Sazzle Craft

Friday, 9 August 2013

Blue Wedding

It's Friday again, which means it's craft day, although mine will be cut short today as I will be travelling to stay at my friends house this afternoon so that we can get an early start for the Great British Craft Festival at Stoneleigh tomorrow.

Is there anyone else going tomorrow? If you are and you see me walking around, please stop me and say hello. It's always nice to meet new crafty friends.

I've got a list as long as my arm of things to get, but also hoping to try and get into one of the make and takes with Hels Sheridan. Wish me luck!!

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We've got a new challenge starting today over at the Fussy and Fancy challenge, where the new theme is BINGO BOARD and hosted by yours truly.

My card was made as a commission for a friend recently who was attending a wedding with this colour scheme. Isn't it a great colour?

We'd love to see you playing along with this challenge and the design team have got some amazing inspiration for you too. Don't forget your bingo dabber and you may get the winning line!

Materials used:

Oddments of card from my stash

Embossing folder - D'vine Swirl

Die - Heart Swirl Branch

Nestability - Lacey Circles

Sentiment - For You

Ribbon, pearls and gems from my stash

I'd like to enter my card into the following challenge:

Papertake Weekly - anything goes

Creative Inspirations - something old (almost everything used)/new (flowers)

Crafty Ribbons - anything goes

Delightful Challenges - make it pop

xx Happy crafting and glittery hugs xx

Thursday, 1 August 2013

Bunnies in the frame

I've been a really bad blogger this month haven't I? It's been a month since my last post - oops!!!!

There's lots going on in my world at the moment, hence not many posts. I know excuses, excuses but I've got a rather large wedding stationery order that I'm in the middle of pulling together and I'm also going to be starting my own workshops too so busy planing for them. How exciting is that?

If you'd like more information about my workshops please pop over to my "workshop" page to find out more.

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This year is flying past isn't it? I can't believe it's the first of August already! That means it's time to launch a new challenge over at the Clarity Stamp Challenge. The theme for this month is:

Animals

With the school holidays in full swing you may be thinking about taking the children on a trip to the zoo, a day out at the beach with the dog or a visit to a butterfly farm.

For this challenge we'd love to see your projects reflecting all of the beautiful Clarity animals. We're also including birds and insects in this challenge so that you have plenty of scope to choose from.

So grab the dog's lead, the horse's harness or the butterfly net and join in the challenge. You could be the winner of the £50 Clarity voucher. Sound tempting?

Here's my card for inspiration, but the design team have plenty more inspiration over on the challenge blog if you fancy a look.

Materials used:

Stamp - remountable bunnies and grass set

coloured with promarkers

Stamp - small tree

Stamp - small birds in flight

Adirondack ink - stonewashed and lettuce

I'd like to enter my card into the following challenges:

Joanna Sheen - boys will be boys
Creative Inspirations - anything goes

A Little Bit Crafty - summer fun
Creatalicious - pets
As You Like It - fancy fold
Southern Girls - animal antics

xx Happy crafting and glittery hugs xx

Monday, 1 July 2013

Shell Frame

Like a true Brit, I'm going to talk weather as it has been great this weekend hasn't it and believe me I have the face to prove it!!! Rudolph has nothing on me!!!

Mark and I went to Silverstone on Saturday for the qualifying rounds of the Grand Prix. The sun was out but it was a little bit windy as well which was not a good mixture when you don't have any sun tan lotion on, is it? Spent a great day there, watched some fab driving, quality time with friends and a chance to beat the traffic on the motorbike too.

Yesterday was spent busy finishing my Clarity samples for the shows next weekend on Create and Craft so make sure you're free or you've set it to record.

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As you all know by now on the first of the month the Clarity Stamp challenge launches it's new challenge and this one ties in very nicely with the great weather we've had. The theme for July's challenge is:

Oh I Do Like to Be Beside The Seaside

So grab your "kiss me quick" hats, slap on some sun tan lotion and come and join in the challenge. You could be the winner of the £50 Clarity voucher. Sound tempting?

Here's my card for inspiration, but the design team have loads more inspiration over on the challenge blog if you fancy a look.

