Ali-Craft Workshop

Good evening

Wanted to share this box that I worked on at a great day out with the very inspiring Ali and Iain from Ali-Craft and Rob the MDF man and his lovely lady also called Ali.

My friend Sandra and I arrived at the MDF workshop just before 10 am and spent the day painting and inking, stamping and embossing and generally having a really good messy time.

The object of the workshop was a mdf box with a front drawer which had been painted with white acrylic paint.  Our aim was to alter the box and decorate it to our own style.  There were boxes of buttons and trinkets, flowers, lace and pearls of which we could help our selves to and alter with paint as desired.

We were also given a couple of chipboard tags to decorate and add to the box if we wanted to.

I stamped my box all over with a wood grain stamp after using distress stain all over to give it some colour.

I chose to decorate one of the tags with a Julie Nutting Prima Doll stamp. Ali had the full collection of the stamps but I chose this one and then stamped her again onto this lovely paper so that I could cut the dress out to dress her with.

The day progressed with fun and laughter chatting to the other ladies and we were provided with lots of tea/coffee and a superb buffet lunch.

All in all a super day and so nice to come home with this lovely box.

Thanks for looking

Prima doll Tag

Evening everyone

Another Prima Doll Tag - a Julie Nutting design stamp.

I made this tag at a craft evening with friends and inspired by our good friend Polly who is in herself a fantastic crafter and tutor.....

Thanks for looking

I would like to enter this tag into:
Ali-Craft monthly blog challenge 3

Tag on a box

Good evening again.

Zooming in on a chipboard tag which is part of the decoration of a box (will publish the box later).

The chipboard tag was painted with white acrylic and then stamped and embossed to create the background.

The background was inked with ripe persimmon and peacock feathers distress inks and edged with vintage photo.

The Julie Nutting prima doll was stamped onto white card and then again onto colourful paper to dress the doll with.

Her skin, hair and shoes were coloured in with promarkers.

A couple of brass coloured trinkets adorn the tag and it is edged with pearl trim which has been coloured with metalic paint.

 

Thanks for looking

I would like to enter this into:

Ali-Craft monthly blog challenge 3

Prima Doll birthday card

Good evening

I would like to share with you, a card I made for a friend.  Now I am not a card maker and do struggle a little with designing a card, probably because I really don't enjoy card making.  However, I do like the Prima Doll stamps and thought I would make this card using this elegant stamp.



Using an 8 x 8 inch card blank I covered the front in some black tattered lace effect paper from my stash.  I then layered a panel of gold mirror card down the centre and framed this with pearl trim.

I stamped the doll image onto script paper and then again onto animal print effect paper.  Cutting out the dress I then 'dressed' the doll.  (I had to cut off the bottom frill from the dress otherwise it wouldn't fit onto the card......tis a large stamp!!!)

I coloured her hair with promarkers and gave her a head band cut from the same paper as her dress.

Finished off with some cream roses and I think she is rather elegant!

  

 Thanks for looking,

I would like to enter this into:
Ali-Craft monthly blog challenge 3

Copic Colouring

Hello

Just wanted to share this easel card I made. It was made during a recent Copics colouring class at Grimsby Crafts tutored by the lovely and very talented Kate.

I am not really into colouring images and not been very successful with alcohol pens, but eager to learn.  Can I just add that I'm not really into making cards either!

Anyway off I went to the class with the thought that maybe I will make my Christmas cards this year as I have been collecting a few Christmassy stamps that I would like to colour and use as toppers.

Well half way through the class I was losing my enthusiasm and thinking noooo this is not for me, I am not enjoying this and my colouring is looking awful!!! Just don't get how people find this relaxing and addictive!  I was getting more and more frustrated with myself.

Kate offered words of encouragement and, giving me tips, I carried on and persevered with 'the blending' to this result.......

 

'It's a Bag Thing'.....it was the shading of the background that was giving me all the trouble..... But then as it started to blend out I began to like it.

 

 

 

I came away from the class .... not only pleased with the coloured image but thought the card was pretty neat too.

