PROJECT WEDNESDAY

Good morning all.

Well today is the day that Lisa launches her fabulous Layering Stencils and Embossing Folder/Die sets on TV.  Not only that but she will also be launching her fantastic Cloud 9 Ink Pads.

       

Well, I say today is the day she is launching them but to be honest I'm not sure she will have very long to do any demos with them because you've all been shopping already haven't you? Lol.

I can't say I blame you though to be honest because everything is just stunning.  You only have to look at the Design Team samples to see how much everybody has enjoyed using these new products, they are just so beautiful.

So if you want to watch Lisa on Create and Craft just click on the logo and then choose either watch live from the Home Page or TV schedule and click on Watch Live

So, as you know Wednesday is Project Day here on the blog.

This week we have another stunning project for you and this time it has been created by the lovely Su Peachey using the Gorgeous new scroll die and embossing folder together with the Daisy Corner Layering Stencils and Embossing Folder/Die

You will need:

Parchment Scroll Embossing folder and die

Daisy Corner Layering Stencil

Daisy Corner Embossing Folder & Die

It's The Little Things, Scripted Sentiments

Just saying Ticker phrases stamps

Dew Drops

5 x 7 inch card blank

Piece of card 4 3/4 x 6 3/4 

Stencil your daisy corner using speckled Egg, Tumbled Glass and Broken China 

Stencil leaves using Twisted Citron and Mowed Lawn 

Stencil stems using Vintage photo 

Stencil Daisy centres using squeezed lemonade and vintage photo 

Then die cut and emboss

Die Cut your scroll, stamp your chosen sentiment and then emboss the scroll. Next, ink the edges with Speckled Egg and Broken China 

Ink the edges of the 4 3/4 x 6 3/4 piece of card with Speckled Egg and Broken China and then adhere it directly to the base card.

Raise the scroll on sticky pads and adhere in place.

Apply sticky pads to the part of the daisy that will overhang the scroll and apply wet glue to the rest and adhere to your card, bottom right.

Using the ticker phrases stamps, stamp your sentiment and fussy cut out.  Adhere this to the top scroll and finally finish off with a few Dew Drops.

You can of course, use whatever ink colours you like, the blues are just one option.

If you decide to have a go at this, then please remember to share in the Facebook group as we all love to see your interpretations of projects the Design Team have created.

Right, I'm off to finish a few things so that I can settle down and watch Lisa without interruption later.

Will you be watching too?

TTFN

xxx

Su

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Monday again!

 Morning all

Well, Monday rolls around once again - I honestly don't know where the time goes to these days do you?  I have no idea how I ever found the time to go to work! Lol - It'll soon be C................ Sssshhhhh

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I am hoping that Lisa has a bit of an easier week this week compared to last week!  I am sure she must have met herself on the way back at some point!  But, having said that, how fabulous is it that so many people want to engage with her?

Everything has been by invitation too, and that is always a fabulous feeling isn't it?  When you know that people actually want to be a part of your journey because they think you are good at what you do.

I have to be honest and say that I am so very proud to be a small part of this journey with Lisa.  Watching her business grow in both popularity and stature is fantastic.  She just oozes enthusiasm for what she produces doesn't she?  And, what's more, there is only her and Danny doing all of this in conjunction with her fabulous manufacturer.  So hat's off to the both of them - and long may it continue.

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So, to business.

I know I said I hoped her week would be easier but she is on TV this week so that in itself is busy.

Wednesday 24th she has her New & Exclusive show on Create and Craft.

Show times for 24th are 4pm and 8pm

Then on Thursday 25th she will be on again,

Show time for that is 8am

Following on from that, due to the success of her first Craft Extra show she will be doing another 4 hour extravaganza with the lovely Dawn Wheeler.

Show times are:

10am, 11am, 1pm and 2pm

Let's just hope she remembers to take all her own shoes this time eh? Lol

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Other things happening this week include:

Live Crafting with Dawn - Monday at 1pm in the Crafting with Lisa Horton group.

(I'm using the new ink pads together with the new Blooming Marvellous layering stencils - #excitedmuchly)

Claire Newcombe will have a pre-recorded video for you which will show at her usual live time of 11am

Wednesday is DT Project Day here on the blog - and have we got a stunner for you this week!!

Live Crafting with Dawn - Thursday at 10am (again in the group)

Friday Night Live with Lisa Horton at 7pm as usual

 

FABULOUS FRIDAY!

Hi everyone,

Hope you have all had a most fabulous week?

Normal service has now resumed in our household as we have just waved off the grandchildren.  Honestly, never without a drama when they come to stay.

We only have a small two bedroomed house, one of which is my craft room. So, when the kiddos come to stay they bring an airbed which takes up the whole of the craft room floor.  Now that's not a problem as I just put all my craft stuff up and out of the way for the couple of days they are here but the air bed they used to bring had a puncture which my hubby had repaired about four times already.  So, new airbed was the order of the day.

