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Candy Cane Wreath

Hey! I'm back!

Before the new year arrives i'm squeezing in some blog posts i've missed over the last few days/weeks as i've been super busy with work! so today.... I have this fantastic Wreath to share!

It was my mom who inspired me this year to create something a little different, ahhh whom I trying to kid!, so she created some bog standard fir cones for her front door and as we go I wanted to outdo her! Ha-ha! I buy Candy Canes every Christmas to go on our table or on branches of our tree, so I thought why not make a wreath! 

You can find the full tutorial and more about my wreath in the Decembers issue of Die Cut Crazy Magazine!
And don't forget... For those who'd like to see a sneak peek of my work and the other talented ones from the DCC Family over at Die Cut Crazy Magazine, check out the link below you can download the special Christmas Edition Free! as a PDF! also available on ITunes Newsstand / Apple App Store on all ISO Devices, and of course... not forgetting our latest issue is available to buy! 


I'd like to enter my wreath to the following challenges:

Stampin With The Dragon (W2 of 2) - Last Minute Christmas
Wags 'n Whiskers - No. 119 - (W2 of 2) - Christmas
4 Krafty Girlz -  (W2 of 2) Anything Goes
Aud Sentiments Challenge - (W2 of 2) #96- Christmas
Creative Knockouts - #17 Anything Goes
Southern Girls  - (W2 of 2) Christmas Wishes
Divas by Design  - Anything goes (ends Jan07)
Little Red Wagon - #217 Anything Christmas 

Thanks so much for stopping by my blog today!
I'd love if you'd leave a comment to let me know your thoughts!
xoxo

Don't forget - Most of my Creations are available to purchase and my 2014 Custom Order book is now open over at my Handmade Cards & Crafts Shop @ Charisma Cardz!

Love & Peace
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Last of the festiveness! & Candle Tutorial

Morning all! 

I certainly hope everyone had a lovely Christmas! I did! and man i'm stuffed! i've finally been let out of the kitchen! haha (those who are on my facebook and twitter will know!) lol!

I'm here today to share the news of the issue of Die Cut Crazy (i know im a lil late it's been out a few weeks) but i've been so busy so better late than never! of course it's jam packed full of creativeness from all the DCC Family inc me! so i'm here this morning to share a few of my projects that can be found in this months mag! don't worry you'll still be able to purchase it even when Jan issue is out! why not subscribe ;-) that way you'll not miss any!! hehe! 

So here's some peeks of projects you can find from me!

It’s nice to receive and send your non-traditional cards at this time of the year, but I myself only being 28 have a love for a little different yet traditional at the same time which is why I created this Angel card! Keeping in line with a quite Traditional Image, but yet a modern feel packed with embellishments and a lovely hanging charm (which the recipient could choose to keep!) I actually created this card for our Stop4Life counselor who's helped me and my hubby on our journey and we've successfully quit!!! yay! and i for one with all the stress never thought i ever would! more pennys for craftyness eh! haha! I'm hoping to jet off to Miami next year! wahoo!!! can't wait!

I'd like to enter my card to the following challenges:

Pumpkin spice - #52 Anything Goes
Totally Papercrafts – No. 197 - Christmas using Non-Traditional Colors
Cute Card Thursday -  #301 Anything Goes
Creative Belli -#185  Christmas (2nd week)


*Card Recipe*

*C/Stock - Stampin' Up! Very Vanilla & Whisper White
DSP -  Forever Friends Christmas
*Image - Lili of the valley
*Sentiment - From Stash
*Embellishments  - Gems from Meiflower, Prima Flowers, Buttons/Pearls and Charm from stash
*Ribbon - American Crafts
*Die Cutting - Silhouette Cameo

For my second project I decided to make something as a gift....

I’m all for handmade at this time of the festive period and love giving personalized gifts to my friends and family! This project is inexpensive and super quick! And perfect for my friend whom i made it for! Again I love the fact i can use my Cameo to design virtually anything i like! So i've written a lil how to...

  Take a pillar candle (preferably one that comes with cello wrap, makes a nice gift to be able to wrap it back up) and the bonus is you can use any colour size and smelly ones too!
  Carefully unwrap so that you can re-wrap it back up!


  Using sheets of any colour vinyl along with die cutters you can create any shapes for your candles (please remember that vinyl is flammable so these are intended as decoration when used on actual candles). And gently smooth them onto the surface!

