MORE WEDDING INVITATIONS...

Here is another set of wedding invitation samples that I have made...This time in purple with black sparkle....

 

 I really like the purple with the text but its not as easy to see as with the ice silver below... these really are sparkly which I don't think the photos show up that well...sparkle is just so difficult to photograph (unless you're a professional I suppose:0))...

Hope everyone is staying safe in this awful weather we are having at the moment...xx

So I have been missing in action for a while now due to doing samples for wedding invitations for the first week and a half of the new school term and then I started doing relief PSA (pupil support) full time school hours so I have not had the time (or the inclination really) to do any crafting.  This should finish this week so I will get back to crafting after or maybe even during the mid-term break which for us in Scotland starts this Thursday.

 

Meantime, here are one set of samples that I have made.  I will post more as the week goes on.

 

WINNER....

My beautiful daughter Ellie won the Urban Teen Model competition...this is her with her prize from Top Shop and she has a photoshoot day to look forward to next month as well...x

TEEN MODEL....

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=687196431331918&set=a.687195367998691.1073741860.145978758787024&type=1&theater

My beautiful daughter...entered into the Teen Model competition...if you would like to vote for her please click the link and LIKE HER PHOTO...xxx 

THERE'S A NEW BLOG IN TOWN...

If you're looking for an inspired blog look no further than Average and Proud a motivational blog written by a good friend of mine...Good luck with it Clare...xx

2013...A YEAR IN REVIEW

Alfie dog before he became the newest member of our family...

My mum turned 70 this year...

Getting bigger...

Mmmh...baking disasters but OMG it tasted the best...

Some crafting...

Morgan making his mark...

Growing up...

Niamh...

Arthur...

My brother would have turned 40 this year...miss you...

Winning team...

Puppy reunion...

Morgan signing for St Johnstone...

Libby and Charlie on holiday...

More crafting...

Halloween

Growing up way too fast...

Selfies...

Panto...

Too many photos to publish...Hope you all have a wonderful 2014!! 

Edited.....Well I have just managed to post this using the Blogger App but have noticed that it has cut some of my photos...:0(

GOODBYE 2013

Well this is the last Monday of 2013 and I would like to wish you all a very Happy New Year....I would like to say that I will be more blog active in 2014 but I can't promise...lol...xxx

HAPPY BIRTHDAY SONJA...

Almost two weeks ago it was Sonja's birthday and I never know what to get her so I thought I would make something instead...

 

I stumbled over this idea by Sarah Carrington on the Bubbly Funk forum. She had used the technique to decorate a frame but I thought I would do it as a canvas with a framed quotation added to it.

Basically I stuck wooden letters to the canvas and then coated with gesso... then I coated with sky blue paint by Claudine Helmuth then added a crackle glaze.  It was then coated with Claudine's traditional tan...took ages as each coat had to dry thoroughly before the next one was added...I then swiped over the letters with walnut stain distress ink and also the edges of the canvas.   I stamped and embossed the quotation onto card that I had added distress ink to and then made a frame which I covered with washi tape.  the flower is one we received in a Scarlet Lime mixed media kit which was bright yellow but I pained red and Midge (which Sonja gave me for my birthday) is stamped onto text patterned card...

 

The card is done using the masking tape method I was trying out a couple of weeks ago with Midge masked before inking.  The washi tape is a smudge I was trying to cover but I think it just adds to the overall look...xxx

JUST A MONDAY QUOTATION...

JUST A MONDAY QUOTATION...

 

HAPPY BIRTHDAY...

Yesterday was my friend Liz's birthday so I decided to experiment. ..I found this technique on Pinterest. ..basically you get lengths of masking tape and lay them on top of your ink pad sticky side down and rub the ink on then stick it to your card.  I used Stampin Up ink.  Then you peel it of and hey presto the ink is left behind.   I thought it was really neat. ..

Anyway happy birthday Liz. Hope you had a good day! !! 

A little bit of Kate...

Last week Kate from The Kathryn Wheel posted a tutorial for a tag so I thought I would ave a go...tried t with a couple of different colour combinations.  Lots of smooshing with Dylusion Inks, stenciling, stamping with my new Stampotique stamps and flicking of paint later this is how they turned out. 

I glittered each of the little hearts on their sweaters for a little bit of bling!! And I also dyed some seam binding using distress stains.

Can't wait to go to 3D Jean at the end of October with Sonja for Kate's class!!