Matchbox Advent

This is one of my favourite makes, definately a lot of fun. It's made up of matchboxes and every one of them is filled with crafty goodies, only thing is the weather in Scotland at the moment is dismal with snow and ice, shocker eh... so no post has been getting in or out and these were just posted out to Karin today...so have fun opening the first ten at least Karin!!

Hope everyone is enjoying the festive season! xx

Karin's Birthday

Happy Birthday for last week moo, hope it was a good one in the end ;)

These are both for Karin, the first was her Birthday card, that ended up being a hanging because I liked it too much to have it as a card! It started off as card, distressed to within an inch of being anything, paper added to it, spritzed, inked, perfect pearls, lots of Tim Holtz stuff going on, then the main image of the bird is a napkin, I've started getting into napkin collage and just love it, over the glue on top of the bird I've put a little glitter and then once dry a little distress stickles, and you can see the rest. I loved making it, partly because its for such a good friend. It's not with Karin yet though, since we are severely snowed in here in Scotland and there is no post in or out!! But it will be with you soon Karin, promise ;) xx

This one was for a challenge from AGES ago, I don't even remember the month.......the challenge was to incorporate resist stamping. That's what I did on the hanging slide mailer at the bottom, the glass is all soldered, the fabric collage is on over some stamping and stickles and things, and the phrase reads "Every day holds the possibility of a miracle" (Paperbag Studios)

Hope you like this too Karin.

Tomorrow I will post pics of my very first matchbox advent callendar, LOVED that challenge, and again it's getting there too late for the first of December, but hey ho, can't control the weather!

Pregnancy is going well, 27 days till due date and no problems yet, just very tired. All set for Christmas and both of my boys birthdays in December too, including Nathan's 18th!! (where does the time go???)

Hope you all have a wonderful start to the most magical month of the year!! xox

Nothing to see..........move along......

Well I really don't have anything to show, however I am crafting again!! Yipee, having finally got access to my craft room through the mess (thank you xx) I might have something to show soon!
Almost 35 weeks pregnant now, very very very tired, but looking forward to Christmas anyway, got the shopping done and just finishing the wrapping up! Love this time of year, hope you are all well and good. Back soon. xx

It's been a while......

Hiya folks, been a while since my last post, I've just been so busy with "real life" going on- I'm 6 months pregnant, due around 27th December, and lots of things going on around me too, so not had much time for crafting!

This is three birthday cards I made last month for various family members.... hopefully will be getting back into the routine of crafting every day, I do miss it. Looking to move house in the New Year though, so selling houses and buying houses and viewing houses and bla bla bla.....I've already started packing though, once I made up my mind this house has now become less personal if you know what I mean.....my head is out of here!!

Also have booked a most fantastic class ever ever ever, take a look at this-

I AM GOING!!!!!! WOOP WOOP!!!

Baby will be left with Dad and the other three lovely kiddies, and I will be offski to this class with Tim Holtz!! Cannot wait!

Anyway, here are the cards, hope you're all well and good!!

Tag and Encaustic Collage

This is a tag that started off as a forum challenge but I ended up giving to a friend ;)

The main image is stamped onto acetate and put onto the tag which had resist stamping on it, which was part of the challenge.

This is my first encaustic collage, all images are from Retro Cafe Art, and you can't see it very well but the little jars stuck to the top have in them "Dried Warts, Toe Nails and Slug Slime" LOL they are actually 12th scale bottles from my dolls house. I added everything into the wax on this collage, angel hair, buttons, glitter, sparkles, rub ons, beads etc, anything that would stick, I tried it! And the beauty of this is, if you get it wrong you simply melt it and start over!

Birthday cards and other stuff!

Been trying to catch up with my blogging, I've not had a big crafting splurge or anything, just a very lazy blogging time....lol

This was a wall hanging and box I made for my Nana's birthday in April, it was really difficult to get a good picture of it since the main image is a transparency, getting the glare away but the colours right was hard, so this really is the best of a bad lot!! You get the idea though..... ;)

Couple of scrapbook pages, it's been SO long since I made any, this first one is the daughter of a friend, I made this for her birthday recently along with one of the cards further down this post :)

And this is my terror, along with her partner in crime, Amberino ;) "PRINCESS", that's what I thought when I had a wee girl.....oh noooOOOO Sophie has other ideas!! LOL

And this is my very first Alice themed piece, inspired by the wonderful pieces made recently by my good friend Audrey, and this was for a birthday recently too......no one special....lmao ;)

Hope you had a good one Ali :) x

This is another card, made today for a friend's birthday again, lots of birthdays recently!!

And this one went with the scrapbook page of Iona :)

And that's it for now....just got myself a cricut machine and gypsy to go with it, so will be playing with that and hopefully have something to blog again real soon!! Have a great weekend bloggers. :) x x

Baby Baby...

This is a wooden wall decoration that came blank, and I decorated it for some great friends who had a baby boy recently

Instead of a card, and because they are such good friends, I made a.....er.....a flip, flap or flop book, I don't remember which this is, I'm thinking flap....anyway, this is the front and the little plastic cover has been alcohol inked...

And that's all the inside, loads of stamping and images etc and I so enjoyed making this, especially when it is for someone special who appreciates it.

Hope you all have a great weekend! x

Spring Tag

This is a Spring themed tag I made for a forum challenge set by Karin, also to incorporate wrinkle free distress a la Tim Holtz! I don't normally use pink in crafting at all, but I like how this turned out in the end.

I hope Spring is with you all, it certainly has been in Scotland for the past week, we had our first BBQ at the weekend, hopefully the first of many, weather allowing!!

Have a great rest of the week bloggers! xx

Mother's Day Card

I made this card for my mum for this year's mother's day, the little heart at the bottom is a magnet and is now on her fridge, and that's me in the pic LOL I used it mainly cos the colours went so well together!!

Happy Birthday Emma!!

Today is Emma's birthday and this is the card I made her.

Hope you have a lovely relaxing day moo xxx