Wish you were here atc

A little bit of distress ink and some collaged images make for a quick and easy atc... been too hot here today to do much more.  I love the weather BUT I hate the pesky fly that has invaded my home and has followed me everywhere today...even been cheeky enough to sit on my laptop aaaargh

I haven't any fly spray so have attacked it with a tea towel, a rolled up paper and even some hairspray lol... in the hopes of eradicating it or at the very least sticking it's wings together (oh that makes me sound so cruel..ha ha ha) but all to no avail... it just keeps on driving me nuts!!

hugs

Chris xx

It's a mans world...

and you men can have it!!!  Isn't that a cool saying..it really made me laugh.  Sorry can't remember who the stamps are by cos I did this tag a while back and just found it in my folder.

the background was done using distress inks and acrylic paint.
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Chris xx

Fish boy tag

I love the  stamps I used on this tag....which were designed by the lovely Hermine... the little boy just has the cutest smile :-)

I used Tim Holtz distress inks fro the background, stamping and colouring.

Would be really cool if we could ride on a fish...just think of the fun we could have...lol

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Chris xx

Time for crafting again....

as I'm sure I'm wearing out your patience with all the arty stuff :-D  Besides I have tons of stuff to share.  I bought a chipboard flower book with the intention of using it as just that... a book to fill with memories and pictures... but then I changed my mind... super fickle me...lol

I decided to take the book apart and use the pages individually to make frames etc.  This flower hanger ended up double sided just because I got carried away.

 I used Distress re-inkers on the backgrounds and stamps from Crafty Individuals.  This centre image is from a Crafty Individuals booklet too.

For the other side I went for a pretty floral look... just because I had the stamp at my fingertips.

I use my water brush with the distress inks to add colour to the stamped flowers then added fabric flower pieces and a little bit (ok a lot ) of bling to finish off my playtime nicely.

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Chris xx

Ration book thrinchie

I created this thrinchie a while ago and just found it in my pictures folder so thought I would share.  The background stamp is from Paperartsy and the smaller image stamp is by Crafty Individuals.  I used distress inks and I love the look they give on different papers.  The background was done on canvassy sort of paper so it has a lovely grungy look.

Now I had to share this too cos it kinda freaked me out...lol  The picture below is one I rearranged a bit from a photo of my Dad on his wedding day (right) and his brother (left) cos I was fascinated by how similar they are to the guys in the stamped image...oooooer

What do you think ???

You just couldn't make it up could ya....rofl

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Chris xx

Have you ever felt....

......that you could eat and eat and never be full!!  Today that's all I want to do... no sooner have I eaten something than I want something else.  I am still trying to lose weight so this is NOT good...lol ...is it my body or brains' way of telling me that my fat stores are being depleted and need re-filling or is it just downright greed.  I honestly don't know but at this rate I will be shopping for food tomorrow or looking for a bolt for the fridge!!

So onto crafty stuff to take my mind of eating.  A tag using lots of yummy distress inks and a paint dabber with a Tim Holtz crown stencil.

This gorgeous girlie and butterfly are from Crafty Individuals... she so deserves those wings with that cute look on her face :D

The gold German scrap I altered by covering with Black Stazon and then wiping it off again... tis magic how it turns silver...so coool

Hope you are having a fun weekend

hugs

Chris xx

Chipboard bird hanger

The stamps and inks are coming out to play... DG and his dog have gone home to Mum so now it's ME time and I'm really feeling in the mood to craft... so I am going to finish my cleaning and then drag out my crafty stuff and PLAY...Yeeeeeess.  Love it when I'm feeling motivated :D

Until then here's something I made earlier. 

Using a lovely mini chipboard frame coloured with Alcohol ink and also using  paper and stamps from Crafty Individuals :D

A little bit of ribbon to hang and a lickle half pearl for prettiness... simples!!

hope your mojo is in full swing too.

Thanks for popping by.

