I know my blog posts have been few and far between in recent times, however I have had to keep a little secret, so I have been busy crafting away, and keeping my secret!
But it’s ok, I can tell you now. 🙂
I am very excited to announce that I have been asked to join the Design Team with the lovely ladies from Crafty Boots Challenges.

To celebrate, I have created some projects for the current challenge, using a musical theme.

My first project is an insert for my iPhone case.  The stamps I have used here are all from Darkroom Door, I just love their musical stamps! The lady playing a clarinet has been heat embossed in gold, and then I have heat embossed the black wording over the top – very carefully!  Unfortunately the first two words didn’t come out very well, so I had to do them again onto a separate piece of cardstock, but in the end I quite like it that way, it highlights the words “Listen to…” and I think perhaps those are the most important words.

I have also made two cards, the first a Christmas card, uses some of the gorgeous Gold Foil which has been embossed using the Stars embossing folder.  The musical patterned paper was some I found in my stash (it’s a rather large stash!!), and have cut out the baubles using the retired Holiday Ornaments Framelits.  The Merry Christmas wording is gold heat embossed and is from a retired stamp set called More Merry Messages.

Once again I have used some patterned papers from my extensive stash for the second card, which I have stamped over using the Postcard stamp.  I have cut out 4 or 5 flowers using the Floral Frames Framelits, the flowers have then been wet, and crinkled up, then left to dry.  I have then partially straightened them out, layered them and joined them using a Vintage Brad, and then lightly sponged the edges.

For all of my lovely Stampin’ Up! customers and followers, you will notice that I haven’t used a lot of Stampin’ Up! products for these projects, but only because there are not a lot of musical items in the current catalogues, plus it’s always good to use up some of that stash 🙂  Don’t worry, I’ll be sharing other projects real soon. 🙂

I do hope you will drop in and see what the rest of the Crafty Boots Design Team have come up with, and I hope you will join us and share your own projects.  We love to see what you have come up with 🙂

Happy Stamping!
Chris

Just a quick shout out for my lovely friend and upline Deb Fearns who recently had some cards published in the Australian Cardmaking Stamping and Papercraft Magazine.  The magazines are still available in your local newsagent (in Australia) so why not pop out and grab yourself a copy.  Deb’s fabulous cards are on Page 12 and also featured on the front cover.  Congratulations Deb!

You can see more of Deb’s work on her blog.

Happy Stamping!
Chris

Just a very quick update, for those of you who are regular followers of my blog, you will know that we have been in the middle of moving from Adelaide back to Canberra, after two years away.  Well, we made it.  It was a long drive – nearly 15 hours, but not an arduous one, since I enjoy driving and love the Australian countryside.
Now we just have the task of unpacking a lot of boxes and organising furniture and belongings.  I think I prefer the driving part!
So for at least the next few days, I am without my own computer and have limited internet access, but you can be sure that I am itching to get back into crafting and blogging, so I won’t be away for long.

In the meantime, happy stamping!
Chris

I just wanted to let all of you know more exciting news for me…. I have been asked to be on the Design Team for Dynamic Duos, starting today 🙂
Make sure you pop back a little later to see the challenge details for this week.