messing about

Having spent hours the last four days struggling with BT over my almost non existant broadband speed I've just about lost the will to live ! finally they have said they will send an engineer on Thursday but if its inside the house I have to pay £99 ! I'm pretty sure its the outside line but fingers crossed! To crown it all Mr Mojo has hopped off on vacation yet again, I spent a few hours last night just sloshing about with inks etc and this is one of the bits which I've made a fat book page with, lots more to play with when I get round to it. Think it fits a couple of challenges

Make My Monday - anything but a card

Try It On Tuesday - Steampunk / inventions/inventors etc(not sure if this qualifies or not)

Just because...

Made this card for no particular reason other than I wanted to try out the stamp, I think she is so pretty, chintzy paper from some freebies, floral oval nestie and Joy dies for the flowers.

Make it Monday - anything goes

Blue

Another new stamp to play with, gift from a friend for my birthday. I know they are poppies but somehow I just wanted them to be blue so I'm saying they are Himalayan poppies,which are blue(now I'm not sure if that's spelt right?) Background is blue and lilac pans,poppies coloured with water colour pencils. I spent ages looking for a quote but nothing seemed appropriate until I came across this old ,well used and loved Hero stamp which I have had for ever.  I have been so used to using 6" square cards that I am struggling a bit with these 5x7 rectangles but some of my new stamps are really too big for the square cards and as I have a considerable stash of different sizes of card blanks its time I started to use some of them up. Quite a simple card but it's such a lovely stamp I didn't want to detract from it.

Fashionable Stamping Challenge - Sentiments

Wacky or Wot ?

Time for The Craft Barn challenge again and this time it's the letter W with the added twist of circles in the background.  Chose my word "Wacky" and then found it wasn't in the old dictionary that I tear up so had to sacn the definition from my "big" dictionary and what fun that was ! ended up wrapping a towel round the scanner as I couldn't close the lid enough,anyhow it worked eventually. No plan, no rhyme or reason to this,just sprayed with dylusions, I did use a roller stamp with circles on the background but seem to have covered a lot of them up, three "wacky" stamps,the definition reads
odd,eccentric or crazy, well can't get much crazier than dressing up as a clock can you? I'm so enjoying doing these pages and seeing what everyone else comes up.

Craft Barn - Alpha/dictionary challenge

More dressmaking

Think I might have gone a bit overload with this card but I have enjoyed making it! The button card is another new Red Lead stamp,loving these stamps. The background is Grandmas attic from Justrite stamps. You would not believe the mess I have made in making just one card and I have it all to put away before I go to bed, it must be so nice to have a proper craftroom and be able to shut the door on it all!  Think this fits a few challenges

Our Creative Corner - Fashion & Style - mannequin/brads and buttons

Sugar Creek Hollow - Always vintage - stamping

Make My Monday - Blue & Brown

Pan Pastels - brads,buttons and bows
 

Dressmaking trimmings

More playing with new stamps, loving these Red Lead Design stamps, again gifts from my Sister, very easy to use as little colouring needed,  the lady fitted nicely on fleur de lys rectangle and I used some of my Ladies Diary papers which I have been hoarding. Didn't make it for anything in  particular just because I wanted to.

Make it monday - anything goes

April In Paris

I had been wanting this stamp for ages and it arrived, along with a lot of others, for my birthday last Monday ,a present from my lovely Sister in California, I was over the moon with all the stamps and also a spellbinders die that I had also had my eye on, then today my friend arrived with three more stamps for me, again all ones I have been "needing". We had a nice day playing with some of the stamps, so spoilt for choice I couldn't decide which to use, just like a kid in a sweetie shop. I made this card with Frilly and Funkie challenge in mind but it will also fit Pan Pastel challenge of a stamped image. All the papers are coloured with pan pastels, the background piece is stamped with a S.Up blossom stamp,flowers coloured with pro markers.The matching ribbon was tied round my parcel from my Sister and couldn't have been a better match.

Frilly and Funky - April in Paris

Pan Pastels - Use a stamped image

I don't know whats going on with the internet this last week but its really slow and keeps cutting off,its not just my computer,seems a lot of people are having the same problem, its taken me forever to do this post!

Far Out !

I've had another play at being messy and inky, this time with dylusion inks, some stencil paste and a bit of frantage embosiing enamel which is supposed to be taupe but think it needed stirring up as it seemst be just gold. The girl and don't mess stamp are Lyndsey Mason stamps that I got for Christmas and have not got round to using before. This is for Fashionable Stamping challenge which is for Art Journalling and also Make It Monday -make your own background. 

Since I last posted I have yet another birthday ,they seem to come round faster and faster but  I'm just grateful I'm still here for another one!  Had a lovely day with flowers and presents and lots more stamps !

