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

31st December 2019 Just a bit more that I have done.

Hi, So here we are at the end of another year, where has this year gone ?  Gone so quickly for me, but hopefully next year will be as wonderful. Lovely news this year as I am going to be a great grandma, a little girl I am told.  How times have changed over the years to be able now to know the sex of your baby, truly amazing !

So here is some more of my work for you to take a peek at.....

I made the flowers from Foamiran, coloured with pastels and a baby wipe.

A bit of altered art type work here, a multi coloured background, a touch of stencilling and my lovely Posca pens.  The flowers were water coloured and fussy cut.

And a bit of doodling !

I wish each and everyone a very happy New Year, filled with contentment  and good health.

xxx

15th December 2019 , a Birthday Card.

Hi good morning, !  I would like to show you a lovely card that I have made for my oldest daughter's birthday. Just loving this digi stamp that I down loaded from Etsy. I am not a favourite of down loaded stuff as I seem to have trouble colouring in as I like to use Copics and they seem to smudge. Then somebody said, go over the printed image with your heat gun...and it worked, my Copics did not smudge, so well pleased with that tip. The image is from Aurora Wings and I am so in love with it, must do more...here she is in all her glory, complete with lots of bling !!

I added loads of tiny, and I mean tiny , turquoise diamante's  , clear AB diamante's and just a few green ones.

If only you could see the sparkle. I added sparkle to the flowers as well as white paste.

Hope you like it as much as I really enjoyed making it, bye for now  xx