Said airbed was purchased on the day Daddy dropped off the children and Nanny duly pumped it up ready for the night time.  We stood it up during the day so they still had room to play.  When I came to add the sleeping bag into the mix, the airbed had deflated slightly.  No worries thinks I, bound to settle after the first inflation so duly added more air, then sleeping bags and off they went to bed.

Fast forward to 2.30 am - airbed - no air!! Flat as a pancake!  So the poor kids are sleeping on the floor.  Dilemma is, do I add more air (Pump is really noisy) and risk waking the youngest and my hubby, or do I just say to the eldest, try and get to sleep and Daddy can take it back tomorrow.

Opted for the latter so consequently have three very tired, irritable and teary children going home with an already tired mummy after a long day at a wedding yesterday.

 Now don't get me wrong, I adore my grandchildren to bits but thank goodness I can send them home. Lol

Anyhoooo - I digress so back to business. 

Below is the You Tube link to Claire's facebook live from Tuesday which I should have added yesterday but - refer to story above! Lol

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Our Lisa has had a super busy week what with her Facebook live with Suzanne  Runyan on HSN very early Wednesday morning where she showcased a super little kit done specifically for HSN.  

(Not sure if it will be available in the UK yet, so watch this space).

Then last night she had that fabulous hour long chat with the lovely Carla Bagshaw on her brand new You Tube channel

A&C Chatter Girl

Now if you are a You Tube user, please go and subscribe to Carla's fabulous new channel as I'm sure it won't be the last time Lisa will be appearing and I know that there are loads of fabulous Craft Chats with some wonderful people to come.

Not only that but Carla gives a shout out on some brilliant bargains on numerous channels for you all to benefit from and who doesn't love a great bargain eh?

On top of those two fabulous events, Lisa has yet another live coming up this evening over on the Crafter's Home facebook page at 6pm UK time, 10am Pacific Time.

Lastly, but certainly by no means least, is Lisa's Friday night live tonight at 7pm as usual.

You can view either on the Lisa Horton Crafts facebook page or on the You Tube channel.  We will, of course share the live into our Crafting with Lisa Horton facebook group - so there are plenty of places for you to view.

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Still time to vote folks - click here! 

Phew, I'm exhausted just writing about it all so goodness knows how Lisa is feeling right now.  What I can say is that all this fabulous recognition is so well and truly deserved and long may it continue.

See you tonight for Lisa's Live

TTFN

xx

TUESDAY - AN EXTRA PROJECT

 Afternoon all

Late on parade today, sorry about that.

Busy morning off to top up my fruit stock ready for the grandchildren. Well not really, I eat fruit for my breakfast every day but they do love their fruit so I have bought extra so we don't run out!

Then off for a dental check up - all good news there, for both of us! Woohoo.

Then, well I just don't know where the day has gone to if I'm honest.

Did you manage to catch Claire's live this morning?  A lovely project featuring the gorgeous layering hibiscus dies.  These are one of Lisa's older products but they are so beautiful and really deserve a revisit, so thank you Claire.

I have popped a link below in case you were interested in purchasing.  Best thing is they are currently on sale for £18.99 and for an 11 die set, I think that is pretty good.  (Just click the pic)

I'll come back and pop up a link to our You Tube channel once Claire has uploaded her video.

Don't forget that our lovely colour Queen, Natasja (bobomadeby) will be live tonight at 7pm doing something fabulous with Lisa's gorgeous stencils.

Now I know that Danny added a link in the group today for Natalia's Exploding Box card but for those of you who still need it, I have added it here too.

 

KINETIC CARDS

CHRISTMAS EXPLODING BOX

·        Box Kit

·        White card

·        Lisa Horton Crafts Nested Triangles

·        White ribbon

·        Lisa Horton Crafts Dew Drops Clear

·        Punch hole

·        Scoring Board

1.     Cut a square measuring 21cm by 21cm from white card. Score all four sides at 7cm on right side of scoring board box base. Cut on two opposite sides only at scored lines to the centre, leaving the other sides uncut. Cut away the four corners diagonally from scored lines to have an octagon shape.

2.     Cut pattern paper for inside 6.5cm by 6.5cm. You will need five pieces of paper. Adhere to the inside centre and four sides. On both sides fold the rectangle shapes to the square to create a pocket. Decorate with pattern papers before gluing them.

3.     Cut out tags with sentiments, adhere to the white card for stability and fussy cut out. Punch holes and adhere a ribbon with bow to the tags. Add the tags to the pockets of the box. Cut out the florals from white card and decorate the top of pockets.

4.     Stamp sentiments, cut out and fussy cut out one of them. Adhere with 3D foam pads to the inside on both opposite sides.

5.     To create a tree. Cut six triangles measuring 5.5cm. Score them in a half long way. Fold and crease. Glue three of them together, do it with another three. Leave them on the side.