Rhymes

I was undecided whether to post this page as it didn't quite work out as I had hoped and also its the first time I've written on a page and like most people I'm never very happy with my hand writing. However I've told myself that stressing over stuff is not what its all about so just get on with it! for  a change I made my background with acrylic paints and then stamped and stencilled it before stamping the main images. I could not believe that among the hundreds of stamps I have there was not a single one with a bell on so I drew some which looked  nothing like bells , in the middle of the night I remembered I probably had some old peel offs, they were too big but I used the negative bits to give a rough shape which I drew round again. Don't know who made the stamps as they are all unmounted singles.

Craft Barn - Dictionary challenge letter R

Mary had a little lamb

I've had all day today with nothing I had to do and have I spent it crafting ? Noooooooo, I've read the papers, watched tv, eaten (too much) and then when its almost time for bed decide I must make a card. Sugar Creek hollow challenge is for fairy tales and nursery rhymes. I found this pretty image on the internet and used up some more papers from a stack of free papers from magazines, fleur des Lys
nestie,bit of ribbon and some die cut flowers, the little buttons are old mother of pearl ones although they look blue on here, I've been hoarding them but I'm on a mission to try and use things instead of hanging onto them!

Sugar Creek Hollow - Fairy tales and Nursery rhymes

All sorts Challenge - Vintage

 

Paper piecing

Not often that there are cute cards on my blog as it's not my kind of stuff ,however this Polkadoodles stamp sort of fell into my shopping basket at the Harrogate show, think I just fell for her big boots!
Fashionable stamping challenge this week is Paper Piecing which is something I like doing and I thought this stamp just asked to be paper pieced. The background paper was free with a magazine and the flowers were also stamped on some of the free papers and cut out,stalks and leaves free cut from the same papers. The flower stamp is also a freebie from another magazine. I didn't put a sentiment on but this will probably be a birthday card for one of the great grand daughters.

Make it Monday - always anything goes

Fashionable Stamping - paper piecing

Easter

Spent this afternoon making a few Easter cards, this is one of them, also had a card to make for daughter-in-laws birthday , need to get caught up with some swaps too, it must be an age thing as I'm finding it takes me so much longer to do stuff these days and I've decidedly lost the plot as far as inspiration goes!  I've got lots of new stuff from last weeks show at Harrogate but this card is using two older stamps, I was disappointed that Making Memories was not there this time as I always buy one of their Cover a page stamps, the one I've used here is my favourite one,coloured it with pan pastels,the daffoldil stamp is Stampendous and wording is computer generated.

The Squirrel and The Fox - Easter or Passover

Bloggers Challenge - Easter

Simon Says Stamp - Easter

P is for........

Photography

Lots of choices for the letter P, finally plumped for Photography, stamps are from Creative Impressions Vintage Photography apart from the lady in the frame who is from Acid Drops and Whatnots. Usual background of gesso, inks,stencils etc,few bits of Tim Holtz photo strip and a couple of word staples. 
We got back from Shropshire just ahead of the snow thankfully, we have had a lot here overnight and this morning.  Our central heating decided to pack up last Saturday just before we went away and of course we couldn't get anyone to come out at the weekend so no heat and no hot water again! However we left the key with a neighbour and were very relieved to get home yesterday and find he had fixed it that morning. The house was freezing after having no heat on all week, poor cats must have been frozen, they both slept on our bed last night, not something they usually do!

Craft Barn Dictionary Challenge - Letter P
 

Anniversary

 

Another quick card, this time for my brother's wedding anniversary next week, I feel like I'm wading through treacle trying to catch up with all the cards I have needed to make this week!  Going to the Harrogate show on Saturday(Yippee !) family Christening on Sunday and then we are away most of next week and March is one of the busiest time for me with birthdays etc, plus its Easter the week we come back so have been trying to get a few cards made for that but not doing very well on that score ,I'm afraid, I gave in and bought some yesterday but I still prefer to make my own if I can.I hope the background stamp is swirly enough to count for Fashionable stampings challenge . I do like the cover a card stamps as they  make lovely quick backgrounds. The butterflies are painted with Starburst stains and are lovely and shimmery which doesn't show on here..

 

 

Make My Monday - heat embossing

Fashionable Stamping - Swirls

Flutterby Wednesday - Winged creatures



Peacock butterflies

Well I've had a really inky time this afternoon and tonight and you should see the mess in here! I came across some Starburst stain inks that I've had for several years, I bought them as dabbers by mistake so they got shoved away in the cupboard, anyhow tonight I put some of them into mini misters and used them as sprays, they do have the most glorious shimmer to them!. The Peacock stamp is from a Kanban set and has never seen ink before although I have used the other stamps,it always looked like it would be too much bother to colour but I really like the effect on here, pity the shimmer doesn't show up on here.I made this card for Make my Monday challenge

Make My Monday - Inspired by nature

Use It Tuesday -Hoarded supplies - un-inked peacock stamp and starburst stains

Artistic Inspiration - things with wings