woyww? November 28th 2012

Not a lot on my desk this morning as i had to clear it last night as today my eldest is 6 {! eep!!} so we will have the usual gaggle of family tonight after school so surfaces will be in demand.
But i have been crafting this week on Saturday alone i made 34 cards in an afternoon so my Christmas box is getting nice and full.
 

Until next time

Ttfn

Charlie.xx

Fabric no pin notice board

Good morning; hope you are all well? Today i am sharing with you the last project in my collection for the magazine the no pin notice board that i made.

These boards are very easy to make i have made tons of them now for myself and for friends; this one incidentally i gave to my lovey friend and upline Bekka for her birthday earlier in the year.  You make yourself handy with a staple gun a piece of board some wadding and some gorgeous fabric this one is from the twitterpated collection of fabric then stretch tight as you staple all around the edge. Then i used the gorgeous lucky limeade ruffled ribbon to cross the board to make the places to tuck your mementoes into i also stapled at each cross point because i like the way it looks.  I love making these boards am even thinking of changing my one on my desk again!

If you would like any products used to produce this project then please contact me craftylittlemoo@hotmail.co.uk

Until Next Time

Ttfn

Charlie.x

A Starry Christmas

Good evening; sorry its late it has taken me this long to recover from my eldest daughters birthday party yesterday!

Here is today’s card;

I used the star from the scentsational season stamp set i stamped over a spritzed background in lucky limeade, cherry cobbler and crumb cake ink. Topped of with a sentiment from the teeny tiny wishes set and then mounted on a 3x3inch lucky limeade card blank.

If you would like any products used to produce this project then please contact me craftylittlemoo@hotmail.co.uk

Until Next Time

Ttfn

Charlie.x

Book Christmas Tree

Morning; hope all is well with you.  So the tree from a book is finished!  Now this isn't my idea i have no idea where the original idea came from but i found my inspiration on my friend Emily’s blog.

So this was a copy of Mansfield Park and took me about an hour and a half to fold the 300+ pages whilst chatting to friends at craft group the other night.  I then sponged with different inks and champagne shimmer paint so it has a gorgeous shimmer.  Once happy with the colour i decorated with some linen thread vintage brads and little off cuts of crumb cake seam binding, and early espresso tulle.  The base pot was made using a little pot that had a previously housed the most gorgeous chocolate mouse.

I am now scouring the local charity shops for paperbacks as i want to make more!

 

If you would like any products used to produce this project then please contact me craftylittlemoo@hotmail.co.uk

Until Next Time

Ttfn

Charlie.xx

A tag for your presents

Morning, i don’t know about you but i love to wrap Christmas presents i even wrap family members presents in exchange for pizza ;) i love it that much.  I’m very much a wrap in brown paper then jazz up with pretties it means i always have paper no matter what the occasion.

This tag was made with scraps from the card i posted on Tuesday so these will be going to the same person.  Its a crumb cake label with a scrappy strip of lucky limeade DSP and festival of prints DSP with a gingerbread man on top, then poked a hole and added a loop of bakers twine -  simple.  It only took me a few minutes, used up a few scraps on my desk and will look fab on a parcel especially when the recipient opens the card and sees that they’re matched. I will probably wrap the present with some of the new sweater trim cord before tying the tag on.
If you would like any products used to produce this project then please contact me craftylittlemoo@hotmail.co.uk
Until Next Time
Ttfn
Charlie.x

Merry Bunting

Hello good morning, last night we had a meeting of the Saffron Walden Craft Group, we had ‘such fun!’ it’s great to be able to craft in company – not that i got that much done i was too busy chatting! lol If you are local email me about coming to the next one you’d be more than welcome.

Today’s project is the bunting from my festive makes; made with the perfect pennants die and the scentsational season stamps and matching framelits.

I love bunting, this one is currently hung in my craft space but i do plan {at some point!} to make a Christmas one to finish the set i am thinking how fab it would look over my hall mirror.  Now i did cut all the bits and thought there was something not quite about it so i embossed the green layer with the square lattice folder just that simple step made all the difference.

