Craftwork Cards Refreshers Collection

 

 

Good morning, happy Friday. Lisa & I have been working through all the event day stock & samples in the last few weeks - it's a slow process, especially as we can only do it when we're both free, but we're getting there - and when we came across these lovely Craftwork Cards pieces, we thought they deserved to be shown on the blog. As far as we can remember, they were all made by the wonderful Julie Hickey, who was one of the event day demonstrators............

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Julie used the new CWC Refreshers Collection  & the Paper Bows..........

This card also uses one of the embossed CWC frames that Julie lightly inked. 

I LOVE this flower. I shall have to ask Julie to teach me how to make at some stage............

 

 

 

 This pop up box card is gorgeous...............

 

 

 

And these fold flat for posting - genius! 

 

 

 

 These cards aren't on the website yet, but they are in stock - in packs of ten if I remember correctly. Email Lisa (lisabaker1@btinternet.com) & she will be able to help you. And of course, they will be on sale at the next class on September 5. (Fant Hall, Maidstone, ME16 8NN. From 2.30 to 9.30pm)

 

 

 

 Thank you very much to Julie for these beautiful cards.

 

     

 

I'll be back on Monday, wishing you all a great weekend.

 

Kirsten

A Huge Event Day Thank You....

Good Afternoon Everyone,

 

Well I think I am just starting to recover from the exhaustion of my Event Day on Saturday

 but can I firstly say a HUGE THANK YOU to everyone that came along and supported the day, it was a great success and we are already planning the 2014 Event!

 

I thank you for your patience at the tills as I know the queues were very long and I assure you that we will have two tills in place next year!

 

I also apologise for having to stop demoing so that I could help you get through the tills quicker and assure you that this will not happen next year as we have already made plans to sort that out and I will be there for you to pick my crafty brains all day next year, lol!

 

It was lovely to see so many familiar faces but also a lot of new faces too and I know from what you have told me that you all loved the day.

So much planning goes in to the day and it was so rewarding to get so many lovely comments from you all yesterday, you all made my exhaustion worth it by your comments.

Here are a few photos from the day..........

Here we are all really busy getting ready for the start of the day........

 

 

My lovely friends Jenny Mayes and Julie Hickey sorting last minute samples........

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Nearly there..........

 

 

 

And then the doors opened and you flooded in.........

 

 

As requested we will be bringing you all the new inspiration of the cards and projects that we had there on the day, on the blog over the next coming weeks as we have soooo many to show you....

 

The website will also be back to normal by the end of next week with correct stock levels in place as you know, I do not like to keep people waiting for items.....

 

I also want to say a HUGE THANK YOU to all my girls as you all worked so hard and did a stirling job on the day.....

 

Suz, my little star!

What would I do without you? 

 

Suz and Jan on the till, you coped so well under pressure!!

Kirsten and Rosemary on Make & Takes, everyone loved what they did and were proud of their achievements!

Also thank you to Kirsten for all your help on Friday......

 

Kate you coped so well, helping out so many people and thank you so much for your help during the week....

 

 

My lovely family, Jo my sister and my niece Chloe on the catering side, Yummy!!!

 But Oh dear on the scales on Wednesday!!

We will have a lot more savoury items along side the cakes as requested next year.

 

My niece Heidi for running the Craft Raffle for Breast Cancer Care and the Tombola.

We raised £72.00 and I will make it up to £100 for them....

 

Well done to Donna for winning the Big Craft Raffle prize of over £100 worth of crafting goodies, the ticket number was '124'......

Also well done to Carole Cheeseman for winning the yummy Breast Cancer Cake that my sister made.

Carole's husband is diabetic and the cake is a little big for Carole on her own, so she has donated it to the Heart of Kent Hospice and we dropped it over to them yesterday and they were thrilled,

so Thank You Carole!

 

And lastly can I say another HUGE THANK YOU to the fabulous demonstrators and my lovely friends Julie Hickey from Craftwork Cards, Jenny Mayes from Hobby Art and Georgina Sweetenham.
I did want to get a picture of them all together but we were too busy!!!!

 

You all did a fantastic job and made everyone's day so great with all the hard work that you put in to all the wonderful samples........

 

Well, this is really sounding like an Oscar Speech so I think it is time to sign off.

I will be back soon next week with lots of lovely samples to show you.

 

Big Hugs Lisa.B.x

 

 

Brand New Limited Addition.......

Morning All,

 

I thought that I would let you know that whilst I was away up at Craftwork Cards I brought back some of the gorgeous new limited addition Paper Bow Pads which are beautiful and so summery. They are very limited, so don't miss out, they are available HERE....

