NEC Inspiration

Hi my daughter and I went to the NEC at the weekend to the Christmas Hobby craft show and picked up some inspiration for decorating some MDF pieces we had just bought (Thank you Lyndsay Mason). Rather than buy lots of new things (as we had already spent our budget) we decided to try and create the same affect with paints, powders, glue, die cuts and embossed paper we already had.

This started off as just a plain MDF pencil pot holder and with a bit of time and plenty of black paint and sparkle I ended up with this fancy pot which is just right for the Craft Room 3D Challenge this week and is now sitting proudly on my desk at work.

And heres Amy's Christmas tree that she did along with me getting  differnet affect just with different colours.

Vintage Christmas

At the Craft Room the challenge is Vintage Christmas - So heres my first Christmas tag of the year, hopefully it wont be the only one I do.

The background was a variety of acrylic paints applied with a spritz of water and a dry baby wipe. The Snowflake is stamped in Nougat (Paperartsy Fresco Paint)with the bells and words stamped in Pine Needles DI and are from the PaperArtsy Hotpicks collection. The tag is finished with some rafia and a silver snowflake. Happy Crafting one and all.

Weather Forecast

Hi I haven't blogged or crafted really for quite a while but I am trying to get back into the groove of crafting again now that both my wonderful children are at university. I am starting to get use to the house being quite and there just being the two of us again (along with the dogs and work of course).

So for my first challenge for a while I had a look round all my favorite challenge sites and found a Weather Forecast challenge on the fashionable Stamping challenge site that I thought I would have a go at.

 The weather here has been unseasonably warm but the leaves are still falling and I am sure the rain is just around the corner.
The background is created from PaperArtsy Fresco paints - Nougat, Ice blue and Beach Hut. The background stamps are in walnut stain DI and are from Inkadinkado. The Umbrella man is of course from Tim Holtz and stamped in Black soot and heat embossed, and the words also from Tim are in Peacock feathers.

Bye for now and hope to post again very soon.