 

I don't see myself getting addicted to colouring but will certainly have a go at some Christmas cards!!!

 

Thank you so much Kate for your patience and also a big thank you to Debbie who very kindly shared her Copics with me.

Let Your Spirit Fly

Hi.....haven't blogged for absolutely ages.....can I remember what to do?

I wanted to enter this hanging into Hels Sheridans' Sunday Stamper Challenge:-

 

 

 

Piece of chipboard 4.5"x8.5" painted with purple acrylic then inked with distress inks Victorian Velvet and Salty Ocean.  The flowers and leaves are raised (Grunge Paste through a mask) and used distress inks Mowed Lawn, Mustard Seed and Walnut Stain on the leaves, Coloured the petals with a red promarker and then rubbed some gold gilding wax into the flower centre's. The butterflys are die cuts, embossed to give shine and stability and blinged up with Stickles! Then stamped 'Let Your Spirit Fly'. Wire in the top to hang it.

 

             

 

 



 

I would like to enter this into:

 

Sunday stamper week 261 Purple Haze

 



Bird Cage Tag

Good evening everyone.
I do hope everyone is well and happy and that Friday 13th has been kind to you.
I have been such a bad blogger of late.....not blogged for ages!!!
Well it is my fellow crafting friend's birthday today and I bought her a vintage bird cage tea light holder. Well I just had to put Tim Holtz some where into the equation so I made a tag to hang from the bird cage....

The tag is a Tim Holtz alterations tag die cut from Kraft card coloured with distress inks. I then stamped with Tim's papillon stamps and added a bird cage cut from the alterations die. This was coloured with bronze crackle glaze. I coloured the bird with distress inks and added a tiny gem for his eye. 

I embelished the cage with bling, flowers and beaded ribbon from my stash.  The ribbon to hang the cage was scrunched and sprayed with shimmer mist and I added a piece of string to hang the tag.

I like the way it turned out and hope my friend enjoys her prezzie.

Thanks for peeking.

I would like to enter into:

Our craft lounge - Tag It

Totally papercrafts - Lots of Layers

Stampin for the weekend - tags

Altered Heart

Hi all,

Thought I would share this project with you.  A young friend of mine was re-decorating her bedroom and brought me a bag full of oddments that she thought I might be able to re-cycle!

Well one of the items was this wooden heart:

After painting it with gesso, several times, I painted it purple with acrylic paint.  Added a doylie, flowers, swirls and a die cut butterfly.  The small butterflies and pearls were cut from a stem which was also in the bag of oddments.  Added a pink ribbon bow and some wire to hang it. 

My friend has hung it in her newly decorated purple bedroom.

Thanks for looking

Entering this into:

That Craft Place - Anything but a square or rectangle

Altered mirror

Hi everyone,

Its been a little while since I added anything....well its that time of the year and the allotment is taking up alot of time and energy in preparation for planting!

Thought I would share this plain pine coloured wooden framed  mirror which my fellow crafter, Debbie had brought to one of our get togethers one evening as a challenge for each of us.

I had such fun inking the front of it with distressed photo ink.  I then covered it in plain terracotta coloured paper which I first distressed the edges and then stamped all over with one of the Tim Holtz stamps.  I then stamped the Eiffel Tower image in 2 of the corners (one of my favourite stamps).  I went a bit mad with the flowers....some of which I made myself.  I added some butterflys which I had die cut from black card and the left over terracotta paper and added some stickles for a bit of sparkle

Thank you Debbie..... I love it.

Entering this into:

Crafting When We Can challenge 15 Things With Wings

Inspired by music......and a hand made taffeta ribbon flower

Hello out there

Just posting this and then an early night for me. I've been nursing a head ache this evening but I think my head is in need of brain rest! lol

This is a scrap book page created during a scrap booking evening at Grimsby Crafts with the lovely Polly.

Polly showed us how to make the ribbon flower which I was so pleased with and have since made a few more. This one was made using double sided ribbon which turned out really well I think.  The page is also enhanced with butterflies and music notes

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Thanks for taking the time to look.

