Love is all you need

'You've Been Framed', great  title for our new theme isn't it.

 So visit us at Crafty Cardmakers and More to find out all the details and what our  generous sponsors are offering as a prize this time.

I used a kraft card base and layered the die cut frames up with papers that toned with it.
Sorry not able to give a name  to the fancy die cuts. As many who visit me often know,  these come in a goody bag from a craft friend of mine. The main focus  is a Chapel Road Art stamp, I used Potting Soil Archival ink and clear embossing powder on this image. Extra shading was my favorite and much used   Vintage Photo distress ink.

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Whats behind that door? for SCH

The  new theme over at Sugar Creek Hollow is to 'Create your own Background'.
Our sponsor

 Molossi   generously sent the DT some goodies to use on our projects. 

Mine included this Darkroom door image and some  fantastic embellishments.
Please pop over for all the details to SCH and see the super prize you could win.
I made a few things using my new stamp of the door, the first was  this card. I used a leaf  embossing folder for the base layers, some of which were random stamped with  french script.  Broken China was the Distress ink I used to add shading.

The next idea was a gift box

I used the same dotty embossing folder for the box and the base paper on the lid.   Keeping the colours to black, silver and grey.

This easel card is definitely for a bloke, especially if he is a handyman.
The words on the stop read, 'the older I get the better I was'.
So there  are three different ways I have used our sponsor's stamp and embellishments, together with a few of my own supplies..

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Say it with Words

This is a little folding card that, I made and posted last weekend, I hope has reached its destination.
I did take a few photos , the first is the card opened out.
 Lots of stencils, stamping, Vintage Photo, Tea dye and Antique Linen  distress inks, were used to give this an aged, grungy, inky look.

Another view , most of the stamps used are Tim Holtz, Stampers Anonymous , stamped up with Coffee  Archival ink and Timber brown Stazon

 A close up of the quote,  a Chapel Road art stamp. What could be better than this, my  answer I guess would be to spend it in the craft room enjoying yourself..

This is how it looks folded up and tied  closed , with a ribbon which was fixed in place under the die cut strip. [there was another die cut on the back page].


I shall be entering these challenges--
A Vintage Journey-  Challenge 2--Say it with Words.
Thats Crafty Challenges --Inky Antics

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Journal 52 -week 12- A day in my life.

Week 12 for Journal 52 and our prompt was  'A day in my Life'.

Now to say  that my day has a routine, and at  the end of it I wonder what I actually did, would be understated. I can never keep to a plan, a pure waste of time and effort.
Briefly most days like today  begin with the birds tweeting in the nearby trees and waking me up.
Next a huge mug of tea,  definitely a must  to start the day.
Meg needs her morning walk, so off to the woodland paths. just round the corner from my house.
Home and a quick look to see what chores have to be done that day, I can easily talk myself out of the 'H' word. Before lunch, the craft room won as usual.
A visit to a friends for the afternoon, coffee, cake, chatter, laughter and put the world to rights.
Back home to the aroma of Curry, my lovely husband has been making the evening meal.
All it needs, is for me to lay the table,  then eat it.
A companionable evening, read a few chapters of my latest book and another day has drawn to its close.
So if you have read this far, it will have explained the reason for the page and the mixture of images I added.
I have come to the conclusion over these past weeks, that journals can be anything or everything you want them to be, sometimes neat, or untidy like I feel this page looks.  It is how you feel at the time you put ink, paint, and whatever else you want to add, on the page.

I wonder how your day went, hope it was as good as mine.

Lets Dance

Its the second week of our Music challenge at Try it on Tuesdays.

 I had to make a quick card the other day, so my easy option is to reach out for some Graphics 45 papers.  The stack I used this time was  Curtain Call.

A bit of distressing and some black lace and it was ready to go.

Tiots's is having a Design Team Call  if you want the information you will find it here

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Ella Bella for FSC

'Silhouettes',  is the next theme at Fashionable Stamping Challenges. Please call over to get all the details and see what my design team sisters have been making.
This time I have made an oval shaped shaped card using  a set of shaped nesting  die cuts.
Random stamping on a couple of layers and the main image oval. The  shading as usual  is Vintage Photo distress ink. What would I do with out this colour.
 Ella Bella,   stamped with Potting Soil Archival ink is  from Indigo Blu.
As always the trimming come from my stash.

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She was worth it.

Showing you one of my messy journal pages. The usual stamped and blotted ink background.

Most of the stamps were Stampers Anonymous.  I had also  used a honeycomb die cut as a stencil,  at some point in time. on the page. The sketchy lady is a Dina Wakley stamp, which I water coloured.  Then I just  had to experiment with some new  Clear Cosmic Shimmer texture paste, giving a dusting of pink mica powder before I removed the mask

I was pleased you could still see parts of the stamped background through the texture.

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