March Challenge - The Craft Garden

A new challenge from The Craft Garden for the month of March. 

Below are my entries.

 These beautiful crocheted flowers from By Kerry

are the perfect addition to what otherwise would be rather plain napkin rings

Below I have used the paper flowers on my two cards below.

I have used stamps from the new PaperArtsy range.

December Challenge - The Craft Garden

Details of this months challenge can be found at The Craft Garden

A Christmas card for the ladies at Glazed Creations made using Dylusion stamps and a crocheted flower from Kerry at The Craft Garden

A tag using 7 Dots paper and crocheted flower. Luckily Lea will have seen this tag before this is posted!

A felted purse with a crocheted flower of Kerry's

This tiny pot contains everything needed to make a chain mail bracelet. To make it look more like a gift I added vellum, ribbon and a crocheted flower and added a bit of sparkle too!

and finally my Christmas will be spent down under so could not resist making this postcard!

July Craft Garden Challenge

Deatils of this months challenge can be found HERE

I decided to take a different approach to this months piece, I have used a poem by Robert Louis Stevenson to make a card. The background is made using Fresco paints by PaperArtsy, I tried to give the effect of a train flying past scenery. This is made on an 8" x 8" card.

June Craft Garden Challenge

Deatils of this months challenge can be found HERE

Well what a nightmare of a month I have had! Creating has not been the problem, the problem has been my laptop picked up several very nasty viruses and had to go to the laptop hospital!  The layout below I have made for an album of my friends daughter, who turns 21 in July. I was given a big box of family photographs and told to pick the most suitable ones for the album, which was lovely to be able to do. 

May Craft Garden Challenge

Details of this months challenge can be found HERE

For this months challenge I decided to make flowers using buttons, ribbon, patterned paper, mists, pink and a white background! The only item from the recipe I didnt use was yarn, this is one item that is not in my craft room.

 

April Craft Garden Challenge

Details of this months challenge can be found HERE

I decided to use yellows and greens to make this colouful card for this months challenge. The card is 6" x 6" in size. To make this card I used Distress Ink pads in crushed olive and shabby shutters, Dylusions sprays in fresh lime and lemon zest, Distress Markers, pale lemon card stock for the Spellbinder trellis, olive Bazzill card stock, green button, natural rafia, stamps by Stampotique, Paper Artsy and Indigoblu.

 

Heat Embossing Card - Female

I used masking and heat embossong techniques to make this 8" x 8"card. The stamps I used are from Indigoblu and the embossing powdesr are by WOW.

Heat Embossing Card - Male

I used masking and heat embossong techniques to make this male themed 8" x 8"card. The stamps I used are from Indigoblu and the embossing powdesr are by WOW.



March Craft Garden Challenge

The deails of this months challenge can be found HERE

We had such a fabulous time in Giverny, the gardens were simply stunning and I could just imagine Claude Monet wandering through them and contemplating where to sit and paint. I decided it would be appropriate to use paint to stamp with for this layout which is what I used for the leaves (Dylusions), the flowers are from various sources but mainly Prima. On the chicken wire stencil for the background I use chalk sprays and carried on the theme using a honeycombe stamp from Indigoblu. The paper I used as a mat and for the journaling is a left over page from a Smash album.

 

January Craft Garden Challenge

A very simple challenge for you this month - January's birthstone is the garnet and all you are challenged to do is make a project that is at least 50% RED (or shades thereof).

 

 If you would like to join in details can be found HERE

 

For Christmas I received several books about the technique of Zentangle. Although traditionally a black pen on white card is used, I discovered that there is some beautiful work using colours and so I decided to  make a card using Zentangle and to use red on white which fits in perfectly with this months challenge.

Below are my practise pieces which I did in my journal, the background has been made using Pan Pastels which is a perfect surface to draw on.

If you are interested in discovering more about Zentangle you can book classes HERE

Scrapbooker of the Year 2012

Back in October I entered Scrapbook Magazines 'Scrapbooker of the Year' competition and at the beginning of December I learnt I was  runner up. Below are the three layouts I submitted for the competition.

This layout was all about recycling and using odds and end up.

The photograph was my inspiration for this layout, Gemma was a beautiful bride and her face says a thousand words without uttering one.

Sead beads all sewn on individually.

Stamp by Inkylicious.

A layout made from Indigoblu stamps.

This photograph was take at the balloon festival near Cognac in France.