Craft Fair fun and lots of cards....

Yesterday my friend, Suna and I headed to a Craft Fair - FYI - For your inspiration.  It's held at Lake Karapiro in the Waikato area.  About 2 hours south of Auckland.   A long drive, but we always stop about half way for breakfast.  We left around 7.30 and with stops to pick up some lunch, for breakfast  and top up of petrol and we made it by 10.30.   We talked all the way down.  My GPS - took me a different way and we drove over the Dam - never been that way before.   

We spent a few hours looking around the stalls... spending most of my money at Krafter's Cart stall.... got some lovely goodies - and saw the Lisa Horton Interference inks being demo'ed.  Suna ended up buying three colours.  I managed to get some Andy Skinner stamps.... been eyeing them up for some time. 

On our way home we made a stop to visit our friend, Carol.  She lives about 20 mins from where the craft fair was.   We had a lovely catch up and she gave us some goodies as she is destashing. 

Here is my haul...

I got a new pick up tool - it has 4 replacement wax tips - and a pokey tool at one end.   

Today was busy with catching up with the chores from yesterday and doing the ironing this afternoon.  But managed to grab a couple of hours in the craft room and got a few projects done

First one used one of the Creative Expressions/Andy Skinner stamps I got.  This one is "Let Your Dreams Take Flight"  I made an NZ A5 sized panel - used two Distress Oxide inks (Vintage Photo and Lost Shadow) and two Distress Inks (Weathered Wood and Picked Raspberry) smooshed on a piece of acetate and added to the panel.  I die cut a piece with a Gina K Master Layouts 1 die and did the mat in dark pink.  Stamped the image onto the panel and the sentiment onto some scrap card and fussy cut it. 

My next card was a bit of mixed media.

I used the other part of the panel I made.  I stamped a La Blanche silicon stamp - Bird's Nest (thanks Carol) in some Toffee Crunch Memento ink.  Added a Kaisercraft stamp - rose and scripty one- stamped parts of it randomly over the background in some dark grey ink.   Added some 49th & Market rub-ons and washi tape stickers purchased yesterday.

Next one was using the Waffle Flower - Layered Poinsettia stencil I also purchased.   

It's a lovely duo stencil.   I did the poinsettia in soft greens and added the leaves, centre and the other little bits with Lunar Paste in Minty Fresh.  I cut it the same size as my card base.   I added a sentiment from Concord & 9th - Big on Christmas.  Love how it turned out.   

In fact I also made another panel with the stencil 

This time in red and silver with a touch of gold paste for the flower centres.   

Thanks for coming by today and if you made to here... I appreciate it. 

Christmas at CCC Reveal and a Vintage Santa

I have heard from my recipient to say my card had arrived for the November CCC.  I chose to send a Christmas card to my CCC partner as it was one of my very best online friends.... none other than the lovely Greta Hess....aka GG Creations

Here is the card I made for her using the theme of Baubles.

My background paper was some wrapping paper that came from charity I help as a thank you for the donations this year.  I trimmed a little bit to the make the background, layered onto some bronze/gold card.  I die cut the Altenew Mid Century Frame die from the same bronze/gold card as well as the sentiment from Britannia Dies.  My baubles are a little stamp from Couture Creations that I stamped on a white circle.  I used a variety alcohol markers to colour them and added some glitter gel.

And I have a card to share that I added to the "Show us your Santas" at Jo's Christmas Kickstart Challenge

 This stamp is a white silicone stamp from La Blanche that I got many years ago.  I used Catherine Pooler ink - Eucalyptus ink and Altenew Obsidian ink to stamp the image.  I added some pencils on the holly to enhance it.  The sentiment is from a Hero Arts set.  I tore around the image and added some of the green ink to distress.  

Thanks for stopping by today.  Hope your Christmas cards are coming along.  I'm off to start addressing mine. 

More Vintage Christmas

I've been making a few vintage Christmas cards using this La Blanche stamp.

This one has lots of distressing and just a pop of colour with the Holly and the die cut Poinsettia. I dry embossed the base card.

I stamped this onto some Kraft cardstock with  Wet Cement Hero Arts ink.  I coloured the holly and Santa with colouring pencils and Gamsol.  Tore all around it and edged with Walnut Stain ink.  I stamped the Kaisercraft sentiment with Archival Coffee ink... Noticed it's a bit crooked.  Finished with a flower and mounted the panel onto a card base stamped with Hero Arts Wood grain background in Olive distress ink.

 I stamped this onto some dark cream card stock with Versamark Sahara Sand, making sure that I didn't stamp the Holly.  I trimmed the piece with some decorative scissors and distressed with Tea Dye distress ink.  I stamped part of a Hero Arts sentiment stamp along the top.  Added some lace and a flourish and red flower.  The PP on the card base is from a Kaisercraft pack.   

I'm taking it with me tomorrow so there will be more to share next week.

Have a great weekend
 Dawn

                              

Alcohol ink and foil.........

A great combination!  Over at Our Creative Corner last week that was Sue's challenge.... and guess what!  I made the Top Talent.   Very exciting.  So here is the card I made

I found a silver foil doily in my stash and got out my alcohol inks.  I used a purple, a blue and a green mixture and coloured the doily. I chose a purplish card for my background and embossed it with a Spellbinders M-bossiblities folder.  The Santa is on a La Blanche stamp.  I just inked up Santa and punched him out.  Edged with my 2.5mm gold Calligraphy pen as I did around the sentiment.  This worked well as I hand cut around the stamp.  I matted it onto the some brown dotted PP and then onto a cream card base.   I was really pleased with the result.    And to win was even better!  Thanks Sue.

Thanks everyone for visiting.  Hope I have inspired you to pull out your alcohol inks and give them an outing!

Dawn 

La Blanche flowers.....

Just before Christmas, I bought a set of La Blanche flower stamps.  I liked them, then couldn't really decided how to use them.  The two stamps are quite small so wondered what I could do with them.  So I decided just to play.... stamping them on a variety of backgrounds and PP.  I had shown my parents how to make water coloured backgrounds so had a few lying around.



I found this piece of water coloured paper and stamped the flowers with black ink.  I then used colouring pencils and a water brush to colour in.  I added some tiny butterflies cut with punch.  The sentiment is from Stamp-it.  I have been impressed by some designs Sally has been doing...so I used a similar idea.  Leaving white space all around the panel.  I added a dark blue ribbon to finish it off.   So in the end I was pleased with how the stamping turned out.

Today I signed up for Clean and Simple card making class after seeing all the wonderful creations over on Flickr and on my bloggy friends blogs.  So I've been trying to catch up with the day one and two videos.   Love the first days sketches... so hopefully will get some time tomorrow to create.

Take care

Dawn