Materials used:

Stamp - single shell

Stamp - shell cluster

Stamp kit - making a point

Coloured with promarkers and flexmarkers

Adirondack inks - stonewashed, cloudy blue

sunshine yellow and sunset orange
Grande nestabilities - creative book pages

Stamp - birds in flight

Stamp - small tree

Stamp - coast

Sentiment - walk along the sea

Versamark

Black detailed embossing powder

I'd like to enter my frame into the following challenges:

Inky Chicks - anything goes
Passion for Promarkers - name that song (oh I do like to be beside the seaside)
Creative Inspirations - anything goes
A Little Bit Crafty - die'ing for it
Creatalicious - all about summer
Crafty Cardmakers - holiday

xx Happy crafting and glittery hugs xx

Friday, 21 June 2013

Happy Fathers Day

I know I'm a bit late posting this but to be perfectly honest I totally forgot to photograph my cards to my Dad and Father-in-law and have had to go back to them and ask if I can take a picture. What a scatter brain eh?

This card was started last year when I attended a workshop hosted by the lovely Maria Simms using Clarity stamps. I thought it was about time I finished it and what better event than Fathers Day!

This card was for my Father-in-law and he loved it although he doesn't like to celebrate Fathers day we still like to give him a card, after all without his help Mark (my other half) wouldn't be here would he!

Materials used:

Stamp - large fobwatch

Stamp - small fobwatch

Adirondack ink - lettuce

Glossy accents

Stamp - letter box kit

Splodge mask - steam clock

Card Candi - Saville Row

I'd like to enter my card into the following challenges:

Joanna Sheen - Fathers day - DAILY TALENT SPOT

Crafting For All Seasons - masculine

Pollycraft - anything goes

Sisterhood of Crafters - masculine

Cards For Men - boys will be boys

Creative Creations - masculine

Lexi's Creations - fathers day

xx Happy crafting and glittery hugs xx

Friday, 14 June 2013

Button Up

It's Friday again so that means I can indulge myself in a bit of crafting as it's my day off, yeah! What do I do first? Do I have a play with my Gelli plate or dig out some of those (dare I say it) uninked stamps? Or do I carry on categorising my stamps? I've bought loads of Really Useful Boxes and they're already half full. It'd be great to be able to see exactly what I've got and maybe find new homes for those stamps that are no longer used and feel a bit unloved!

It's also challenge day over at Fussy and Fancy where the theme of our new challenge is "BUTTON UP". I've had this cupcake material laying about for ages and this challenge lent itself to a huge button being placed on top of the cupcake just like a huge cherry. I think it works quite well!!!!

We'd love to see you playing along with this challenge and the design team have got some great inspiration for you too. Don't forget - button up!!!

Material used:

Papers - First Edition: Spring Feast

Papers - First Edition: Dreamcatcher

Distress ink - shabby shutters

Punch - Martha Stewart: Double Loops

Buttons, lace & card from my stash

I'd like to enter my card into the following challenges:

A Little Bit Crafty - something sweet
In The Pink - flowers
Papercraft Star - photo inspiration
Bearly Mine - anything goes

xx Happy crafting and glittery hugs xx

Saturday, 1 June 2013

Anniversary Rose

Here we are at the beginning of another month and I'm all refreshed after my holiday in Cyprus. It was great to recharge the batteries and enjoy loads of sunshine and spend some quality time with Mark as well. Fingers crossed that the good weather continues so that we can tidy up the garden as it'd got a bit out of shape whilst we've been away.

Whilst out there yesterday we had a couple of visitors, the robin was so tame that you had to be careful when moving about so that you didn't stand on it. The sparrows were tweeting away at us too because they couldn't get to the bird food.

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Anyway back to business and as it's the first of the month we've got another new challenge starting today over at the Clarity Stamp Challenge. Come and join in with us and you could be in with a chance of winning a £50 Clarity voucher just for playing along and doing what you enjoy! You know you want to don't you?

What better inspiration could you get than to sit and watch Barbara Gray on the TV today (Saturday) and tomorrow (Sunday). So tune into Create and Craft on Sky channel 671 between 11.00 and 13.00 today, then 09.00 and 11.00 tomorrow and again between 14.00 and 15.00 for tips, techniques and loads of samples from the design team.

The new challenge, which will run throughout June, is "MR & MRS". As it's wedding season we've dedicated this challenge to all of those happy couples who will be tying the knot. We've also expanded it to include wedding anniversaries too so that, even if you're not attending a wedding this year, you can treat your other half to a special card or maybe even your son/son-in-law or daughter/daughter-in-law.

Here's the card that I've made for the challenge which also fitted with a commission that I received from a work colleague for her parents 40th wedding anniversary, but if you want inspiration overload pop over to the challenge blog and see what the talented design team have created too.