SWG Design by Linda Levoir

Friday, 8 January 2016

Christmas Candle Tilda - The Ribbon Girl

Good Morning!

I'm sharing a card for The Ribbon Girl DT today.

This is (I think) my last Christmas Card share until I start on making new ones for this year, (hopefully a bit earlier than I started last year).

I used Magnolia's Christmas Candle Tilda, this Tilda is one from 2014, but she's one of my most favourite Tildas of all.

I coloured her with my distress inks to match these lovely Pion Design papers, these are from the Days of Winter collection.

Colours: Vintage Photo, Antique Linen, Gathered Twigs, Hickory Smoke, Victorian Velvet, Aged Mahogany, Pine Needles, Scattered Straw, Wild Honey, Hickory Smoke.

I used quite a lot of Aged Rose Frantage around my image.

I used some gorgeous Ribbon Girl embellishments, plus a couple from my stash, and finished off with a few small snowflakes from La-La Land Crafts.

I decorated the inside with one of the matching 6 x 6 sheets.

30 mm Ivory Wild Roses

Pink Sweetheart Blossom

Cheesecloth

32 mm Clementine Embroidered Tulle Lace

9 mm Colonial Rose Velvet Ribbon

4 mm Flat Back Ivory Pearl Trim

25 mm Grape Satin Ribbon

12 mm Flat Back Ivory Pearl Flowers

8 mm Ivory Flat Back Pearls

6 mm Ivory Flat Back Pearls

Well that's all from me today, but I'll see you all soon.

Happy crafting! :) xx

Tuesday, 5 January 2016

Wee Stamps - Rudolph @ Whimsy Stamps

Hello to all my followers new and old and I hope you all had a very happy Christmas and New Year's holiday. It's my last day at home today (though I was also in work between Christmas and New Year's), I go back to work tomorrow.

Today is a special day though, I'm sure the more eagle eyed of my regular followers have already spotted the Whimsy Stamps DT badge on my side bar, but today is my first official post for them as part of the Design Team.

As things have calmed down a little the last few weeks, a guest spot has finished and I've managed to organise my time a little better, it's given me a little time to take up an offer from the super sweet Denise of Whimsy Stamps.
I've guested for them a couple of times before, and she has offered me a DT spot previously, but unfortunately I just had too much going on to take it on then, so I'm super happy to be able to join the team now. This will initially be for 6 months from January to June, so I hope you will enjoy seeing all my Whimsy makes here.

To kick off my first post I'm sharing a Christmas card (yes, yes I know, but I was late making them so I'm late sharing them lol and anyway, it's never too early to start on this years right?!), made with Wee Stamps adorable little Rudolph.

I have to admit that I just fell in love with this little guy as soon as I saw him, I mean, how could you not? Isn't he cute?

I coloured him with my distress ink markers to match these pretty Kaisercraft papers - Silver Bells.

Colours used: Vintage Photo, Tea Dye, Rusty Hinge, Hickory Smoke. Forest Moss, Antique Linen, Festive Berries, Walnut Stain, Tumbled Glass.

I added some Glamour Dust to the bauble and bead, (I think this is actually a berry, but I wanted a little more sparkle on my image).

I added some beautiful embellishments from The Ribbon Girl, the sentiment is from the paper pack.

I don't have a photo of the inside of the card this time as I'd already written it out before I took photos duh!

Items Used

Whimsy - Wee Stamps - Rudolph

Kaiser Craft Silver Bells Pad
Apple Blossom Mixed Pastels
Rolled Roses - Ruby Red
Sweetheart Blossom Turquoise
Sweetheart Blossom Red/White
23 mm Turquoise/White Spot Organza Ribbon
15 mm White Church Window Guipure Lace

Well that's all from me today, I do hope you enjoyed my make, I'll have more Whimsy goodness to share with you in the coming weeks as well as my regular posts for The Ribbon Girl and Deep Ocean Challenge, including a new release next week, so look out for that!. :) xx

Friday, 1 January 2016

Happy Creative New Year!

As we come to the end of 2015 and approach 2016, I thought I'd look back on what 2015 held for me from a crafting/designing/blogging point of view.

I was very lucky in 2015 and got to design for 6 different DTs and a further 3 GDTs, I was also published in 2 magazine issues.

Design Teams I designed for in 2015 were:

Totally Tilda

Dies to Die for

The Ribbon Girl

Deep Ocean Challenge

LDRS Creative (Little Darlings Rubber Stamps)

Michele R Designs

I also designed for the following as a guest:

La-La Land Crafts

Saturated Canary

Elisabeth Bell (Digi Bells and Challenge Blog)

I was published in Issue 2 and 3 of Die Cutting Essentials magazine.

Wow, that's a lot of stuff when you look back and add it all together. However, like everything, things come at a cost and by October I was feeling totally wrung out. Work had been tremendously busy (I work full time), as I'd been given a lot of new responsibility to shoulder and other stuff occurring in my personal life meant that I just couldn't find enough hours in the day and was often coping with only 4 - 5 hours sleep. So I took a step back and made the painful decision to step down from some of my DT spots and give myself some time to catch up and enjoy Christmas.

With guest spots ending too, that means that going into 2016 I'm down from designing for 6 DTs in October to 2 currently. I'll be joining another DT for a 6 month slot also beginning in January but I'll tell you more about that next week ;).

3 DTs seems far more healthy for somebody working full time doesn't it? Especially when you factor family and friends into the equation.

So I'm really looking forward to designing in 2016 and having more time to enjoy creating.

In the meantime I would like to thank all the Design Teams that I was lucky enough to work with in 2015 (some I'd worked with for much longer), and show a project made for each team in 2015

Totally Tilda & Friends Challenge Blog (now closed)