Design Team Work

Well last week i showed you a sneak peak of my new character Polly. She is available now to purchase from the shop from the Quick Card section and priced at just £1.50.

Heres what the design team came up with, with this kit.



Saskia





Teri





Gorgeous work girls really stunning thank you xxx

DT Work

Hey all, yeah i know, look at the time... oh well, just wish there were more hours in the day, like most women do. lol.

Anyways on with the show, as they say.

Today i thought i would introduce you Teri, one of our new DT members, she has produced some stunning work, i'm so please she entered the comp to become part of the team. Using the new kit seen in the early post, here is her little bit of inspiration.







depending on how my morning goes, i may have a couple more posts for you including a freebie. thanks for viewing.

jo and the team

DT Inspiration

Not sure about where you are in the world, but what awful weather we're having in cambridgeshire at the moment. Nothing, but rain all day. Thankfully yesterday was much better, as we attended an 18th birthday party complete with sumo suits and bouncy castle, what fun!! i am paying for it today though, my legs are killing me. lol.

Anyway to cheer you up on this sad and miserable day, i have some stunning DT work from Vicki. Vicki was given the new Marshmallow kit to play with, and oh my!! Vicki has been so busy. Take a look and enjoy!

Sneek peak of the new marshmallow kit











Thanks for looking Jo

The power of colour

I've been having a quick play this afternoon, Basil, My pooch, was being particularly cute today so took a few picies, and decided to have ago with some digital scrapbooking. Papers used are from a new milly kit which details of will be available shortly. Ive used the exact same layout but the second has more colour, just to show you the power of colour. Enjoy!





Thanks for looking Jo and the team

Dt Inspiration

Just look at what i recieved in my in box a couple of days ago from Tracy.... I was a little concerned as its just one colour way in the pack, but Tracy has surly done it justice and then some.... using the Milly Gothica kit, I love what she created.



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Don't you just love that desk tidy? And what about that amazing card, and the double page spread. wow, just can't choose a favourite this time.

You can purchase the milly kit here



Thanks for reading jo and the team

Play Time!!

I actually got a little time to play this morning, after Vicki's lovely strawberry Sundae she created for the DT, I got in the baking mood and made some lovely choc chip cookies, then got thinking (yes my head does hurt) With credit crunch time upon us what an unexpensive gift this would make, for a child or an adult alike. Heres what i came up with.



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Team them with a recipe card, and its just makes the most adorable gift.

Heres the recipe i used.

400g Plain flour
200g Caster Sugar
175g butter
1 tsp Salt
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp vanilla extract
2 small packets of cooks choc chips

here is the method

Cream the sugar & butter togther, combine the eggs and the vanilla extract together, before adding them to the butter mix and whisking well. In another bowl combine the flour with the baking powder and the salt, add this to the butter, egg and sugar mix. Mix well until a dough forms. Divide dough into 2 lumps, wrap in cling film and refridgerate for 1 hour. Unwrap your dough and sprinkle your work surface with flour. roll out the dough and sprinkle the choc chips onto the surface and need in well. Cut out with cookie cutters (i just used a drinking glass, as i had no cutters) Bake on a greased baking sheet for 10 mins at 200, They are done when they are slightly springy and golden around the edges. Leave to cool.

I used a kilner jar from Lakeland which you can find here



and some boring plastic sleeves and end caps which look like this



and can be found here You buy the end caps seperately, just so you know.

Before i go my sister was wearing these fantastic socks yesterday and i just had to take a pic, very Milly-esque



Don't you just love them...

Freebie Time

I have just been drooling over this the last couple of days. I am so going to Vicki's for tea...

Inspiration from the DT and the Strawberry Sundae Motifs.



These are from Vicki.









And these stunners are from Domi





You can download the Strawberry Sundae motifs here

Thanks For reading, Jo and the Tinker Tea,

Design Team inspiration

Hi there, just a quick one today. Here with some lovely work from the fantastic design team i have.

