Awards

A huge SORRY HUGS to Chris who so kindly gave me the award above - if you haven't seen Chris's blog please drop by here THANK YOU CHRIS

Also


A while back the lovely Debbie gave me an award - THANK YOU Debbie!Check out Debbie's blog here .

I will return later to nominate blogging friends = I seem to have so many who are kind enough to stop by and leave messages which I really appreciate!

TFL

Awfully Big Art Adventure - Fabric

OOPS

I'm sure I read this as a fabric and stiching challenge - and I didn't notice the Arch bit ... sorry, since it took a while to make I thought I'd share it with you anyway and you can giggle and note that I will try and take all the info in!!LOL
The material is a piece of bandage so quite textued!This was after, (trial and error)misted the bandage first gave better results than misting with water after applying Adirondack colour wash. Abstract pattern free hand design.

Ingredients
Adirondack stream colour wash
Bandage
Embroidery threads
Fabric flower, pearl bead, base card, peel off letters and acrylic butterflies from stash.

This Thursday - Challenge 18 Art from the Heart

This week was Art from the Heart - create any thing you love .... well I love trying new techniques - well techniques which are new to me so I tried PAPER MOULDING. I saw this techniqe here - Paul's great blog!!THANK YOU Paul.

My paper Moulded topper!!I chose to decorate the outside as it was textured whilst the inside was smooth I presume it's a personal thing as to which side you choose to decorate!! However the twinkling h20's soaked through so I can use either side!
Embossed

This maybe a better photo as the sun came out!! Debossed side

To join the challenge click here


Ingredients
Stamp - Inkadoo Decor stamps 4807
Toilet paper - single sheets
Twinkling H2o's

TFS

Sarah Kay Weekly Challenge 15 Doodles

I seem to be making lots of ATC's at the moment - this weeks challenge was doodles. I doodled a leafy backdround onto a scrap of texturized pearl paper mounted my Sarah Kay stamped and coloured image added a punched flower here is the result


Ingredients
Mirricard and textured pearl paper from stash
Sarah Kay stamp
Watercolours Flower punches small pearl gem from stash

TFL

This Thursday - Spooky Season

This thursday challenge 17 was spooky season

I've only just made my ATC in time :) - The spder is glued onto a bead threaded onto beading wire so it can crawl over the ATC!! Web hand drawn.





INGREDIENTS
Silver gel pen
Halloween sheet by Gaby Braun
House Template by Wanda Hentges for the Created by Hand Challengelast week
Card, bead, peel off letters and beading thread from stash

TFL

YIPEE - TANDA STAMPS and THE BIG ART ADVETURE CHALLENGE

I was lucky enough to win "This Thursday Challenge" and able to choose a sheet of Tanda stamps.... YIPEE ... being the indecisive person I am I was too spoilt for choice and so just had to buy some too.... so a HUGE THANK YOU to both THIS THURSDAY and TANDA STAMPS .

I just needed to play and have been very patiently waiting until today - as I wanted to make a real inky mess!!
I had spotted a new challenge The Awfully Big Art Adventure site and this weeks challenge allowed me to play!

I tried using Tim Holtz adirondack alcohol inks direct to the surface of my tin - but wasn't pleased with the result. So thought I'd try acetate, which was better then came up with the idea of stamping and designing onto paper and then using the acetate as a wrap...

Adronidic ink direct to tin


Acetate wrap


Stamped card


All angles of the completed tin






Ingredients
Tin Can
Card and acetate from stash
Tanda stamps from Native American Indian Set 1
Tim Holtz adirondack alcohol inks Terra Cotta and Denim - acetate with blending solution
Tim Holtz Distress inks Pine Cone, Old Paper and Weathered Wood
Versamark black ink
Crop-o-dile and eyelets

TFL

Friday Sketchers - week 32

This weeks has a great sketch by Beatrix to join the challenge click here


Ingredients
Stamp - Papercraft for you
Dovecraft Fantasy paper
Assorted card from stash
Greeting - QVC
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Inch By Inch - Water

I have at last managed to make this weeks inchies - I'm not good at free hand drawing but all I came up with were drips so I've sketch 3 little characters drip, splash and splosh I hope they make you smile!

Ingredients
Blue card from stash
Blue pen
Tim Holtz Gloss

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1 Project 3 Challenges Papertake Weekly Challenge, Lots To Do and Rainbow Lady's Weekly Challenge

Papertakes Challenge is to create something with no stamping (click here) as is Lots To Do challenge click here. While Rainbow Lady's Challenge is Your Own Choice click here to join the challenge.

This is my first memory book and it is for my Neice's 21st Birthday - I can't show you the pics as they are of my gorgeous Neice and I can't ask as she then wont have a surprise LOL

As I was running out of time I decided to wrap a matching card strip around a matching tag and slide in the cheque - which I have not seen before and thought maybe of use to someone else and On the lid disguised the brad again not seen before and thought maybe of use to others!!

Memory book in box



Memory book front cover




Inside lid decorated to cover brad back



Tag with band to dress up cheque!!



