Well and truly Framed.

Why am I showing you rubbish you Ask? Well these are not rubbish these are Sipppets!!!!
Bits of left overs too small to go back into stash but too large to throw out. What to do? You start a snippets tin. of course. Only in my case they never made it to the tin as I thought there's no time like the present. Strike while the iron is hot. Following on from the previous post I was going to throw those pieces of paper away where I had cut out the small squares needed to make the card. Picking them up they struck me as being little picture frames and an idea was formed. The small white triangle is actually shrink plastic and the thread left over from doing the edging.


The white card is Bockingford Watercolor paper trimmed to 6" x 12" and folded in half. (From Fluffs stash). Flowers made from odds of white paper coloured with watercolour pencils, layered up with a brad. You can't see very clearly but I pricked a design out using the largest nestie size in my stash as a template and also used part of the frames to mark out the corners. The" Wheres Wally" heart button (see previous post) was made using the shrink plastic and water colour pencil in pale green. No prizes for spotting where this one is I won't be making them all this obvious, in fact some will be right down devious so keep your eyes peeled!!


Nothing bought in, so again I'm 100% squeaky clean.

Going to enter this into Di's Crafty Snippets challenge No 3.

Also the following:

Make It Monday Party .

Crafting when we can: New Years Resolutions. (Mine is to only use up stash and not buy new.)

Truly Scrumptious: Shabby Pastels and paint.

Anything Goes: Anything goes.

Birthday Wish.

A friend rang me at 8.30pm on Tuesday evening and said that she had just seen on face book that it was a mutual friends Birthday (whom we were both seeing for a coffee the following day) so could I do a card to give to her then? Nothing for it but to bite the bullet get over the 'C' word and make a card.

It needed to be quick, simple and from my stash. I had these coordinating Nit Wit papers left over from making a tag book for a swap (which is still in transit to USA so can't show yet) and by turning the double sided paper over I had enough patterns to cut out twelve 1" shapes using my Xcut nesties in the 'Ornate Frame' die. My alphabet stamps came into play to spell out the sentiment "Birthday Wish" The card blank was then very roughly stitched into squares using green thread and pink embroidery thread woven through the outside edge and tied at the top in a bow. Paper shapes were then glued in place.

Fluff had asked me what my new theme was going to be for this year( last yr was a butterfly) that I would attach to every craft item I made to give away. Well I can now reveal that it will be a handmade shrink plastic heart button. You can see a pink/green candy stripe one on the front of this card. Some will not be as obvious as this so it will be up to you to spot them ( a bit like Where's Wally!!!). You never know I might even offer a little candy for the eagle eyed amongst you.

A simple verse added inside and bobs your uncle all done and as all the shops were shut I can safely say

So without further ado I am entering into the following challenges:

Dream Valley: Anything Goes.

Gingerloft: Anything Goes.

Aud Sentiments: Any sentiment but use scraps.

Paper Play challenges: In stitches.

The Poodle Parlour: Button up. ( As long as your creation has a button on it somehwere.)

WOYWW 136

Ive been busy having a massive tidy up so wasn't going to participate this week but then some goodies turned turned up in the post this morning.

You can see my January page of the calendar challenge I did last year in the background. On my laptop are some wooden fairy doors from Jan at Picto. Ordered for onward delivery to the Yorkshire division (of the family) so I havn't breached my pledge of only using stash up in 2012! Two sets of bag handles that I won from Annie The Felt lady so I will be sorting some material out to make a bag up later when I have my two hands back. A stamp I have rooted out (I keep all mine in a large plastic see through box too Julia, don't even seperate them from clear/rubber.) to use on the next tag challenge and lastly a packet of stash goodies from my blogging buddie Sherry. We are doing another swap together and this time I have set the challenge of each sending the other 4 items from our stash for the other to add to and then make an item to be sent back again. (See I'm so sticking to my pleadge UIU). This way we will be making something totally differentg for one another. Should be fun. Sherry has sent me design paper, lace, pearls and a green voile rose trim. Need to get my thinking cap on now. I have sent my 4 items off and Sherry is probably going to have a fit when she sees my choice.!!!! Well I never said i'd make it easy Sherry. Tee Hee!

