T on Tuesday...T Stands for err...

Hello there Peeps!

I am late for the Tea on Tuesday with my friend Elizabeth and Bleubeard.  Unfortunately I only finished this project yesterday and the light was no good for taking photos so I had to take them this morning.  Being the first Tuesday back after Bank Holiday it was hard to get up early enough!

So here is my cuppa...

In case you didn't know, I am a huge fan of NCIS, or should I say Leroy Jethro Gibbs.  What I wouldn't do to be left in an interview room with him!  

Anyhoo...moving on!  The book that is next to my mug is another leaving book for one of the girls in work.  She is leaving the firm after being there since she was 16...36 years!  I was asked to make a book for her, which I said yes, then had to think of a theme.  Well, she likes my chicken cards, the last one she had was framed, so I decided it would be a chicken themed book.

So far all the girls who have signed it have told me they like it...phew!

I have used a mixture of goodies in this.  My Mind's Eye, Crafty Individuals, Stampin Up, Artemio, Penny Black, Tim Holtz, Bazzill, Memento, Papermania, Inkadinkado, WOW embossing powder and of course Snippets!  so off to the Playground I will run!  The flowers on the front were all in my Snippets tin - hurrah!

Thanks for calling by.  Don't forget to call by Elizabeth's for a cuppa.  

Hettie

Simple Pleasures - FSC - Snippet

Hello Friends

I was sat in my room the other day (when it wasn't quite soooo c-c-c-cold in there) playing with my new Artistic Outpost stamps and a lickle idea formed in my head.  Hope you like it......

Over at FSC the current challenge is Trains, Planes and Automobiles (any transport) so I shall be linking this lickle bit of silliness over there.  The card itself has gone in the post to my Cousin as I wanted to make her smile.  One of my feathered chooks is named after Tracey and another is Hettie and they are the mischief makers of the troop!!  

The green foilage stamp is another freebie from Craft Stamper and I added some drawing of grass with a Copic pen.  The chook stamps are Artemio and the green card was out of my Snippet box. I used Archival inks in Cobalt, Black and Vermillion.  The bike was embossed with embossing powder and then coloured using Copics.  A little faux stitching around the edge and hey presto a card for Tracey.  Not sure when it will get there with this weather holding the country up though!

Thanks for calling by.

Hettie

Mini Album...Arrival of Chooks

Hello Friends

What with all the packing up of my many bags on Friday night for Saturday's WOYWW Crop, I did not get round to posting up my mini album which I started at the Retreat I went on earlier this year.  

On arrival at the Retreat we were given a box containing some papers, a piece of acetate, some string!, two paper bags which had been stitched to form a book and some embellishments.  We were all to make a mini album with what we had been given.  Unfortunately I had packed light (hence why I now take too much rather than not enough) so was rather limited as to what embellishments/stamps I could use.  However, I just had to improvise and other than the addition of a few stamps and some extra doodling when I returned home, this album was mainly completed at the Retreat.

It is a picture heavy post so get yourself a cuppa (or something a little stronger!) and take a peep.  

The background to this mini album is the setting up of the chicken run and the arrival of our first chicks in early May 2011.  The album is dedicated to my lovely Hubby who had to do most of the work without my help as I had recently had knee surgery.....

 

Here is the cover on which I used the Alphabet dies that were there and the buttons were from my mini guillotine which has a sliding drawer for keeping bits 'n' bobs in.  The chicken stamp was from my Artemio set.  The heart on the front is an East of India heart that came off a gift tag some time ago (i.e. a Snippet amongst many that were used!  Snippets are not just for cards!!)

Here is the inside of the cover... Take one Chookhouse..

If you look carefully you will see a pair of feet poking out of the bottom.  Unfortunately this was the only way Hubby could lift the chookhouse on his own and I found it hilariously funny and had the camera handy.....a true scrapbooker!

Then I kept asking him to move it left and right just because I found it sooo funny!

I don't know how many times I asked him to turn the chookhouse nor how many photos I took.  It kept me entertained for quite some time!

Here on the right you can see what I did with the acetate.  I folded it and added a tab onto the edge with "Pull me" written on it...

I have to say I had great fun with all the punches that were available at this Retreat!  It certainly encouraged me to add to my small collection, and the first addition was the bunting punch from SU.  One of the best I have bought!  Through my buddy Sandra of course!

And here is the acetate at full length and the first photo of the chooks in their run!

And here is the other side. 

The paper bags formed two "pockets" and I was able to make a small book to fit in each pocket of the album.

Just putting some bows onto the door of the coop and run to welcome the chooks in before we went up to my friend's house to collect them.

And here is another book with some photos of the chooks.

This is Betty on the left and Wilma (one of the two ladies we lost to Mr F) on the right.

Here you can see Betty, Abbey (the other victim of Mr F) and Myfanwy with Ziva's beak peeking on the left!

Thanks for staying with me this far.  Please let me know what you think!  It is a lovely way to mark the occasion of our first chooks.  Those peeps that were at THE Crop on Saturday will know that I like to make mini albums.  They are great for those times when you need several photos to tell the story but the photos you have would not be suitable for 12 x 12 layouts. 

I would also like to say a Hello to Li'l Pidge who I met on Saturday.  Thanks for becoming my latest Follower.  I cannot believe I am up to 99 now!!  Wow!  Thanks to all my followers for giving me the encouragement to keep this blogging malarky going!!  Will have to think of something special to mark the occasion of the 100th Follower if and when it happens!

TTFN

Hettie

My First Step Card

Hello There

A friend of mine kindly gave me some instructions to make a side step card after she made one for my Birthday recently.  You know me....I like a challenge.  So I set about making one for my neighbour.  I like it and so did my neighbour so I guess it is ok!

If you look carefully, you can see my birthday card (still out.....well too nice to put away) behind my card.

My neighbour lost her chickens to Mr F a few months ago and she had just bought two new brown ones.  They are living in an Eggloo, hence why the chookhouse is green!

Thanks for looking.  Off to make some more step cards now as I do like the format!  Thanks Buddy!

TTFN

Hettie