Snowflake rosettes by tim holtz sizzix

When these dies first came in I knew I had to have one... But which one I wasn't sure.  So I started with the larger of the two which makes one lovely snowflake and ended up getting the other one another day as I had visions of my Christmas tree with these hanging off it.

here are the first three I made

another couple

and here are the three different ones there are. 

The first is on its own Snowflake Rosette from Crafts U Love

the second and third are the Mini Snowflake Rosettes from Crafts U Love

Pop N Cuts Snowman

Me again back with a Sizzix Pop n Cuts card using the circle card, a floating base (see tutorial HERE)
The Sizzix Basic Grey Snowman and a Hero Arts stamp for the tree.

Its my first attempt at it, its not perfect but its a start!  The trees are a bit floppy and my slits made are a bit untidy but I am sure with practise I can get something half decent.

The papers I used are Marianne papers - Scandinavian Christmas and all the materials

can be brought from www.craftsulove.co.uk

Enjoy!

Cazx

Crafts U Love demonstration Cards

Yesterday I was demonstrating at work (Crafts U Love) sometimes I pinch myself I work at such a fab place with the loveliest of people!  So yesterday demonstration was to demo the Tim Holtz Sizzix defusers.  Teamed with a lot of stamps, lots of embossing folders, a few dies and some Coredinations card I made these cards.

Sizzix Embossing Folders

Circle defuser and circle centre used to emboss with TWO folders!

Hero Arts Tree, Hero Arts Snowman

Woodware Ribbon

Heart and Holme Snowman, Frostyville Wreath - Memory Box

Cheery Lynn Holly

Swiss Dots Embossing Folder with circle defuser

No Finished but Penny Black hedgehog, Hero Arts Trees

Sizzix Embossing Folder and Oval Difuser, Woodware Ribbon

Woodware Ribbon and Holly Punch, Swiss Dots Embossing Folder, 

Penny Black Stamp and Oval Difuser

Spellbinders Embossing Folder, Cheery Lynn Holly,

Penny Black stamp, Circle Defuser and Bazzill Paper

Heart and Holme Stamp, Hero arts Tree stamp, 

Devine Swirls Embossing Folder, Swiss Dots Embossing Folder

Oval Defuser and Oval Insert to create TWO embossing patterns.

Bazzill Paper and Woodware Ribbon

Woodware Bird Stamps, Poppy Stamp branch die

Spellbinders embossing folder

In Stitches Embossing Folder, Small Oval difuser

Joy! Snowflakes, Penny Black hedgehog

Marianne Stamps, Spellbinder Embossing Folder,

Oval Difuser, Bazzill Paper,

Marianne stamps, Hero arts Tree, Sizzix Embossing folder

and the centre piece of the defuser set

Woodware Ribbon.

Hope you enjoy the cards, like a bus they all come along together!!

Sizzix Dies and Penny Black

My two favourite things right now... of course Penny Black stamps and Sizzix Dies.  This is one of the new Karen Burniston dies her accordion album.  This die is cut four times (or more/less) to make these fantastic accordion cards/albums.

Its really hard to take a photo of to get the full effect.  Also my phone does not take the clearest pictures.

I wonder if Jan one of our lovely Saturday regulars managed to make one too??  Jan was not convinced she

would manage to make one but I had more faith and said Yes she would.  Now here is the link to Karen Burniston You Tube Tutorial. So you all can see how its made.

All materials from CRAFTS U LOVE

Allsorts Challenge - Purple Passion week 172

Really getting in a roll with these challenges.  Fab way to get some crafting started :)

This one is for the Allsorts challenge blog  HERE

Here I have used an older Penny Black stamp and lots of purple as the challenge required.  Now purple is my least used colour but it was nice to dust off this old Doodlebug paper it is YEARS old.

I used the Nellie's Double Fold Dies from Crafts U Love for the butterfly, Devine Swilrs Embossing Folder and Lorelai Leaves from Poppy stamps

I hope you are enjoying a bit more action from me?

Cazx

Mousey christmas

I made this card a few weeks ago but I never shared it anywhere so I thought that it would be perfect for the Cute Card Thursday Christmas in September Challenge

I used the very lovely Penny Black stamp set called Mouse Deco and you can get it from Crafts U Love

Enjoying finding some challenges I am always on the look out for more blogs.... do you know if there are any die cut challenge blogs??  Or others that will suit my cards and style of stamps I like?  let me know!

Cazx

Penny Black Saturday Challenge

I've decided to play along with some challenges to avoid the times I go out to my shed and just sit there over whelmed with "stuff" so of course I had to play along with the Penny Black Saturdays challenge.  Septembers challenge is  "Buttons and Bows" and here I have used a lovely Penny Black image together with some buttons and some twine tied in a bow.

HERE is the link to the September challenge post

I hope to play along every month :)

Cazx

Little birds

I loved this set as soon as I saw it and I saw the potential for these little Woodware Robins to become just cute little birds too.

Here is todays Create and take at Crafts U Love using the birds as regular birds.  And another card following using the birds as robins.

Also used : Echo Park Papers, Woodware wording, Die-namics fishtail bunting and flourish.

Also used : Memory Box frostyville Wreath, Bazzill Papers

Rushing off to work now.  Busy weekend so not much crafting time :(

Cazx

My first love....stamping

I've been a little confused of late, loving die cutting and especially Sizzix right now but of course my first love will ALWAYS be stamping and ALWAYS be Penny Black.  I love their designs, Margaret Sherry designs being my absolute favourite.  Last night whilst watching the closing for paralympics last night and I happened to grab one of my newest stamps and make this little card.

Simple's, you know me, not one for complicated!

Wasn't the closing show amazing??  I LOVE Coldplay so for me it was :) 

Pop n Cuts - Clown Birthday

Today I have a pop n cuts card to share.  I haven't had the time to make one for a while, just not enough hours in the day to play with all I have to play with but when I needed a card for one for Caidens friends I

thought this was perfect.

I have used the fantastic Pop n Cuts system to make this central pop up and gone made decorating inside with punches, stamps including this cute clown from Penny Black and the wording from Woodware.

Cazx

Something new... WOWW

I havent done this before I thought I would play along with What's on your Workdesk Wednesday #170

the answer  ...... a big ole pile!

some lovely papers from work new Echo Park papers :)

A couple of Woodware sets and a bit of a mess!

Next week if I get a chance to play I will make sure I find something more creative to photograph.

A link to where you can view and play HERE

Cazx

Squirrel Fun

I made this squirrel in these colours before we went and had a fun day at the British Wildlife Trust and their beautiful Red Squirrels.

This is made using the Sizzix Happi Squirrel with Flower die (crafts U Love IN STOCK), Hero Arts Newsprint stamp (Order from CUL) and the Memory Box Spring border (Crafts U Love IN STOCK)

This is a large die and is on a 8 x 8 card base to make a lovely large card.

And here are a few pictures from our day out last week.

We had a lovely time.  My kids love animals so really enjoyed getting to see so many wonderful British animals.  The centre is only opened during school holidays and they run talks every 1/2 hour which includes them feeding the animals so in tern means the animals are very close to see.