Calendar Challenge starts today

Hi folks, Just a quick heads up:0) The Craft Barn Calendar Challenge starts today pop over and check out all the details HERE

Have a lovely day!! Gay x

Vellum!!!!

 Welcome crafty friends, I hope you're having a lovely weekend, the weatherman says it's all set fair for today at least:0)

This week over at the Craft Barn we have been using vellum, lovely stuff!! here is my effort. The Design Team have had fun this week and made some lovely samples for us all to ooh and ahh over :0)

 I made some candle votives, a sheet of vellum embossed and trimmed to size wrapped around my spritzer bottle, a glue dot and a battery candle :0)

And a card, flowers of vellum cicles and a Tim Holtz die for the stalk.

Thanks for your visit, see you soon, Gay x

For the votives I used

White Vellum

Dreamweaver stencil, Damask

Brilliance inks in Cosmic Copper and Moonlight White

Spellbinders dies, Ironwork motifs

Tim Holtz Stamps French Marketplace

Quickie Glue Pen 

And for my card I used

White vellum

Quickie Glue Pen 

Spellbinders Morocan Motifs and Nestabilities, Classic Circles Small.

Tim Holtz, Elegant flourishes

Sentiment by Crafty Secrets, Sweet Kids

Our Special offer this week. 

As you saw yesterday, Isa'sArt is using the metal tools on her vellum 

(Pergamano style), so we are offering 10% off a couple of tool kits so you can have a go at this technique.

Use the code VELLUM10 at checkout

LIM and a Twinchie too!

Good evening one and all, I have made a Twinchie and turned it into a card for LIM 86 a recipe this week to make a card choosing 3 from all the previous challenges:0)
My Twinchie, for the Show us your Twinchies Challenge, note the capital (T) letter please:0)

 And my card is

short and sweet today.
I chose to use weeks:

10. Sentiment only

5.   Pastel colours

12. Off centre

72. Something shiny

24. Circles

82. 3,2,1 =3 circles, 2 layers, 1 sentiment.

That makes 6 weeks inspiration LOL!! Thank you for visiting, see you soon, Gay x

Get your calendars out!!!

Tee hee, I let the cat out of the bag early yesterday, oops. Here is the post you should have seen this morning and not yesterday morning :{

  

 Anyway on to the brilliant news :0) YAY more Calendars at the Craft Barn, the challenge is back and it would be great if you could join in this year

All the details are on the blog and click HERE to wing your way over, see you soon, Gay x