Just a little more Tea Dancing ..........

Morning everyone, 

Lets hope the sun pays us a visit today, it's being very elusive recently and owes us lots of shine time!

Time for a little 'Tea Dance' ..........some  simple, any occasion (i've given them sentiments) cards from me and also showing that the collection can be used for the boys too!

I have used both craft and white cards and love the contrast  of craft  with these lovely soft colours.  All the cards are simple and the only additions to the kit elements used were some clear embossing powder, ink pads, stamps and some ribbon and a couple of gems.

Here  goes, fives easy to make cards, including two for the boys......... Unfortunately, due to a little  gremlin in blogger this morning    (been very troublesome!!) I can only post pics at the end of the blog, apologies - please see pics below.

Hope these have given you some more ideas and inspiration, (there are already some beautiful cards and projects for inspiration on the blog) Tea Dance 'is a really beautiful  collection and the Project of the Month pack  even has some perfect pearls and twine!  What  are you waiting for, and when you have ohh'd and ahh'd over its loveliness, and used it to make some cards and projects please send your pics to Tina, or Jo and if it features a Candi bloom or two please send my way.  I'll be back on Friday with two flower tutorials for you in Candi Club Friday, look forward to seeing you then.

Enjoy your Sunday, whatever you have planned - stay happy and smiling and keep crafting .............

Tea Dance Collection...

Hi everyone it's me back again to share what I've made with the gorgeous new Tea Dance Collection designed by Steph Davies...36 sheets of beautiful soft shabby chic papers in an 8"x8" Paper Pad...beautiful die cut flowers, bunting and message bands...right up my street, perfect for creating a wall hanger

the papers are beautiful enough to stand alone but as I was going to be covering them up with lots of bits and pieces...I stamped the Printers Block Alphabets and some sentiments to create a little bit of interest around the edges..then it was time to have some fun adding an Embossed Frame coloured with Iced Spruce Distress Ink and lightly highlighted with Brushed Corduroy and a bit of Tea Dance Bunting...

layering up the beautiful Tea Dance Flowers and giving the Candi a light flittering of glitter...

The minute I saw these gorgeous flowers on one of the papers in the Paper Pad I had a bit of a "must add them to a Birdcage card" moment...

a little bit of fussy cutting and layering to create a 3D effect...

and with the addition of a Sentiment Banner, a little bit of lace and ribbon...some upside down Candi decorated with pearls and voila...a French Shabby Chic Oo...La..La card. 

If you've already got your Tea Dance Collection goodies, you'll know how beautiful they are and we would love to see what you've made with them...e-mail your creations to the lovely Tina at sparklygirltina@gmail.com and she'll be happy to feature them on the blog for you...if not you could always pop over and treat yourself to the Tea Dance Project of the Month Kit you won't believe how much you get in this kit for £15.00 and a free Mannequin Pad too.
Do you know that Craftwork Cards is now on Pinterest???  Click here to have a look.  You will find plenty of inspiration from all of the Design Team and also there is a Focus on You board too.
That's me for now...have a great weekend whatever you've got planned...fingers crossed for some warm sunshine...Happy Crafting until next time.
Hugs Kath xxx

Hi everyone!
Craftwork Cards have got the Friday feeling today as we're putting an offer on for our Project of the Month Kit. Buy a kit, and receive a free Mannequin pad! Find the offer here

I had a lovely package on my desk this morning which contained these absolutely stunning inspiration cards that Julie Hickeys done for this months kit!

Beautiful as always!!

Steph xx 

Candi Club Friday - Customer Showcase No. 1

Morning everyone! 

Believe it or not, it's Friday again,  and time for us to showcase some of your Candi flower creations.........

Today it's the turn of 2 of our great customers to show off what they've been making since our tutorial and email clinic last week.  Thanks to those who mailed me your questions, hope it helped with your creations, my email address is cardsandcandi@hotmail.co.uk  - mail me if you have any further questions.  

First up today is AMANDA LAKE who sent a pic of her lovely layered blooms with buttons and gems as centres, this is a  great little stash ready for card making, hope to see some of them again soon Amanda! Thank you for sharing ....

MAUREEN SCOTT's lovely works of art have winged their way all the way from bonny Scotland!  And very bonny they are too, showing off two beautiful cards with Candi layered flowers, showing w that you can do with a handful of Candi...........

