Gothic arch challenge

This is my take on the Gothic Arches challenge over on Gothic Arches

This is what they said .... This weeks theme is “Family”. What do you think of when it comes to family? Your siblings and parents? A special grandmother? Cousins that made growing up fun? We hope to see your beautiful creations in gothic arch form here.

so here's mine the picture is of my Greats Aunt's Lou and Liza

TMTA challenge

Todays Random word is Repose: peace: composure: sleep, lie or lay at rest



This is the challenge that i did for TMTA this is what they said,

This week it’s all about slide mounts. You can use the original ones, glue paper on them and stamp on them. There are also paper ones available or those made of plastics, they are coloured and monochromic, so just go ahead. No matter if they are original, stamped or punched - show us your slide mounts.




I did a random collage with a stamped slide mount.

4x4 Tuesday

Todays random word is butterfly:
insect with brightly coloured wings;swimming stroke in which
both arms move together in a foward circular motion



Today i did the 4x4 challenge on 4x4 Friday the challenge was TIME, so here it is

monday muse

Today's word is: Antler branched horn of a male deer.

I'm still feeling under the weather today , but you just have to get on with it dont ya.


Today i have been making my projects for this months Design team on Auntys
all i can say is this month is Acetate, I can't up load yet as we cant upload till the end of the month on there.

I have also made some ATC's for a buttery fly Act swap on but again cant' show them yet.
not doing very well am i not being able to show anything LOL, but the day is young so i might be able to do something later that i can up load so bye for now

sat on my bum saturday

Today's Random word is Breeze: gentle wind, move quickly or casually.

well that's about all i have done today apart from popping to Sainsbury's food shopping.

so i thought i would show you a jewellery box that i altered a little while ago, I can honestly say hand on heart that this is the only thing i have ever done and it has turned out exactly how i hoped it would.
I normally have loads of idea's rattling about in my head and they look really cool in there LOL but NEVER turn out how i thought they would .. The first picci is before and the next 2 are after i got my grubby hand on it.

I sanded the box down to the bare wood to get rid of that horrible stain, i also sanded the handled to get rid of the gold guilding, then i took the lid off and scanned it for a template, also the little draw on the front then the rest of the box for templates.

I cut them out and drew round my paper which were K&co i wanted a romantic feel to the box and thought these papers were perfect for the job. I then glued all my paper in place when it was dry I sanded the edges of the paper into the box for a nice smooth finish. I didn't seal the box because i liked it as it was

Another card "shock"

Today i made a card for the cmu challenge which was to recycle so this is my take on it i used 2 old beer mats and the wrapper from my Daz soap tablets


I cut a circle in the middle of the mat and put a photo of my dad in the center, out lined the circle with silver krylon. I used my sizzix alphabet and cut the letters Dad from the daz wrapper its silver on the inside, stuck the letters to one side of the photo, then run the krylon round the edge of the mat also round the edge of the card blank, then cut out a label from the spare mat popped a foam pad on the back and stuck it to the bottom right over the one that was already there.







I have also altered a couple of Dominos today they are drying at the mo i will add a picci later here they are , i just tapped some brown stazon on the doms the used versmark to stamp the little trees and embossed them with gold powder, im not going to put ant glaze on these as they have a lovely shine to them which the camera isnt picking up.

I dont Believe it

Today's random word is Believe; accept as true or real; think, assume, or suppose.


I don't believe it i made wait for it 2 cards yesterday, one is for the monthly challenge on auntys forum, we had to make a card for a female family member and it had to have flowers on it, i don't normally do the card challenge because of my fear of them LOL there must be a name for it, ************* a fear of making cards lol. The other one i did as i was on a roll something that does'nt happen for me where cards are concerned, LOL.


The first one for auntys i used the Anita's scribble stamp (thanks Julie) i made a bi fold card laid it flat and stamped the flowers in an upwards direction in black and and embossed than with clear embossing powder, cut round the flowers folded the card back up then used chalks to colour the flowers i also stamped embossed and chalked flowers on the back as well so when its opened you can see them.


For the second card i made a tall card blank covered it with Lilly Kate paper (BG) cut the shape with fancy scissors then added a piece of parchment card to the inside front cover to make it rectangle again and stamped happy birthday at the bottom on the inside i stuck another piece of parchment card to the inside back cover and added the pattern paper that i cut from the front i trimmed it so it wernt so wide,to it to add something to the in side it a simple looking card.



so here they are.

Thats it!!!

Todays Random word is: Amity: friendship

Well today's the day my baby boy has gone up to big school (seniors)he looked so grown up in his uniform. I feel quite jittery today worrying, that he's ok.


I was going to start my cj today but i'm just not in the crafting mood, so i will post a picci of a pendent that i made using a Len's from an old pair of glasses and a key ring they were an experiment so a bit on the dodgy side but i have the idea now hopefully i will be able to do them better next time (if there is a next time LOL)

Times flys

Todays random word is Holiday; time spent away from home for rest and recreation; day or other period of rest from workor studies.


where have the days gone, the kids are going back to school tomorrow here in in Essex,

so that meens lots of craft time for me,woohoo. This is a picci of a domino wall plaque i made the other week.

I used 16 dominoes to make it first i used alcohol inks on them, 8 in one colour and 8 in another then randomly stamped images on them. when everything was dry i cut a piece of mount board and glued the domino's to it adding a little bit of glue at the sides that were attached to each other, then added a picture hook on the back and now its hanging in my craft room.

Bind it all saturday

Todays Random word is Bicycle: vehicle with two wheels, one behind the other, pedalled by the rider.

I have been playing with my new Bind it all machine today its so much fun, i have made a gift set for a friend using it.

It's so easy to use i have punched thick beer mats, card, paper so far I'm going to try Cd's tomorrow fingers crossed it works like they say.

The frame was plain wood so i gave it wash of white acrylic paint used Basic Grey Lilly Kate papers (Don't ya just love BG scrummy papers) I drew round the frame on to the back of the paper making the top half shorter then the bottom as you can see i used 2 different papers then added sticky ribbon at the joins.

The note book i use card that was 2.5x3.5 for the inner and outer pages i covered the front and back cover in the lilac paper and used the other sheet of BG paper to cut a part of the pattern out and added that to the covers front and back then punched everything with the Bind it all added the wire and that's the note book.

I chopped a pencil in half and covered it in the lilac paper to match the note book and added a piece of sticky ribbon round the center.

For the box i used 5 beer mats covered 4 of them with white card then on the other side i covered 2 with the lilac paper and the other 2 with the patterned paper and the 5th beer mat i covered both sides with white card as this was for the bottom. I punched the sides of the beer mats with the Bind it all then threaded ribbon through the holes and knotted them, glued the edges of the 5th beer mat and attached it to the bottom, and that's the box.

I will put the note book and pencil in the box and anything else i come up with.