Mr Hettie's Birthday Card and some new Goodies

Hello Peeps

Well, where did that weekend go?  Sunday evening with three weeks' ironing done and nearly time to go to bed ready for work in the morning!

Now when I came home from Ally Pally, I did not take a photo of my buys and a few peeps have been asking me what I bought.  So I thought I would show my buys as I use things. Don't feint, but I put everything away in their new homes, like a good girl.  I even sorted my stamps out into alphabetical order on my twirly thing!!  I know....don't feint now!

So, this photo shows four things I bought at Ally Pally.  The stencil, the scraper and the texture paste and they are all sitting on my shiny new glass mat - a super large glass mat  Brilliant purchase and a bargain too!  A bit of a bind getting it home on the train but worth it! As for the stencil...who could resist a tree of butterflies?!!

Now on the following Sunday morning I decided to try the paste using a brass stencil that was still in its packet and was purchased at least 12 years ago, way before we ever had bees!  I picked up a Snippet of dark Bazzill card that was hanging around on my desk and set to it.

So here is what I made using the stencil and paste.  Now I know I need to buy some more fine glitters!  The yellow background was made from a piece out of the Snippets box stamping it with cobalt Archival ink using a Penny Black stamp which I bought on that famous auction site!

Here you can see the lovely schparkle of the glitter.  The white paste is pearlescent so has a sheen also.  Woo hoo!  Another string to my bow!!

Right then, off to the Snippets Playground for a hot chocolate, cwtch and bedtime story from Miss Di!

Hugs

Hettie

Scrapbook Tuesday - My Boys

Hello Friends

I missed Tuesday last week due to decorating the lounge in readiness for my settee (which incidentally did not/has not arrived :-( )!!  I have a scrapbook layout for you this week and hope you will forgive me for missing last week's?

This layout has been taken from a kit I bought some time ago, with some adjustments and twists to suit me.....

Here is Mr Hettie and Dobby sat having a Boy Moment in front of the fire some 2 1/2 years ago.  Dobby must have been very tired as he usually pricks his ears up when I turn the camera on and so I get no chance to take a photo of him asleep!  Glad he did not this time as I do rather like these photos.

A little detail of the strips behind the photographs using a mixture of ribbon and papers with punched papers making a stripey feature.  And a close up of our sleeping dog.

Little die cut hearts which I die cut using my friend's Sizzix die and the darker brown heart flipped over and a little glossy accent added.

Some journalling with ribbon and more hearts made using punches.

And then the title made using my friend's Tim Holtz die, the heart cut using the Sizzix die I used at the side of the photos.  All the flowers are Kaiserkraft.  You can see a little hand doodling around the edge of the layout.  

Thanks for calling by. Let me know you have been.

Have a great week, a little shorter this week on account of the Bank Holiday. :-)

Hugs

Hettie

Pivo O'Clock - Scrapbooking Tuesday

Hello Friends

Well would you believe, I was having a tidy up in my room, when I came across a photograph of Hubby on our first Christmas trip to Prague?  Should I put it back in a box, (not with all the other photos of the same trip as it would take too long), but in a box with mixed photos?  Or should I scrapbook it?  Well I think you can guess which option I chose, or you wouldn't be seeing a layout below!!

So I started with a sheet of plain cardstock and I took some acrylic paints and various paintbrushes and even a toothbrush and flicked some black and gold paint over the card.  Leaving this to dry I carried on with the rest of the elements.  The swirly piece is half of a shaped page being used as a template, cut out of Kaisercraft and then mounted on a piece of green co-ordinations cardstock and trimmed to about 1/4-1/8th inch. I then took some Technique Tuesday stamps and stamped with Black Soot DI.

The large rectangular piece was made one evening when I had a video clip of Donna Arkle playing with spray inks and a glass of wine on the go!  I created several sheets of sprayed paper and this is one of them.  I did not have any plain white/cream 12x12 at the time so I followed Donna and used the backs of some papers I did not particularly like! I have mounted this on to more of the green cardstock.   The clock is one of my new stamps which I won on the FB CC101 challenge.  Love those TPC Studios stamps!  The rosette was left over from my Christmas Tree projects.

The layered piece was made using a mixture of EK Success punchouts and Tim Holtz Lace die cuts.  The text was cut using my Cricut (not sure what font but if you want to know I can tell you - though there was chocolate involved!).  

The clock is a Tim Holtz of course!  Die cut using a scrap of chipboard, painted and then waxed with Treasure Gold.  A little TH embellishment and the Remember is another TPC Stamp.  The Ironwork stamps are all Technique Tuesday stamps and the large corners were double stamped with Black Soot DI and bronze Distress Stain . 

The top part of the layered square was stamped with Wendy Vecchi stamp with a mixture of TT and TH stamps.  

Look at those glasses - they look huge now but were all the rage back in 2000!!  Tee Hee! 

Hope you like and thanks for popping over.  If there is anything else you want to know please do not hesitate to ask.

Hettie

PS  Why Pivo O'clock?  In Prague it is always time for a beer!  It is one of our little sayings! As well as "It is 5 o'clock somewhere!" or my favourite "Is it Baileys time?"

Gipsy Album for Hubbie

Hello Friends

A bit of a long post tonight, so why don't you make yourself a cuppa and take a gander at your leisure.  

It was recently mine and Mr Hettie's wedding anniversary and a few months ago I found some old photos of Gipsy vehicles which he went to see at a meeting before we were an "item". I know Brenda commented on them one WOYWW week as they were on my desk.  

