Commissions and Christmas Crafting?

It's been a while since I last blogged - sorry guys! That would be due to the fact that I've been so busy working on a number of magazine commissions, that sadly I cannot share here right now.
I have however been busy working on some pieces of jewellery and hope to get these photographed to show soon.

Hope you're all busy crafting. How many of you have started on your Christmas cards already? Personally I find it too early to be thinking about it, since we've not have a proper summer to date, but it doesn't seem uncommon for many to have their festive cards in the pipeline.

Design Inspiration and Magazines.

Another busy week. I've been getting some historical design inspiration from Winchester Cathedral this week - took lots of photos on an interesting tour of this amazing building. I love the Gothic arches!

Also been designing projects and page layouts for Fete 'zine - a cute craft 'zine for crafty people. Check out my link to issue 2 in an earlier posting. Issue 3 coming soon.

Plus, I've been designing projects for a number of top national crafting publications.

Oh... and Creative Crafter UK has reached another milestone - 6000 visitors - wahoo! Thanks to all my readers for visiting!

Happy Craftin' y'all.

Oh Deer.....Sorry I Forgot

I've created this quick card today using the free image featured on Just Something I Made blog

I positioned a gradient sunset background behind the silhouette, double matting the image onto yellow and black cardstock. A stripey Doodlebug patterned paper is positioned on the bottom half of the long card with yellow Doodlebug ribbon across the join. Black foam letters and black adhesive gem stones complete the card.

Thanks to Cathe for posting the image - it's a lovely design featured on her fabulous vintage and graphical blog.

Fete Craft 'Zine 2

Open publication - Free publishing - More zine

Have you seen the new Fete Craft 'Zine? Created by avid crafter Momtaz.

You may recall I featured last issue with my Get Well Card, well it's available again and can be seen above.

My Fashionable Birthday Card features on page 20 with an instructional explaination of how to create it. Enjoy the read!

Forever Friends Handmade Birthday

I was recently asked to create a pink, loveable, cute birthday card for a 65th birthday. It was from a devoted husband to his wife, so what better designs than to use these adorable Forever Friends rubber stamps. I coloured the waterproof stamped image with watercolours and added sparkly gems and ribbons along with squishy foam lettering to complement the squashy heart in the design.

Happy 65th Birthday!