Recent projects 

Hey everyone ..... I have been so busy doing all the normal things that we are ALL busy doing at this time of year so I won't bore you all ..... here are the things I have made recently for Crafters Companion who were launching some new embossing folders on Create and Craft tv last week ..... they are great folders and have some wonderful designs and are by Darice ....

On this card I used the Darice Christmas tree embossing folder, Die'sire Sentimentals 'Friends and Family', Die'sire 'Square Doilies', Die'sire 'Ivy', Die'sire quilling 'Rose' (large and small), Die'sire quilling 'stamen', I used bead caps for the centre of the flowers.

Darice 'Leaves assorted pattern' and Die'sire Sentimentals 'Friends and Family'.  I used glossy accents on some of the leaves to make the image pop a little .

The next folder I had was Darice 'Dogs and paws on side'  I LOVE LOVE LOVE this folder and for those who know me know how much I LOVE my little pooches ... This is a photo of my gorgeous little Bess (English Springer Spaniel)  and I used the Die'sire Sentimentals 'Friends and Family' stamp set for the greeting the paw print card is from my stash. 

Darice 'Christmas tree' embossing folder which I used on all 4 sides of the box ... the box is from the Crafters Companion 'Sweet treats' embossing boards ... i LOVE these boards ... there is so much you can do with them and the boxes are so quick and easy to make .

A note book using the Darice 'Dogs and paws on the side' embossing folder 

This embossing folder was Darice 'Feathers on the side' and is such a STUNNING folder I embossed the card the used a glue pen to cover the pattern and then added glitter ... I love the look of it all glittered ... I also used Die'sire 'Square Doilies' Die'sire quilling 'Stamen', Die'sire quilling 'Rose' (large and small) and Die'sire Sentimentals 'Friends and Family' 

Darice 'Leaves assorted pattern' embossing folder ( also used and fussy cut the leaves from an embossed piece of card too ... and the Die'sire Sentimentals 'Friends and Family' Stamp set ..

Darice 'Feathers on the side' embossing folder, Die'sire 'Leaf', Die'sire quilling 'Stamen' and Die'sire quilling 'Lace flower', Die'sire Sentimentals 'Friends and Family' stamp set.

Darice 'Feathers on the side' embossing folder, Embossalicious 'Picnic Plaid', Crafters Companion 'Sweet Treats' embossing board to make the Milk Carton box (LOVE this box), Die'sire 'Nouveau Stamping Frame', Die'sire Sentimentals 'Friends and Family' stamp set, Die'sire quilling 'Rose' (large and small), Die'sire 'Ivy', Die'sire quilling 'Stamen'

Darice 'Dogs and Paws on side' embossing folder (this is my other baby Roco he is so handsome : )    ....) 

Darice 'Dogs and Paws on side' embossing folder, Die'sire Sentimentals "Friends and Family' stamp set, Die'sire 'Nouveau Stamping Frame' ... I used a 'Twigglets' tub for this.

Hope you like some of the things I have made ..

I just wanted to thank each and everyone of you that has stopped by my blog over the last year I am truly grateful to you all for your time and your support ... I hope you and your familys have a WONDERFUL Christmas and that 2014 brings you much love, luck and happiness 

MERRY CHRISTMAS 

Tina xxxxxxxx

New Challenge at LEJ Designs 

Hey everyone .... sorry not been posting for a while .... here are some of the things I have been working on and also the new challenge over at LEJ

The challenge this week was Seasons Greetings ... I LOVE Christmas but my best friend Carole Foley doesn't .... we were out shopping recently and I said to her how excited I was seeing all the Christmas decorations around and hearing all the Christmasy music ... her response was ...."Oh yeah !!!!  Merry F....ing Christmas"   only she didn't miss any of the wording out LOL ... so when I saw this image by Lindsay LEJ  ... I KNEW I had to make Caroles christmas card with it 

 Don't forget to join in the fun over at www.lejchallengeblog.blogspot.co.uk

Thank you for stopping by 

Tina xxx

LEJ'S CHALLENGE 75

Wow how quick this has come round again .... wish I could slow time down for a day ....