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Chris xx

Alter it monthly challenge- Home Sweet Home

Okay so you thought I had disappeared off the face of the earth... didn't ya...lol   I'm still here but I have a confession to make.  I am now a Facebook Junkie (and OMG fb games.... they are giving me sleepless nights and normally I hate these sort of things.... think I am morphing ooooer).  So me lovelies if you are on facebook yourself... let me know so I can add you as my friend  (well if you wanna be my friend that is...lol)

Right down to crafty stuff cos that's what you wanna see isn't it so... and I have decided to enter this piece into Alter it Monthly challenge where the theme is Home Sweet Home (can't believe I just found this challenge blog... where've I been).  There are some fab examples over there... go check it out.

Take a walk down memory lane... that's the name of my piece... created with gorgeous papers, stamps, chipboard  and an image from Crafty Individuals once again.

See my birdie at the white picket fence listening to the sweet tune of the violin.... I think he thinks it's a lady birdie...n... maybe he's in love...lol  He's sort of got that look in his eye :D  The chipboard house was wonderful to stamp on... great smooth surface and I coloured with distress inks... AGAIN...lol

Thanks for looking.... hope to catch up with you all this week :D

hugs

Chris xx

Miniature Suitcase

I found this fab little suitcase template at Mirkwood designs... it's totally cute.  Small but fun and I would imagine you could enlarge the template to make different sizes to stack if you spent a little time. There are so many fab template on this site that you will be spoiled for choice... check it out!!

I used stamped onto my card and clear embossed before colouring with distress ink.  I love the resist effect when you remove the ink from the embossed images.

I did the same for the straps but on paper so the effect is a little different and so is the colour of the ink due to the different porosity.

The handle is made by threading fibres through punched holes.

I used the punched out pieces to add little studs by sticking them to punched out sticky pads and colouring with silver ink.

I think it would be a cool place to keep cuff links or loose change for a guy eh.

Now just check out that shine.... Tim Holtz rock candy crackle.... ooooh how cool is that stuff!!

Thanks for looking... catchya later :D

hugs

Chris xx

Happy Fathers Day Dad

Dad won't see this on here cos he's a technophobe...lol but he will receive it in real life which has to be better eh.  Well it just had to feature clocks didn't it... told ya of his addiction so this should go down well :D

I love these clock faces from Crafty Individuals...

I used cut 'n' dry (grey side) to make a reverse image of CI Poppyfield stamp

and used Distress ink to stamp and colour with.  The clock faces were clear embossed but it doesn't show up too well in the photo.

I finished off with a couple more clocks with jewellery chain in between for extra touchy feeliness.

hugs

Chris xx

Fathers Day Frame

I always struggle with gifts for my Dad as he gives no clues and what do you get the man who has everything... so this year I decided to create a frame for him on the theme of his addiction.  That addiction is CLOCKS.  I don't think I have ever known a man who has to buy a clock everywhere he goes.  If it's a bargain...then he's even happier... and if it sings, dances, displays the weather and has a radio too... he's like a boy with a new toy...lol

So this clock may not work... but it was made with love :D

He doesn't resemble the man in my frame.... but Father 'Time' is a fitting title for him...lol

I used number and letter stamps from Fiskars for the title and numerals.  The man and clock stamps are Crafty Individuals.

I love this little compartment frame...also from Crafty Individuals... my stamped images fit so well in there and the chipboard clock hands that I found in my stash came in really handy...pardon the pun.

The frame was a white one from Ikea... which I sanded slightly before adding distress inks and distress crackle.

Hope he likes it :D

hugs

Chris xx

Sunday Stamper challenge - Numbers

Well as Father's day is almost upon us in the UK and because I'm still in my masculine phase I decided to make a tie :D  Don't seem to see many men wearing them these days but my Dad always wears one if he's going somewhere ' important'... which could just be the pub... or shopping with Mam but he does suit his shirt and tie wherever he is going.

I'm entering my tie for Hels Sunday stamper challenge which this week is 'Numbers.   Probably didn't mean numbers in the way I've used them but hey ho... I've done numbers all the same :D

I used stamps from Crafty Individuals... did a bit of masking and also some colouring with Distress Inks. 

Thanks for looking.

hugs

Chris xx

ooooh looksee here....

