Serene Snowflakes

Good Afternoon Bloggers

Hope you've all had a good week, I'm rather pleased that my work week is over this week - seems to have taken a loooooooooong time to get to Friday but now that it has, it's time to play!

I'm off to the Shifnal Craft Fair tomorrow, if anyone is local or in the area for the day do pop in and say hello.

As I've officially done a few Christmas cards now I thought that I'd show you another that I've done as I think it's gorgeous........personal opinion and all that jazz.

Stamp set's used: Serene Snowflakes and Tiny Tags
Punch used: Jewelry Tag













Happy Stamping, have a great weekend
Loraine

Plane and simple (men's) Tree Trimmings (Christmas)

Good Afternoon All

Hope you're all well, personally I cant believe that we're half way through September and Christmas is only 70 odd working day's away.............

Today I decided that we'd use plane and simple (from the mini catalogue which ends 30th September) to make a men's card and then we'd move swiftly along to the season that's soon approaching, yip Christmas, with tree trimmings.

For the men's card we did a little shadowing which was gorgeous and we also did a little embossing.  The stamping of the goggles was done before the embossing to get the lovely embedded effect that's been achieved.

The tree trimings card is a fancy fold card which is very effective with this pretty christmas set.

Take a look and let me know what you think.

Stamp set used: Plane and Simple
Embossing Folder: Square Lattice
Accessory: crop-o-dile

Stamp set used: Tree Trimmings, Tiny Tags
Accessory used: Stamp-a-ma-jig
Punch used: Jewelry Tag














Happy Stamping
Loraine

Greenhouse Garden & Butterfly Prints

Good Evening All

Hopefully you've all been having a fab day and are ready for a lovely evening.  Between the wind and rain in Shropshire today, I'm ready to settle down and relax.  Perhaps watch a little of the World Cup Rugby too.

Today's class was lovely, loads of chatting and making of two very pretty projects.  Not the most difficult projects we've ever done which meant that there was plenty time for chatting, drinking tea and of course eating cake!

For the first we used greenhouse garden and did a bit of layering using punches and embossing folders, for the second we did some emboss resist.

Take a look and let me know what you think.

Stamp set used: Greenhouse Garden and Curly cute
Punches used: Fancy Flower, Boho Blossoms and Scallop trim border

Stamp set's used: Butterfly Prints and En Francais










Happy Stamping

Loraine

Circle Circus Christmas

Good Morning All

Ok, so.....................I've finally given in and done my first Christmas card of the year!

I thought that I'd have a bit of a play with a few stamp set's that I really like and the result is below.  Circle Circus is such a versatile stamp set, anything goes really.

Stamp set's used: Circle Circus, En Francais and Tree Trimings














Hope you all have a good week, happy stamping!
Loraine

Build a Blossom & Blossom Petals Punch

Dear All

Hope you're all well and enjoying the remainder of the summer weather, if in the UK!  Here's to wishing it would stay till late October at the least.................

Had a great class this morning making an elegant card and gift box set.  Everyone did so well, espcially my visiting lady who'd not done much crafting before.  Lots of nattering and crafting, who could ask for a better morning!

Stamp set used: Build a Blossom
Punches used: Blossom Petals Punch, Decorative Label
Embossing folder used: Vintage Wallpaper







Happy Stamping

Loraine



Circle Circus and Happiness Shared

Good Morning All

A little late with my class post this week.  Hope you're all well and enjoying the bank holiday weekend if in England.

I find circle circus such a versatile set to use so decided to actually use it as a two step stampin set this week!  Out came the stamp-a-ma-jig and away we went, such decisions when it comes to random stamping that it seems to take even longer to achieve at times, especially when doing the two step!

Our second card was using happiness shared and en francaise - absolutely gorgeous background stamp and I cant for the life of me think why it's taken me so long to purchase it.  I'm sure I'll use it so often now!  For this one we did a little making but stamping the flower in the centre then creating a mask to go over it and stamping the background stamp over!  Gorgeous result.  As as accent we used some crystal effects to highlight the main flower image, almost drawing it out of the page.

Take a look and let me know what you think, we had fun!

Stamp set's used: Circle Circus, Happiness Shared and En Francais
Punches used: 1/2" circle









Happy Stamping
Loraine

Silhouette Sentiments and Vintage Vogue

Good Evening All

Hope you're all well wherever you are and having a restfull weekend.

Today's class was the first in a few weeks as I'd taken a little study break.  We're back into the swing of things now and everyone did some gorgeous work this morning creating two beautifull projects.

The first, using Vintage Vogue involved a bit of concentration with cutting out all the flowers -" WHAT no punch for those gorgeous flowers was what I heard."  Sometimes we just have to work a little harder to get the results we want and this was one of them.  Needless to say with a little bit of "rock and roll" added in to get the colours on the flowers we were well under way.

The second card uses the hostess level one stamp set, Silhouette Sentiments.  We did a little emboss resist with this one and everyone was very impressed with the results that were achieved.

Take a look and let me know what you think.

Stamp set's used: Vintage Vogue and Silhouette Sentiments and swirl from Trendy Trees
Punches used: Extra-Large Bird Punch and Decorative Label Punch








Happy Crafting
Loraine