Any way onto the challenge over at LEJ's and this weeks theme is "CELEBRATE" ..... I chose this digi (Gone Fishing) from Lindsays as I wanted to do a mans  retirement card .... the idea for the fishing rod popped into my head and I just had to give it ago.

I used a lollypop stick for the rod and some twine for the line (I am sure any of your fishing people out there are cringing right now and screaming at me .... 'you could NEVER catch a fish with that thing!!"  .... so to you all ... i am sorry ...BUT it was fun to make ) 

I added a small hook which I had from some curtain rings from Ikea and tied it to the end of the twine.   For the fish I found a royalty free image from the internet and printed it on printable acetate (first time doing that and it was SO easy )  then added the googley eye to the fish and also hooked on the tag with 'Happy Retirement' on it too ... the embossing folders are from Crafters Companion's Embossalicious range.

Thanks as always for stopping by. Your continued support  really does mean a lot to me 

HUGS 

Tina xxx

LEJ CHALLENGE 73

Hello again everyone, thank you once again for joining me on my blog.  Todays post is about Challenge 71 over at LEJ's blog.  Goodies are on offer as always for the winner and runner up of the challenge and the challenge theme this week is 'Things With Wings'  and I chose to use the airplane by Lindsay .... I LOVE this image its so great for so many things 

i have been wanting to do a name plaque for my grandson for ages and this image was PERFECT,  i have a wooden plaque in my stash and covered it with some cloud paper I also had then it was a simple case of colouring in the airplane adding the letters and a kite from my stash and hey presto there it is ...

Please hop on over to the challenge and have a go, its such a great theme and I would love to see some of your makes that you enter 

HUGS 

Tina xxx

LEJ CHALLENGE 71

This weeks challenge theme is "Winter Wishes"  and be anything a long as it covers winter, thats one of the great things about the LEJ challenge it doesn't have to be a card, if you feel you want to make something else then go for it :)  cool or what .....

So here is my make for this weeks challenge

I used a stamp from Banana Frog ... (which sadly no longer trade) ... for the background, some ribbon from my stash and then printed LEJ's 'Snow Flake' on to printable acetate (only the 2nd time I have done this... but love the effect...)   then used a glue pen to cover the image and used some micro fine glitter in this gorgeous icy blue colour

Then finished it off using some mesh bling I have.


Please go over to the challenge blog and join in the challenge ... there are some great prizes up for the winners

Hugs
Tina xxx

Crafters Companion

Hello everyone .... this weekend Crafters Companion were again showcasing some of the products they sell ... They sell Marianne Designs Dies .... If you have ever used any of the Marianne Designs Dies you will know how gorgeous they are and I was lucky enough to have loads of them to play with to make samples for the show that aired on Sunday 8th September at 12 noon

Here are the samples I made which were shown on the show

BABY GROW/VEST

Die used ....  CR 1249 (flowers)

ELEPHANT BIRTHDAY CARD

Die used .... LR 0275 (postbox and letter)

Paper .... Romantic Journey (Marianne Designs 6")

EXPANDABLE WALLET WITH TAGS

Marianne Designs Charms

Die used .... LR 0270 (decoration on lid)

Paper .... Romantic Journey (Marianne Designs 6")

MOUSE TRAP FRIDGE MAGNET NOTE HOLDER

Paper .... Romantic Journey (Marianne Designs 6")

Die used .... LR 0270

Marianne Designs Charms

GINGER BREAD GIFT SET 

Die used .... CR 1247

LAVENDER GIFT SET

Die used .... LR 0270 (metal corners on box)

Paper .... Romantic Journey (Marianne Designs 6")

EARRINGS

Die used .... CR 1249 

cut from a drinks can 

MONEY BOX

 Die used .... LR 0275

                                                                    

WATERFALL BIRTHDAY CARD

Die used .... COL 1322

Paper .... Romantic Journey (Marianne Designs 6")

PICTURE CARD

Die used .... CR 1249 (flowers, leaf and Frame)

Paper .... Romantic Journey (Marianne Designs 6")

