Papertake Weekly Sketch

Over at Papertake Weekly it is time for a sketch, most enter a card, however this week, I have been on a roll making scrapbook pages, so thought I would enter with this page, I have really enjoyed making the pages from a batch of recent pics sent to me from my son. The viola or pansies are a small stamp in the spring Flowers Aspects of Design from The Stampman, the trees stamp is from Elusive Images Trees. The papers are a selection from my stash, including the Green Bazzil card. The pic is of my son, DIL and two grandsons.

Imag-e-nation Craft Weekend starts Tomorrow

THIS WEEKEND IS THE  NORTH-EAST  Craft Weekend  29th - 31st July 2011

AT THE IMAG-E-NATION SHOP
Unit 11 Phoenix Road
Crowther Industrial Est.
Washington
NE38 0AD
(behind Dainty Supplies)

SUMMER SALE &   DEMONSTRATIONS
(  I WILL BE DEMONSTRATING  ---------DISTRESS INKS ON SUNDAY 10.00A.M. - 4 P.M.)

FREE ENTRY &   REFRESHMENTS PROVIDED
We are OPEN ALL DAY         Friday, Saturday and Sunday

with ongoing demonstrations running 10am - 4pm each day

29th - 31st July 2011

It's THIS weekend!!

IF YOU LIVE IN THE NORTH EAST I WOULD LOVE TO SEE YOU ON THE SUNDAY

Hot Wheels

Apart from some DT work, you will have realised by now, if you've been regularly popping in, I've been playing with Scrapbook LO pages this week.  All because my son recently sent me load of photos which just shouted they wanted to be in a scrapbook. I checked out on Feline Playful anf found several interesting scrapbook blogs to enter into challenges. This page, Hot Wheels, I am entering into Sassy Lil' Sketches.



I thought this sketch was very interesting and different to anything I've made before, I am pleased with the result. Once I had decided on the title, I hunted for some wheels, to replace the bunting, then remembered, I have a penny farthing stamp which worked terrific. I then found a cheap old gold chain for them to be 'hung' by.

I stamped James, and printed the title on the computer.
Thanks for the terrific sketch ladies, I hope to join you again.

Alter for a gift.

Hello again. This week at Try It On Tuesday, it is time again for us to alter something, to make a gift. One of my favourite items to alter is the very reasonably priced mirrors from the very large Swedish store. The first thing I did was covered the mirror with some black card to protect it. Next it was painted with some matt blackboard paint. I chose two poppy stamps from an Elusive images set, sorry lost the name of the set. I embossed the stamps using gold E.P. to give a more defined outline to work with. Talk about trial and tribulation, I tried various colouring mediums, but most just seamed to soak into the wood. I wanted to paint with Cosmic Shimmer watercolours but it soaked into the wood, I then tried some Acetate/Peel off markers, which worked a treat, then thought if they haven’t soaked in, maybe I can use the Cosmic shimmer watercolours on top of them and that’s what happened, it had provided a surface for the shimmer paint. I finally added a few black gems to the centre of 3 of the poppies. This mirror is to be donated to Janet, for her husband’s Poppy Appeal fund raising event which will be held in October, so it will be a gift. Please pop over to our blog I am sure you will be amazed at the work by the Design Team. Don’t forget our altered items are supported by The Craft Barn who will provide a fabulous prize, be sure to check on what you need to do, to be in with a chance. Good luck. I look forward to visiting your blogs.

Butterflies at CCM Challenge

This week over at Crafty Cardmaker's Challenge blog site we are asking for butterflies, it is well worth joining in for there will be a prize for the winner from The Stampman, so please pop over to see the wonderful butterflies the Design Team have created.  For my card the background paper is from an 8"sq. pad, but I'm now not sure which company. I stamped the butterflies, onto red vellum, each twice, the first one being stuck to the main card, the second of each are only stuck at the body section, so they appear to be in a flying position. The Tattered Butterflies stamps are from Personal Impressions designed by Lyndsay Mason. I am also entering this into Less Is More, for I feel it fits the bill of being understated and clean. Their challenge this week is to use either ribbon or a button. please pop over to check out both Chrissie and Mandi's wonderful samples and of course the wonderful support they have every week, I can spend far too long travelling around the world in awe of some of the most beautiful cards.

The Great Outdoors

Most crafters are asked at one time or another , "How did you get started?"  For me, I started with scrapbooking , I first saw it on TV and became hooked. I then moved onto ATCs and cards, but I keep going back to scrapbooking. With 6 grandchildren I always have something to record. I found this challenge blog for Scrapbooking sketches,  Stuck On Sketches. Sometimes getting the LO sorted is the longest process for me, so having a sketch is a great help, this one in particular I liked as soon as I saw it.
All of the papers I have used are from my craft stash, Hot Off the Press cardstock, Kraft card. A piece of webbing added for texture, I love to have some texture on my LOs. The birds were stamped, cut out and added to the page. Stamps purchased from E -bay. The title was stamped using the Ransome alphabet set from Royal & Langnickel.



Lace and Pearls

This being the last week in the month brings us at Make My Monday, to the end of our visit to Vintage. The last challenge is to use lace and pearls as embellishments. Please be sure to pop over to the blog to see the team’s wonderful samples. I decided instead of making a card this week I have made a frame, you could add a modern photograph or a heritage photo of a member of your family. I have added a lovely stamp of a young girl, Emily, stamped with Sepia ink. The stamp is from Stamp-It Australia. The frame is made by folding a 12” sq. piece of paper, origami style.Lace attached around the frame, attached with brads with pearls added to the brad heads. I added some ribbon to tighten the folds, then I coloured some plain white flowers with Worn Lipstick Distress Ink. I look forward to visiting your blogs, the standard has been fantastic, making it very difficult to choose our Top 3 each week. Congratulations to this week's winners. Please remember, there is a maximum of 5 other challenges in which you can enter to be able to be considered for a Top 3 award