Sorry for the break

Been a bit busy here, well that's my excuse.
Glasgow was great, had a lovely time meeting up with some of our regular customers, I mean friends, Andy, Angela, Nadia , Karen and Ruth to name but a few. Then to also make some new ones, even fellow exhibitors, travel all the way to Glasgow to meet two guys who live only 14 miles from me.
Also brought something which could be a new hobby, will show later , I mean later, might have a play over Christmas.
Kay and I were suppose to be at Lincoln but because of a poorly van we didn't make it, so needing crafting retail went to Colemans warehouse . So handy having this crafters heaven on my doorstep.
Hope the show went well as this was the last Sincerely Yours show for this year, looking forward to next years season already.
Well there's only one more show to go for me this year and that's the NEC, I will be demonstrating for J & C Creations, so please come and say Hi. I will be demonstrating some of Jayne Nestorenko's gorgeous stamps, and Lisa will be showing how to use the new Chocolate Baroque ones.
Depending on signal, I'll post some photos from the show and some more samples made using Jayne's stamps.

There are a few Tattered Lace cards left to show you that were on the last POD, so I'll post two today..........

Cannot believe that for timing, the postman has just arrived with the next collection of dies from Stephanie. They are lovely, can't wait to play, so many ideas in my head, need to get the cards made.

But first, sausage rolls to make, otherwise I'll have an unhappy Kay. Then a card making session, a few more samples needed for the NEC and then a visit to the next town to get my nails done.

Tonight another crafting session and packing my crafting tools up so I'm ready to leave tomorrow,after the rush hour,luckily I don't live to far away.

So I better get on, hopefully I'll do tomorrow's post after we have set up, so for now.....
Happy Crafting

Tattered lace fan

It's rush, rush, rush at the moment as I'm off to Glasgow tomorrow for the Hobbycraft show at the SECC. So if your going please call by and say Hi, I will be demonstrating stamps from Jayne Nestorenko and Chocolate Baroque.

Really must get in the Christmas mood as a lot of these stamps are Christmas based.

Had a great time at North Petherton, otherwise know as the Taunton show, shame about the weather but at least it was dry for breakdown. The day before Kay and I had a lovely day shopping in Taunton and that the Monkton Elm garden centre with Debbie and Gail. I did pick up a few Christmas presents but still have quite a few more to buy.

Today card is another from the Tattered Lace POD, the Chantilly Rose die. It looks like a rose banner  but I cut up the individual pieces to build up the fan. The rose piece on it one I glued and glittered with a Quickie glue on and crystal glitter. I also dotted around each piece with a white pen.

The papers were from a 8x8 pad from Lili of the Valley called Antebellum.

Most go now ......... What to do first ..........

HELP

Happy Crafting?

Black and White Lace Box

What a day it has been, had a great time helping Kay with her Hougie workshop in Exeter. There was a whole group of lovely ladies, some of who were Hougie virgins as we call them, 6 projects later they were no longer that.
Tomorrow is set up  day at the new venue for Taunton, Venue @ 24 , North Petherton, the morning will give us a  chance to go shopping in Taunton, may get some Christmas presents who knows.
Well it's not a card tonight but a box, made  on Hougie of course. The decoration was made with some of the new Tattered Lace dies that were in the Pick of the Day, plus some of the flowers from a while ago.
Happy Crafting

Tattered Lace on Tonight

Just spent a very busy day at Stephanie Weightman's  playing......sorry working . Some of the new dies I only saw today , well I want , need, want must send order into Zoe tomorrow. They were gorgeous, very much up my street  as people say round here. I can see me using them virtually every day.
Oh  and I got to see the designs for the next release, ideas are already busy round my head.
I need to play some more tonight as I am off to Exeter tomorrow with Kay. Seem to be spending a lot     of time in the part of the country recently.......
Although I posted one of the cards from tonight's POD on Facebook I didn't put it on my blog, so I'll do that tonight plus a new one.
Last nights

 This was made using dies from the POD and the winter florals, the papers are MCS but from some time ago.
Tonight's card

See if you can see where this fish comes from if you watch tonight's show on Ideal World at 9pm or look on the Tatttered Lace website.

Will explain how to tomorrow !

Happy Crafting 

More D-Lites samples

I loved the effect of using the wrought iron railings as a bridge on a card , so I had to make another one. The background was made with a Couture Creations folder which along with the stamp can be purchased from Creative Expressions. As well as the D-Lites I added one of the Label dies from my stash, the thing is with Spellbinders all their dies mix and match so well together.

Same flower as the previous one here , just to show how they look in different colours.

The background was made with another folder from Couture Creations with Coredinations cardstock, after embossing I sanded it back.

Going to be busy for the next few days as I'm off to Taunton to help on another of Kay's (Hougie) workshops on Friday. Sunday there is a Sincerely Yours show at North Petherton. A new venue for the show it is just off the M5 Jnt 24.

Then on Tuesday I leave for Glasgow for the show at the SECC , really love this show and I will be demoing for the four days. I will let you know what at the weekend.

So Happy Crafting friends.

D-Lite windows

Windows today, but for this card I used a die-cut as a stencil and inked through Distress inks.
Cut out two of the wrought iron railings, they join together very easily.
I used the twigs from the holly set  and cut some leaves from the sprigs for the branch.

For this window I cut off the fan light off one die-cut, then cut another window but just to use the ledge part.

For the background I used a Couture Creations folder and then inked the edge with Tumbled Glass.

To finish the card I added a variety of the flowers and some sprigs of leaves.

Medallion Nine

Two more Spellbinders cards here, playing with Medallion Nine. There is in fact three different dies used on this card from the new D-Lites range. I cut two of the medallions, twisting the top one slightly round before attaching. Then adding one of the blossoms on top , with a gem for the centre.
Two sprigs of foliage, one for each side of the flower. The background was made using a folder from Couture Creations, then I inked  around the edge with Distress ink.

This card the two other ways you can use this set of dies, the first is just to cut the filigree section out, which I did twice in this panel. The other way is just to cut the blank piece, which I did after attaching some double-sided adhesive to it. After removing the backing I covered it with the new glitter from Creative Expressions. I then stamped over the top with Stazon.

The background behind then panel was made by attaching pieces of the medallion cut into pieces but cut I the same cardstock as the base card. This makes it look like it has been embossed.