Golden Love

Good Morning, well the New Year is almost upon us, and time for people to be making their New Years resolutions, I don't make them, as I believe I should be able to make changes at any time of the year if I really want to. But do understand that doing resolutions do help people to do something they want to. What do you do?
It is time for a midway reminder of our theme over on the House Mouse and Friends Monday Challenge, this time it was our lovely Sue's turn to choose the theme and she chose "Use Silver Or Gold" - I chose to use Gold for my second card, and the stamp Tails Of True Love HMGR1009. I went for some subtle vintage papers this time and used dies to make my embellishments.  I wanted to keep the whole thing soft and subtle.
Of course you must use a House Mouse, Happy Hopper or Gruffie to join in.

We are kindly sponsored by:-
 House-Mouse Designs® 

PRIZE: $25 Gift Certificate.

 Joanna Sheen Ltd.

PRIZE;  a $10 Gift Voucher   


Thanks for looking, the DT have all made gorgeous cards for your inspiration so hop on over to the HM&F Monday Challenge to see them.



Thank you for popping by my blog.
Happy crafting
Tracy &

Vintage Gifts

Good Morning,
Well Christmas Eve is here and I have three excited kids waiting for tomorrow, can't believe how quick this Christmas has come round.  Everything is all done, just going to get the hoover out and one last dust round, all the shopping is done, so if I have forgot something we will do without LOL!
I just have my Christmas Eve trip to my sisters to see the twins before they go off to their Dads tomorrow, and we have an early Christmas day where we exchange presents today and are very naughty and open them too.  Well me and my sister like to see the kids faces when they open them.

This is quite a long post, well picture heavy anyway.  These are last of my Christmas gifts I have made, and all the images used are from the lovely Ignacio from Nicecrane, there are links to all images at the bottom of this post.

 

 Right lets get to it:-
In this picture you can see Candles with matching gift boxes and also a tree decoration and gift box to go with it.

Below is two gift boxes that I designed myself to fit the candles, I had to allow for the doily and the flowers when sizing this up, then re-inforced all the sides and bottom as the candles are fairly heavy.  Now they are really solid and hopefully if the candles aren't lit and used for decoration the boxes will keep the candles in good condition till next year.

Now I did four different images around the boxes and a fifth on the candles, there are five images on this sheet from Nicecrane (see below)

Here are the lids, I made Poinsettias for the lid and the candle, each flower has three layers, my arm was killing after winding my Grand Calibur god knows how many times.  I used an A4 embossing folder instead of DP for the gift boxes, I really liked the finished result and made a change from my normal vintage papers.

OK we can't have one without Santa Claus on can we, and I do love a vintage Santa.

Here is a view to another side of the box:-

Now a bit ago I made a tree decoration using the Nicecrane pyramid sheet, and it needed a gift box so I could give it as a present:-

Aww my decoration has slid down in the box through propping it up, the box fits perfectly too.

Well I hope this gave you some inspiration for gifts for next Christmas, I thoroughly enjoyed making them all, and do hope they will be well received by my family.

So now for the links to the Nicecrane images I have used:-
A Joyful Christmas

Christmas Ball By Bowyle (pyramid style)

Vintage Santa Save Pack

Ignacio fixed and altered my photo's for me, thank you so much, they looks so much better, your clever for doing this!

This is for the following challenges:-
1. Crafting for all seasons - challenge # 67 - Anything Christmas But A card
2. Diva's by Design - Anything Goes
3. Deep Ocean - Something Old
4. Stampin' For The weekend - Anything Goes

Merry Christmas And A Very Happy New Year


Thanks for popping by.
Happy crafting
Tracy x

A Stitch In Time

The big day is nearly here, I'm getting there now with all my preparations, I am definitely going to be more organised next year, I am usually such an organised person.  Hope your all getting excited or looking forward to it.
So It's time for a new challenge today at Allsorts.
This week is our lovely Brenda's turn to host and she would like to see 'Brown/Blue/Aqua'
I used one of our Sponsors images Sun bonnet from Digi Darla, and decided to colour it with Promarkers.  I also used a new die, which is a gift from a friend, thank you x
My papers I won in Paercrafter of the year, they are Tilly Daydream by Docrafts., I kept with the sewing theme and added lace and buttons.

Don't forget to head over to Allsorts for all the details of this challenge, and to check out all the fabulous inspiration from my very talented team mates.

Here are the prizes on offer:-

As it's Christmas we have three wonderful sponsors

Crimson Cloud with the great prize of one of their own exclusive stamp sets.

DigiDarla  Their prize is five images of the winners choice.

Whiff of Joy  And a prize of the winners choice of stamp from their range.

