Remembered that I did alter a tin after all this weekend! a cyber buddy sent me stuff in this tin which was a mini drinks tin. I decided I would alter/ decorate it and send it back full of chocs as a thank you so here it is.
and a side view where you can see the lush garden string from poundland - its getting everywhere this year!
What I love about the craft retreats is I get to play making things for no particular reason at all - just because I want to! Here is the start of something I have had in my head for a while.
This is part one of my 4 seasons of Molly and George! - quite obviously this is the winter scene. This little wooden frames are available at any stores who do altered stuff - the aperture is 11cm square and is perfect for creating little scenes.
Its the annual Christmas Claxby retreat this weekend and I am so excited to be seeing my gorgeous crafty chums again. I am lucky to have some of the best folks ever in my life and some of them will be at the weekend for full on Christmas crafting and celebrations. I have heaps of projects in mind to do - there may not be enough hours to actually do them all! I will be making more of these thats for sure.
I have done a full write up on my Christmas blog here so if you want to know more then do stop by. So I will hopefully have much more to share next week but just a warning - it will all be Christmas!!
Is the theme over at Try it on Tuesday - I have of course added a write up on my christmas blog so stop by here for more info xx
I have got around to finally finishing off a few little projects that have been in my head a while. I plan to make more of these at The Claxby weekend 25th - 28th November. I think they make gorgeous stocking filler or token gifts.
Its a tealight card. the papers are from my sale stash from last January and I have been itching to use some new papers for a while so perfect excuse. Of course the snowman is a TH sissix die and the tag behind is one of the atc embossing folders. All teamed with my favourite brushed corderoy distress ink.
And the tealights were a bargain at Lidl - 24 for £1.99 - they are vanilla fragranced and really smell gorgeous. This was such fun. I followed the instructions from Februarys crafts stamper issue - Debbie Dolphins mens gift but i am sure you can also find these around on the net x
Its week 3 over at Try it on Tuesday so we can make any project for the theme of Wish you were here......
So touch of distress, a sprinkling of Mr Holtz, a pearl or two and a gorgeous rose and here it is.
with the old MoJo. Not been feeling myself for a while now so am waiting for some test results to come back and I think its sapped me of creativity! Still when I force myself to create I seem to manage something at least and this is this weeks offering. Over on Docrafts we have a monthly friendship swap where we exchange atcs with a partner. This is mine for November. I have used a new stamp set I bought from Running with scissors which I think is by prima. The friendship quote is from ebay years ago and I love my corrugated card at the moment! I hope my partner maria likes it x
Well this was a challenge! However once I began I really enjoyed it and am pleased with the results. Firstly I punched a circle and used it as a mask whilst I brushed on chipped sapphire distress ink. Smooched a little over the moon to give a hazy look the dried if off with the heat gun. Next I stamped the trees using the Christmas tree from the Stamper anonymous stamp set Just believe and embossed them in midnight teal embossing powder. This has a really lush shine - so I did the edges too! I created the fireworks from tiny dots of sakura pens - lots of colours overlapping each other - I did the same on the moon one too - look how different it actually looks! So there we have it -I am excited about creating more now!
