Hopping by…

Morning all and welcome to my stop on the ILWS colour coach blog hop. If you’ve started from the beginning (Anthea's Blog)  then hopefully you’ve arrived from Jane’s blog. However If you’ve started here, then simply follow the link at the end of my post to Val’s blog, then continue on around the loop, and you’ll eventually end up back here! There is also a second loop running which starts with Emily.

For my samples I chose a simple masculine colour combination of Whisper White, Marina Mist and Night of Navy – all of which are from our ‘getting started’ colour collection. I used the circle circus stamp set to create a one sheet wonder on A4 whisper white cardstock in my two ink colours, and then cut the panel into lots of smaller pieces to make the following collection of cards.

It’s a really simple technique for generating a number of cards on a theme with a limited selection of supplies, and can be used with lots of our stamp sets – I’ve used it previously with greenhouse garden and serene snowflakes. Here are the cards in a little more detail.

Hopefully you’ve reached this far! Now it’s time to hop on over to my lovely friend Val’s blog and discover what she’s been creating with Rich Razzleberry – yum!

I’ll be back soon with some sneak peeks of my upcoming ‘Plane & Simple’ class.

Until then

Happiness Shared

Morning All!
apologies for the lack of crafty posts this week, I've been consumed with making lots of projects, which unfortunately I can't share just yet! However, I can share this card, which was a commission I made last week for a birthday. I used an 'in colour' combination of blushing bride and pear pizazz, together with the 'happiness shared' stamp set. I have to admit overlooking this set originally in the catalogue, but it's such a pretty & delicate image, that I think it may become one of my favourites for female cards. The flower has been stamped in stazon and then watercoloured using inkpads and a waterbrush, the leaves on the front panel of the card were stamped using pear pizazz ink. The 'happy birthday' sentiment is the centre of the perfect punches stamp inked with a black marker.

well, that's all I have for today - i'll be back tomorrow with the swaps I've made for the Stampin' Up! training session in Leeds tomorrow - I've used the same colour combo and stamp set, but changed the layout somewhat. In the meantime I'll be trying to finish my design team challenges for this month, which are a little late - whoops!
Until tomorrow....

It's FRIDAY!!!!!

Hey folks!
blimey, Friday already, it's been a hive of activity in my craft room this week, preparing a class for this weekend and then my usual monthly class next weekend! I've had the chance to catch up with some lovely new customers (waves madly at you all!). On Sunday I was in Peterborough for a training session run by my SU mummy Monica and SU sister Bekka. I was accompanied by the other Crafty Foxes, Elaine & Rebecca - here's a piccie of us after doing our make & takes and raiding our goody bags!

I'll hopefully get a chance to photograph the swaps this weekend - lots of lovely ideas around the theme of 'new beginnings' but in the meantime, here's a teaser of what we'll be making in class next week, there are still a couple of spaces left if you'd like to join us - email me to book your place.

 well, that's all for now I'm afraid - until next time

Challenges part 2

Hey folks,
as promised, I'm back to show you my final three submissions for the design team challenges over on ILWS this month. the third challenge was 'ornaments' I'd been playing with 'Contempo Christmas' and 'Delightful Decorations' quite a lot recently, so decided to try something a bit different. I got my craftROBO doing some of the work for me, making hanging tealight holders. Here are the two designs I came up with - both featuring a stamp from serene snowflakes and containing battery tealights. The templates are available to purchase from the silhouette website.

 

the final challenge for this month was a sketch, and this is what we were given:

And here's my take on it, featuring the 'make a monster' set which I'm loving using (and thank you to the wonderful Darren for sketching the shadow for me as I can stamp but cant draw for toffee!!)

Well, that's all of this months entries, and I've just realised that I didn't blog any of last month's, so I'll try and post those tomorrow! In the meantime I'd better go and get on with making some more projects.

ttfn

Linz



I've not been idle, I promise!

Evening All!
Well a couple of days ago I promised some piccies of my recent design team cards from the ILWS October challenges, so I thought I'd better get around to actually posting them!  the first one is my sketch challenge entry, here's the sketch we were given to work with

And this is my entry, which having used masculine colours (yum - crumb cake, chocolate chip, sahara sand and early espresso) with the circle circus stamp set, happily doubled for Darren's Dad's birthday :) Happy Birthday Jim!!

