Showing posts with label Fa-la-la. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Fa-la-la. Show all posts

Sunday, December 23, 2012

Q a CAS-ual Retro Holiday Dash...


This fortnight two of my favourites have teamed up - the 10 Minute Craft Dash and CAS-ual Fridays - and in the belief that three is never a crowd, and four is better than three LOL, I threw this gorgeous Color Q palette and flipped this fab Retro Sketch into the mix too!
Luckily I had an extra die cut kraft reindeer, left over from the tag I had made for DS teachers gift.  I used the Die-namic wavy lines to create the snow drifts - cutting with both blades at once to save time for the Craft Dash   I just love the sparkle on the American Crafts glitter paper!  I cut the Daisy D paper to size and adhered the larger snowdrift, then tied my Trendy Twine and button knot, before pop dotting the smaller snow drift.  I adhered the kraft reindeer with his feet just tucked behind the front snow drift, then stamped The Alley Way Stamps Fa-la-la sentiment in Dove Grey StazOn.  I just had enough time to underline the heading and add Rudolph's nose and eye before my 10 minute buzzer sounded!



Tuesday, August 7, 2012

Play Date Cafe Christmas...


 

My mojo decided to run away to join the circus today, and the only way I could try to tempt it back was with some chocolate cupcakes!  Hey the sign says "Do what you love/love what you do", and I do love chocolate cupcakes, almost as much as I love sticky date cupcakes ;)

I saw this weeks inspiration photo and colours at The Play Date Cafe, and just kept thinking of Christmas treats, so I made some festive Christmas decorations - the best thing is they are re-usable (except the cupcakes of course LOL!)  The cute sentiment, holly and reindeer are from The Alley Way Stamps Fa-la-la and Christmas Magic.  Papers used are cardstock, SEI and Echo Park papers, together with washi tape from a variety of sources including Typo, and jute from The Ribbon Carousel.  For each decoration I punched out two scalloped circles and sandwiched the bamboo skewers in between them, you could add decoration on the back too to create an edible centrepiece for your Christmas table.

My kids and hubby really enjoyed this project too!

The after party LOL!

Wednesday, July 25, 2012

You Light Up My Life, Tea-Light Holder


As soon as I saw this gorgeous reindeer and "You light up my life" sentiment in the The Alley Way Stamps Fa-la-la set I knew I wanted to make a tea-light holder - where the candlelight can be seen flickering through Rudolph's nose. Too easy with the fab new battery-operated tea-lights on the market!


Papers are Prima's North Country - I used an 8"x8" paper to ensure it fitted around the outside of my tea-light holder, and cut out the hole for Rudolph's nose before stamping and hand-cutting the tag then wrapping it around the holder using some gorgeous Ribbon Carousel twine.
Don't forget - only one day til The Alley Ways Behind the Alley Sneak Peeks
highlighting the fab new AUGUST sets plenty of opportunities to WIN!!  
Each day you will have the chance to win a free set, 
and on the TAWS blog hop you have a chance to win ALL 3 SETS...

Friday, July 6, 2012

Be Inspired with Christmas in July The Alley Way...


Guess what!  The Alley Way Stamps BE Inspired Challenge now runs every two weeks!!  Every second Friday you can drop by for another FAB dose of The Alley Ways Be Inspired, and who couldn't help but be inspired by this gorgeous photo montage?! I love the peace sign the little girl in the centre is holding, so I created a Christmas Peace frame.  The outline for "peace" was created by tracing my old Basic Grey monograms onto white cardstock and mounted onto chipboard. The Alley Way Stamps Christmas Magic "Peace" sentiment and the Fa-la-la Christmas Star were stamped all over the word in Versamark Watermark ink and heat embossed with clear embossing powder. This was then oversprayed using Glimmermist Olive Vine and any excess ink was lightly dabbed off before carefully drying with the heat gun. The chipboard dove was painted in ivory and oversprayed with Glimmermist Gold. The background paper is an old piece from my stash, but you could create your own by stamping and embossing with red tinsel embossing powder.


Hope you are inspired to play along too, there are great stamps as prizes!
This Challenge is open until July 19th.

My Christmas Frame also fits in perfectly with this weeks Papertake Weekly Challenge of 
Anything Goes with the Optional Extra of glittery accents