Hand Crafted Memories

Another card from the lovely Moorish collection from Craftwork Cards . Its only 10 days to the show at Harrogate where they are launching their brand new Privilege club,also have you seen the Pocketful of Papers CD rom ? 300 lush papers all at your finger tips, ready to print when you need them. Do you need anymore of a reason to take a trip to Harrogate?

Woo Hoo look at me 2 posts in as many days, its not that I've been busy making stuff, I came across a bunch of photos of cards and pages I've made and not posted. Last months project of the month from Craftwork Cards was the Moorish collection, and I had settled down to make a few cards. Here is the second of my finished ideas.

Oh dear I just don't seem to be able to keep up with my blogging. I have some creativity to show but just don't seem to be getting around to posting them here. One thing that has been sadly neglected has been my project of the month from Craftwork Card s. I am behind by two kits but when this month's Moorish kit arrived, I just had to make something. These beautiful Moroccan themed papers are just delicious. As usual everything is beautifully coordinated.   Have you booked your tickets for the Great Northern Papercraft Extravaganza ?  How about a breakfast workshop, here for Saturday or here for Sunday. Where else are you going to find 40 exhibitors under one roof that weekend?

A couple of weeks ago I received my Secret Garden project of the Month from Craftwork cards . These papers are just so gorgeous, you have to see them to appreciate the beautiful colours and some of them are glittered. I can't tell you have delicious they are. Unfortunately for me I am very busy at the moment with an order for wedding invitations and my own Christmas cards. I could only manage four cards. Here they are:     I also made this one, it looks a little plain on the outside and I used some older paper for it  But on the inside is this This is definitely a kit I will be returning to as soon as I have some free time.

I recently needed a fiftieth birthday card for a friend and had a pi;e pf scraps from my favourite Sweet Meadows papers from Craftwork Cards . I love these colours and the lovely blooms. . The card came together quite quickly and was loved by the recipient.

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Here are the last three Frosty and friends cards that I made from last months Craftwork Cards project of the month. These die cut images are just fabulous and for those of you who love your Promarkers or Copics, they are perfect. Once you've got your image coloured for the focal point the rest of the card is easy.

Oh dear I'm a little bit behind with my kits for Craftwork Cards . I received the Frosty and Friends kit a few weeks ago and spent a couple of evenings colouring the lovely images, then I just seemed to stop. It was only this weekend in another attempt to clear the decks in my craft room that I realised I hadn't done anything with them. Then to highlight  the matter even more my next kit has arrived. Oh dear! I had to get my finger out. So here are the first two that I made how lovely is that candi?

I thought to day I would get loads of crafting done, not at all. I seem to be on a go slow, everything I'm doing is taking ages. I have manageda couple of cards, I just can't leave Warren alone. These images are so gorgeous, I can't leave them in the box. I think Warren is going to be featuring on all my friends mantlepieces at Christmas, these are my favourite cards so far.

As promised, here are more cards I made using the Warren Christmas project of the month from Craftwork Cards , With a Bank holiday to enjoy, I feel a full day of crafting coming on.       Don't forget to order your tickets for the Papaercraft show in Harrogate, only a couple of weeks to get them. As always it promises lots of crafting goodness under on roof and you could pick up your own Warren stock. Go here to get your ticket.

I know it looks like following my scrapbooking frenzy I have burnt out for the last week. That is not so I have been working on the current Craftwork Cards project of the month. I love this kit, I love Warren. The colours are beautiful and this kit has so much in it. I don't think I'd be sticking my neck out too far when I say you could get more than 25 cards out of it. So without further ado let me introduce Christmas Warren       Come back for some more Warren tomorrow.

The antibiotics don't seem to be kicking in yet, and my sleep is so disturbed I got to work this morning and turned round to came back home. I hater having time off work sick but I just couldn't get through the day. Lots of sleep and cups of tea don't seem to have eased anything so maybe a bit of blogging will. This is my final project I made for the Craftwork Cards stand at CHA. It was actually the first thing I made, And came to me in a flash. I had been out for the day and when I came back the neighbour had a new hanging basket outside their house. Bingo, and using the pennant die from Spellbinders this is what I came up with. and a close up of the flowers then I added the Candi but didn't get a really good picture, I'm sure you get the idea.