  Re wrap your candle and there you go quick simple yet effective handmade gift! Not just for Christmas but any occasion!


I'd like to enter my candle to the following challenges:
Crafty Calendar  -  December Cold and Frosty
Little Claire's   - (Nov/Dec) #40  Make a gift

Thanks so much for stopping by my blog today!
And don't forget to check out the Magazine! I've lots more projects inside and of course the awesomeness from the rest of the DCC Family!
 I'd love if you'd leave a comment to let me know your thoughts! 
xoxo 

Don't forget - Most of my Creations and Now I'm taking Custom Orders over at my Handmade Cards & Crafts Shop @ Charisma Cardz!

Love & Peace
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I Scored!!!!

Morning!

No the title of my post isn't that i scored! well it is... but not the way your all thinking haha!!!
infact yep i couldn't get my hands on a particular popular embossing folder at the time of making this card so i sat a scored it myself! toooooook ages!! lol!!! and i can say now writing this post i do infact have the embossing folder haha!! Still it's all fun and games in craftyness!



This week's theme at Charisma is

TONS OF LAYERS!


EEEEEkkkk! i always struggle on these sorts of challenges but i love the way my card turned out with 5 layers! the papers are magnolia of course i love these so delicate and soft colorus, the punch is a martha stewart, ribbon from stash, pearls from meiflower, and the sentiment from kaisercraft!

Thanks for stopping by! xoxo
Be Sure to leave me a comment so i can pop by your blog!
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Getting Punchy!

Afternoon all!

Thought i'd pop by this afternoon and share a couple of cards i've made recenetly but not had chance to blog!
Things are a little hetic at the moment in my craftroom i've serveral projects on the go from cards, to colouring digi's to making a photo album, to project life to smash* i've got a right little mix going on in there and as usual it looks like a bombs hit the room haha! But i love the fact i can close the door and come back and it's all where i left it! hehe


My first card today is my stary card! I love these little layered cards with minimal supplies used there great for using up scraps of paper or cardstock On my star card i've used up some scraps of MME papers i've had for yonks along with a beautiful sizzix embossing board which i seriously neglect hehe! The stars themselves are a star 1inch punch i brought a few NEC shows ago for the bargain price of £1! not bad even if ya only use it once hehe

On my second card i used my EK Success flower punches which i love i do actually have 3 different sizes but only used two on this card along with some scraps of cosmo cricket delovely papers which i've had for again yonks and never used hehe the embossing folder is one i think from papermania tho don't quote me, i should really keep packaging but i'm terrible for re-arranging stuff in my craftroom and not keeping things in there original homes hehe! opps! 
On both cards i've used the gorjuss swirly text sentiments stamps from craftwork cards!

That's all for today folks! i'll be back at the end of the week with more project life and other things to share! have a fabulous week!

Thanks for stopping by! xoxo
Be Sure to leave me a comment so i can pop by your blog!
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Flower Power!

Morning all!

I'm currently at work doing a Day Shift! I know right... get me!!! normality! only for today though i'm doing  a course at work!!! grits teeth and hopes i don't fall asleep espech as i've been up since 3.30am!!!

I thought i'd shcedule a post to show what i've been upto lately other than project life (which i'm obsessed with haha!)

**Update - i'm back from work! course was yesterday and someone forgot to tell us!!! oh dear!! oh well day off for me!!! craftyness ahead!


I'm not normally one for simple and stuff like that so of course when i do CAS i tend to over kill it haha! but i love how my card came out in the end!

I love the negative effects i've been seeing everywhere recently and decided to give it a whirl!

I basically chopped out three circles different sizes with my nesties stamped the gorjuss Stampin' Up! flowers on kraft card with brown chalks and versamark and wanged them behind made my front with a sizzix embossing plate punched out some flowers and added lots of bling in the shape of gems pearls and the oh so forgotten dew drops! to create.....
Love how it came out!!! hehe!!!

I'd like to add my card to the following challenges:

Through The Craft Room Door 3E, W - Always Anything Goes!
ABC Challenges - W, cards only, E3, C10 - Birthday Cards
Bunny Zoe's Crafts - M, 1E - (January, deadline 10 Feb) Anything Goes
Crafty Bloggers Network - M, SIO - (Jan) Flowers
 Amusing Challenges - 2E, No Digi - Birthday  
613 Avenue Create - Anything Goes (twist: Kraft Paper) 

Thanks for stopping by! xoxo
Be Sure to leave me a comment so i can pop by your blog!
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Punching Crazy!

