Been a while, but I have been very busy.............

Well, I've been up to allsorts.............


Picture below show finished Graphic45 Letter Stand. I am really pleased with the way its turned out ...

To see more on this follow my link to the right, that takes you to my Youtube site. I've made a video on the finished item and another one on its construction.
Great fun, so much so I am ready to start on a new idea, using the Graphic45 papers.


I can feel a Halloween one coming along I think.!


I have also been making ATCs for the craft swap I have recently joined. That's the UK and Ireland Craft Swap on Facebook. So far I've joined in 2 sets of ATCs and also a Captured Fairy swap.
More pictures of each of these below and Videos on Youtube. They are all very friendly and  talented ladies, I love it.

More to come if I get time tomorrow, as |Im supposed to be organising my trip to Ireland ..................... uploading to Youtube at the moment........ poor pc!

Weekend Crafting :O) My kinda weekend.........

Hi ya

 Crafted my little socks off throughout the night Saturday, had such a brain wave going on. I have managed to get quite a bit more of my wooden letter stand done.
I have used the glossy accents as a glue. As I have heard from a few different places it will stick metal to metal, so from that I'm assuming it will stick metal to wood and wood to wood .................... so far it has as I have even manages to get it to stick the metal key into the metal lock............ relief !!!

Will add some pictures later today, but my daughters in my craft room at the moment so I cant get into do it.
So onwards and upwards we go. ..............................
Also went to a boot sale locally and picked up some goodies so I'll add a couple of piccys of the bits and bobs I bought later. Just need to get my house work done now so I'm free to craft this evening.

But like the rest of the UK, I was glued to the TV for the last two weeks dipping in and out of the Olympics, now I can get on again :O). 

So much I want to do !

Its Saturday 1pm and I've got several things I want to make rumbling though my mind,..................
Where do I start..........

Yesterday I had my 2nd session of acupuncture, so fingers crossed on that. Its a very weird if not macabre feeling sitting with needles popping out of you. But at least its completely pain free.. well sort of.

Still, back to today................ I need to get on with my steampunk cabinet, first I think as that's the one I have the most ideas rolling around on, so pictures will follow on that later today hopefully.
I have bought some lovely goodies from a company called Crafty-Emblies recently and they are so cool I cant wait to get using them.

Crafty-Emblies.com    ( wooden and MDF shapes and products to alter )
Update on above website : just been back and ordered more as new goodies on sale today, have ordered some bags of miss cuts too for use in steampunk projects! 

I posted my Captured Fairy yesterday, she flown to Ireland overnight I hope. cant wait to hear what the lady I sent her to thinks, as she was my first attempt. Great fun though.
I can add pictures once she has received her :O)

Still, I'm off to craft me thinks............... have a great days crafting one and all.  :O)        x

I have joined a couple of swaps

Hi all...

I have recently joined the UK & Ireland Craft Swaps on Facebook. They are a bunch of very talented and friendly crafters that organise swaps and have videos on youtube. I have watched a few of the ladies work on youtube and have learnt some great tips and been very inspired too.

Crafting people are so friendly and love to be inspired by other crafters.............. I love it :O)

I have just posted off my first ever set of ATCs so I hope they are OK. I will add a picture of my ATC and the ones I receive as soon as I have them. I cant wait, I have really enjoyed making them.



I have also joined a Captured Fairy in a jar swap. I have made my fairy and she is ready to be popped in the post. this was brilliant, I have started to make another one for me and one for my daughter as she loved the first one I made to swap.

Again I will add pictures once the swaps have taken place.  I really cant wait to see all the different creations.

Hopefully I will do some more with the craft swappers very soon, I think it may be addictive :O)

Have a great day.................. x

New Youtube videos added through the night.

Morning All

 I have been adding new videos during the night. They are not crafting videos but they are a two part video on the most amazing 3 hours I spent watching and talking too or at lol the seals at a beach in Waxham, Norfolk. I was the only person on the beach as far as the eye could see in either direction. It was so amazing.