 

They have 144 die-cut bows in pastel, bright and monochrome colours to co-ordinate with their Macaroon, Happy Days and Black Magic paper packs.

The bows come in 2 different sizes and are so simple to make......

 

 

Here are some card ideas using the Paper Bow Pad......

 

 

These cards were made by Julie Hickey.......

I love this card, it is so clean and simple but absolutely beautiful......

 

 

Another simple but lovely card......

 

Well that's all for today, I will be back tomorrow with a little more inspiration for the Time Flies collection,

 

Until then, Keep crafting.....

 

Hugs

Lisa.B.xxx

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



A little more Time Flies .........

Good Morning all,

 

As a lot of you know by now, I had the absolute pleasure of playing with the new Time Flies Collection last week, getting ready the weekend workshop up at Craftwork Cards in Leeds with the lovely Julie Hickey.

 

I have been working closely with Craftwork Cards and this collection was inspired by me and has been in my head for such a long time and Sue made it become real for me.

Steph made an absolute fabulous job with the illustration of it, she has so much talent and it has been lovely to work with and I hope that everyone enjoys playing with it as much as I have.....

 The collection is available HERE, and there is so much in the pack for you to play with.
It contains:

Time Flies 8" x 8" paper pad, Candi, die-cuts: 22 butterflies, 26 sentiments, 24 flowers, 8 paper bows, 14 labels and 20 bands
 

 These are a few of the ideas that I came up with so far, I do hope that you like them.....

I cut around the elements and tore the edges of the card for a different look edge.....

You can't quite see it on the pictures but I added a little Glossy Accents to the clock face......

I used some co-ordinating coloured card to this one to make the layers pop.....

These little bows are so cute.....I added a little Milled Lavender Distress ink to this one.........

A little bit of co-ordinating seam binding and lace on this card, I love the ruffled look of seam binding......

I really love making flowers.....

Again a little hint of Distress Ink and some co-ordinating card stock to make it pop.......

You can see the glossy accents a little clearer on this one.....

I just love the lilac and cream colours together, so classic.....







A little closer look.....

Well that's about all from me for now, I do hope that you have enjoyed looking.....

I will be back soon with some more inspiration, happy crafting.....

Hugs Lisa.B.X

Craftwork Workshop Projects.......

Good Morning Bloggers,

 

As promised yesterday, I thought I would show you in detail the two class projects that the ladies made with me at Craftwork cards HQ on Saturday using the Time Flies Collection available HERE.

Here are some photos of the altered box that they made.....

 

 

The top of the box........

 

One side of the box.......

 

The inside of the box.......

 

This is the gap card that the ladies also made at the workshop with me, it is a nice simple card that uses up lots of cut off scraps and the Time Flies elements.......

 

 

A little closer look.......

 

Any of the ladies that attended the workshop, please feel free to post your class creations that you made with Julie and myself on my Facebook page, you will find a link at the right hand side of my blog.......

Well thats all for now, I will be back soon with a little more inspiration.....

Hugs Lisa.B.xxx

 



Craftwork Cards Event and Workshop Day....

Good Afternoon All,

 

I am impressed as the sun is actually shining out there today, between the clouds of course but it is actually there!!!

 

I thought I would post today and tell you about my lovely two days at Craftwork Cards HQ and bring you some photos......
 

It was lovely to meet so many ladies and Friday was really busy with people grabbing so many great bargains, along with a lot of the fabulous new goodies.

I came back with a lot of NEW Craftwork goodies which I will be adding to the website www.lisabdesigns.co.uk all day......
 

I had the pleasure of playing with the new collection Time Flies on Saturday and demoing some tags and card tags which I will be featuring on the blog later this week......

 

Here is a little sneak peek at one of the tags.......

 

 

On Saturday my lovely friend Julie Hickey and I ran workshops with the Time Flies collection, here are a couple of photos before the fun began, we were sooo organised!!!......

 

 

 

Then the ladies arrived to get creative!..........

 

 

You can see the concentration on their faces.......

 

The lovely Julie Hickey and her first group of ladies.......

Can I say a huge thank you to all the ladies that attended, you were all so much fun and did so well. I know that although Julie and I were both shattered at the end of the day,we thoroughly enjoyed our time with you and I hope to meet you all again.

I will be featuring Time Flies inspiration on the blog all week, starting off tomorrow with the projects that the ladies made with me at the workshop......

 

Well that's all for now, until tomorrow....

Big Hugs Lisa.B. xxx