TIO #22 - FRUITS

Hello from a lovely sunny Cornwall!!!
The lovely Frankie is back &continuing her TAG IT ON CHALLENGES!. This week she has asked us to use the theme of FRUIT.  We have to use at least one stamp...I had to scratch my head a bit for this one (no it wasn't fleas hahaha).  I found a pear stamp in my Christmas box, although I found it hard to get the colours right...a bit more green I think!!!  Oh & we had to use the right colours too!

Sadly the picture doesn't do the tag justice.  It sort of glows when you look at it!!!  The base was covered in mustard seed DI, overstamped with a Sir Tim floral stamp & then glimmer misted in gold...hence the glow hahaha  I also embossed round the edge in gold.

The pears have been watercoloured then glittered & some GA added to the leaves.  This was a tricky one for me & I feel it lacks something...not sure what tho.  Thank you for looking XXX

THE ANIMALS CAME IN TWO BY TWO!

Hello there fellow bloggettes!  Brrrrr...isn't it coming in colder now???  There must be lots of fireworks going on around the country (UK) this weekend so I hope it stays dry for you all X

I have been having a lovely time playing with my new bits from TANDO CREATIVE and I am JUTS LOVING being on the DT for them!!!  Getting to play with brand new chippie is heaven hahahaha

This week I have been playing with a rather sweet Noahs Ark, about 4x4inches in size!  It went from this.....

to this.....

I couldn't resist puting it onto a canvas now could I?  The chippie has been painted & papered, along with the hearts.  I painted the canvas in Broken China DI first.  The waves are just strips of patterned paper which I lightly gesso'd & ran a white ink pad over the wavy bits before I bashed up the edges haha.

All the wild animals come from a stamp set which I picked up on a visit to a zoo!!!!  They are lovely little stamps, probably aimed at kids hahaha.  I couldn'r resist having them poking out of the windows of the Ark!  I found a teensy dove stamp in a set from Fiskars.  The owl is by Stamp Away.

I also stamped down the sides of the canvas...I always think this finishes them off.

If you have got this far thank you for taking a look today.  LOTS OF HUGS XXX

BS MONTHLY CHALLENGE FOR NOVEMBER!!!

I am here again!!!!  This time to showcase a new monthly challenge over on the BUBBLY SCRUMPTIOUS CHALLENGE BLOG!.  We launch them on the 1st Sunday of the month & inbetween we have a weekly challenge.  The MONTHLY challenge always carries a PRIZE, which is great!!!  This month the prize is ....

The theme for this month is to use this proverb...

'...A THING OF BEAUTY IS A JOY FOREVER...'

Here is what I did for my DT entry...

I have used a large butterfly stamp, which I layered up & glittered.  I just think butterflies are so beautiful!!!

Please go & check out what the other DT member have done & do have a go at this....its a very useful prize (Iknow cos I have some haha).  HUGS XXX

ANYONE FOR A PINT ?????

Hi there.....just what is it with our weather today???  Looking out of my craftroom window today I have seen rain, sunshine & SLEET!!!!!  But then it is November I suppose.  oooo not long till Christmas folks haha

As promised I am showing you what I think is a first in the chippie world........PUB HAND PUMPS...or to you & me...good old BEER PUMPS haha.  These were in my little DT parcel from TANDO CREATIVE & I knew just what I was going to do with them!!!  Jeremy's best pal loves making homebrew.  I don't like beer but thisis good...er...actually I only had half a pint & I couldn't stand up...such a lightweight hahahaha!!!!  Its his birthday soon so these were a must for his card.

For the background I used BG Lyme Rickey papers.  The chippie has been painted, glossed & embossed.  The 'centres' have been covered in paper & I made another set of 'inners' from card for the wording.  Those are his initials on there!  Oh of course...it had to say Happy Beerthday didn't it? haha

Thank you so so much for taking a look HUGS & KEEP WARM! XXX

R-D's CHALLENGE #57 - PINK, WHITE & A WAFER!

