Something Stencilled

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Hello.The day in my calendar is marked today! It is official first day of winter. Yupii! I prepared our chocolate advent calendars. Can't wait to start our Christmas countdown with delicious chocolate!:0) Pulled out our winter warm cloth from deep back of our wardrobe in the bedroom. Winter here we come!  

Now, there was a new challenge at Daring Cardmakers this week:

This week we have a pre-Christmas treat for one of you - a beautiful crafty gift you could win, thanks to our lovely sponsor,
 Bubbly Funk

Recently celebrating 10 whole years selling crafty stash on-line, Bubbly Funk has had a slight change of direction and is now specialising in selling stencils and the paraphernalia that goes alongside.  You'll find a huge range of stencils and masks in many different sizes, plus the inks, paints, sprays, mixed media goodies and the tools you need too. 

Caroline, of Bubbly Funk has put together a special prize pack which includes

3 stencils to play with, plus chipboard mini albums and keychains,
 crystal flowers, ink and ribbon

Wouldn't it be good to find that little lot arriving at your door?  All you have to do to be in with a chance of it being yours is to join in with this week's challenge - leave a link to your card and at the end of the week we'll use a Random Picker to select our winner.  We can't make it easier than that, can we?

The Challenge:

Something Stencilled
Just use a stencil in some way on your card. It's not a problem if you don't have any ready made stencils - you could use a die cut, or the die itself, a doily, or anything else that you can paint, ink or trace through.

And here is my card used Hero Arts Triangle Stencil as a background:

Have a nice first day of winter. Hugs,

Used material :

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Advent Calendar

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Hello! How was your week? My one was very busy and fast! I can't believe that we have already Friday. Talking about Friday do you know about newest dare at Daring Cardmakers?
It was Dawn's turn:

'I would like to see 
Anything But A Card

This could be a gift box, a hanging decoration, scrapbook page,
an altered item etc...
 Perhaps you'll make something you could sell at a School Fête or a Christmas Fair.'


And here is my creation Advent Calendar created at our Craft Session together with kids : 

Advent Calendar

Wishing you a lovely day,
see you very soon!

Used Material :

Karen Foster 3D Countdown Calendar White
Rayher Wooden Advent Calendar Numbers
White Acrylic paint
Light Gold Ardenbrite paint
Hobby Craft Christmas embellishments
Assorted confetti
Paper trims

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Merry Christmas Card

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My second Christmas inspiration is my design created for Poppy Stamps Blog. I can't help myself but their latest clear stamp set is absolutely adorable. This time I went for very simple and clean style!

Hope that you like it! :0)

You can find all details and instruction about my card here.

Have a beautiful day!

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Cuddly Creatures

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Hello my friends! I'm back with another Christmas card inspirations today. My first one is for Daring Cardmakers 

This week I'm challenging you to feature some cuddly creatures on your cards and bonus glittery stars if you include hugs in the image or greeting.

There have been some really great stamp releases of late featuring huggable pandas, bunnies and bears, so if you have any of those in your stash waiting to be used, now's your chance!

Your cuddly creatures don't necessarily have to be your regular cute animals, they could be a bit more unusual...

Here is my Cuddly card :

Thank you for stopping by hope that your day is nice!

Used Material :

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Christmas Tag

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Time is flying so fast! Can you believe that we have already middle of November? Do you have list of to do things for this year Christmas? No? Then get ready for Christmas planning. It's time! I put handmade Christmas tags on my list. It's absolutely brilliant finishing touch for the presents under your Christmas tree! If you looking for some inspiration come to 25 Days of Christmas Tags  Facebook Page. You will be surprised how beautiful tags you can make for your loved ones.  

There is although a chance to win some nice prize. All you need to do is

1. stop by Poppy Stamps and leave a comment for a chance to win 
2. Stop by Tracey McNeely Blog  and leave a comment for a chance to win.

Here is my tag :

Have a beautiful day and thank you for stopping by!

Used material coming soon.

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Trick Or Treat

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My second Halloween card is for Poppy Stamps challenge 

Challenge #14 - November 2015 - Home for the Holidays  - Ahhh... the holidays are upon us.. Thanksgiving, Christmas, Hanukkah.   It's cold outside, but it's warm inside where we welcome friends and family near.    What does home for the holidays mean to you?   Is it a warm cozy fire?  Sharing a meal with family? Getting the house decorated?  Or maybe a scene with a little cottage die cut? 