A quick reminder that there is only 8 days to take advantage of the fantastic joining offers for November so if you have ever thought about it why not contact me now and we can get you started.

If you would like any products used to produce this project then please contact me craftylittlemoo@hotmail.co.uk

Until Next Time

Ttfn

Charlie.x

WOYWW? November 21st 2012

Well hello to all that follow time for a snoop around creative desks

Not much going on yet, the Jane Austen book i am turning into a Christmas tree later today, the scotch tape i plan to use the card board label that's in side as a template to make a pretty tape dispenser ;) other than that some retired papers i used for my daughters party invites.  I shall be baking today though as it is craft group night tonight at mine so i think we need cake lol.

Until next time

Charlie.xx

Gingerbread man tree ornament

Morning, hope you are well? Something a little different today an ornament for your tree;

So i love this cute little guy from the Scentsational Season set; i just had to have him in my decorations so i made this ornament.  I used the simply scored board to make a rosette that i glued between two small circles of card to keep it flat {i weighed it down with the stamp block while it dried} i then used one of the circles from the petit pennants die which i threaded with cherry cobbler seam binding to make a sort of wreath effect, then a small circle of festival of print DSP topped off with the gingerbread man and pearls for buttons.  What’s that you say?  We don’t sell red pearls well no you’re right we don't but if you colour them a couple of times with one of our markers letting them dry completely between layers then mist with hairspray to set the colour and there you are pearls in any colour you fancy! 

If you would like any products used to produce this project then please contact me craftylittlemoo@hotmail.co.uk

Until Next Time

Ttfn

Charlie.xx

Christmas Tree Card

Morning! So following on from yesterdays post here is one of the cards from the set of Christmas projects.

So a 6x6inch z-fold Crumb Cake card base, which i cut a swing panel in the fold with the labels framelit, i then mounted another matching framelit on top and inked all the edges with Crumb Cake ink.  I then cut a larger mount from the labels framelit collection in Lucky Limeade DSP and adhered it behind so that it is sort of a floating layer.  For the main focal image i stamped and cut out the tree from Scentsational Season stamp set in Lucky Limeade i love that there is a matching framelit set makes things so much quicker and that's just what you need for Christmas cards!  I topped the tree with a star and then mounted it on a strip of DSP from Festival of Prints stack on a embossed Whisper White panel. 

If you would like any products used to produce this project then please contact me craftylittlemoo@hotmail.co.uk

Until Next Time

Ttfn

Charlie.x

Christmas Projects

A few weeks ago i was asked to submit some Christmas projects for a paper craft magazine, so of course i said yes! lol and below is what i came up with;

Now i have seen the layout and they only used a couple of the projects which had all been photographed individually but hey I'm guna be in a magazine! plus it gives me more projects to share with you.  So above is a photo of all of the projects together and over the next few days i will give details of each project separately.  The Christmas Tree i made last year and you can find that post HERE
Also i had a little change around of my blog courtesy of shabby blogs, what do you think?

So until next time
Ttfn
Charlie.x

Only 2 weeks left!

Only two weeks left to take advantage of the fantastic joining offer from Stampin’ Up! FREE papers for SIX MONTHS!!!

So not only do you get to pick all the items that YOU want in your starter kit, you still get to chose £130 of product for only £99!! as if that wasn’t already a great deal you then get 6 months of free designer series papers worth £60 on top!!   Add to that the pack of business supplies from Stampin’ Up! worth £45 and your kit is soon worth £235 for only £99!!!

On top of that fab-u-lous! offer if you join my team in November i will also have a gift waiting for you.
I would love for you to join my team so what you waiting for its a fab offer email me NOW to get started

craftylittlemoo@hotmail.co.uk

Until Next Time

Ttfn

Charlie.x

Blue Christmas

Morning all, another quick festive card today.  Like me do you have bits left over from other projects that you feel bad about throwing away??  Well i decided to use some of these bits up to make some Christmas cards.  A few weeks ago i cut a load of trees out of white card but i wanted the negative so i had loads of trees left over and i couldn’t bare to throw them away as it seemed such a waste.

