Try It On Tuesday - HOME is where the HEART is

Aah, so true!!

I have made a 'New Home' card as my DT piece this fortnight using a gelli background, a Sam Poole Stamp and some UTEE heart embellishments (cute ain't they?) made using the spellbinders media mixage heart bezels as moulds.

So that's your challenge this fortnight at Try It On Tuesday. Do pop over and see what the rest of the DT have been up to there are some great projects. You can make anything you like as long as it follows the challenge 'Home is Where the Heart Is'. Don't forget to read the rules and only link up to 5 challenges in total if you want to be eligible for Top 5!!

Hope to see you there!

Best wishes, Cindy

HAPPY 4th BIRTHDAY TO CRAFTY CARDMAKERS!!

I've only been with them a short while but 4 years is certainly something to celebrate!!

The challenge this fortnight is to create a birthday themed project so I have waded in with this bright and breezy birthday card.

The papers are from the Café Mediterranean DCWV paper pad. For a change I cut a small section off the front of my card using a spellbinders edgeability die. The background is quite fussy so opted for some big bold flowers as a contrast. The flowers are made using a layered up Wendy Vecchi image stamped with versamark and embossed with white powder. Simples!!

So congratulations to the Crafty Cardmakers Team and especially Lyn the driving force behind it all, for reaching this milestone.

Meanwhile the challenge to you is to create a 'Birthday' project (it doesn't have to be a card!) and share it with us at Crafty Cardmakers.



We are sponsored by

DI'S DIGISTAMPS with a $10 gift voucher and also by and also by HOBBY ART with a lovely stamp set so there's plenty to play for!
Can't wait to see what you get up to!

 

 

JULY ART DRAW – an aMUSEing little piece…

I am having a dry spell. My life feels very hectic, work is just full of STUFF going on, and I'd rather be in the garden than my stuffy craft room -  the disadvantage of that big South facing window is it can get rather warm in the Summer. But I'm not complaining, after 8 months of being permanently COLD you will NOT hear me even mutter about the heat under my breath. I embrace the heat, the heat is my friend (helps  my cough too, 9 weeks and counting, still can't get rid of it), it's just nicer to sit in the garden when it's warm!!

Still, despite the absence of mr mojo I wanted to do something for my monthly giveaway so I got out my JOFY stamps and my Fresco Finish paints and forced myself to have a play. I have painted straight onto this mdf  bunting and then used a variety of other mediums over the top. A bit different for me but I hope you like it. Oh and  all the waffling at the beginning was supposed to make you understand the sentiment is a little tongue in cheek, given that I am not feeling very inspired at the mo!!

So if you have space for this somewhere leave me a comment and I'll put you in the draw. International players welcome, feel free to link from your own blogs or wherever. Let me know you have done so and I'll put you in the draw twice. Closing date will be 9.00 pm on Weds 31st July - please make sure I will be able to contact you somehow. Thanks for playing!!

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What's on Your WorkDesk Wednesday #213. No really, it's #213

I am nothing if not a follower. If Julia tells me it's week #113 that's what I write down. If she said it was week #777 I would follow. Heaven help us it will probably happen! What am I going on about? Well it's Wednesday again when we show off wot we is up to to the world. Unexpurgated (sometimes), entertaining certainly. For all the info go here, read Julia's post and jump in. We won't bite but the project on my desk might(GRIN).
 


Not a lot of crafty time this last week but my werewolf head has moved on a tad and here he is taking up most of my desk. I've given him two coats of grey acrylic paint and will add some detailing today. As I am intending to 'mount' him like a trophy for my creepy house display I'm wondering if he needs a lower jaw but I'll see what he looks like first. I hope you are impressed that the rest of the desk is quite tidy (although I am no longer quite sure what is in that purple box, I may have to empty it and have a look).


Here's another little creepy project which I found on the RavensBlight blog. There are some great templates on this site and this one is for a balancing bat. Isn't he neat? I'm thinking I might try the floating candelabra, I think they would look quite cool hanging from the ceiling in my creepy house....... Anyhow, off to visit a few desks before I go out to lunch.

Happy WOYWW!!

Show Us Your Metal!!

is this fortnight's challenge at Try It On Tuesday. After much head scratching I decided to visit an old favourite - using ordinary kitchen foil.

Here is my DT entry, I have made a little 4 x 4 memory book (I haven't finished the insides!) and the cover front and back is made from silver foil. For the front I attached various embellishments to a piece of 4 x 4 mount board and then covered it with kitchen foil. A thicker kind is best as it is less likely to tear. You then work the foil into all the grooves and then once you are happy paint as you wish and dry. Then use some black paint and quickly wipe off, leaving bits in the crevasses to age it and finally  finish off with whatever metallic rubs or waxes you have to highlight the textures. In fact the crinkled foil on its own gives a rather nice texture and that's exactly what I did for the back cover.

Back Cover!!
 

There's lots of great inspiration from the DT over at Try It On Tuesday and we'd love to see what you get up to so get thinking metal and link up your project.

See ya!!

Cindy

 

'HOLIDAYS' for Crafty Card Makers

digital design

'Holidays' is the theme for the current challenge at Crafty Card Makers. When thinking what I was going to do as my DT entry all that kept coming to mind was that I had a million and a half holiday photos to scrap!! So finally I gave in and decided to do a scrapbook LO of a few days away with my mum and sister last year. I've had the idea of this layout in my head for a while (I really like the main photo, it's quirky) and so I used Craft Artist 2 to design my page and print the small 'fuzzy' edged photos onto the backing paper. 

I printed out the elements separately, fussy cutting the small items and then made it up into a dimensional page, mounting it onto a bit of Kraft  card to give it a border. It will go into a box frame in due course to be displayed but I haven't been able to get out and pick one up yet so here is the hand finished page



Hand finished  project

I'm not sure if you'll be able to read the journaling but these are a few photos I took when we went to visit the local beach. Now, bearing in mind that my 80 year old mum can't walk to the end of the road without her walker, being beside the seaside seemed to rejuvenate her completely and she was down the steps like a five year old, whipping off her shoes and going for a paddle. If we'd had a bucket and spade I'm sure she'd have been making sandcastles. It was a struggle to get her to come away! I found this incredibly amusing and quite heart warming, a very special memory.

So that's enough nonsense from me, what kind of project can the theme inspire you to make? A holiday you've already taken or one you're dreaming of? We'd love to see what you make of it so do pop on over to Crafty Card Makers and join in. We are sponsored for this challenge by 

SIR STAMPALOT

so why not have a go? Just be sure to follow the theme!!

And the winner of the June giveaway is........

GILL.

I have emailed you Gill, if you could replay with your snail mail I will get it off to you  this week.

Thanks to all who played (although I suspect some  of you didn't know you were!!). The July Art Draw Prize will be uploaded later this week so keep a look out!!

July? Already? Eeeeek!