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

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

Jewellery pouch

You thought I'd forgotten how to stamp didn't ya....lol  I thought it was time I shared something other than painting... don't want ya all getting bored seeing the same old,same old.  So today I'm sharing a little paper jewellery pouch I made.  It looks a bit flat (just the way I took the photo ) but there is plenty of room inside for a brooch or pair of earings:D

I punched holes along the top to make a simple threaded ribbon closure and the gorgeous paper and stamp are from Crafty Individuals.

See I can do something different...lol

See you soon

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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

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Chris xx

Diamond card

I'm folding again... I can't help it... I love my bone folder!!  Cheap as chips tool but with a million uses... I even spread glue with mine...lol.  I thought that this card shape would be really difficult but found it easy peasy... so easy in fact that DG folded his own too and enjoyed doing it :D

 

I used this little girl vintage image from Crafty Individuals  cos I think her and her gorgeous dog would be friends with...

 

this cute little vintage boy....

and I just know they both like chasing butterflies :D     How do I know... well I just know...lol

Love this CI collage stamp... stamped onto CI paper... lush!!  Love the fabulous ferny thing in the bottom corner. 

Have a great day all

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Chris xx

Romance card

I love to try new folds but this one was a bit annoying really ...cos I don't do measuring...lol  however once I started I had to complete it.  Won't be making another one any time soon but I think this turned out ok.  The colours of this fabulous Basicgrey paper that I found in my stash made me a tad happier though ... soooooo gorgeous!!

I distressed the chipboard frame from Crafty Individuals with distress ink and added a little heart that I created with a stamp and air dry clay.  More Crafty Individuals stamped images on the inside....

with a lickle bit of lace and a fabric flower just to finish off.

Have a great weekend all :D

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Chris xx

Do you know what this is.....

shall I tell ya..... well it's my good girl handbag charm.  It started off with a matchbox which I decorated with a stamp and paper from Crafty Individuals.  I added a bit of bling with a fastener and beads and some lace edging and pearl flowers.

Okay so you wanna know why it's called my good girl charm right :-P.... well that's because I'm gonna fill it with sugar free sweeties and then when I go shopping and I'm tempted to buy chocolate and ice cream and biscuits and other fat laden monstrosities... I am gonna pop a sweetie in my mouth and hopefully deter myself from buying them :D

Then I'll be a good girl right....rofl

Well the thought is there... hope it works in practice!!

Have a great day

hugs

Chris xx

Flower bracelet

I keep making paper flowers without knowing what I'm going to do with them... I think I'm obsessed... I see a piece of paper and before I know what I'm doing I'm cutting petal shapes... oh well I just have to go with the flow.   I decided to make a grungeboard bracelet... I covered it with some pretty CI paper and my flower just leapt on top like it belonged there...lol

I used paper stamped with a diamond background stamp also from CI for my petals and once I glued them together and curled them a wee bit I just knew I wanted a bead in the centre.  The bracelet is fastened with some chain and a clasp.

A bit OTT but fun to make.

hugs Chris xx

p.s. Can you just SEEEE how hairy my arms are.....ooooer wrinkly too...lol

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.

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Chris xx

Paris fashion atc's

It seems like ages since I created an atc but I love these Paris themed backgrounds and dress shapes from Lisa's altered art.  I had a bit of a play with them because although they are beautiful in their original state I just can't leave well alone... I have to change things..lol

So the dress above was cut and pasted from the atc image below before adding faux stitching around the outer edge.

I used a lace stamp from The Artistic Stamper on a piece of blue paper and placed it behind the missing dress area on this atc and I just love the effect.

Lisa's Altered Art has some fabulous new images and many sheets are just $1 so pop over and grab yourself a few... beat the credit crunch and stock up... they are really great to craft with... so many ways to use them.

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Chris xx

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Summer Sandal

I made a Sandal for this weeks Shabby Tearoom Challenge which is Summer fun.  Well we all need some pretty sandals for that walk on the beach.  Someday soon we are going to have a heatwave...I can feel it in my bones...lol.  Well that's if it ever stops raining here that it!!

I used one tiny flower stamp from Crafty Individuals.... stamped lots of times and watercoloured with Distress inks to decorate the sandal.  Actually I think I would quite like to wear this if it was real :D

Thanks for looking

Have a great day

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.

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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

Sunday Stamper challenge - wings

Catching up with a few challenges now I'm home and I had to take part in Hels'  Sunday Stamper challenge which is 'Wings'.  This seems to be a really popular theme with everyone lately and I'm glad cos I just adore things with wings... butterflies.. birds... fairies...oooooer  gorgeous :D

I adore the new chipboard shapes from Crafty Individuals and I love the way you get double for your money if you cut around the outer shape once you've pushed out the chipboard pieces... you can then create more frames of different look and size... cooooool.   I am also addicted to the Crafty Individuals butterfly stamps...they are just so delicate and all sizes so there is always one to fit what I want to create.

I've used alcohol inks to decorate the frame and the paper behind is one of the ones that Patty kindly sent me when I won her fab giveaway... I don't know how she created it but it is even more gorgeous in real life.. all coppery and shiny... wonderful.

Thanks for looking... be back tomorrow with another challenge... heh heh... mojo in full swing right now...'n'... I'm not knocking it :D

hugs

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!!

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Chris xx

Gondola mini card

There's a new blog on the block.... challenge blog that is... by the name of Anything goes challenge blog...love it.  Anyway the first challenge has the theme of wings with the colours blue, yellow and brown so I thought I would enter this stand up mini card which I hope ticks all the boxes.  There isn't much brown...but it is there if you look closely :D

I really enjoyed making this and it's only about 2.5" tall...cute eh. The stamps and image I used are all Crafty Individuals.

Anyway if you are looking for a new challenge pop over and support the girlies on the DT team cos they have some lovely creations to share :D