The second post!

Well, this is a first, second blog of the day! Just wanted to put my cardigan on as I have just sat in the conservatory enjoying the sun and have finished it! I am not very good at knitting and do it in sporadic bouts, but this cardigan was only started at Christmas so it is a record for me.

It is super chunky wool and very cosy, like being wrapped in a blanket. Just the job if the snow returns. I bet we have warm weather now I have made it, like it rains when you wash the car, why does that happen? So, if the sun continues to shine you know who to thank! x

Sally's Card!

My dear friend Sally and I are back to exchanging cards every month, as I have now posted hers I can safely post it here. I took a trip to  http://www.thestampattic.co.uk/ last week and succumbed (along with other things I can't live without) to a set of Claudine Hellmuth flower stamps that I have had my eye on for ages.

 

I picket fence dabbered (such literacy!) over a sheet from an old book and then stamped and layered up the flowers using distress inks. The centre of the flowers are made with some flower soft that I had in my stash. I'm off to play now with some of my other purchases, as it is too cold to go out! Whooppee! See you all soon. x

Sunday Stamper 191: Heart on my sleeve.

My dear Dad came and stayed for a week following a cataract operation and my Mum spent  a lovely week in our beautiful local hospice where they looked after her grandly, so I have not had a lot of time to play. As they are back safely at home now I managed to make a tag for Hels challenge.

The background is printed paper slooshed over with spun sugar dabber and edged with aged mahogany. The heart stamp has been coloured with sakura pens overlayed with a heart out of music paper and a little wooden heart coloured with gold acrylic dabber. I had a little square text about love which I stamped at the top and garnished with a rose and some punched leaves.  A tattered banner at the bottom and a jewellery finding  in which I placed a part of a cupid stamp and filled in with tinted glossy accents. Lace at the bottom and chiffon at the top. What a romantic type of year, brings out the fluffy bunny in me! Cheers everyone! x

January's tuesday tags.

I am enjoying being part of http://tagtuesday.blogspot.com/ and have decided to store each month's efforts in a large sketch book I was given as it will hold five tags for a long month.

I sprayed the page with blue ink over a very large snowflake stencil. I want to add the word January and descriptions of each tag but do not have the stamps in the font that I want, so will add those later. I didn't want to glue them in incase I wanted to display them later individually. So I brought some discounted Christmas card hangers which comprised of a strip of velcro with little sticky pieces for the backs of the cards.

They now peel out very nicely with no damage. As lots of us make tags I thought this might interest some of you? Happy crafting and keep warm! x

Sunday Stamper No:189. My Eyes Adored You.

I recently watched again one my fav. movies, 'The Bridges of Madison County.' I wondered then if I could put together something for Hel's challenge  inspired by the film. Meryl Streep and Clint Eastwood certainly acted as if their eyes adored each other!

 

After watching the film I decided to try to put  pieces together that a lover might have kept in a treasure box. The background paper was in my stash and I over stamped it with paperbag studio stamps and words from Tim's collection which I faded out with picket fence stain. Then an image of a woman from paperbag studio's that reminded me of an old photograph of my Mum. The piece of letter in front of blue ribbon was from my stash and I crumpled and aged it with distress ink. The pressed flower was in my garden last year and the locket was a cheapie that I brought in a sale 'just incase I needed it'. The photographs were from a cd of vintage ephemera that I recently became re-aquainted with that seemed to fit the bill! If there is anyone out there who has never seen the film, (!)  grab a box of tissues and enjoy. x

Sunday Stampers 188 - After the Gold Rush.

Here is my offering for this weeks Sunday Stamper. I thought I would try and do a card so that I can build up a collection for important dates and hopefully this will fit any celebration! 

I made a resolution to try and use up some of my paper stash this year and so I collected yellow and gold papers for the background which I stamped with some background stamps in walnut stain DI and edged with the same. The Tim Holtz words were stamped on glossy card and embossed then mounted on gold card with an extra gold heart. The wings are rusty metal dabbed with gold acrylic. I took some glassine paper and used gold and yellow ink, then crushed it and swiped with wild honey and then vagabonded with the tattered floral die with some spare yellow paper to make the flower. Gold ribbon and a bird punched from brown card with Martha Stewart's punch and some bling additivies from my stash to complete my offering. Have a happy week everyone.

My Jenni Wrens Birthday!

I am working away on my Tag Tuesday challenges and for the Sunday stamper which is a work in progress, so thought I would post No 2's birthday card. I am blessed with three beautiful daughters who are the joy of my life. No 2 is married to my 'little prince' (so nice to have a son in law and two sons out law). When she was a little girl she was a blond haired green eyed minx (in the nicest possible way) who could melt me when she looked at me with her Dad's eyes! So I dusted down one of my first Tim Holtz stamps and made this:

She liked it anyway! Late start at work today, so I am retiring to the craft room to work on my Sunday Stamper challenge. I have decided to post all the months Tuesday Tags together as they are on a theme, but you can fly over here to see everyones tags each week. Have a good day one and all!