bunny, Craftwork cards, Dovecraft, the new EK Success border punches which are absolutely fabulous, they punch through heavy cardstock with ease the designs include: cupcakes, paw prints, butterflies, snowflakes. The new stuff has not made it onto the website, in fact some stuff has not been making it onto the shelves it has been flying out the door so so fast!

Now for this weeks challenge our DT have been very creative again this week, so why not pop over to our challenge blog Anything Goes and see what they have been up too. We also very pleased to announce we have a new DT member Kerry aka A girl who just love to craft. Happy crafting Kerry and we hope you enjoy being on the team.

It was Kerry's birthday last week...now I can blog the card I made

It fits this weeks challenge Tilda blowing bubbles on a circle nestie, with the Magnolia Bubbles papers layered on Lilac Bazzill, Prima flowers with circle message.

I am still experiencing major problems with blogger and uploading pictures is an absolute nightmare. I have just changed my setting back to the old version of blogger and managed to load these tonight. This version is not going to be available for much longer so not sure what will happen then. Just wondered if anyone else had the same problem??

Happy Crafting Lynne xx

Peacock Lane card

For this card I have used Peacock Lane papers from Bo Bunny, my favorite stamp 'Daisy' coloured with Copics round doily which I have cut in half and pleated behind a Prima fabric flower a couple of heart pins and a charm finished of with punched foliage.

I added turquoise liquid pearl pen to the centres of the, err, not sure if they are leaves or flowers.

and by special request, drum roll please.... 

Ava

Ava came to spend the day with me last week, while her Mum and Dad were  busy moving house, we had a great time, drawing, colouring, reading books and playing with stickers.

Grand- daughters...the best thing since sliced bread. :-)

Take care and Happy Crafting.

Lynne & Ava xx

Gone Fishing!

One of our friends is 50 tomorrow and his hobby is fishing. I took these pics and then decided to add more detail, but I thought I would still share them.

I thought the hook should have some bait on it.

For the inside I stamped some fish on shrink plastic coloured with chalk and after shrinking, hung them on nylon thread added a basket and some reeds

a close up of the fish. I decorated both sides of the card inside and added more decoupaged fish similar to the outside of the card also reeds etc and didn't take pictures :-(



This is our card for Bobbie I was going to post this Monday but for some reason blogger would not blog, it just would not upload any piccies, so I gave in.

The papers are Basic Grey 'Cappella' and one of my favorite magnolia stamps Sweet Tilda, this stamp reminds me of Ava as do a lot of the Tilda images.

I have coloured the image with DI Victorian Velvet for her dress and shoes. Tattered Rose for her face, arms and legs. Frayed Burlap and Scattered Straw on the hair.

I have added a heart shaped doily a few flowers and punched foilage, heart charm and a fabric Prima flower all finished of with Stickles.

Septembers ATC's theme is 'Oriental' the same as this weeks challenge.

I will blog my Oriental card tomorrow.



Happy crafting Lynne xx

Week 16 over at Anything Goes

Don't the weeks just fly by? It is already Week 16 over at 'Anything Goes'
and the theme this week is 'Oriental'
We are a bit late, well a whole day as we have had major blogger problems again! It just did not want to play ball at all. Thanks to Chanelle she has persevered and got it published.

So if you get chance pop over and have a look what our creative DT have been up to and it might inspire you to join in, and don't forget like our name says 'Anything Goes' cards, scrapbook pages, mini books, ATC's, tags, what ever you fancy making as long as it is Oriental we would love to see it.

Happy crafting Lynne xx

Birthday wishes

I'm back! We had a lovely ten day break and then things have been very hectic around here ever since to say the least. More on what we have been up to later.

It is my daughters birthday tomorrow, here is the card my Mum asked me to make for her. I have used Distress inks to colour the image. Colours used: Tattered Rose, Milled Lavender, Dusty Concord, Scattered Straw, Frayed Burlap and Barn Door.

Punched and layered a deep edge border off setting it to give a shadow effect and trimming with wide glittered organza ribbon. A Prima flower arrangement finished off with punched leaves.

I have taken to pieces a Prima fabric flower added a brad and charm

 side view showing the punched border and flowers with the bling centre.

Lots of new stock now in the studio including Art Bin Storage boxes, assorted albums, two new 7 Gypsies paper ranges, some fabulous Christmas Bo Bunny and Black Market Paper Society papers and the Magnolia stamps, dies and papers are due in on Tuesday.

Hope you are all having a great weekend.

Happy crafting, Lynne xx

Fingers crossed that this will now publish!

Say it with flowers

It is Week 14 over on the Anything Goes Challenge blog and the theme is:

'Say It with Flowers'

Why not hop on over and have a look at what our creative DT have come up with?

October Craft Stamper arrived yesterday, seems to get earlier every month.