A DT application as though I was writing an email.......

Hiya,
 
My name is Margaret (I prefer to be called Marg) & I would like to apply to be a member on your Design Team please.

I am a 53 year old disabled (single parent to a 17 year old daughter), unable to work due to various, quite serious disabilities in my spine & various other ailments including a lesser known form of Muscular Dystrophy which is an inherited progressive genetic disease but is not life threatening.  I therefore craft to keep my mind & hands creative. Ive always been creative anyway, but I know I just cant sit & watch television or on the laptop all day everyday, equally I am unable to work due to immense pain. Crafting is my therapy, my life.

My creative streak has always been with me, (drawing, sewing, cross stitch) but only the last 6 years have I been creating cards good enough to sell. I have improved so much, getting both creative & better over the years.  

Creating a papercraft project now, I'm very lucky that I can pick up a piece of scrap craft material & put a card together using that one piece., equally though, I can follow a sketch &/or theme to the letter or diversify when needed.

Why you should choose me:  I can diversify from clean & simple to "decorative", I complete all of my projects on time & to the letter of instruction.  I am at home all day/most days due to not being able to work which gives me the natural daylight (plus my Ottlite lamp) to give me the best possible finish to my colouring. I have 45+ Graph It pens + my Promarkers & Flexmarkers give me a good range of colours to use. I like to think that I am good at colouring in any image. Lastly, I have no particular style, but I can honestly say, that I do love stamping & colouring with alcoholic pens & occasionally with watercolour pencils.  I use digi stamps as well as rubber stamps, and have a very wide range of both.

 CURRENT DESIGN TEAMS:

I am on to the DT of Crafty Ribbons, a website with Pure Inspiration, a basic blog, a Challenge blog. and a Facebook page for the DT. I accepted this position on May 7th 2014.   

http://www.craftyribbons.com/

I am currently on the DT for Crafting Musketeers Challenge Blog & a member of their DT Facebook group:

http://craftingmusketeers.blogspot.co.uk/

where I have been a member since October 2nd 2013 

PREVIOUS: 

Fitztown.com where if firstly a Guest DT member for a 2 months term, then on the main team for a further 3 months until I decided to end this partnership as I accepted a Wedding Stationary commission which will be taking up a certain amount of my time.

Stampin' For The Weekend Challenge Blog & a member of their Facebook group:

where I have been a member since the end of August 2013 & is ended in July due to time restrictions from the coordinator. 

DigiStamps4Joy from May 2013 - !st October 2013 as my term was over.

Guest DT for Quirky Craft for a 2 month challenge period of time. I have been told to apply in the future should any permanent positions should be come available.

 SOCIAL NETWORKING:

My blog can be found at:  https://craftycardsbymarg.blogspot.co.uk/

My personal Facebook page:  https://www.facebook.com/marg.byatt

My craft Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Cards-By-Marg/113362945421329

My Pinterest page:  http://www.pinterest.com/CardsByMarg/

I hope this is all the information that you need at this moment, if not please do not hesitate to contact me.

Thank you in advance & I would appreciate a reply either way.

Ms Margaret (Marg) Byatt
3 Beech Crescent
Chasetown
Burntwood
Staffs
WS7 4RG

This is my all time favourite card using one of your images... and yes, one of my newer acquainted ones. 

I am entering this card into the DT call for Tiddly Inks Design Team Call

http://tiddlyinks.blogspot.co.uk/2014/12/new-design-team-call-entries-due-jan-15.html

 

 

A Spring Bling card in pinks and teals

Hiya peeps, 

Another week has gone by and Im getting better, Over Christmas & NewYear, when I was ill. Luckily the bad chest infection I had, is almost gone. Back to the important reason why Im 

writing about the beautiful card shown below ......

As my followers know, Im a disabled single parent who will not be able to 

work ever again so I craft for the majority of the day (when Im well enough)

making cards and some upcycling/altered art. I have been crafting for most of 

my life, (Im now in my 50's), I can sew both by hand & machine, 

and I also used to enjoy cross stitch, some embroidery and painting. I have 

been papercrafting for the past 6 years since I had to stop working. 

I need to keep my mind & hands occupied. 

I am already on two DT's, which I love to take part with: 

Crafting Musketeers Challenge Blog and Crafty Ribbons Website and Challenge Blog.

I was/still am on the DT for A Crafty Mess Challenge Blog but the blog & Facebook 

account seem to have disappeared and non of my fellow DT ladies know what has 

happened. We cant even get in touch with the admin/founder of the blog. 

Well, Im posting today with a card that I have made for a DT (design team) call over at 

Tiddly Inks. Im in love with a great deal of their fabulous images, whether they are 

digital or clear rubber. 

I love the image, Wryn Spring Bling, and decided that I would use my favourite colours 

(for cards) at the moment in pinks and teals.. So after colouring her in a mixture of

Graph It and Promarker alcoholic ink pens, I was extremely pleased with the outcome of

Wryn. I then cut Wryn out using a Spellbinders Labels One die set and once I had found the

size of die I needed, proceeded to cut out the shape.

