Tim what are you doing to me??!!!

So he launched me into a world of gorgeous inkiness when I saw him demo in Birmingham a few years ago. He tempted me to buy some more of his goodies with his '12 Days of Christmas Tags' on his blog (not that I resisted too much!!).
And for several weeks I have been most desirous of Tim's new creation 'Grungeboard' which has been hinted at to 'DH' in none too subtle terms!!! ENJOY!!

Fa-la-la-la-laaaaa la-la-la-la!!!

Tis the season to be Jolly Fa-la-la-la-laaaaaa la-la-la-laaaaaa!!! *jingles bells*
Dare 75 sees us getting festive with lots of ideas for Christmas scrapping and papercrafting!

I just LOVE these Doodlebug Houses and had to make to with the glitter and sugarcoated paper also from Doodlebug. Hopefully I made a frosty home suitable for the little people who may be out and about at this time of year!

Don't forget to check out Tim Holtz's blog to enjoy his gorgeous tags he's been making- I certainly plan on getting inky this weekend and having a bash at some of those gorgeous tags!

More Gorgeousness from Sir Tim

For divine Chrissy tags on efor each day of Advent go to Tim Holtz's Blog-it's full of YUMMY inky goodness!!!

Snowy Tilda

I am loving these little stamps so much!!
Watercolour pencils and planty of glitter (well I HAD to didn't I??!!) and the beautiful Rhonna Farrar papers that came from Jill @ ATDML thank you so much Jill!!

A rather glittery weekend all round for me!
I've been having great fun opening presents from my Secret Santa- Day 1 was a fabulous chipboard snowflake which I have been busy decorating!! *waggles painty fingers* here's a sneaky peaky

it's super twinkly so I am a happy bunny!

Yesterday I opened my 2nd Advent present and it was a set of the beautiful Pretoria papers from 7gypsies and today I have some matching buckles and handles! My Santa knows me too well!!

So After opening my lovely papers yesterday I decided to crack on with my TALL Doodlebug House. I wanted it to be Christmas/Winter themed so I decided to use the Rhonna Farrar papers again- they are glittered designs- stunning! It's nearly done now- just needs some Chrissy trees and it will be ready!

Speaking of Christmas Trees 'Miss Acorn' and 'The Tall Blonde One'accommpanied me to Homebase on a hunt for sticks of glue for the glue gun (the Doodlebug House!) and we spotted a rather lovely WHITE Christmas tree.
Well we had a white tree when I was a child and I must say I do have a soft spot for them- I think my parents might have first seen them when they lived in Singapore in the 60's. We've been trying to decide whether to go artificial or real this year as we have the new addition to our family- Miss Willow F Beagle!
The kids liked the white tree too so the deal was done! I invested in some rather snazzy blue LED Chrissy lights for the tree (white cables!)so we've gone all hi-tech at last!! To be honest I was fed up of the 'will they , won't they' work with the old style lights each year!!

So Advent is off- calendars are being opened, Secret Santa pressies are creating a very excited ME and the tree is bought, cards are being planned and Pressie shoppping is well under way!

Dare 73- Childhood Faves!

This week Childhood Favourites in my case I thought about my own when I was six.See the Dares at Collectively Yours.

Supplies
Paper from Paperchase (idea pinched from the lovely GreyParrot!)
7 gypsies Gaffer Tape
Ric-rac, Antique Lace and tags.

Ooooh lovely stash!!

Oooh I'm loving the Queen & Co Felt Fusion ribbons at Scrapshed - happy to say mine arrived today and I am ready to play!!!
YAY buttons!!! After drooling online at the Basic Grey buttons for YONKS I was delighted to get some from Make the Moment Last and they are lubberley. Oh I can reccomend the velvet ric-rac too....how perfect velvet AND ric-rac does it get any better??!!!

Number's Up!!!!!

We see numbers everywhere and we used them as a design point for our layouts in Dare 72.
Numbers can be used as a graphic image or as a journalling reminder- so many ways, go see them all on the Collectively Yours Blog.
My layout celebrates 2 glorious days inJuly 2007 when the 7th and LAST Harry Potter book arrived. I read and read and read and was put through and emotional wringer!! But it was so worth it!!