 

6.     Now to create a stand, you will need a strip of card 1cm by 10cm. Score at 2cm, 3.5cm, 6.5cm and 8cm and crease.

7.     Add the glue all over and fold both sides to the centre to create a letter T.

8.     Add the glue to the 2cm side of stand and adhere to the half of the tree. Adhere the other half of tree to the tree with stand.

 

9.     Add red tape to the bottom of stand and position to the centre inside of box. Die cut florals and glue them to the tree, add some florals to the stand to make the stand less visible. Add little dew drops to the flowers.

10.                        For the lid. Cut 11cm by 11cm square from white card. Score on left side of scoring board box lid at 2cm on all four sides. Cut the corner squares into tabs and make a lid. Decorate with pattern papers. Cut out a tag with sentiment adhere to white card for stability and cut out. Adhere to the top of lid with 3D foam pads. Decorate the tag with die cut florals and dew drops. Add a ribbon bow.

 

What a fabulous project.  Such a shame it never made it to the magazine.

Still we have it here for our lovely followers to enjoy and it will be here forever too.

Remember to share your project into the group if you have a go, we do love to see your makes.

Right I shall be back with links to both Claire's and Natasja's lives once they are uploaded along with any other juicy bits of gossip I can find. Lol

All, Lisa Horton Crafts related obviously. 😉😉

TTFN

xx 

MONDAY MADNESS

 Afternoon all.

Well, the title may have you confused a little, but then again maybe not. Lol

So today didn't start off too well.  Slight disagreement with the other half - enough said.  But it put me on the backfoot a little, as it does.  Then he comes back from the Chemist and tells me how I collect my prescription has changed.  

So off I go to the Chemist - yes, he says.  You don't need to contact the GP anymore just come here every month and collect!! Really? Why don't I know about this I asked - "well, it is all handled by the surgery so maybe ask them?"

Gee, helpful - NOT!

Off to the surgery I go - Practice Manager - lookout! Lol

Long and short of it is, the system has changed but nobody bothered to discuss it with me, or indeed obtain my consent for the change!! Grrr.  Needless to say, it has now reverted back to how it has always been!

Anyhooooo - enough about me! Lol

Schedule for this week is as follows:

Monday - my live at 1pm went well and the link to the edited version is below if you missed it.

Tuesday - Brucie Bonus Day 😁

Claire will be live at 11am and

Natasja will be live at 7pm

Both in the Crafting with Lisa Horton Group.

No live from me this Thursday.

I am spending some time with my grandchildren so that Mummy and Daddy can go off to a Wedding with the youngest granddaughter.  I'm so looking forward to my crazy day with the kiddos.

Friday - Lisa will be live at 7pm for her usual Friday Night Live.

There will be soooo much lushness on there - you really won't want to miss it. Just sayin'

So, our lovely Natalia is away for the week but has very kindly sent me the instructions for her gorgeous exploding box with the little Christmas Tree inside.

I will add this to the blog tomorrow and then put a link in the Crafting with Lisa Horton group so that you can all access it.  I know there are several of you that are keen to have a go at this and I am looking forward to seeing lots of little exploding boxes appearing in the group.

Right, better go and make an appearance in the lounge before he thinks I have hibernated. Lol

Back tomorrow.

TTFN

xxx

TROPICAL THURSDAY

 Well, good afternoon all.

I bet you can't work out why the title of today's post is "Tropical Thursday" can you?  Lol.

Honestly, we can't win can we - it's either raining, snowing, or far too hot.  Why can't we ever have a happy medium?  I mean, I love the sun but it is just far too hot to sit out in, even under the parasol.  There is no "fresh" air is there?  I really feel for folk who don't like the heat, it must be so tough.

Anyway, enough doom and gloom - it'll soon be Chr............! Ssssshhhhh.

So just a quick post today.

Claire's live from Tuesday is up on our You Tube channel now so if you missed it on Tuesday then it is available to view.

Just click the picture below.

And of course today's live is also up on our You Tube channel.

Again, just click the picture to watch.

Now don't forget that Lisa will be live on her page and on You Tube on Friday evening at 7pm as usual.  I am pretty sure you will not want to miss this one.

You Tube is the best viewing option from Lisa's point of view but we do understand that not everybody uses or gets along with You Tube.  So for those people you can view on Facebook.  Either tune in to Lisa Horton Crafts page (that's Lisa's business page) or watch via the Crafting with Lisa Horton Group.  Lisa can see all of your comments, no matter how you are viewing so she won't miss any comments, (well not many anyway, lol)

Please remember that voting is still open for the Crafts Beautiful Awards.  If you haven't voted yet, please think about voting for our lovely Lisa in the many categories she has been nominated in.  (Oh, you can vote up to 5 times with the same email address too - if you wanted to obviously.)

So that's all for now folks.

Unless there is anything vital that I need to update you with, I will be back on Monday.

TTFN

xxx