A Jar for Christmas

Maria Therese here today with some inspiration for you.

Hope you have a cup of coffee with you as my post today is a bit Longer than usual..

I wanted to do something special for my October post as Christmas will be here before you know it..

Every year I make something for my Aunts for Christmas as they all give such wonderful gifts for my girls.

So this year I came up with this:

I have taken a Jam jar and spray painted it white.

Perfect to put some candy in...

And a Little card to go with it 

On my jar I used 

Essential Backgrounds - Spots & Dots (3 Clear Stamps)

and coloured the dots with Copic in different blue colours to match my card.

The pretty ribbon is 

Exclusive Satin Ribbon - Christmas Red

On the lid I used the Snowflakes Trio

and layered two of them.

And for my card :

The size is about 12x12 cm

The image is Christmas Kiss

I've also used Vintage book page

Snowflakes Trio

Stars Festoon

Elegant Doily Die-Light

Hope you got some inspiration for a home made Christmas Gift 

Big Hugs Maria Therese

Whiff of Joy Challenge # 166

Good Morning and welcome to our new Whiff of Joy Challenge! To discover who won last weeks challenge and who was picked for our top 3 please go down to the post below!

Our sponsor for this challenge is Whiff of Joy with a fabulous prize of 15% off your next order from the Whiff of Joy store!!!


   

What do you need to do to be in with a chance of winning?? Join us this fortnight for our new Challenge with a theme that everyone loves!...

NO FLOWERS ALLOWED

Please remember to use a Whiff of Joy image, sentiment and/or Die-Light for your entry to count in the prize draw! You have time to enter until Tuesday 5th November 2013 at 8 p.m. CET (Central European Time).

Here are the Design Teams fabulous projects for your inspiration. For more detailed information on each project, please visit the Designer’s personal blog.

MARION




KATHRIN

 

JEANETTE 

KARIN

LINDA

Now we look forward to see your fabulous projects.

Challenge # 165 Winner and Top 3

Hello and Happy Wednesday! First of all we want to say a big thank you to everyone who joined our last challenge. As always so great to see all your projects. Hope you will join us again for our next challenge we will announce within few minutes.

First we would like to announce the winner chosen by random.org and our top 3 which are chosen by the design team.

 Our sponsor for challenge # 165 is Live And Love Crafts.



If the words vintage and shabby chic makes your heart beat faster, you will find your haven at Live & Love Crafts!
Live & Love Crafts is a UK based online store that ships WORLDWIDE. The store is owned and operated by Sandra Mathis, a crafter who is as passionate about the vintage style as she is about customer service and providing a good shopping experience. Live & Love Crafts prides itself on having a website that is easy to navigate with excellent product images. Orders are dispatched fast; usually on the same day received.

Live & Love Crafts stocks a wide range of products from well-loved vintage brands such as Maja Design, Pion Design, Magnolia, Wild Orchid Crafts, Kort & Godt, Prima, Melissa Frances, Maya Road, and the Tim Holtz/Ranger product lines.

The store has a vast selection of laces, ribbons and trims, an assortment of over 200 charms and metal decorations, as well as many other unique embellishments that you can't find elsewhere. To help you save on costs, the charms/metal decos can be purchased singularly and all trims and ribbons are sold by the yard/meter. If you’re looking for products that will inspire and a one stop paper & embellishment shop, look no further than Live & Love Crafts!

Sandy offers to the lucky winner a £10 Store Voucher
   
 Thank you Sandy!
And the lucky winner is...

Random Integer Generator

Here are your random numbers:

6

URSKA

Congratulations, Urska! Please contact us HERE to claim your prize.

Here are our picks for the top three cards, in no particular order

SANDRA




ILONA

 

KUNI

Congratulations ladies! Please take our Top 3 badge you can find in the sidebar and wear it with proud on your blog.

Just check back in few minutes when we have a new theme for you.

Whiff Of Joy Die-Light Videos

Good morning readers! Today we have another presentation of our newest Die-Lights Videos. We are working to make sure that each of our wonderful Die-lights has its' own unique video! Now you can see our Die-Lights in a fun new way along with some sample creations in the form of a quick and informative video.

Clouds Border Die 

Christmas Tree Nested

Nested Flower Two

Christmas Duo


Snowflakes Festoon

Here are the product links for you:

InLinkz.com

We will be continuing to add to our Die-Lights video presentations. We will creating videos for our upcoming Die-lights as well as working towards creating videos for those from previous releases.

 It is our hope that these videos will be a valuable resource for you. They will be available at our own YouTube channel and you will also be able to see them in each Die-light’s product information on our on-line store. We hope that you are just as excited as we are with this new adventure.

 Special thanks to Stacy Morgan who has been creating these amazing videos for us. Thank you also to all our wonderfully talented Design Team members whose wonderful creations are showcased in the videos. Thanks for stopping by.

Lots of new stuff!!

Let It Snow

Morning all it's Mandy here with you today to share this months GDT card with you which I've created with one of the gorgeous new Christmas stamps

"Let It Snow"

I have coloured the sweet image with copics & added lots of lovely sparkle to the snow & snowman.

There is a choice of two sentiments with this stamp, one of them being the "Let It Snow" sentiment that I have used.

Thanks for stopping by

MY CRAFTROOM

http://www.marions-scrapkaarten.blogspot.nl/

This time no tutorial from me, but somethings else I want to share with you and which I think you might enjoy having a peek at.

This month it is my turn to show you my little piece of heaven, my craft room.

I share my craftroom with some stash from our home, but still everything I need is in range.

Lets have a look :)

My first picture shows you how I store my papers and my larger projects and some small stuff that I only use occasionally.

Next to the paper stash a cabinet. I used this for my stash, printing papers, incs and so on.

My working space :).

The bottom drawer contains my colouring stuff, copics, distress, twinkling and so on.

The rest of the drawers contain stash I regularry use.

The small cabinet contains my Whiff of Joy kits and my punches and favo Tim dies.

Underneath more stamps and stash.

My hubby made me some fab light when it's dark outside above my crafting space, but also a small daylight lamp is so helpfull.

I store my stamps and dies I regulary use on a Clip it up, I think it is so usefull.

Of course, being a cat lover, I also have some cat things in my little piece of heaven:

Sadly Droppie (one of my cats) demolished the green cat just after taking this picture, 

but I got a new one recently from my hubbie on my birthday :)

Last  but not least, I recently purchased 2 small cabinets and thought wow, this is enough storage for a while..... until I started reorganizing, now 3 of the boxes are still empy, but I everything is now better organised. I keep stash in there and some future projects.

I hope you enjoyed having a peek at my craftroom.

Unitll next month when I will show a tutorial again.

Happy crafting,

Hugs,

Marion