Freebie Friday

Good evening friends, I hope you are enjoying your weekend? I have had a lovely day with my friends doing a workshop with Mandy Murphy from Stampin' up.

Here are the pictures of the cards we made:

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I cant believe I made 8 cards, that has to be a record!

FREEBIE:

Now, I know we don't like to talk about Christmas in August but lets face it, its never too early for us crafters. So, with that in mind this weeks download is a collection of Santa digistamps.

Please go to the main site for the download.

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What a week!

Good evening bloggers, I hope you have all had a good week? Mine has been manic but very enjoyable!

We had friends from Sussex come up and spend a couple of days with us, it was also my birthday on Wednesday. Thank you to everyone who gave me cards, (all 24 of them!) I had so many beautiful hand made cards which of course will be kept in my collection. 

I thought I would bore you all stupid and share some of the photos from the week.

Mark and Steve in Marks new car

They thought they looked cool, how little they know.....cool car, shame about the old farts inside it!!!

Sharon took this lovely picture of Shadow fast asleep.

Pictures of our day out in Newark

What a couple of ..................posers!

Should have been behind the bars.......

Ok Mark, you really can stop posing now!

Newark castle

I hope I havent bored you too much!

I am going away on holiday for a week to Wales, so I shan't be posting for a while but if I get time tomorrow I will try and upload a freebie,so watch this space! All for now, Tina x 

Freebie Friday

Its that time again! Dont the weeks go by quickly?

Well, the workshop went well yesterday, the ladies enjoyed making the interlocking frame cards and made two each. I need to watch myself, or they will want to come to the house more often! They certainly dont get afternoon tea at the bowls club, thanks to Lauren and Roisin for baking the cakes.

I am doing another demo next week, this time the card is all about the background. They will each be given some hexagon templates and they will need to create a quilt style backing as in the photo. It should keep them occupied for a while! The choice of toppers and embellishments is theirs.

Freebie Friday

With the recent birth of the Royal baby, I thought it might be nice to give away a couple of baby toppers so please go to the main site for the download.

All for now, Tina x

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Workshops and Demos

Good evening Bloggers! I hope you are having a good week and enjoying the cooler weather?

I have such a busy week, I was out for the day yesterday, I have been at a workshop with Llinda this afternoon, tomorrow I have a club meeting at my house and then I think I am going to the cinema with my friends! No rest for the wicked as the say!

I have a demo for the ladies tomorrow involving a card which my friend Jean, sent me not so long ago. 

Basically, you just die cut a frame and topper and glue half the frame one side and half the topper on the other side, so that when the card is shut, they interlock.

Here are some I made very quickly ready for the demo tomorrow:

I photographed the circular one twice to try and give you an idea of how they work a bit better.

Here are the pictures of the cards we made today at Llindas:

The last one was stamped and embossed on acetate and all were on the theme 'Bon Voyage'.

All for now, Tina x

Latest cards

Evening Bloggers, I hope you are having a good week?

I have been busy, we had Jo Channon do a class with us on Saturday, which was really enjoyable.

Here are the cards we made:

I have been busy trying to use up some of my bits out of my "bit" box, ( I know you all have one!) These were all left over toppers from various sheets. Here is what I came up with:

Enjoy the rest of the week, all for now,

Tina x

Freebie Friday

Hi everyone, are you all ready for the weekend?

I have had a busy week as usual, I did a demo yesterday which went well I think! It was the card from the last post. I am out all day tomorrow to craft and chat club and we have Jo Channon from C&C coming, so looking forward to that one.

I have made a couple of cards this week, this is one of them which is for my Stepdad who is a biker.

The image is a digistamp from La Pashe which I mounted onto black card, this had been put through an embossing folder and then gone over with gilding wax. I have gone a bit mad on using cogs on mens cards at the moment, sorry, but I just love them! I finished off with a stamped sentiment on a Spellbinder die cut.

I have put a freebie Friday on for you today, which I think is a lovely summery image, here is a preview. As usual, you will find the full file on the download page of my main site. Have a lovely weekend, all for now, Tina x

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Project for the girls

Good evening Bloggers! I trust you are all well? I must say, I have been a bit disappointed where we live, I have been waiting for a really good thunder storm as I love watching them, I have been let down!We have had a few rumbles and plenty of rain but nothing to write home about on the storm front and it is still as hot as ever.

Tomorrow is my last meeting of the season until September with the ladies at the bowls club and guess who is doing the demo?

Well here it is:

To create the card base, I cut my card 5 1/4 x 11 inches, I scored the card at 3 inches from each end creating an overlapping gatefold (it overlaps to allow for the card lost when the shape is cut). I then cut each end using a Marianne die and cut them at different directions to make them fit nicely together. I added some faux leaves and used a multitude of flower punches including the tonic petals and pairs to create the bouquet. I stamped a verse on the inside and used a die cut frame to accentuate it. The front was finished off with a bow and a small greeting. I hope they like and enjoy recreating it!

Bye for now, Tina