craftymatters

already!

This week, my guest is Michelle Vass

Charmane has made some great cards, and i have put together a quick layout.
Here is Michelle’s fabulous layout

she has used the mini book kit, printing some of patterned papers to use as the backgrounds . The scallop frame is also part of the mini album kit.

she has also cut out the centre of the scallop frame element from the mini kit to frame the Christmas tree ceramic embellishment, which has been stamped with the swirls
And there are a number of elements from the Squiggle card that she has coloured using the Stampin Up crayons

and this is the card, featuring a bisque circle Michelle has stamped an image on to , coloured in, and then added a touch of bling (which very cleverly covers up the hole in the ceramic, as she didnt want to use it for this card)

Here are Charmane’s great christmas card ideas

using the mini kit download and a squiggle card element

This one has a ’santa’ word tile

more papers from the mini kit, and a bisque ’small square’

and another with the papers from the digi kit

heres my layout
just a quickie .
I have used a little bit of paper from the mini kit (the pink strip) ‘christmas means’ from the Squiggle card and a pink ceramic tree that Chloe kindy glitzed for me

so thats it for this week.
our next and final Show and tell for this year will be the 9th of November, so stay tuned.

And id like to send a quick ‘cheerio’ and best wishes to Sharon, who i saw into last night. Thanks for your lovely feedback, and all the best for the impending birth of bubba no. 1

of the Crafty Matters Christmas Show and Tell- and this week, Jane’s little helpers are

Mardi

Ruey

and (the one and only) Chloe Fitchett

thanks girls

First up

here is Mardi’s fab layout- its such an interesting layout- an insight to how lucky we are that people like Mardi are willing to miss out on part of their own Christmas to help others.

On the Crafty Matters front, Mardi has used the bisque ceramics with water colour pencil and sealer to make gifts at the bottom of the tree…..a glazed star at the top of the tree and squiggle card elements.
looks great!

Rueys fantastic layout is next, she has created a layout all about her love of Christmas decorations, and used a number of Crafty Matters products , including Squiggle card elements that have been coloured with the Stampin up crayons.

Ruey has used 7 gypsies textured rubbings on the ceramic christmas tree.

and a red ‘love’ heart (these are new and available for $2 each) Ruey used the heart to emphasise her love for the decorations

And Ruey has created this wonderful clear card. She painted the two small bisque pieces with the Stampin Up watercolour crayons and then turned them into pressies to put under the coloured crafty matters tree which she cut out

And here are my contributions.

After spending the week in bed with the flu, i needed some help, so i have scraplifted a fantastic layout from Kellie Crowe you can see here

For this layout I had ALOT of help from Chloe- she chose the colours to paint the bisque numbers, and she painted them herself ( i love the colour combos )

The journal strip on no. 3 is from the manila Squiggle card – just cut into pieces, and places next to each other

and I also put together a quick mini book with the photos from last years photo shoot
Used the frame from the digi kit, A Christmas tree with a rubon (loved rueys idea so much)- and the large tag in the centre is from the Squiggle card- it holds a couple of extra photos that didnt fit in to the book.

(just FYI- the red covers- front and back- are leather look coasters i picked up from Target about 8 months ago- great for mini books)

Thats it for the week, enjoy!

see you next week
Jane

of the Crafty Matters Christmas Show and Tell month- and this weeks ‘elves’ helping me out are Katie, Charmane and Felicity

First up, some layouts- this one from Katie, using a word tile (on a large square) and a lime Christmas tree that she has decorated using one of her favourite techniques- acrylic paint applied with a toothpick- very effective!

Next is Felicity

Felicity is my special guest this week. Her little cutie pie Brodie features in this great layout, where quite a few Crafty Matters products have been put to good use.

The journal block from the Squiggle card has been coloured with Stampin Up crayons , a tree has had some extra bling added,

and a lge square bisque has been painted- doodled around the edges with a white pen, and then a silver rubon ‘joy’ added.

