TRY 'BUILDING A MEADOW' USING CI-395.....

This post is all about CI-395, 'Build a Meadow', The Craft Barn's Extravaganza, and Helen Chilton's demos, particularly on Sunday, 8th June!!

Unfortunately we won't be there this year - Malcolm isn't quite up to the long drive down to the other end of the country yet because of his eyesight, but we are delighted that Helen Chilton will be demoing the tremendous possibilities when using one stamp set in particular - namely CI-395.  When Helen said this would be what she was doing this year, I had to have a play too.  So here we are with lots of images, which will hopefully inspire you to use this stamp, and also to visit The Extravaganza in June, as it promises to be a load of fun and a feast for the eyes.  Do let me know what you think of the samples, and also if you have plans to be there.  So sorry to miss it this time!

Here we go....

By Helen...

Then by moi (have also used the new masks - Birds in Flight, and Leafy Branches, now on the website, in some of these, plus two of the newest stamps CI-410 and CI-409 !)....

Jean x

p.s. We have finally worked out how to get the 'New Products' button to work on the website homepage - yay!, please try it out HERE (far middle right) (only took a year and a half!!)

NEW BITS AND BOBS....

Thank you for leaving a comment on my last post, about the new stamps and other postings - always very much appreciated!  So pleased to hear you are enjoying the recently released images, and Lynne has already been working with a couple of the new issue, and I adore her makes - firstly this very pretty little hanging using CI-411, A Garden of Flowers (with a little help from CI-410 too)....

And then this gorgeous card made with the 'Fresh Fish Daily' angling stamp CI-412 - superb!!

How adorable are those little hanging fishes in fabric (Lynne mounted them on card and then curled the card a little to give them a dimensional look).  A great card, and how lovely it would be as a make for the gents who enjoy fishing in your lives.

I have been playing around with pop up cards for a magazine project recently (more info on that soon), and here is a card that was a bit of a spare at the time - but I do like that little bird on a teapot, from CI-391, 'Teatime Delights', as it seemed to work perfectly with the background paper from our Springtime Book.  A simple pop up card with only one 'post' in the middle, but still effective, fun to make and fun to receive...

And my final image for tonight is by Ginger, and uses CI-401, the very fashionable
'Ladies who Latte' as the main image....

If you make projects with Crafty Individuals products and happen to post them on your blog, do let us know so that I can pop over and leave a comment please.

Have a lovely and hopefully crafty weekend folks,

Jean x

NEW RUBBER STAMPS, NEW PROJECTS FROM OLDER STAMPS, AND A STEP BY STEP....

Gosh its already 9.40pm and I meant to have this post up and finished before now, and here I am just starting it!  We've had a lovely day in the sunshine today with a trip to Saltburn by the Sea, and then to see the bluebells, part of the way up to Roseberry Topping.  They were delightful, and I will pop a little piccie of Monty Moodle amongst the bluebells at the end of this post.  He is certainly a tired little dog tonight, having been out sniffing about and enjoying the sunshine all day, during our travels.  And he is now fast asleep here by my side.

We had a new release of stamps a few days ago, and I will give you a quick visual run through of those before I move on to some projects, and a step by step, from the ladies...

You will find all of the above lovelies on our website HERE.

The following images are from Daniele, Gio and Joanna, and feature stamps from our previous release...

All gorgeous little works of art, I'm sure you will agree!

Then I have some great cards by Effie - very stylish indeed....

All featuring the 'Hello' telephone from CI-403.

Finally I have a stunning step by step from Sylvie - this is the project...

And here are the steps in lovely clear photographs...

Sylvie used the following to make her project:

CI-405
CI-122
CI-407
Oblong Decromount
Floral Grid Mask

Thanks all, and hope you have enjoyed the display tonight.  Please leave a comment if you can.

Jean, and Monty Moodle x

NEW PRODUCTS AND MAKES.....

Thank you for leaving comments on my last post giving you the 5 chosen linked in entries for the April Challenge.  We will be having our next Challenge in June, and I do hope you will join us again!

If you are on the Crafty Individuals mailing list - which you can join via the Home Page on the CI website - you will have received a fairly recent email about our new Must Have products.  I thought I might now give you a bit of an update on those and show a few makes by yours truly (whilst listening to the Eurovision Song Contest in the background).

We have some rather lovely MDF products in stock now, such as these below, plus lots more which you will find HERE...

And this is a great plaque with 4 hearts to dangle, which I turned from this...

To this...

Very girlie and just perfect for the boudoir.  I used a sheet of background paper from our Travels in Italy book, and stamps from CI-335, and CI-340 and it was great fun to make.
I also had a play with one of the little MDF frames and decorated this little canvas with sprays and lace netting, ribbons and stamping....

Very pink!!

I also made a bathroom (or beach hut, or boat) bunting hanging from the MDF bunting...

I think this bunting will also be perfect to decorate for birthdays, parties or Christmas .... so watch this space!

Now as they are similar colours I will pop another couple of cards I made below on a beach/seaside theme...

Papers from our Seaside Background Book, plus stamps CI-278, and CI-295 as focal images.

I also have a couple of images left over from our February Challenge (February I hear you say - yes indeed- doesn't time fly).  This one was one of mine which didn't get posted at the time, featuring CI-338, and the lace stamp CI-350 ...

And for some reason I didn't get this beauty from lovely Lynne posted at the time either...

Not sure why, but better late than never of course. Lynne has used our Chunky Train Tag on her project.

My final images tonight are projects made by three of our lovely customers that I thought I would share with you here - a fabulous box by Julie at http://newnanny.blogspot.co.uk/ ...

- Plus two cool cards, the first by Sherry at http://bitsofcheer.blogspot.co.uk/...

And the second by Ruth Wagner...

Many thanks for sharing those ladies,

Back soon,
thanks for joining me,

Jean x