Happy Easter......

Well I have finally finished icing Easter eggs for another year, we iced so many in the past two days that it will take a while for my wrists to stop hurting, hope the Easter Bunny dropped lots of yummy chocolate eggs off to you all. My son and daughter brought me some copics for mothers day and I have added a few more to my collection so I have been busy playing with them this is my first effort with a very limited colour palette.

hugs n smiles

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Wedding photo......

Evening to my fellow crafty bloggers, thought I would share with you the canvas that I did with Anna Dabrowska the other week, as soon as I saw the project I knew the photo that I wanted to use, it's a lovely head shot of my daughter at her wedding, and she had a lovely silver metal slide for her hair which is just peeking out from below the crown of flowers, she has hung this canvas on her wall.........so I guess she liked it.
We created an imaginary dress using lace and resist canvas, and then I added lots of metallic embellishments, buttons and flowers and after painting everything with white Gesso I then used three different coloured sprays and some of the new metallic acrylic which I dry brushed onto some of the embellishments. the drips were made with a glue gun and then I used a pencils to outline the edges of the drips to give them more definition

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Box of all sorts........

Evening fellow bloggers hope you had a lovely weekend, I was thoroughly spoilt my my son and daughter as they brought me a set of 36 Copics, so now I have a perfect excuse to start collecting those now.
The challenge at Crafty Individuals this month is called a Box of all sorts. I have used a template from The House of Zandra, called alter me display box to make this, I have used quite a few different stamps sets from Crafty Individuals, as well as embossing, frantage, crackle glaze, to complete this, the finished size is 5.25 ins x 9.25 ins. The paper is Victorian roses by Make and Create which I picked up from The works for a snip at just £4 for a 12 x 12 pad.

Stamps used

CI 341, CI 306, CI 426, CI 328, CI 435

CI 017, CI 436, CI 394 

Thanks for taking a peek

Challenges

Try it on Tuesday.....feminine and fancy

Inky Chicks......ribbon and or lace

Craft your Passion.....anything goes

Crafty Calendar.....special female

Crafting Sensations.....flower power

Ribbon girl.....anything goes

Had a fab weekend crafting  at Daisy Jewels & Crafts with the lovely Anna Dabrowska, we got to play with lots of metal trinkets, paint and spray paints as well as the lovely new metallic acrylic paints from Prima.........so blingalicious. On the Saturday we made this lovely album which is one of the new journal albums from Prima, thrilled to bits with it and there are pages, pockets and acrylic sleeves left to decorate, which is the excuse I have been waiting for to start mixed media journalling.

We used resist patterned canvas and lace for the background, and for the final touches I added glitter and micro beads.The image is from Crafty Individuals in the fob watch.

We had enough bits n bobs left so I made another mini album

in lilac and aqua.

Thanks for taking a peek

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Wedding.......

Hope you all had a lovely Valentines Day, I was at work but when I got back hubby had baked heart shaped biscuits as well as getting me a lovely orchid. This week is half term week and that means double trouble in the form of my two Grandsons, today we went to a play centre where they played and generally wore themselves as well as me out.

Todays card is one I made as a commission, which I always feel nervous about doing as I'm always worried that they might not like it. the heart is a stamp from Creative expressions, which I embossed  and then cut the heart out again to layer it up.

Challenges

Throughout the craft room door.....anything goes

Inky Chicks.....love letters/hearts

Deep Ocean......hearts

Creative card crew.....love

Craft your Passion......anything goes

613 Avenue Cards....anything goes

addicted to stamps......diecuts

Crafts Galore.....use a stamp/digi

Gem of a challenge....love is in the air

Creative Fingers.....anything goes

In the Pink....with love

Crafty girls....anything goes

crafting with attitude....anything goes

Thanks for taking a peek

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Love is in the air.......

Afternoon fellow crafty bloggers, are you ready for Valentines Day next Sunday, we are starting to get busy at work, although it only seems like five minutes ago since it was Christmas, I have made another card which could be for Valentines or an Anniversary using my favourite stamp collection from Chocolate Baroque called Harlequin Rose. I embossed the image with cosmic gold embossing powder and then water coloured in the image with Twinkling H2Os adding lots of water to allow the colours to really blend well, I love this technique as the colours soften but still shimmer, but you do need a good quality watercolor paper to do it. I stamped the background paper with a pearlescent gold from Wow, and the sentiment was embossed in gold and coloured in using the same paints.

