Wall Hanging

Hi blogger people. It's been a while (again) since my last post and a new year has started and still nothing has changed lol!
The wall hanging I have to show you today was made from three wooden dolls house windows. I stamped into hearty clay for the individual squares. The frame edges have been decorated with melted wax which has been poured into a border mold and the paper flowers have been inked and stamped. There was a tiny bit more to it than that but I'm sure you get the idea! Thanks for looking, see you again soon x

Make a Note....

Hi all hope you are well and nearly ready for Christmas. This note book that I have to show today was made out of two canvas boards, which I have inked, painted and stamped within an inch of their lives. I used a crop o'dile to punch the three holes at the side and then used book rings to form the spine. You may recognise the three disks covering the punched holes as they have come from the centre of some discarded floppy disks that no longer fit in our computer!

Just finished my batch of Christmas cards which I am quite pleased about. Up until last week I had only made 15 but that has now doubled so a few more people will get a stunning Smith work of art lol!

Bye for now and thanks for looking.

Afternoon ladies, the card I have to share today is a birthday card made using a stamp set from Inkadinkadoo. The main image has been stamped and embossed on a spellbinders die cut which I layered over a black die cut. The feather and swril from the same set has been used for the background and Distress Ink sponged around the edges.

I made this card some time ago so have forgotton the exact details as it has long been sent but thought I would post as it has been quite sometime since my last blog entry......oh hum. I wont make any excuses, but will just aim to post a bit more which is always my aim but never happens! Does anyone else feel like that, honestly meaning to do something but really never getting on top of the task?

Thanks for looking and will (hopefully) be back soon.

Happy Halloween

Hello crafty bloggers. Hope you all have a happy Halloween. I made these two cards along the theme of Halloween using a set of stamps from Chocolate Baroque. Really love the set as they are not tied to Halloween and can be used anytime you need something a bit creepy. The inks used are all distress from Tim Holtz apart from the tree in the howling dog card which was some silver Brilliance. I love the howling dog as the silhouette could easily be that of our dog, Ellis, thankfully he is much more well behaved than the dog in the picture!

Butterfly Tree

Hi bloggers, hope your Tuesday afternoon is going well. The card I have to share with you today is this butterfly tree birthday card that I made for one of my daughter's friends recent birthday. All the main images have been stamped using a set from Little Claire. The happy birthday sentiment is from a stamp set from Stamp Addicts and was cut out using a spellbinders die. I coloured the stamped images with promarkers and sponged some pink distress ink around the edges of the top layer and the happy birthday. Its hard to see in this picture but I have added some crystal stickles glue to parts of the tree and main butterflies which adds an extra little sparkle to the card.
Thanks for looking...........

Oriental Lady

Hello everyone. The card I have to share today is a something I made for a friend as she is off to China tomorrow and it was her birthday last week. I think the lady is Japanese but I thought it was close enough and I think my friend appreciated it.....lol.
The stamps I used are all from an oriental set by Michelle Marsden and they have all been coloured with Promarkers. The red ribbon is just a strip of card coloured with the red promarker used in the main image so that it matches. The Happy Birthday sentiment was stamped onto a spell binders die cut and the coins were stamped onto gold card and then cut out with a small spellbinders circle die.
Thanks for looking and will be back soon.

Introducing Ellis

Hello blogger folk. Big apologises for not posting anything crafty for nearly a month but I have a reasonable excuse this time lol! Bloggers that are not Facebook friends will not know that I am now the proud owner of a rescued collie cross called Ellis. We have had him for five weeks now and the time has gone so quick. He is a fantastic little dog but just needs some work when he is out on walks as he is not sure how to greet other dogs. He runs up to them and gives them a doggy sniff but then quickly runs away again while the other dog looks on thinking what a loon! He also loves jumping up at people if they happen to glance at him to give him a friendly smile. Ellis takes this as they want to play and doesn't think to check that this is ok with them before he goes and bounces on them......very embarrassing!

Ellis does not like his photo taken and he does not like the hoover. In this picture he is hiding at the top of the stairs away from the hoover and I go and make it worse by taking his pictures so he is not looking very happy. We can only take pictures of him while he is asleep because as soon as he sees a camera he will look or run away. Obviously not going to be a model then......

One Stroke Painting

Good afternoon. I have something slightly different to show today. These two projects are my first attempts at one stroke painting. I spent the day at Brushstrokes in Wokingham yesterday and this is what I was taught. The first project we did was the picket fence painted onto the front of an A4 folder. I am quite pleased with the way it turned out, however the butterfly looks a bit surprised by something and seems to be trying to stop in mid air lol! The second project we did was the gift bag and it seems the butterfly on this is not much better, but over all I had a good day and picked up some new skills.

Afternoon bloggers. The card I have to share with you today is a boys birthday card that was coloured using Promarkers. The car stamp was a freebie from a card magazine but I am afraid I can't remember which one it was :-(. The back ground has been created using a That Special Touch Mica Mask which I ran through my Cuttlebug to emboss the paper before colouring with distress ink.
Thanks for looking......

Hope everyone is enjoying the bank holiday weekend. In keeping with the bad weather we have been having recently I thought I would post the last of the cards I made using the Stamp Addicts, April stamp set. To make it look like actual rain drops I dripped diamond glaze onto acetate and attached it to the card with brads. The scalloped edge around the main image has been created by stamping the little solid umbrella stamp from the set.
Thanks for looking, will be back soon......

Evening folks. Haven't blogged in ages I know but I do have a reasonable excuse as it is the school holidays and we have also been organising our new family member's arrival. He is in the shape of a black and white border collie cross called Ellis that we have got from the local rescue shelter. I will post a couple of pictures later but for now I just have this anniversary card that I made a while back for a friend's 50th wedding anniversary.

Lets go fly a kite.......

Good afternoon. The card I have to share with you today is again made with the April set from Stamp Addicts. I just used the kite and umbrella stamp. As you can see I have used the umbrella stamp to form the butterflies by just inking up the main umbrella part and wiping the ink from the handle and tip of the umbrella to form each wing of the butterfly. The kites have been decoupaged and both the butterflies and kites have been coloured using promarkers. The background was created by using a colour duster brush and stippling blue and white ink onto the card to form a sort of blotchy sky effect. The Thank You sentiment is from a different set but also from Stamp Addicts and has been stamped onto a spellbinders diecut. The sky background was mounted onto a scrap of card that I coloured with the green promarkers around the edges to match the rest of the card and the tail of the bottom kite has been replaced with some wire that I beaded and then attached to the reverse of the kite. To finish off I just added green and purple stickles glitter glue to the butterflies wings and to the kite.
Thanks for looking, will be back soon.