Saturday, 26 May 2012

Oyster Stamps Blog Hop - And We Have a Winner

Well, last night at 6 pm it was all happening on my computer.  The Oyster Stamps Blog Hop ended and the latest edition of the Artful Times went out.  That meant a couple of hours trawling through all the comments to find a winner.  Are you ready?  Really Ready?  Sure ...

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The Winner is - Wendy - aka Flowergirl.

Congratulations Wendy - now Tracey will get your dies off to you as soon as possible next week - they are all exhibiting in Lincoln this weekend so give them the chance to get back and put everything in order and then two of the CFT dies will be coming your way once you have made contact and given them your details.  Well done!

Here's an idea you might like to copy for the Jubilee Weekend -

I was going to post this earlier on Friday but then decided to schedule it for Saturday and give you all another peek at the CFT dies, used similarly to what I used before, but just a couple more ideas.  This was my tray on Thursday evening with my latest cutouts ready:


To get the ones on the white circles to show up with red, white and blue I cut them out in red first of all with a card that had a white backing.  Then I coloured the bits that were to be pushed through to the other side with a blue felt tip pen.

Here are my plant pot markers which are the dies mounted on white scallop circles with a satay stick behind and a plain set of circles on the reverse.


and some more


We've not got the big table out yet just the Bistro set for lunch today.  Here are the napkin rings - all made with cardstock.



Now you can see the garden a bit better


and how about these mobiles blowing in the wind?
These are just the middle and small sized dies, mounted on circles of contrasting card and then another one placed behind with a piece of cord running down the centre and a loop at the top.



Think I need more of these mobiles ... Hope these pictures have given you some ideas for the Jubilee Weekend and how you can use your CTF dies to help you celebrate. Congrats again to Wendy.

Hope the sun shines where you are!  And many thanks to all who entered the blog hop!  Maybe next time it will be you!