Wednesday, 1 January 2014

LLC January Challenge and Some Exciting News



Happy New Year to all my Friends and Followers

Wishing you Health, Happiness, Friendship and Good times in 2014


It's the 1st January 2014 and time for Live and Love Crafts first challenge of the year and before I give you the theme I have some exciting news to share with you.

I am an SNR Class Instructor


This is very exciting for me and will make sure I get those tutorials done that you all keep asking me about.  For those of you who have not heard of SNR (Scrapbook News and Review), here'a a little about them.

Scrapbook News and Review Magazine is the largest online paper crafting magazine in the world. Each month, we offer over 200 original pieces of artwork, including layouts, cards, stamped items, mixed media and altered art and home décor projects as well as a wealth of other inspiring projects and ideas.

We also offer in-depth articles, product reviews, and fun and practical technique tutorials complete with pictures and step-by-step instructions to guide you throughout the whole creative process. Even more, we have an online classroom that offers classes in every category and style to fit the needs of crafters from the beginner to the more advanced, and all classes are taught by passionate instructors with a desire to teach and share. No matter what your style or skill level, you’ll always find a class to fit your needs.

My first tutorial will be of the swinging baby cradle with cot mobile and vintage drawers set in a nursery scene, do you remember this?  Well on Friday 3rd January my video tutorial will be going live, eeek, so you'll be able to follow me every step of the way.



I have also in the making a second tutorial on how to make the Lace Book below which is also my project for the LLC January challenge.  If you are interested in this tutorial don't worry I will be back to let you know when it will be going live.  I'd also appreciate knowing if there is anything specific you would like me to do a tutorial on, just leave me a comment or email me.


Oops, nearly forgot to tell you what the LLC challenge theme is.   Well the challenge is perfume.  Interpret as you wish.  I have took a picture of Jean Paul Gaultier's perfume

There are so many ideas I had with this picture, chic, elegant, beautiful and of course the fabulous shape of the bottle, so I put it altoghether and arrived at this beautiful lace book.  The dress was created using Maya Design crea papers and like the bottle, goes in at all the right places, lol.  I have also picked up the colours of black and pink.


I tried to co-ordinate the all the embellishments to black, white and a dash of pink and just love the result.



The gorgeous flowers were complimented with the black berries, so perfect for this project.






Hugs Tracy x

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Monday, 30 December 2013

Hugs


Morning Everyone,

I've finally found some time to craft and what a little beauty this Little Darlings Saturated Canary image is.  She is called "Thank You" and is coloured with distress markers.


The shape was cut with a Go Kreate Die and the image is layered onto a Noor Design Joycraft oval die, gorgeous.  The papers are from MayaDesign Sofiero collection available from Live and Love Crafts.


The gorgeous flowers, two tone rose, rolled roses and kort and godt chrysanthemum are all available from Live and Love Crafts.  The postmark stamp is by Marianne Design as is the white leaves die that I used.  The SWEET zipper is by Prima and is also available from Live and Love Crafts. All with a little coating of gesso.


I have used the LDRS  Warm Fuzzies Use Your Words stamp set and cut out the letters to form the word HUGS.





Hugs Tracy x

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Tuesday, 24 December 2013

Christmas Greetings

Hi Everyone,

Are you all ready for christmas?  I'm all wrapped up and after I finish work on Christmas Eve will be so looking forward to spending time with the family and actually relaxing, I think it's the only time of year when I do eventually switch off from everything going on, so I am definitely looking forward to it.

Today's card is a little different as I made this for someone who loves Hannah Lynn, and why wouldn't you she is so beautiful.  The papers and sentiment are from the MayaDesign Vintage Frost Basics.


I have used the cool greys to colour the image and also added some B95, B93, B91 for the blue splats of paint.


I would like to take this opportinity to thank you all for your comments throughout the year and to wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy and Healthy New Year.


Hugs Tracy x

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Tuesday, 17 December 2013

A Couple of Cards


Hi Everyone,

Sorry for my absence but like everyone at the moment, finding the time to put up decorations, shopping, christmas parties and wrapping up I just haven't had the time to get onto the computer and blog.  I will hopefully have another two posts before the christmas and I'm hoping to have all my christmas shopping done and wrapped by the weekend.  I don't finish work until Christmas Eve, so I will be looking forward to spending time with the family and relaxing...

My first card is my challenge DT card for BunnyZoe and I really thought I had scheduled a post last Monday but I hadn't, oops.  So I'm a little late but not too late, hehehe.  The challenge this month is "Wings" and I chose to use Posey from Whimsy's latest release.  Links are listed under the card.



Image Posey by Whimsy Stamps




My second card is very different for me. For this one I tried really hard to do clean and simple and I think it's sort of, well almost, isn't it?  I know it's not my normal style at all but I was making it for a lady who likes clean and simple, so here goes...





Hugs Tracy x

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