I had so much fun making all these samples 

Many thanks for stopping by 

Tina xxxx

LEJ NEW CHALLENGE

Hi everyone

LEJ Have a new challenge .... pop over the the blog and enter into the challenge the winner gets to choose for the great choice of Digi's available form Lej and the runner up gets a prize from

This weeks theme is 'Something Shinny' here is my entry

A while ago I asked Lindsay to design an airplane for me as I have a few ideas in mind for one ... then I decided to use it for this challenge ...At first i coloured it in using a silver metallic pen .... but they really don't work too well on large areas ... so changed it to 4 different grey tones and used the metallic pen for smaller elements, then a white posca pen for the highlights. 

Don't forget to head on over to the blog for this weeks challenge and enter for your chance to win some great prizes ...

Thank you for stopping by 

Tina xxx

CATCH UP TIME

Hey everyone .... 

Boy am I behind or what .... I had my grandchildren to stay and I didn't have a minute to even think about crafts let alone blogs, challenges or anything else .... I have 2 DT projects to show you both are late so I will start with the oldest one first 


This was for LEJ DESIGNS .... The theme was Nature Inspired ... 

I took a digi image of LEJ's of a dragonfly and printed it as large as I could get it on A4 paper then cut it out ... I then pinned it to some fabric and cut the image out leaving about 1/2 inch space all the way around, so I would have enough room to sew it and stuff it with fiber fill . It was so much fun making this and thats what I love about Lindsay's designs there are options to do lots of things with most of them ... you are not restricted to just doing a card.

ECLECTIC ELLAPU

The theme for Eclectic this time was 'ALL ABOUT THE SENTIMENT'   I  have this sentiment which i love ... I am a huge dog lover and have 2 English Springer Spaniels  ..... but this stamp I have of a puppy bull dog is just soooooo adorable and I love the image 

Many many thanks for stopping by 

Tina xxx

CRAFTERS COMPANION & CREATE & CRAFT TV 

It has been a MEGA exciting week for me .... As you may know I was invited to join the Crafters Companion Design Team a few weeks ago and have been making samples like there is no tomorrow.  Leann Chivers has been on Create & Craft tv since Monday showcasing the new range of Christmas Dies and embossing folders designed by Leann for Crafters Companion ...

They are GORGEOUS and wonderful to work with ....   it has been very surreal seeing my some of my work on TV .... here are the things that I made that have been on TV ...

'As seen on Tv'    LOL .... i have been dying to say that lol ...  

Here I used the Die'sire 'Fir Trees' die .... there is SO much you can do with these dies and they are wonderful to work with .  The stamp set is called 'Happy Holidays'  and is by Crafters Companion  and boy are they gorgeous ... they stamp perfectly every time ... they come unmounted in red rubber and are just so fab .... I love them. 

This card was made using the 'Holly' Die'sire colection from Crafters companion and is again fantastic to work with ... I cut out the holly in 3 different shades of green and added stickles to each leaf just to add some sparkle I also used deep red flatback pearls for the berries ... but the die does come with 2 sets of dies especially for the berries in different sizes .

I had loads of fun with this project and it started its life as a cardboard box which my dishwasher tablets come in .... it is so thick and sturdy and great for projects like this ...  I wanted this to have a vintage feel to it ... I again used the 'Holly' die from the Die'sire range (the link is above in the info of the last card) and I also used the "Classical Frames" and as you can see they are gorgeous  ... i added some chain, added pearls and some red jingle bells to the top and it sounds JUST like christmas ... I love it ... oh I also added some lace to the outside edge with I gathered. 

Last but not least I made this 

For this I made the 'half box' using chipboard and printed a 'free' image from the internet of a winter scene .... I then cut out 3 of the larger 'Fir Trees' (link above with the first image) and scored them in half and glued them together to make the 3D tree ... I then used the 'Wrought Iron' Die'sire die for the fence which I glued together to get the length I wanted and added some 'Snow writer' to it ... I also used  the 'Lamp post and Sign' die from the Die'sire range and cut out the lampost 3 times, again scoring them down the centre and gluing them together to get a 3D lamp post. 

