Hunkydory.......

Christmas on Create and Craft

As promised I've taken some pics of the cards I've made from the Christmas Craftinator from Hunkydory.
The first two are the ones I demonstrated, signed and sent off to the lucky emailers. This first one is my very favourite, the colours are so different to the usual traditional Christmas colours

The polar bears are so cute, I couldn't resist, especially as they were Dave Bradford's favourite

As I said on the show, I think you could start now with this kit and still have some left on Christmas Eve as there is so much in it.
For those of you who have bought it I hope you enjoy it! Here's a few more designs

Just love these snowdrops

It's a huge collection and I was amazed at all the designs and who doesn't love a poinsettia

Now he is just adorable and I added glossy accents to his goggles

This one is so elegant and I've used the three sheets from the little book to decoupage the image

And finally this little character was cut out of an insert and stuck onto the snowy acetate. The rest of the insert was cut to fit around the sentiment and I made some snowy hills from white card stock









I will be back on Create and Craft with more Hunkydory Designs on Friday 3rd July at 3 and 5pm with AnnMarie

Heeellllooooo.......

Is there anybody there.........????????

Did you think I'd run off and left you all? Not a chance I'm afraid!!
I'm having major laptop gremlin problems again with allsorts of virus thingys and pop up thingys happening.
Anyway I'm here today, although it may take me a couple of hours to get this post loaded.

So, what's been happening since I last saw you?

 I've had my "TV Debut" on Create and Craft with Hunkydory
and I've done another Demo Day at The Crafty Bunch in Telford with Brushos.
So let's start with C&C I loved every minute of it and had such an amazing response and I must have done okay because Hunkydory have asked me to do it again on 3rd July

It was both a scary and exhilarating experience rolled into one

but I really did enjoy it

I haven't got around to taking pics of my sample cards yet but I will do that and put them on here

Now onto the Demo Day and I have got some pics of my designs to show you so here goes

These feature the fabulous IndigoBlu Peony stamp

On this one I've used the new Sheena Lily stamp and die sets

I really like how this has turned out

The wording is from a new WOW stamp set and a fab Tim Holtz Butterfly

As usual it was another lovely day

Well this has taken an age to post but I promise I will be back asap

Bolton......

Here I come!!

The Great British Craft Festival in Bolton will be my home this weekend along with the rest of Team HunkyDory. I'll be doing Make and Takes so if you're attending this fabulous show please come and find me and say hi, it would be great to put some faces to names.
I'll also be at the Stoneleigh Festival in August but it's too early to know what I'll be doing for that show.

Linda Simpson sent me a message to say she had received her give away prize and was thrilled with it. You are very welcome Linda, enjoy your prize xx

My next visit to The Crafty Bunch in Telford is on June 13th and that's a Brusho Demo and I'll be using more new products there like the Soft Form Texture Paste and the Brusho Acrylic sprays.

My "Debut" on the Create and Craft Screen will also be coming up in June so I have that to look forward to also, no pressure there then!!!

I'll be back next week with some photos from the show, I can't wait!!

Thought I'd share these layouts with you. I've used old photos of my parents that I've being waiting to use forever and I thought these colours went perfect with them.
The papers are Scrapberry's from the Wind of travel Collection.
I'll add my journalling to finish them off.
I enjoyed designing these, lots of paper cutting!  

A Crafty Time.....

At The Crafty Bunch

Sunday was an absolutely brilliant day. The Bunch ladies did me proud and produced some amazing work. We laughed all day and Gessoed till we could Gesso no more!!
Everyone's work was the same but different, in either colour choices or placement of the embellishments, but they all finished them to a very high standard.

So after showing some sneaky peeks last time here's the finished article
Have to say I made this several years ago but it still remains one of my favourite makes.

I have to thank Elaine and Maria for my choccies and of course to Sue for a never ending supply of Maltesers!

As you can see from the pics, the ladies were getting really involved with their projects

I'll be back at The Crafty Bunch on Saturday 13th June for another Brusho Demonstration

Thank You......

a really big thank you for all the messages and comments about my HunkyDory news and also a big thank you to those of you who took part in my give away
The prize has been sent off to the winner Linda Simpson and I hope she enjoys it. Once again thank you to Darren Saxton of Jones Craft for the prize donation
You won't be seeing me on your TV screens till next month but I'm sure it will come round quick enough!!

I've been laid up this last couple of weeks with a really painful back problem but I'm happy to say it's feeling much better now, which is a good thing as I've got The Great British Craft Fair at Bolton to do at the end of the month. I'll be doing make and takes so if any of you are going along come and say hi.
On Sunday 17th May I'm off to The Crafty Bunch in Telford again and I'm teaching  a fab mixed media workshop.

This is one of my most favourite projects I've ever made and I'm hoping the Crafty Bunch ladies are gonna love it too.

There is sooo much going on with this project and its a joy to make

I'll give you the full pic after I've done the workshop on Sunday. Only sneaky peeks for now

The Winner is

Thank you all so muchly for your comments and all your best wishes on my exciting announcement

It's time to draw the winning name so it's over to Mr Random.org to generate the winning number
I've given all the people who commented a number
So here they are
1. Janet Banks
2. Deborah Gill
3. Linda Simpson
4. Rachel
5. Neil
6. Jackie Trinder
7. ElizabethR
8. Fuchsia
9. Button
10. Kay Dalton
11. Linda Page
12. Samantha Wade
13. Sam
14. Sue Gadd
15. Debby B
16. Kathy Loughlin
17. Elaine
18. Jackie
19. Molly Anthistle
20. Ann Marie Brown


True Random Number Generator
Min: Max: Result:3Powered by RANDOM.ORG
So we have our winner .... Tah Dah...... LINDA SIMPSON

Congratulations Linda xxxx
I'll be in touch xxx

It's Announced!!...

Oh My Days!!
I've been keeping the most biggest secret ever and now it's been officially announced I can finally tell you all about it.

I've only gone and been asked to be the new TV Demonstrator, on Create and Craft, for none other than............ HUNKYDORY

To say I'm thrilled is an understatement. I did my screen test last week with the lovely Nigel May as my presenter. What a nice man he is.
So there you go, I've been bursting to tell you all. I've worked with the HunkyDory team at their shop in Preston for quite some time now and also worked with them at their Great British Craft Festival. They are a tremendous team of people and I can't wait to get started. If you pop over to the HunkyDory website you will be able to see it for yourself. Hopefully you will all stay and join me on this new adventure, I do hope so as I so value your support.

Now today will be the draw for the winner of the give away. I have to go out today so that gives you all a final chance to comment on the 350 post, so the draw will be made this evening.

Thanks everyone for your comments and lovely messages. Here's to the future!!