Zoe - Week 52 "Happy New Year"

Good morning Lovelies! I hope you have all had a wonderful Christmas? The weather has been pretty ghastly I hear? I'm in Canada until 1st January, having spent a wonderful White a Christmas with my daughter, it's been the best Christmas ever and I don't want to go home!

So here is my DT sample for Premium Craft Brands

I used a black tag, I inked the whole tag in versamark and used the golds, metallic Pan Pastels, I then embossed it with a star stencil after I'd sprayed with cheap hairspray, I added bronze PP over the embossed stars, my star embellishments I made using Maemeri light modelling medium in silicone moulds, which were left over night to dry then coloured with orange Pan Pastel, I wrote the sentiment!

Happy New Year, hugs, Zoe xx

 

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Zoe - Week 51 "Make a gift using fabric"

Good Morning Lovelies! And a very Merry Christmas one and all! Today is my birthday, rather a large number 52 eek! I'd rather forget lol, we are in Canada for Christmas with our beautiful daughter, we just returned there on Friday having spent 5 days in New York, wow what a place, really not for me, Too big, too crowded, too busy, very unfriendly and I found it a bit scary, I guess it's not for everyone? Lol however we visited some interesting places. We did so much walking I've returned with a bad knee. Now I'm back with my daughter I'm trying to rest it and it is starting to feel better. Most of the snow we had before we went to NY has melted but they said we are due more yesterday (scheduled post by the way) I hope we have a white Christmas. We are spending Christmas Day at Keenan's parents (daughters boyfriend) which will be great, lots of fun, food and laughter, they are great people.

Anyway less of my rambling on, here is my DT sample for Premuim Craft Brands! I have made a wall hanging out of mini canvases, I have attempted to make multi media canvases with White Maemeri Gesso, coloured in places with Magenta Tint Pan Pastels, the photographs are of each of our little fostered girls that have all gone on to adoption! I hope you like it?

This top one is Angel, we had her from 4 days old until she was 17 months old, she was 4 in September.

The second one is Millie, we had her from 12 months old until one month before her 3rd birthday which was last February.

And finally our last little darling Ruby, we got her at 4 and a half months old, she moved the day after her 1st birthday, on the 9th November, so we have done 2 adoptions this year, a roller coaster of emotion I can tell ya! :,( it's true what they say though! "Time is a healer" although I never get over them going, but the pain does ease in time!

 

All my special baby girls, I love them so much and miss them, there's never a day goes by that I don't think about them!

Hopefully we will return in the New Year refreshed and ready for a new baby? :)

I hope you like my Wallhanging? Merry Christmas and hugs, Zoe xxx

 

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Zoe - Challenge # 22 "Let it Snow"

Good morning Lovelies! I'm in Canada spending Christmas with my beautiful daughter, I'm not back until New Year, I've scheduled my blog posts, so I'll wish you all a very merry Christmas, I hope it's happy and healthy to one and all.

Our theme this fortnight at Rhedd and Rosie's was picked by our lovely and very talented teamie Wendy "Let it snow"

Rosie is sponsoring this challenge and is offering this fab prize for the winner!

 

I made 2 cards,my first very simple card, is a Sweet Poppy stencil and sparkle medium.

My second I used a multi layer technique using a music background and script stamps and a combination of Distress inks and Distress paint, the stamp is of course Tim Holtz, as you can see I painstakingly fussy cut the snowflake and decoupaged it.

 

I hope you like my cards, thank you very much for taking the time to visit and make a comment xxx merry crimbo xxx

 

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Zoe - week 50 "Make Snow/Snowflake"

Good morning Lovelies! A quick post today as I'm away in Canada until the New Year!

So we had to make Snow or Snowflakes using Pan pastels this week at Premium Craft Brands

I had a lovely friend Karen Willis cut me a 3D snowflake on here Cameo, I coloured it with blue Pans and stamped over with Versamark ink then platinum Metallic Pan Pastel

 

 

Thank you for visiting! Zoe xxx

 

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12 Tags of 2013 1st December tag

Good morning Lovelies, I'm on a roll lol.

Heres my version of Tim Holtz 1st December Tag, absolutely adore Tim Holtz style, I've made a few of the tags from 12 tags of 2013 and thoroughly enjoyed it,

I haven't got any of Wendy Vecchi's clearly art heatable plastic so I used Vellum, it's not the same, but it looks pretty good.

I'm entering this into Craftyhands Challenge Blog the theme is "Seasons Greetings"

I hope you like my tag, thank you for spending the time to visit and comment xxx happy Wednesday xxx

 

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Tim Holtz Stamps

Good evening Lovelies! I had some free time today and thought I'd make a card for a challenge in a FB group I'm in, the theme is "words" I thought I'd make a male card, although I guess it could be female too as it has butterflies on it.

I used Tim Holtz stamps Distress inks the splat is a TH layering stencil which I used Picket Fence distress paint through, the stripes and dots are also his stencils which I inked through, it's layered onto some card which I scored and gilded, this technique I picked up from Eileen Godwins workshop at the weekend. Thank you for visiting xxx

 

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Zoe - Week 49 "All about Card/paper"

Good morning Lovelies! I hope everyone has managed to come out of the shocking weather unscathed? Phew! It was pretty rough, my heart goes out to those poor people that have had damage to their homes or injuries.

I can't believe I only have 5 days left until we fly out to Canada to have Christmas with our beloved daughter! I'm so excited. We are having 5 days in NY too :D to stay out the way as my daughter has to study for exams, I've never been to the big apple so it's a dream come true for me, and seeing it at Christams time is just so "wow"

So onto this weeks challenge for Premium Craft Brands the theme this week is "All about card/paper" so basically you can make what you like with any theme the only requirement is that it is ALL made of card or paper, so that includes all embellishments too! Here's what I made.

 

Your probably wondering "why 3"? Well I made 1 each for my three baby girls that have all been adopted, I keep in touch with them and always send cards and gifts for Xmas and birthdays. I made them all slightly different in design, very easy cards, I used the beautiful Linen texture card from Papermill Direct it's beautiful with Pan Pastels, I think it's classy and gives a beautiful texture when coloured, I coloured the backgrounds Ultra Marine Blue, Violet and Violet shade pan pastels and sprayed with cheap hairspray to seal, I cut an aperture and raised on sticky pads for dimension and added My embellishments and some liquid pearls with glitter here and there, I'm sorry the third pictures lighting is terrible.

I hope you like my samples and feel inspired to join in? Remember we offer a prize too for the winner which is picked by the Radom thingymadjig! Plus we pick a top 3, have a great weekend, keep warm, keep safe and keep crafting lol! Xx hugs, Zoe xx

 

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