 

So my waste has become a pretty jewelled tree with a teeny baker’s twine bow, mounted on a mat of Island Indigo DSP then a Whisper White mat then a Island Indigo card blank.  I think it looks quite pretty and blue makes a nice change with Christmas cards although mine are usually Crumb Cake with red lol so its nice to do a few different ones!

If you would like any products used to produce this project then please contact me craftylittlemoo@hotmail.co.uk

Until Next Time

Ttfn

Charlie.x

Festive Fridays

Morning all that follow; hope that you are well?

Todays project takes hardly anytime at all, not even 5 minutes perfect for Christmas cards when you need a big batch.

  A quick roll with the Notes Wheel stamp in Crumb Cake then a Tree cut using the Holiday Collection Framelits an Glimmer paper and a quick sentiment from the Sweet Essentials set.  I love this wheel it is great for creating a quick background, any wheel makes the job go quicker and speed is a bonus when it comes to Christmas cards. 

If you would like any products used to produce this project then please contact me craftylittlemoo@hotmail.co.uk

Until Next Time

Ttfn

Charlie.xx

Tinsel Thursday

I know i know i forgot to post on Festive Friday i am sorry so to make up for it here is Tinsel Thursday!  And all next week i shall be posting festive projects to make up for missing Friday :) how does that sound??

So on with today a nice clean and simple card using the Hostess set ‘Happy You’ which is a cute multi occasion set and i shall be using it a lot over the next few weeks as i prepare stock for a spring fair.


I quite simply stamped the image in Soft Suede Ink then coloured it with my Markers, scored a few lines at the bottom with the Simply Scored for interest added a loop of baker’s twine and a bow then matted and layered it onto Old Olive and Cherry Cobbler, then onto a 10x10cm Crumb Cake Base.  There you go quite nice simple Christmas card so easy that i made 3 in  the space of about 20mins.

Don't forget my Fab offer on top of the Stamping Up! Joining Offer of FREE papers for SIX MONTHS!!! 
Until Tomorrow
Ttfn
Charlie.xx

Fancy a New Career?

Are you creative and wanting a job that fits around your lifestyle and family??
Than have you considered Stampin' Up!?

Stampin' Up! sell everything the crafter needs from rubber stamps and papers to fabric ribbons and more
And until the end of this month Stampin' Up! have a fab offer on for new recruits.... 6 months of free scrapbook papers on top of the usual offers {starter kit is still only £99 for £130 worth of products of your choice} now could not be a better time to start as we are soon to go into our busiest time of the year.

As well as the fab offers from Stampin’ Up! The next 2 people to join my team in November will receive a gift from me too.

A demonstrator can sell at parties or classes and all our products are only available through demonstrators

I am a stay at home mum with two girls under 6. I LOVE being a demonstrator, and being able to fit it around the time that I do have free! If I can do it, anyone can! Its fab being paid for my hobby!

Some of the benefits of becoming a demonstrator are

** 20% discount/instant income from sales
** Earn free rubber stamps with the SU incentive scheme
** Earn incentive trips (overseas, all expenses paid! Last ones where Prague and Vienna!)
** Attend training sessions to boost your business skills
** Attend the European convention - 2 days of crafting, business skills, gala award dinner & free stuff!
** A chance to meet some new crafting friends & take time out from your family for fun AND earn money!
** Commit as much or as little time as you want - no pressure - honest!
** Someone close by to help you whenever you need it

You could even just take advantage of the great value of the starter kit no need to ever place an order after that.

If you would like any more information then don’t hesitate to contact me

I look forward to hearing from you soon

Charlie.x

WOYWW November 14th 2012

Morning all that follow, not that messy for me as i had a MAHOOSIVE tidy up Monday that took 3 hours i now have big eBay pile and an overflowing recycling bin, the local pre school also did quite well out of it too!

You can see really well where my desk is placed in this picture as you can see my girls ‘play zone’ with the dolls house right in my view.

Just a quick one from me but i shall be back later with my convention updates plus {sorry Julia shameless plug } a special offer from me for the next 2 people that join my team of Demonstrators in November.

