Saturday 27 December 2014

TWIXT CHRISTMAS AND NEW YEAR....

Here we are in that rather strange time period - between Christmas and New Year.  Hope you had lots of Christmas fun, and have you been to the sales?  I haven't as yet - would rather wait till it all gets a little quieter really.  We had a walk on the beach today - it was freeeeeezing - but bracing!  Then because we had the dog with us we ate some lunch at a table outside - must be barking mad (lol)!

I thought I would have another one of those catch up sessions today where I share a bundle of makes with you that I have waiting in a folder, before we are in with the New Year and the start of a New Challenge for January, so here we go...

Still on the Christmas theme here Daniele has made a fabulous little mini album to celebrate a night out with her fellow workers.  This is such a great idea, and lovely to view..






The stamp Daniele used on the front cover is CI-424 'Jolly Holly Robins'.  She has decorated some tags with our Christmas stamps to pop in the tag pockets, and I am loving the use of another new stamp by Gio CI-426 embossed onto parchment and cut out I think.

I have another two makes by Daniele as well - not Christmassy this time - but ones that may help us think of warmer and sunnier days..



The two stamps making their appearances in these makes are CI-320 and CI-389 and I'm loving the stitching on these too.

Another sunnier days make is by Brenda, and the stamp used here is CI-347.  I seem to remember that Brenda said she had used an acrylic stamping block to print the background colour on this card, which she combined with colour from Distress ink pads - nice idea Brenda!





Must give that a try soon!

Gio's turn is next and she has been busy with those lace stamps of hers herself...





And she has make lots of different things with them such as a card, earrings, a scrapbook layout and some rather lovely pouches.  If you check out Gio's own blog just now you will see many more projects sporting CI stamps beautifully - just scroll down after clicking HERE.

Gio has also had a play with the latest tag stamps CI-427 and CI-428 and used them separately here....




Love the idea of covering notebooks (top two)!

I have made a card with one of these tag stamps, but I used it as a whole stamp - either way is fine - there are plenty of makes possible with these Elements tag stamps, they are extremely versatile...




I stamped the whole stamp twice - used the first stamping as the flat background, and used certain tags from the second stamping cut out and applied over the first with sticky fixers (I punched holes and added some twine too).

My final make to show you tonight is by Joanna, and is totally adorable!  She was inspired to make it by a Graphic45 tutorial, and has completely transformed a humble dolly peg, with a little help from papers from our Springtime Background Book, and a butterfly from a Mini Image Book, into a ballerina - loving this....




Thanks for viewing, hope you have enjoyed the images?!

Before I sign out I am wondering if you have seen that we have added a new department on our website at www.craftyindividuals.co.uk, for the New Year to come?  We thought we would add some of our own personal work for you to view bit by bit, and have started it all off with a series of 20 rather lovely photographic greeting cards by Malcolm - yay!

Jean x

Thursday 25 December 2014

HAVE A LOVELY CHRISTMAS .....

HAPPY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE - HAVE A LOVELY TIME!


With our very best wishes,

Jean, Malc and Santa Monty Moodle

x

Thursday 18 December 2014

MANY MAKES FOR CHRISTMAS....

The last couple of weeks have gone very fast indeed, and hence I haven't blogged till now.  The time leading up to Christmas always seems to disappear quickly and I guess everyone feels the same - so much to do and so little time left.  Its even more worrying when everywhere you go everyone asks 'are you ready for Christmas', and I never am really.  I hope you are all enjoying the festive season so far, and I hope Santa is good to you this year.

I have many photos of makes that have been sent to me by our lovely team, saved ready to display.  I will upload several below for you to peruse.  Most are Christmas related, and I will mention a few links to specific stamps, but maybe not all.  However as always you will find most items displayed available at www.craftyindividuals.co.uk.  Hope you will enjoy the show!

Some beauties by Lynne are here to start with...



Loving the two 'Wishes' cards above - stamped with CI-408,
And then the next card using CI-425.... 




And then this little treasure in red, featuring CI-424..


Carrying on with the festive theme I have some gorgeous round cards made by Sylvie....






As you will see they feature a couple of the stamps mentioned above, plus the first make also shows the lovely robin drawn by Alice CI-375, and they all have Gio's stamp CI-426 embossed beautifully around the edges - such a very versatile stamp (as you will see below too)!

Next we have great minds that think alike - Gio and Laury have used CI-426 themselves to great effect and made wrapping paper - lovely for Christmas, but also for birthdays and other gifts as well...




Effie took the same stamp and made a very pretty festive decoration.....

 
CI-425 also makes another appearance, in a delightful creation by Helen...



And Helen has also made this very sweet little robin tag, again mentioned and linked to above....



To finish off the post tonight I have some images of a lovely 'memory' book created by Coco - what a lovely Christmas gift a book like this would make, perhaps for a loving granny?!...








  Lots of CI products to be found here within!
 
Back now to my wrapping and card writing.  Thanks for tuning in, back soon,

Jean x