Chicken Soup 12 Days of Christmas - Day #3

We've made it to day 3 over on the Chicken Soup blog, and today I am joining in!

Today's inspiration is Christmas trees!:

And here's my Christmas Tree themed card:

What will you come up with?

Chicken Soup 12 Days of Christmas

The 12 days of Christmas kicked off yesterday at the Chicken Soup blog - 12 days of inspiration for your crafting, perfect for whilst we're all snowed in!

Check it out here

Chicken Soup Recipe #20

The latest recipe went live last night, pop over to the blog to check out all the other inspirations - and your chance to win a prize from this month's sponsor; Sarah's cards.

The inspiration:

My interpretation

TFL

Lou x

Chicken Soup Recipe #16

OK, so I'm a terrible blogger and DT member as I totally forgot to share last week's recipe - doh!

But, here is this week's, this was the inspiration

and here is the canvas it inspired me to make.

I painted it with 3 colours of Blonde Moments shimmer paints, and added some silver to the edges.

The quote is a Tim Holtz stamp, stamped onto a patterned paper covered chipboard panel. The chipboard swirl was painted with crackle paint, then I put some silver over the top. The butterflies were painted then sprayed with silver shimmer mist.

TFL

Lou x

I'm back! With good news and some not so good...

Firstly for the not so good news, and the reason I've not posted for 2 months!

Sadly my lovely Father in law passed away on 9th August. Needless to say the last couple of months have been horrendous and any creative I may have had disappeared completely.

However, a couple of weeks ago I went to the midnight crop at Pickleberry and MADE myself work through it and I made myself apply for the Chicken Soup Design Team call - and I got in!! I still can't quite believe it! The recipes go live every Friday night so make sure you check it out!!

I'll leave you with some pics of what I submitted for the DT call:

bye for now!!

Louxx

Using up the stash!

I am on a major use up mission at the moment, in the past couple of weeks I've made several layouts and tons of cards, Create 10 really kicked started my mojo!

As I'd ordered the new "She's Creative" quirky kit, I thought I better use up the old ones to make some space, so on Saturday I whipped up this layout with the last of my "What's the story" kit and what better subject for these papers than my cameras - another page for my book of me!

Weirdly enough just as I'd finished it I saw this blog post from Leo about using up leftovers - spooky eh?!

TFL

Lou xx

UKS July Card challenge

It's been ages since I took part in any sort of challenge blog or anything, so when I saw the card challenge on UKS I thought I'd join in.

There was a choice of 3 sketches so I decided to do a card for each one, I've recently subscribed to Crafty Templates so I used the cupcake and heart tree templates. Will share some more template cards later.

TFL

Lou xx