Morning all!

It's snowing!!! yay!! we had a little snow here in Shropshire last week but that vanished pretty much over night! no where near as much as some places around the UK, it's been around 0 - minus 2 here and a few of my friends on facebook and things have been showing there iphone weather at -10 and -13 stuff that!! that's seriously too cold for me!

Well... i'll shut up about the snow now (tho i am secretly hoping for at least a foot too much so i dont have to go to work) haha!!! anyway this week it's team Carlys challenge at charisma and this week's challenge is....

PUNCH IT!

Use at least two punches! Punches are something i forget i even own even though i have tons i think alot of us crafters forget we even own half of our craftrooms at some point! haha

So today i've gone for clean and simple i'd actually seen something similar on pintrest a few weeks back and thought i'd give it a whirl! I've even dug out my embossing folders!! something else i forget i have haha!!!


Totally not my normal style eh?!?! but i love it so quick and simple my two punches obviously the butterfly which is martha stewart my favourite! EVER! and i've finally brought a new corner punch as my SU one has never worked properly since i brought it so that's gone in the bin finally! I don't rate there punches after that!

The papers i've used are actually scraps (it's a fab way to use them all up!) They're all a mix of my minds eye papers don't ask me which set i can't remember! hehe, the friends sentiment is by kaisercraft which i brought last year at the NEC they're lovely sentiments!

The embossing folder is a papermania one i've had for ages but i love the pattern!

I'll stop rabbiting on now haha! we have some lovely sponsors this week as always so why not pop over and join us! 

Thanks for stopping by! xoxo
Be Sure to leave me a comment so i can pop by your blog!
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Kindle Case!!! a different craft for me!!!

Morning all!

This week's challenge over at MMCS is BUTTONS, So i wanted to do something different for my project this week! i'd recently brought a kindle and the cases avalible at the moment are pretty plain so i decided to make my own!!!

 I'm quite proud of myself first sewing thing i've really made since school haha!!!
 And it fits perfectly!!! 
Thanks for stopping by! xoxo
Be Sure to leave me a comment so i can pop by your blog!

Key to my Heart - Smash*


Morning all!

This week at my mum's craft shop challenges we don't want to see any cards!!! shock horror i know! what could i do????

I've not been smash* ing for a while now mainly because i'd hate to admit it but i kinda went off it, but i've slowly been taking my time and carrying on with some of my smash* books and even started in the new memo range eeeekkk!!! 


So today's project i've decided to show you a page from my Eco Green smash* book! I was undecided on what to use this book for for quite a while then the lightbulb moment struck and i thought i could use it for sayings and inspirational quotes and stuff so i took it and thought yay i love this idea! smash* a page around a quote!

Today's quote is ' Thought i have the key to your heart, I guess you changed the locks'


I had real fun designing this page and the computer doesn't really give the full feel to it!

*Recipe*

*Glimmer Mist - Tattered Angels
*DSP - MME
*Punch - 3 in 1 classic Martha Stewart Butterfly
*Lace - From Stash
*Quote - Pintrest
*C/stock - Pink Petticoat - Bazzill Basics
*Key - Dear Lizzy
*Smash Book - Eco Green

Thanks for stopping by! xoxo
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Football mad!

Morning all!

I'm here with another new challenge this week it's 
Proud Sponsors
Yep our challenge this week is...
ALL ABOUT THE BOYS

I know i know! it's not my fav topic either but to be honest i seem to be churning out these male cards like there's no tommrrow!!



I wanted to use this adorable elephant i found at my local garden center i so need some more of him he's sooooo sweet dontcha think?

I used a huge stickopotmous sticker i found in my drawers that i've hordered like forever! and finally got to use some footy buttons hehe! along with prima flowers and crochet ones i love these and still can't get the hang of doing them!!! the papers are from k&co hopsctoch pad i love these!!!

I'd like to enter my card to:
* Crafting for all Seasons - #29 For Men (2nd wk)
* Crafts and Me - #89 anything goes
* Paper Shelter Challenge - #69 outdoors 


Thanks for stopping by! xoxo
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Ribbon I Love you!

Morning all!

It's that time of week once again!

A Brand new challenge at Charisma!!!