Recipe:-
Stamps - Digi Darla's Sun Bonnet, sentiment Tilly Daydream by Docrafts,
Papers - Tilly  Daydream by Docrafts
Colouring Mediums - Promarkers
Tools -Grand Calibur, flower dies, flourish dies,
Embellishments - lace, buttons,


Thanks for popping by my blog.
Happy crafting and a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year
Tracy x

Trio and Good News

Good morning, 1 week to go to the big day are you ready, am I ready?  No I'm not, but hey ho I'm sure I will get there.

And now onto my mid way challenge reminder for Penny black & More @ Allsorts, where the theme is 'Traditional ChristmasColours'  So you can use any stamp but just keep your colour scheme tradional please. for this challenge.  I used my favourite Christmas stamp Caroling Trio, my poinsettia dies, which are brilliant  and used a Flonz sentiment.

We have prizes from Penny Black, Classy Crafts, Flonz and Stix2. Now isn't that a lot of prizes, definitely worth getting your animal stamps out isn't it!!!!!!

Now if you would like to be a GDT for us, all you need to do is make a creation to fit the theme following our rules.

Are you wanting some inspiration, pop on over to the challenge blog and then you can see all the wonderful creations from the rest of the talented team.

Today's News:-
I entered a competition called Papercrafter of the year 2013 in the the Papercraft essentials magazine.  You had to make 3 different projects showing different techniques.  I'm a runner-up.  I got £150 worth of prizes and one of my 3 projects in the magazine.  I am so pleased and proud.

Just wanted to show you this, my friend got me it and put it my Christmas card, it's brilliant and fun too.  So I put it on my Pantry door

Thank you for popping by my blog.

Happy crafting

Tracy x

Silver And Simple

Hello, it's Monday again, it comes round so quickly. I hope you’re all OK and have had a lovely weekend.  We went to see Fozen at the cinema and it was brilliant, we will be buying it went it's out on DVD.  Are you ready for Christmas, I'm not but I'll get there I suppose.
It is time for another theme over on the House Mouse and Friends Monday Challenge, this time it was our lovely Sue's turn to choose the theme and she chose "Use Silver Or Gold" - I chose to use Silver for my card, and the stamp Trio Of Stockings JSHM034.  I thought the silver would be more effective by keeping my card simple and with no backing papers.
Of course you must use a House Mouse, Happy Hopper or Gruffie to join in.

We are kindly sponsored by:-
 House-Mouse Designs® 

PRIZE: $25 Gift Certificate.

 Joanna Sheen Ltd.

PRIZE;  a $10 Gift Voucher   


Thanks for looking, the DT have all made gorgeous cards for your inspiration so hop on over to the HM&F Monday Challenge to see them.



Thank you for popping by my blog.
Happy crafting
Tracy &

Sparkly Sad News

Good morning my blogging friends, hope your all nearly ready now for Christmas, because I definitely aren't, I have never ever been so far behind as I am this year.  I don't have a single Christmas card wrote let alone sent any yet.  I have one week to get all my cleaning, baking, wrapping etc.....etc.... done before the kids break up from school. as when they do I won't get anything done.

So it's time for a mid way reminder for our challenge over at the Joanna Sheen Challenge.  The theme this time is "Make It Sparkle".  And I have used the Out Of The Hutch Christmas decoupage sheets.  Wherever there's snow on this image there is glamour dust, lots of it, but I can't seem to capture it very well on camera.  The dies are the Joanna Sheen Signature dies, fabulous to use and value for money also.

There is a £30 gift voucher up for grabs to the random lucky winner so why not come and join us!




And the rest of the team have made some fabulous creations, please do pay them a visit too.

NEWS
Now for some very sad news, this is the very last challenge for us at The Joanna Sheen Challenge, and we are all so very sad.  I have loved my time on the team and the girls are all so lovely, thank you Paula for asking me to join the team when you did, you've been a great leader too.  For more on this see the challenge blog.

Happy crafting
Tracy x

Robins & Snowflakes

Good Morning bloggers, it's Saturday morning so It's time for a new challenge today at Allsorts.
This week is our lovely Helene's turn to host and she would like to see 'Snowflakes'
I used snowflake dies and punches and covered them with glamour dust, and my image is a Passion For Stamps, called  Robin & Holly.

Don't forget to head over to Allsorts for all the details of this challenge, and to check out all the fabulous inspiration from my very talented team mates.

