As soon as I saw this new release I knew I 'needed' to have a play with it :-D How much fun is this???

This pretty 3d Mountain Scenelit measures roughly 19x9cm and is about 1cm deep when finished. I used a mix of papers this time and then doodled the doors & windows. Like always, when it was finished I looked at it and thought of all the other things that I could have done hahaha! ....a book, a wintery Christmas theme, used acetate and of course texture paint!  Then there was the idea of a mini theatre or silly faces poking round the houses :-D

Pop over ~HERE~ to take a look at the gorgeous Tando products and to find stockists.  Thank you for popping by, HUGS xxx

A Classic!

Hi there!  I haven't done what I call a 'classic' card in an age.  This is what I did for my sisters birthday today.  She is another crafter who is well into the 1930's theme and those lovely lady stamps so I went for something along those lines. (er...have you ever hunted for ages for your pic to find that you haven't even uploaded it yet???? PML)

The card was embossed with a cuttlebug folder and lightly inked with milled lavender DI.  As my sister must have nearly all the lady stamps from this era I found a very old costume book of mine and copied this image.  She is coloured with the milled lavender DI & put on foam pads.  Don't you just love that quote hahahahaha!!!!!  Here is the pic of the book page if anyone would like it..just right click to copy & paste it.

Thank you for coming to visit, please leave a message, I am always chuffed to get them, HUGS xxx

Craft Barn Journal Challenge!

There is nothing worse than being poorly,sofa-bound & bored is there????  BUT...thank goodness for journalling haha!  I can sit there surrounded by my pens & pencils (and a cat or two) and just lose myself in my book!!!  I have only just found out that  ~THE CRAFT BARN are doing JOURNALLING CHALLENGES~ ...and there is an awesome prize :-D  The theme is 'Filled with Love'.  Here is my entry and my first go at an A4 page...

The prompt asks you to use the hearts to show what you love and then journal about them.  I chose arty farty stuff.  There are some amazing entries so far and the DT's work is incredible!!!  Go take a look ~HERE~.

Thanks for popping by, HUGS xxx

Printer Tray Book

Hellooooo, when you are part of a design team its very exciting when you get a parcel isn't it?  Di from Tando Creative recently sent me some goodies.  I was looking at the ~mini printer tray with cover~ & started thinking 'book'...don't know why but it sort of popped into my head hahaha! Could be because the tray comes in 3 layers. Anyway after a lot more thinking I did make one and added the gorgeous large ~snowflake~ to the cover!

Here is the inside before I decorated it...

I haven't actually finished adding to it yet as I had to move on to other things for a minute but here is one page...

I have done a tutorial for this which is over ~HERE~ if you fancy a go at this.

Thank you for looking, take care, Karen x

Just for Fun - black & white

Gosh!  its been ages since I have had the time to be able to do a few challenges and this was certainly a challenge.  Over at the ~JUST FOR FUN~ challenge blog the new theme for this month is MEN.  Hard enough eh?  But this weeks challenge was "Black & White" .  After a think I came up with this canvas..

The white zig-zag, chevron thingy & the man are all made using texture paste.  The man stencil was in amongst a freebie pack of stencils from a magazine years ago!!!!! 

Thank you for taking a look, HUGS xxx

Love Grows plaque

Gosh...its the 4th already!  Are you feeling the love? St Valentines Day is on its way hahaha!!!!!  I have made a little hanging plaque from a 5x3inch stampboard oval. 

I stuck on some torn print from an old boring book (only way I could tear a book!)  and then attacked the oval with spray paints. Some good old bubble-wrap stamping in white and some Viva Decor Gloss Gel dotted round the edge.  The heart and the pretty flourish are both Tando Creative products which have had the paper & ink treatment as well.  Some stamping on the heart & ribbon with beads complete the project.

Thank you for popping by, Love & Stuff, x

February's Challenge at TANDO!

Am I the only one who cannot believe that its february already????  The NEW CHALLENGE over on the ~Tando Creative Callenge Blog~ is all about leap year :-D  So the prompt is

'Leap off the Page'

This can be a 3D project or something that just leaps off the page!!!  I chose to go with paper and make a card for a special little girl I know...

The hippo is Tando chippie and it the head that is 'leaping'....well actually its nodding hahaha!

You have until the end of the month for this challenge and you don't have to use Tando products!  The bonus is that the winner is drawn at random and you get to choose your own prize from ~here~ and ~here~ :-D

hank you for popping by and have fun with this challenge!  HUGS xxx