Something Old, Something New.

So here I am blogging again.

Can you tell I'm off work on my Annual leave.

I have so much time to craft and could not wait to get stuck into the the something old, something new challenge. This is the very first time I have tried to make a canvas or anything really other than tags for the challenges I take part in, I had a whole lot of fun with this but why is it that whatever is in my head never quite makes it onto the project- ah well I must be due a point or 2 for effort huh? and maybe another one for completing the challenge on the day it was issued?

Old- the canvas is actually the back board from an old picture frame, and the new is just about everything else LOL. Thanks for looking.

Sunday Stamper live/life

So here I am with a few days off work, giving me time to catch up with this weeks challenges from your fabulous blogs. This one is for Hels' Sunday Stampers challenge where the theme this week is Love/Life. I had a play with alcohol inks to create the background.

Here's my entry for this weeks Sunday Stamper Challenge. I used a Maya Road chipboard binder that has been on my things to do list for a few years now. Inside there are several blank chipboard pages that Im hoping will be just right for Efemeras fortnightly technique challenge over on UK Stampers. Check it if you havent already at UKStamper.co.uk

Well look at me blogging twice on the same day hehe!!!

Here my submission for this weeks Sunday Stamper challenge. The challenge is to use "silver". I ran a piece of silver mirri card through the big shot with the cuttlebug paisley embossing folder and picked up the detail with black staz on. The flowers are stamped on to grunge paper covered in text papers, sorry I don't know where the stamps are from.

Jigsaw pieces

So I've been getting good and messy this weekend. Totally and unashamedly inspired by LindaE's fabulous beer mats and in the absence of any beer mats. I want a decoration for my, soon to be wallpapered in white, bedroom wall. I thought of using the 12 x 12 jiggy done by lots of UK Scrappers ladies as part of a swap, and though it is truly gorgeous it is not quite what I wanted.





So out came my spare blank jiggy and along with Linda's inpiration I made this. I inked the piece all over using Fired Brick Distress ink pad, stamped with a cradfty individuals text stamp, coloured the metal butterfly with alocohol inks and used rock candy crackle paint (not very sucessfully) over the text stamping.








And then spurred on by this weeks Sunday Stamper challenge along came this.