Halloween invitations & favours...

#Good Morning, Good Morning :)

 

I cannot believe we are so far along in the year, where have all the months gone?  Halloween crafting already and Christmas stuff out to get ready for that next big event!!  Is it a sign of old age lol.

 

Anyway, My Brothers lovely Fiance is having a wee thing at work, kinda trying to keep a tradition going with the younger members of staff.  Each year they design and carve a pumpkin and the best are displayed in the shop windows.

 

These are a couple that my Brother & Sarah have done, 2010, 2011 & 2012, they are amazing and I look forward to seeing their creations every year....

As this is a pumpkin competition the invitations are shaped like the pumpkin.  I used one of the pumpkin embellishments from a Halloween Kit on Craft Artist Professional.  I just enlarged this and wrote the information separately in a spooky writing and added a "Happy Halloween" sentiment for the envelope.

This is a lovely embellishment.  It looks like its made from felt.

I inked around the edges using an orange ink for the pumpkin and a green bit for the stalk.  This just takes away all the white and saves on printer ink by not printing out a backing paper.

I used Kraft Paper envelopes and added the "Happy Halloween" sentiment.

Everyone that takes part in the competition will get a wee favour as a treat.  These are little bath bomb chill pills, to make these Halloweeny I wrapped in cello, used green and orange ribbons and added a wee matching pumpkin embellishment.

I will be using a big pumpkin mould to make some big bath bombs for the winner of the competition.

 

Happy Crafting.

 

Amanda x

"Take That" scrap book....

Happy Saturday

 

I think most people will still be sleeping at this time :)

 

I have been Halloween Crafting this week for my Brothers Fiance and will show you all what I have been up to tomorrow.  Today I thought I would share some Scrap pages with you for all the "Take That" fans out there.

 

Unfortunately this scrap book was put together quite late at night and I neglected to take photos of the finished pages!!  It looked really good, After printing out the photos and embellishments, I grouped them together in songs and then designed the pages around this.  I combined the pieces below with a valentines kit which included co-ordinating papers, lovely sparkles, peel-offs etc and I wrote out some of the song lyrics as well.

 

Feel free to choose some pages, print and design your own little book of memories, great for any fans who attended the Circus Tour which I describe as the best concert ever and doubt it will ever be topped no matter how many bands I go and see.

 

I used Craft Artist Professional to tweak the photos, pick embellishments and add the words.  These were printed onto Kodak Photo Paper to give a lovely shine finish, just remember to change your printer settings to accommodate.

As you can see these were all chosen to include Gary as the girl I was scrapping for is a HUGE Gary fan and totally loves him to bits.

I just used an A5 size lined notebook.  This means that there were plenty of pages for other musical groups and future concerts.  It also gives lines to help write straighter when doing things like lyrics or writing memories etc, great for younger people just getting into scrapping.

 

I would love to see any projects started using any of the pages.

 

Happy Crafting

 

Amanda xx

Craft Artist Mixed Pages & Cards

Hey Guys

I haven't been around much lately as I have been concentrating on getting in as much driving practise as possible which is alot more tiring than I had realised!!

I am pleased to say that I finally passed my test on Monday afternoon, I still cant quite believe it, first time aswell!

Between times I have finished the basic square for my baby blanket and I am learning myself to knit as I really really want to send some hats in for the innocent smoothie big knit which is on every year.  It a great cause and if you keep an eye on their website you will get the details for this year when they are released;

http://www.innocentdrinks.co.uk/bigknit/

I have also been spending some time getting to grips with the Craft Artist programme, I do have to say though there is loads to learn and their Daisy Trail site is a great place for help, I am loving it.

Here are some of the pages that I have been creating;

Just some pages with the red squirrel that I was lucky enough to get pictures of when I was in Aberdeen

Changed a photo to pop art, cut-out and copied and pasted to create a background.

Pictures of my other half's niece baking cookies one Xmas

Messing about with a new digikit & created a little boys card

card insert

A fathers day card for my sister to give, I printed out extra pieces and decoupaged this

Personalised insert

And that's all for me just now folks, I am off to the gym, just the next thing on my list of things to achieve.

Hope everyone is well

Much Love

Amanda x