New Beginnings - Claritystamp Challenge - Happy Hogmanay

.May I take this opportunity to wish all my followers and visitors to my blog a very Happy New Year.  May all your wishes and dreams come true for 2014.  I'd also like to thank you for your comments for which I am very grateful and never take them for granted.

It's certainly a time of new Beginings for myself and my husband as we moved house a few weeks ago from Warwickshire to the Somerset/Dorset border.  We still haven't got a place for everything and certainly everything isn't yet in its place!  So far so good though - we're absolutely loving it.

It seems very fitting at this time that the subject for the Claritystamp Challenge is indeed New Beginings.  For my piece of inspiration I decided to make a Happy Hogmanay card. This gave me the perfect excuse to use a lovely piece of tartan ribbon and of course the Clarity Deerscape stamp.  This is my first Design a Team project using the Gelliplate, I loved it and resolve to use it much more during the coming year.  The Meadowdance stamp goes perfectly with the Deer stamp which reminded me of the Hogmanay celebrations.  The sentiment was also stamped onto a Gelli print using the new shapes to use with the Letterbox set.  I chose the diamond shape as it reminded me of Argyle to follow the Scottish theme.  This was all finished off with a brushing of Spiced Marmalade Distress Ink through the dotty wave stencil - of course using one of the Clarity Stencil brushes which I find so useful for many projects.

Claritystamp Challenge - Build a Scene

Wow what amazing entries in the last Challenge.  Well done to the winner and the Top 5 - so difficult to choose with all the talent out there.

This months Challenge is Build a Scene and you will notice fabulous inspiration from the Design Team.

My project needs little explanation other than to say I used Theuva card, Vintage Photo Distress Ink and an abundance of Clarity stamps.

Take the opportunity to sit down and enjoy a bit of "me" time before the xmas madness begins and work on a scene to enter into the Challenge - £50 voucher up for grabs.

Merry Xmas all and thanks for popping in, I appreciate all your lovely comments.

Fussy and Fancy

Morning folks - gorgeous morning who would think it's almost December?

I have a couple of friends (lovely ladies!) on this Design Team albeit on the opposite team.

I follow their projects closely each month and find myself drawn more and more to this Challenge.

I've decided to enter my "Shop Window" for this Challenge which is made using Creative Expressions stamps and embossing powder - some of it glittery!

The flower in the corner was made using the corner stamp which I embossed and cut out and then built up into a flower.  The background I made using ribbon.

I'm very keen on the finish of my projects so therefore have also attached photos of the back of the project and the central bit where I covered the acetate with ribbon.

My e-mail address is: yvonnefroehlich@hotmail.com.

http://fussyandfancychallenge.blogspot.co.uk/2013/11/fussy-and-fancy-design-team-call.html

Claritystamp Challenge 9 - Christmas

Thanks to everyone who entered our Challenge last month for the Winter theme.  So many fabulous entries which makes it extremely difficult to choose a top 5.  Congratulations to the lucky winners, very well deserved.

Not a lot of blogging or crafting for me over the last 2-3 weeks as we moved house last week.  My Craft Room is still in boxes but I was able to make my sample for the Clarity "Winter" Challenge before we moved.

My little bit of inspiration is a card and bauble to send to someone special.  A Xmas card and gift in one.

I so enjoyed making the bauble as it was something a little different for me.  Painted with Grandma's Teacup paint (I love that name) then gold embossing and lots of masking to make the little picture in the O of joy.  For the bauble on the card I drew around the MDF bauble onto blue card and cut it out.

There's such a lot of inspiration on the blog this month and I hope you have time to enter for the chance to win the Claritystamp Voucher of £50.

I'm off to the NEC next week to catch up with lots of Crafty friends and the Clarity Team.

Panpastel Challenge - Falling leaves

This is my entry for the Panpastel Falling Leaves Challenge

Firstly I cut out the leaves which I'd stamped onto Tim Holtz paper.  I then coloured, blended and scrunched the leaves to make them look more lifelike.  I then attached them to a card ring which I'd cut out from a cardboard box.

I overlapped the leaves to give a more natural feel.  I added cord for hanging, fir cones and a decorative bow.

http://panpasteluk.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/wk-41-pan-pastel-uk-challenge-falling.html

Art Journalling for dummies!

Morning all.

At the moment we're going through the moving house process, with all the stresses that go with it!

I'm telling you this as part of the stress includes not sleeping.

During my last sleepless night I decided to use the time to play in my Art Journal (before all my crafting stash gets packed away),

I'd seen a page done by the talented Wendy Vecchi which I used for my inspiration.  I believe that in Art Journalling you just "go with the flow" which doesn't come easy to me but I shall continue to give it a go.  Hopefully once we are settled in our new home I can become more relaxed and free flowing!

Anyway enough of my sleepless nigh ramblings below is my page.

Panpastel Challenge

I am really delighted to have been chosen as one of the Top 3 entrants in the Panpastel Challenge.

The names now go into a hat and there is a chance to get chosen as Guest Designer - how amazing would that be!

My entry is below (I'm now off to order my metallic Pastels as a prize to myself).

Thank you so much Premium Craft Brands you have made my day xxx