I have made some other stuff but I can't show them yet until they have been shown by Crafters Companion first ....

Thank you all so much for stopping by 

Love and hugs Tina xxxx

I am sooooooo bad .... I completely forgot to show my design team make for Eclectic Ellapu this week !!!!!  

The theme was 'Make something for a teacher'    This was great for me as my partner is a teacher ..... and no she is NOT girly at all .... plus there are MANY male teachers out there and other female teachers who are not into girly colours or flowers .... So I made my project with my wonderful partner in mind ....

It is made from 1 of the stackable boxes you can get in most craft stores and I glued the box and the lid (turned upside down) to a piece of chipboard .... decorated it using Kanban 'Industriana' paper range (which I LOVE )   .... next thing to do was cover an empty soup can for pencil and pen storage (using the same paper range throughout )    

I then covered a small notebook and rolled some paper (matching the note book cover) around the pen refil and inserted it back into the pen tube ...  I also made a little cover for some post it notes and decorated it with an owl .... (all teachers are wise just like an owl ..... or so I was lead to believe when I was at school)    I used my Stampin' Up punch 'Owl Builder' and decorated the outside of the post it note pad.   I then repunched out the owl using scraps of designer papers and glued this owl onto an over sized paper clip to be used as a book marker ...

I am really pleased with how it has come out and my partner is really happy with it and will have it on her desk when school starts again in September.

Thank you so so much for stopping by 

Tina xxx

Hello everyone 

It is LEJ's new challenge .... LOVELY LACE ...

I found this digi image in the 'Romantic' section on LEJ's website and thought it was perfect for this challenge 

I decided to do an easel card so the lace could be seen better  then added some more lace to the other places on the card ... the silver plate things are from a belt I found in a charity shop .

I really liked this digi image and it is so perfect to adapt to anyones wedding as you can use the colour of the couples theme ...

Please enter the competition HERE   

Thank you for stopping by 

Tina xxx

Hello everyone 

It is LEJ's new challenge .... LOVELY LACE ...

I found this digi image in the 'Romantic' section on LEJ's website and thought it was perfect for this challenge 

I decided to do an easel card so the lace could be seen better  then added some more lace to the other places on the card ... the silver plate things are from a belt I found in a charity shop .

I really liked this digi image and it is so perfect to adapt to anyones wedding as you can use the colour of the couples theme ...

Please enter the competition HERE   

Thank you for stopping by 

Tina xxx

LEJ DESIGNS

New Challenge over at LEJ designs Challenge blog and the theme this week is CUTE CUTE CUTE 

Thank you to everyone who joined in last weeks challenge xx

Here is my card 

I saw this image on LEJ and knew it was perfect for this challenge .... I coloured her using Promarkers and Copics.  The embossed White background was free with a craft magazine a few years ago.  The punched out corners are from a punch from Stampin' up.   

PLEASE stop by LEJ and enter the challenge, and if you don't want to enter the challenge drop by the website  and have a look at the wonderful Digi images drawn by the lovely Lindsay 

Thanks as ALWAYS for taking the time to visit my blog 

Tina xxxx

Eclectic Ellapu New Challenge ...

Hey everyone .... Eclectic Ellapu have another great challenge for you all to take part in ..... THEME ... the colour purple ... butterflies being the main focus .... I had fun doing this one so here it is 

I decided I wanted something hanging and pretty.... I added the lace around the outside to give it a softer edge

I stamped the background with a script stamp then sprayed some dylusions ink from up high.

The fan charm was off a necklace I found at a car boot sale ... I love that charm : ) 

SO PLEASE PLEASE  stop by Eclectic Ellapu  and join in the fun xxx

OTHER NEWS .......  

I am so so excited to tell you that I was approached by a lady who works for Crafters Companion who had found my blog and loved the work I have done and she asked me to join her design team for a range called  Die'sire .... of course I jumped at the offer and am now apart of the design team ... I am just waiting for my package of goodies to arrive so I can get started .... I have had a good look at the website and can't wait to get my hands of some of their gorgeous range ....

Thanks for stopping by 

Tina xxxx