Rudolph Beer Anyone?

Hello There

Just when you thought that Christmas was long behind us or in front of us in the dim and distant future, I pop up with a Christmas craft make which I forgot to share with you before....

Yep!  Rudolph Beer!  We (as in the "Royal We" which means I) bought various male members of the family beer for Christmas, easy pleaser, and I was left with the task of wrapping said pressies (as usual) and came across some sparkly pipe cleaners in the wrapping bag (Lord knows how long or why they have been there so VVOS).  Well a little bit of routing round my Pinterest Christmas board where I had seen something similar, a glass of Baileys and I set to making my own.  No red noses as no-one had 9 bottles! (besides the fact that I did not have any red noses to hand at stupid-o'clock-in-the-morning whilst I was wrapping pressies!)

My Dad laughed when he saw them and then told me  on the phone later that they got "wonked" in the fridge!!  Too funny!

Well, that was what it is all about this crafting malarky innit?  Having fun!

Thanks for calling by.

Hettie

Tag 4 - A little bit of Country

Hello Friends

Brrrrrrr!  My phone this morning says -3 feels like -6!  Yep!  It certainly feels like jumping back into bed cold this morning.  I just wonder how my girls are in their coup!  

Over at The Funkie Junkie Linda's Tag 4 has a little Country feel to it.  So as usual I will show you Linda's tag first.....

Isn't it just divine?  I love how Linda displays her tags and I am trying to find a new way of displaying mine for photographs too, but I have to take the photos in my bay window in the lounge as that is the best place for light.  Let's see ey.

So here is my tag....

I changed the background colour as I wanted to try my new Festive Berries DI out that was screaming to be let out of the cellophane and so I stamped the background with my Wendy Vecchi stamp.  Love it.  So then I had to think which embossing folder I wanted to use and the Christmas Tree kept coming to the forefront as I was going through my embossing folder drawer, so out it came.  I used Cordinations cardstock and then sanded the edges a little and inked a little Vintage Photo for the trunks. I stamped the Crafty Individuals Believe stamp and tore the individual word out, inked the torn edges with Vintage Photo DI, added some Stickles on the dot of the i, and adhered it onto a rosette that happened to be in my Snippets box.

Whilst I was rummaging in my Snippets box I came across the mini reindeer which I had cut when my friend was up some time ago (note to self, get this mini die).  I stamped it with my TH flourish stamp and Festive Berries again and then swooshed some gold perfect pearls on there. I then had an idea to get the Rock Candy Distress Stickles on top, which I did and also the trees.  Unfortunately I am not sure the photo picks this up very well.  A little Snippet of lace at the bottom and a piece of holly cut with my TH Lamp post die and the tiniest Snippet of red SU pleated ribbon on the left.  Instead of using the berries from the die I wanted to add glass beads to give a little more dimension to counterbalance the rosette.

I stamped my TH Post Card stamp with Archival ink then quickly decided to add clear embossing powder to make it stand out a little more.  I distressed the edges using the TH distressing tool, and inked with Vintage Photo DI,  added some Snippets of ribbon and hey presto Tag 4 was complete!

So that is now 5 tags done, just 7 to go.  As I have some play time tomorrow I shall try and maybe do another one or two tags.  I will be very happy once I am over the half way mark!

Don't forget there is still time for you to join in this Challenge.  The Funkie Junkie Boutique are sponsoring this Challenge and if you win I know you are just going to love going shopping there!  Lovely goodies there!

Thanks for calling by and hope you like this tag.  Please let me know you have bee by leaving me a comment.

Hugs and wrap up warm.

Hettie

Grungy Monday 30 - Tissue Tag

Hello Again Peeps

I know I said that yesterday's tag would be the last one for the year but I am female so am entitled to change my mind! So there!!  I also hadn't banked on making this tag until tomorrow but as there is a bit of a do tonight I decided that making a tag with a hangover may not be a good idea!!

The Lovely Linda has decreed that this week's Grungy Monday Challenge would be to use Tim's Tissue - either the new tissue paper or tape.  I don't have any of the tissue paper (sob sob!) so have had to use my tape.  In a fitting tribute to the fact that tomorrow is a New Year, I have made a tag for the occasion.....

This week the Challenge is being sponsored by the guys and gals of Simon Says Stamp and if you have not bought from these guys before they are well worth taking a look.  I have had a few orders from Simon and the last order took only a week to get here from USA!!  For the choice of stamps and other goods available, the carriage is worth it!!  One thing I truly love is the fact I can get Tim's stamps on wood (my favourite stamps!!), something you cannot always get in the UK.  In fact the flourish stamp I have used today (and quite frankly most days) came from Simon Says Stamp!

You must also go along to the lovely T!m Holtz's blog.  There you will find works of art and ideas which quite frankly, make your head spin!  Sometimes I come off his blog and don't know what I want to do first.

Here I have tried to show you the sparkle on this tag, something which you may not necessarily see looking head on in the photos.

Here's what I did....

