Guest designer for Crafting by Designs.....and a new Papermilldirect offer.

Afternoon everyone, and welcome to my new followers....hope you enjoy what you see.

Today I'm showing you a few cards I did as a Guest Designer for

CRAFTING BY DESIGNS

One of my cards was chosen as a winner in their recent challenge, so I've followed up with a few more. 

THREE different companies...THREE different gorgeous butterfly stamps

All card stock is from

PAPERMILLDIRECT 

The beautiful 'Zen' butterfly (my very favourite)

is from

LAVINIA STAMPS

The sentiment is a Kaisercraft 'rub-on'

This 'Swallowtail' butterfly is from

Stampin' Up.

I've heat-embossed, then coloured it with

Dylusions Inks.

Another favourite stamp at the moment is this Inkcognito Butterfly from 

VISIBLE IMAGE

I've stamped it onto a background of 

Brusho inks.

Well, hope you've enjoyed visiting today, and thanks in advance for any comments you leave. I do appreciate them all.

Before I go, I'd just like to remind you of the latest Special Offer from

Papermilldirect.

A4 Midi Box White Card 300gsm

This A4 300gsm White card is a superb base for all your craft projects and at only £14.00 for one of our Midi Boxes it's a bargain as well! 

It always sells out fast though, so don't delay

xx

Back soon with details of the new 

LAVINIA STAMPS CHALLENGE

I'm entering this post into the following challenges :-
Aud Sentiments
Cute Card Thursday
Moo-Mania

Gorgeous new offer from Papermilldirect.....

Evening all, at last..... 5 minutes to do a blog post! We're getting our house ready to 'put on the market' (maybe)....and I never seem to have a minute at the moment...... 

Anyway, wanted to show a few cards I did as samples for my workshop last Saturday.....we had a fab session, all the pics are on my Facebook page HERE

 All card stock used is from
PAPERMILLDIRECT

Embossed images, brushed with distress inks .
The sentiment is from Inkylicious

Distress inks, Tim Holtz
and
LOTV stamps 

Distress inks and a Sheena Douglas
sentiment.

Distress inks, Dylusions mask and 'Scribbly Birds' stamp from Dina Wakley.

Hope you like them....

The Special Offer this week from PAPERMILLDIRECT is fabulous hammered card in blue..

Blue Hammer Embossed Card - 320gsm

A4 Small box - Approximately 75 sheets for just £4.50

Limited supplies, so don't delay!

It's gorgeous, but I didn't have time to make any cards this week, I've temporarily lost my craft room....boo!

Catch you all soon xx
I'm entering this blog post into the following challenges :-
Little Red Wagon 
Crafty Creations
Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps
Creative Card Crew
Get Creative

Papermilldirect's new weekly offer.....

Evening all, just a quick post tonight to show you the latest 'special offer' from

PAPERMILLDIRECT

This week it's.....

White Seal Embossed Card 230gsm

There are two sizes to choose from:

A3 Box, approximately 80 sheets for £15.00

A4 Midi Box, approximately 260 sheets for £23.00

There is a  limited stock of this product and they are unlikely to have it in stock again, so get yours while you can!!

 I stamped and coloured the image, then mounted onto cardboard and Papermilldirect smooth brown card stock.
The stamp is by Art Impressions.

I made the card for our lovely friends in Scotland, as a 'thank you' for a lovely weekend visit. Fiona keeps chickens so thought the image was very apt.....her & I, gossiping!

Don't forget to pop over to the Papermilldirect website to checkout this and all the other offers.

Catch you soon,

Barbara

x



I'm entering this post into the following challenges :-
DEEP OCEAN CHALLENGE
IKE'S WORLD CHALLENGE
CRAFTY CARDMAKER'S
MAKE MY MONDAY
FAIRYTALE STAMPERS
ART IMPRESSIONS  (I used an AI stamp)

Lavinia April Challenge - Lemon & Lime

Evening all, just a quick post to share my Lavinia Stamps  DT work for April.

The theme this month is Lemon & Lime, and as usual there is a £40 prize for the 'randomly-picked' winner. You MUST use Lavinia Stamps on your entry.

It's such a fab chance to build on your collection of amazing products from

LAVINIA STAMPS

All card stock is from

PAPERMILLDIRECT 

The backgrounds have all been made with Dylusion Inks

and a selection of 

Lavinia Stamps which can be found on the website.