Entering this into the following:
4 crafty chicks challenge  Inspired by Music
Crafty Purple Frog challenge Anything Goes
C.R.A.F.T. challenge Handmade flowers

Calendar Journal - March

Inspired by Kate Crane here is my page for March. 
Blue skies and green fields, hares and flowers.....Spring is upon us....

For entry into  Kate Cranes 366 Calendar 2012

The kathryn wheel 2012 March is here

And here is my page for February

and January

Thanks for looking

Marilyn

Hello,

Hope everyone is well.  I have had a lovely evening crafting....losing myself  to time .... where does it fly to?

I created this frame from a piece of cardboard cut from a cardboard box.  Covered it in plain dark brown paper after cutting the square out of the middle.  Covered the front of it with more paper (think its 'My minds eye') of which I distressed and inked. I used the Tim Holtz bird cage die to cut out the skirt for the dress form and added ribbon and some punched out flowers to it.  I made the roses from the Tim Holtz pinecone die (lurve making these roses).  A flourish of bling in the corner (cos diamonds are a girl's best friend!), and finished off by adding the black and white photo of Marilyn.

Thanks for taking time to look

I would like to enter this into Love to create challenge - Anything goes
and Bunny Zoe's Crafts challenge - Shabby Chic Vintage
http://lovetocreatechallenge.blogspot.co.uk/2012/03/challenge-7-anything-goes-with-crafty.html

http://bunnyzoescrafts.blogspot.co.uk/2012/03/challenge-22-shabby-chicvintage.html

Mothers Day

Good morning friends and a very Happy Mothers Day to all you lovely Mums out there.  I hope you enjoy your day as much as I am enjoying mine.  I have 2 lovely daughters who I love dearly and I know their love is returned.
Have a great day.

Prom Night

Hello my friends

I would like to share a bit of scrappy happyness with you. 

It was my grandaughter, Jasmine's school Prom in June 2010.  There were lots of photos taken of her and her many friends in their beautiful dresses and tuxedos.  In a lot of cases what happens to all those photos?

I scrapped alot of Jaz's photos into a mini scrap album which I made out of mint green envelopes that I had in my stash.  They were a perfect match to her gorgeous dress that I had the pleasure to help her choose on that fun day when she tried on many, but fell in love with the chosen one as soon as she put it on.

The cover of the album was made from chip board which I painted with acrylics and covered with paper. The large flower was the large flower from the tattered floral die cut out of grunge paper (I love grunge paper), inked and embossed. I put a photo of Jaz into a tiny metal frame and used it as the centre of the flower.  Two small grunge paper flowers from the same die and some painted chip board letters complete the cover.

A tag on the binding (done with my bind it all machine) and a few ribbons and beads to decorate.  I also put a tiny photo into one of the Tim Holtz fragments - the guys in their tuxedo's, and hung it with ribbon from the binding.

I'm not going to show you every page, it would take me ages, there are quite alot of them!  But as the book opens I inked and painted a body form die cut and stuck marabou feathers on the page to make the skirt ot the dress,  Some bling finished it off.

This next page shows a photo of Jaz as she has finished getting ready and how beautiful she looks.  The page gives room for journaling.

I enlarged the tiara and cropped it from one of the photo's and stuck some bling to it. Stuck this to a page to form a pocket.  I made a little concertina photo album to sit in the pocket.

Cheers Girlies!!!

A limo to take them all to the prom.  Each page had a tag inside so that more photos could be put in the album.  This is one side of one of the tags and another journaling spot.  Each tag had photos on each side.

Another one of the tags - A rainbow of beautiful girlies.

Another page with a journaling spot.  This page I made from cropping the bodice of her dress and blowing the image up to make it larger, then printed it onto plain paper and embelished it with bling.

I had great fun making this scrappy and Jaz was really pleased with it.  She enjoyed her prom and I hope she will continue to enjoy this album which holds her memories.

Thank you for taking the time to look at this