By the light of the silvery moon.....

It's the Lat Wednesday of month, do you know what that means? ......

It means my friend Dawn Watson is coming to the shop to run the workshop today.

It's always nice to have a new face with different ideas to your own. To talk about a variety of products, 

And to share ideas and inspiration. 

So my card today, is quite a simplistic card using Dawns original idea. 

 

For today's card, I used Sue Wilsons sun ray die but instead of cutting the card, I used my tan mat and embossed the image into the silver card. I cut out a piece of silver glitter card to make the moon (as it is on my card) larger. Matt & layered on to black card, then embossed a further piece of silver card with the snowflake folder again from creative expressions. Layered this onto black card, then finally white.

  

I used my Santa and reindeer die and fir trees from 2015 festive range of dies, and cut these in black card and trimmed the trees to perfectly on the card. 

Quick, easy simple card but very effective and great for Christmas cards when you need to make bulk packs. I'm 

Christmas cottage scenes.....

Yippee, I'm back to work....much easier than being at home. 

So this is the card I wanted to make on Saturday, using the Sue Wilson Christmas Cottage scenes and snow globe. Though you can get 3 further designs to work with the snow globe, I wanted to show you can use absolutely anything else. (obviously if it fits) 

 

To start with, I've taken a large scalloped circle card, and used smudged charcoal colour cloud on the edges, I've used the double pierced circles to cut out gold layer, and the the next white layer which I've embossed with the Sue Wilsons 8x8 falling snow embossing folder. 

I've taken 2 pieces of white card, again 1 embossed with the falling snow and left the other plain. 

I've used the graphite gilding polish, and covered the back of the embossed card, to show the falling snow (this is what my 9yr old created at one of the shows) and coloured a section of the plain white card with the same polish.

   

I really like this effect, and works really well for a snowy background. 

I used my flat graphite piece to cut the 2 cottage scenes, at this point I just layered them without glue etc, so I could determine which part I was going to use. 

Used the top circle part of the snow globe to cut out my layers, and then glued into place on my card. 

 

I've used the holly branch from the 2016 festive range of Sue Wilson, but it only comes as a single so to cut both sides I laid a piece of card on the die with the gold facing up, and 2nd piece with the gold facing down (bit like a sandwich) the die cut the 2 pieces easily, but do be careful as different card has different thickness. 

Layered them at the top with my snowy ribbon and added gems, I did try liquid peals but found they just sank into each other on parts where I wanted 2-3 berries 😕

Here are a couple more samples of cards I made using the Christmas country cottage scene dies....

  

 

A Day off in the world of a crafter....

Happy Sunday to you all, 

Now what would your day off consist of? 

Sleep in? Breakfast in bed? Lounging in pjs......

Well mine starts at around 8am, we get up and deal with the 6 dogs we have at home at the moment....

Yes we mad 🤔

We (the family that is) are busy renovating my father in laws small holding, 18mnths on we're finding spaces we didn't know we had 😮

So just thought to give you a peak into my day off.....

Yippee, we've found a green house, needs lots of new glass pieces, and new doors and lots and of work to be done.....

     

Helping with our clearance is our wonderful fire, we must lite a fire nearly every day.......

  

And this is just 4 of my daughters 6 rabbits, we have 4 nanny goats and a stinky billy goat too....chickens and Bobby the pony, not forgetting Candy the jack Russell who takes guard of the goats... 

We've been busy today, as we found some new hutches for the rabbits, so been digging them out, cutting the legs off to make sure they fit in the large run, then on with giving them a good clean up before putting the rabbits into their new homes.....hope they appreciate the hard work we all put in on our day off....now it's time for tea and bed 😴 to do it all again tomorrow. Roll on going back to work.