You are both winners to me so will send a little Candi surprise your way!!  Please let me haveyour addresses and will get something in the mail to you next week ladies. 

And here are a couple of cards that I made using some Candi 'buds',  couldn't resist using some of my new stash of shimmer card stock, night purple shimmer (lush,!) and petal shimmer with some white Candi. Looks like it's a white Candi week for me this week, more buds in the second card with a lovely silver frame, lots of perfect pearls and a glitter border (scored a double line frame, filled with double sided tape and used a fine anthracite glitter).  I filled the centres of the buds with a blob of glue and a sprinkle of silver frantage (a rough glass glitter), the little bud at the top is attached to a monochrome paper clip.

Pic below is a little box of flowers on their way to Jane whose comment was picked at random from a recent Candi blog! You too could have one of these for leaving a comment!!  Last week's winner was CRAFTY CHRIS - congrats CHRIS please email me your address (cardsandcandi@hotmail.co.uk)  -  think I might be busy making Candi flowers and little craft boxes, lol!!

That's all for now folks, I'll be around most of today on email if anyone has any questions and will be back next week with a new tutorial and two new flowers for you! Please don't forget to pop by, we love your comments.  Have a great weekend (I'll be back here on Sunday with something different, there will probably be some Candi somewhere though!  - see you then).  Hugs and remember - keep happy, smiling and crafting! 

Focus on You....

Hi everyone its me back again with my weekly Focus on You post!  Hope you are all keeping warm and wrapping up against the bitter wind and cold that is the start of our Summer.......!!!!!!!  My poor little doggie had her "summer" cut in the week of the hot weather and poor thing must be freezing now!!!!  Anyway enough about the weather back to YOU!!!

So first up this week (and as always in no particular order!)

AMANDA LAKE - Amanda has made her cards using the Black Magic Goody Box found here.  Gorgeous cards with a lovely clean and fresh feel - I love 'em - and am sure the lucky recipients will too!

up next is KAREN PETITT  - The first card was actually made by Karen's friend HELEN.  Helen sent this card to Karen to cheer Karen up - they both suffer from health issues and support each other where they can (how lovely is that).  Helen was so kind that as well as the card she also sent Karen half of the Kit too!!  Karen was absolutely delighted to receive the card and the kit from HELEN and asked if I would share it on the blog with you all - no problem Karen here it is.....  I think Helen should e-mail me some of her creations as I'm sure we would all love to see more!!!  Its lovely that crafting brings people together - thanks so much for getting in touch Karen.

Karen mean while has also been busy making cards using products from her Dolly Mixtures collection found here and some other Craftwork Card bits that she had in her stash!

So what do you all out there in Blog Land think??  We would love to receive your comments!!

I've been able to show you all some really fabulous cards made by YOU our lovely customers.  Thank you as always to the lovely Amanda, Karen and Helen for emailing me in the first place so that I could show you their wonderful creations.  If you have anything that you would like me to feature all you have to do is email me at sparklygirltina@gmail.com and I will do the rest!  What you waiting for - get creating and get emailing - LOL!!

Do you know that Craftwork Cards is now on Pinterest???  Click here to have a look.  You will find plenty of inspiration from all of the Design Team and also there is a Focus on You board too....

So that is me for another week, pop back tomorrow and well in fact every day as there is always something gorgeous on show over here on the Blog!!

Until next time...

Happy Crafting




SPARKLYGIRL-TINA
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Out and About!

I am out and about next weekend, Saturday 25th May you will find me at Pickwell Farm where I will be demonstrating and running a workshop for the lovely Carolyn.  I will be sharing my ideas using our fabulous new Tea Dance Collection and hope that you can join me.

This is the address for Pickwell Farm, Grange Road, Southampton, Hampshire SO31 8GD and I will be there from 10am on Saturday - hope you can pop along or join me for a workshop.  If you would like more details of the workshop please call Carolyn on 023 8040 3069 to book a seat.

On Sunday 26th May you will find me at The Glitter Pot for their Spring Spectacular Demonstration weekend.  I will be there from 10am to 4pm and again sharing my ideas using our latest Tea Dance Collection.  No need to book just pop along and see some wonderful inspiration!

The Glitter Pot can be found at Sheddingdean Business Park, Marchants Way, Burgess Hill, West Sussex RH15 8QY.

