MORE STUFF TO SHARE 

Hey again : ) 

a few more things to share with you 

 I have to apologies for my photos I have NO idea what is going on ....OR how to fix them : (    this is a card challenge from Yvonne over at UK & Ireland craft swap group to make a card from only scraps ... it was fun  ..

This is for my in-laws who will be celebrating their 50th  wedding anniversary on 8th June 2013 ...

This clock I have made from foam board ... I cut the foam board to the size I wanted and hot glued it together ... the clock face is from Crafty-Emblies and it is mounted onto a jewellery display box ... I decided to mount it onto the box so you have easy access to the working parts of the clock and batterys .... it is fully working ... the pendulum does not work and is for decoration only it is made from a crystal necklace and a crystal pendant ..

I would love to hear what you think 

Many many thanks for stopping by 

Tina xxx

Hello Again 

I hope you are all having a great weekend so far .... I have a few projects to share with you ..

PROJECT 1 .

This I made for a friend of ours who has finished paying off her mortgage .... A HUGE cause for celebration .... I certainly can not wait till ours is paid off thats for sure ...

OK ... so the project ... nearly all of this is made from Crafty-Emblies ... LOVE their stuff ... the kennel is a bird house which once assembled I painted brown then used a sharpie marker to give the wood grain effect on the walls.  The flower boarder is actually the balloon border which I just painted white and added a flatback pearl to the centre of each ... I LOVE the small toadstool it is just soooo cute ... I cut an arch from black card to glue to the front of the bird house to cover the small hole for the birds to get in and to make it into the doorway for the kennel.  The dog is a stamped image which I decoupaged to give it a more 3D effect.

I then decided to add the tree to the front and the lamp post to the back which I think finish it off.  I made a display box to put it in and our friends really LOVED it ... it was so much fun to make .

PROJECT 2

Project 2 is a gift keepsake card for my wonderful friend Heide Wright who lives in Australia .... she has just had a beautiful baby boy who they have called Krystian ...

This is from a template that I have and is made from card .... I made the highchair liner from fabric and lace and added lace to the outside of the chair too ... 

Many thanks for stopping by 

Tina xxx

LEJ DESIGNS CHALLENGE 

Hello again .... wow time goes SOOOOO fast ... I can't believe its got round to my turn again 

LEJ Designs new challenge has gone live today and the theme this week is 'Corners & or Borders ...

I chose to use the daffodils that have been drawn by Lindsey (LEJ Digi images) as it is suppose to be Spring .... Anyway I printed the image many times and once coloured I fussy cut them out and laid them on top of the lace down the right edge of the card (I appologise for the poor quality of the photograph ... I don't know what I did different this time )  I embossed the floral background and rubbed Treasure Gold wax over it....

So why not head over to LEJ and join in the fun ... don't forget if you use an image from LEJ simply put LEJ after your name when entering for a chance to win an extra goodie .... 

GOOD LUCK 

Thank you all so much for stopping by 

Tina xxxx

New Works 

Hello everyone ... i hope you are all well and have been crafting till your hearts are content ... I passed  my  Fine Art Degree 2 years ago now and really haven't done much art since then but got an idea in my head and went with it .... 

This is only on a small canvas board and I had loads of fun making it  ..... I left the bottom left corner a pearlised white as I wanted it to lead your eye into the the painting/work...

I then decided to make a bigger one 

I have left this left corner blank at the moment as I am waiting for some Red Metallic wax to arrive as I want a big impact there .... 

Many thanks for stopping by and for all your comments Past present and future xxx

Tina xxx 

LEJ DESIGNS CHALLENGE 

Hey everyone well its that time again ..... another Designs Team make for LEJ Designs this week there theme is 'Anything Goes' .... sooooooo much fun .... there are so many great digi's on the  site that I wanted to make something using more than one image  so here is what I made 

I had so much fun making this and I know Lindsey (Owner and Designer of LEJ) is planning to do more animal Digi's so I can expand the book as they are finished .... Why not have a go your self ... and it doesn't need to be just animals there are so many different themes of Digi's on the Site so you have free reign to do what ever you want  .... have a go and enter the challenge all of us on the design team LOVE to see your creations plus we also get inspiration from you too xxxx

Thank you for stopping by 

Tina xxx

File Boxes 

Hello bloggers 

Hope you are all enjoying your Saturday .... I am part of a facebook group called UK & Ireland craftswaps .... it is now open to the rest of the world and I think EVERYONE should join in ... they have international swaps which you can join in and its been great fun making new friends from all over the world ... and they also do challenges where you can make something upload your photo to the challenge and can win a prize ... so no posting involved : )     which leads me to my next make .... FILE BOXES FROM CEREAL BOXES .... I am always tempted to buy these from the shops , then the lovely Yvonne set this challenge ... why had I never thought of making my own before ?????  But I hadn't !!!! 

SO here are mine ...... the striped one is from a dish washer tablet box ..... they are so much thicker than cereal boxes so I will be saving them and washing powder boxes from now on ..... the dishwasher tablet box had a cut out section so you could see the tablets inside and once I had covered it with paper it was very fragile so I decided to cover the triangles that I had cut from the top with a co-ordinating paper and fix it to the bottom simply for strength but I like the effect so much I decided to do the same with the cereal box to make that a little stronger too  .... I decided to make labels that can be clipped on so they can be easily changed .. 

Hope you like them 

Many thanks for stopping by 

Tina xxx 

LEJ DESIGNS CHALLENGE 

Hello again everyone well as the heading says LEJ Designs new challenge has gone live today .... the theme this week is 'Emboss it'.

If you read my last post you will be aware that it was my friend Sandra's birthday and I made all her presents for her so to stay with this I decided to make the gift bag too .... You know when you come to the end of a roll of gift wrap and you get either think paper/card rolled up?  Well thats what I made the bag from ... I saved it from Christmas knowing that it would come in handy one day .... 

once I decided how big I wanted the bag the rest was easy .... sorry but I didn't do any measuring  I tend to work all by eye ... anyway I sprayed the bag with dylusions inks as close to a flower shape I could using the London blue and the orange ... I wanted a flower as I used one of my favorite LEJ Designs Digi's called Daisies this is such a versatile image .... Just change the colour and it looks totally different . ... I printed the image in 2 different sizes and fussy cut them out, curled the petals using the edge of my bone folder then glued them together and added a button in the centre.

The handle I made from string which I just platted together... the bag tag was blue pearlised card put through one of my embossing folders with a geometric design then I mat and layered white and orange card with the words 'Happy Birthday' on them ... it was a nice sturdy gift bag and was so easy to make so it could fit with my colour scheme.... LEJ Designs has loads of images to suit many different occasions and are sold at a great price. 

Stop by and have a look what is available and don't forget to join in for your chance to win 

Thank you for stopping by I would love to read your comments 

Tina xxx