The Merry Magpie

Good morning and happy Sunday. It's my turn to be over on the Rubber Dance blog today with my Simplicity Sunday piece, and here it is!

This has been made with the Merry Magpie set and sequins, lots of sequins! There are more details here, on the blog, so I would love to see you over there.
I'm linking my Merry Magpie to the Simon Says Stamp Monday challenge, 'all things bright and beautiful' and to Dot's challenge at Ink Art Designs as all the stamps are by Rubber Dance.

As always the very generous Bibi is offering free, worldwide P&P on any orders of 15 Euros and above. Simply quote SDFreeShip at the Rubber Dance checkout.

Have a lovely day, and thanks very much for looking.

All of our stamps can be found here.

Merry Magpie

Live Your Dreams

Good afternoon and happy Saturday. I've been having a play with some of my new Studio Light and Dylusion stamps and a huge MDF tag that I've had for ages, and this is what I've made.

I've used DecoArt Americana Premium Acrylics and blended them on my tag. My lovely lady has been coloured with pencils, then I've gone a little mad with my white pen and sequins.

I'm entering her into the Simon Says Stamp Monday challenge which is All Things Bright and Beautiful,  the Craft Stamper TIMI June challenge, and also the Happy Little Stampers  mixed media challenge.

Have a lovely weekend, and thanks very much for looking x

Follow Your Heart

Hello again, and welcome to my second post of today.  Yes it's still the 1st of the month so it's also time for a new challenge over at Lost Coast Designs. Luckily they're based in the US, so it's still the morning over there! The new challenge is Mini Me, so we are going for the small but perfectly formed - anything smaller than a card and no that doesn't mean a small card lol. We're looking for tags, atc's, inchies, twinchies, etc. Here's my tag.

 I started by stamping Carmen's Veranda's Flaming Heart onto shrink plastic and colouring it with Posca pens.

 And here it is, all shrunken!

 I made a rosette for it using the Tim Holtz die. I hadn't used this for years and now I remember why! It's back at the bottom of the drawer and it's staying there.

I cut a tag from stamping card and stamped away. I really like how the white centres look with the coloured borders. Maybe I'm starting to embrace white space (doubt it though) Just a few buttons and a sticker to finish off, and we're all done.

Over to you now, please join in with our Mini challenge and celebrate the tiny. Remember there are prizes!

Have a very happy June, and thanks very much for looking x

Be Yourself

Good morning and happy Friday. It's a new month, so the challenges start all over again at Country View Crafts, and this month's is a very interesting one - Teresa has chosen The Written Word'. Here's my first project (and it's very different from my usual 'stuff')

 I started by gessoing a couple of dictionary pages, then stencilling through one of Olga's lovely AALL and Create stencills.

 Next I added some Distress Ink  with a piece of acetate, dragging the colour to where I wanted it. I used some of the wonderful Tracy

Evans's AALL and Create stamps to add some hearts, and also a threads stamp from 49 and Market. I love to stamp this with  Distress Oxides with the stamping platform 'cos you can get lots of lovely colours and they are always in the right place!

I love these stamps of Tracy's they are just so happy and they make me happy too!

I ended up just using one of the pages. I gave it a few layers of stitching and I just need to decide where I'm going to use it. It's not my usual style at all but I do like it!

I hope you join in with our fun challenge, remember there's a £20 gift certificate up for grabs. Have a happy June, and thanks very much for looking x

A Tidy Mind

Good afternoon and happy Bank Holiday Monday. It's time for my second project for the Lost Coast Designs 'Tweet This' challenge, so here's my (un)tidy bird!

There are more photographs over on the Portal, so I hope to see you over there.

Enjoy the rest of the holiday, and thanks very much for looking xx

Stamps used

Feather Bird

CV Tidy Minds

Always and Forever

Good morning and happy Sunday. I'm really pleased to be sharing my Simplicity Sunday piece for Rubber Dance stamps with you today.

If you click here you'll be transported as if by magic to the Rubber Dance blog to see how I made this with the Summer Love plate.
I'm also entering my card in the Simon Says Stamp Monday challenge which is 'inspired by a song' - who would not be inspired by a bit of Luther Vandross.

Don't forget, for free worldwide P&P from Rubber Dance just quote SDFreeShip on all orders of 15 Euros and above. 

Have a very happy day, and thanks very much for looking xx

The Front, The Back, and the Bit In the Middle

Good morning and happy Wednesday. Today I'm sharing the front and back of a page that I created last week for my Eileen Hull Journal. That doesn't sound to make much sense does it, so I'll just show you the pages!

This is the front.

This is the back.

And in case you weren't paying attention last week, this is the middle ;-).

I'm linking them again to Dot's May challenge at Ink Art Designs as all the stamps are by Rubber Dance.

This time I've used

Flying Ink Bottle

Textured Houses 2nd Row

Blossoming Rose

and they can all be found here

As always, just quote SDFreeShip for free worldwide P&P on any order of 15 Euro's and above.

Have a lovely day, and thanks very much for looking x

Where Does The Time Go

Good afternoon and happy Sunday. Well somehow my baby turns 25 next week! It doesn't seem like 2 minutes since he was born. I had all my own hair colour then, and Neil had (some) hair! My baby boy is now 6'2'' and I couldn't be more proud of him, but enough of the soppy stuff, here's his birthday card ;-)

His favourite colours have always been orange and green, so there's plenty of these here. I've used my new favourite for today stamps which can be found here. Lost Coast Designs also have a growing range of Katzelkraft stamps and they can be found here.

The background has been made with lots of Distress Oxides and stencilling, so I'm joining in with the Simon Says Stamp Monday and SSS Wednesday challenges which are both Stencil It, and The Happy Little Stampers Watercolour and Anything Goes With Dies challenges.

Have a very happy day, I hope the sun continues to shine, and thanks very much for looking xx