Happy Christmas

 

Happy Christmas  everyone,

with very  best wishes for the coming year.

Santa Clause is coming to Town..... at TioT's

 

At  Try it on Tuesdays our last  challenge theme for the year  is....

'Santa Claus is coming to town'.

I have created a digital card, this one has Santa

  with his sleigh pulled by his trusty  reindeers, 

calling at the children's homes,    to leave a special gift .

Sometimes I'm sure they must have  difficulties finding s safe place to stop .

We hope you will join us  and look forward to seeing your interpretations of the theme.

Thank you for all the support you have given us at 

Try it on Tuesdays this  year and we hope you all have a

 Happy Festive season and a good New Year

 

A Traditional Christmas....... at TioT's

 

Traditional Christmas...

is the theme for the next two weeks over at 

Try it on Tuesdays.

I have created a digital card showing a snow scene with the 

two girls meeting  to play on a snowy day.

Both look cosy and warm in their woolly hats , scarves and mittens.

A few days ago here in the north of the U.K. we had our first  snow of the winter

 it was lovely to see the youngsters playing and sledging

 on the hill close to the wood near  my home,

 I think a few mums and dads were having fun as well.

Please pop over to TioT's to see our ideas for this theme

 and we hope you will join us there.

Sparkle all the Way

 

'Sparkle all the way'...

is the new challenge theme  over at 

Try it on Tuesdays

This was a big challenge  for me especially the sparkles. Maybe a card with glitter would be the answer but for me taking a photo would not be easy,

 A few of my design team friends  have been saying they had difficulties with photos.

  I hope you will pop over to TioT's to see how we and

our Guest Designer interpreted  this theme.

I chose to use stars on this digital birthday card, suitable for someone who has a

special day  late in the year.

We hope you will join us and share your ideas for this topic

 and look forward to visiting your blog.

Make it Magical.......at TioT's

 

Make it Magical....

is the new theme over at Try it on Tuesdays.

I let my imagination take over for this new theme that begins today at TioT's.

We hope you will join us and share your magical projects with us there. 

Please pop over for all the details

 and see how we interpreted this new challenge theme.

Halloween...... at TioT's

 

'Halloween'

is the new challenge  over at Try it on Tuesdays

I enjoyed making this digital journal page.

 The back story going around in my head was about  the kids mother

 telling them to be  ride carefully.

 They were preparing  go trick or treating ,around their neighbourhood.

It was the first time out using the new brooms,

 even the cat was going to join the fun.

We hope you will join us at TioT's for new theme.  

Please pop over for all the details and

 see how we interpreted this new topic.

Autumn Magic.... at TioT's

 

Autumn Magic......

is the new challenge theme over at 

Try it on Tuesdays

Please pop over to find all the details and see how we interpreted this theme.

 We hope you will join us and look forward to  seeing your ideas 

I decided to use the colours of autumn a for a starting place, to make this digital Birthday card.

 I love to see how the leaves change colour and fall from the trees, Seeing sun flowers in full bloom showing their rich dark seeds, a  food source for us as well as the birds. So for me I would say that the magic of autumn is the colours and how nature provides  our wild animals with berries nuts and fruits as well as ourselves.

Black, white and ONE colour

 Its time for another challenge  over at 

Try it on Tuesdays

for the next two weeks the theme will be.....

Black, white and one  colour. 

 The colour  is your choice

and we look forward to seeing what you have made.

 Please pop over to the TioT's blog for all the information

 and to see  the teams added colour choices.

Another simple digital card from me with my colour of choice being yellow.

  I enjoy making simple digital cards these days,

 so quick and easy to send to friends and family.

Make it 'Colourful' at TioT's

 

Make it Colourful.....

is the  theme of our new Challenge over at Try it on Tuesdays

I have created a  digital scrapbook page using some fun  images

 that  I'm sure to  have used in the past from my

image files [notes in my sidebar]. The background colours are  paint mop ups.

My imagination has the little radish  girl saying to her tall celery stick sister....

'look at that rabbit eating dad's carrots.

 Well,  seeing a blue  rabbit would make us all look again and have a smile.

Please pop over to TioT's to see what the team have been creating,

 we look forward to visiting you to see your ideas and colours for this theme.

Make it Feminine.... at TioT's

 Make it Feminine

is the new  theme for the next two weeks at

Try it on Tuesdays

Another digital card from me for this new theme.

