Kre8tors Blog Hop - Colour Challenge

Welcome & thank you for joining us for this months Kre8tors blog hop, you have possibly just joined me from Melissa who I'm sure has spoilt you with her gorgeous creations..

This month our theme is to use this gorgeous photo and colour combination in anyway we wish! I just want to sit on one of those steps and daydream doesn't it look divine! I love Autumn the trees turning, the chill in the air with cozy evenings with the log burner lit however right now we are currently experiencing amazingly warm days which for England in October is weird, but we're enjoying it knowing that Winter will be here too soon, 

but back to reality and our blog hop! and my card

So I sat making my card for todays hop last night stupid idea as my pictures 

are not great as the lighting was terrible... my card uses a new favourite Stamp set of mine First Frost!

I love an Autumnal birthday card! and I managed to use every colour bar Soft Suede unless I could get away with my gold Metallic pearls for Soft Suede???

My background is embossed with the new Corrugated dynamic embossing folder 

using Grey Granite cardstock

the smaller flowers are stamped in Real Red and Pumpkin Pie ink, my larger flowers are stamped into Pumpkin Pie but I then added Real Red to the centres of the flowers with a Dauber (see pic below) this really adds depth to this already beautiful flower stamp from the First Frost Stamp set.

I will be back this week with more First Frost Ideas and Inspiration

Your next hop is over to Sandra (HERE) who I'm sure has a beautiful 

interpretation of the colour challenge for you

(Full blog hop list at the bottom of this post) 

If you don't already have a demonstrator or are looking for a 

demonstrator I would love to help you, you can shop with me 

now via my online shop HERE

You can have your order shipped to your chosen address either here in the UK, Germany, The Netherlands, France or Austria

Heres what I've used today and all available to order right now:   

click on an image below to go to my online shop

First Frost Clear-Mount Stamp Set (£20.00)	First Frost Clear-Mount Bundle (£45.75)	Sponge Daubers (£4.75)	Corrugated Dynamic Textured Impressions Embossing Folder (£9.25)	Gray Granite Classic Stampin' Pad (£7.00)
Gray Granite A4 Cardstock (£8.00)	Granny Apple Green Stampin' Pad (£7.00)	Real Red Classic Stampin' Pad (£7.00)	Pumpkin Pie Classic Stampin' Pad (£7.00)	Metallic Pearls (£6.50)

Don't forget when you shop online to use my Monthly Hostess code, for a FREE extra goodie from me, this will arrive after your order and come direct from me with a hand made card... 

This month hostess code is B7K6CURJ  (for orders under £150)

Thank you so much for coming by today, til next time happy craftin'

Full blog hop list

Melissa Tennison

Laura Mackie **you are here***

Sandra Roberts

Tracy Marie Lewis

Su Mohr

Ilonka Schneider

Sharon Dalton

Jo Blackman

Sue McDonald

Pia Gerhardt

Jackie Lawless

Linda Handford

Deb Naylor

Rebecca-Jo Unwin

Sandra Mastello

Kathy Maurer

Anastasia Radloff

Jan Musselman

Eva Potts

Alexandra Rauf

Cheryl Hamilton

Tricia Butts

Cheryl Taylor

Becky Browning

Make my Monday–anything but a card

 

Wow its monday and already February, This weeks make my monday Challenge is

 ‘anything but a card’

so i thought i would share with you the Handbag i made for a recent inspiration booth i did at the Peterborough training i attended back in January…

here it is my labour of love…

The bag was made using 2 sheets of a4 cardstock and then 2 strips 8.5”x1” for the handles,

The flowers were made using the new Spiral flower Orginals Bigz die from stampin up, the die costs only £15.95 and you can purchase it now from my online shop today it makes the flowers easy peasy…

using a4 cardstock i managed to get 4 flowers from each sheet … which helped but this little creation used alot of card – but soooo worth it..

Heres a video showing how to make the flowers…

Spiral flower die–Stampin Up

Supplies used –

 

to order anything ive used today click on the image below, which will take you directly to my online shop.. postage only £4.95 via secure UPS delivery – Order £45 worth of Stampin Up Products and choose a Sale-a-Bration product for FREE… to see the Full Sale-a-Bration range click on the brochure on the right hand side of my blog..

Id also like to enter my hand bag into this weeks challenge over at Stampin for the weekend -http://stampinfortheweekend.blogspot.co.uk/ where the challenge is anything but a card

DATE FOR YOUR DIARY: In Love with Stamping – New Spring & Summer Catalogue and Sale-a-Bration Blog hop, hope you can join us on Saturday 8th February  - 10am

Any questions please dont hesitate to get in contact, for a copy of the new sale-a-bration and/  or Spring & Summer Cattie posted to your door please let me know … 01842 828643 or email laura@mycreativeideas.co.uk 

DONT FORGET - to keep upto date with Stampin up offers, promotions, new products  sign up to my newsletter (top right of my blog)

Thank you for coming by today til next time, happy stampin’

Make My Monday–a little bit of Kraft

 

Happy monday crafters, i had a lovely day yesterday with fellow demos at the peterborough training i will share some of the swaps i received later this week with you – but first its back to make my monday for a new challenge and this weeks challenge is..

a little bit of Kraft

Stampin up dont do Kraft cardstock but they do do Baked brown sugar and its yummy just like Kraft.. heres my card..

Ive seen a few people now using the new Stampin up tag punches to make closures to cards so though id give it ago..

the new tag punch is available from 28th january 2014, and is for more than just making tags… if youd like a copy of the new catalogue please get in touch and i will send you one out free of charge…

Supplies used:

to order anything ive used today please click on pics below which will take you directly to my online shop…

   

 

Stamp set – Happy Watercolour, and scallop tag punch available from 28th January 2014  - 9 days away

I hope my card inspires you to join in with the challenge, i cant wait to see what you come up with.. to keep upto date with Stampin up offers, promotions, new products  sign up to my newsletter (top right of my blog)

Til next time, happy craftin’

Laura Mackie