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Hello and welcome. Thank you for joining me this afternoon. The sun is in my garden but it is soft, and there is a breeze, it's very pleasant. Sitting in the craft room writing this post is lovely and just what I needed. I hope what every you have been doing has brought you Joy.Now!… Continue reading Inspired by Teresa Abajo 'a wall hanging'

Morning and welcome to my crafty playground. Today I'm bringing you a card I made for my lovely daughter who is 35 today.  She has a very unique style somewhere between 'Goth' 'Biker' and lace and pretty. Therefore I tried to add some of this influence to her card.I started by adding a torn and… Continue reading It's a birthday thing

Hello and welcome. The title to this post is the name of the new challenge at A Vintage Journey challenge blog, inspired by Tim Holtz and this tag is my entry.I started by sprizting the tag with water; I added Distress Stain in tea dye and bundled sage from the Tim Holtz range from Ranger, onto… Continue reading Use every stamp in the set

Hello and welcome to my tag inspired by Kate's tag board, which was her brilliant project for her Tuesday night GD spot on the Paper Artsy's blog.I also chose to use colours that would meet the theme for SanDee & amelie's Steampunk ChallengesI covered my tag in French Roast Fresco acrylic paint from Paper Artsy… Continue reading Kate Yetter Project

Hello and welcome! Today I'm going to show  a Tag I made for the challenge at County View Crafts.This challenge was chosen by Gabrielle of crafty Thoughts  and the Theme was 'Only Men Allowed'.I thought I would use the new Decoarts Americana acrylic paint I have just purchased, (recommended by a friend) brayered onto a… Continue reading Men only… Really!

Hi everyone, today I went to the high Swedish Store at Thurrock to purchase some photo frames. I got the frames but also bought 3 of these.I wanted to try and age one so used the same colours I used on a Tag recently. There are'nt many instruction - All products except lamp are from Paper… Continue reading New to old…

I still have cards to make, so when Emma did one for the Paper Artsy challenge blog last night I thought, thank you, I think I will.I needed a male card so had to adapt the flower. The card I used was a butterfly cut one. I cut myself a piece of card to fit… Continue reading Inspired by Emma's flower card, well sort of…

Hello, I'm so excited about this tag, I have just loved making it. I hope you like it too lol. I was inspired to think 'wings' by the Vintage Journey  Blog challenge, theme of wings and things. I wanted to use birds as it is not something I usually do and thought it would be… Continue reading Birds

Hello and welcome, another one from me tonight featuring the colour red. This is not a colour I would normally choose, but I thought it would be nice to enter the challenge at the Artisic Stamper blog, and the theme is red. Check out the inspiration! I started by painting my tag red using Blood Red… Continue reading It's All Red

Hello, I'm still feeling pretty rough but head has cleared so managed to play for a bit. I didn't start out with anything in mind and tbh, probably sat for about 30min thinking,  what shall I do? Before I got going, lol. I started inking a mantilla tag with Old Paper and Vintage photo. Then… Continue reading Imagine