I had my camera and my mobile phone and got as much footage as I could, but even this is nothing compared to the amazing feeling of being alone and able to watch the beautiful face seals, we are so lucky, mother nature has done a fantastic job in such a  wonderful way.

The camping was brilliant, we were on a huge campsite which has no load arcades or noisy machines or shops. There was a small camp shop. But it was so peaceful and camping in a more relaxed way. The week we stayed there was only approx 6 or 7 other families staying on our huge field which backed onto the dunes............ Excellent.
If you have 10 mins to spare please check out my videos :O)

There is a link to my youtube here.
 

Scrap Boglin...............................

Hi All  :O)

 I have made a scrap boggling at the local scrap store, he had to be made of bits from the scrap store only, luckily they have such a variety of thing for us to choose from, this was a great little challenge. Great fun as usual.

Our local scrap store has a huge warehouse of goodies donated from local companies, plus they do a regular scrap swap with other scrap store to get an even bigger variety of things. There are plastic bottles - shapes - containers and all sorts of other material, paper and card............... so many yummy things to play with.
I started going to our scrap store when I was running our local playschool many many moons ago.
then I joined again when I started Home Educating my Daughter in her teens.

After this I have always stayed a member, as I have never stopped crafting and my daughter loves to go and collect up bits and bobs with me and also crafts.

Here is my Scrap Boggling......

Such fun, just using a couple of paper clips a wine tap and a few plastic cogs and air dry clay.

Hi Ya

 July has been a very busy month, I have been busy nearly all the time.....
I have managed a few great crafty moments, great in as much as I have loved every minute of them.

I have managed to find an old wooden letter stand, at a local charity shop, it has an old penny on the top and was made of pine.

I cleaned it all up and painted it gold. then I painted it crackle medium followed by black board paint.
I used my heat gun all over then rubbed some of the areas I wanted to look worn.
So far I am quite pleased with the outcome.

My plan is to make a steam punk themed letter holder.............. so have just ordered some great wooden steam punk pipes and cogs from a great new web shop............. I will find the name and add it as soon as I can, more to follow..................................

Photo quality is a bit iffy as taken with my mobile and I have no flash on this phone.
I will up date them with better ones when I can :O)

Plaques I've made Shabby Chic Style

Things I've Created in June 

Key Charm with a cameo I've made with a picture that I have 

Glossy Accented over the top of in a cameo setting.

  

A range of plaque's I've made  as prizes in the raffle happening at the Launch for a film my Daughter 

is in and organised the props for  

The film is "JAKE "   pop JakeFilm2012 into google to check it out

I stamped my images onto boards that

I had crackle painted in cream paint. 

  I hand printed the ribbons too

 so they would fit in with my themes

  I really like the Shabby Chic look

    Now to make some for myself :O)

Easter Makes

This Easter......
 My Granddaughter and I made some new eggs for my collection of keepsakes, bless her she did an amazing job helping me with the bonnets.

This egg is covered in tiny nail art beads and acrylic gems

 

This one has seed beads

This is a large egg, covered in hand made papers and the fir cones are on organza, I simply cut around these and completely covered the egg in modge podge.

This little egg is covered in flower soft

Again this large egg is covered in hand made paper and organza feather material cut outs and a matt modge podge popped over the whole egg.

This little egg has the same papers and little stones added, then covered in PVA glue.

Our bonnets we made together, my little angel is 4 years old, I think she did an amazing job :O)

I have been making a mini album......

Hi All............

 I have been making a mini album, starting with making the album itself. I will add some pictures later today, as I have now got to the stages of adding the embellishments. I have three videos of the making and the start of decorating this album on my YouTube.............. please see link on this site.

 Making of my 1st Mini Link to Youtube video

Update on My 1st Mini Album Part 2

Completed Mini Album Youtube video


 Its a gift for my Daughter for her engagement :O) she loved it and thats a great feeling!