These Beautiful designs from domi.



and this wonderful set from Tracy WOW!





Oooh and using the freebie motifs coming soon!

thanks girlies, lovely as always. thanks for reading jo and the team

Design Team Inspiration.

Oooh well i had a lovely suprise the other day from one of our lovely blog followers, Lyn Lyn awarded the Tinker & Co team there second blog award. WOW!!! thank you so much.



Lyn had this to say "Over on Tinker and Co. Because of their lovely Freebies and challenges, don't forget to look in often!" How nice is that! Now i understand i have to give this to some fellow crafters. I Normally like to share my awards with every one of my fellow bloggers but today i thought i would single a few people out and that is my lovely design team memebers, for making my kits look so fantabulous. so to vicki, Emily, Tracy, Zoe and Domi, this one is for you!!.

Speaking of the Design Team, look what Tracy has created over the last day. Absolutely Stunning!!





And my personal favourite



These cards and projects were created with the new Crackers download at the store.

Back soon with news of Milly.

Thanks for reading Jo and the Team

Quick off the mark!

We're not even at the end of our first week of may and i've already had a lovely card entered by the lovely JanJ for this month on going challenge. Beautiful card! i love how it looks teamed with brown.



and a beautiful card from scotspanda



Also a quick welcome to the team to Tracy - aka - Ellabella. Tracy joins the DT team, this month you can view Tracy's blog here hopefully we will have some inspiration to show you of hers soon.

In closing just a little inspiration from this months freebie, a sneak peak of some of the little motifs.



Thanks for reading jo and the team

Hi there, just a quick one today, just about to go for a bbq, yum!!. more inspiration from the design team, this time from Domi, and its the new freebie give away papers that have been used.



thanks for looking jo xx

Busy at the shop!

New in the shop this week are the lovely kits below. They are in the process of being loaded to the shop in the next week or so, and will feature on our home page once they are loaded.

Thought i would share some more lovely creations from the design team. Zoe, and domi have been creating some truely inspiration work. The two kits they have been working with are Elisia, and Shabby milly ( milly has yet to be loaded but she will be on soon)

Zoe's work.





this has to be my favourite



And some inspirational cards from Domi.



Thanks for reading.

Keeping up!

WOW! it's so hard keeping up with everything going on at the moment, hence the lack of post of late, but i hope to rectify that in the up and coming days. I've taken up walking in the morning, which is my lay in time, ha!!! what lay in lol, however in an effort to try and get trim this is now my regular daily activity, i'm shattered before the day has even started lol.

On to the news!!!

We, at Tinker & Co, Would love to welcome Vicki to the team. Vicki's flair and eye for design is what captured my creative juices, and i was so pleased when she accepted the offer of becoming a design team member. Below are a few of her creations created with the New Milly Kit- Shabby Milly



Milly will be available in the Tinker Shop shortly.
here are vickis gorgeous creations.









Exclusive kit

Just a little reminder of the on going comp we have, to win the exclusive milly kit. all you have to do is make a card with this months freebie, if your featured on our blog then one of you will win this kit, simple really.



this months contenders so far are. Scotspanda i love the symplicity of this card.



and a card from spyders corner using the warren printables, i love the idea of the shaker card fantastic!



Got a couple of updates for you too.

Thank you to everyone who joined in for the blog candy, you still have a couple more days left to enter, i'm overwhelmed at the response thus far, 150 posts, you must really really want this candy. If anyones interested i'm thinking of putting together 10 kits of similar products rough price would be about £10. let me know on this post if you think its a good idea, thank you

New milly kits going on sale soon, of course for my dear friends there will be a little promo going on here in the next day or two.

I'm going to be launching a comp to end 1st of june, for a fantastic prize, well i think so lol.

More inspiration from the Tinker design team.

of course May's freebie sneak preview.

keep tuned and i'll be back with more soon
jo and the team