Happy Easter

Wishing all my blog friends and followers a very Happy Easter Holiday.

I feel truly blessed to know you all and enjoy every visit to your inspirational blogs.

Whats in the box this time.

 Can you guess we love cheese in our house. This is another box that has been given a make over.
The new Try it on Tuesdays Challenge is to Recycle It'.
Please pop over to see what we have all been making.

There will be a lot of photos,  so I will keep the explanation as brief as I can.
The box was coated then painted with acrylics, the smeared with gold metalic rub on paste.
The lid I covered with  card, which had been  embossed using a  time  folder, this had the rub over with gold treatment as well

The inside of the box holds a Concertina book.
I used a Spellbinders die cut for the shapes, some of which were cut from the cover of  a Graphics 45 paper stack. This saved the papers  to be used on another day.

 On the left you can see the pages of the book.
The stamps I used for some of the images were from Stampers Anonymous and Chocolate Baroque
All the extra shading was Vintage Photo distress ink.
The trimmings were all scraps from my bits box.

Thank you for stopping by to take a look, your comments are always appreciated.

Love, wish and dream

'Paper Piecing is our new Challenge over at Fashionable Stamping Challenges.
Hope you will pop over for all the details, read about the fantastic prize on offer from our sponsor Flonzcraft  and see what we have been making.
I don't often do paper piecing, but it is great fun. For this card I limited the papers I used to 2,
using them for layering blocks  as well as the dress.
The stamps I used are from Creative Expressions by Sam Poole.
 First layer was stamped on to an old book page and I highlighted the wings with   distress stickles .
The words I think are Stampers Anonymous, this was edged with  gold Frantage powder.
I used distress inks to stamp the base layer and the shading, Mustard seed and Tumbled glass.

I thank you all for stopping by, your comments are always appreciated.

Wish you were here

Over time I have shared a few photos with you when we have been away in our caravan. For the past ten days we have been in Yorkshire enjoying a 'Spring' break. It threatened snow and finally on Friday it decided we needed a few flurries of the white stuff,
 However this was not the end to it and the photo shows us blanketed in the stuff this morning. The warden of the site ploughed the road round the place, but no one has moved anywhere all day. Pretty isn't it..





I will also share with you an Alpha dictionary page made for one of the letters I missed  'C  for card.'.
Made with the few bits I have away with me.
I still manage to get messy even in a small space.

Thank you for stopping by.
Keep safe and warm if you have snow like we do.

An Altered State for SCH

On the left , a  little peep inside this weeks project for Sugar Creek Hollow.

This challenge is called 'An Altered State', we are asking you to alter something in a Shabby Chic/Vintage manner.
Please pop over for all the details and see what we have all been making.
Also welcome our Guest Designer for this week Sandy.

This is  what I decided to alter. A cheese box and very delicious it was too. It was painted a few times with acrylic paint, I use tester pots from  a well known  U.K.   DIY shop.

Most of the card and papers I used were from Hunkydory.
Decoupage on the inside.

 The lid,  I covered with a floral paper.
 Lace trimmings etc  and a Happy Birthday topper.
This was not  easy to photogragh, as the gold edges reflected the light.

So if I haven't bored you with all the pictures, this is the last one, an alternative  Birthday card for for some one special .

I will also be entering these challenges,
Happy Campers Challenge13 add some dimension, inside the box is decoupaged.
Craft Room Challenge -In the Garden-Anything but a card.. hope the scene inside the box fits the theme.

Thank you for stopping by, I always appreciate you calling and I do appreciate your comments.

P is for pair

The next letter in the Alpha/Dictionary challenge over at the Craft Barn is the Letter 'P'.
I chose  the word  'pair'   and to  use two of everything I added to my page.
So  to begin, its two dictionary pages.
The background is lightly coloured with a variety of Pans pastels, I also used a stencil, it seems to have faded into the background on the photos.

Next came the flower stencil, used on both pages and coloured the same way.
On to the small pictures, all from off cuts of Graphics 45 papers.
Again all glued in pairs, daisies, roses, lily of the valley, violets, berries and a couple of roosters.

Once again I got carried away and had to stop myself from adding more.

Thank you for stopping by to take a look your comments are always appreciated.

I apologise for not getting to visit  everyone , internet connection not so good where we are at the moment.

Friendship

I am lucky to be hosting this weeks Challenge over at Craftycardmakers.
My choice of theme is 'Friendship', I would like to see the words ' friend  or friendship', somewhere on the project.
My DT friends have made some wonderful examples, please pop over to take a look .

We also have two sponsors for this challenge  Saturated Canary and Sir Stampalot
both offering generous prizes for our winners. All the details can be found here

I used a Crafty Individuals stamp painted with watercolours for my main focus. It is layered up on a variety of papers. The die cut labels are edged ramdomly with vintage gold Frantage embossing powder,they are  also shaded with victorian velvet distress ink.
The word label reads-- true friendship needs no words.

Thank you for stopping by. I always appreciate your comments.