I started the tag by stamping my favourite flourish stamp with clear embossing ink and sprinkling over clear embossing powder and heating with my heat gun.  Then I used my (only) two distress stains of Dusty Concord and Peeled Paint (sympathy aw here please!) and swooshed the inks over the tag.  I dried with the heat gun before spraying Cosmic Shimmer (Graphite) and then heated it to dry again.  Then I ironed the embossing powder off before stamping with Archival Ink in purple with the Crafty Individuals clock stamp.  A little distressing of the edges with the distress tool and Dusty Concord ink and then onto the embellishments. 

Here I made a rosette with the Sizzix die and made it the "T!m" way using a glue gun and tissue tape on the back.  I popped a circle of paper and added Distress Stickles (still wet when I took these photos!) to the middle.  I then used several tissue tapes and a washi tape and made gathered ribbon by attaching to strips of cardstock and ruffling it.  I trimmed the edges so that they had points and then stapled to the tag in various places.

I cut a die of the Reindeer (again Sizzix) and stamped it with a Crafty Individuals stamp and Dusty Concord DI and embossed with clear sparkly embossing powder.  Some black enamel for an eye and edged with DI and adhered using foam dots. 

The 2012 was made using my Quickutz dies and the ribbon was made with the Distress Stains - the reason why I bought them in the first place as I saw how they coloured ribbon beautifully.  A little elephant charm so I don't forget the friends I have made during my first blogging year of 2011  and Hey Presto - my tag is finished. 

I hope you like and don't forget to pop over to Linda's to see some of the other stunning work on show there.

Please do have a wonderful New Year wherever in the world you may be and please BE SAFE!!

See you in 2012 Folks!!

Love and Hugs

Hettie   

Rudolph Day, SSS and Houses

Hello there Peeps!

Hurrah!!  I have finally started to make my Christmas 2011 cards.  Woo Hoo!! 

My lovely Blogging Friend Sandra said on her Blog that today was Rudolph Day so I thought I had better join in especially as it is only 4 months to Christmas!!  Yikes!!

Here is my first card which is a 5x7 white card with layers of black and silver printed paper, silver card, plain black card, chipboard and an old book.

I firstly made Rudolph using some chipboard covered with an old book then cut using a Tim Holtz die.  I then inked around the edges and painted his eye with Ranger enamel.

I cut the row of houses out using mountboard with another Tim Holtz die and then embossed with black embossing powder for three layers then a schparkly powder for the top layer.

The background paper is so ancient I cannot remember what make it is and I stamped some Tim Holtz snowflakes on there using clear ink and embossed with schparkly embossing powders.

I cut a small piece of Papermania vellum and tore the edges and inked the edges with Black Soot. 

Next I stamped the "Dashing" stamp with clear ink onto watercolour paper and used silver embossing powder to emboss the image. 

I double layered the image and then adhered all the elements to the card, using extra strong tape and foam pads, having edged everything with either Black Soot DI or Vintage Photo DI.

I had planned to put ribbon down the side but in the end I decided that it went too far as I had put alot of detailed elements onto the card.

I am entering this card into the Simon Says Stamp Challenge - Travel as well as Hels' Sunday Stampers - House.

Hope you like it and please don't whinge because it is Christmas.  We have to start at some point and as I work full-time it is always better to start early!!

Please do not forget to leave me a comment as I lurve comments!

Hettie

Grungy Monday 18 - Made it!!

Good Afternoon Crafters

I don't know what weather you are all having this Sunday afternoon, but here in South Wales we are having a mixed bag here - sunshine one minute and rain the next!!  My poor chooks don't know whether to be inside or out!

Well, after a panicky week of not being sure whether I could join in this week or not, I have now managed to join in with this week's Grungy Monday Challenge as well as Simon Says Stamp Challenge wish asks for a tag!

The reason I was not sure whether I was joining in is that on Monday evening, having inked up and embossing powdered some flowers to make a schparkly poinsettia, my lovely heat gun decided that it was time to call it a day!  To say I was gutted was an understatement.  I loved my heat gun and hardly a day went by without my using it.

I trawled the internet to see if I could find the same one but to no avail.  I then went to my usual internet shop for crafty things Craft Obsessions and ordered a replacement.  They e-mailed me on Tuesday telling me it was despatched and then I waited.  And waited. And waited.  It finally arrived on Friday!  Hurrah!!  Let's hope this one lasts as long as my old one. 

For the Grungy Monday Challenge this week the lovely Linda sent us HERE where we saw Tim demonstrate a technique involving vellum. 

I could not resist using my lovely new Reindeer Die for a Christmas tag.  Hope you like it.  I think it will be featuring on a lot of Christmas cards this year.  Do you realise it is only 140 days away?!!!

Please do not forget to leave me a comment and please pop over to the blogs by clicking on the purple words above.

TTFN

Hettie

Ingredients:-

Ranger - Heat gun, tag die, reindeer die, DIs Forest Moss, Vintage Photo, Walnut stain, grungeboard, grungepaper, snowflake, dabber paint; Paperartsy script stamp; Penny Black foilage stamp; embossing powder, brown pen, ribbon, bell, fibres.