Gold

Many of you may know I recently became a Design Team Member at Happy Little Stampers (HLS)for their Anything Goes With a Die challenges. So I was very excited to also receive a place on the HLS Christmas Challenge Design Team too!

For my first challenge for July I have created this card. The theme is GOLD.

I diecut three baubles from gold mirri card and glitter adhesive paper. The dies I used are from Crafters Companion and Marianne Creatables.

I attached the baubles and then hung them with gold sparkly ribbon.

The sentiment was heat embossed using WOW! Gold Detail Embossing powder and mounted onto mirri card.

I believe its never too early to think about Christmas crafting so pop over to the challenge for some inspiration and to enter your own creation!

Challenges I am entering are :

Ike's World - Christmas in July

Inky Chicks - Christmas in Summer

Crafty Boots Challenge - Christmas in July

The Paper Players - Christmas in July

Christmas Cards All Year Round - Anything

Crafty Hazlenuts Christmas Challenge - Anything

ATC - Tim Holtz Style

A bit of a blast from the past as I haven't made an ATC for ages. That's what really started me off crafting seriously some years ago.

Over at A Vintage Journey Challenge the theme is to make an ATC with "a little touch of Tim" (Holtz)

I created the background by embossing the background with a Tim Holtz embossing folder and then embossing with gold powder. The washi tape, images and tickets are all from my "Tim Holtz stash"

Enjoy Your Crafting!

A Summer Twinchie

Another miserable and wet day here in the South of England. Fingers crossed it improves for the summer holidays next week.


I decided to join in with the new Twinchie Challenge this week - the theme is Summer.

To make this I used WOW Powders and the Make a Wish stamp set. I embossed the images with clear powder and then rubbed Distress Ink over the top. I finished the piece by embossing the edges with gold powder.

Thanks for visiting my blog!

Gold Tag - Tag Tuesday

I made this tag for this week's Tag Tuesday Challenge which this week is to make a tag using the colours of gold or silver. I used a Rubber Stampede Christmas collage stamp which is an old favourite of mine. I stamped it using versamark ink, then rubbed over with gold Perfect Pearls. I coloured the holly leaves with watercolour pencils.I then highlighted them with Distress Stickles. I used a gold sparkling reindeer to finish it off.

Other challenges entered :

Something Completely Different - Christmas Tag

Theme Thursday - Tags
Artistic Challenge - Withdrawal Tags