TAG IT ON#23 - FACE TO FACE!

For this weeks tag Frankie has asked us to use alcohol inks.  I am a bit new to these although I have had them ages I haven't had much of a play with them.  I thought about using acetate to make my tag but wasn't sure where it was (you must have seen my messy room in the post below hahahaha).  What I did in the end was to drip some inks onto wet glossy accents!!!  Looking at it now I should have made a face in profile with that but never mind.  The background is stamped with Sir Tim stamp & the face stamp is an old favourite of mine.

Thanks for looking today, Have a lovely weekend. HUGS XXX

A COUPLE OF DT PIECES FOR YOU & A BIG MESS !!!

Hi there lovely people!  Today I thought I would show you a couple of my recent DT cards & of course the mess that is supposed to be my desk hahahaha

First up is my entry for this week on the BUBBLY SCRUMPTIOUS CHALLENGE BLOG.  The theme is
GO WILD

I adore this Leopard stamp by Tanda, it always comes out beautifully & there is so much detail on it. I stamped some paws over the card for the background & then matted the image onto some BG paper.

Secondly this is my piece for TANDO CREATIVE.  I was sent a lovely chippie owl to play with.  He very nearly became a deceased owl (refer to Monty Python here haha) but he was yanked back from extinction by some gorgeous paper I got in a London Bookbinders.  It has real flecks of gold in it!!!  The canvas is 5x7" to give you an idea of the owls size.  The leaves are held on with copper brads & the little frame is copper too.

As its wednesday I thought I should show you why I am blogging instead of crafting!!!!  Its WHATS ON YOUR WORKDESK WEDNESDAY so here you are people, complete with a large black tom cat called Sam who won't budge!!!!

I think thats all folks!!!  Thank you so much for taking a looksee.  HUGS XXX

EVER FELT SPOILT ?????

I felt VERY spoilt this morning when I opened up my beautiful CJ this morning!!!  Its been doing the rounds of lovely Bubblyfunk Forum members for months now & its come home to Mama.  I got very emotional looking at each page & have to say that all you lovely people who had a hand in it have done a VERY SPECIAL job to their pages.  This is a bit piccy heavy by the way!!!

My theme was 'What Else?' and I asked for people to tell me what other craft (other than papercraft) that they like to do & to maybe incorporate a sample in their LO.

Here is my cover:

my pages: I made a mini cotton quilt.

Gez worked a gorgeous little cross stitch picture, which looks very difficult to me!

Susie made me a gorgeous Dotee Doll!  She is sooo sweet, I love the colours & her tinkly bell!!!

Beth included a little sketch book full of copies of her drawings, which were amazing, just wish I could show you them all!!!

Elaine made a very pretty beaded bookmark, which I am delighted with!

Nicky decorated a fantastic mail slider & bless her,she popped a magnet on the back so that I can put it on the fridge!!!

Net adores baking but couldn't put in a cupcake but she has still made me a beautiful page!!!

Paddy has so many crafty hobbies that she put a bit of each in!!!  A crocheted flower, a stunning lace owl, a pretty cross stitch , some knitting (love the needles!) and some gorgeous beadwork X

Leigh decorated a domino thats fantastic, Decorated a jigswa piece and made me a tag blanket, which I adore!!!

Hazel says that she gives all hers away so she popped in photos of a beautiful cross stitch tablecloth & a very well done self portrait as well as her history of crafting which is so like mine!!

So there you have it.  I feel so honoured to have so many lovely crafting buddies, THANK YOU ALL AGAIN, HUGS XXX

A NEW CHALLENGE FOR ME!!!!

Hee hee...there was NO WAY I was going to take on any more challenges till after Christmas BUT I just couldn't resist this one could I!!!  This one is frotnightly so I can manage that!

Who can resist having a go at the lovely banner idea over on Ready-Steady-Stamp that started this week?  Each time we will be given a 'recipe' and then nearer to Christmas we will make them up.  Here is the recipe...

and here is what I came up with.  The sun was pouring in the window when I took this so you can see all the detail...

I used BG Fruitcake layered up.  My fave scroll stamp was embossed with gold.  The angel is a stamp (not sure from where) which I watercoloured & glittered.  I stuck the gold stars around the scallopped circle.  Thank you so much for taking a look.  HUGS XXX

TIO #22 - FRUITS

Hello from a lovely sunny Cornwall!!!
The lovely Frankie is back &continuing her TAG IT ON CHALLENGES!. This week she has asked us to use the theme of FRUIT.  We have to use at least one stamp...I had to scratch my head a bit for this one (no it wasn't fleas hahaha).  I found a pear stamp in my Christmas box, although I found it hard to get the colours right...a bit more green I think!!!  Oh & we had to use the right colours too!

Sadly the picture doesn't do the tag justice.  It sort of glows when you look at it!!!  The base was covered in mustard seed DI, overstamped with a Sir Tim floral stamp & then glimmer misted in gold...hence the glow hahaha  I also embossed round the edge in gold.

The pears have been watercoloured then glittered & some GA added to the leaves.  This was a tricky one for me & I feel it lacks something...not sure what tho.  Thank you for looking XXX

THE ANIMALS CAME IN TWO BY TWO!

Hello there fellow bloggettes!  Brrrrr...isn't it coming in colder now???  There must be lots of fireworks going on around the country (UK) this weekend so I hope it stays dry for you all X

I have been having a lovely time playing with my new bits from TANDO CREATIVE and I am JUTS LOVING being on the DT for them!!!  Getting to play with brand new chippie is heaven hahahaha

This week I have been playing with a rather sweet Noahs Ark, about 4x4inches in size!  It went from this.....

to this.....

I couldn't resist puting it onto a canvas now could I?  The chippie has been painted & papered, along with the hearts.  I painted the canvas in Broken China DI first.  The waves are just strips of patterned paper which I lightly gesso'd & ran a white ink pad over the wavy bits before I bashed up the edges haha.

All the wild animals come from a stamp set which I picked up on a visit to a zoo!!!!  They are lovely little stamps, probably aimed at kids hahaha.  I couldn'r resist having them poking out of the windows of the Ark!  I found a teensy dove stamp in a set from Fiskars.  The owl is by Stamp Away.

I also stamped down the sides of the canvas...I always think this finishes them off.

If you have got this far thank you for taking a look today.  LOTS OF HUGS XXX

BS MONTHLY CHALLENGE FOR NOVEMBER!!!

I am here again!!!!  This time to showcase a new monthly challenge over on the BUBBLY SCRUMPTIOUS CHALLENGE BLOG!.  We launch them on the 1st Sunday of the month & inbetween we have a weekly challenge.  The MONTHLY challenge always carries a PRIZE, which is great!!!  This month the prize is ....

The theme for this month is to use this proverb...

'...A THING OF BEAUTY IS A JOY FOREVER...'

Here is what I did for my DT entry...

I have used a large butterfly stamp, which I layered up & glittered.  I just think butterflies are so beautiful!!!

Please go & check out what the other DT member have done & do have a go at this....its a very useful prize (Iknow cos I have some haha).  HUGS XXX