So back to the sorting now. My desk might look tidy but the floor sure dosen't.

Pop on over to Julia's blog if you have a chance today, grbp a coffee and have a rummage/good old snoop around a few other desks . You never know what you might find.

There up to no good again (WOYWW 136).

Before I show what is on the boys desk this week we need to back track to last week, to Thursday to be precise. I thought they were being very quiet.!

I knew we would crack that code in the end that Mrs A put on. I say this looks an interesting site.

You didn't just press the buy button did you Norm? Have we just bought a Monkey then?

Fast track to today.

Meet' Bert' who turned up on our doorstep on Saturday! Norm took him down the charity shop and he is all togged up ready to go onward to the Derby Division to live with Fluff in the 'Bat Cave' where he has been promised loads of crafty stash to play with.

Just to prove there are indeed two of them.

Tag your it.

This is a tag I have made for the new challenge blog Tag Tuesday. The theme for the 1st challenge was Snow. (Snowflakes/wintery weather/icicles).

I really had fun making the icicles for the christmas card last year so decided to use them again for this Tag. I used the largest die from the 'Bloom' nestie by Xcut as my tag shape. Added a lace trim around the edge and navy rhine stones. Tag is coloured in with chalk pastels, daubed with glue and sprinkled with silver glitter. The icicles behaved themselves this time and were attached with sticky pads to give a dimensional effect. Cord was made from white and turquiose embroidery threads plaited together with a tassel each end. Very pleased with the result as I have only used stuff from my stash so can safely say I am following the pledge I made on Fran's blog

Ladyoflosttimescrafts to use it up 2012.

First Scenescape.

Well the stamps arrived yesterday and I have been having some fun creating scenescapes.
This picture was inspired by a National trust property not far from us that has a nature walk attached to the grounds. The Doc & I love to go there as they have a water meadow with a hide and if you go down about 3pm you will often see their prize herd of Aberdeen Angus cows having a drink along with the Herons and other assorted birds.

Whilst I did splash out on the stamps (Christmas Money) I did use everything else from my stash.
Here is a little thrift idea for you. Whilst taking down the Christmas cards received (I normally keep the handcrafted ones and give the rest to charity but this time I suddenly realised that the front of the shop bought cards were generally blank inside so making excellent white card stock so I now have an assortment of different sizes to use.
So my scenescape below is actually the back of a Christmas card! I used chalks to colour the sky, grass and pond using Ice Blue, French Blue, Olive Pastel and Dark Moss.
Trees were inked with distressed ink in Forest Moss, cows in Walnut Stain and for the fence I used StazOn Jet Black.
Stamps used were 'Stampscapes' old fence 293c, cows 157a & 172a, tree cluster 266d,( trees over the hill were the top half of ) lakeside cove 048e and sedge filler 251 for the grass texture.




Going to enter this into the new challenge blog over at
Craft a Scene#1: Anything Goes.

Also the following:

Papertake Weekly: Anything Goes (new stamps).

Simon Says Stamp: Something old (stash), Something New (Stamps & Technique).

Pile it On: Anything Goes.

Fasionable Stamping: Anything Goes using your New Stash. (new stamps).

Wet off the Press.

1st craft of the new year. 'Toucan' do it.
Finally finnished this morning so the paint is still wet as we speak.



Decided to set myself some crafting goals for 2012 so here we go.
Learn how to:
Do Quilling
Work with Parchment
Use a Melt Pot
Brayering
Teabag Folding
Make Scenescapes
Paperpiecing
Easel Cards
Laminating

I have started the ball rolling with Scenscapes and with christmas money, have ordererd the stamps needed to begin. There is a new challenge blog dedicated to this art. You can check it out here. Busy reading up on the techniques so as the saying goes 'Watch this Space'.