L is for Last Minute!

Good morning lovely friends,

Phew what a scorcher we have had here for the last few days - hope you have all managed to keep your cool! (-:

I want to apologise to you all for not getting round your lovely blogs recently.  Life has been really busy this month.  My youngest has come home from Uni and I had obviously forgotten how much work boys are!  

Plus, we have a big fundraising 'Open Village' event for our church every two years and it takes up an enormous amount of time.  It was last weekend.  The weather was a massive bonus and we had a fabulous time but I am still trying to recover - I look like a very hot and tired tomato! 

We have a new challenge today at ABC Christmas Challenge and it is 

Anything beginning with L

(Anything Christmas that is)!

What a fab challenge, there are so many fun Christmas things begin with L
Lantern, Lamp, Lights, Laughter, Logs, Lapland, Ladies dancing, Lords a leaping, Love, Late night shopping, Leftovers - go for it peeps! I bet you can come up with some really clever Christmas L's! 

Our sponsor this time is wonderful

Krista Heij Barber

and the lucky winner will be able to choose three images from Krista's lovely etsy store

www.drawnwithcharacter.etsy.com

I have tried something a little different for this card.

I decided that in my Christmas world L was for Last Minute! 

I thought this elegant gent looked like he was in a rush so I created a distress Ink background, stamped him onto it and added some snow...

Simples eh! errrrr not!

I might run a competition for you all to guess how many times the background got crumpled up in the corner!

I got there in the end...and let's hope this lovely gent gets to his Christmas Party too!

Ingredients
Tim Holtz Stampers Anonymous Deco Christmas Stamp Set
Stazon Ink Pad in Black
Make it Colour Blending Card by Elaine Hughes (Marker Geek)
Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pads
Ranger Cut 'n' Dry Foam Pad
Frantage Chunky White Embossing Enamel
Black Card Stock
Collall All Purpose Glue

Inks Used

Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pads in

Seedless Preserves

Festive Berries

Spiced Marmalade

Fossilised Amber

Thank you for visiting...

Happy Crafting...

and remember to pop straight to ABC Christmas Challenge to look at the lovely DT Creations there and join in the fun!

from Sue...xxx

Please leave me a comment if you pop by, I am always very happy to see them and do enjoy reading them all. 

a change is a good as a rest...

Good morning everyone.

We have a new challenge starting to day at

Creative Inspirations

and it is

Nature

So - we would like to see your gorgeous creations featuring anything to do with nature - whatever inspires you, flowers, foliage, wildlife or colour scheme.

The prize this time for the lucky winner is from

Petal Lu

and it is a 30% discount in her gorgeous on line store.

Last week I visited my lovely crafty friends Sheila, Tracy and Angela at Pink Tulip Creations, oh my - they had just had their delivery of wonderful new Ranger products and colour me every colour - I could n't resist the new Distress Crayons by Tim Holtz.  (and a few other bits and pieces)!

Today's card is my first attempt with Distress Crayons  - there are plenty of tutorials and info on line about these scrumptious crayons thank goodness - plus the Pink Tulip ladies have done a Tim Holtz class with the man himself and very generously shared some tips with me.

I squiggled some distress crayon onto a piece of water colour card and smudged it about with my finger - moistened with a baby wipe.

I then placed a Tim Holtz stencil over the smudged crayon and rubbed gently over the whole surface again with a baby wipe.

When I removed the stencil - tadah! - some magic had taken place and the stencil shape was left behind.

Then I lived dangerously and splattered some Picket Fence Distress Ink over the top using a paint brush.

Finally I added a die cut butterfly, sentiment and frame along with some sequins and here we are...

a card quite different from anything I have ever made, such fun! (however, note to my darlin' Copics - I have not forsaken you - those crayons are temptresses)!!!

Ingredients

Tim Holtz Distress Crayons in Picked Raspberry, Peacock Feathers and Seedless Preserves

Langton Watercolour Card

Tim Holtz Mesh Layering Stencil

Tim Holtz Picket Fence Distress Ink

Memory Box Vivienne Butterfly Die

Lawn Fawn Love Sentiment Die

Die-namics Rectangle Stitched Frame Die (Paper from First Edition New Bloom Collection)

Collall All Purpose Glue

Sequins from my trinket box (from The Range originally)

Thank you for visiting...

Happy Crafting...

and remember to pop straight to Creative Inspirations to look at the lovely DT Creations there and join in the fun!

from Sue...xxx

Please leave me a comment if you pop by, I am always very happy to see them and do enjoy reading them all.