Here we go with our new challenge, YAY!!

It's the Craft Barn Calendar Challenge! {click on the link to take you to the Challenge, it's all up on the blog, Yippee!!!)

Welcome here,  from me to you! I hope you're going to play along with us? Hopefully at the end of 12 weeks we will have a great calendar to show for all our hard work,There are prizes to be won and at the end the overall winner will get £30 to spend at the Craft Barn. All the details are on the Blog!

I'm going to make 2 calendars, one will be portrait and the other landscape. This the portrait version it's simply stamped, I used Paper Artsy stamps and Kaleidacolor ink pad.

 This is the January page of my landscape version, again Paper Artsy stamps this time I also used the Paper Artsy Fresco Chalk paints. I paper pieced the little birds at the bottom of the stamped image because I wanted them to stand out against the grass, I know it's January but I'm willing Spring to get here quickly LOL

There are some very inventive calendars starting on the blog, worth a peek, I think:0)

Edited;

Hi there folks, it's a challenging day here for your ol' mustavcoffee, I scheduled this post 'cos I'm still sort of trying to get back up to opererating mode physically and blow me down our computer has died again, we have either a real deadly virus on the boot up disk or we have massive hard drive failure. Oh dear:{ I'm on my son' s laptop and it's a bit challenging!!! BUT Thank you all for your comments and if you are going to join us I'm so pleased, it's going to be fun. I'm going to check back as often as I can and I'll do my best to visit you later, TTFN Gay x

 I used, first page
Paper Artsy Hot Picks 1005EZ and Kaleidacolor Creole Spice.

Second page,
Paper Artsy Minis SM26 stamp
Fresco paints, Guacamole and Haystack.I also used the Metallic paint (but it only shows behind the calendar)
All supplies in these projects came from The Craft Barn

Hi Folks, Just a line to say I'll be around but a bit sketchily, had some scheduled surgery and been told not to lift anything and just bumble around for the next few weeks. So I'll see you from time to time but don't want to sit at the computer for hours on end:0) Thanks to you all for my lovely comments, CU soon Gay x

Oh Thanks so much for all your lovely get well wishes, I really am fine but it will take a couple of weeks to get back into the swing of things. Can't visit you all, sorry! So a big THANKS  hugs Gay x

Metallic, nice!!!

Hi folks,  bit wet here today perfect for crafting, mojo's still off and not sure about these latest offerings but I just plod on:0) Here we have the Less is More week 31 offering! As a member of the Craft Barn DT I won't be in the running for the prize but I didn't want to miss one of my favourite challenges

METALLIC

We'd like to see CLEAN & SIMPLE cards with something that has a METALLIC finish to it... ink, embossing, card, charms, actual metal... come on people let's get creative!
 

I've used my new die from Memory box, I love it:0) Behind the card you can put a battery candle it looks lovely at night! I cut the die from copper mirri card then cut it out again from the card base and with fine acetate from a small bag mounted it into the die cut shape. Glued it with Art Glitter dries clear,  peel offs to finish, job done!

 

 This card is using the cut out design from the previous card and some star brads. Again I like it at night when the light behind makes the stars twinkle, LOL
 I hope you like and if you don't already know all about the challenge at LIM pop over and have a look there is some brilliant inspiration and a lot of lovely people there:0)

 

Andy Skinner week!

Hi Crafty friends, hope you are having a great day today!
Over at the Craft Barn it's Andy Skinner week and I made a couple of cards

Both use Andy's stamp set Winters Tale and I also used Andy's alcohol ink technique on the first, there are many more examples of his great stamps on the Craft Barn Blog.

Here I've stamped onto a chipboard tag and used some Fresco paints, nice surface for stamping!
All week there have been some brilliant samples on the Craft Barn Blog, if you have a minute you might like to check it out:0)
There is free p&p on the Craft Barn website this weekend

This weekend we are offering free postage on all UK orders from 6pm today (Friday) to 8am on Monday.

For our EU customers it's free P&P if you spend over £20 and for the rest of the world it's free P&P if you spend over £30.

AND
We have a brilliant new Calendar challenge!! Check it out, I think it's going to be loads of fun. Just click on the photo in my side bar and you will get all the deets.
I hope you get to enjoy this fab weather today and long may it last :0)

I used Winters tale and the Gothic set by Andy Skinner
Chipboard tag, Woodware
Fresco Paints by Paper Artsy
All the stamps, inks, paints and chipboard that I used are available at the Craft Barn Website