Met a very dear friend for lunch in Kilkenny on Monday, mooched around a craft shop, as you do then we had a little playtime at her house.
I love away play days because you get to use crafty things that are different to what you have.
We cut these pieces from a Sizzix die, sorry can’t remember what it was called but I made it into a little album.
Firstly I want to say hello and welcome to Laura who is joining Fashionable Stamping Challenges this week but sadly our teemie Fashion Stampette Silvia has decided to step down so I just want to say good luck Silvia in wherever your new journey takes you sweetie pie.
This fortnights challenge at FSC is one of my faves as sewing is something that I have always loved doing. Each fortnight one of the DT’s get to pick the theme and I have Sue to thank for choosing this one.
Isn’t the stamp pretty it’s one from our sponsor Flonz Crafts and to make it easier for you I have left a link here of where to buy her.
The card was made by stamping the image onto gauze, putting some wadding behind before stitching around the edge. I die cut a frame and then stitched around the edge with a zig zag and a straight stitch.
Did something that I haven’t done before I added some Sepia Accents to her hair and dress which made it perfect to add little stray pieces of material. Stamped onto the bottle top but it looked to neat so I sanded some ink off. You just have to pop on over to see all the Design Teams projects they are amazing and while you’re there you might just as well enter because you never know it might be you who wins the $20 to spend at Flonz’s Store.
Well the big shake up is moving along … just like a snail … but guess what here is another tag for you to look at. Not sure why I didn’t like this one, maybe because at the time of making it was too messy for me?? Who knows!!!
Enough is enough I am starting something today that is well overdue and I mean well overdue.
Could not bear to look at the dust, trailing cords and mess any more so started the big shake up in the craft room.
Not going very well at the moment because I keep coming across age ole makes that I haven’t posted before and started taken pics of them.
Gasped breath I hear, Shirl taking pics which she hates … truth be known, taking the pics is a better option than doing the great big tidy up of this rubbish tip called a craft room.
I have come across a few masterpieces which have never been shown. All right maybe not masterpieces … they are really things that in my opinion were never good enough to be blogged.
So very sorry about this girls in between the cleaning and to keep my sanity I am subjecting you to some of these not quite good enough thingies.
Below is the before pics and somewhere down the line I will show the after pics.
Now some of you might think that this is already a tidy tip but the thing is that over the years the way I craft has changed. I still love the pretty pretty but now I love the grunge look with it. What this means is that I need more of the paints, stamps, inks, the messy stuff nearer to hand so hence the shake up in the room.
How lucky am I to have a son who did his degree in building management, this means he understands things like weight on shelves and what size screws to put in the wall to hold all those heavy crafting goodies. The shelves beside my desk, everything has to be removed so that I can put all my messy stuff on.
This is how it looks behind where I sit. The old unit came from our lounge and rather than throw it out I kept it for all my goodies. I can probably live with that as it is just a good clean and a little moving of things.
This is to the side of me and I can’t stand looking at the mess anymore so thinking caps on as to what I can do with it!!!
Just beside my desk is Andrew’s huge corner. Now don’t get me wrong I do love that we both can sit in the same room and have our own little hobbies but look how much space he is depriving me of and how untidy do those trailing wires look!!!! This space has to change …..
Coooeee just found another masterpiece off to take a pic. This tidy up might take longer than I thought 😀
Oh to have a beautiful custom built craft room … over to you hubbykins.
Well here she is the 2nd image I coloured when on my hols, check here for the first one. Both the same images just different colours.
She has been sitting on my desk since I came home and in between doing other things I have been putting different pieces beside her to see where it would take me.
In my mind this card has taken me on a Gothic come medieval type of journey which is totally out of character for me … unless it’s Halloween!!! Not sure if you would agree???
For the flower I diecut newspaper, spritzed with glimmer mists then stamped onto it with Versamark before adding gold embossing powder.
I have quite of few of these little postcards which have cute images of little children on. Every now and again I will pick one up to use but then after the touchy feely bit they were put back in their box. Took the plunge and made a card with this oh so sweet girl then found the perfect sentiment to go with it.
Yep that’s how my face looks after my wonderful holiday in Portugal and as my dear ole mum used to say:
“A face that a only a mother could love”
Well mine isn’t quite that pretty but it is glum because I miss the family again.
She is one of the images that I coloured whilst in Wales, finally managed to put her onto cardstock with some embellies.
Actually I coloured two of her but in totally different colours the other has nearly made it’s way onto cardstock.
Not sure if you remember my crafting holiday to Rhyl in North Wales with two friends … one a crafter the other a book reader … at the beginning of July. The holiday where we didn’t get as much done as we hoped because the weather turned into a Mediterranean scorcher.
Actually we did get some things done and below is the circular box which I altered. Also started a canvas but didn’t finish … ehh still on my desk waiting to be completed!!! Coloured some images which I will be adding to cards or an album … decisions, decisions ahhh.
What I love most about this box are the buttons on the top. These were made with a mold to which I added Frantage Embossing Enamel and clear UTEE. Added four little cotton reels to the bottom of the box which look really neat as teensy tiny feet. Stamped the Elizabeth Bennet from Indigo Blu onto shrink plastic.
Covered the inside of the box and the inside lid with the same decoupaged napkins as I used for the top. When everything dried I gave an all over wash.
Still feeling very chilled from the holiday and in between getting things back to normal in the home I have had chance to make a tag as my design team piece for Vintage Stamping Challenges.
Wings & Things is the theme this month and I have chosen to use this stamp here from Flonz Crafts. Die cut the bird cage which is a large X Cut Die then added metallic gilding wax.
To enter this months challenge just enter your creation and maybe it could be you who wins the $20 from Flonz’s store. Visit the DT’s blogs for more inspiration and also to leave them some love.
HI ALL … WAHOO … I’M BACK
Ah well, finally back from our hols in Portugal and feeling quite refreshed and raring to go.
After having such a fantastic time with all the family, when we entered the house everything was awfully quite. No Byron or Penny (the fur babes) to greet us because they were still on their hols.
Picked them up the next evening and how happy were they to see us. The kennels are fantastic but being away for three weeks was more than enough for them and they practically ate us. As you can imagine the house is not very quiet now.
Fashionable Stamping are having a Clean & Simple Challenge this fortnight which is fine by me because I still have all the unpacking, washing and, dare I mention the dreaded word, dusting to do. I have Meggymay to thank for making my first challenge back such an easy peasy one … thank you sweets.
Below I mounted a piece of handmade paper onto a blue piece of cardstock which I had stamped one of Flonze Crafts stamps onto … you can find it here. Masked it off then used a Stamps Away Aperture Mask so that I could ink the edges with Stormy Sky and Weathered Wood Distressed Inks. Used another mask to ink in the birds.
Topped everything off with some stitching and a sentiment – now how easy could that be?
Time for you to enter your C&S creation but before you do check out the DT’s beautiful inspiration they are all gorgeous.
Wife to Andrew (best hubby in the world), mother of 2 wonderful boys and hopefully the best grandma to three beautiful grandchildren, oh can't forget my other babies Penny Black & Chip!