Happy Crafting !

New Craft - Rag Rugging

Wow........ I have been and learnt a new craft !

This weekend I had the greatest time, I went along with my Sister and her friend to a class on traditional Rag Rugging.
Not only was the class full of fun and chatter, Hazel the lovely lady tutoring us was such a talented person.
She makes the most beautiful Rag Rugs, on board her canal barge. They are stunning.
We had three hours, well just over actually. where Hazel taught us from the first steps right through to planning, preparing and starting our own rugs.
Its amazing to sit and craft the same way that people were crafting out of necessity hundreds of years ago.
Such a  beautiful and practical craft.
I have started my rag rug in the design of a moon gazing hair and cant wait to start again today.
Its a great craft and for me especially as I need a craft where I can sit with my leg up as I have a problem with my circulation in one leg. This will allow me to craft in those frustrating times when I'm forced to spend time on the chair resting my leg.
Totally love this new craft and as soon as I have finished my first project I will pop a picture .

Happy Crafting all .................... :O)

Rag Rugging Tools

A fab present from my Sister :O)

Getting there, its so thick and very soft, I used T shirt cut into strips

Back view of my

Moon Gazing Hare

final photo to follow..............................................................

Making a Mothers Day Gift

I have been making a Mothers Day Gift. My Mother in Law is such a great seamstress and I had an idea to make a large cotton reel with a pin cushion on top - part useful part novelty.
I went to the Scrapstore locally and picked up a 5inch tall black plastic reel, and some wall paper samples.
I have cut out the paper to cover the reel as below:

After this dried, I made a small velvet pin cushion for the top, I also stuck a pair of

scissors ( charms) on the top.

More info and more Pictures to follow     :O)

Card and Tag for My 18 year old Nephew............

I made these using:


A4 Black Card
A5 Shiny white card
A5 cream card
Creative Expressions embossing folder
Hands for clock from Oriental Trading Co, Ohio, USA
Tim Holtz die cuts pre cut from eBay seller
Tim Holtz distress inks

I embossed the cream card and cut it to a tag shape

I then embossed the shiny card with the same embossing folder.

Then once dried, I carefully used the Tim Holtz distresses ink pad over the tag, to show up the

clock hands and faces.

I did the same with the card front, but as it was shiny card, it gave a very metallic finish.

I then attached all the clock hands to both the tag and the card front, the clock hands on the card were made from cut out from embossed card.

The hands on the tag were purchased from Oriental Trading.

They are found on line.

I then popped all the card together finishing off with the Tim Holtz cut outs

that I had purchased from Ebay.

Fantasy Film - love it, just found out how to use it !

Love using this, it's just so easy, have made a few large red flowers, will pop more pictures on later.

If you haven't tried it, you really must, would be great to do with children, well if they are over say 5 years old. I know my Granddaughters 4 1/2 and she would just get into a terrible mess. But in a year or so, it's one I know she'll love.

Found a lovely, packed new ( to me) craft shop in Bletchley, Milton Keynes!

I found this amazing craft shop in Bletchley, Milton Keynes. It's choc-a-block with all sorts of crafting goodies. I cant believe its been there for 3 years and I only found it by accident last week. I must walk around with my head in the clouds at times.
Its well worth going to. The people are lovely and crafters with somthing going on in the shop nearly every day of the week.  It's a must, if like me you love to craft.
Treated myself to some Tim Holtz embossing folders but will be going back for more, and hopefully signing up for some crafting events :O) cant wait.

Tattered roses I have made using scraps of Sain and Velvet......

I have made these roses from scraps, odds and ends

 I was very pleased with the way they look.

This is the best one I think !

Loved the blue which is not like me as reds seem to be more my colour usually

Think I may add more layers to the above and see how they look then !

Hope you liked my flowers

Happy Crafting !