New Product Early Release NOW AVAILABLE

Hi all 

Today is an exciting post and one you have probably all been waiting

This suite is AVAILABLE TO ORDER NOW!

There are two EXCLUSIVE bundles available one for the beginner crafter and one for the more advanced crafter both of which are available to order NOW until 31st May at 22:50pm. These bundles are only available during this month after that you will only be able to order the products individually on 1st June.

Starter Bundle

This bundle includes Stamp Set, 3 NEW In-Colour Ink Pads, Gold Vinyl Stickers, 12 sheets of Designer Series Paper and FREE Very Vanilla Note cards with envelopes

PURCHASE HERE

Premier Bundle

This bundle includes: Photo-polymer Stamp Set, Designer Series Paper, Card stock, Mini Tassel Assortment, Gold Vinyl Stickers, 3 NEW In-Colour Ink Pads, Medallion Thinlit Die Cuts, and FREE Very Vanilla c6 Envelopes, Very Vanilla Thick A4 Card Stock.

PURCHASE HERE

You will be able to order the individual products on the 1st June when the NEW catalogue launches.

Get your bundle ordered NOW or you will have to wait until 1st June, so make sure to get your order in as soon as possible as you only have until 31st May at 22:50pm to order.

You can order either bundle from my online store 
My Stampin' Up Store

Don't forget to use the Hostess Code 6HYKZY3Z (min order £25 excluding delivery) for a gift from me. Not to be used on an order of £150 or more, you get your own rewards on this

Xx The Crafty Bat xX

Teamie Tuesday

Hey all

I am flying in today with another Teamie Tuesday make

For this week the theme is Spring 

I have done a pop up box card which is also known as a card in a box, I really enjoy doing these, they fold fold and fit into a 5x7 envelope.

What do you need?
Whisper White Card stock
Tombow Glue
Dimensionals
Acrylic Block
Scissors
Window Sheets
Pop Of Paradise Stamp Set - Also available in Wood Mount 
Dragonfly Dreams Stamp Set  - Also available as a bundle with die cuts save 10% 
Avant Garden Stamp Set (Sale-A-Bration)
2016-2017 In-Colour DSP 
Inside The Lines DSP (Sale-A-Bration)
Ink Pads - Flirty Flamingo, Crushed Curry, Peekaboo Peach, Watermelon Wonder, Perfect Plum, Cajun Craze, Night Of Navy, Cucumber Crush, Island Indigo, Sweet Sugarplum

Here are some close up pictures and side views of the box

I hope you have enjoyed taking a look at my make for this weeks Teamie Tuesday, You can order all of the above product by clicking on each one as that will take you to the item in my store or click below 
My Stampin' Up Store

Spend £25 or more and use this months hostess code S436HZZV and get a free gift from me.

You can also find me on Facebook The Crafty Bat

Don't forget to check out the other lovely ladies makes for this week
Michelle - UglyBug 
Alyson - Scarlet Moon Crafts
Laura - Lulutrac
Louise - Slow Cooking Crafty Girl

Xx The Crafty Bat xX

Simple But Effective

Hi Crafters

Today I wanted to share with you all a simple but effective card, this is to show that you do not need loads of craft supplies.

This card was done with only very minimal supplies which are all Stampin' Up!

For this card all you need are the following: I have linked each product which will take you to it on my store.

Whisper white Cardstock (make into any size card you like)

Watercolor Wings Stamp Set 

Ink Pads - Colours Used are Mint Macaron, Bermuda Bay and Dapper Denim

Aqua Painters

Tombow Glue

Acrylic Block

So there we have it a simple but effective card, I love how these colours work together.

I have some exciting news to share with you all very soon and it is something for all you and will include Stampin' Up! products, keep a look out for that blog post VERY soon.

My Stampin' Up Store

Xx The Crafty Bat xX

Teamie Tuesday Challenge

Hello all 

Today I am flying in to share with you a Teamie Tuesday challenge which I have been itching to get stuck into since it was decided on and we all knew what we were doing for this week. Then again I have been itching to get stuck in with my kit goodies and I have to say WOW!!! Those inks *Swoooooon*

This week is a Anything Goes Challenge 

So here we have my piece for this weeks challenge 

For this piece I have used the following products:

Crumb Cake Note Cards

Watercolour Paper - 300gsm

Aqua Painters

Over The Rainbow Stamp Set 

Stampin' UP! Ink Pads in the following colours Rose Red, Crushed Curry, Garden Green, Island Indigo and Perfect Plum (These are all apart of the Regal Collection Ink Pads)

To do this piece all I did was use the Ink Pads as watercolours with a Aqua Painter in the order I have listed the colours above, dry this off using your heat tool once this is dry enough to stamp on top of  stamp the images onto the card using an acrylic block.

