An exciting week for me lots of great news.

Good afternoon followers, friends, passers by and all out there in blogland.  This week has been very exciting I am very proud to share some exciting news with you, I have been accepted onto the Papermill Design Team and I am over the moon.  I am looking forward to working with the team and eagerly awaiting my box of goodies to start producing cards etc with the Papermill's fantastic card range.

I am sure you all know the Papermill from the Papermill Shops which were dotted around the country, but sadly had to colse.   Fortunately for all of us you can still buy their fantastic range of card from Papermill Direct, pop over and take a look at the fabulous selection available, and check out the Papermilldirect Blog for tips, tutorials and weekly news.  

As it is the Halloween month I thought I would show you a box I made last year using card from Papermill, cut out on the Silhouette and stamped with my favourite Halloween stamps and Autumn colours.  The card cuts beautifully and the inks and stamping went on like a dream.  The top photo shows the contents of the box, a little like Como's matchbox, full of leaves and creepy crawlies.  The leaves and insects were printed onto white card, fussy cut and stuck into the base of the box.

Will be back on Monday, family visiting this weekend, with my Crafty Bloggers Network Challenge DT card which was made using the Papermill card and paper.  Hope you all have a good weekend and enjoy your crafting.

Taking A Little Journey With The Alpha Chalenge Letter "J"

Good morning followers old and new, friends and all you lovely ladies in blogland.  I am working at full speed this week despite being under the weather and have managed to finish my Craft Barn Alpha Challenge "J" page, no last minute dash for me this fortnight lol.  

No word really jumped out at me except journey so I ran with it and this is what I ended up with, on reflection jumped is a nice word too may do another page if I have the time.

 

Anyone checking out my blog posts this week will have noticed I have made a few tags and the Stampers Anonymous Road Trip stamps were still out on my desk, they were perfect for my word choice I also found a case stamp with the word journey, Indigo Blu's Grand Tour III. 

The definition was masked off and the tyre image stamped in frayed burlap distress ink to frame it .  The car was stamped directly onto the page using black Archival ink.  The journey case and  the mileage gauge were stamped onto parchment paper and fussy cut.  I used Archival sepia for the case and Marvey Markers for the colours on the gauge.

A mini map was made from an old map and the letter "J" was cut out from it too, you can't have a journey without a map or sweets come to that.  I thought jelly babies would be fine.  The map, gauge and sweets were layered on the page, the "J" added above with a stenciled "A" and "B" at either side (journey from point A to B!).  Lastly the words Road Trip were stamped in black Archival over the top of the map, and a little distress ink splodged around the page.

The year has flown by, we have done 20 letter and now have only 6 left, you can still join in so pop over to the Craft Barn and check out the challenge, or just take a look at the fabulous pages created. 

Its Looking a Lot Like Halloween over at the Show Us Your Twinchies Challenge

Good morning ladies in blogland, followers and friends.  Its Halloween time over at the Show Us Your Twinchies Challenge blog, why not pop over and check it out and enter a few 2" x 2" Halloween works of art

Firstly I had to cut out some twinchies, I use my scrap card for these, a great way to use up bits and pieces.  These twinchies were white linen card and pearlescent card from Papermilldirect, the linen gives a texture and the pearl card is fabulous for colouring with distress inks.

I had great fun making my twinchies this month, I used two sets of stamps I bought last year to make Halloween cards.  The stamps are Indigo Blu "Hocus Pocus" and My Mind's Eye "Lost and Found Halloween".  The twinchies were stamped and embossed with black embossing powder before being coloured  using Promarkers and Distress Inks.

Witches, webs and full moons, always a favourite for Halloween.  These two were stamped and embossed with black powder and coloured with distress inks, I used a cut out circle as a template for the moon.

A touch of the gothic here the raven and a spooky abbey.  Both stamped, embossed with black and coloured with distress inks. 

 

And lastly who can resist owls and haunted castles, these were stamped, embossed and coloured with Promarkers and distress inks. 

I look forward to seeing your Halloween twinchies, so fly over to the Show Us Your Twinchies site and check out the challenge.

Watch out for the midway reminder post where I will be showing you how to use your twinchies for some Halloween crafting.