Good evening, I hope you are all having a great weekend. We have had our family over for the weekend and it has been great. When it was BH's birthday Ava was poorly with viral flu, so on Saturday we had his birthday tea. Ava brought her Grandad a Smarties birthday cake.

Just a couple of pics tonight the first is a picture of my finished bird house gift box we made on Wednesday evening with added Tilda and flowers

and the second a pic of Ava with her hand in her pocket holding her pennies!

Happy crafting Lynne xx

Exciting News!!!

I thought I would share just a few pictures of the new 2010 Christmas Magnolia collection with you this evening. They will be in our studio very very soon

Tilda with hanging heart

Starlight Tilda

Reindeer Tilda

Holly Swirl

Angel Tilda

Tilda with fir

Tilda hanging ornaments

hope you have enjoyed the sneak peek, and this is only a few from the 2010 Christmas collection!! Yes there are more the full Merry Little Christmas stamp range can be viewed on our website here

Just a couple of the new Christmas papers to wet your appetite, aren't they yummy??

The Christmas Edition of Magnolia Ink will be in the studio on Wednesday!!

Have a great evening.

Happy crafting.

Lynne xx

Bird house gift box

Good morning all. Hope you are all well and missing out on the bugs that start going round it this time of the year. Well, it has been a busy little week here at the Craft Den in Sheffield. Lots of yummy new stash arriving daily ad some fun filled craft classes.

We had a great class last night chatting, laughing and we managed to get some crafting done too! lol Thanks ladies for another great evening. We made this lovely little bird house gift box

What do you think? Cute isn't it? Just the right size for a Tilda, so might add one later..

We cut out our base template in white cardstock, scored, folded and covered with patterned papers added a bit of weathered wood DI here and there.
Cut a Sixxiz fence on the Big Shot, punched some foliage mmm think it needs a few little blooms...

Cut a roof, punched roof tiles with an EK Success arch punch, which I have christened the 'fruit slice' that is what it reminds me of! I know I'm crazy, Crazy Crafter. Any way the fruit slice makes great roof tiles and you will be seeing a lot more of this little punch as it is a little beauty, love it.

Thank you all for your lovely kind comments about my ribbon weave cushion, and thank you to those of you who have emailed to say you have not been able to leave comments, I have altered some of the blogger settings so may be you will be able to later, who know??

I have not forgotten about our Halloween blog candy, just life gets in the way some time. I could do with another six hours a day and even another day in the week, perhaps..3 day weekend to give me chance to catch up.

While I get the blog candy sorted you could put your thinking caps on to guess what Ava's Halloween costume is this year.

More new stock...

Martha Stewart punches:

Deep Edge Snowflake border £17.99

Deep Edge Gifts £17.99

Icelandic Snowflake £15.99

Vintage Doily £12.99

Medium Poinsettia £9.99

Re-stocks of Craftwork cards:

Back to Basic white card and envelope packs in Elegant, Straight and Scallop in

5 x 5, 6 x 6 and 8x8 ready for you to get those Crimbo cards made early!

Also: Trim the Tree: in Purple & Lime, Chili & Olive and Hot Pink and Black
with matching die cuts.

Jack Frost: in Cream & Gold and White & Silver

That's all for now folks, hope I have tempted you with something

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