Want to play? Click here for more info. 

Thank you for stopping by!

Used material :

White card blank

White, black, orange and glitter cardstock

Poppystamps Group of Ghosts Die

Poppystamps Decor Trick or Treat Die

Poppystamps Spider Web Border

Memory Box Open Studio Circle Layers

Memento London Fog Die

Mounting pads

Round corner punch

 

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Non Cute Hallowe'en

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Autumn is definitely here! We were celebrating Halloween last week! I have to confess I'm not a big fun of this celebration. All those creepy costumes and funny trick or treats that's just not me! 

Well, despite of that I had fun with my latest creations of Halloween cards. My first one is for Daring Cardmakers challenge  Non Cute Hallowe 'en

Used Material :

White cardblank

White, orange and black cardstock

Page from old book

Poppystamps Group of Ghosts Die

Poppystamps Jumbled Boo Die

Poppystamps Spider Web Border Die

Memory Box Open Studio Circles Layers

Memory Box Garden Birch Trees designer stencil

Round Corner Punch

Memento London Fog Ink

Sakura white gelly roll pen

Glitter

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Creative Kids

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It's been while what I was blogging. September is keeping me more busy then I was expecting. Hope that I'm back on track and ready to ketch up with all crafting piling on my table. 

As it is Friday I'm starting with Daring Cardmakers.
It was my turn to set up a challenge for all creative cardmakers playing along with.
Here you can find all details about my Creative Kids dare.

And here is my absolutely first ever made video tutorial :

Used Material : 

White card blank
Black, orange, cream cardstock
Spellbinder standard circles die
Spellbinder Sapeabilities Witches Brew
Poppy Stmaps Jumbles Boo die
Versa color beige
Kuretake 0.1 ZIG Pen
Pencil



Have a nice Friday and Happy crafting!

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Masculine Cards

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Summer is keeping us all very busy! I'm slightly behind the schedule of Daring Cardmakers.  

They are having really nice last challenges. 

Trying to ketch up with their designs I created couple of masculine cards for their last week 'Lets hear it for the boys' dare.

Pop to their blog there is fantastic

Ruby Rock- It Blog Hop on. You can win some fabulous prize for your craft projects! :0)

Here are my masculine zipper creations :

Used Material :

First card :

Light blue, orange, black and white cardstock

Making Memories Stripe Pitter Patter Oliver pattern paper

MFT Die-namics Zipper die

Dovecrafts mustage clear stamp DCCS025

Black and Dark Brown Ranger ink

Buttons and white thread

Second card :

Green, white, dark brown, light blue and orange cardstock

Fancy Pants On A Whimsy patterned paper

MFT Die-namics Zipper die

MFT Die-namics Sailboat die (stars )

Spellbinder small circles dies

Clearly Besotted Full Steam Ahead Clear stamps (sentiment )

Black and Dark Brown Ranger ink

Eyelets and cotton twine

Have a nice afternoon. 

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Bee Lampshade

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Here am I after summer holidays! I had fantastic time! My family came to visit me here to England. Such a beautiful moments which I'm going to keep in my heart and treasure them for ever. Hope that you had lovely summer too! 

I just put a cinnamon loaf to the oven so while waiting for this sweet buddy :0) I have some cute project to share with you.

Fiskars have some new lever punches release this year. When I sow their cute bee punch I immediately knew what is my next project! 

Step By Step Instructions: 

You will need some old lamp shade, Thin white paper, Fiskars Bee Lever punch, scissors, Letraset Promarkers, Tweezers, Strong double sided tape.

 Punch out bees from white paper. You will need a lot! 

Colour bees with yellow Letraset Promarker pen.

Add black details. 

Use strong double sided tape to adhere little bees randomly on the lampshade. Tweezers might be great help for your manipulation.

This is how you finish.

Assembly lampshade on the lamp stand.

And you done! The lamp is ready to decorate your home.

This project was designed for Fiskars UK. 

Have a beautiful day. Off to check my cinnamon loaf! 

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