A Snowy Recipe

Good morning friends,



Welcome to another Sunday morning, and new challenge time at The Crafty Pad. Tina is this week's hostess, and her challenge for the Team A girls and you this week is A Recipe - 3 Snowflakes, 2 Ribbons and 1 Sentiment.

The wonderful team at Robyn's Fetish are our sponsors this week, and they're offering this week's lucky winner 5 Digis of your choice! They've also been kind enough to provide the DT with images to showcase.





And here is my project this week:

My tag recipe is as follows:

• Base Card - made from Centura Pearl in Kingfisher (which came in a Brights pack from Crafter's Companion, which they don't appear to have on their website at the moment). I embossed this using the largest tag shape on my Ultimate Pro Embossing Board Springtime Sweets and Cupcake Treats and I then very carefully cut out round the scalloped edge.
• Image - this lovely snowlady is called gorgeous  Bella Da Snowlady by Robyn's Fetish... how cute and cool is she? I have brought her to life using my Spectrum Noir Pens in the following colours:
• Hearts - CR11
• Nose - OR1
• Coat - BT1, BT2, BT4, BT5
• Scarf & Hat - BT1, BT2, BT5, BT6
• Shading of Snow - IG1, IG2
• Outline - IG1
• Sentiment - by Debbie at (Crafty Pad Designs) and is one from a set of 11 Christmas Sentiment Tickets. There are various sentiments in this collection to suit most occasions. I took the sentiment into my word processing package and changed the colour to an aqua shade, to match with my tag and colouring. As you may have seen in my post of last week, Debbie has taken the difficult decision to close her store in the new year, and currently everything is on sale at 25% off until 6th January 2013 ... so go and grab yourself a bargain or two!
• Snowflakes - punched in two different sizes from Centura Pearl card  in Snow White
• Ribbons - from my stash and threaded through a hole in the top of my tag which I made using my smaller snowflake punch. The Sparkly Merry Christmas ribbon is truly scrumptious and is gold flecked as well as having this lovely sentiment printed through it ... I'm sorry that my photo doesn't really do it justice!

In the meantime, do hop over to The Crafty Pad and see the gorgeous creations by the rest of Team A. Then come back and show us your creations using our Recipe! You've got until 8pm (GMT) on Saturday 15th December 2012 to link your cards up.

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

• Red and Blue at Winter Wonderland
• #166 Technique Challenge - Embossing at Just Us Girls
• Challenge #34 - Label/Tag Big or Small at Crafty Ribbons 
• Challenge #11 - Tags at The Crafter's Cafe Challenge

Have a good weekend!

Hugs, Helen x

NB: Links to product and store removed in February 2018 as it was brought to my attention that the store has closed and domain name now suggests inappropriate content .... 

Me and My Snowman

Hello friends and welcome to Monday! It's new challenge time over at Incy Wincy Designs and this week's challenge is Hip to be Square! Perfect ... lots of my cards are square!!!!!!!!!

Our lovely sponsor this week is Gerda from The Stamp Fairy who has not only provided some gorgeous images for the DT girls to work with this week, but is also offering this week's lucky winner a $10 Gift Certificate to her store! Now that's a great prize!

As soon as I saw the images Gerda had offered the DT, I knew I wanted to use this cute one ... and here is the card I've made for your inspiration this week (several squares!):
 

My card recipe is as follows:

• Base Card - made from Centura Pearl in Snow White, cut, scored and folded to make a 15cm square card
• Design Papers - a new release in the Create with TLC Winter Club called December Snows Paper 6. I just love the colours of them ... thanks for a lovely goodie Paulette!
• Image - this gorgeous couple are called Mimi Winter 4 and I have brought the pair to life using my Spectrum Noir Pens
• Snowflakes - punched in 2 different sizes from Centura Pearl card in Snow White
• Ribbon - is 3mm Galena Opal wired ribbon from my stash, and was part of a Fantastic Ribbons blog candy I won last autumn from the lovely Annette

Do check out the Incy Wincy Designs blog and see how it's Hip to be Square! The DT has been joined this week by the November Guest Designer Paula, AND Annette and Gerda from The Stamp Fairy DT have joined us as well to give you even more inspiration!!!! Do come back and show us your projects - you've got until Sunday 25th November 2012 to link your creations up.

I would like to enter this card into the following challenge:

• Cold & Frosty at Joanna Sheen

 Have a great week.

Hugs,
Helen x

"Let It Snow" .....

Hi,

Given the temperatures we've got in the south of the UK at the moment, snow is definitely wishful thinking! But maybe my latest project will help you cool down a little. :o)  I've made this gorgeous little Gift Tag for the present I'm buying for my office "Secret Santa" lucky dip.

My base card is from Kraft card, which was actually a pre-made card blank purchased from Hobbycraft. I chose the tag shape on the Teddy Surprise and Butterflies Embossing Board together with my Ultimate Pro (both from Crafter's Companion) and embossed the largest size and it's border onto my Kraft card. I then embossed the border size onto my Mat and Layer card. For this I used a sheet of Centura Pearl 300gsm card in the shade Christmas Red. This came from the Christmas pack which is available from Crafter's Companion. I just love the pearly sheen on this card, so I decided not to use any extra backing papers.

This lovely snowman is a Digi Stamp which was one of the goodies in Paulette's Create with TLC December Club . Unfortunately this offer has now finished, but I can thoroughly recommend following Paulette's blog and signing up for this club next autumn. I used my Spectrum Noir Pens (from Crafter's Companion) in the following colours to bring my snowman to life:

Hat - 96,91,48

Nose - 24

Scarf - 14,11

Jacket - 48,43

Star - 34

Outline - CG1

I then cut carefully around my image and mounted it onto the red card using sticky pads. My TOP TIP here is to cut in an anti-clockwise direction if you're right handed (clockwise for left handers) and then you can always see the border/line you're cutting out. This will minimise the risk of cutting the wrong part of your image!

My sentiment is another digi-goodie from the Create with TLC December Club which I sized to go with my tag and the ribbon is beautiful double satin called Holiday Green - this came from Fantastic Ribbons and was part of Annette's Birthday Blog Candy which I won last month. Thanks Annette! :o) I mounted the sentiment onto the ribbon so it will swing and then used the bow maker part of my Ultimate Pro to make the gorgeous little bow, which I then fixed to the ribbon above the sentiment. I completed my project by tying a further length of the ribbon through a hole which I had punched in the top of the gift tag.

I would like to enter this project into the following challenges:

• Challenge #84 "Let It Snow" at Craft Your Passion Challenges
• Challenge #60 - Tags at Top Tip Tuesday
• "When is a card not a card. When it's a ..." Gift Tag at Papertake Weekly Challenge
• Challenge #120 Tic Tac Toe (Bingo) at Incy Wincy Designs I've got a diagonal of Red, Any Christmas Sentiment and Ribbons
• Monthly Challenge of Holiday/Winter Projects at The Stamping Boutique Challenge Blog
• Challenge #83 Colour Combo of Red and Green at Digi Doodle Shop Challenges
• Challenge 18 "Let It Snow Let It Snow Let It Snow" at Crafter's Companion Monthly Challenge
• Challenge 148 Festive Cheer - Traditional Colours (Red & Green) at The Crafty Pad

I hope you like my project.
Hugs,
Helen