12th March 2020. A Steam Punk Journal.

Good evening.  I mentioned earlier that I had done another hand made journal, which has just been completed. I did this one in a Steam Punk style.  I must give the credit to ' Such A Pretty Mess ' for this one as I have copied from her tutorial how to make the large gem in the middle. She herself does admit that she got the method and  idea from somebody else, so don't feel so bad !

Loved making it, something really different . Most of the stuff I had in my craft boxes plus some of that air drying clay to make some of the embellishments which were covered in gold and bronze gilding polish.

Hope you like it....just got to fill it now....

xxx

11th march 2020. Time for some Shabby Chic again

Hi, I have been busy making journals, one which I have put on my blog, the other not quite finished, but have loved making them. Always like to try different  things. Miss my card crafting so I have some of my latest work to show you...here goes....

The image is from my stash, Pion Design, had for ages and recently found.

The large flowers are made from fabric petals, layered and glued , stamens added.

I wanted a gold, but not gold colour for the leaves, more bronze, so I used different sprays from Lindy's Stamp Gang to get the colour I wanted to go with the different pinks.

A closer peep at the flowers and foliage.

Thanks for stopping by, have a lovely day xx

28th February, 2020. hand made Shabby Chic Journal.

Good afternoon. This is my first attempt at making a Shabby Chic journal. Seen lots done but was never quite sure how to start. Brilliant this YouTube thing !  I decided, just in case I made a mess, not to use anything expensive. The book I took apart was a very old one, dropping to bits anyway, and for the pages I used a inexpensive slightly thick sketch book from the Book Store, £2 for 30 pages, A4 size.  Here it is....

Everything that I used was from my stash. I wish I had used a slightly thicker cotton string to put the papers in and lined the inside with a pink material, so not showing you the inside !

Almost got carried away and wanted to decorate the back with flowers and remembered it need to lay flat whilst in use.

Just need to fill it now......

Hope you like my first attempt. Just watched an amazing tutorial from ' Such a Pretty Mess ' it was for a Steam Punk box, can see another journal coming on !

Bye for now, take care and have a lovely weekend xx

20th February, 2020, Back to Shabby Chic.

Good evening, thank you for stopping by to have a look at my work, always appreciated.  I have done some Shabby Chic work, using a lovely image from Pion Design paper.

               The blue die cut background is from Tattered Lace and the flowers were made
                                using the peony die, from Magnolia Doohickey, had for years.                                                      

                                                 I added lots of dried ivory gypsopholia

                                           lots and lots of die cut coloured foliage.

                                                    Hope you like it, take care xxx

16th February, 2020, Pion Design

Hi , I have been searching through all my lovely papers and card stock and came across some Pion Design stuff tucked behind in a drawer....just had to use it.  So here is my pretty shabby chic style card topper using their papers.  Did greens not a usual colour for me but I think it worked well with the touches of pink.

I hand dyed the seam binding ribbon to get the right pale green that I wanted.

Loving the die cut flower spray bought a while ago and hardly used, can see lots of things to use it for.

Thank for taking a peep, hugs xxx

29th Janaury, 2020. A Little Bit More

Hi !  Where has January gone ? I have spent the last three weeks lazing around doing as little as possible due to this terrible cold/virus that really took a hold of myself and my hubby. Starting to feel better now, cough almost gone and at last sleeping through the night.

I did some more work with the Distress Oxide sprays before taking ill, so here is the card that I made.

I did just a little white paste stencilling. 

Loving the little lady bird that I found in my stash.

 I hand dyed the seam binding ribbon so as to get the right shade.

Thanks for taking a peep, take care xx

7th January 2020, Ranger Oxide Sprays !

Hi , Good evening.  At last had a day to myself to play with my Christmas present. A lovely set of Ranger Distress  Oxide sprays. Loving them. I have had quite  few , lets call them mistakes, and now getting the hang of them. So many things that you can do with them.  Love you Tim Holtz !  What would I do with out you ?

So here is my very first venture into Oxide sprays, plus I used them to paint with , not seen you do that as yet Tim !

I sprayed a tiny bit on my tile, used a wet brush and painted and shaded, mixed, loved it !

I used Tim Holtz Wild Flowers die set  and his Funky Foliage set.

A closet peep !

Hope that you all had a brilliant New Year Celebration , bye for now xx