Anniversary Giveaway part 1

Hello everyone
Two posts on one day and both give you the chance to win something!!
The Artistic Stamper Design Team Blog is celebrating its second anniversary, and each designer will offer the opportunity to give away stamps. I have chosen two stamp sets, here they are:

All you have to do is leave a comment on this blog post over at the blog there to be in with a chance. If you leave a comment here too you are in with two chances!! I will pick winners at the end of the month and will announce them then.

So here is a project I created using the stamps:

A full description of how I made it is over on the Artistic Stamper blog
It's a box just the right size to hold an altered spoon that I made

I hope you'l help us celebrate by leaving comments. Other designers have done give aways too, so do head over, many chances to win. I will be offering another opportunity to win my chosen sets on the 27th.

Snazzys Steampunk Challenge

First of all, a very warm welcome to all my new followers!
Now to the purpose of this post:
Due to unforseen circumstances Gillian  one of the DT member from the Snazzys blog, won't be able to blog this week, however we do have a challenge to get those crafty juices flowing ... we want to see your Steampunk Inspired projects. One lucky winner chosen by the DT will win a set of Steampunkery Stamps from Chocolate Baroque.

The challenge is open from Today and closes Sunday midday.

One lucky person who leaves a comment on the first post over at the Snazzys DT Blog will also win a prize. Gillian will draw the random comment winner via Mr Random.Org at the end of the month.
Here is the sample I made for the challenge

I hope you'll play along and if you do, good luck!

Freebie time ones more

This week there is a mixture of things, a gift card, small envie, some spools for lace or whatever, a bookmark and some tags. Hope you like them and enjoy.

Next week's freebie will come on Friday.

For saving the single images, just click on them to enlarge.

My new diary...

Being a teacher my mind is slowly starting to turn toward the beginning of the new term, and so one thing I needed to do was get a new diary, as you probably know academic diaries run from July to August the following year. So off I went and got myself a new diary, a cheap black one. It looked so boring and uninviting that I decided to alter it. Hopefully that way I will actually remember to look in it to keep track of things.

Don't forget to come back tomorrow when I will post some new freebies.

Sharing technique on Spellbinders Blog

After I posted some of my recent tags I got many requests about how exactly I made them. Well, I am sharing a full description today on the Spellbinders Blog, so if you are interested just click on the link and hopefully it will take you straight there. Here's just a little sneak peek.
Would love it if you leave me a comment there rather than here, but you can do both of course, for let's face it, who doesn't love comments:o)

Finally finished....

After working for weeks on a Botanical book for a commission, I finally managed to complete it this weekend! Here are just a few photos, as I have shown most of the tags in previous posts anyway, and it's jolly hard to photograph, so my apologies for the rather poor photographs.
All of the tags are two sided and most of them have an inspirational quote on one of the sides too.

Front of the book

The spine

 And here are some of the inside pages with a few tags in place

I had great fun making it but now I am glad it is finally done....

Freebie and last week's winners!!!

Hello everyone.
Well last week 64 people commented on my give-away and one person emailed and was also included in the draw. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR ALL YOUR SUPPORT!!

In the end I had my DH write down 4 random numbers between 0 and 64. The numbers he chose were: 14, 29, 37 and 61. So I counted along and....
Without further ado, the 4 winners are:
Maryanne
Joan
Cre8tnow
Ramona
CONGRATULATIONS!! Please email me with your address and I will get your CDs mailed out to you. If I don't hear from you by Wednesday August 8, I will pick another winner.

Now for this week's freebie, - it's a set of three 6 x 6 papers that can be used to line the out- and inside of a card, and three matching tags.

 Images used like usual mostly from the Graphics Fairy and Bumble Button. Thanks you!!

Last project(s) for Snazzys this month

For my last project I decided to alter a little bottle. For the full tutorial on how I did it, please head over to Snazzys

 Because I had so much of the fab Graphic 45 paper left, I also made a little tag.

Notebook cover

For my second project at Snazzys I decided to make a very different project using Graphic 45 Olde Curiosity Shoppe papers and stamps. It's the cover of a notebook. Hope you like it, and if you do, hop over to the DT team blog. You even have a chance to win a paper pack!

Almost there....

I have been working for ages and ages to complete a botanical mini book with pockets for loads and loads of tags (I think there are almost 40 two sided tags in all). Well I am on the last few now, here are 3 of my last favourites. I used a cool new technique (probably won't even show). I covered the tags in Gesso, then used 3 different colours of acrylic paints and then Colorbox chalk inks with a make-up sponge. On the photos it does not look all that different from just using Distress Inks, but in real life the chalk inks over the gesso give a really cool translucent effect.

It's not too late yet to enter my give-away. Just scroll down two posts and you will see it:o)

Olde Curiosity Street

Today is my turn for showing a project at Snazzys. This month we are featuring Graphic 45 Olde Curiosity Shoppe paper collection and stamps.
If you go over to the blog there, there is even a chance to win an 8 x 8 pack of these great papers, just by leaving a comment on the first post this month.

Oh and if you want to be in with a chance to win a Crafty Secrets CD, please leave a comment on the post below here.

A freebie and a Give away

First of all, sorry to be a day late with my freebies, but at the moment it suits me better to have them up on Saturday. 

First up is a give-away, as I have not done one of those for ages! Some of you may have noticed from my side bar that I have been designing some papers for Crafty Secrets, who have just published a third CD, "Designing with Vintage Typography". 

The kind owner Sandy, sent me 5 CDs. Well obviously I only need one, so that means I have 4 of them to give away . To be in with a chance all you need to do is become a follower if you aren't one already and leave a comment on this post. I will draw winners by next Saturday, August 4, with the help of random org and will announce the winners with next week's freebies. I will ship anywhere in the world.

Now for the freebies of this week. There is a set of labels. I have just revamped my craft room a bit and wanted to label all my little drawers, so I designed a set of pretty labels and thought some of you might find them useful too.

 Here they are as singles, just if you want to resize them or use them in a different way.

I'll leave you with a little picture of the labels on some of my little drawers:) Have a good weekend everyone!

THIS GIVE-AWAY IS NOW CLOSED! WINNERS ANNOUNCED SATURDAY AUGUST 4
THANK YOU FOR ALL YOUR LOVELY COMMENTS!!

Good for one pair of shoes

Hi every one, here is a little project for the Artistic Stamper design team. They have just brought out some new stamps if you are interested, though my project uses an older one.

To read the wee story around this project and see how I made it, please go to The Artistic Stamper Creative Team blog.

The freebie for this week will exceptionally come on Saturday, so if you want to see what it is, come back tomorrow as there will be a give away too!

Spellbinder project for July

Hi everyone
I am happily back from a great holiday in France and have been busy working on DT team projects. Here is a quick view of two projects that are up on the Spellbinders blog today.
I'd love it if you leave me a comment there.
Thank you :o) Just click here