7 December 2008

Glittery for Christmas




I love my Tilda stamps and I've been playing and getting glittery!
I've been making good use of my Cuttlebug Embossing folder to create the snowy background. I embossed some Making Memories blue paper then sanded it to bring the white core of the paper through- I was rather pleased with the effect!
Tilda and Hos (the horse!) were stamped on white card using my fave black ink pad Versafine and coloured using water colour pencils.

TIP ~ I just colour along the edges of the design then use a water brush to moisten the colour and pull it across the rest of the stamped image. This way you get a lovely graduated colour that gives depth to the finished image.

The fiddly bit is cutting the images out but I took my time and minded my fingers (finger is healing nicely now!) and mounted the images onto the cards with double sided tape.
To add to the effect of snow paint some light blue around the edges of the white cardstock you use for snowy ground and paint blue where feet touch the snow as well.

I went to town with the glitter- Stickles on all the white snow and nice thick silver for a frame!! 'Tis everywhere in the Old Oak Tree!!

4 December 2008

Inky ATC's for Christmas


I love all things inky, grungey and glittery so my Christmas ATC's for a recent swap had to tick all these boxes!!
As I've had a blast doing Tim Holtz's masking technique i thought I'd take it small scale onto my ATC's this time. I've blooged about it on It's a Creative World today so you can see my inky exploits over there!!

2 December 2008

It's Tag Time again!!!



FANTASTIC it's 12 days of inspiration from Tim Holtz as he kicks off the Christmas Season with another of his 12 Tags of Christmas!!
Get on over there to see his wonderful creations and get ideas for the whole year!

30 November 2008

Tilda Time


My lovely friends daughter was having her birthday this week and I decided to get my Tilda stamps out! I had forgotten how relaxing the colouring in and using the water brush was! So now I'm stamping, colouring and water brushing away at other Tildas! *happy dance*

Basic Grey paper
Distress Stickles
QK dies
Grungeboard
Distress Inks

28 November 2008

Inky Delights!!


After seeing Tim Holtz's project this month I had to play with my new Masks and Stamps *grins* I still have inky paws now!!
I was fortunate to get my mitts on 4 bottles of Distress Stickles from the Lovely Jean and I ADORE them! They add some sparkle but in a muted way- just wonderful!

18 November 2008

At LAST!!! QuicKutz is back!!





I LOVE these designs! I have not been impressed with QK's latest offerings so I was doubly delighted to see these cuties!! Wouldn't they look great with the new Sassafrass Lass papers?! See them at Scrapping Cottage.

16 November 2008

Don't be a smart alec!!


Conversation a few weeks ago as DH looked on at my CM paper guillotine.

DH: "that thing looks lethal!"
Me: " No!" " It's perfectly safe. There aren't any blades on it so there's NO WAY you could cut yourself on it"

Thanks to the nurse at the Cottage Hospital for sorting my self-inflicted injury out for me *sheepish green*

7 November 2008

More Inky Inspiration!


Based on Tim Holtz's November Technique this is just beautiful! See it here at Starlit Studios.

5 November 2008

Tim Time Treats!!!


Tim Holtz is at it again- inspiring and practically DEMANDING I get inky !! LOL

A New Blog is about Craft Stamper go check it out (they have blog candy to give away!!)

4 November 2008

Gorgeous Paper!!


I LOVE patterned paper and I LOVE these papers from October Afternoon that I bought from Lyn's Craft-Emporium!

2 November 2008

Halloweeny ATC


Tim Holtz Stamp
Distress Inks
Stampotique Stamp
Cherry Pie Stamp
StazOn

1 November 2008

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!!




We love Halloween in our house and we all dress up and have a special GRUESOME tea!!! This year we had eyeballs and fingers followed by stewed brains (OK maybe it was meatballs and chips followed by steamed syrup pud!!)
Serenity dollies went halloweeny too- here's us and Hally

More Dollies!!



Boo says they look happy no matter what so they are Serenity Dolls!!!
Sweetie-Pie is made with some fun Japanese fabric with sweeties all over it and is about 2.5" high While Papillion have some glittery butterfly wings and is about 4.5" high!

27 October 2008

I'm a Creative World Girl!!