Ingredients
DB box,papers, acetate and card
Ribbon, gems and metal key from stash
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TILDA SUNDAY CHALLENGE 39 Arts Apart Metal

The Metal sheet is a hairdressers foil (when dying hair several colours), run through the Big Shot with sissix Texturz plate further metal are the brads in the larger flowers.

Ingredients
Magnolia stamps - leaf border Autumn O8 and Wine bottles Spring 08
Twinkling H2O'S
Flower punches
Big Shot Sissix, Texturz plate one from #2 and flower
Peel off pens, peel off greeting and wasre for flower dot centres
Card from stash

TFL

This Thursday - Challenge 16 wave the flag

This ATC took a while to come up with ...... sometimes I find this does anyone else have a real vancancy where inspiration should be??

To Join the challenge click here, as always terrific DT work and fabby prize.... do check it out!!

Ingredients
Gaby Braun collage sheet (girl and flags from waste)check out her blog and sheets here
Colorbox inks
Stamps HOTP Swirls and Chair Papercraft 4 you

TFL
:)

Penny Black Saturday Challenge 17 Sketch #3

Great sketch, DT work and prize to join click here


Ingredients
Penny Black image part of ABC Challenge win - Thanks again Vicky
Water colour pencils
Fiskars star punch, circles waste from sissix flower dies, Nestabilities die for circle main image and cutting out greeting
Cardsock from stash
Greeting HOTP stamp

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Sketch Saturday # 17

Great sketch and DT work this week and the chance to win a Whiff Of Joy stamp
Here's my card




To Join the challenge click here

Ingredients
Base card and mirricard from stash
Stamps HOTP greeting and swirls Stampendous Couture Trio Francois Reed
Sakura pens
I Kan Dee Glimmer chalks
Flower Punches
Stickles

TFL
:)

TILDA SUNDAY CHALLENGE 38

This week was a sketch I decided to make an ATC



Ingredients
Paper Funky Fairy
ATC card mirricard and ribbon from stash
Woodware Giant oval punch
Twinkling H2o's and water colours
Magnolia stamp
HOTP faux stitch stamp

TFL
:)

Cute Card Thursday- Challenge 30

Christmas Animal Images is this weeks theme

Ingredients
Stampendous Fluffles rubber stamp
Inks - Versafine, and color box
Sakura pens
Papers -Funky Fairy free download available HERE

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Rinbow Lady's Challenge 33 - Bandana Challenge

This weeks challenge was set by Christine and is a chance to try something new - I'd just made a background sheet as luck would have it so this was a great way of cutting into it!

ATC 1


ATC 2


To join the challenge click here

Ingredients
Tim Holtz Adironcac colour wash sprays and Water
Sakura silver pen
Encore silver and Versafine Onxyx ink pads
Card stock from stash
ATC1 - All Night Media B42OO 88580 stamp
ATC2 as above and Rubber Stampede Moonliit Fairy

TFL

SBS 20 MEMBERS CHRISTMAS CHALLENGE

Well try as I could I decided to stick with card making and decided although we're all into stamping to do iris folding for a change :)

Hope every one is well and busy creating!!
TFL
TC

:)

Dutch Dare -challenge 16 a card for a man/boy

Great WOJ stamp and spectacular goodies are this weeks prize over at Dutch Dare this week
Here's my card for a friends 18th Birthday


To join the challenge click here

Ingredients
Stazon
Acetate
Twinking H2o's
Sakura pens
Black peel offs
Stamp Funstamps
Card, textured backing card, mirri cardand brads from stash


TFL

Friday Sketchers - Sketch 21

The talented Mumer from France has designed this weeks sketch, to join the challenge click here
Here is my card


Detail to show flower depth



Ingredients

Image
Part of my image prize from ABC weekly challenge Thank you again Vicky aka Angeldrummer (Sarah Kay stamped image)
Florish stamps Autumn Leaves
Watercolours
Stickles
P/Papers Brenda Pinnick
Cardstock and plain cards papers from stash
Flower punches
Border punch

This Thursday - Challenge 15 A Round Tuit

This challenge title made me smile, and is so apt for me :)).
Great DT work and Fatima as this weeks guest also Great prize of 7 gypsies goodies from the Craft Emporium.
I've been meaning to make a book cover/holder for post it notes for a while and so needed no more encouragement! I also need to make a note so it gets a chance of getting done :))

My first attempt ended in the bin but I quite like this one!
If I make another I may trim 1cm off one of the long edges, I also discovered you can easily trim a standard card in half and make 2 covers!!

This was made on a sheet of A5 Card, run through the Big Shot using A Texture plate from the series 3 set. I then brayerd inks over the top, then cut and score the card to fit the post it notes.

Front



Macro shot A Round Tuit embellishment


Inner


Back


To join the challenge click here

Ingredients
Big Shot and Texture series 3 plates
Color box inks and brayer
PC - embellishment then cut using nestabilities and Big Shot
Border punch
Post it notes
Adhesive ribbon - inked


TFL

Blog candy

Susie little has mysterious blog candy here

Lim has some great candy on her beautiful blog click here to check it out

Jenny has some great candy check it out here and her great blog!

