DANDYLION DAYS

I Love this image.  Its so floaty and free looking but I wanted to give it a bit of umph with the red background to beef it up a bit.

I added a few specs of black glitter here and there and double mounted onto white cardstock.  The base of the card I stamped in 'Wheat' coloured ink with some leaves from a set by PTI.

That's it for today.  Take care

GIVE ME A TINKLE

A little card to share using some dies and stamps from PTI - can you tell yet that I love PTI!

They are just the cutest little stamps and matching dies.  This card is destined for my friend in Abu Dhabi who I miss loads.

Have a great one.

THE CHICKEN OR THE EGG?

I've finished my chicken that I mentioned a while ago and wanted to share her with you.

I am struggling to find a terracotta colour linen fabric so used what I had for the comb, beak, legs etc and just inked them up a little for definition.

This one has a new home to go to which is great.  More to come, keep checking!

ALL DISTRESSED

I've used a variety of images for this card.  The bird and the background lettering are Marion Emerson and the sentiment is PTI, as are the keys that I've die cut.  I've had a another try at using distress inks too.

Its a bit blotchy but still, I quite like it.  I bit more dimension next time I think though.

Off shopping now, the nice kind too!  Thanks for popping in.

THE NECK OF IT

Back to the sewing machine for this post. I adore this pattern from Tone Finnager, Super Cute don't you think.

 I've been making quite few things recently and my office space is filling up fast.  I need to find new homes for them so I'm going to try my hand at selling them on eBay over the next few weeks.  I've had orders for these and some teddies, pigs and chickens from people at work which is fab so hopefully they'll sell so I can make some more!

 

Working on some chickens now, will share when finished!.

HEART OF THE HOME

Hi

Finally got on line and uploaded some pics today, only took 17 minutes to upload these three!  I purchased some new stamps recently and this is the first chance to try them out.  They are from PTI.  I apologise for the quality of the pictures, the weather is terrible today and its so dark outside.

A few close ups...

 

Hope you're having a great day, nearly the weekend folks!

HELLO

Hi

Its been a long while I know, but I have not had much chance to do anything worthy of a post recently.  My new job is pretty full one at the moment, a lot of new stuff to learn plus my internet is driving me totally nuts!  Its sooooo slow and takes an age to upload anything.  We live in one of many 'forgotten' areas where an ad on the TV banging on about BT Super Fast Fibre Optic Broadband makes you want to throw something at the telly - we can't even get basic, stable broadband let alone superfast fibre optic!

Anyhoo, I hope to be able to get something uploaded soon to share with you.  Please bear with me - I'll be back soon!!

Another card to give me chance to play with some more new stamps I bought.  This one uses one of the many designs in this collection by Clear Dollar Stamps called Home Tweet Home.  There are so many cute images I can't wait to use them all.

I used some patterned papers by s.e.i. and they are embossed and gorgeous to use.  

Twine is from Waltzing Mouse and is a lovely rich brown colour.

Have a great evening.

HEY CHICKIE

A quickie post to share a card I made up this morning using some new stamps and dies I purchased recently.

Stamp images by  Paper Smooches called Chubby Chumbs 

and fence die is by Die-namics and is called Woodgrain fence.

I rubbed over the fence die with some brown chalks to show the grain a bit more and added 

some glitter to the eyes.  Coloured using Copics and Prisma pencils.

Weather here today is fab so intend to make the most of it this afternoon!  Have a good weekend.

ITS BEEN A WHILE BUT...

Sorry its been a while since I last posted.  Its been a little crazy here.  I was at my nieces wedding in Surrey last weekend so was away for a while, then I had a job interview on Tuesday last week, got the job and started Monday this week.  I feel like I'm running a marathon at the mo, I just haven't stopped!

Its all good though but I am finding it hard to make time to do anything remotely crafty soooo,  I am popping in to share a little project I completed a few weeks ago.

 I put this wee lady together using an adapted bit of a Tilda template and a bit of my own template - it was actually supposed to be a sheep but the face element of it (my own pattern) turned out a little too long in the face so I made her a cow instead!  I think it worked :)

The dress was an enlarged Tilda pattern and I just added sleeves to the arms to ring the changes a bit.

These little shoes took me AGES to do and were a bit of pain so I very much doubt 

I will attempt to do them again!

I hope to be able to post something again very soon but I am struggling a bit at the moment to spend any quality time getting things done.  Bear with me - I will be back - soon!

Have a great evening all.