Craft Stamping Quartet: A Little Poser For You ...............and a friendly competition. (posted by Lesley)

Monday, 27 June 2011

A Little Poser For You ...............and a friendly competition. (posted by Lesley)

Happy Monday Morning Everyone,

I sincerely hope the temperature is not too much for you this morning. I have had the fans going from first thing this morning and to be honest, I could have done with keeping one on all night. Phew, it's blooming hot around here and I'm not a happy bunny in the heat, lol!

Anyway, enough of my English obsession with our weather, as the title says I have a little poser for you. If you remember when Judith announced our project for this month she had chosen a colour combo for us from the talented Rachel Jackson's article on page 76 of the May issue of Craft Stamper. Judith gave us licence to choose our own project to use this combo on so I decided to work backwards through my CS mags until I found one I thought would fit the bill.

Now, when I was looking through my many stamp sets trying to decide which I was going to use on my project I realised that I had doubled up on a little set of Paper Artsy stamps so I decided to have a little friendly competition. I want to stress that you do not have to be or become a follower of our blog to enter. All you have to do is have a guess at which project I have chosen from looking at the pic below and leave your answer in a comment. The first person to guess correctly will win the set of stamps (and I might find a few other bits and pieces to put in the envelope too). As a clue so that you don't go trawling through tons of past issues I will tell you that the project is in a Craft Stamper issue from either February, March or April this year.

This is the useful little set of stamps.

and this is a peek at some of the stash I used to make my project.

Even my buddies don't know which project I've chosen but they're not eligible, lol! I hope someone guesses correctly.

Have a good Monday everyone and as always thanks for your lovely comments.

Hugs
Lesley Xx

5 comments:

Suzi B said...: oooh Lesley... you "crafty" :) thing!
I'm guessing it's from the April Issue Hels Sheridan On the Cover projct.
thnk you for the chance to win some lovely stamps.
Sue xx; 27 June 2011 at 11:17
Aquarius said...: Well that is a poser - my best guess is 'On the Cover' wall hanging by Hels Sheridan from April 2011 issue. I don't suppose a second guess is allowed but here it is anyway Birds in the Trees by Jean Hardy from March 2011. It really is so hot today although we've had some rain.; 27 June 2011 at 14:14
judith@poppy cottage said...: Very intriguing Lesley! I don't have that set of stamps either, so it's a shame I'm not eligible! Love your Stampbord tiles, they are lovely images. Looks like this will be a fabulous creation. Thanks for the little peek, and I'm off for a rummage to see if I can guess what you might be up to! Judith xx; 27 June 2011 at 14:31
veronica said...: can't resist a challenge, so had a quick rummage - best guess so far is Hels 'on the cover' wallhanging from April; 27 June 2011 at 16:11
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Welcome to Our New Blog!

Elaine, Jo, Judith and Lesley are four crafters spread across the country, united in their love of crafting. They met over the Internet through the Graphicus Guild, a group set up for crafters by Glenda Waterworth owner of Graphicus and manufacturer of Elusive Images rubber stamps. After some discussion, they decided that they would like to 'craft together' in spite of the distance between them. To accomplish this ambition, they decided to choose one project each month from Craft Stamper magazine, and allow themselves the following calendar month to complete the project. Each person would take it in turn to choose a project. The four participants would then post 'sneaky peeks', progress reports and mini tutorials throughout the month. At the end of the month, they would then post their projects, hopefully producing four very different finished items.

Elaine

Elaine lives in the rural South of England, in a small house with a huge, wild garden and many of her craft projects are inspired by the natural world. She has been crafting for several years, mainly making cards and some mixed media projects with a strong focus on using rubber stamps. She now also enjoys making book based projects and is just starting to dabble in art journals. Elaine is a bit of a perfectionist, with many of her projects never seeing the light of day, but she is working on being more relaxed about her artistic endeavours!!!Elaine has a serious craft stash addiction and treasures the precious times when she can meet up with her distant crafty friends.

Jo lives in the East Midlands. She loved papercrafting as a child, but only rediscovered it as an adult in her work with children, and then again when she had children of her own. She'd promised herself that one day she would try some grown up 'cutting and sticking'. So when her work pattern changed in 2006, it seemed an ideal time to find a new hobby. She started a major collage project, (still unfinished of course), and then got sidetracked into playing with polymer clay. This in turn led to her watching rubber stamping demonstrations on television, and stamping has been her passion since that time.
She loves to travel to craft shows around the country and still hasn't lost the sense of wonder at what can be achieved with ink and paper. At one time she may have gone home from her job in child care with messy hands, now she is as likely to arrive with them looking that way!

Judith

Judith lives in a Norfolk village with her husband and son, while her daughter is at University. She keeps chickens. She has always been a crafter in one form or another, knitting, sewing, etc, being taught by her Mum growing up, and finding inspiration from others as an adult. She has been making cards for about eight or nine years, and runs a small card making class from home. In the last year, she has discovered mixed media, and her focus has moved very much towards dimension, layering and texture. Rubber stamping is her passion and she is a serious stamp collector! She also makes jewellery which allows her to indulge in a love of all things shiny. She enjoys blog hopping, and keeping in touch with her crafty friends.

Lesley

Lesley lives in Nottinghamshire and has always crafted in one way or another from about the age of 7. At one time she took a City and Guilds Fashion and Design course (just for the fun of it), which involved quite a bit of Art in different forms, as well as designing and making garments.
She discovered cardmaking about three and a half years ago, and after seeing Glenda Waterworth, the owner of Graphicus and Elusive Images on a craft TV channel about a year later, became hopelessly addicted to rubber stamping. A closer association with Glenda and her company in the form of workshops and open days over the past couple of years, has led to a growing obsession with different media that can be used in conjunction with rubber stamps.

Lesley is thoroughly excited to be a member of this little group of friends whose enthusiasm is so infectious. She is also very grateful to be around in this age of technology that enables a group such as this to come together with such ease to share ideas and give each other support and encouragement.

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