Here are the prizes on offer:-

Sponsoring us this week is 

 

http://www.digidarladesigns.com/

offering 5 images of winner's choice.

http://www.apassionforstamps.blogspot.com/

4 images of winners choice

Recipe:-
Stamps - Passion For Stamps Robin & Holly
Colouring Mediums - Promakers,
Tools - embossing folders, sizzix dies, snowflake punches, nesties, Grand Calibur,
Embellishments - gems, ribbon, bow, doily, glamour dust, 


Thanks for popping by my blog.
Happy crafting
Tracy x

Angelic Gift Bag

Well my Christmas Tree isn't up yet, but hopefully it will be tonight, Bobby is nagging like hell now.  But I have bought nearly all my presents, but I never seem to get much time for wrapping and sending my cards though.
It is time for me to remind you of the theme over on the House Mouse and Friends Monday Challenge, this time it is my turn to host and the theme is "Anything Christmas" - Use something on your creation that makes you feel all warm & Christmassy inside. I chose to use 'HMOR1064 Angel Delights', just so adorable and funny.  I thought I'd make a handy gift bag today, I know I'll use them.
Of course you must use a House Mouse, Happy Hopper or Gruffie to join in.

1st sponsor is

 Winner gets a $25 gift Voucher to Simon Says Stamp Store. 

    

2nd sponsor is

Di's Digi Downloads

Thanks for looking, the DT have all made gorgeous cards for your inspiration so hop on over to the HM&F Monday Challenge to see them.

This is for the following challenges:-
1. ABC Challenges - December - A is for Almost Christmas
2. A Little Bit Crafty - December - Christmas Cheer
3. Heck Of A Challenge - December - Colourful Christmas
4. Creatalicious - challenge # 57 - Christmas Time

Recipe:-
Stamps - HMOR1064 Angel delights, sentiment by Flonz, 
Papers - computer generated, 
Colouring Mediums - Promarkers,
Tools - snowflake dies, Grand Calibur, Spellbinder  border dies, Tag die, snowflake punch, corner die, 
Embellishments - stickles, ribbon, 


Thank you for popping by my blog.
Happy crafting
Tracy &

All New

Good Morning bloggers, it's Saturday morning so It's time for a new challenge today at Allsorts.
This week is our lovely Jo's turn to host and she would like to see 'Anything But Christmas'.  Jo I loved this theme because it has given me a chance to use my new stash from Lili Of The Valley that I got last weekend.
Here is what I did, I used my new LOTV stamp, and decided to use the Marianne fence die set I got there too, and of course these really gorgeous Nitwit papers.  Loved having a play doing this challenge.


Don't forget to head over to Allsorts for all the details of this challenge, and to check out all the fabulous inspiration from my very talented team mates.

Here is the prize on offer:-

 

Digistamp Boutique

6 images of winners choice

Recipe:-
Stamps -LOTV Times To Treasure ST151,
Papers - Nitwits Antebellum, Always & Forever, 
Colouring Mediums - Promarkers, 
Tools - Marianne fence die set, nesties, grand Calibur, 
Embellishments - Doily, roses/flowers, leaves, 


Thanks for popping by my blog.
Happy crafting
Tracy x

With A Bow On Top

Well Christmas is coming up fast, and I'm nowhere near ready.  Did try to get some Christmas shopping done yesterday, but couldn't get half of it, the shops seemed to be out of the stuff I went to buy, hope your all being more successful than I am.
It is time for another theme over on the House Mouse and Friends Monday Challenge, this time it is my turn to host and the theme is "Anything Christmas" - Use something on your creation that makes you feel all warm & Christmassy inside. I love this stamp 'Wrapped & Ready HMOR1006', just so adorable and funny.  I thought I'd use some gold mirror card this time, I don't use it very often at all.
Of course you must use a House Mouse, Happy Hopper or Gruffie to join in.

1st sponsor is

 Winner gets a $25 gift Voucher to Simon Says Stamp Store. 

    

2nd sponsor is

Di's Digi Downloads

Thanks for looking, the DT have all made gorgeous cards for your inspiration so hop on over to the HM&F Monday Challenge to see them.


Recipe:-
Stamps - HMOR1006 Wrapped & Ready
Papers - Nitwits
Colouring Mediums - Promarkers,
Tools - Poinsettia dies, Grand Calibur,
Embellishments - beads, ribbon, 


Thank you for popping by my blog.
Happy crafting
Tracy &

Sparkly Scenes

Good morning my blogging friends, I'm here again, two post in the same day.
So it's time for a brand new challenge over at the Joanna Sheen Challenge.  The theme this time is "Make It Sparkle".  And I have used the Christmas Thomas Kinkade CD Rom, just love the scenes on it,  Wherever there's snow on this image there is glamour dust, lots of it, but I can't seem to capture it very well on camera.

It is a shaped card, you may see it better in this photo:-

There is a £30 gift voucher up for grabs to the random lucky winner so why not come and join us!







And the rest of the team have made some fabulous creations, please do pay them a visit too.

Happy crafting
Tracy x