Until then

Ttfn

Charlie.xx

Lean on me….

Hello reader, this stamp set always makes me think of the song. . . lean on me when you’re not strong.  Well unfortunately we had a reason to send a card to a beloved family member who is going through a really tough time health wise just to let her know that we’re there if she needs us anytime.  I liked the little topper i had made so much that i made a few more and that became the last of my convention swaps. 

Sorry about the blurry picture the close up is better.  It is a simple project a midnight muse base with a whisper white layer that i have stamped the little girl image from the Lean on me stamp set {Annual Catalogue} in midnight muse ink on.  I did the shading on the image by using my blender pen to ‘grab’ the ink to drag it out to create the shading.  i then punched the edge with a scallop punch then wrapped and knotted a piece of baker’s twine around it.  I then mounted this topper onto one of the notecards that are in the catalogue but forgot to take a photo before i sent it out! lol

 

If you would like any products used to produce this project then please contact me craftylittlemoo@hotmail.co.uk

Until next time

ttfn

Charlie.xx

Everybunny convention Swaps

Hello Reader; today is the last day of convention and here is the last two Everybunny swaps.


This little guy is also stamped in soft suede and coloured with a blender pen and Watercolour Wonder Crayons. 



I have one more swap from this stamp set;



This pretty girl bunny is also coloured with the Watercolour Wonder Crayons and a blender pen


Here is a close up;







And here are all three of the Everybunny Swaps that i coloured with Watercolour Wonder Crayons;

I have another swap to share with you tomorrow, If you would like any products used to produce this project then please contact me craftylittlemoo@hotmail.co.uk

Until next time
ttfn
Charlie.xx

Festive Friday

Hello Readers, today’s Festive Friday is actually one of my convention swaps which i had planned as a tag for presents.

I love this cute little guy from the Scentsational Season Stamp set {Autumn/Winter Catalogue} i am going to be using it lots this year.  This is a small tag i made for parcels but it is doubling up as a convention swap this week too.  I took a small square base of crumb cake and mounted on it a very vanilla layer which i had stamped the gingerbread man in soft suede on and the sentiment is from the Polar Party stamp set {Annual Catalogue} which i have stamped in cherry cobbler.  And of course because it has an edge i have sponged around with crumb cake ink for a slightly vintage look.

If you would like any products used to produce this project then please contact me craftylittlemoo@hotmail.co.uk

Until next time

ttfn

Charlie.xx

Convention 2012 swaps

Morning reader; i shall be getting ready for day one of the Stampin’ Up! European Convention after travelling to Mainz yesterday.  Today i will be sharing with you another of my swaps again using the lovely bunnies from the Every Egg Wheel stamp they are perfect for quick Easter cards.

After quickly rolling the stamp wheel along the bottom of a very vanilla square in soft suede, i grabbed my blender pen and my Watercolour Wonder Crayons and quickly coloured the image in.  I then mounted it on a Bashful Blue base.  I plan to make many more of these for an Easter craft fair i have in the diary. 
Tonight i will be at the Awards Dinner and after party if you want to join me next year send me an email and i will call you when i get back and we can talk about you joining my team.

If you would like any products used to produce this project then please contact me craftylittlemoo@hotmail.co.uk

Until next time 
ttfn
Charlie.xx

On my way to Mainz…

Hello reader, hope you are well as you read this i shall be on my way to Heathrow for my flight to Frankfurt to join 850+ European Demonstrators at the Stampin’ Up! European Convention in Mainz.  As with all get togethers of Demo’s swaps are on the menu and although i didn't quite make 850 i did make a few and i shall share them with you over the next coming days.


This is a very simple card; a base of crumb cake with a mount of very vanilla that i have stamped the bunny image from the Everybunny stamp set in soft suede ink.  I then used a crumb cake ink pad and blender pen to ‘shade’ the image.  Quick and simple but quite effective i think.
i shall be back tomorrow with another swap for you.

If you would like any products used to produce this project then please contact me craftylittlemoo@hotmail.co.uk

Until next time
ttfn
Charlie.x