WE ARE COMING TO THE END OF SEPTEMBER....

And that means nearing the end of this month's challenge.  Still 5 days to enter though, so don't delay, get crafting today!

I'm sitting at the computer with a little dog fast asleep on my knee, which is making it a little difficult to type, but I'm always up for a challenge.  I'm going to blog a few more 'Anything Goes' makes from the teamies tonight starting with some real beauties by Joanna....

Joanna does beautiful so beautifully!  Above using 'A Garden of Flowers' CI-411.

She has made lovely butterflies with frantage embossing in the above.  Butterflies from CI-437.

And I am adoring the beautiful large white butterfly here, stamped and embossed on vellum with CI-443 'Floral Festival - so very pretty!

The above again using the Floral Festival stamp embossed in white over the pink background - delicious!   Thank you Joanna.

I have a lovely card by Coco to show you next stamped and gorgeously gilded, featuring the owlets from CI-442....

Coco has been demoing today so I hope it was fun over there in France!!  More to come from Coco soon.

Next I have a couple of cards by Florence, perfectly executed as always....

Loving the addition of the 'Day out Ticket' CI-022, and the steampunk gent from CI-305 and more in the first make, and the tags from CI-427 are so pastel and pretty in the second.

To finish tonight I have some lovely cards by Laury, both made with stamps by Gio....

And finally another delight from Sylvie....

Sylvie has used the Alice Palace hares from CI-434, plus a butterfly and background stamp CI-430.

Thanks ladies!

If you are on the CI Newsletter mailing list you will have received news this week of our latest issue of luscious new stamps, and you can view them all in the New Products section here. 
Next weekend we will be found at the Happy Stampers show in Port Sunlight with the new stamps, lots of other stamps and goodies, plus a guest visit and demos by Lesley Wharton of Chocolate Baroque - yay.
Do pop by and say hello!

Back soon,

Jean x

A VERY LOVELY SHADOW BOX DURING AN 'ANYTHING GOES' CHALLENGE MONTH....

Continuing with the inspiration for our 'Anything Goes' Challenge I am focusing tonight on some glorious items from Gio starting with this fabulous shadow box....

Gio used CI-391 and CI-415 in this lovely make.

She has also been playing with clay and CI-443 to make these very pretty pendants and cards....

And I adore these lacy makes with the very fashionable ladies from CI-401, CI-448, and CI-441

Superb thanks Gio!

Don't forget to link in your make soon (only 12 days to go)!

Back soon,

Jean x

ANYTHING STILL GOES IN SEPTEMBER .....

Just back from a few days staying in the Lake District - weather was amazing, which was a great bonus.  Lots of doggy walking and mooching around - very relaxing!

The September Challenge is in full swing now, with 18 days for you still to link in, and as 'Anything Goes' (as long as it contains a CI product) you have lots of ideas to choose from.  Check and link in on the appropriate post out by clicking HERE, and thanks for the entries so far, always appreciated.

Lots of makes coming in from the teamies, and here are a couple of very inspiring 'spooky' makes from Florence...

Perfect 'Halloween' cards in 'poisonous' and 'gruesome' green - lol!!  They feature:

Large Door – Gothic Door CI 249
Girl Witch – Childhood Friendship CI 277
Bottles – Poison and Danger CI 360
Wings and sentiment – Crow Plate CI 361
Background (yellow) – Inky Script Background CI 436
Crow - CI-319
Background - Abbey and Arches CI-286 

....and we love them.

Sylvie has made a couple of lovely colourful taggy pieces, and has kindly included a step by step for us on making the bases...

Sylvie has used the following (all mentioned from the CI Website of course):

For the blue tag I used :
CI-376 (duck), CI-380 (journaling), and CI-437(butterfly)
Assorted Laser Cut MDF Coqs
and Background paper book n°8

For the pink tag I used :
CI-441 (lady), CI-416 (birds)
Bronze gold flower charm, Bronze gold butterfly charm,
Die "delicate dragonfly" and die "floral branch"
and Background paper book n°8
Fine Cream cotton Cluny Lace

 And here are the photo steps...

My last delights of tonight are by Joanna - so pretty in neutrals and whites!  Joanna has used CI-443 embossed in white to make these beauties....

Many thanks ladies!

Back soon,

Jean x
  

NEW CHALLENGE - ANYTHING GOES IN SEPTEMBER....

Emailed entry from Alison

As promised here we are with a new Challenge for September, and this one, as chosen by Lynne, is 'Anything Goes'.  So no excuses you simply must join in this time!  The only rule is that your project must contain a Crafty Individuals product somewhere within!

When you link in your make you could be in with a chance of winning a stamp of your choice from our large collection at www.craftyindividuals.co.uk - and you will be instantly rewarded by a lovely 25% discount to use on our website during the month regardless.

Here are the usual guidelines:

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CHALLENGE GUIDELINES

To enter this month's Crafty Individuals Challenge please put together your chosen project, which must include at least one Crafty Individuals product please, then post your Challenge project on your Blog, before the end of the month, and include a link back to this Blog.  Leave a link in the URL box displayed in this post to take us directly to your Challenge project, which will then appear on this Blog as a thumbnail image - so we can all see your wonderful arty work.  If you don't have a blog we are happy to accept emailed image entries too.

At the end of the month Lynne will set about choosing five lucky participants, each of whom will win a CI rubber stamp of their choice, and don't forget that as per usual, once you have linked in your creation, you can also claim a lovely 25% discount code to use on anything you purchase from the CI Website, which will be valid to use until the 10th of October.

Go for it, and enjoy the challenge x

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As always we very much look forward to seeing your entries - you will be in with a chance of winning a free stamp, and you will also be able to obtain a cool 25% CI web discount.  When you have linked in your entry please email us at info@craftyindividuals.co.uk to obtain your special code, and then go shopping!

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Here are some inspirational team makes to get your thoughts and creativity started.  Firstly by lovely Lynne herself we have some beautiful notelets (what a lovely gift these would make)...

Lynne has used a simple combination of CI-438 and CI-443 to make her notelets, and carried the design over onto the envelope edges too.

Effie has brought Christmas in September to us with these beauties....

She has worked with images from our 'Merry Christmas' image book to make the pictures - loving the curly wire hanging in the first image!!

My final make for this evening is by Daniele and the three images below are the beginning of a memory book she is making for her sister, about her mother and family - so lovely!

Daniele has used the following items in her make so far (particularly loving the colour of the pansies!):
Cover.....C1-320 stamped using memento inks Angel Pink,London Fog, Pistachio and Lulu Lavender, the background of the heart has been frantaged with Vintage pink, ice shavings and vintage glitter, the background has been stamped using the doily stamp and embossed in white with stamp CI-441. Flower heads C1-206 are coloured with prisma pencils and the centres have clear plastic beads for a lovely frosty look. Page 2 is the same flower head stamp, C1-439 stamped with London Fog  and the stencil is done with modelling paste and spritzed with glimmer mist. Page 3 is the same doily but stamped with London Fog, and the image stamp is C1-139 (discontinued).

Thanks for stopping by, and looking forward to seeing your makes at the top of the page soon.

Back soon,

Jean x

p.s. Many thanks for your great comments!