Christmas Workshop

Afternoon crafty friends,
The weather has been very grim here the last couple of days but I've been working on this cheery Christmas project for an up coming workshop on the 26th Oct.
It's here in Kent near Swanley and is booking now, it's a pre-booked workshop requiring a deposit.
For further info contact me craftyk@hotmail.co.uk
Bookings are being taken until Sunday 19th Oct.
I've used the Candy Box Crafts Large MDF Sleigh which is just delightful!
It's 310 x 165mm, they also make a smaller version 200 x110mm.
I've shown it here two ways one with chocolate treats and one with a large pillar candle.
It will make the most attractive Christmas table centrepiece or a wonderful gift, if you can bare to part with it...

Kent October Workshop Sample

Happy Weekend,
I purchased these stamps recently at Ally Pally and have been desperate to get time to use them along with these nesting dies I bought a while back in preparation for my Halloween makes.
Bee Crafty All Hallows Stamps with Lifestyle Nested Inverted Circle Dies.
Thanks for popping by today, have a great weekend xKx

Lavinia Stamps Autumn Colours

Good Morning,
Today is the start of the new Lavinia Stamps Challenge over on the blog with the theme of Autumn Colours.
Once again last month there were so many lovely entries, congratulations to the lucky winner who receives £40 to spend on the Lavinia Stamps website shop.
If you'd like to join in this month it's so easy as we accept EMAIL entries, so why not give it a go.
The rest if the Design Team have some wonderful inspiration for the theme this month so please take a look at their blogs too.
For my projects I used chalky paints brayered onto tags for the backgrounds.
I added various textures, gel medium, beads and glitters and some shimmer sprays.
The Ink Caps were repeat stamped with Archival Inks and the
Floral Spray and Fairy Pods were coloured with the paint.
I also used the Bubbles on the background stamped with paint.
Thanks so much for looking today and I hope you can join us in the challenge xKx 

A Weekend with Finnabair!

Time hasn't allowed for much blogging lately so a bit of an update now.
On Friday I travelled to Middlesborough to meet up with some lovely crafty friends for a weekend of craftiness taught by the most lovely Finnabair (Anna Dabrowska)  and organised by the equally lovely
Sue Tucker, Art Workshops .
I've been inspired by Finn for so long now and have such admiration of her work so to actually take part in this weekend was an enormous highlight in my crafting journey and will stay with me always.
Apart from her talent I simply love her unintimidated approach to her art, it's so refreshing.
We stayed in the nearby Premier Inn and enjoyed evening meals in the pub next door, catching up on all our crafty chat and socialising.
Sat and Sun were two long days crafting, creating 3 projects in total, a 12 x 12 scrapbook page, mixed media canvas and a canvas journal cover with inside page layouts..
I loved all the projects and learnt a lot and would recommend the workshops to anyone interested if you get the opportunity.
I'll leave you with pictures from the weekend and I'll be back tomorrow with my usual Thursday spot with Lisa B Designs .
I am so thrilled to have had the opportunity to have the photo taken with Anna, for me it just sums everything up, Happy Days!
Have a good evening, I'm so looking forward to The Great British Bake Off Final!
Crafty Hugs xKx

New Lisa B Designs Blog Post

Good Morning,
Today I'm sharing my first Thursday Blog Post over at
Lisa B Designs I hope you like it...xKx

A Crafty Weekend in Bristol and Warwickshire

The weekend was full of fun and laughter amongst friends old and new with a lot of crafting activity thrown into the mix.
I have to thank my lovely buddy Jane Barber for organising the Bristol hall and the equally lovely Sheila and Angela from Pink Tulip Creations and Roy from Candy Box Crafts for their help and support at the Pink Tulip location.
I know I took a lot of people way out of their comfort zone with this project and I don't think they'll be looking back now. The results were just superb and I'm so proud of everyone's achievements.
I'll leave you with the results and a couple of pictures of a little visitor who popped in "Winston"
I'll be back again tomorrow with a link to my first Thursday post for Lisa B Designs xKx

Lavinia Stamps September Challenge "Add Some Ribbon"

Morning all,
I can't believe it's Sept already!
Today is the start of the new Lavinia Stamps Challenge over on the Blog, here's the direct link -
September, Challenge 9 "Add Some Ribbon".
Congratulations to last month's randomly chosen lucky winner, £40 to spend with the bonus of new stamps that Tracey has designed and just released to choose from, lucky winner!
There's such a great mix of versatile stamps and if you check out the rest of the DT's work you'll see some fantastic inspiration as always.
We received fabulous entries again last month so many thanks to everyone who joined us for the challenge.
Anyway on to my inspiration, I decided to make some shaped cards from nesting die sets, keeping the  stamping simple. I layered up the nesting shapes on my base cards with complimenting colours.
The backgrounds and wording were created from stencils, including a couple from Sweet Poppy.
Then the images, group poppies, thistles and roses stamped in black versafine.
Finishing off with my ribbon and a few gems.
As always we look forward to seeing your entries which can now be by email too, so why not have a go, good luck!
Thanks for stopping by today...xKx