I covered the trees with a clear glaze.

This coloured panel was left-over from another project,  I loved the colours on it.

I didn't include this little tag in my DT work, as I stamped the sentiment crookedly, but I still like it!

Hope you've enjoyed looking at my Lavinia Stamps samples, I'll be back soon with another Papermilldirect 'special offer'.

Catch you later, have a great Easter weekend.

(we have gardening and decorating to look forward to...goody, goody....NOT!)

Barbara

xx

I'm entering this blog post into the following challenges :-
Fairytale Stampers
Great Impressions
Order of the Opus-Gluei
The Corrosive Challenge
Left of Centre

New Papermill offer.....White 'Felt' cardstock

Evening all....It's good to be back blogging after our holiday in Madeira. I love going away from home, but I also love coming home.

Since getting home, I've been doing a few Easter projects for 

PAPERMILLDIRECT

I've also been using my Silhouette Portrait quite a lot...... it works beautifully with all of the Papermilldirect card stock.

Now that we have a new baby grandson, I can do creations in BLUE as well as PINK, lol.

Eva's Easter card.

Baby pink and white hammered card stock from Papermilldirect. 

A cutting file from Silhouette Studio.

Same as above, but sky-blue card instead of baby-pink.

Grandma might have to help Charlie eat his choccie eggs!

These little boxes were made with another cutting file from Silhouette Studio, and the same card-stock as above.

I gave up chocolate for Lent, so it has been very hard to touch these mini-eggs and not shove a few in my mouth!

The new Papermilldirect special offer this week is the fabulous

 A4 Mega Box White Felt Embossed Card 270gsm

A firm favourite with Papermilldirect customers, this White Felt Embossed card is 270gsm and comes in a Mega Box of approximately 645 A4 sheets for only £41.00.

As usual, stock of this card is limited so get yours whilst you can!

Just thought I'd leave you with a photo of our gorgeous new grandson,

Charlie Robert David Daines

Born Friday 13th March 2015

Isn't he adorable??

Well, that's it for tonight, catch you all soon with my April DT creations for Lavinia Stamps.

xx
I'm entering this blogpost into the following challenges :-
The Crafter's Cafe Challenge 
Crafting By Designs 
Creative Moments 
The Paper Shelter 
Ruby's Rainbows 
Stampotique Designers 

Brusho Paints meets Clearly Besotted stamps

Morning everyone, and what a gorgeous day it's turned out to be after a gloomy start.....we're going on holiday tomorrow though, so too busy to enjoy the sun today.....

Anyway, thought I'd show you a card I've made for my 7yr old great-great, nephew......The stamps are from CLEARLY BESOTTED, some new faves of mine and I already had the Brusho paints background made up, it's a perfect match for the stamps. The layout idea came from one of my Papermilldirect 'teamies', Lisa Sumpter, thanks Lisa x

I've used white linen & smooth black card stock, from PAPERMILLDIRECT, of course.

Papermilldirect have another fabulous offer on this week,

  A4 Cream Leather Card 300gsm

This beautiful card has a lovely leather embossing which will enhance any project.

There are two box sizes to choose from:

A Small Box of approximately 75 - 80 sheets for £5.70

A Midi Box of approximately 255 - 260 sheets for £16.90

This is fab card,  but it will sell out very quickly, so pop over to Papermilldirect now and checkout this, and all the other special offers.

Catch you soon,

Barbara

x

Barbara Daines - Craft Workshop 14th March....

Hi everyone, just a quick post (but a lot of pics) to show you the creations from my workshop yesterday....we had a great day, and everyone enjoyed the project we made - An Ikea mirror, which was given the tarmaccy/Treasured Gold treatment. I first saw this idea on my lovely friend Eileen Godwin's blog, and it was Eileen who pushed me into starting my own workshops, so thanks mate, glad you did xx

Janet & Sarah .

Sue, from  

BROTHERWOOD BEARS

  Sarah & Pat (above)

Jeanette

Anne

Marion

Emily of 

EMILY'S BUTTON BOX 

Louise

Jean & Marion

Jeanette

Sarah

Anne

 Louise (above)

Pat

Emily

My mirror.

Janet

Jean

Janet

Marion

Well, what do you think...aren't they all fab??