This week's challenge is all about RIBBON! it's my DT & Buddy Emma's challenge she's totally addicted to ribbon and her addiction doesn't just stay in her craftroom it got me addicted and then i got Gemma bitten by the ribbon bug too! so watch out!!!

I had some really funky ideas for my DT project this week unfortunatly time wasn't on my side so i went simple! and finally got my kraft cardstock back out!! and in use!! and i'm really not happy with this weeks creation at all! so not me and so out of my comfort zone and just no not me!! 

I cut a cute heart out of one sheet and placed various ribbons on underneath and edged with a white gel pen! followed with a love you sentiment in the corner and some sweet little buttons (something i dont use alot of)

Have you noticed something... an entire card made with no stamping!!! OMG what's going on! i think i may be ill!!!! 


Hope to see you over at the challenge this week we have some fabulous sponsors as always!!



Thanks for stopping by! xoxo

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Beautiful Blooms & Butterflys!

Good morning all!

I'm here with a brand new project i've been absolutly dying to show ya all!!
I made it back at the start of august espechially for the new challenge this month at The Craft Garden!


Yup! would you believe i've made a card with absolutly NO Stamping involved! now that is a rare thing for me! Kerry The lovely owner from The craft garden sent all her DT's a mixture of beautiful blooms and bits for our cards/projects this month!

I was like oooooohhhhh and awwww when it came! i absolutly adore the prima butterfly to which i am going to have to buy some more!! haha!!

Don't ya agree it's so pretty in real like! all the crochet flowers are also handmade by kerry herself and has lots of different bloom sets for sale a real must to go have a look at her shop! i know for one i've really enjoyed making my DT card for this month!

The challenge...

Hop over to the challenge blog and have a peek! we've an inspirational picture! i've gone for the colours of course!!!

Here's my card! I'd like to enter it to the following challenges:
Digi stamps 4 joy - Handmade flower /spring
Sisterhood of crafters - Flowers
Bearly Mine - Flowers
Creative Card Crew - Anything Goes
Die cutting diva's - fall colours (die grass)
My Time to craft - in full bloom



♥Recipe♥

♥C/Stock - Stampin' Up! Always Aritcoke
♥DSP - Papermania
♥Flowers - Prima & Handmade all from The Craft Garden
♥Butterfly - Prima avalible at The Craft Garden
♥Ribbon - Cosmo Cricket
♥Metal - we R mem keepers
♥Sentiment - QVC
♥Brads - from stash
♥Grass dies - Making Mem slice


Thanks for stopping by!
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Feeling Dandy!

Morning!!!

A very quick post from me today! as i'm busy creating a mess in the studio as i've lots of commisons and things to prepare!

Todays challenge at charisma is A birthday card for a teen!

Now i thought seens as it's my friend Dan's birthday soon i thought this would be perfect!!! and look!!!!

NO STAMPING!!!



All items are from we are memory keepers!

Sorry to dash I'll be back soon! hugs xxx

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Good Luck!

Morning all!
Gosh half way through January already! How time flys!!
I'm not feeling myself at the moment, my mojo has compleatly left the house and flown off on holiday! I've had such a bad week with work and things it's been a very =( week for me! But i'm determind to go hunt for my mojo today!

This week's challenge at Charisma is.....


 I must admit i hadn't a clue what to do!! so thought i'd try out some embossing for a change!!!
Before i show the rest of my card Thank you to all that joined us on our 2nd birthday blog hop!!! Boy did i get swamped with emails!! hehe
The winner of the suprise from me worth £22 is..........

Jayne Marie

Janye Said: 'Hey Carlyann, congratulations on your challenge blog reaching 2! that's a fab achievement and here's to many many more!'

Congrats hun please email me at sweetncrafty@live.co.uk and i'll get your pressie in the post!!!

Back to the challenge of good luck! good luck to myself i thought when i thought i'd try embossing, its not something i normally do mainly because it scares me! tho i really love the effect and the finished card! ooo and have you noticed... i'm really starting to like yellow!! watch out pink!!! hehe!!
*Recipe*
*C/stock - Stampin' Up! So Saffron
*Sizzix embossing plate
*Stampin Pastels - So Saffron & Barely Banana
*Martha stewart Doily Punch
*Ribbon - Stampin' Up! So Saffron
*Gems - Papermania
*Sentiment - Making Memories Rub-ons


Thanks for stopping by today!! and hope to see you at charisma this week!!!
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