A Birthday Gift……..

Good Morning Dear Reader; hope that this finds you well? Today i am having my chimney swept so that we are ready for when the now inevitable awful winter weather arrives.  We are very lucky that Mr.C has access to a large pile of season free wood each year so we can cut our fuel bills by using our fire.  Plus who doesn’t love a roaring fire crackling merrily away in the grate?

Today i am going to share with you the packaging that i made for a friend’s birthday present;

I really love the sand-able Co’ Ordinations range of cardstock that we stock and even more so now that it is available in ALL our colours! On this project i have used a band of Pistachio Pudding Co’ Ordinations  cardstock which i lightly sanded on the edges and topped with a crumpled band of Baked brown sugar DSP from the amazing value in colour paper stack; you get 40 sheets for £19.50 that is 4 sheets of doubled sided DSP in 5 colours! Brilliant value!

I sponged and popped a folded doily under the band and then topped it off with a flower in Crisp Cantaloupe Co’ Ord’s which i punched with the Blossom punch sanded quickly and topped off with a vintage button and a pearl. A quick project that really takes a gift from lovely to special.

You can see a sneak peak of the gift through the clear box that i wrapped it in i will share that with you in a later post.

If you would like to make any of these projects then head over to my shop where you can purchase everything that you need.

Until Next time

Ttfn

Charlie. xx

Sunday Scrapbooking.. Hello There

Good Morning Dear Reader; how are you today? Its very wet and gloomy today and our front path has flooded so i hope the rain stops soon or i shall be swimming to the car when i go out later today ;)

Today i have some layouts to share with you using the gorgeous Soho Subway papers from the Main Catalogue; I think these are my current favourite papers i love that you can use them for so many occasions and they are perfect for masculine themes as well as more feminine ones.

This page was made by using 3inch squares of the different DSP’s and then laying them out tile style with white mounts for the photos.  You can see that i have also used a piece of Co ’ordinations cardstock which i embossed and then sanded to show the white core.  On the pink floral tile i searched the remaining DSP for the pattern repeat so that i could line it up with the mixed bunch punch and then popped the punched section exactly above the original to give a simple but effective embellishment.

Must dash now as i am out this afternoon with some fellow demonstrators crafting this gloomy afternoon away; which is for me one of the best parts of being a demo is the network of fellow paper enthusiasts that i now know and count among my very dear friends.

Until next time

Ttfn

Charlie. xx

Its Party Time. . . .

Hello Dear Reader; i hope that you are well?  Its a bit gloomy today so any excuse for a Pj’s and craft day in our house!  Yesterday i attended the lovely Cambridge Crop in Abingdon; i love this group of ladies all so welcoming and its a very relaxed friendly group, if you are in the area why not come join us?  I managed to get a few ‘grungy but pretty’ layouts done which i will share with you soon.  Today i am going to share with you the table decorations i made for little H’s birthday party last month; it was a family party and had no major theme so i just picked a happy colour scheme and went with it we had paper chains and flags and even the balloons matched!

These are rosettes made on the simply scored score board in Dsp and then popped on a kebab skewer i made them in various sizes and then poked them in to a jam jar filled with gravel {from the garden ;) }  the little bit of glitz cam from butterflies punched in glimmer paper, i love this paper i can  glitter without the mess as it doesn’t shed everywhere.

These Decorations have now another life which i will share with you in my next post.

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

Until Next Time

Ttfn

Charlie .x .

Lion gift box

Morning Dear Reader; hope that you are well and that it is also sunny where you are? Today i have a project to share with you that would be perfect for holding a small gift for a little one.  It is inspired by a picture i saw on pinterest but i can’t find it now because sensibly i didn’t pin it! so if it is your creation then please let me know so that i can credit you.

This cute chap is made using the floral frames framelit dies and the feet are made using the ovals framelits and the rest of him is made using a variety of circle punches.  The box behind his head was made on my score board and he also has a lion bottom for his back which is my girls favourite bit!  He takes a while to make aprox half an hour once you have everything punched and cut but the inking is very therapeutic so very enjoyable.

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

Don’t forget that the retirement list is out and if there is anything you NEED on it then you need to get in quick with your orders as things are selling out already!!

Until Next Time

Ttfn

Charlie.x

Up and Away….

Hello dear reader; hope you are well?  I have spent the day shopping with Mr.C as he has had the day off today, i am all shopped out now and having a well earned rest. 

