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

Crafty-Emblies challenge 

Hi everyone ... the new Crafty-Emblies new challenge has gone live .... and just incase you didn't know the challenge is open to Altered Art projects AND paper-craft and card makers too .... a fabulous opportunity for everyone to enter....  So if you fancy the chance to win Crafty-Emblies goodies then pop over now ... there is also a "Anything Goes" theme on a permanent basis....   

OH and even MORE good news ... Crafty-Emblies are celebrating the purchase of their NEW machine and are offering a 25% discount on all orders till the end of the week so hurry on over ..

Ok so what did I make .....

I decorated this box for my friend, who's birthday was this weekend just gone .... she likes Shabby Chic but always complains that she can't do it ... so I did my version of Shabby Chic for her .... I pained it white first the pained it with some gold paint, then dry brushed white over the top .... The Crafty-Emblies I  chose to use were  the 'love birds' and the flowers ....

 I LOVE how versatile these little birds are and the flowers are great to put on nearly everything ... I dry brushed them all with white paint to give a Shabby look to them .... I also layered the flowers on top of each other ... all the flower shapes work so well together so layering then like this is easy.... 

Lastly I made a small flower from lace and added some small ribbon to it ... and then added punched out leaves and small paper roses ...  

Hope you like it :)  and I hope my friend does too ..

Thanks for stopping by 

Tina xxx

Hi everyone

Sorry this post is a bit late but I haven't been very well ...

Any way here is my Design Team make for LEJ Designs ........ The challenge this week is 'Your Favorite Style' ..   I have many favorite styles so it was a bit of a hard choice for me.  I love to fussy cut and decoupage so decided to make an 'Emergency Pamper Kit'  one of my friends has been having a bit of a tough time ( some horrible person had smashed into the back of her car and then drove off .... and as most of you know trouble always comes in 3 and she had had double that, and I wanted to make a little gift for her..... I just need to get it to her now ...)  

in the tub are some candles, bubble bath, body cream and the all important chocolate ...

Then image I chose from LEJ Designs is perfect for what I needed and is yet another great image to work with ... I used promarkers to colour the image and where the roll top bath begins (I printed the image 4 times and ) I decoupaged the image from there then cut out the lady and decoupaged her head and shoulders and her feet .... the label had only been printed once ..

Thank you all for stopping by ... don't forget to pop over to www.lejdesignschallengeblog.blogspot.co.uk and join in the challenge ... if you are using one of LEJ Designs put LEJ after your name for an extra  chance to win some goodies ...

Tina xxx

For my Granddaughter 

Hey .... I just wanted to show you what i have made for my granddaughter , her name is Ava Catherine and she is now 9 weeks old ..... and GORGEOUS ...

All I did was draw the A onto paper then selected a good variety of  buttons of different sizes and shades of pink ( a few red and purple ones were added to break it up a little ) 

I placed them all over the A to give me an idea of where I wanted them to be ... trying not to put too many small ones or similar colours together ..... then I hot glued them into place making sure I got them as close together as possible 

I am now collecting blues and a few green ones to do one for my grandson Luca ... 

Hope you like it 

Many thanks for stopping by 

Tina xxxx

BLOGS I AM ENTERING INTO ....

LEJ CHALLENGE 

Hey everyone I hope you are all well and crafting till your heart is content ...

I have recently made another Design Team make for LEJ Designs  and the challenge is now on so hop over and join in ... the Theme for this challenge was add a flower .. here is mine 

This is one of www.lejdesigns.co.uk Digi stamps which can be found in the 'Romantic' section and is simply called 'Horseshoe and Birds'

I printed the image onto card and fussycut it our then used my promarkers to colour the ribbon, birds and the horseshoe.  I then printed off more of the 'Blossom' digi stamp (which can be found in the Floral-Nature section ) this is one of my favorite digi's as I find it SO versatile .... I then layered the flowers onto the horseshoe where I thought they would look good, then all that was left to do was add the ribbon to hang it up .... 

So don't forget you have to in it to win it : )   oh and if you use one of LEJ's digi's put LEJ after your name for an extra chance to win something special ...

Have fun crafty people 

Tina xxxxx

NEW BLOG CHALLENGE

Hello everyone  today the Crafty-Emblies  'ANYTHING GOES' challenge blog has gone live .... Crafty-Emblies now has 2 groups ... one for Altered art projects and one for papercraft/card making ...... so now EVERYONE can join in the fun and hopefully win some of there amazing products .... New items are being added all the time ...

So here is what I made ...

I started by covering my canvas with artist modeling paste then scraped a  random pattern in it ...

I then sprayed it with Dylusions Ink while it was still wet with 'Cherry Pie' , 'Funky Fuschia',

and 'London Blue' ... I dabbed parts of it then added some fiber to it that looks like a spider web (sorry don't know what its called )  left it to dry ...

once dried I then added more inks to get a darker colour.

I added the printed image of the woman in the bottom left corner using Mod Podge and glued some chain around the the picture ... I then reprinted the image of the woman much larger and fussy cut it out

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the wings behind her are from Crafty-Emblies and come joined together so I simply cut them in the centre and then added Gold rub and buff onto them, I also glued 2 lengths of chain across her skirt ....

I added another printed image of the heart with the cogs inside it and added Crafty-Emblies clock hands  to it after I had embossed them with Black embossing powder ..

I glued more chain right around the edge of the canvas and stranded  2 long lengths of chain across which is loose and can move (like the chain across the womans skirt) 

I embossed more of Crafty-Emblies cogs with gold embossing powder and some heart shape buttons from my stash and added them to the canvas  along with the words of love and the sentiment from a Tim Holtz stamp to finish it all I sprayed it with a Mica pearl spray I made myself ...

I also embossed crafty-emblies love birds with gold, dark red and black and decided they may look good dangling underneath ,,, 

I am soooo happy with how it has turned out  ... I hope some of you like it too 

Thank you so much for stopping by and I look forward to reading any comments you leave 

Tina xxx

BLOGS I AM ENTERING 

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