To finish it all off I glued the main piece to a Crumb Cake Note Card and used a fine line black pen to do the stitching detail.

All the products above can be purchased from my store and I have linked each product so you just need to click on to them.

Now let's see what the other team members have made this week 

Michelle - Ugly Bug Plans 

Alyson - Scarlet Moon Crafts

Louise - Slow Cooking Crafty Girl 

I am hosting an Online Stampin' UP! Party over on Facebook it is being held from 27th March to the 30th at 10pm which is the very last week of Sale-A-Bration spend over £45 and get some fantastic free products. So if you would like to come along then you are more than welcome 

STAMPIN' UP! ONLINE PARTY

MY STORE

Xx The Crafty Bat xX

Happy Crafty Post

Hi all 

Today I thought I would share with you all my latest crafty happy post that arrived yesterday morning.

Now I have stopped swooning, squealing and being over excited about these arriving with me I can show you all EEEEEKKKK!!!

My Distress Oxide's arrived WOOP!! If you do not know what they are, well they are a fusion of pigment and dye ink oooooo!!

These were a Birthday present off my dad which he pre-ordered the full set for me from the fantastic Art From The Heart, these were a fantastic price for all 12 they do also sell these in singles at a fab price too. 

The colours are as follows: Faded Jeans, Fired Brick, Spiced Marmalade, Worn Lipstick, Broken China, Iced Spruce, Walnut Stain, Fossilized Amber, Cracked Pistachio, Vintage Photo, Peeled Paint and Wilted Violet.

They arrived beautifully wrapped which I thought was a lovely touch from the company, I really can not wait to get stuck in and start playing and experimenting with them I will definitely be sharing what I do with them with you all and I will also be doing some comparisons against the Distress Inks.

If you have not seen how these work as of yet and are curious and can not wait until I show off some makes with them, then you can find some fantastic videos on You Tube of Tim Holtz demoing them, HERE is one of many also there is a video of Tim Holtz explaining them HERE and the lovely Jennifer McGuire has done an Introduction to Distress Oxide Inks HERE. 

So keep your eyes open for those blog posts which I am hoping will be very very soon.

Xx The Crafty Bat xX

Gelli Plate Play Time

Hello all and welcome back to The Crafty Bat Blog :D , I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas It has been hectic here hence why I have not posted for a little while.

So I thought I would bring the new year in with some Gelli Plate makes, These are my first ever makes using a Gelli Plate and I am chuffed to bits with them for first attempts and here they are:

 I will link you to the Lavinia Stamps website below including a link to the Gelli Plate starter kit they offer which is what I had purchased a few months and is worth every penny as you even get to pick ANY TWO Lavinia Stamps of your choice.

Before I get to the list of products used I thought I would also share with you individual pictures of each piece.

The products used for both of these pieces are as follows:

Smooth White Matt Card

3x5 inch Gelli Plate 

Adirondack Ink Pads 

Versafine Ink Pads

Lavinia Stamps

Brayer Roller

You can find all the stamps HERE and the Gelli Plate Starter Kit HERE

If you have never used a Gelli Plate before then the kit I mentioned is a fantastic starting place also Tracey who is the person behind Lavinia Stamps has done some tutorial videos on the Gelli Plate which can be found on You Tube there is also many more videos on the Gelli Plate showing different techniques and different materials used including stencils, stamps, acrylic paints and so on.

I hope you like what I have done and make sure to pop back soon to see some more of my most recent makes.

Xx The Crafty Bat xX

Crafty Sunday -

Hi all 

Well It has been a long time since I have been able to craft on a weekend for me (custom orders needed doing lol) and I took full advantage of being able to do just that.

So today I have done another ATC YAY!!! on this one I did a few techniques I have not done before and I think trying them on an ATC is perfect due to the size of them and I am over the moon with the outcome.

Here is today's ATC

I used the following products to make this ATC

Watercolour Card 

Distress Inks

Memento Ink - Black 

Dew Drop Brilliance Ink - White 

Sponge Finger Dobber

Circle Stencil 

Visible Image Stamps - Where dreams take you and Edgy 

The techniques used on this ATC were.. Watercolour using Distress Inks, and the Bokeh Technique.

I also started on another project which I will blog about properly in a new post as soon as it is completed, I have not been able to get it finished today due to leaving it to dry and so on but I do have a little sneak peek of my WIP (Work In Progress) to show you all. 

Any ideas on what I could be doing???

Make sure to pop back in a few days to find out what the above is and what I used to create it.

Xx The Crafty Bat xX