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Door Hanger For Lauren

July 27th, 2014 by Shirl - Posted in Door Hanger, Fashionable Stamping Challenges, FlonzCrafts, Misc

Firstly I want to say thanks a million for all your lovely comments on my posts whilst I have been away on holiday. All this week will be spent hopping around to your blogs seeing what I have missed and also to leave you some hugs and love.

Fashionable Stamping Challenges this fortnight have a terrific theme of “Child’s Play” which was picked by our wonderful DT sister Esther.

This is my first time of making a door hanger and it will be hanging on my craft room door until my granddaughter Lauren comes over, if she likes it it’s hers. Amber is very arty and uses lots of paints with her work but Lauren, who is eleven, loves anything to do with needlework.

Used a few stamped images but the main is from Flonzcrafts called “Girls Sewing” which you can find here. Used my watercolour pencils from Faber Castelle for the colouring in of the image. The other stamps are from Stamping Up called Established Elegance.

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My crafty friend has a fabulous paper pad from Prima and I used a page for the background with various inks and stencils.

I would love it if you hopped on over to see all the DT’s work as they are simply stunning. Also don’t forget that the winner of this challenge has $20 to choose anything they like from Flonz’s store.

Shirl

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Posted By Mr Box

July 4th, 2014 by Shirl - Posted in Boxes

Wouldn’t you think after not having a PC for three weeks that Mrs S would be chomping at the bit to post some of the makes she has been working on? Mr A took the day off work yesterday to set up the new system and install what he had backed up so she would be up and running. But what does she do … has a play day today with her crafty friend … so I have decided to write the post for her about how she has finally transformed me from being a boring ole brown box to something stunningly beautiful.

Reminds me of the ugly duckling story.

My life first started when she bought me from the MDF Man in April 2013 at the Ally Pally craft show. How excited was I to be taken home by Shirl because I knew she would transform me into something real cool and not just leave me as a boring plain MDF Box.

Wrong … after we got home she cast me aside without another thought with all the other stash she had acquired. Over the coming months she started using all the other stash bought but alas things just got piled on top of me and I was alone and forgotten.

Another mega clear out has just taken place at ‘Shirl’s Den’ where she came across me lurking under piles of dust and stash. The den clear out was forgotten for a while as she went about working her magic on me.

She is just loving the tarmac technique (see her post HERE). I must admit I had my doubts when she first started to paint me but I should never have entertained those thoughts.

Today I sit proudly on her desk beside her precious stamps and inks. Inside of me is a spanking new art journal book (which her crafty friend bought for her) just waiting to be worked on.

OK final reveal …. tah dah!!!
I even took more pics than Shirl normally does so that you can see all the stages of my re birth of an ugly duckling into a swan. Sorry just got carried away a bit, wrong story.

These pics are the first stages where she covered me all over with embossed cardstock. Then she painted me with the most hideous of colours. You can also see where she took my cover off and started to add embellishments. Not sure I wanted flowers on me but I wasn’t going to argue in case she threw me back on the dusty ole stash pile.

Uh oh, now this is the scary bit when she covered me all over with some black yukky sticky stuff. Apart from anything else it smelt foul!!! At this stage I just wanted to be back on my comfortable stash pile all dusty rather than smelly. But then she started to wipe me off with a stinky smelling soft rag and as the last pic shows I started to transform.