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!)

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 ;)

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

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!

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!!

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.

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!

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?

The Raspberry Thief!!!

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

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!!

Oooh Scrummy Stamps!!!

I'm getting in the mood for Halloween and so I've been looking for some grungey stamps with skeletons and skulls (probably been watching TOO much Miami Ink too!!) I happened to spot these beauties on the Inkadinkado website and I'm LUSTING!!!!

A youngun'

This was me at Infants in N. Yorkshire- all soft and fluffy at age 5, then a year at school you can see I'm wising up a bit until age 7 - I practically have a beard and a fag hanging out my mouth!!!

Supplies
Making Memories Paper
October Afternoon
Grungeboard
Glitter
Prima Tape

I LOVE these little suckers sooo much...

.....Tim Holtz is a GENIUS!!! I am in love with the Idea-ology Tokens and Word Keys- they are blimmin' GORGEOUS!!!
Felt totally inspired using them on a LO I did on holiday- YES I am THAT Sad and take mini stash on holidays so I can get a scrapping fix!!!
So after playing with the Keys, Tokens and ball chain (a lovely gift from bestest pal archi!) I HAD to order the Sprockets (comedy word of the day!!) Journalling Tickets and Swivel Clasps (2nd Comedy word of the day!!) from Art Cards. Ordered this morning and they are already on their way- how fab is that?! *big grin*

Supplies:
Prima, Making Memories and Theresa Collins PAper
Grungeboard Minis
Idea-Ology Tokens, Keys and BAll chain
7g's Embellies
Prima Tape
Prima Flowers
Glitter
Derwent Graphtint pencil

New from Quickutz

As seen on ScrappingCottage.com not the most original I've seen from QK but I love the new dies from Sizzix for Halloween!

Holli-holidays

We had fun in Dorset- like the Famous Five!!!

More David....

....a whirlwind of signing and chatting, lovely to his fans!

A Bit of Bard- Dontcha Know?!!

Hamlet was BRILLIANT!!!!

Tim Treats

He's at it again!! Beautiful, inky, grungey and inspiring stuff on Tim Holtz's Blog- go see!!!