Hand Crafted Memories

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'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...

I have neglected my blog a bit this week, my busy weekend last week turned into a really busy week. Firstly I had made some goodies for Craftwork Cards using the Spellbinders and Candi , but sometimes I don't like what I make. I was not happy with some of my cards. These projects are going with Sue and Julie to CHA in America next week along with all of the projects from the rest of the design team. The stand at the show will be based around all our efforts and I wasn't too happy with everything. Then at the 11th hour I came up with some ideas and two scrapbook pages and I was back in the game.Sneak peeks only I'm afraid at the moment.         I will post everything once we get the go ahead, I'm excited to see what the rest of the DT create and to see what sort of reception the projects get.  I then had to go down to London for three days with work and by the time I got home I was worn out, not a thing has been done over the last couple of days and here we go...