Thanks to Caz who invited me to guest on It's a Creative World- the fabulous blog for all things crafty!Loved making these three Chrissy Dotees!! These cute critters take next to no time to make and are LOADS of fun (plus a great way for using up scraps of fabric and those beads you've had lying around for yonks!)

25 October 2008

GORGEOUS new Stickles.





Just spotted these on Tim Holtz's Blogeroo-GORGEOUS as ever!! So new Grungeboard AND new Distress Stickles are added to the list of NEEDS!!!! LOL
Off to play with my TH Masks ;)

19 October 2008

Feeling Spooky!!



For the Art Raffle run by Flo'.
Theme is 'dark'.
Made little filled potion bottles-
beads for eyeballs.
Shrinkie QK bats
Dragon's blood (distress refill ink)
Tiny spiders made form pom-poms and thread!
All the bottles were corked and sealed with red wax.

Painted a chest with Crackle Paint and inked it.
Made a Sham,en stick wtih a skull shrinkie and thread.
Printed out spells in tiny font on aged paper then rolled and bound with thread!

I love making miniatures :D

12 October 2008

GORGEOUS beadlings!!!

I was there at the beginning of the Klutz beadling craze a few years back LOL- we made beadlings, swapped beadlings, sought out new and unusual beadling patterns. We found bead shops online with which to feed our addiction and we had mountains of beadlings. I used beadlings on cards, layouts and gave them as gifts. 'The Blond One' learnt to make them and we'd sit together with our wire,Klutz book and beads and happily beadle away!!
Then the craze passed and the wire, beads and Klutz book went back in the cupboard!

Making the Dotee Dolls has renewed my love of beads and as my bead supplies have been depleted I felt a shopping trip was in order. When I say shopping trip DON'T imagine I love shopping or anything- the thought of schlepping around all day searching the shops for the right item fills me with horror!! I am however an expert at Google searches and online shopping!
So I toddled around looking for some sparkle and returned to my Beadling Craze stomping ground of Beads Unlimited a lovely shop with great prices, service and products!
Anyway on my travels through Cyberland on my way to Beads Unlimited I passed through a couple of other great bead shops and noticed these beauties











Miyuki Kits are available at various shops including the Ebay Shop Thread-A-Bead or just Google Miyuki Mascot Kits to find them! Looking forward to mine arriving!

8 October 2008

Dotee Dollying again!!


I've been having fun with me little dollies again! These sweeties take next to no time to make and are fun to embellish with beads, buttons or whatever comes to hand!!

7 October 2008

Little Houses.


I made these a little while ago and JUST got around to photographing them! I bought mine from Bubbly Funk who do a lovely range of chipboard .They are made by Collections Elements, 4 plain chipboard houses in various sizes that you decorate as your fancy takes you!
I used a mixture of 7gypsies papers, stamps, inks, paint and Grungeboard.

22 September 2008

Dotee Dolly


I'd seen a dotee doll on someone's blog and thought I'd like to have a go. I'm not in a scrapping mood ATM and so my knitting has reappeared! I bought some lovely fabric by Kaffe Fassett from an ebay shop in shades of green. Friday night I sat at the dining table and started- sewing is minimal so it took no time at all to create the body. I added random beads for her 'hair' and used felt for her face. The next day I painted up some Grungeboard with Ranger Paint Dabbers and Lumiere paints and added these to Miss dolly. She was really quick and fun to make!
The kids all decided that they's like to make one each and even though they started out with the same basic doll body they managed to come up with three very cute and very different dotee dolls!
Miss Acorn has made a second 'Little Brother' dotee for her doll and I have another two on the go!

9 September 2008

ATCs MORE Little Houses!!





Because I loved Flo's Little Boxes ATC swap so much a group of us are doing a mini swap. Only 10 of us but so many peeps saw the little houses and loved them and wanted to have a go!!
Here are mine for the swap. I used Chookie's 'Were you Born In a Barn' house I received in Flo's swap as a template for my Police House because I loved the shape so much!! I hope Chookie doesn't mind?

8 September 2008

The Raspberry Thief!!!




So we're picking raspberries and give Smeagle Beagle one- I'm thinking that they were a bit of a hit.......

3 September 2008

Making Stuff Again!!


I made this for the Sarah's new venture the Art Raffle designed to give us an inspirational kick up the but!! Thanks Sarah I always need a BOOT!!