Thanks for taking a peek

 Challenges

Chocolate Baroque.......colour scheme, peaches, aqua and greens

Simply Create Too....love/Valentine

Thats Crafty......first love

Fairy Tale.....Valentine

Creative Fingers......anything goes

Brown Sugar......Valentine/Love

Creative Knockouts......Love is in the air

creatalicious......Love is in the air

Crafty Girls....anything goes

4 Crafty Chicks.....Love

Simon Wednesday.....have a heart

Auds Sentiments.....use a love sentiment

My Sheri Crafts......be my valentine

Penny Blk monthly.......anything goes with a stamp and die

Sweet Stampin'.....all you need is love

613 Avenue crafts......anything goes

addicted to stamps.....anything gies

Dream valley....Valentines dya

Stamping Sensations.....anything gies

The Corrosive challenge.....love love love

Ribbon girl....anything goes

Gem of a challenge.....love is in the air

Crafty Calendar......love is in the air

Natalie and Amy......hearts and flowers

Stamps and fun=creativity......love/valentines

Listen to the Trees.....

Morning fellow crafty bloggers, hope you are all well and having a great week. I had a fabbie weekend, I had brought tickets for my hubby and son for Christmas to go to the Classic Rock show at Birmingham town hall, so on Saturday we were rockin' in the aisles, such a brilliant band of musicians and will definitely be going again next year.
My card for today features the new stamp set of trees just released from Crafty Individuals CI 450 Listen to the trees.
I stamped the larger trees on acetate for the box and then embossed the smaller ones for around the sides. I used the Spring time paper pad, and finished off with stamping out some flowers using CI 445, it was rather hard to photograph this with the trees on acetate so apologies.

Thanks for taking a peek

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Challenges

Creative Card crew.....anything goes

Craft Your Passion......anything goes

Through the craft room door.....anything goes

Frillie and Funkie.....enjoy your embossing

Moving along with the times......things with wings

Love is in the air........

Evening fellow crafty bloggers hope you haven't been buffeted about by the winds too much, we have so far escaped the rain, just very high winds here. Last week my sis and I  spent part of the weekend at Champneys spa for our annual pamper day, massages, sleeping and then more sleeping as well as eating healthy food, not a bar of chocolate insight........soon made up for that though.
With Valentines fast approaching I thought I would make a romantic card, suitable for a wedding/anniversary.

The flowers are white and then I added water and a little paint (Shimmering H2Os)

to them,  then added more water to dilute the colours down again, finished

with a splash of white gesso and then sprinkled them with glitter. Love the subtle effect

so I will definitely be doing this to my flowers again.

The heart stamp is from Chocolate Baroque and is one of my favourite stamps

which comes out at this time of year, I stamped and embossed in gold on watercolour paper, then using lots of water and a small amount of shimmering H2Os in three different colours I painted the

heart in, then I fussy cut around it and cut down the middle of the heart to divide it in two.

The frame die is from Noor Design and is perfect for these vintage images.

Challenges

Through the craft room door......anything goes

Noor design......anything goes

Creative Card Crew.....anything goes

Stamps and fun =Creativity.....anything goes

Make my Monday.......newest or favourite stamp

Crafting Musketters.....new beginings

Craft your passion.....anything goes

Winter Wonderland......something new

Dream Valley......something new

613 Avenue Create......anything goes

Sweet Stampin.....vintage or shabby chic

Crafty Friends.....anything goes

Crafts Galore.....anything goes

Paper Shelter.....rough it up

Simply Create....something new (lace)

Creative Fingers......anything goes

Moving along with the times........embossing

Creative Knockouts......embossing

Crafty Ribbons.....fabulous flowers and ribbon

Crafty Girls.....anything goes

Crafting with attitude......new products/techniques (lace and painting flowers)

Auds Sentiments.....anything goes

Bunny Zoe crafts.....hearts

Creative Inspirations.....anything goes

Creative moments......anything goes

Thanks for taking a peek

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Half way reminder.......