I'm going on holiday on Wednesday, so might get another post in before I go, hopefully ....I have so much to show you xx

Papermilldirect Weekly Special Offer.......

Evening all....bit of a late post from me, but had to tell you about the new 'Special Offer' from

PAPERMILLDIRECT

This week it's a fabulous 300gsm grey/silvery pearlescent card -

 70 x A4 sheets for £11

or

240 x A4 sheets for £25 

That's over a 50% saving!!

Here are a couple of cards made with the 'special offer' card....

I've used Papermilldirect, white linen, baby-pink and the grey pearlised card.

The gorgeous flowers are from 

PETAL LU

Checkout her website for absolutely stunning hand-made flowers.

 This card uses the same card stock as above, and a Spellbinders corner die.

Both sentiments used, are from Anna Griffin.

Hope you like my Papermilldirect  DT cards.

Thanks for all the lovely comments left on my last post, catch you soon,

Barbara

x

I'm entering this post into the following challenges :-
Papertake Weekly Challenge
Try it on Tuesday
Dream Valley Challenges
The Crazy Challenge

Lavinia Stamps - March Challenge......

Morning all, from a very sunny, but windy Wiltshire. It looks very bracing out there today, but think I'll stay in and craft......so much more fun! We have a new grandchild due this week, so thought I'd better catch up on blogging etc, and maybe ever 'get ahead of myself', haha.....like that's ever going to happen!

Anyway, as always, on the 2nd day of each month, our new LAVINIA STAMPS challenge has started......the prize is a fabulous £40 to spend on Lavinia products. All you have to do is use Lavinia stamps on your creation, and upload it to either the challenge blog, or by email. Simples.

This month the theme is 'ADD SOME GEMS'

All card stock used is from

PAPERMILLDIRECT 

Mainly white smooth and white linen, mounted onto black smooth card.

All backgrounds were made using Tim Holtz Distress Stain and cling-film. (such an effective technique)

I only used 2 stamps on each card, plus a sentiment, as wanted to keep the backgrounds 'unfussy' (is that even a word?)

Stamps used were:-

Zen Thistle - here

Butterflies - here

Wishing Tree - here

Dandelions - here

and

Sentiment - here

Well, hope you've enjoyed looking at my DT creations......why not checkout the rest of the DT blogs for masses more inspiration.

http://eileenscraftyzone.blogspot.co.uk/ Eileen

http://paulinescraftyhaven.blogspot.co.uk/ Pauline

http://zoeblingcards.blogspot.co.uk/ Zoe

http://elliescupboard.blogspot.co.uk/Hellen

http://stampingwithbibiana.blogspot.co.uk/ Bibiana

http://karenslittlegiftsandcards.blogspot.co.uk/ Karen

http://wendyscardcraft.blogspot.co.uk/ Wendy

http://karenbcreations.blogspot.co.uk/ Karen

http://julie-rainbowdays.blogspot.co.uk/ Julie

http://craftingdiary.blogspot.co.uk/ Melissa

http://mariannescreativeworld.blogspot.co.uk/ Marianne

Catch you soon, Barbara xx 
I'm entering these cards into the following challenges :-
MOD SQUAD CHALLENGE 
CRAFTING BY DESIGN 
INSPIRATION DESTINATION 
SCRAPPERS DELIGHTS

Chippenham Craft Workshop - February 15th

Hi everyone.....well, my promise to blog more didn't last long, but I have lots to show you over the next few days, so watch this space. Today I just want to show you the pics from my workshop ladies.....we had a fab day on Sunday, the standard of the creations was brilliant......

Some peeps travelled for over 2 hours to attend....

Clare Messenger (  CRAFTY CLAREY ) did a fab demo using Brusho's and salt! Must try this technique myself next week.

So here are the pics, quite a few, sorry ....

 ALL OF THE CARD STOCK WAS FROM PAPERMILLDIRECT

This is the stunning Swallowtail butterfly from Stampin'Up

All the butterflies and backgrounds with coloured with

BRUSHO'S

It's fabulous that EVERY one of them is different.

The card on the top right of the pic was made by an 11 year old girl.....well done Sophie Messenger xx

Various stamps were used on these cards....from

Visible Image

Jofy

Lavinia Stamps

IndigoBlu

Inkylicious

etc.etc

Some fabulous creations,

Well done ladies

See you on 14th March xx