Supplies
DCWV Once Upon A Time paper
Playing card
Glitter
7gypsies Journalling Stamps
Hero Arts Stamps
America Crafts Alphabet Stickers

Tilda Time

I have finally played with one of my Tilda stamps! It's a friends 5th birthday this week and this Tilda stamp reminded me of her! Daisy D's paper and Watercolour Pencils.

200th post- CHEERS!!!!!

I CAN cut it!!!

....my KI Memories Lace Cardstock that is!!!!
Oooh there was much stress and talking to myself before I attacked the cardstock withthe paper trimmer but I managed it!!!

Supplies:-
KI Memories Cardstock
American Crafts Felt Flowers
QuicKutz Leaf dies
MM journal boxes
Cosmo Cricket Gretel Paper

Fabulous New QuicKutz

Lovely new shapes from QuicKutz for the Revolution. Might have to have those Tattoo style ones- rather like those!!!

Yummy Shopping!

I LOVE stash shopping *grin* this month I went to PaperArts and Artbase to get my mitts on some of the delicious KI Memories lace cardstock. I have been VERY brave and actually CUT a piece of it and used it on a LO!!!

Chipboard- Dre 71

Dare 71 and we all played with chipboard! See how many ways we used it at Collectively Yours.

Supplies:-
Rustly Pickle Paper
Creative Imaginations Stickers
TLC chipboard
Li' Davis Letters (covered)
QuicKutz Katie Font
Ranger Acrylic Paint

A Trip Down Memory Lane

When Mel & Jill at A Trip Down Memory Lane asked me to be on their design team for November I was REALLY chuffed! They sent me the delicious Foof-a-La papers and I had a ball!

Supplies:-
Foof-a-La Indian Summer Papers, Buttons and Chipboard
Fancy Pants Stamps
MM Noteworthy Tags
QK Fonts Tangerine;UpTown Girl; Abigail Grande; Finale

Dare 70 Girls Allowed!

Dare70 is GIRLS ONLY!
I had this beautiful glittered paper by DCWV and so 'Miss Acorn' became a little injured faerie!
Miss Acorn had bashed her tum and to make sure we knew where her injury lay she made this big sign- sort of 'X' marks the spot!!!

Supplies:-
DCWV Once Upon a Time Fairy Dust.
QK Eliza Font
QK Finale Grande Font
QK Revolution Flourish
Stampers Anonymous Butterfly Wings Stamp
Staz-On Ink
Glitters
7Gypsies Journalling Stamps
Prima Flowers

Halloween No. 69

As you know we love Halloween here and have a little spooky tea party where we dress up and eat silly foods! Here's the LO from Collectively Yours to commemorate our latest Halloween fun!

Supplies
Bazzill Cardstock
Fancy Pants Paper
Rusty Pickle Paper
Fancy Pants Bella Brush Stamp
QK Washington Font
Dymo
Prima Notelets.

Boys Only No. 68

Celebrate the boys and men in your life with a special Lo about them as we've done on Collectively Yours.
We love Dr. Who in our house so when 'The Blonde One' was invited to a halloween party this outfit seemed the obviousl choice. What was alos nice was he was the only one who was NOT a vampire or a ghoul!!

Supplies
Rusty Pickle Lined Paper
Dr. Who Images manipulated on Photoshop Elephants.
Key and string.
Various metal frames.

Happy Halloween!!!!!

I've had a little work done!!!!!!!!
BWahahahahahahahhahahahaa!!!!

Autumn Glory!

SO we went to Millets Farm to get our pumpkin and we HAD to have lunch- pasties followed by cakes that are as big as yer HEED! They are lovely though!! With all the leaves around soon Willow was being covered in them by 'The Blonde One' then I was covered in leaves!!
We had a lovely time in the sun and when we got home someone was rather tired!!

LOADSA pumpkins!!!

LOADSA pumpkins!!!, originally uploaded by ktfsj.

We all went to Millets Farm this afternoon to get our pumpkin for Halloween- aren't they lovely??!!