WOYWW? 185 Snowflakes

I've got a bit behind with my Christmas cards this year, time flies by too quickly. So here's a quick post showing you the cards I've made so far today since getting home from work. I've still a few more to do but will try to get around a few WOYWW desks before I get going again.
If you want the details on how to join in the WOYWW and have a snoop at other peoples workdesks have a look at Julia's blog.

The background is stamped with free stamp from Craft stamper and I've used the Tim Holtz snowflake rosette dies

Art Journal from Class 1

There's a quick post from today's class with Neil Walker at the Craft Barn in Lingfield. 

I had a wonderful painty, inky day with my crafting friend Francesca who is kind enough to drive me there, thanks Francesca :-)

 Background paints on this double page were all Fresco paints, Eggplant; Beach Hut; Nougat and Limelight. Charcoal, cut out images and black in. 

Looking forward to class two.

12 tags December…

The final of the 12 tags for 2012, here's December. Go over to Tim's blog to see what it's all about.

I have the blueprints on my wish list, so instead I used the Sizzix snowman die and snowflake. The snowman then was embossed and inked with various distress inks, broken china distress stickles and rock candy stickles plus a bit of ribbon for his scarf. For the background of the tag I used broken china and pewter distress stains they were also swiped around the edge of the white card and ribbon that went through the tag hole. The letters that I die cut from wordplay also put through an embossing fold to give a bit more texture.

WOYWW 180 & NEC

Last weekend my crafty buddy Francesca and I went to the NEC, it was a pretty exhausting weekend mainly due to lack of sleep: firstly from the excitement the night before we left, then the very early start on Saturday morning to get there in time. Saturday was MANIC in the NEC so much so that they stopped people entering on two occasions during the day. Sunday was a much calmer day; people didn't seem so frantic and a fair nights sleep helped.

Oh my goodness me, as I was looking at top photo before uploading I realised that I hadn't included the pieces from the mini workshops plus a few more purchases:
Saturday using Pan Pastels, Graph-it pens, a shimmery medium (sorry I can't remember the name of it)
Sunday we managed to get onto two workshops firstly with Graphic 45 and lastly WOW. I'm looking forward to the weekend when I'll hopefully get a chance to play ;-)

If you want to join in or know more about WOYWW please hop over to see the lovely Julia's blog where you can find all the details. 

Crumpled Kraft Suede

Crumpled Kraft Suede technique taken from 

Tim Holtz: A Compendium of Curiosities, Vol. 2, page 40

This is the theme for this weeks challenge over on Linda's blog Studio L3

Which is Sponsored by The Funkie Junkie Boutique

I've been having a great time this afternoon making crumple Kraft Suede in all different colours, of course by the time I've got around to making this topper the light had faded so the background stamping isn't showing up. I love the effect of this technique, you just have to see it in real life to see the full beauty of it.

WOYWW 178 and Book Bound without Thread!

It's that snooping time of the week. If you want to know what it's all about go check out the details at Julia's blog the Stamping Ground.
This is the front of the book that I made at a Craft Barn class with the talented Neil Walker last Sunday. The book has a base colour of yellow and I've blended Peacock Feathers into each paper then incorporated at least one other colour into each, with different stamping on each spread. Now I had intended to completely embellishing it before blogging it but someone mentioned Christmas, I'm not saying who and I decided that I ought to put this to one side and start to make some Christmas cards. It's the thought that counts....right ;-)

Here's the spine I love the finish. 

Did I mention what I clever man Neil is? 

and one of the inner pages. 

The image was printed out onto Transfer Artist Paper which is a great product to try.

The image that I've used was from a play session, around at the lovely Francesca's house.

Spooktacular Journal

As the witching hour gets closer I thought I really must update my blog with this Journal that is going to embrace my darker side Mwahahaha. 

The theme was set by the lovely people at Inspiration Journal Blog. Go and have a look at the fabulous examples the design team have created.

I used plenty of distress inks and markers; Dylusions stamps - Bits of This and Doodle Parts; Inkessentials white pen to decorate the central panel for my journal. I finished off with some orange and red ribbon

Happy Hallowe'en

I've just spotted that this also fits the theme for Crazy Amigo Challenge too!