Another page of my Journal!

Good evening my lovely blog friends and new followers, welcome to my blog!

I have created another Journal page, which I have to confess I pinched the idea from the brilliantly talented Eileen Godwin! http://eileenscraftyzone.blogspot.co.uk/

please pop along and visit this fabulously inspiring blog,

I'm a bit of a fan! Lol does it notice?

On a 7x7 peice of Ivory Hammered card from Papermill Direct, I inked and blended DI, blobbed some red ink on with bubble wrap and inked through some sequin waste, then using a Dylusions mask spritzed water then blotted with tissue, I stamped the fabulous stamp from Visible Image set with Perfect Medium and heat embossed with black Cosmic Shimmer detail EP, the words I just stamped with black Archival, I then just embossed the sides with a Damask EF from crafters companion one of their 8x8 ones, once embossed I just rubbed on some Goldleaf Rub N Buff over the embossed bits! I'm really pleased how it turned out! Thank you for visiting xxx

 

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Very exciting news!

Good morning Lovelies! Well a very exciting day for me! I was invited to join as a DT member to a brand new challenge blog, by the very talented Sandra J Wright, of course I was thrilled to be asked and accepted, along with me are the very talented; Nicky Wilcox, Moira Gray and Tina Teasdale, so today is the launch of our brand new Challenge blog! It's an "Anythings goes challenge blog" which means you can make anything you like as long as it fits our theme! We will be running fortnightly challenges! So to kick off our first theme is "Anything goes" so nice and easy!

Here's our link!

So here's my sample! It's a bit out of my comfort zone, I love vintage style but sadly I don't feel I do it well myself! However I bought this gorgeous Stampendous stamp a while ago and hadn't used it, so thought I'd better! So I kept it simple! I stamped onto watercolour card in Chipped Saphire DI and just used a water brush to soften it and add shading, once dry I added some irredescent glitter to the roofs and snowy bits, sadly it doesn't really show in the photo as I kept it fairly subtle, I used 8x8 Kraft card base which I matted with Tim Holtz Kraft resist paper pad (Christmas) which I inked with Chipped Saphire DI on my Splodgeaway mat, a fab bit of kit! I embossed some ivory hammered card from Papermill Direct using an EF and lightly inked using a brown DI, the embellishments were cut using TH decorative strips, festive greenery and Mini snowflake rosettes, onto TH resist Kraft resist pad and inked using various DI! I hope you like it? I'm fairly pleased with it but feel I need a lot more practise with this style! Thank you so much for visiting and I hope you will join us on our challenge? And of course pop over and check out the other wonderfully talented DT's samples!

Here are the rest of the wonderful Design Teams blogs

Sandie http://somewheretobeme.blogspot.co.uk/

Moira http://moirascraftycorner-moiragray.blogspot.co.uk/

Nicky http://www.ladyjasmine.co.uk/

Tina http://touchedbyanangel-tina.blogspot.co.uk/

 

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Liebster Award!

Good Afternoon Lovelies!

What a fabulous surprise! I am thrilled to bits to Receive the Liebster Award from a fabulous crafter Pamela you can visit her blog here thank you so much Pamela x

This award is awarded to 5 blogs that you love to visit that inspire you, but they must have LESS than 200 followers, it is designed to get more people visiting, commenting and hopefully following, so snag your badge for your blog and pass it on to 5 other lovely blogs you admire!

So here are 5 fabulous blogs that I love to visit, thank you ladies for the inspiration!

Janet http://cumbrianlass-craftykendalian.blogspot.co.uk/

Sylv http://designsforoccasions.blogspot.co.uk/

Sandie http://somewheretobeme.blogspot.co.uk/

Shirley http://papercreationsbyshirley.blogspot.co.uk/

Chrissie http://jumbledcrafts.blogspot.co.uk/

I wish I could of chosen 100 blogs it was difficult narrowing it down to 5 but at least it was made a bit easier by having less than 200 followers, there are so many very talented and inspirational crafters out there! Please click on the links above and visit these talented ladies and follow them! Thank you for stopping by :D xxx

 

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Another Journal page

Good afternoon Lovelies! Brrrrrrr! It's blimin cold! A great excuse to drink hot tea and craft :) bliss! So I've had a great time getting inky messy fingers lol!

I've done another page of my Art Journal amongst other projects which can't be blogged at mo! ;)

It's similar colours as the last but you will see by the bottom photo why! So I've used my Dylusions spray inks, texture paste with Dylusions and Spodgeaway Masks! I've used, Barbed wire and butterfly from Visible Image, the sentiment is Dylusions and the little wild flower sprigs are Studio 490, background stamps I've used Justrite harlequin/script background and Indigoblu crackle background, I bleached the butterfly after stamping with Archival black ink! Unfortunately the texture down the left side doesn't really show up so well in the photo but I coloured it with red DI once dried! I'm so loving playing like this! Thank you for all the lovely comments you leave, it really makes my day :)

 

Here are the two pages together, I wanted them to be similar in colour and style but not the same! If you get my meaning lol!

 

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Art Journal

Good evening Lovelies and a warm welcome to new followers, I hope your all well and having a good week so far?

So I bought a cheap album from hobbycraft, just plain white it's 8x8 so I thought I'd use it as an Art Journal as they are so expensive to buy! So here is my very first page, I'm pretty pleased with how it's turned out, I enjoyed using lots of different techniques! Texture paste through Dylusions masks, spritzing with Dylusions spray inks, stamping and bleaching, the flowers are Studio 490 and the bird is by Visible Image It does feel good getting mucky hands! I hope you like it? Thank you for visiting xxx

 

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Happy Birthday Princess!

Good morning Lovelies! And a very warm welcome to my new followers! Roll on the spring!

Well today's card is the card I have made for our gorgeous little princess Millie! Millie was our Foster girl that many of you know moved to her new family a month ago! I'm still grieving but I get better and stronger everyday! Anyway today is her 3rd Birthday, we get to speak to her tonight on the phone and we are going to visit on Sunday, I can't wait to see her but I'm also nervous too, because I know leaving her behind is going to kill us again! She was with us for 22 months! She seems to be settling well into her new family, and they of course are living their long awaited dream :)

I have made various versions of this card, I don't really do cute or character cards, I like Wellington bear and I think it's a versatile image?

Millie the day she moved aw!

There were no papers used on this card, I made everything from stamps, ink and white card! Well apart from the bling and ribbon of course lol! Hope you like my card? Thank you very much for visiting xxx

 

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Splat Christmas Tree

Good morning Lovelies, and a very warm welcome to my new followers, I hope you enjoy visiting my blog, I certainly enjoy reading your comments, even the constructive ones ;)

A while back I won an Indigoblu stamp of my choice in a competition on Facebook, I can't tell you how thrilled I was, their products are second to none, I love them, and they are a British company!

So onto my card, 8x8 just for a change lol ;) this was the stamp I chose! I just created splats with various Distress Stains stamped over top, added liquid pearls and buttons, bit of mat and layering job done! The sentiment is from Creative Expressions and the embossing folder is a spellbinder one! I hope you like it? It's a bit different!

 

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