Time Tag

Hello Nomad friends.  I've had fun making a giant tag this evening.  After midnight is always a fun time to craft.  

I cut the tag using a stamplorations die from patterned paper from a simon says stamp kit.  I cut the marilyn photo and some pink card using Funky Fossil filmstrip die.  I've used some scraps of holographic heart card, some black negative cut leftovers and a white scrap for the tag which I stamped the sentiment on.  I found the perfect brad! and added some pink halfpearls.  

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

Joining the fun at
Tag-along and ATC's Challenge - Autumn opt AG
Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge - Add Some Texture 
Snippets Playground Challenge 518

Kiss Me Quick

Hello Nomad friends.  Just a quick little thing

I've made a bookmark using Waffle Flower Seagull die and some red glitter pipecleaners.

It's a long neck seagull bwahhahahahhahahahaa

Aren't you glad you dropped by!!   Thanks for your visit.  HUGZ

Joining the fun at
Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge - Bookmarks/Inspired by Books
Paper Funday Challenge 73 - Anything Goes opt burgundy, pink, sage
The Outlawz Challenge- Anything Goes in a Card Free Zone
The Outlawz Challenges February Linky

Jolly Tags

Hello Nomad friends.  I love July when blogland starts to think seriously about Christmas.  Now, I know some of you have just turned off, or run away.  I know how you feel!  I used to hate to hear or think about Christmas before November.  But I realised that that's too late if I want to make and send my own cards.  And I started finding awesome challenge sites that did Christmas all year, encouraging us to make a card or two a month, and suddenly it's easy to have enough for the big day.  So now I am full on Christmas anytime, and especially July, which is as good a time as any to step up the xmas production.  The good thing is, I do tend to use everything I make each year, so thanks to all those awesome site encouraging me to use my xmas stash.  Scrappegarasjen are having a Christmas in July weekend, or Jul i Juli as we say in Norwegian.  I've been having fun making a few things and hope to make some more before they close the doors at midnight tonight.  

They have asked for tags in sets of at least 5 and I was particularly pleased with these red and green beauties.  I cut the tags using a Stamploration stitch die and stamped with Rubber Dance Mixed Media Grid stamp using red ink for that whole tone on tone thing.  The norwegian sentiments are also Rubber Dance, possibly still available by special request.  I found these cool felt trees the other day while rattling through some seldom used drawers, and the ties are funky green velour pipecleaners.  I think they add a certain jolly to the whole set.  

It's a bit wet here today, but warm, so I might feel inspired to cool off with some more xmas.

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

Joining the fun at
Allsorts Challenge Week 683 - Flora and Fauna
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Anything Goes
Christmas Craft Creations June Challenge - Trees
We Love 2 Create Week 7

Loads of Lolly

Hello.  Welcome.  In the Scandinavian corner of blogland I keep coming across Lollipop cards.  What's that all about?  I don't understand.   So in the interests of finding out, I decided to make one and see.  Oh dear, I think I've discovered something new and fun to do!!!   

This was way more fun than I was anticipating.  It all started cos I found this fun snowpeep from Unity stamps already stamped and embossed on a piece of card.  I cut the image with Sizzix Circle die and smeared on the Blueprint Sketch distress.  I added some lace and scored and folded some MME patterned paper to make my rosette.  

TIP #1 - use double sided patterned card!!  I had to back mine with patterned paper.

I inked the edges of the rosette with Blueprint Sketch.  The silver metal frame is from Korthobby.  The sentiment is from Unity Stamps.  I also added a tiny bell from Korthobby, cos angels arrive to the sound of bells.  Both the frame and the bell were part of a lovely bag of charms I won from Korthobby for being a challenge winner.  Thanks Wenche.  Hugz

TIP #2 - ink the edges of your folded rosette before folding it ROFL

I didn't have a stripey straw so I wrapped a stripey pipecleaner around it.  The pipecleaner also became a great way to hold the frame and bell in place.  I added a simple die cut circle to the back so there was somewhere to write.   My first lollipop card.  So, that's what it's all about...........

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

Joining the fun at
Korthobby Februar Utfordringen - Die Cut og Metall
Hjerteboden Utfordring i Februar - Bretting
CHNC Challenge 268 - Colour Blue
Penny Black and More February Challenge - Anything Goes with Stamps and Dies 
Ett Trykk Trykkpressa Februar - Lollipopkort
Addicted to Stamps Challenge 181 - Anything Goes 

Happy Shiny Tag

Good morning blog followers and friends.  A special hi to Tracy who has just joined the following.  We have been having some amazing thunder and lightning storms the last few days.  At least it has cleared away the humidity.  I wasn't sure whether it was the heat or the humidity that makes me feel so uninspired.  Anyway it's cooler, wetter and greyer.  A good excuse to be in and craft.  

A few sites are looking for tags, oh goody I love tags, and also there are a lot of summer themes around.  What better way to spend a grey wet day than making a summery tag?  

