back again

well the half term here not much crafting has been done. I did get round to making mothers day cards and a birthday card for my mum. plus 2 money wallets for my niece and nephew who turned 15  this month.

After being inspired by the paperarsty project life page I did in the previous post with JOFY stamps  (and I won a set of stamps on there blog) I decided to give another project life page a try

This time I used crate paper DIY papers, along side some MME chalk board frames. my newly purchase chevron punch from stampin up, a papertrey ink die and a wood veneer embellishment.

 

 

the only saving grace about this month is it was my annual trip to Alexandra Palace (AP) for the big stamp and scrap booking show. My good crafting friend Janina drives us there, Liz  makes us laugh and Emma and I sit in the back, like a couple of children giggling or falling asleep. I have to say I wasn't feeling my best, tired after a late night at work, back pain after lifting little man on to a trampoline and my hay fever playing up. Any way I made a list and got most of what I wanted plus some extras. Card stock from Anna Marie Designs. some junkyard findings by Prima, metal fastenings from the MDF man, Paperartsy goodies. dies from Sammuel Taylors, antiquing cream demoed by Andy Skinner, Project life bits, and stamps from inkylicious. I was totally spent out , well it was my birthday money

ode to project life\paperatsy

wanted to try something different after seeing the paperartsy blog this week. Pam Thorburn did a page based on pocket scrapbooking and this is my take on it.

I have used canvas paper, used gesso to prime the pages. Made backgrounds using fresco paints. used a floral mask with snowflake paint. Used two JOFY stamp plates . Painted my flowers and added a quote and book plate.

 

a recent page. Skissedilla challenge

hi all back again this time showing a recent scrapbook page of my little man as an angel. Every year we go to the crib service and the church allow all the kids to get  dressed up as a  nativity character and this year he decided he wanted to go as an angel.

I used the basic grey serenade papers. Lots of distressing, misted flowers with chalk board glimmer mist, prima embellishments, tissue tape, flowers and bling.

the wing was a template drawn on to chip bard painted and embossed with frantage embossing powder and the frame is a die again cut out of chipboard and painted

new year, new challenge. Paperartsy and Tando

I haven't done much crafting due to Christmas and having a crafty room sort out. But after attending the bramford crop and completing a scrapbooking page (now that's good for me) I have felt inspired to craft

So on to the new challenge. Paperartsy do a weekly challenge and this weeks artist is Clare Lloyd who has a fantastic blog, with tutorials and stunning, inspirational work

Her first challenge was an altered wooden spool and this is my take on her challenge

I have used fresco paints, paperartsy ding dong and JOFY leaf stamps, wire, paper roses, metal clock hands and a chipboard cog

 

 this  is the side view of my piece as you can see I have used an American crafts round ribbon spool as my base for my clock bird and that is fixed to the spool with the use of wire and a couple of black buttons

finally updating

A layout using the papermaze challenge kit. Normally I try to attend this crop but unfortunately it fell on the same week as the bramford crop. so I decided to pick up the kit early and give it a go at bramford.

in the kit was a sheet of 12x12 white and turquoise card stock. 1 sheet of crate paper bundled up and half a sheet of the bundled up  collection,. a bag of embellishments containing some bling,. At first I struggled with the colours until I added a bright pink sheet of card stock which I had in my stash.

 

As its Christmas I want to wish all my crafty friends a happy Christmas and new year. This year has flown by and in that time i have been inspired by many artist in the scrapbook world..  I have formed  old friendships, and continued with others that have supported me, especially when family life hasn't been good. An extra thank you to those friends who give me a boost when i have most needed it, when i have doubted myself and when i have been at my lowest.

3 things to show

some projects to show you that I did over the holidays, and only now I have got round to putting them up. the first project is a wedding memory box, again a commissioned piece. This took me some time to get my head round due to the theme being, Turkish and bright colours. After a little research on Moroccan style wedding cakes I came up with this. I used a papertrey ink patterned cutting die as my background, dusty attic Moroccan lamps that Lou Collins gave me, and create paper restoration kit used to make the flowers. Really pleased with the result

this shadow box was made on my weekend away with my friend Emma and the scrapettes. I believe the box was from QD which had a glass lid. so I took off the lid. Painted with a blue acrylic paint, then crackled, added some white on the top and then distressed the edges with distress ink. I used some basic grey wisteria paper, prima resin Lou Collins gave me, flowers some of which were coloured with dylusions ink, papertrey ink and basic grey stamps, book pate and metal key plate, little glass bottle with shells in, chipboard butterfly, and a sizzix and technique Tuesday die.
I still have 2 niches to fill so again not totally complete.

lastly a bramford challenge, using a matchbox. JOFY stamps, paperartsy fresco paints, Martha Stewart butterfly punch and a die cut gate from memory box

 

 

altered bird house (bramford swap and tando challenge)

last months challenge at bramford was a paper mache bird house. so after much consideration I decided to cut the roof of with a craft knife, paint it with fresco paints, crackle glaze it and add a lighter shade of paint.

then to seek out some stamps. I used some paperarsty stamps, Ding Dong for the words stamped on the front, side and roof of the house. Flora and fauna with the trailing leaves

once I got my leaves glued to the front of the house I hot glued the roof back in place and added more leaves. Then cut a hole in the base and cut a piece of dowling to size and then painted it. Finally a base made from heavy duty board and painted. Now to the bird which was from a stamp I got last time I went to ally pally, painted with fresco paints and the boots are from a dylusions set. I decided to give him wellies due to the miserable weather we have had this week.