How do you fancy a La-La Land Crafts Christmas tag? You do? Great! You've got it! It's La-La Land Crafts Inspiration Monday and this week the inspiration is Lace and Pearls and I've used one of the cute new releases - Christmas Elf Marci - to make a quick, slightly grungy Christmas tag. She comes with sentiments as well so go check…
There is a new challenge up on the Kuretake blog and I do hope you will come along and have a play! It is all about GOLD! There is a bundle of goodies from Kuretake and Basically Bare worth £50 up for grabs and anyone can enter - so no excuses! Here is a little Olympic Gold themed ATC from me..Well more Olympic…
I'm having a bit of a blog re-shuffle again, Thursday is now my new Creative Expressions posting day so here is another make using Sam Poole's Art Sayings stamp plate available from Creative Expressions. For this one I've used the Art Sayings stamp plate to create the background by stamping over a surface that I've first textured with old sewing pattern tissue…
Long Weekend! Long Weekend! Long Weekend! Ok so if you are in the UK then you are on a long weekend of four whole days! YAY! Sorry those of you not in the UK! Well whether you have a long weekend, a normal sized weekend or a short weekend I have some colour to throw at you today and to get your creative…
Some grungy colour for your fabulous Friday! I've got my Creative Expressions make today and after all the Clean and Simple cards I've been doing I thought I would get down and inky for this one. The sentiment is from the Vintage Typewriter Stamp Set. The swirls are from the Funky Floral Stamp Set. I've used Tim Holtz Distress inks from Ranger…
Got any dates planned for the weekend? I've got a date with sunshine! Yay! Hopefully this Autumnal heatwave will stay, it is nice to see clear blue skies isn't it? Got my DT date with Creative Expressions for this week and I've made an ATC. I've got all inky for the background and stampy with the Vintage Typewriter Stamp kit. Right, I'm…
Have you spotted the new Artistic Outpost kits in at Quixotic Paperie? Lurve! Both are London themed so I am a bit biased in their favour as I am a Londoner! But I can't be the only fan as no sooner had the London Underground and Loverly London sets hit the shop then the London Underground set had sold out! But never…
Got something that might interest you guys looking out for DT calls. Have you seen the Creative Expressions DT call? Creative Expressions is a UK craft manufacturer and distributor supplying many of your favourite crafty retail shops and they also have their own lines of rubber stamps designed by various designers. If you haven't seen the recent steampunk themed stamps from Sam Poole then you should…
Well it has been a busy month of tutorials here at Crafty Makes and I have another one for you this week. This time I'm using the wooden alterable shapes from Quixotic Paperie along with other yummy items to make a mini-concertina book. If you follow the Quixotic Paperie blog you would have seen this on Saturday 18th June 2011. You might have…
To all the Dads out there - Happy Father's Day! Hope you are all having a good day! What are you doing to celebrate Father's Day? This Father's Day make is a card made using an altered book page that I've coloured with distress inks using one of the fabulous Crafter's Workshop masks from Happy Daze. The little hearts are made from…
Hi guys have you seen the challenge over at Gingersnap Creations that started on Wednesday 15th June - Bags and Tags. Here is my June Muse make for the challenge and I've used string, packaging paper and my favourite thing of the moment vellum! I've coloured the papers with distress inks and ZIG Art and Graphic Pens. The screw brad is from…