Hope you can join me sometime over the weekend!

Here are a few things I have made using the Tea Dance Collection ....

Panels of pattern paper, edges have been inked and I decorated the papers with my favourite Liquid Pearls, Platinum.

Up close to see the details. . .

I really love twine at the moment and it just adds a little something without taking over the card.

I die cut circles of the pattern papers and layered them onto my card.  Highlight elements of the papers and sentiments with Liquid Pearls and added a double bow using organza ribbon.

The liquid pearls just adds a touch of dimension to the papers and shows the centres of Steph's beautiful flowers off a treat!

I ripped the pattern papers on this card, something I have not done for a while.  I added layers of embossed vellum too as I thought it went really well with the soft delicate designs of Tea Dance.  I cut spiral circles to make my spiral roses and added punched hearts for leaves.

Up close to see the detail . . .

My last piece today is a sheet of Kraft cardstock with lots of little punched tags on it.

I then punched flowers, butterflies and hearts and added little elements to each tag.  Tied twine bows, knotted some ribbon and added highlights of Liquid Pearls.

Up close to see some of the details . . .

Hope you have enjoyed my Tea Dance Collection inspiration which is available on-line now or from a craft shop near you!

Hope to see you at Pickwell Farm or The Glitter Pot next weekend.

New Tea Dance Collection: Home Sweet Home

Hi everyone just popping in today to share with you all something that I've made using the fabulous new Tea Dance Collection - it really is soooo gorgeous!  You can find it here. I hope you have been enjoying all my teamies inspiration - there will be lots more on the blog this week I'm sure!

So here is something I made this weekend....

Still with me?!!! LOL I know lots of pics but I don't know about you, but I love lots of photos - I love to see those close up details and there was so much going on with this that I wanted you to see!!!

Obviously you can see its three squares which spell out Home Sweet Home.  I've deliberately not tied them together - initially so that I could take individual photos, but then I decided to leave them separate so that they could either be stuck to three pieces of board or canvas and could be placed either horizontally or vertically whichever takes your fancy!  So a quick breakdown of how I created this...

• Take 3 pieces of kraft card, draw faux stitching in white pen around the edges.
• Cut 3 pieces of  Tea Dance papers and distress the edges.  Stick this to the kraft card.
• Take 3 Flower Frames (find them here) - lightly colour them with 3 Distress Inks: I used Old Paper, Bundled Sage & Spun Sugar. Raise these with 3D Foam pads.  Tie organza ribbon around each one before attaching to the Tea Dance paper.
• Next using Printers block stamps (find them here), stamp your words on to pieces of Tea Dance paper using Bundled Sage Distress Ink and Versafine Smokey Gray ink.  Cut round each letter.  With a foam pad press into your Spun Sugar Ink and press over the words to make the white section pink! Mount each one on to some kraft paper using 3D foam pads and then faux stitch around the edges.
• Decorate each piece with the Tea Dance Bunting (find them here). and the Tea Dance Flowers (here)..  
• I've also die cut some little birdies, some tea cups and saucers, a heart and some small daisy flowers that I had in my stash and added these.
• Finish with some Candi and for me of course I had to add some Sparkly crystals

So I hope that you have enjoyed my little share today.  I will be back with you on Thursday for my Focus on You post - do pop over then to have a look!  If you have anything you would like me to feature just e-mail me at sparklygirltina@gmail.com.

Just a couple of reminders as there is always so much going on here on the Blog!

• Don't forget to send your Candi Flower creation photos to my lovely Teamie Mars at cardsandcandi@hotmail.co.uk  Mars will need your photo by this Thursday 16th lunchtime. There is a prize up for grabs!   Here is a link to Mar's post for all the details...

• Also my other lovely Teamie Jo has her monthly Challenge and this month its: Spring.  Email your spring themed makes to Jo at:  jostreet1973@gmail.com.  This comp closes on Sunday 2nd June and there is a £20 prize up for grabs so what you waiting for....  You will find all the details here on Jo's original post.

Do you know that Craftwork Cards is now on Pinterest???  Click here to have a look.  You will find plenty of inspiration from all of the Design Team.

So that is it from me for today, see you on Thursday...  Until then....

Happy Crafting



SPARKLYGIRL-TINA
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