Creative Craft World Retreat

I taught a class for Creative Craft World last week at their retreat. The ladies were all so lovely.

I shared my prototype with you on my last post whilst I was waiting for my kit.

I added stamps from Simple Stories and Stickers from Echo Park as well as watercolour paints and a few things of my own including a button from Colour Fresh @ Stash Panache.

 We used the watercolour paints in several ways during the class including the colour runs and splattering. I think the girls have lots of techniques and ideas to go away with and use on layouts of their own!

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Winter Inspiration for Creative Craft World

Each day in November, there is new inspiration to be found from Creative Craft World.

Today is my turn to share some inspiration with you.
I'm going to share a very simple (and inexpensive) technique to add a wintery feel to your pages and also other ways to add a touch of frost.

Snowflakes are a great design detail for wintery pages. I created a homemade stencil by punching a snowflake in scrap cardstock. Just try to leave as much space around it as possible.

I then spread texture paste through the stencil, but you can use gesso or PVA glue - obviously some mediums are a little easier to work with than others. I created several snowflakes around the page before sprinkling glitter all over.

I left my base to dry naturally, but you could use a heat gun to speed things up.

One of the other things I did to make it more wintery is to ink the title and top off with a little more texture paste and glitter. I just spread the texture paste with a coffee stirrer over the tops of the letters - the messier the better!

You can also add a little 'snow' to the centres of the flowers and leaves.

Well I hope that I have inspired you to try adding a little snow to your next layout or card!

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Creative Craft World Scrap Map

Each month Creative Craft World set a sketch challenge. All you need to do is come up with a lovely layout to be in with a chance to win one of CCW's fabulous kits.

Here's October's Scrap Map:

and my layout:

My story is from a visit to Conkers in the summer with some friends. The kids had a whale of a time together but the icing on the cake was meeting meerkats (incidentally, the dictionary doesn't like the word meerkat and offers me beermat as an alternative LOL.) 

This was a great fun sketch to play with. Hop on over to the CCW blog to find out all the details.

Also on the CCW blog you'll find new Christmas inspiration every day from the team!

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Creative Craft World Challenge

I have joined the lovely team over at Creative Craft World this month. Each month there is a Scrap Map challenge which is a great way to get the mojo going.

Here's the sketch

The sketch was just what I needed to get my creative juices flowing.

I'm the world's slowest scrapper but I managed to get my page done in a jiffy.  

I have of course gone to town with some Boutique Buttons - The Daily Grind and The Great Outdoors (for full availability visit one of the stockists - see right). They're just so darn versatile!

I adore the Echo Park papers with a bit of this and that of whatever I had to hand thrown in!

So hop on over to the CCW blog for more inspiration and challenge details.  There's a chance to win CCW fabulous kit!

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