Heart Plaque

I have used this technique on numerous occasions as I love the effect this Elusive Images stamps gives when it is stamped into Hearty Clay.

The base used is a plain wooden panel bought from Hobby Craft, which I have coloured using distress and alcohol inks. I then placed a stencil in opposite corners and applied sno tex paste over the top. Holes were punched using a Crop O dile and the dangley hearts are shrink plastic versions of the large heart on the plaque.

Hope you all have a good weekend. Bye for now

Under the Sea Necklace

Hi - I'm really not sure where July has gone, I have just checked back and realised nothing has been published on here since the begining of July :( Well I have a few things to add now as I entered the Elusive Images Design Team Challenge but alas I was not picked. Still at least I can now publish the projects I created to apply for the team. Obviously all stamps used are Elusive Images and a mixture of inks have been used. Mainly distress inks and inktense pencils to add colour - Staz-on for the shrink plastic and a dab of cream acrylic paint to try and create the aged look to the display box.
I am disappointed I didn't get chosen for the team but not surprised, however I do wish the lucky "chosen ones" good luck and I look forward to seeing their work.

Melt Pot Creation

I had a play with my Melt Pot for the first time yesterday and found I really loved it. I thought I would try something fairly basic to start with so I found a clay cutter and poured the melted utee into it to see how it would look. I made the colour by mixing clear and silver utee and adding a few drops of blue and yellow melt art dye with a bit of Melt Art Flex. The swirly pattern came about completely by accident as I found that if you poured the melted utee in a swirl action it seemed to hold the pattern once the utee was set.I managed to add a hole by using a crop o dile and the piece did not shatter as the flex stops this from happening. I just added a couple of jump rings, some cord and clasp attachments and there you have a necklace! I also had ago at pouring the melted utee into some sugar paste moulds I had lying around and was quite pleased with the outcome. Will show these another day.
Bye for now, be back soon.......

Mum

Sorry, nothing crafty to share as I have been rather preoccupied over the last few weeks. Sadly Mum lost her battle with cancer and passed away on June 13th. It goes without saying that I will miss her so much. So I thought I would post these pictures of the wild flowers I walked past on my regular morning walks, in my attempt to try and get fit and also use the time to think through all that Mum and me were going through and having to deal with.
I am not very good with flower names apart from the obvious so if anyone knows what these are please let me know. I would be most grateful.
Once Mum's funeral has taken place I hope to fully immerse myself back into crafting so normal posting will at long last be resumed!

Oooh another bangle

This should have been posted yesterday in the same post as my previous bangle but blogger had other ideas.......still it's here now. Not sure I like them as they are different to what I do normally, but maybe I'll give them another go when I next go and visit my local craft shop and stock up on more supplies.

Bangle

I haven't posted for a while, but have a wooden bangle to show, nothing too exciting I know, but I have been doing some actual crafting the past couple of weeks. Shock horror! Yes it has been great! I decided to go for the design team call over at Elusive Images. The deadline is 15th June so I have been busy. I am glad I did as the request has kick started my non existent mojo, so even if I don't get chosen at least I can thank Glenda for helping to get my stamps and inks out again, hoo flaming hooray!
My mum is in hospital at the moment but with a bit of luck we may be able to get her back to her nursing home this week. I have shown her my design pieces and she said they were lovely so that pleased me (I know she is biased lol). So if anyone is interested in entering the challenge of being on Elusive Images Design team go along here and find out more.

Teenage Birthday

Today I have a teenager's birthday card to show you as it was my daughter's, cousin's birthday yesterday. The handbag has been cut using a Sizzix die and the background was created using a Cricut embossing folder. The dotty paper was found in my stash so not sure who designed it but it could have been HOTP. The 13 was cut using a Quickutz set of dies and it has been mounted onto a flower cut from a Cuttlebug die. I'm sure you will agree it is a simple design but does the job splendidly!

Artylicious Stamp Giveaway

Glenda is giving away some fab new stamps over on her Artylicious blog, this set is just one that happens to be my favourite, but go over and take a look, they are all fab

60th Birthday, Cricut Style

Hi all, hope you are ok, sorry haven't posted very much lately, it has been very hard coming up with creative ideas and then putting them into action over the last four months as my Mum has been ill. This card was made for a friend's 60th birthday that was just the other day. Again, not feeling very creative so didn't like to play around with the inks, so I settled on using my Cricut and tried to be a bit creative with the Cricut Design Studio instead. I used the Jasmine Cricut Cartridge and some patterned paper that I found in my stash, but have no idea who the paper is by.
Bye for now.......

Happy Easter

This is the card I made for my Mum. As she is in hospital I didn't put Happy Easter as it wont be that fantastic for Mum. We are going to visit this afternoon with some of my hubby's home made pineapple meringue pie, so hopefully that will cheer her up.

The card was made using a selection of Cricut Carts including Stretch Your Imagination and George and Basic Shapes. I hand wrote At Easter Time as time was of the essence and didn't have an appropriate stamp! The flowers have been finished off with a blob of crystal stickles and I found a shiny butterfly in my stash to add to the handle of the basket.

Mother's Day Card

Here is the card that i made for my Mum, a bit late showing it I know but here it is never the less! The heart in the middle was created by stamping into green hearty clay. I have used this technique before with this stamp and really love the result so here it is again. The stamp used was from Elusive Images. The same stamp was used in the background on the pink paper and the rose paper is from HOTP, the sentiment was printed from the computer and the little paper roses were coloured with pink rub on to tie in with the rest of the pinkness (if that is such a term!)
Hopefully be back soon.........ttfn

Autumn Tree ......in Spring!

I was playing around with my brayer the other day and came up with this simple card. I clear embossed the tree panel in the middle of the card, masked around the edges with masking tape and then ran the brayer over the top. The card was finished off with a piece of rafia threaded through some punched holes. I like this effect as it looks like there are three layers but there is just one.

Bring on the weekend.....yay.....hope you all have a good one.