Spirited Snowmen

Hello there

it's way too hot here again......for me anyway......

so luckily I can hide indoors and catch up on crafty stuff!

I have not been making many christmas cards this year,

so thought it was about time to catch up a bit.......

I bought Spirited Snowmen at the end of the last christmas catalogue,

so that I'd have something new to play with .....

it hasn't seen much play time until now.

I have used a lot of old tools on these, but similar products are available!

I set about embossing with Northern Flurry on a few white toppers,

stamped my snowmen in various poses :)

and coloured them in, doing a bit of body shadowing in pale blue

Die cut some snowflakes from Seasonal Layers Thinlits,

using snippets of card.

Tip: check your stash for elements you may not realise you have!

Stamped some background snowflakes,

and added sentiments using dies on scraps of card and vellum

I found some swirls on Beautiful Blizzard, and Merry Christmas to all,

adding some movement on the imaginary "ice"

Added some fine silver thread behind the circle above, hard to see!

I then added some glitter to bits of embossing, his boots and hat

They made me smile.......hope they do you!

I've used lots of snippets so it's about time I visited the Snippets Playground!

Do go and look, Di runs a fabulous blog, and challenges,

and has the cutest dog!

Hot news!

The Catalogues have arrived!

If you come to my classes or have ordered with me recently you will receive a copy soon.

If you would like a copy otherwise, please just ask, and I'll send you one.

It's a fabulous one, full of new things and lots of inspiration!

Keep cool and I'll see you soon

Lesley

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Winter Cheer

Hi there, I'm back to share some gifts I made for my classes

everyone got one of these little boxes

and a gift bag to put under the tree

I love spoiling them, as they are so lovely, and bring lots of fun to the craft room.

If you'd like to join us we meet on Thursday afternoons 2 to 4pm.

Contact me for more information or alternative times/dates

one of them brought some nibbles to share.....

this was before the mayhem :)

You would be most welcome to join us

Happy Crafting

Lesley

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More Beautiful Blizzard

Morning!

Another quick share of another large card featuring the snowflakes and vellum 

I stamped and embossed in blues, white and silver to create a 

Beautiful Blizzard :)

added sparkly ribbon and silver embossed greeting.

See you soon

Lesley

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Beautiful Blizzard

Happy Boxing Day!

I hope you had a lovely day yesterday.

Here's some cards I made for friends.

I needed them to be quick, so got my sponge roller out,

and literally ran ink across the middle, then randomly stamped snowflakes, 

all in Balmy Blue

The one above had some snowflakes added from some snippets of card,

so I'm skipping over to the Snippets Playground Challenge

I also added some detail with shimmer paint and white gel pen.

In spite of being quick I was quite pleased with them.

Just shows it's quicker to stamp a few cards than buy a box in the shop!

See you soon

Lesley 

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Blue Blizzards and Baubles with a Dash of Deer

Hi there

I'm here with a Bundle of Blue .....blue goes so well with the Beautiful Blizzard Bundle

A similar layout with vellum, as in a recent post, but with blue instead of grey. 

Heat embossed with white and silver and Iridescent Ice, topped with glittery ribbon

Last year I bought these silver sparkly Reindeer.......they're quite large!

I coupled them with a tag and tied them on gift bags.

I even found a matching bag in my stash......do you recycle bags and stuff?

I recycle A LOT......it always comes in handy one day!

I also bought some packs of baubles, that I used on this special parcel

A matching tag and some white ribbon, I was quite pleased with this.

Until I realised two baubles weren't quite right, so I added a third ;)

much better :)

Have a great weekend..........

ONLY 3 MORE SLEEPS!

Lesley

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Beautiful Blizzard on Vellum

Here's our other class project using Beautiful Blizzard and Vellum.
I used Gray Granite card, stamped in a few blues,
then stamped the sentiment in white embossing powder

I dry embossed the vellum, but wasn't too happy so overstamped with white embossing powder

Torn edge and sequins plus ribbon and gem stepped it up.

I hope you enjoyed these two large A5 cards we made.

Lesley

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 If your order is anywhere near £90,

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buying the 'Kit' where you get £130 of product for £99!

If you join my team you will get lots of benefits

including regular meetings and crafty get togethers .

You don't have to "demonstrate" or anything unless you want to.

You can just enjoy crafting with discounts!

If you would like a Brand New Catalogue 

or any information at all

please do not hesitate to contact me.

email: gillettlesley@gmail.com

or message me on facebook :)

Lovely as a Tree on Vellum

We used Vellum at our last class.

I wanted to introduce the merits of vellum in their projects.

I used "Lovely as a Tree" to stamp on the background, and then stamp and emboss on the vellum.

We used the Stamparatus to provide an easy "shadow", by just cutting the vellum slightly smaller.

We used a Border Die to cut a decorative section, and then stamped the detailed leaf in grey,

which is less harsh than black ink.

I'll be back tomorrow with our other version.

Have a great weekend

Lesley

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If you use the current host code for orders under £150 

you will get something extra from me too!

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 If your order is anywhere near £90,

please speak to me first, as you may be better off

buying the 'Kit' where you get £130 of product for £99!

If you join my team you will get lots of benefits

including regular meetings and crafty get togethers .

You don't have to "demonstrate" or anything unless you want to.

You can just enjoy crafting with discounts!

If you would like a Brand New Catalogue 

or any information at all

please do not hesitate to contact me.

email: gillettlesley@gmail.com

or message me on facebook :)

Another Beautiful Blizzard (or three)

Hello again, thanks for visiting, and hope all is well with you and yours.

I'm back with another card with Beautiful Blizzard,

and I've not even made a christmas card with it yet!

This set is definitely not just for Christmas.

I used soft colours, Pool Party and Highland Heather with Mango blobs, some Shimmery Paint, then fussy cut some flowers from the

Love What You Do DSP, which has a similar "shimmer" on it

I was going to use a sheet of the paper on the front, decided it was far far far too busy,

so stuck it on the inside instead......a pretty insert!

I also made another similar to the first, hopefully you can see the shimmer paint,

and see if you can spot the differences :)

This was the first one....

See you again soon!

Lesley

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Shop Online HERE any time, day or night!

If you use the current host code for orders under £150 

you will get something extra from me too!

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If your order is anywhere near £90,

please speak to me first, as you may be better off

buying the 'Kit' where you get £130 of product for £99!

If you join my team you will get lots of benefits

including regular meetings and crafty get togethers .

You don't have to "demonstrate" or anything unless you want to.

You can just enjoy crafting with discounts!

If you would like a Brand New Catalogue 

or any information at all

please do not hesitate to contact me.

email: gillettlesley@gmail.com

or message me on facebook :)