Charmane’s layout shows a different colour scheme from the traditional colours, and it looks amazing.

the layout features a purple tree with rhinestones added- and a chatterbox rubon (available at Bons

Two bisque squares have been inked as ‘pressies’, and Charm has printed out a page from our Digi Mini Kit as background (love how the ho ho ho- runs along the bottom)

Felicity also made a couple of cards with her goodies too-
This one uses an element from the white Christmas Squiggle card

and this card uses the manila Christmas squiggle card

and on the inside- more Squiggle Card elements, and a ceramic tree, heart and star!
what a great card!

How cute is this tag. Felicity has again used another element of the Christmas squiggles card, and added a Ceramic word ‘love’ . Love it! might have to pinch this idea for myself

this week, I have created 2 ornaments
The first one uses an old cd covered and decorated- each year i make one of these to hang on the Christmas tree with a pic from the photo shoot i do with the kids. Ive added a Ceramic bird (with wing) and a Dk Beige Christmas tree that i have stamped with white Staz-on ink.

And the other ornament is a small wreath that started life as a wire ring. I cut lots (LOTS!!) of little fabric strips and tied them around the ring, added a big gingham fabric bow at the top and attached 2 red Ceramic stars.
The Oval tag is a Large Bisque Oval that i have base painted gold- applyed a coat of Crackle medium- and when dried I applied a white top coat. i finished off by applying a rub-on’ (joy)

And thinking about wreaths- here is another i created last year

On this wreath there are 3 word tiles- merry christmas, joy and celebrate as well as a Christmas tree.

So that is the post for this week, I hope you have enjoyed looking at the girls creations as much as i have
see you all next week, and drop me a line if you would like to place an order
DONT FORGET THOSE CUT OFF DATES!! (see last weeks post)
cheers
Jane

Well, its getting close to that time of the year again- and its time to start thinking about Chrissy presents, Chrissy layouts, and everything else that means Christmas.

In the next 4 weeks, we are going to show you some ideas for the season that use Crafty Matters products. Once a week you will see something new from one of the team, myself and a few special guests!

Firstly, here are a few new products

A Christmas Themed Squiggle card – available in white and manilla

($3 each)

Some special bisque pieces for Christmas- i have added a hole to these shapes, so you can thread a ribbon bow through. All pieces are .50c each, with the exception of the large square which is $1 each

And have a look at this, a very cute mini book that Vita has created using my sketches (she is a very clever girl!)

This is a Digital download
there are 7 page designs plus a few extras to add to your page.
each design is 4″ x 12″- so you can print out 2 pages per sheet.

The price for this Digi Design is $2!
if you would like to order one, you just need to email me for payment details, and once the payment goes through i will send you a link to download the files.

Here is the fantastic book Vita created using the kit

and here are a couple of layouts
the first one by me
Ive used elements from the squiggle card AND the digi kit, as well as some ceramic stars (and im rather relieved that i have one of last years layouts completed before Christmas this year- in fact its time to get those chrissy shots done for 2007!)

And this one has been created by my special guest for this week, Lisa White.
Lisa is mum to three very busy boys, and wife to Peter. Her twin boys are Chloe’s classmates at kinder
this layout is of her youngest Jon- he is soo cute!
Lisa has used the journal block from the squiggle card-she has coloured the trees using pencils, and added a red ceramic star to create this stunning layout
thanks Lisa

And here are some gift ideas
Christmas cards using a variety of Crafty Matters products-

And here is an updated version of a favourite

The ‘Santa please stop here’ hanger- a must have for anyone expecting a visit on the big night!!(ive stamped on the tree with red staz-on)

So, this is just the first week!
Hope you like what is on offer- please email me at craftymatters@iprimus.com.au if you would like to place an order.

And… a couple of announcements
From now until the end of November postage is $2 per order for all RETAIL customers.

All orders must be placed by the 31st of November -RETAIL customers

and the 15TH of November for WHOLESALE customers

most importantly, i will be closed from the end of November, and wont be re-opening orders until February 2008.

cheers
Jane