Craft Barn DT project - Handmade flowers

Hi everyone! It's all about handmade flowers on the Craft Barn Blog today and Dawn has done a lovely step by step on how she makes her beautiful blooms which can be downloaded from the Craft Barn website as a pdf if you'd like to make them. My DT friends have also made their own gorgeous versions of handmade flowers so there's plenty of inspiration.

I made a poinsettia flower as part of my shadow box frame using Sizzix Alterations Tattered leaves die which I've seen around on the internet beautifully done using fabric to make it. My flower is made from cream card and spritzed with distress ink and mica powder mixtures. The materials list and how I made it details are all on the Craft Barn blog. Have a lovely Friday.

COCC Perfect Distress, Simon Says Stamp and Show 'Your favourite TH stamp'

Hi everyone and hope your weekend was good. Scraping in at the last minute on Linda's Compendium of Curiosities challenge which I haven't managed to do for the last couple of weeks and I've missed it :), hopefully I can catch up with the challenges I haven't done at the end. This time the technique is on page 38 of TH's Compendium of Curiosities and it's 'Perfect Distress' which is a gorgeous one and all the details are on lovely Linda's blog. I'm also entering the Simon Says Stamp and Show challenge of 'Show your favourite Tim Holtz stamp' and at the moment it's this snowflake set.  I've made some more Christmas tags for my presents and added some embellishments I made from friendly plastic, ribbons and beads. Night night from me :)

Still on Christmas

Hi everyone, hope you’re having a good week so far and keeping warm. A card today for the ABC Christmas Challenge with a theme of Angels this time. I didn’t manage to use many of my sweet Christmas Tilda’s before Christmas so it’s been nice to get some of them stamped and as I’m determined to have plenty of cards ready for next Christmas I’m going to be entering all the Christmas challenges I can :D. As all Tilda’s are angels I’ve chosen the lovely Tilda with Christmas Tree and water coloured her with distress inks and matted the image on some pretty Magnolia Mistletoe paper. I’ve used the nestability frame for the first time that I got at Christmas and I’ve sponged the embossed parts with walnut stain distress ink. The background is kraft card that I’ve faux stitched to look like quilting and inside the diamonds on the reverse side I did a bit of sculpting with a ball tool. Lots of stickles has been added to the image and liquid pearls in gold on the background and on the Christmas tree. TFL.