Yay we have finally had a dusting of snow, always looks pretty until it turns to slush, at least I  am at home in the warm and I intend to spend the day crafting.
Todays card is from the new release from Crafty Individuals, I have used a backing paper from the Spring paper book for the background and kept the die cuts all off white for a more subtle look. I used a diamond stencil for the tag behind the focal image, whilst the paste was still wet I sprinkled it with clear mini beads and shaved ice frantage, then after it dried I spritzed with a pink glimmer mist.

CI 449 My favourite place

Don't forget you still have a few days left to enter the challenge at Crafty Individuals, lace, buttons and bits n bobs. All entries get a discount code of 25% off an order as well as the winner picking some stamps of their own choice

Challenges

Allsorts......girl and sparkly

My Sheri Crafts.....fussy cutting

Mixed Media.....beginings (memories)

Fussy and Fancy....fashion

Fairy Tale.....everything goes

Creative Fingers.....anything goes

Crafty Catz.....word art

Crafty Girl creations.....anything goes

Fab n Funky....for a child

Deep Ocean ....something new (stamp)

Everybody art ......text

Simon Monday.....stencil it

Live and Love Crafts.......something new (stamp)

Ribbon girl.....any image

Winter wonderland....glitter and shine

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Busy week......

Well this week has got off to a busy start, yesterday I spent the day tasting all the new chocolates that Thorntons will be bringing out in the next few weeks, bang goes the diet I have put on so much weight after Christmas and now a few more calories have hit the waist line. On Monday I had my grandson Zachary so we spent the day playing trains, which my son used to play with, we brought him a Playmobile train set when he was 5 and it still works now after 20 years.
Todays card is a wedding card using one of my favourite LOTV stamps, coloured in with Prisma pencils.

Challenges

Craft Your Passion....anything goes

Crafting Musketeers......new beginings

Crafty Calendar........something new

Crafty cardmaker......something new 

Cutie pie.....krafty cuties

613 Avenue Create.....anything goes

Allsorts .....ribbon and lace

Creative Moments......anything goes 

Creative Inspirations.....floral

Bunny Zoe crafts...hearts

Through the craftroom door.....anything goes

Inky chicks....anything goes

Brown Sugar....anything goes

Creative fingers....anything goes

Fairy Tale....everything goes

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New look......

A new year and a new look to my blog, thought it was time for a change, I am so fed up with dark mornings at the moment that every time the alarm goes off I turn over and drop back off to sleep again, which isn't good when I should be getting ready for work.
Todays card is one I made using one of the newer stamps from Crafty Individuals, featuring these sweet vintage bears CI 440

Image coloured with distress inks and frantage added to the edges.

Challenges

In the pink......anything goes

Cute card Thursday......hey what's new.

Creative Knockouts........anything goes

Crafting with attitude.....anything goes

Craft...1 ribbon, 2 embellishments (gems and lace), 3 papaers and 1 image

Stampavie.....something new

Fab n Funky......something new

Creative Moments......anything new

Through the Craft Room door......anything goes

Everybody Art.....anything goes

Crafty Calender......something new

Crafting Musketeers......new beginings

Craft your passion.....anything goes

Addicted to stamps.....labels/tags

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Lace , buttons and bits n bobs..........

Happy New Year to you all, I managed to stay up until past midnight which is a miracle for me these days as I'm usually asleep by 9:00pm, such a light weight. Well it's a new year and a new challenge  and what a great theme  Gio has chosen for this months challenge at Crafty Individuals, skies the limit with this one.........Lace, buttons and bits n bobs. I've been working on a few samples for the next TV show featuring Crafty Individuals stamps and this is one of my samples for the show.

My bits n bobs include a wooden skewer, beads, lace, scrim, ribbon and gems

The stamps I have used are 

CI 350 Lovely Lace

CI 338 Young girl dreaming

CI 206 flower heads

Lots of layers and embossing in gold as well as colouring in using my Prismas.

Don't forget to use a product from Crafty Individuals to enter the challenge, you also get to claim a 25 % discount code off your next purchase

Challenges

Artistic Stamper.....anything goes

Thats Crafty ......anything goes

Crafts Galore....anything goes

Penny Black monthly.....one for the girls

Glitter n Sparkle.....anything goes

613 Avenue cards.....anything goes

Stamping Sensations.....anything goes with a die

Thanks for taking a peek