I  added a frame to  the silhouette main image, then the hearts 

which I hope shows her sending love to a friend.

We hope you will join us for this theme,

 and enjoy seeing the work you share with us at TioT's.

Please pop over to see what the team have been making

 and find all the challenge theme details [here].

Keep it Simple ...... at TioT's

 

The  new challenge theme for the next two weeks over at

Try it on Tuesdays is......

'Keep it Simple'

I have made a simple digital card, that will be easy to send to friends and family,

 just to let them know I  am thinking of them..

Postage can be quite expensive these days but when you have internet it doesn't take long to send a greeting or a message  to let folk know that you care.

We hope you will join us at TioT's and share  your  projects with us,

what you make is entirely up to yourselves as long as you use the challenge theme.

 We all have different ideas and look forward to seeing yours,

 please pop over to the TioT blog to see what we have been making.

In the Garden ...... at TioT's

 In the Garden.....

is the new challenge theme over at Try it on Tuesdays

On this digital page I decided to create

 a garden style  that I have always admired,

a cottage  garden.

  A small home, surrounded by trees and plants.

Maybe there will be a  few weeds, but for me

 it would be a place to relax on a warm day,

 listen to the birds, watch the insects and butterflies.

We hope you will join us for this new theme.

 Please pop over to see what the team have been creating  to share with you all. 

Things with Wings..... at TioT's

 

Things with Wings......

is the  challenge theme for the next two weeks over at

 Try it on Tuesdays

you will find all the information

 here

 and be able to see how the design team interpreted this new topic.

Once again I decided to make a digital page and as you can see

 my chosen 'things' with wings are butterflies and bees. 

They always look so busy as they hover and flutter

 around the flowers in the garden.

We hope you will join us at TioT's and look forward

 to seeing what you make and create for this new theme.

Here Comes Summer ..... at TioT's

 

Here Comes Summer.....

is the new challenge theme over at

  Try it on Tuesdays

I used a selection from my stored  images to create this digital  page.

I was thinking of the warm sunny days to come,

sitting relaxing with a cool drink close by.

its good to have dreams, so I will explain what would happen in real life for me.

First of all it would have to be warm.

Yes to sit outside, but not in the sun.

Yes a cool drink, most probably lemonade and a good book to read.

We hope you will join us for this theme,

 please pop over to TioT's for all the information 

and to see how we all interpreted this topic.

Book Pages........ at TioT's

 

'Book Pages'.....

is the new challenge theme over at...

Try it on Tuesdays.

We look forward to seeing how you interpret this topic

 and hope you will join us.

All the information can be found here here .

I made a digital journal page, which  includes  a selection of images of books.

[notes can be found  in my sidebar about my digital pages.]

Most days  I do spend time reading a book

 and belong to a reading group at my local library,

we've just read 

The Silence of the Sea by Yrsa Sigurdardoittir.

The current book on the table beside me is called

A Night of Flames by Matthew Harffy

Emboss it...... at TioT's

 'Emboss It'....

is the new challenge theme starting today over at 

Try it on Tuesdays

  

 

The card I made could be useful for many occasions ,

 the base was,   a mop up,

with a stamped  black embossed and a water coloured image

 it  is  an old piece that I have recycled,

from my stash of things that may in the future be useful.

It is a long while since I used embossing powder and the search for it took quite a while.

 next question  was would I get the lid off.? 

 .My hands have  issues of their own these days.

So you will guess there were spills and and a few unmentionable  words.

The heat gun decided to go in strike so  most of the powder didn't melt.
think you will understand why I went down  the recycle route.

WE hope you will share your embossing with us at TioT's,

please pop over   here to see what  the team created for this theme.

Small things .... at TioT's

 A new challenge theme is starting today over at

Try it on Tuesdays

'Small things.'

My first idea for this theme was to make a selection of 

 mixed occasion gift cards, that I could print off the computer when  needed . 

The one with the cake for example is sized at    7 x9 cms.. the others are smaller.

I also made this digital journal page

Yes the page is journal size , but, the image is small.

We are looking forward to see how you interpret this theme

 and hope you will join us at

Tiot's 

where you will find all the information and see what we made.

Fantasy...at Tiot's.

 Fantasy...

 is the theme for the next two weeks 

over at Try it on Tuesdays

I have created a digital journal  scene for this topic, 

where Alice  the mermaid is holding a party for her friends.

The fish swim in,  hoping they won't be late, they  love to dance..