Marlene has some candy to celebrate her birthday -HAPPY Birthday to join click here

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Rinbow Lady's Challenge - 31 Sketch

The lovely Beryl has a wonderful sketch over at Rainbow Ladies Challenge here.
Here is my interpretation



Ingredients
Papers PMI and Funky Fairy download
Stamp - unknown
Peeloff border
Snowflake punch
Cardstock and embellishments from stash

This is a lovely interesting design - Thank you Beryl - Beryls blog is here

TFL

TILDA SUNDAY CHALLENGE - week 37

Over at Tilda Sunday Challenge, the challenge is to create a card below £1

My costs are 20p - card and envelope, 2p for stamping card = 22p total

Heres my card


Close up of front


The inside


This shot shows card layering detail.


My inspirattion came from watching a demo of Art Impression Stamps at The Crafty Cow Farnham, Surrey.

Ingredients
Rubber stamps - Magnolia, Hero art sun and Art Impressions Fence (front and backs range)
Water pencils
Flower punch
Stickles
I Kan Dee Shimmer Chalks

TFL

Blog Candy-Hazel

Hazel has some delicious blog candy on her site Here

check out her great blog and candy
TFS
:)

This Thursday and TGIF - Masks (TT), Minature (TGIF)

This thursaday the theme is Masqerade or masks or using masking technique in whatever you create.
There is fabby DT work for inspiration and a great prize from Tanda Stamps. A link for the challenge is here.

I decided on a mask - it is a one to make from an image, which I scaled down and then outlined and coloured using Sakura pens and stickles. I then masked the image and coloured the background of my Twinchie with Color Box Inks.
Mounted and cut 2 peel off butterflies and used peel off letters to spell mask - had I given it more thought I would have mounted the letters then inked and then removed the peel offs!
close up of butterfly

On TGFI the theme this week is minature to join this weeks challenge details are here
Ingredients
PC download
Sakura pens
stickles
Acetate
Color Box ink pads
Butterfly and letter Peel offs
Ranger Glossy Accents
Fiskars Small star punch
Card and gold paper from stash

In My Pocket - Bottle Cap

Every Wednesday Hels aka Ink on My fingers has an in my pocket challenge - complete with template. Check out the challenge and her fab blog Here
The message is for Hels and any fellow Blogger visitors who are poorly/ under the weather.
The shaping of the bottle cap was my first attempt and I managed using pliers to try and retain some of the crimped effect - if I'd had a bought one it would have been easier :)!



INSIDE


Ingredients
Pocket template from Hels challenge
Stamps -Rubber Stampede Moonlight Fairy, Solidago Sprig, Thinking Of You (Sarah Lugg)and Autumn Leaves Flourishes 2 Rhonna Farrer, Hero Arts Friendly Greetings -Wishing you Well.
Ranger Inky Roller
Color Box inks - Smoke Blue, Dusty Plumb, Merlot.
Flower punches
Bottle Top - flattened by hand with pliers!
Crop - a- dile 4x Eyelets
Ribbon from stash

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Whiff Of Joy candy

If you can tear yourself away from Bev's fantastic cards she has some delicious candy

Direct link is here

A Spoon Full Of Sugar - Challenge 17 Christmas Is Coming

This weeks challenge is to make a Christmas card

I've only just got my nestabilities (sooo slow in getting new toys :).

So I made 2 as I had bits from one card to easily make the 2 and although I like the layout I'm not joyous about either luckily the children can use them :)



Ingredients
Nestabilities
PMI Xmas papers
Stickles
Teddy stamp - unknown (QVC ages ago).
Sakura pens
Watercolour pencils
Greeting, bow with bells and base card from stash

To join click Here

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Funky Fairy Challenge 33 Sketch

Check out this challenge link on my sidebar - a choice of new release stamp is the challenge prize BUT Shaz has kindly got some fab new Xmas download papers on the inspiration site here

I managed to make a very quick card this morning, loving these papers..

INGREDIENTS
Funky Fairy papers
Snowman rubber stamp - manufacturer unknown
Anitas Peel off - greeting
Sakura pens
Stickles.
Mirri card

TFL
:)

Friday Sketchers - Sketch 19

This weeks skech is designed by the talented Heidi
To join this challenge here's the link http://fridaysketchersblog.blogspot.com/

Here is my interpretation




I decided to make ribbon bows to add interest and texture to the buttons - which are plain!! Here's a close up of my button ribbon bow flowers.



I enjoyed this challenge
Thanks for looking

INGREDIENTS

Sarah Kay rubber stamp
Derwent water colour pencils
Card stock,buttons and ribbon from stash

TFL

Inch By Inch - Autumn Days

Hi

Well no sooner do the children return to school than a a nasty cold strikes them down and they managed to infect DH and eldest son too... so not much free time as planed this week! Luckily they appear brighter but all are still poorly...

So my great plans have been limited I've managed to do Fiona's inchie challenge had hoped to use them in Rainbow Lady's challenge but fell short of time!




To join the inchie challenge follow this link
http://inchybyinch.blogspot.com/2008/09/autumn-days.html

TFL
:)