Yes folks there are still more Candi/Spellbinder projects, I seem to have gone a bit over the top with them. Today its a card, the flowers are made from upside down Candi. I turned one upside down, filled it with PVA and gently lay more Candi into the 'cup'. Then I put a coordinating single Candi the right way up for the centre .

I still have lots of ideas that I created for the CHA stand, if I keep going at his rate it will probably run into the next one! I loved the doily dies that I received and while looking at them I thought somehow I must be able to pleat them the make a more dimensional circles. I had a play and hey presto, dimensional doilies. I think this was probably my favourite project. I'm dying to see if they were used on the stand and how they were displayed. I imagined them in a tin planter with lots of shredded paper around. Here I just stuck them into my raised flower bed. The detail and while we are on the lollipop theme another picture from Sunday

Here is another reveal from the projects I made for the Craftwork Cards , stand at CHA. This time its a scrapbook page, I had no idea what the final look was going to be for this page, I just pulled out the Tres Chic papers and cut some squares, laid them out and voila, the idea popped in my mind. I really like the simplicity of this page, in my head I saw doilies at the top and bottom of the photo but as I was trying to use the Spellbinders dies, I switched in the Floral Doily Motifs and Fleur de Lis motifs dies.  I really love how it turned out. I had a great day yesterday in Leeds with 5 lovely ladies, revisiting my photography. My feet were throbbing by the time I got home, I was shattered. Here are a some of my favourite pictures of the day, not one shot in automatic        Go here to find out how you can improve your photographs and get out of using your SLR camera in automatic.

One of the things I loved most about the recent cross promotion between Spellbinders and Candi was to make a stack of men's cards using the Sprockets dies. I love them, it really makes men's cards so easy. Just throw in a bit of my favourite Anglomania paper and it has to be an instant hit. I made a stack of them, so won't need to come up with a design for mans card for a while now. Today I will be wandering around Leeds with a group of ladies and being led by Kirsty taking photos of anything that stands still long enough, here's hoping for lovely weather.

Here is another card that is hopefully gracing the Craftwork Cards stand at CHA in Chicago. This card was made using the scallop circles and circles Spellbinders die, they are pretty much the staple of anybody who uses these dies. I combined this with the butterfly die set that I have had for ages., but look how gorgeous that Candi is and its almost like the scallops were waiting for it.

Today I'm revealing another project that is hopefully on its way to America as we speak. I made a few cards for the stand, although I wasn't as happy with them as I was with the other goodies I made. I did like this one though, I love the sprightly sprockets dies from Spellbinders . These were dies I already had but I knew they would work well with the Candi and the Clockworks embossing folder from Cuttlebug. Great for men's cards. Everything on the card is from Craftwork Cards. Visit the  blogs of the DT and Craftwork Cards to see more reveals over the next few weeks. Craftwork Cards Julie Hickey Lynda Morland Kath Stewart Emma Williams  Lisa Baker  Enfys Cashmore Judith Hannington Sue Taylor Debs Pincher Mary Bacon

Today's the Day that I celebrate my birthday, to be honest I forgot all about it until Tuesday how bad is that? So I haven't got anything planned, but I'm quite happy at home in my scrapbooking nest playing with my stash. Today's also the day that my central heating has decided to make crashing noises that would wake the dead in a cemetery 10 miles away, so as a nice birthday present I got to call the plumber, who thinks my water pump needs replacing, hmmm sounds expensive! Most importantly today's the day the Craftwork Cards design team can begin revealing their projects that we have been busy beavering away making for the team to take to CHA. They fly out tomorrow and I am so jealous, can you imagine how much inspiration there will be packed under that one roof? We were all given Spellbinders dies and Candi, the challenge was to come up with cards, projects and scrapbook pages that would show how the two products complement each other.. I can't wait to see wha...

While I was on the 'boy theme' I made a couple of cards using the sail boat stamp, it features regularly on my cards for men. I've used Mementos London Fog to stamp with and I love the 'pastel' effect it has. I have long admired the effect of embossing using the nestabilities , why oh why can't I get it right. I always cut or tear the cardstcok. Believe me when I say these are premium cards that I am using, supplied by craftwork cards . The second card on here is the best effort I have made so far. It looks OK but is a little fragile, I guess more practice is needed.