I've gone all masculine....rofl   Well I thought it was time that I gave the girly stuff a bit of a breather and did something different from my norm.  Well that is if I have a norm!!  Do I ? answers on a postcard only...preferably a really pretty one... sent through the post...decorated with bling 'n' sparkly bits ;-)

I bought this GORGEOUS clock paper and little watch face from The Fruit Pixie a little while ago and I totally lurve it.  I changed it a wee bit with Distress Ink... just cos I couldn't help meself... but it was gorgeous without too.

I found this tiny key in a box and it just fit so perfectly with what I had in mind... lucky or what.  The sentiment stamp and the white clock piece below are Artistic Stamper bits.....

I also added drops of glossy accents in parts cos I love things to be touchy feely and textured.

See you tomorrow

hugs

Chris xx

Smile card

I made me a little card with a difference... well a difference for me cos I don't normally DO fruit...lol  Flowers...yes.... girlies...yes.... altered....yes....birdies....yes.... but fruit....not before now :D

Still there is a first time for everything eh.  I had these little squares left over from part of a bird stamp by Crafty Individuals and cos one of my new fave colours is orange I just coloured them in on a whim with colour from my reinker... and lo and behold they magically turned into a card.... how'd that happen....rofl

I had to turn it into an easel card...cos I am loving these too right now...but changed it a little so the bottom piece showed more when the top is propped up.

It had to have a flower on it.... layered paper circles on top of a paper and fabric bloom....

 

and though I know peaches are not supposed to be THIS orange... I can do what I like in the name of art... can't I.... can't I   lol

Thanks for looking

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Chris xx

Laugh hanger

If only Mona would let herself go.... I bet she could have a good old belly laugh.   I feel like I wanna tell her a joke that would have tears of mirth dripping off her lashes.  She's still my favourite though even if she has to remain looking demure :D

The world laughs in flowers so maybe just maybe... surrounded by these gorgous basic grey blooms and her funky hat she will be a happy lady.

I had to grunge the edges of my papers cos I was just in the mood to attack them with an emery board...lol

I gave here a red half pearl necklace... well all of us girls like to glam up don't we....

and with a bit of paper fringing and some kitchen roll flowers my hanger is ready for that art wall I keep promising myself.  It would have been done now cos I've lots to go on it... trouble is I can't decide if I like the paint I have on the wall so it's looking like I may have to repaint if before I can put my arty bits up there. 

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Chris xx

Today I'm joining in with....

 The Shabby Tea Room challenge which is 'Dear to my heart'.... the distress inks have taken a hammering again...lol  Can't keep my hands off them.  Well my reinkers to be precise because I much prefer these to the ink pads.  Nuts I know... but I just find I can do so much more with them and I also love the cute bottles that they come in :D

I enjoyed making this little heart hanger and once again used a stamp from Crafty Individuals... I used it a few times so that I could change the colour of the hearts before cutting them out and adding them to different areas of  the large hand cut heart.
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Chris xx

SCD challenge - Crowns

Well it's week 4 of SCD challenge's Birthday month and the DT have produced loads of fab inspiration.  This weeks challenge is 'Crowns' and I loved doing this one.  The stamp I used was a freebie from Craftstamper magazine.  I used it for the background and then stamped it in part again for the crown using distress inks to colour it in. 

I have a few re-inker bottles and I love to put some ink on a craftmat and then pick it up with my waterbrush and paint the colour in.  It gives a deeper colour this way and I can be precise.

I missed last weeks challenge...not being at home... but as I adore all thing to do with 'Paris' which was the theme... I had a little catch up.

I also discovered another little trick with the distress inks quite by accident.  That is that if you apply it to certain types of paper and card (you have to experiment cos it doesn't work with them all) and allow it to air dry and stamp over it with Stazon... you can remove colour from within the image to reveal the white base.

I use my waterbrush for this as it's more precise.  I paint the area just with water and then blot out the colour with kitchen roll.  You can then leave the area white or repaint with diluted colour.  Cool eh!!

hugs
Chris xx