And the Winners Are...!

I think we have just about recovered from the craft fair at Elsecar. And WHAT A BRILLIANT time we had!! 

We had lots of our lovely ladies come to see us (thank you ladies **waves**) plus other SU demonstrators, friends and family.

The fair was held over two days (the longest one we have done) but it was so much better than having to set up AND clear away all our items on the same day.

We are DEFINITELY doing the next one, so put 15th & 16th October in your diary and come and see us for a natter!!! 

The winners of our prize draw were

First Prize - Tracey from Sheffield

Second Prize - Marilyn from Horbury

Third Prize - Denise from Rotherham

Well done ladies, hope you all enjoy your goodies!

Heres a picture of another of the decorated boxes.  This one is made using Crumb Cake cardstock which has been distressed on the edges and then run through the Vintage Wallpaper embossing folder.  I inked the raised areas of the embossing folder before running throught the Big Shot and glueing it to the box.

I ruffled the Crumb Cake Seam Binding Ribbon before securing it to the edges of the lid and added a die cut Top Note shape which had been stamped with a sentiment from the Occasional Greetings stamp set (the edges were sponged to give a little definition).

The butterfly was die cut with the Beautiful Butterflies die with Crumb Cake cardstock and then stamped with the En Francais background stamp.  The edges were sponged with ink and a little strip of Crumb Cake Seam Binding was added before the layers of the butterfly were secured to the box.

I loved this box and was gutted when someone bought it.  Mind you I did well - it didnt sell until Sunday afternoon (partly because I kept hiding it!).   I just hope its gone to a good home - sniff!  I may just have to make some more...

Thank you for stopping by.

Jan

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Elsecar Craft Fair

Wow! Its been a brilliant day today. Me Sara & Joanne have a stand at the Elsecar Craft Fair and its been so much fun. Here is a picture of Sara at the stand this morning.

Come and see us tomorrow for a chance to enter our prize draw, make and take a card and see some fabby items up close & personal! Jan X

Desk Calendar & Memo Holder

Just a quick post to show you one of the desk calendar & memo holders I made last week for the craft fair at Elsecar this weekend.

I bought the acrylic holder as part of a shared order from another demonstrator who arranged to buy lots of them and split them between myself and a number of other demos. I have mainly used them for holding small notices on stands at craft fairs until now, but I did make some calendars a while ago. Here is a photo from the side of the holder.

Newsprint DSP was used as a wrap to cover the whole of the acrylic holder with a shop bought calendar and part of a memo block secured to a mat of Basic Black cardstock. A loop of Basic Black Grossgrain ribbon was used behind the mat to hold the pen which was also decorated with the same DSP. The top of the memo block was decorated with mats of Basic Black cardstock & Newsprint DSP. Thanks for coming over to see me. Sorry its a short post! Jan x

Whats been going on?

I have been on holiday this week, but have been too busy to craft!!! 
Its been a great week though, we went to Doncaster Wildliife Park on Wednesday and I have fall in love - with Vladimir..

Unfortunately, hes only two so I may have to wait a while before anything happens between us!!  We had to go twice to see him awake - he was fast asleep until about half 4 but the wait was so worth it! 

The lions from Romania have settled in now and have lots of space to play in.

 

Here is another cutie - a baby camel!

I also had my Big Shot class on Saturday, which was fab.  Thank you for driving all the way over Hazel & Cheryl - it was a brilliant day!!!  We went though LOADS of techniques using the Big Shot machine, including partial cuts, cutting different materials (card/paper, tin, chipboard etc) and embossing (general, frames, embossing ribbon, double embossing etc).  Hope I didnt overload you with all the ideas ladies?!

Sunday was lovely too.  I met up with my SU friends Sara & Joanne to go through what we need for the Elsecar Heritage Centre Craft Fair on 20th & 21st August.

The craft fair is FREE and will be a brilliant weekend.  We are planning a prize draw, make and takes, live demonstrations and an unbeatable exclusive show offer on the Starter Kit!!  So if you fancy finding out more, come and see us for a natter!

Jan x