Santa Claus Is Coming To Town

Hello lovelies

I hope you all had a wonderful weekend mine was fantastic with my classon Saturday and a relaxing day Sunday. I blogged last night about the class so please do check that out.

Today is day 5 of Christmas Creations and today I have this beauty to share with you all

This project was so much fun to make and I shall be making more of these in different designs as it is so versatile.

Here is a couple more pictures of the project

As you can see with this side on view there is even a little stand on the back which can be written on.

The products I have used to make this little beauty are as follows:

Hearts Come Home Bundle

Whisper White Card Stock

Night Of Navy Ink Pad

Stampin' Sponges

Silver Embossing Powder

Embossing Buddy

Versamark Pad

Heat Tool

Year Of Cheer Speciality Designer Series Paper

Ribbon

Tombow Glue

Simply Score Board

Sequins

Tear & Tape

Window Sheets

Glue Dots

Big Shot

I hope you have enjoyed seeing day 5's inspiration and it gives you plenty of ideas.

Kelly

Xx The Crafty Bat xX

 Challenges Entered:

Crafting From The Heart -Anything Goes
Make My Monday - Snow Fun 
613 Avenue - Anything Goes Optional Twist  - Create A 3D Card 

Awareness Shadow Box Frame

Hi all and welcome to another of blog posts

Today I am sharing with you a DT inspiration piece for the first challenge over at 

Day Dreamer Challenges. 

The theme for this months challenge is Anything Goes and is sponsored by 

Sparkle N Sprinkle

For this challenge I chose to use the Awareness Digi Stamp Set , As soon as I saw this digi I knew exactly what I wanted to do with it and here it is. I have made a shadow box frame out of cardstock.

As a Fibromyalgia Warrior myself I knew I had to do this piece for all the Fibro Warriors out there who struggle day to day and to say there is always support out there for you and you are not alone.

To make this piece I used the following products:

Awareness Digi Stamp

Spectrum Noir Markers

12x12 Fresh Fig Cardstock 

Shimelle designer series paper

Scoreboard

Trimmer

Paper Snips

Tombow Glue

Black Soot Distress Ink

Foam Tape

I hope this has inspired you and I can not wait to see what you all do for your challenge entry.

Xx The Crafty Bat xX

May Blooms

Hi all

Today I would like to share with you all a recent make which I have been doing and this one was done for the May Progressive Challenge over at Simply B Stamps.

Here is what  did with this months image 

This month I wanted to do something a little different with doing cards for the last two months :)

I hope you like what I have done every element is either handmade or hand-coloured

Here is a list of products I have used to make this piece including some NEW Stampin' Up! products which will be launched on 1st June 2017.

May Blooms Digi

Powder Pink 12x12 Cardstock (New Stampin' Up! Product)

Fresh Florals DSP (2 pieces) (New Stampin' Up! Product)

Watercolour Pencils 

Blender Pens

Watercolour Card

Flowers

Dylusions Ink Sprays - Funky Fuchsia, Crushed Grape, Bubblegum Pink

Dylusions Mica Sprays - Vibrant Turquoise

Berry Blast Ink Pad (New Stampin' Up! In-Colour)

Paper Snips

Tombow Glue

Simply Score Board

Stampin' Trimmer

I hope you have like what I have done and it gives you some inspiration.

I would like to enter this piece into the following challenges:

Always Fun Challenges - Anything Goes 

Crafty Cardmakers - Floral Profusion

Crafting When We Can - Bright & Colourful

Great Impressions - Feminine 

Crafting from the heart - Challenge 160 Anything Goes 

3D Fairy Shadow Box Frame

Hello my wonderful Crafters and welcome back to my little crafty cave.

Today I am sharing with you the other piece I made while at the Crop last Saturday, here we have a lovely Fairy Shadow Box Frame

 This one I did in 3 parts - The picture was handmade, The frame handmade and then the beautiful flower.

To do the fairy scene picture I used the following products: 

Distress Oxide Inks - Cracked Pistachio, Broken China, Wilted Violet, and Iced Spruce

Blending Tool

Inkylicious Stencil

Lavinia Stamps 

To make the frame I used:

Simply Score Board

A4 Basic Black Cardstock

Tombow Glue

To make the flower I used:

Big Shot

Heart Felt Rose Die

Whisper White Cardstock, which I had done the smooshing technique on with a number of different Distress Oxide Inks

Tombow Glue

As you will have noticed some of the products are linked to My Stampin' Up Store such as the cardstock, glue, big shot, and score board.

I hope you have enjoyed looking at my last piece I did while at the crop and I hope to do more of these fairy scenes as I have missed doing them and they look sooooo pretty with the oxide background.

Xx The Crafty Bat xX

Eastern Palace Shadow Box Frame

Hi Crafters

I am back again today with another make for you all which shows off the Eastern Palace Suite.

I am really loving this suite and still so surprised how variant it is all the combinations you can get from the die cuts, how well the colours work together and so on. The exclusive bundles which are available until 31st May are worth every penny and you get FREE items in both bundles. You can purchase them from my store here.

Now lets get on to showing you what I have been doing

Here is my Eastern Palace Shadow Box Frame

For this frame I used the following products:

Eastern Palace Premier Bundle ( Used from the bundle - Tranquil Tide Card stock, Dapper Denim Card stock, Fresh Fig Card stock, Very Vanilla Thick Card stock, Stamp Set, Die Set, Gold Tassle, Fresh Fig Ink Pad and Tranquil Tide Ink Pad)

Dimensionals

Tombow Glue

Simply Score Board

Stampin' Trimmer

Paper Snips

Clear Block

Layering Circle Framelits

Bone Folder

I hope you have liked what I have done here by just using suite, the shadow box frame was made from one A4 sheet of card. I shall be doing a tutorial on the Shadow Box Frames very soon, so please do keep a look out for that.

The Eastern Palace Suite is available until 31st May in two exclusive bundles only you can purchase the Starter Bundle Here and the Premier Bundle Here.

May Hostess Code is 6HYKZY3Z. Spend £25 excluding postage and get a gift from me, please do not use the code on an order of £150 as you will get your very own rewards.

Xx The Crafty Bat xX

Teamie Tuesday - For Him

Hi all

Welcome back to another Teamie Tuesday Challenge Piece.. 

So this week's theme is For Him, When this was chosen as this weeks theme I knew straight away which stamp set I would be using.

I decided to try something a little different for this make and here is what I did 

A Shadow Box Frame Gift 

The products I used to make this piece are as follows:

One Wild Ride Stamp Set  (also available in wood mount)

12x12 Basic Black Card Stock

Simply Scored Board

Tombow Glue

Urban Underground Embellishments (RETIRING)

Urban Underground DSP (RETIRED)

Stampin Trimmer

Paper Snips

Fast Fuse

Dimensionals

Doesn't it look a fab gift for the biker in your life or even a motorbike fan. I shall be doing another blog post with a full tutorial on how to make this frame and another size frame very soon so keep a look out for that.

This month's Hostess Code is 6HYKZY3Z to be used on an order of £25 minimum not including postage. Any orders of £150 please do not use the code as you will get your own rewards for this amount order.

Eastern Palace Suite Bundles Early Release AVAILABLE NOW - till 31st May

Now let's go on over and see what the other teamies have been up to

Michelle - Ugly Bug Plans

Alyson - Scarlet Moon Crafts