Hello strangers

Hi there, long time no see :) I'm not going to bore you with apologies, I just haven't had time to do much crafting let alone have time to blog about it, but I'm back to report on the Spring craft retreat at The Papeterie - its been a lot of hard work, but it was worth every minute.
This was the first retreat where we had 3 days of classes, tiring but great fun!
On Friday, I only taught one class - the Bright Distress Box. Anyone who knows me, knows I love bright colours - I've never really been a subtle pastel kind of girl.
This is what we made...

Supplies:

Triangle paper mache box

Watercolour paper

Distress Ink inkpads: Picked Raspberries, Mustard Seed, Peacock Feathers, Gathered Twigs

Ranger Mini mister

Ranger Ink Blending Tool & Blending Foam

Tim Holtz Stencils: Rays, Splatters, Dot Fade

Distress Markers: Picked Raspberries, Peacock Feathers

Tim Holtz stamps: Paris memoirs

Tim Holtz 'writing desk' sizzix die

Distress Glitter: Black Soot

Seam Binding

and here are some pics of the ladies on the class, which I taught on Friday and again on Saturday...

Thanks for visiting,
 I appreciate any comments 
Debz x

Angel Crafts DT - Feb ribbon kit

Yay. it's the weekend! I'm dying to hear from Kath about her day with Tim Holtz yesterday - she's been counting down the days since there were 158 of them, and now it's all over! I was so excited for her that you would've thought I was going.


Anyway, I was on a mission the other day to get a load of stuff done so that I can get some samples done for my next demo and I got cracking with the February ribbon kit from Angel Crafts - it's a bumper black and white ribbon kit.
There are so many goodies in this kit it's hard to know where to start, but I jumped in and got going and these are the things I've come up with so far...


I've been searching all over the internet for this die, and accidentally stumbled across it in The Glitter Pot sale no less, so not only was it the last one in stock but it was less than half price - yay!

I used the Flower Stems clear stamps from Autumn Leaves and the 1/8" wide black with white dots ribbon from Berisfords from the kit

Next up is a butterfly card - I coloured some core'dinations card with promarkers before using a Marianne D Creatables die to make the butterfly. 
I used black & white Grosgrain stripe/stitch from May Arts, black Grosgrain with white edged stitching from May Arts, black with white circles grosgrain from May Arts, black and white squares/stitched from May Arts, Lush Black rhinestones from MME which are all from the kit.
The greeting is from Craftwork Cards.


Back tomorrow with some Hero Arts cards
And don't forget to enter the Promarker Blending Pairs Competition - closes on Monday

Passion for Promarkers #18 - Emerald & Marine - Anything But A Card

Hi there, thought we'd have a day off from the puppy mania so I can show you what I've done for this week's challenge at Passion for Promarkers.

To be perfectly honest, when I found out that the colours chosen by the fabulously talented Guest DT's for this month were Emerald & Marine, I thought "UGH" what on earth was I going to do with those colours, PLUS, to take me completely out of my comfort zone Sarah B had added the Anything But A Card to the brief.
BUT I started colouring images with this colour combination and decided I liked them, A LOT.

Anyway, the bit you're probably more interested in is the prize thats up for grabs this week's challenge is sponsored by the Halloween crafts range at Baker Ross/Yellow Moon, and the winner will receive a voucher for £10.00 to spend on anything from the site

 
 They have sponsored us previously and you might remember that I was a bit cheeky and asked if you could use the source code for Extra Special Parents if you placed an order with them. I would really appreciate this. As you may or may not know, Extra Special Parents is the charity that Graham and I started up in 2006. Its a support and signposting forum for parents and carers of children with additional needs. A great many parents, mainly from across the UK, but we have several members worldwide, find our charity to be a lifeline - its not easy being a parent and its even harder when your child has additional needs. Two of my 3 kids have additional needs, my son Scott has Autistic Spectrum Disorder and my daughter Willow was born with Imperforate Anus and we felt the need to talk to other parents who were in the same boat, and so ESP was born. So IF you place an order with Yellow Moon, please consider entering the source code "SSH10729" so that ESP receives the commission on your order - at no extra cost to you.

Yellow Moon sell a vast range of craft items for children and adults as well as toys, games and stocking fillers. I've often purchased craft stuff for my kids from there - if only to keep them away from Mum's Stash lol

This week I created a wee stocking or sock gift bag, I used a free Lauren Meader template from Papertrey Ink to create it. 

 

Butterflies stamps from The Crafty Pad, coloured with Emerald, Marine and Cool Aqua promarkers

Paper is from the original colossal pad from Papermania, thick cream cardstock from my local paper mill.

WRMK large eyelets set with the Cropadile 

various ribbons tied to the wire handle

greeting is from the papermania "touch of teal" kit

kars paper lace

pink stone brad is Papirloftet, jump rings and dragonfly charm from stash 

and of course the template is Lauren Meader 

  

 Remember to check out all tha fabulous creations from my fellow DT members and also our guests Sarah and Caroline as this is their last week with us. Its been fabulous working with both of you, your work is stunning