Tuesday's treat - blue & white!

So today I'm back to share a colour co-ordinated range of items from Creative Together!

Those who know me know I'm a huge football fan and that I support Bristol Rovers. So in honour of my team I thought I'd share our range of blue and white items!

We have elegant buttonholes - 

Blue

White

We have stunning corsages - 

Here's an Orchid wrist corsage

We have fabulous haircombs - 

Beautiful blue hair comb

  
How about something for your home? We have a stunning range of decorative boxes -

Large photo boxes  

And small trinket boxes

We also have a large range of stationery, cards and accessories. 

From wooden photo desk tidies 

To cards 

To our fabulous range of notebooks

 

There are also our football related notebooks. At present there are only Bristol Rovers notebooks available.

 Eventually this range will extend to other football teams and colours.

Creative Together is constantly growing. Many more new products will be added over the next few months. 

I hope you enjoyed my slightly unusual tour of our shop today!

Take care Zo

  

Monday Magic - Flowers in your hair.

Good morning!

So this week I'm going to highlight some of our fabulous products over on Creative Together

I've deliberately not flooded my social media recently with constant links and photos from our shop. Too much oftens means people scroll by. 

But this week I hope everyone will stop and have a look.

So I'm starting with Lisa's stunning hair combs - these can be worn for many occasions and will suit most hair styles.

The beauty with these are that if you look after them they can be worn over and over again. Weddings. Christenings. Special occasions. Or if you just fancy having pretty hair for the day!

First up is the beautiful purple Phalaenopsis Orchid.

Then there's the stunning lilac and white marble Rose.

We also have this fabulous royal blue Rose

Finally there's the pretty ivory Phalaenopsis Orchid.

I'm sure you'll all agree these are stunning. Lisa uses professional quality artificial flowers & accents when creating these and they are all finished to a high standard.

At Creative Together both myself and Lisa are happy to discuss any requirements you may have. Please feel free to get in touch with us any time.

Take care Zo

Featuring new notebooks - Creative Together

So over the last few weeks I've been busy colouring and decorating notebooks in the style of Bristol Rovers.

Last year I sold many of these particular notebooks to my footy friends to raise money for charity and I plan on continuing that this year. Here is a selection of the new notebooks I've upload to the stationery section of Creative Together

 An A4 version.

 An A5 version

 I actually made this one as I wanted to have plain paper sketch/notebooks.

 I'm also going to decorate some notebooks with other designs. 

I've a huge pile of notebooks waiting for me to decorate in the coming weeks. I need to get colouring! 

Take care Zo x

Behind the scenes - notebooks

So I'm here today to share another Creative Together 'behind the scenes' type post this time featuring notebooks.

Last year I decorated notebooks to fundraise for my chosen charity and this year is no different. Profits from every notebook I make are donated to BANES Young Carers.

This wonderful charity supports so many young carers in our area including my own son, Keagan. Their support and the friendships made are invaluable and every penny raised goes towards continuing their fabulous work.

So notebooks - some I buy and decorate. Others I make myself especially plain paged versions. As my Bristol Rovers notebooks were so popular I'm bringing them back for this year. Though I will also decorate different themes I promise!

 So I start by covering the front with Centura pearl card followed by hammered card to create a nice base. I often draw stitches around edge as well.

 I cut out the letters using a Tim Holtz die. I have a little pot that I keep all of my 'Bristol Rovers' letters in. I tend to have a session of preparing lots of letters.

 I use this girl footballer - the image is from Some Odd Girl as you can see I colour up a whole batch all different. I have great fun colouring their hair. Their football kit is, of course, styled after Bristol Rovers home kit.

 As you can see I do have a vast collection of pens so I can pretty much choose any colour I want!

Once the base is dry I add the image. I create a shadow background using grey dots to ground the image so she doesn't look like she is floating.

Here are some of the notebooks I will be uploading to the shop soon.

Thanks for popping by

Take care Zo x

Behind the Scenes - Decorative Boxes - Creative Together

Good Morning everyone - I thought I'd pop in and share another 'behind the scenes' type post with you.

This time I asked Lisa to take some pics as she made the flowers to decorate the boxes we sell over at CREATIVE TOGETHER

Lisa punches and layers the flowers by hand - a time consuming task, but one I know Lisa enjoys and of course, it makes each box that bit more special in my opinion.

Lisa uses different punches to create each flower. She typically uses two colours.

Once Lisa has shaped each flower using a ball tool she begins to place the first layer of flowers onto the box.

 

Each flower is placed, layered and glued before the final touch of adding a crystal to the centre of each.

You can find all of the decorative boxes we sell in the Decorative Boxes category of the shop.

I hope you like these 'behind the scenes' posts. Please let me know if you wish to see something specific, however I will continue to post about our creations over the following weeks.

Take care Zo x

Friend - Book Art

Thought I'd share my finished 'friend' Book Art that I uploaded to Creative Together earlier in the week.

I used a paperback book as I knew I would decorate the outside therefore making it sturdier in the end. Plus not everyone has room for larger books. Here's the finished item -

The papers are from Craftwork cards and I added the gorgeous tape measure ribbon. I finished it off with simple ribbon which also keeps the book in place so that the word is shown at its best.

You can purchase this Book Art HERE

I will keep sharing different items we have in our shop so pop back anytime or visit our Facebook page

Take care Zo xx

WOYWW 344 - dog on the desk!

Happy New Year everyone!

I don't know about you, but to me 2016 sounds quite futuristic. I don't know why. Just another random Zoe thing. 

Anyway I'm here to share my desk as per our leader Julia asks us to join in. Who am I to refuse?!

As you can see there's the usual Book Art WIP, a pile of coloured pens I use in my new planner and some stickers that I love accented my pages with. Yes that is a PG Tips box. It's a good size and design so I'm going to cover it and turn it into a stationery box type thing!

Then there's this - Baxter - sat on my desk watching the world go by. He thought he'd take advantage of the fact that I've been working on the laptop this morning. I've not done any actual crafting yet just sorted photos of a new item I've added to Creative Together.

At least he is sitting nicely unlike yesterday when horses went by and he started barking at them. Tail swishing, pens flying and other stuff was sent off the desk! 

I soon scooped him up and plonked him back in his bed which is where he is now as I'm typing - 

Take care Zo xx

Creative Together - A Book Art project.

So I wanted to share with you all one of the items I have for sell over at CREATIVE TOGETHER

I've recently taught myself how to do the Book Art technique and can now design my own designs to book fold. 

The design is created first as a silhouette in my Craft Artist 2 Pro.

Then once the silhouette is finished I load it into the Book Art software, entering details about the book I'm using. This creates measurements for each page.

Then the fun bit - actually folding the pages. I'm very methodical and will count the pages working out the starting and finishing points so that I get the design right. Then it's a case of measuring each page and folding it. I also glue the folds as I go. 

At the end I decide whether to tie a ribbon around the book or not. Sometimes the design looks better left simple. Other times the book needs to be in a certain position so that it doesn't topple over with the weight of the folds. Tying a ribbon around it helps to not only keep it in place but adds an acent too.

Here's a finished book folded to spell out Read and it's for sale in our shop here - Book Art/READ

Hope you enjoyed this 'behind the scenes' type post. I will feature more of our products over the weeks to come.

Take care Zo x