Todays project uses the Up Up and Away stamp set; i love this set its such a ‘happy’ set; i still get excited seeing a hot air balloon in the sky you never expect them do you so its always a nice surprise.

I have used the 2011-2013 In Colours here I’m really going to miss them when they retire at the end of the year, they’re such fresh spring-like colours.  The background was embossed with the polka dot folder and the clouds where made using the cupcake punch finished off with a bit of bakers twine. 

I shall be playing with lots of lovely new stamps this weekend and i have more due Monday – Shh! don’t tell Mr.C!  I hope you have a great weekend and I'll be back on Monday.

**Remember between January 22nd and March 22nd 2013 Stampin’ Up! are giving away FREE products for all orders over £45!!  Call me now to place your order!!**

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

Punch Soup becomes a pretty card.

Morning again, Hopefully it wont rain today i am sure that as soon as we was told of the hosepipe ban that is all that it has done!  I don’t mind the rain because i know that we need it but the wind, now that i could do without!

So.. yesterday i told you about my punch soup, well here i will show you one of the ways that i use them.  A couple of weeks ago i went along to a training day in Peterborough hosted by Monica and Bekka and of course any get together means swaps! but Monica set a theme that seemed tricky to begin with.  The theme was ‘yellow’ now i don’t know about you but i rarely use yellow so i really really struggled with what to do for them.  So after trying so many different idea that i was not entirely happy with an idea struck me. 

So here is my swap using my ‘punch soup’

I stamped the blossom stamp from the Easter Blossoms set {Spring Mini} in Soft Suede then i set to shaping the little flowers. i started doing this on the palm of my hand but it soon started to hurt so after trying different ideas i fell on the idea of using a clean cosmetic sponge.

  I shaped them using a new tool that is coming in the New Summer Mini Catty which is due out on May 1st 2012!

I used the Simply Scored Stylus head to shape the flowers just by rubbing the middle of the flower this causes the petals to raise up and form this blossom shape.

As you can see i used all types of paper and card stock i quite like how all the different types sit well together. I picked them mostly randomly making sure that i had at least 3 yellow flowers on each one.

Finished off with a stamped greeting from the same set in a scallop oval made using the punches with a little flower with a pearl in the centre.

To make things easier once i had shaped the flowers i sorted them into colours and found that the best place to store them was an ice cube tray.

I store all of this in an empty Xerox box lid, as you can see this houses my punched bits any bits and pieces that i have stamped and have not made it to a project yet and spares from other projects.
I made 56 of these card fronts and what i had left over from the training day i mounted onto cards to keep for next Easter so i am ahead already lol :)
{Products used all SU: Whisper White Card Stock; Easter Blossoms Stamp set; Itty Bitty Shapes Punches –set of three-; Scallop Oval Punch; Large Oval Punch; scraps of card stock and designer papers}

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

Hello! I am Alive!

Hello i am alive, i am very sorry for the delay in my blogging, almost a month now unfortunately life got in the way.  The Camp household has been very poorly firstly it was me who was ill with tonsil-blooming-itis for the 1000th time!  Then it was the turn of the tinies, firstly little baby H has had horrible teething problems and then infection after infection and has lost lots of weight poor little thing, she still has an awful cough now.  And then M has got this awful cough too i have been assured by the doctors that there is tons going around and so it seems every little one has some sort of bug at the moment! O well that is the end of my griping, on to the good stuff.

So in early November i had a workshop at home with some of my ‘mummy’ friends to show them just what it was all this Stampin’ Up! malarkey is all about! lol  Now they’re not crafters {although i think i have one converted!} so i had to think of simple projects that still had the wow! factor here is what i came up with;

{photos clockwise from top; project packs all ready, our three projects, perfect plum bauble card, Tree Trimmings mini card, Robin Bookmark, the table all set up with thank you gifts}

We had lots of fun and everyone was really impressed with the results that they achieved with the simplest of steps to get there.

If you fancy having a workshop for you and your friends then just contact me.

craftylittlemoo@hotmail.co.uk

Until Next Time

Ttfn

Charlie.x

O Christmas Tree…..

Morning, Hope you are well?

Just a quick post to show you a little project i came up with few weeks ago.  This cute little tree uses a polystyrene blank some pins and not much in the way of effort.

It was a fun hour spent before the school run last week (we get up very early in this house)

and i recycled a tub that Stampin’ Up! button come in so this project helped my cut down on my waste – sort of!

 

What do you think??

I maybe Offering this project in an upcoming class if there is enough interest.

Until Next time

Ttfn

Charlie.xx