There's quite a lot of 'new' in this project.  I finally got around to using my new for me Stampotique's Birdie Up stamps.  He's so cute.  I've coloured him with PaperArtsy Fresco paints, newly acquired, Limelight and Inky Pool with some additional colour from American Crafts Galaxy Markers.  I am not the world's greatest colourer, is that a word?, but I am quite pleased with how this birdie turned out.  My tag is Bazzill card embossed using Sizzix Rays folder and then embossed with gold embossing powder.  I have been meaning to try this double embossing technique for a while, so another newby.  I have a bit of powder in the wrong place or missing but I think it works well with the distressed folder look.  

I was looking for the perfect tag tie and had some lovely black fringe ribbon but couldn't find a gold to contrast.  Then I spotted this.....

Uhhhhh, what dat den? I hear you cry.  This is my pot full of stripy pipe-cleaners.  Amid other stuff.  Perfect, maybe?

OK, so it's a bit of an exotic top.  I used a Sizzix original Sun #2 cut from some gold packaging, old chocolate box I think.  Then I went a bit mad with a couple of the yellow/brown pipe-cleaners.  They were a bit indistinct so I doodled with a black marker.  That was a bit of an adventure.  No return for mistakes there.  I think it sort of worked.  Then I added a metal flower from Korthobby and a decorative brad.  Oh yeah, I grounded Birdie using a stamp from Woodware Angels set and a bit of doodle dots and then smudged a bit of DI Walnut Stain because it needed it.  So no, that's not accidental smudgy fingerprints.  That's intentional smudgy fingerprints ROFL.

OK, no holds barred on your comments.  I think Birdie is definitely going to get the lion share of comments but if anyone is brave enough to comment on the fluffy embellishment top then speak your mind, I can take it.  

My fluffy top tag is going to join the fun at
Stampotique Designers Challenge 110 - Tag You're It 
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Anything Goes 
Korthobby Utfordring - Fargerikt 
ALBC - Summer Sun 
Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes 

Thanks for dropping by.   I really appreciate the time you take, your comments and your support.  Have a great day everyone. 

The First of the Year

Well hello everyone.  Hoping that your Christmas and New Year went perfectly.  Well here I am with my first post of the New Year.  It's been a bit hectic so I haven't had much time to craft but I really am hoping that I will be super inspired to try new things, stretch myself and be more focused.  I sometimes joke that my middle initial stands for procrastination.  I am excellent at starting things but often leave the finishing until tomorrow.   And as you know, tomorrow never comes.  Despite this things get done, maybe a bit last minute, but it's the end result that counts isn't it.  Hopefully my end results are good and getting better.  

Anyway, a new year and challenges all over the place.  Fun, fun, fun.  Cheery Lynn's weekly challenge is Friends/Friendship.    

I used a sheet from Dovecraft's Eastern Promise paper and embossed it using Born to Shop Green Goddess embossing folder.  Then out with the Pine Needles and Shabby Shutters Distress Inks.  I wanted to use my Cheery Lynn Mini Dimensional Butterflies Die (I love this fantastic die) so I thought about friends and butterflies and came up with a phrase I liked.  I didn't have an appropriate stamp or sticker so I have doodled.  Then I cut lots of butterflies from an old calendar and proved my saying had a tinsy little flaw.  Although I am firmly convinced you can't have too many friends I do think I maybe went a bit mad with the butterflies so I have a few left over for another project.  Excellent.  Also thinking about it you can have too many Cabbage White Butterflies.  Especially when their little caterpillars start munching on my cabbages.  Oh, sorry, got a bit distracted there.  I wanted a narrow border and was a bit stuck until I found these stripy pipe-cleaners in my stash.  After I had glued them down I realised I could have had a go at more doodles but I do like the extra dimension the pipe-cleaners give. 

Entering this for Cheery Lynn Designs Challenge 61 - Friends

Thanks for dropping by.  Happy crafting everyone. 

Merry Merry Ho Ho Ho

Good evening blog friends, I hope that you have all had a wonderful Christmas and have avoided all the coughs and colds that seem to be prevalent at the moment.  I've been working on a little project that was inspired by a recipe from Neet at Artful Times.  It caught my attention because it involved my favourite colour.  Any excuse to go blue.  So the recipe was blue, a female figure, ribbon and sparkle.  The sparkle has created problems in the photography department.  This started as a card but has become a hangy thing.  A sparkly, seasonal, blue hangy thing.  With butterflies.  After all, what is life without some flutter and I am sure that somewhere in the world  they have butterflies at Christmas.  Although certainly not in Norway.  Maybe wherever my little ballerina hales from...... 

 I started with a Tando Creative mini theatre stage which I coloured with pale blue acrylic, dry brushed with cerulean blue, then covered with irridescent glitter glue.  I used silver for the stage legs.  I stuck a piece of lace around the top of the stage.  The backing paper is from Craft Creations creative paper range.  Two stripey pipecleaners and the stamp, one of the 'Filurer' set, are from Panduro.  The ribbon bows were cream but I shaded them with broken china distress ink.  The clock is a metal embellishment.  All the butterflies are cut from glitter board and silver paper using Cheery Lynn mini dimensional butterflies with angel wings die.  A fantastic die with 7 different tiny butterflies.    An early Christmas present to myself. 

 

A close up on the little ballerina

I am entering this for 

Cheery Lynn Designs Challenge 60 - Lace

Tando Creative Challenges December Challenge

Artful Times Challenge 19 - Recipe   

Take care.  Sleep well.  Have a good and safe New Years eve.