Giveaway Time Again

The last BLOG CANDY Giveaway was May and we have been so busy making things since then , well we thought it was time for another.
So along with some of our creations you will get some of the products from the shop.

Sign up below , you need to do it by Friday 13th !!!! and GOOD LUCK

Wish you were here!

Send me a postcard......... this is for an altered postcard swap. Not so much an altered postcard but one made with stuff from the 'bit box' remember the bag?....... well there was a spare image of the puppet doll and she's been hanging around the desk for a while so off she went to Paris!

Bon Voyage!
Hope you like it
Effie
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Jan, Tri- shutter cards

Hi folks I thought I'd share a couple of Tri-shutter cards I've made using some lovely stamps from the shop. The first card was made using the fab Basic Grey basics manilla paper ( I really like using this range for mens cards) and my new favourite ...Harlequins stamp from Purple Onion I've used my skull and crossbones border stamp to create the panels on this card. This stamp is so versitile. I've even cut out individual skulls to decorate the edges of the middle panel. To add a bit of bling I've used icicle stickles on the eye sockets! I've also trimmed the edge of the panels with my other favourite Happy Birthday border stamp.

If you haven't made this crads before have a go they're really easy.

It's In The Bag!

Just how cute.. (in a good way) is this stamp from Sweet Pea ?.. It's the perfect size for ATCs. Simply stamped and coloured with Pro Markers.

Or you could take it a step further........ scan your finished ATC and print out onto fabric transfer paper and make this cute bag.... just big enough to hold your lippy and moblie phone!

If you're techie then enlarge the image before you print and put it on your shopper or your T-shirt!

DO NOT FORGET... to click the mirror image button on your computor before you print if your image has words..........Guess what I forgot to do! DOH!

Hope you like it!

Effie

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Julie: Cards using 'Sweet Pea' stamps

Hi all, How's things?

Today I've got some cards to share with you that I recently made after attending my local crop, but first ...

...at the risk of making you all green with envy I feel I should mention that while I'm at the crop not only do I get to browse and fondle items from the 3DJean shop - in person- I also sit close enough to Effie that I get first dibs on anything she's throwing away!

Both of which facts lead to how these cards got made in the first place! Let me explain : I got to play with some of the newest additions to the 3DJean.co.uk stamp section just as they went on sale in the shop. These are my cards featuring the new 'Silk Dance' stamp from Sweet Pea designs: I coloured in the stamped image using ProMarkers, not always using especially 'natural' colour ways, which seems to work well with the fantasy feel of the designs. Here I built up three stamped images using a mask:The backing papers used on all of these cards are actually off cuts from Effie. They're papers which she'd handcreated, turned into a journal for herself and then donated the leftovers to me at the crop!

[Please don't hate me just because I'm lucky - maybe just pester Jean to start stocking them for you instead!].I used an EK Success binder edge border punch to help with the feeling I wanted to create on these cards - which was something like 'daydreaming and doodling in your school folders'!

Which is also why I stamped my images directly onto notebook paper:
I also added to that feel with the birdy paper clips I found in my office drawers!
My final touches were ribbons and sentiment stickers which I placed inside a Purple Onion 'Labelers' stamp available in a set of four in the shop:So, that's the 'Silk Dance' Sweet Pea stamp for you .... if you'd like to see some examples using the 'Misty Reflection' design hop over to this post on my blog right now!

See you over there. Race you ....

Julie :)

A Savoury Dish

As you know I just love cooking/baking as much as crafting and playing with paper. But my favourite foods have got to be savoury things .So here is my recipe for Leek n Stilton quiche.Its very easy and quick

To start you need to bake blind a pastry case or buy one , about 8inch dish. I buy frozen pastry these days as its so much easier for me as the 2 things I cant make are yorkshire puddings (tried every recipe under the sun)and pastry.


Then chop and fry 2 medium leeks , place these in the bottom of the pastry case

Now crumble over the leeks 6oz Blue Stilton cheese

Mix together in a jug 2eggs and a small carton of single cream , pour over the top of the leeks n cheese

pop in the oven at gas 5 for about 25-30mins , eat and enjoy

It's Never Too Early!

...........................For Christmas!....
I'd searched and searched for vintage glass glitter and the nice lady at 3djean said if she could find some then she would get some........and she did! it's fabulous stuff!
So what did I make... a vintage snowman and here's how.

Take two different sized balls, these can be made of anything, these are compacted cotton paper. Cover in PVA glue and roll them in that fabulous silver chunky glitter. Gather a few twigs ( for his arms), paint them white.

Sarpen the end of a twig and colour the tip orange, cut off the end.. (for his nose) Take two black headed pins and snip to about .5cm For his hat.. cover the cap of a glue stick with black card, cut a larger circle for the brim and glue together

Using a cocktail stick about 3cm long push half in his head and the other half in his body, stick in his eyes and nose. Sharpen the ends of his arms and glue in the body. Add some small buttons. Give him a scarf made from any kind of fibres or ribbon. Using a small length of dowel mount him on a square block of wood...........or use a cotton reel to sit him on ( this was my first intention!)

And there you have it!

Or how about a Halloween cat!. he is made using the fine black glitter and he has a tail made from string dipped in glue and then glitter!

Hope you like it!

Effie

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