As you can see I also cut 3 other Labels One but in the larger "Grande" sizes. I layered them 

using foam pads and then stuck the decorative hat pins in the one corner with the small

organza ribbon bow. Closely followed by the pink patterned paper, which is from the Me2You 

range of papercrafting essentials. I then stuck a piece of organza ribbon, just slightly longer

than the height of the card, Stick this down with sellotape on the reverse, topping with a bead 

strip which, in the case of the strip I used is very sparkly! 

The cherry blossom flowers are from a fabulous company called Wild Orchid Crafts and the gardenias are from my own stash.  The sentiment was stamped on to plain white card and 

then cut around to be glued to the lightly embossed teal card stock, matt & layered with the 

mirror card and the 3 faux pearls were all from my own stash too.

I hope you like this creation as much as I do. 

Im really hoping that I can get on the wonderful & very talented Design Team.

I am entering this card in to the following Blog Challenge:

Tiddly Inks DT Call ending 15th January 2015

DT cards for a challenge blog that seems to have disappeared!!!!!.....................

Happy New Year peeps, and my sincere thanks for all of your support during the last 12 months,

I must also sincerely apologise for not replying to any of your wonderful, and complimentary comments. It seems as though Blogger or even my laptop dont want me to comment, not only
on your comments but also when I want to comment on other peoples blogs or even competitions!!!

My fellow DT members of "A Crafty Mess" challenge blog, like me, are so worried as we cant locate the challenge blog or the Facebook group we have just for our communications, and we cant get hold of Teighan our lovely and wonderful leader and creator of the challenge blog!!! If anyone does contact her can you please ask her to contact anyone of us.

We will, of course, post the challenge blog when or if we find out what has happened to make it disappear...

Right, even though the challenge blog has disappeared Im still going to show you the 3 cards I made from the 3 sponsors of our lovely blog for this month (January). The sponsors are:

Beccy' Place    Sami Stamps Shop    and    Sparkle N Sprinkle

I hope you like these cards, seeing they were made in such a rush, the foxes lying in the grass will be a birthday card for one of my elder sisters whose birthday it is this coming week. Im sure she will love it as her surname just happens to be Fox...

The cards I made are....,,,

Penguin Pals for Crafty Ribbons

Hiya peeps,

This is a scheduled post for my part of a new challenge over at Crafty Ribbons Challenge.....

Well, we have come to the end of our challenges for this year...we are having a little Christmas break so this challenge is only running for 1 week and it ends next wednesday  Christmas Eve!

But...... we will be back again 8/1/15 so dont forget about us...lol 

If you haven't already joined in with our 12 days of Christmas over on the Crafty Ribbons Inspiration blog you are missing out...we have lots of sponsors over the 12 days still some days left as it goes on till Christmas Eve so why not pop on over and see what you need to do, you will find some more fab inspiration from the DT.

Now for this weeks challenge which is 

 PENGUIN PALS

so any creation with penguins in/on and dont forget to use ribbon as we are ribbon blog after all

The prize for this challenge is one of these amazing Goodie Bags.

The image, called Bubbles as Santa, the button and both sorts of ribbons used are all from Crafty Ribbons so please, if you like them, check them out HERE.

I am going to enter this card into the following challenges:

An apology and a Christmas wish

Hiya peeps

Im sorry to say that I will be unable to post any new makes until after Christmas as Im feeling so ill.
Ive got stomach problems, feeling hot & cold in a second & a right hacking cough.
Ive suspended my DT posts for the 3 DT's, A Crafty Mess, Crafty Ribbons & Crafting Musketeers for this month but hopefully I will be back in late December or early New Year with an update.

I would like to Thank you all, for your beautiful comments to my makes, your fabulous support and general interest in the things I make. I do value your opinions and really really appreciate you.

I would like to wish you all, a very Merry Christmas and a Wonderful New Year


{{{{Happy Christmas Crafting Hugs}}}}

Marg xxx

A special event coming up from Crafty Ribbons & the DT members...

Hello there...Im here as I thought I would just let you all know we are having a 

12 DAYS OF CHRISTMAS EVENT 

yah..12 days of sponsors starting on the 13th Dec uptil Christmas Eve

also 

The DT have busy using lots of CRAFTY RIBBONS and some sponsor images on their 

creations for this event so be sure to pop by and say hello as there is prizes everyday.

Hope to see you there

Enjoy the rest of the week 

stay safe

x crafty ribbon team x

Ellie the Elephant on a card....

Hiya peeps

This is a card that I made a short while ago but I never got round to posting it on any media site...and when I saw that Bunny Zoe's Crafts December Challenge where the theme is Buttons, I knew that I had to enter this card to the challenge...
The image is from Wild Rose Studios and is called "Ellie's Present"
I wanted to use a lot of "fuss" on this card and I think I have used just enough.

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Bunny Zoe's Craft Challenge for December, theme is Buttons      ends 11th Jan 2015