Sounds like a lovely ice cream doesn't it???  This was the theme for this week challenge over on ROSIE-DEE'S CHALLENGE BLOG for this fortnight.  We were sponsored by...

...who provided us with some really lovely thick paper to play with.  We also had a sketch to play with.....

...but guess who forgot to use it?????  really sorry girls XXX  But I did get to make another Christmas card haha

The lovely thick paper from PPD was actually thick enough to use for the basecard & its a slightly off white colour, tho it looks a bit pinky in the photo.  I attacked a bit of a pizza box to get my corrigated card which I drbrushed with white acrylic before spraying with Wild Currant Glimmer Mist.  I stamped the tree (Elusive Images) onto some more of the lovely paper using Cranberry Arindack ink.  The sentiment is one from my Christmas box.  I finished it all off with a chiffon ribbon.

Thank you all for taking a looksee.  Do pop over to R-D's to take a look at what the other DT members made...its all looking lovely & pink!!!  HUGS XXX

TANDO CHRISTMAS!!!!

Oh have I had fun with the new TANDO CHIPBOARD that arrived on my desk this week!!!!  It made me feel really Christmasy ho ho ho!!!

First I had this lovely snowman to use.  I painted him up with acrylics & then added glitter & GA to lift him a bit.  Then I wondered what to do with him...mmmm haha!!!  I found an old photograph of my daughter when she was around 12 with her step-siblings.  They had made a wonderful snowman & were very proud as it was their first (we don't get much snow down here).  The background was dry brushed with acrylic then spritzed with silver Glimmer Mists.  The large snowflake came from a market somewhere & was already glittered.  The snowflakes on top where from a kit from BubblyFunk...tho I changed the colour of the bigger one.  I also added snowflake sequins.  The whole layout is actually quite sparkly irl.

Then I had a play with a lovely stocking which came in 2 parts.  Its around 5inches long.This was a joy to use as its a fair size so very versatile.  I covered it with some gorgeous glittery papers from My Minds Eye & then added stickles.  The teensy pom-poms were a lucky find somewhere! 

I then added the stocking to this....

I really loved doing this one...can you tell???  I covered the mountboard from the same paper range & added the stickles.  The chippie snowflakes were painted blue & stickled.  The letters are grungeboard which were painted the same blue & GA added.  The bells were a brilliant buy in a sale in a DIY store last January...I knew I had to have them.  Its worth checking out these places after Christmas.

TANDO have some really unusual chipboard...its so worth taking a look to find their stockists.  You can see a link on the right which takes you to their blog.  Later I will show you some fantastic beer pumps I had to play with....yes.....BEER PUMPS!!!!!  Thank you so much for looking today....HUGS XXX

FEELING THE URGE TO BLOG :)

ooo yes....I am feeling the urge to blog hahahaha.  I seem to have done loads of stuff but can't blog it yet.  But I do have a couple of pieces that I can  to tide me over hahaha

Firstly the BUBBLY SCRUMPTIOUS WEEKLY CHALLENGE this week is all about spooky stuff!  I know I keep saying that I don't 'do' Halloween but I just seem to have found myself making stuff for various challenges I am involved in.  I have tried to work them into other themes as well but its a bit tricky!!!  Here goes.....

I was given this chippie house by my lovely friend Caroline last year.  I thought it would make a really quirky new home card hahahaha

For the ROSIE-DEE CHALLENGE I was proper halloweening and we were sent an image to play with.  I used it on a little bag.

Finally...I have entered 3DJEAN's ART RAFFLE again this month.  The theme was black & orange and I made a little tag book for it.  Sorry but I forgot to take pics of the inside but there are those folded tag pages iyswim in different pattern papers to match the outside.

YAY....I think thats it for now...I have had my fix hahahahaha.....see you all soon.  LOTS OF HUGS XXXX