Diary cover

I bought one of those really cheap diaries (even cheaper as it was in a sale!!!) with a nasty plastic cover and a removable inner section, so decided I could make it look a bit nicer to have in my handbag. I used some grungepaper, and inked it with Tim's distress inks, then stamped all over it with various different stamps, two swirls and dots, added some gilding flakes and made a flower from grungepaper too.

Now when I have a 'date to write in it' I don't feel embarrassed at bringing it out to use.

I stuck the new cover onto the nasty plastic one, so I should be able to take the plain inner diary section out and slip a new one in next year. Hopefully I should get lots of use out of it, and might even consider making a few as Christmas gifts next Christmas....If I remember to do them.

There's that Tilda again.

Seem to have been too busy to craft the last couple of weeks, Neil was home laying tiles on the floor of the shower room and this week seems to have flown by with meeting friends, visitors here, shopping and today having the car serviced and mot'd.

It's not good enough really, is it? ha ha ha.

Anyway, this is the card I made for the Tilda Challenge I take part in, quite pleased with the colouring, and was pleased it needed a butterfly somewhere on it so I could use that lovely Tim stamp.

Hopefully things will settle down now and I will have a bit more time to get inky and messy.

Alcohol inks

Having watched Tim Holtz with DB the other week, and my trip to the Make it show where I saw real life demos, I thought I really should have another go at using my Alcohol inks, I've never really got on with them very well, always seem to end up with a muddy mess, probably because I use too many colours at once!!!!!! Should really learn that less is more I guess.

I had also treated myself to a pack with the gold and silver inks s have added a little of the gold to the background, although it doesn't show on here which is a shame because in the right light the background looks very pretty with the twinkling gold. Of course I've used those new stamps I brought too and a script background stamp in the corners. I have to admit to being rather pleased with this one, so much so that I've made a couple more too as I have lots of birthdays to get ready for over the next two months.

New stamps

Last Friday I went to the Make It Show in Farnborough and treated myself, amongst other things, to some Tim Holtz stamps. I love this butterfly so just had to buy it.

I've also used some other stamps to get the dots and squiggles and, of course, distress inks blended.

I have used some gold foil on some of the leaves and squiggles but it doesn't look as though the scanner has picked that up...shame because it looks quite good on the card.

I tried using the central topper against the white card and it didn't look good, so I made the background on some white copier paper in lighter shades, and mounted the topper on some gold card, again this isn't showing up by the scanner.

I might send this to some friends for their anniversary as she just loves butterflies.

Happy Easter

Ok I know I'm a bit early, but with the way the weeks are whizzing by it will soon be Easter, and they seem to have had Easter Eggs in the shops ever since Christmas!!!!!

Anyway enough of my rambling, this fortnight's Tilda Challenge was to use the Tilda Easter image and a bunch of flowers, the idea generally is to put your slant on the design that was in the Tilda magazine, so here is my effort. Somewhere amongst those flowers is a butterfly hiding. Expect the grandchildren will end up with this card.

There's that little house mouse again

I shouldn't be here uploading this, I should be in the kitchen making scones to take out for 'tea' at a friends this afternoon, but I have to take this card with me so thought I'd better pop it on here otherwise I'll forget.

Yes it's that house mouse again, mounted on a nestie....and I used the dots from the punched out surround (and from another one too) to brighten up the base card. (waste not want not etc!!!!)

I thought the ribbon threaded through and bow finished it off quite nicely.

Right, gotta go and make those scones now.

Think I've gone mad!

I made a card recently (blogged) for a friend who was made a Great Grandmother for the second time recently. She wanted me to use the image to make a card for one of her Grand daughters for her 18th birthday.

Well, I find it quite hard to second guess what someone really requires, so made one over the weekend. Neil wasn't keen on the background colours, so I have been playing about today, and have ended up making 4, yes 4 cards for her to have a look at and choose. Three are with that image, and one is a Tilda.

I wonder which one she will choose.

Two of them, one pink and one blue still need some finishing touches, but will do that when I know which one she likes most.

Catching up

What else to do on a very dark and extremely windy Monday morning but to catch up with those cards you need for the rest of the month? I have actually made four this morning but one is similar to the cup cake card already blogged.

I think I have now made all the cards for this month so I might actually find some time to do something a bit different next time I have some time.

I bought a really cheap diary in a sale, it has a plastic cover and the diary can be taken out of the sleeve, so I have this desire to cover it with some grungepaper and make it look a bit more exciting!!!!!! All good intentions and ideas, but they don't always work out!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Another Tilda Challenge

This was the image we had to use for this week's challenge, guess I should have done it in red as it is for valentines day, but somehow it ended up in purple!!
Now I only have one person to send a valentine card to.......wonder if he will appreciate it???????

Another Tilda Wedding Couple

Someone on a forum I go on let slip it's her 40th Wedding anniversary so having used this image for a challenge last month I thought I could adapt it using red papers etc and have popped it in the post for her. I hope it will be a nice surprise for her and her hubby.