Wednesday, 8 January 2014

Something New - Did Santa Bring You A New Stash?

Hello everyone again.  How was your Hogmany and New Year?

Now most folk will be back to work (boo hoo) and the kids back to school (way-hey) it's time to play with all our new goodies.

Being a new year I need a new calendar for my desk at work, so of course I made one using my favourite stamps from Stampotique.

The calendar is from Graphic 45 and each month I have mainly used different stamps, I now have quite a wee collection, or should I say FAMILY lol.  Enjoy.


January


February


March


April


May


June


July


August


September


October


November


December

Hope you have enjoyed this wee project and it brings some inspiration for you to get crafty.

For more truly inspirational creations visit the Stampotique Designers Challenge blog, here's the link:

Saturday, 4 January 2014

Shades of Monochrome

Hi all.  Today I want to share a project I made for my daughter and as Country View Crafts challenge this month is monochrome this is just perfect.


I have made a number of these shades as commissions and they have all been great fun, very girly and completely unique.



The paper used is a DCWV stack "Black and White Stack".  I have also used velum to layer the buttereflies.  I used my Sizzix Eclips machine and a Tonic butterfly punch to make all the templates.  I then added lots of bling and sparkle with the beads and lace.  This lace is very old and was found in a cupboard at my mum's church, so ancient indeed.  It did need to be aired as it was very odourous haha

Why don't you click over to the blog and check out some more fantastic creations:

Hope you are having a fantastic weekend.

Pauline
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Wednesday, 1 January 2014

Happy New Year

Hope you all had a fantastic festive time and didn't eat too much but did drink too much hohoho, only joking.

This entire month of January I will be presenting some of my crafts for Stampotique.   This week's theme is "Anything Goes".  This has carried over from December as we have all been busy preparing for our Christmas festivities. 

This project although not huge took me weeks to complete as I have on going health problems and finding the energy to craft, let alone be creative, has been a huge Stampotique Challenge. How and never here is my take on this weeks challenge. 


This house has been recycled from my application to be on the team.  It has been painted, glittered, glued and Christmafied hohoho. 

  

The base was an old catalogue cover, which was painted with gesso then lots of glue applied and then tissue paper crinkled up and adhered. 



I then poured lots of pva glue into a tray and added lots and lots of glitter. This was then liberally plaster onto the house and ground to make my snowy scene. 


 

I used real cinnamon sticks for the logs, pine cone for my tree and an old circle cut from my mums old piano as my skating rink. The fence was bought at a local craft store then hot glued onto the ice rink.  


The snow balls are recycled from Christmas Crackers from 5 years ago hohoho, what a hoarder I am.  You can see them two pictures above.


All the skaters have white mini pegs tuned upside down for ice skates.   My skaters are Waving Spotted Monster, Birdy Up, Smile, Relaxin and Line Up.


The icicles were made using hot glue on my non stick craft mat, leave to cool then adhere using more hot glue.  I used another Stampotique stamp Home Sweet Home to replicate a door using a PITT pen to colour and of course one of my favourite gals Gooseneck.



A fun project, hope you have enjoyed this as much as I did making it. Hop, or should that be 'slide', on over to the Stampotique Designers Challenge blog and check out more fantastic crafts:    http://stampotiquedesignerschallenge.blogspot.co.uk/


Take care of you til next week
Pauline 
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