Then I made two entries for the colour combination challenge, which this month was Real Red, Whisper White and Basic Black - three of my favourite colours together as they make a real statement! I'm still desperately trying to use up scraps of retired papers and ribbons, so out come the 'Day and Night' papers, and here's what I came up with for one of them

I can't show you the other until next week as it's a birthday card for my friend Emma and I don't want to spoil the surprise as she sometimes pops on here!


Well, that's all for this minute, i'll be back tomorrow to show you my entries for the 'Halloween' challenge and the limited supplies challenge. Hopefully the UPS man will be visiting me then with a box full of goodies from the NEW CATALOGUE - I cant wait to get my hands on the new punches!!


Keep your eyes peeled, as later this week i'll be posting some prize draw offers, so that you too can share in the excitement of the new catalogue.


Until tomorrow, ttfn
Linz
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Blogger ate my last post!

Evening folks
well imagine my surprise when i popped on here to update my blog, only to find that my last post had completely disappeared! so now i guess it'll be one long post as I've been rather busy crafting recently - my rather pink looking fingers will confirm that (melon mambo does NOT come off skin easily!). This month marks my first month designing for the 'In Love With Stamping' design team. So last weekend I was busily deigning, making, photographing and uploading 6 designs for 4 challenges set by the lovely Karin.  Here are my entries for the colour combination challenge, which was so saffron, certainly celery, basic grey & whisper white:

 

The next challenge I attempted was the technique challenge, we had to use a piece of cling film in conjunction with our ink pads to create a card. As I started playing, I was reminded of a cloudy sky, and the following two scenes sprung to mind, both using my favourite fold at the moment - a centre stair step, which is great for producing layered scenes. I promised a diagram the other week, and will hopefully get around to uploading it later in the week!

Recipes:

colour challenge 1 - Stamp sets: pocket silhouettes

Cardstock: certainly celery, so saffron, basic grey and whisper white cardstock
Supplies: whisper white craft and basic grey ink, certainly celery grosgrain ribbon.
colour challenge 2 - Stamp sets: occasional greetings, tiny tags
Cardstock: certainly celery, so saffron, basic grey and whisper white cardstock
Supplies: whisper white craft and certainly celery ink, certainly celery grosgrain ribbon, certainly celery DSP white embossing powder & daisy punch & brads.
technique challenge 1 - Stamp sets: choo choo, trendy trees, good neighbours, right-on-track wheel 
Cardstock: certainly celery, bordering blue, basic grey and whisper white cardstock
Supplies: real red, brilliant blue garden green, so saffron, old olive, chocolate chip bashful blue and basic grey ink.

technique challenge 2 - Stamp sets: circle circus, good neighbours

cardstock: bordering blue, sage shadow, whisper white.

Supplies: real red, tempting turquoise, sage shadow, chocolate chip, really rust, and certainly celery ink.

Well, I'll stop rabbiting on for now - I'll be back later in the week with the remaining 2 cards from the challenges, and a sneak peek of my upcoming 'greenhouse garden' class.

have a great start to the week!

Linz

x

One for The Men Class

Hey folks
I cant believe quite how quickly the month has flown by! I have another class this weekend, this time focussing on cards for the boys - a card type I have to admit I usually struggle with. This week we're making a gift card holder, gable box, and two cards featuring the 'to the nines' speciality designer papers and trendy trees stamp set.

I still have a couple of places left, so if you're interested in joining us email me to book your pace. The class is this Saturday, 26th June, between 1pm and 4pm and costs £10 (including home made chocolate brownies!!).

Then I guess I'll be pressing on with making Christmas swaps - I know, Christmas already? but you can never be too prepared!! And I need them for next month's passionettes team training.

On a positive note, I'm back in my craft room, with my new desk and shelves all full - I'm just waiting for a shelf above the desk, and wheels on one of my units, and it's all finished! (then i'll post some piccies).

Well, i think that's all of my blabbering on for now!
Have a good remainder of the week


Linz
x

Happy Birthday Eleanor!

My friend's little girl Eleanor turned 2 this weekend (I still don't quite know where those 2 years have gone!).  I chose a centre step fold design, and made a layered 3D scene using a teddy bear stamp from Elzybells.

The base is made with so saffron card stock, with paper from the sweet pea designer stack, a sweet pea felt flower in the foreground, clouds from the Good Neighbours sale-a-bration stamp set and trees from trendy trees. i'll try and post the template for the card in the next few days, as I had to alter it for UK size card.