Can you imagine  frogs singing ?,  with Leggy,  the octopus lady dancing,

 to the music  from the  local  Frog Boy Band.

That is the fantasy I can see on this page.

We hope you will join the fun  at TioT's 

,please call over  to see our ideas on this theme

and find all the information,

 we look forward to seeing what you create..

Inspired by a Song .... at TioT's

•  Inspired by a Song
• at
•  Try it on Tuesdays
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• 'The Lady in Red'....,
• sung by Chris de Burgh 
• is the song that I used as my inspiration for this digital journal page.
• I also wanted to use this image of  Frida Kahlo ,   with shades of red
• on the page, a colour I am not comfortable using. 
• Please pop over to the TioT's blog to see the songs
•  that inspired us all .
•  We hope you will join us and look
•  forward to seeing the songs that inspire you.

Rainbow Colours........at TioT's

 

Rainbow Colours....

is the challenge  theme for the next two weeks over at 

Try it on Tuesdays.

The back story to my idea for this digital  page

 is how youngsters love to use bright colours

 when they are using  or playing with paints.

We might think of the beautiful  rainbow we see in the sky, 

 for these  children  its experimenting with many varieties and colours of paint.

I think they are loving  using the spray paint and having fun.

Please share your ideas on our  rainbow colour theme  with us at TioT's

and  pop over to see our interpretations here

Use a Stencil ......at TioT's

 

                                                                Use a Stencil....

is the new challenge theme over at Try it on Tuesdays

This is the selection of starter pages I played around with in my digital journal, using a  simple style stencil as my starting place. I  tried changing the colours , but decided to go with the shade of green

I  used  the stencil as a background for the digital card I made for the TioT's theme.

                                           This is the page that is in my digital journal

I hope you will join us over at Try it on Tuesdays

 and look forward to seeing how you use your stencils.

Spring...... at TioT's

'Spring'.....

 

Spring.....is the new challenge theme over at Try it on Tuesdays.

 Springtime dreams,  

   is the title I would give this digital journal  page that I  made for the theme.

At this time of the year I think of the springtime flowers in the garden,

 the trees are showing the way with new growth and buds waiting to  share their  blossom.

Perhaps you dream and plan a special holiday,

out walking perhaps we'll see rabbits,  hopping  in the fields,

soon we will be seeing lambs and spring will have arrived.

At TioT's we are looking forward to seeing how you interpret this theme 

and look forward to visiting you .

Its a long while since I joined in any other Blog challenge themes

and after a friendly reminder from Chris,  I will link this page to her theme..... On all fours...   at Art Journal Journey,

I have so many happy memories of joining the folk over there.

Its in the 'Spotlight' .... at TioT's

 

In the ' Spotlight '

is the new challenge  over at 

Try it on Tuesdays

you will find all the information here

 and see

 how we interpreted the theme.

I have created a digital card,

 putting   the floral  image  I had chosen 

to use for the background layer, in my spotlight.

We hope you will join us and look forward to seeing

 your interpretations of this new topic.

Hearts and/or Flowers....... at TioT's

 

A new challenge theme begins today over at

Try it on Tuesdays its called......

Hearts &/or Flowers.

I couldn't decide which one to choose

 so I included both [ which is allowed]

 on this digital scrapbook page.

I used a few layers of images to create the page.

Please call over  to see how we all interpreted the topic ,

you will find all the information  on the new TioT  blog post

and we hope you will join us there

Add some Text....... at TioT's

 

Add some Text...

is our next challenge theme over at

Try it on Tuesdays

A digital page from me,  with scraps of text in the background, a couple of  quotes,

and layered digital images.

I  thought that is quote,

'I'm taking time to do what makes my soul smile,'

went well with the page and how these days,

 I enjoy crafting using my digital program and resources.

We hope you will join us for this theme ,

 please pop over to TioT's for all the information

and see how we interpreted the theme.

Winter Blues......at TioT's

 

Winter Blues.....

is the first challenge theme  for 2024 over at 

Try it on Tuesdays

As always we look forward to seeing how you interpret the theme

 and we hope you will join us there.

I have made a digital Birthday card.

 Digital is my go to mode of crafting these days, the hands no longer  grip things as well as they used to.

 Mistakes are easier to  delete , 

where a dropped ink pad in the middle of a page means starting again.

Thank you for calling in to see me here, 

 I wish you all a Happy, Healthy and Safe New Year.