Well, this is what I did with them.....

I used a Kaiserkraft album that I bought eons ago from QVC which opens all the way out, I could not get a very good shot of the album in it's full length.  Papers by Cosmo Cricket, Bo Bunny, Bazzill.  Dies by Tim Holtz, Silhouette, Cricut, Nesties.  Stamps by Tim Holtz, Paperartsy, Making Memories, Darkroom Door.  Inks by Ranger, Stampin Up.  Punches by Stampin Up.  Embellishments by Tim Holtz, Reebok (yes really - Union Jack top right front cover!), Papermania, general stock. Glossy Accents by Ranger. Snippets.  Lots of Snippets!

Thanks for looking.  I can tell you Hubby loved it, and had not seen the photos for years!  He had quite forgotten about them!  I aim to please!

TTFN

Hettie

ATS Sketch Challenge - Helicopter Flight Layout

Hello Friends

See! I told you I would be better this week at blogging!

As some of you are aware, I have recently taken part in a few ATS Challenges.  This week they have given us a sketch to work from.  This one....

After checking with my Buddy Victoria that scrapbook layouts were acceptable, an idea was formed in my head of making this layout.....

Perhaps it was the fact that the rotar blades go round in circles, I don't quite know why I thought of it as circles?  The larger of the two photographs has been hanging around waiting to be scrapped for some time and I was able to print the smaller one on my printer.  I also added to the circles by using spotty papers.

As scrapbooking usually incorporates the rule of 3s I added a third much smaller circle of a compass - an essential tool for flying!

For the downward stripes I used my new EK Success 2in1 punch and stamped the lower "stripe" to look like a log book.  And as it was Hubby's birthday present, I was able to use my SU bunting punch and stamps.  I do soo love this set in case you haven't noticed!  The labels were made using my Silhouette.   The journalling box was stamped on a Snippet of card.  

Here you can see the stamping detail and brads which I put on all the corners.  I stamped but did not put the brad in the bottom right corner.

And then......

..... as I have a couple of birthdays coming up I decided to use the sketch and make some cards in readiness using the Snippets left over!  This way it saved adding more Snippets to my already bulging Snippets boxes! I am linking this to the Snippets Playground even though Teacher is currently skiving I mean on holiday, and shopping til she drops by the sound of it!  Never mind, by the time she comes back the Treehouse will be built and the chicken coup will be chosen.  See HERE if you want to vote in the coup poll!

These are all the Snippets left from the three sheets of patterned paper and a piece of cream for the journalling I used!  This paper was great as it was quite thick and double sided!  (The brown with spots are on the back of the stripes).

Thanks for popping by and please leave me a comment so I know you have been.  

Have a great week whatever you are doing.  I am now going to go downstairs and try and get the colourwash off my mitts before I go to work in the morning!  I will share what I have been doing shortly!

Tally ho and see ya soon!

Hugs

Hettie xx

Moments - Scrapbook Layout

Hello Bloggers

I don't like to tempt fate, but when I left the office tonight the sky actually wasn't leaking and nowsome 4 or so hours later it still hasn't leaked!  Woo Hoo.  All we need is a few more hours (say 100 or more) and we may be able to cut the grass!!  Nah!  No chance ey.

Never mind.  How about I show you a layout tonight then?  You want to see?  Okay then.  Here it is...

Mr Hettie and Dobby enjoying a moment in the garden when we had some sun about two years ago.  When we come home from work we like to sit together on the patio (well at least in the summer) with a cup of coffee (and maybe a biscuit or two) and talk about our day and what we plan to do for the evening, however, this summer - no chance!  We have had to resort to sitting at the dining room table instead.  

Love this flower.  It is actually made using the Tim Holtz Tattered Florals die!  And a button in the middle of course.

The Moments is also another Tim Holtz die cut out of a delivery box and painted with stencil paint with some copper wax smooshed on the top.

Lots of punchings on the there.  If you look carefully you can just about see our bee hive in the background.  

Love the shape on this one.  You can see some tearing of the corner too.  It was a square torn in half diagonally and tucked under the frame.   And a fair bit of doodling around the edges.

Hope you like it and please let me know what you think by signing in the Visitors Book, so I can pop over to see you later!

TTFN

Hettie

When in Rome

Hello Peeps

I was going through some photos the other day and realised I had not shown you guys these two layouts!  Not sure why or how I missed them so here they are......

Two layouts for which I used photographs of Hubby and I when we were in Rome.  The one of Hubby is named "I Simon" as in "I Claudius"!!  You can see the Forum in the background, as that is where we were! 

The title was cut on my Silhouette cutter.

And a little close up of some of the details.  Those stars were actually on the paper strip that you get on the edge of the papers!  Waste not want not!

And here is yours truly at the Coliseum.  I could not get over how big that building was.  I know you see pictures of it (The Italian Job!) but you cannot get an idea of just how big it is. 

Another title cut on my Silhouette!  Vidi (I came), Veni (I saw), Visa (I spent)!! You can always find room for string on a layout!

Some of the details and more string!

These papers are not my usual type but pretty nonetheless.  Thanks to Penny and Ally for the layouts.  These were started on the Retreat in February but not quite finished until recently!  

Thanks for looking and please leave me a comment so I know you have been.  

Have a great (if wet) weekend!

TTFN

Hettie.