T on Tuesday

Helloooooooooooo!!!!!!!!

How are you doing my lovely friends!!  As you may sense, I am feeling so much better this morning. Still have pain but it is getting a little easier to cope with and I feel a bit more like my usual self.  Yesterday I had a very very VERY long soak in the bath and it seems to have done me the world of good.  

Whilst I was in the bath, my Darling Hubby sneaked in my craft room and put the heaters on and told me to stay in there for an hour to have some "me" time.  I have recently been catching up on some videos that I had saved to watch including one from Leandra of Paperartsy in which she shared how to make backgrounds with paint and brayers.

I don't know about you, but I have a bit of a fear of the old brayer on account of not having much luck with it.  So, I took it by the horns, grabbed some paints and created a background page for a layout.  I don't know whether it was my subconscious or what, but the colours seem to lend itself to adding the photos from the accident, which Hubby took on his mobile phone.  We shall see.  First thing was to let it dry.

So today I have come into my room, plonked my cuppa tea next to it, and thought I would share this page with you and Elizabeth for Tea on Tuesday. 

Here is a close up of my super cute mug which is pre-marriage and was bought for me by my much older sister.  The tea of choice is Glengettie, which is a Welsh blend of tea...kind of a breakfast tea with a bit more oompf in it!!

Thanks for calling by and reading my ramble.  I especially want to say Thank You to Heather, Maarit and Lesley for becoming my latest followers.  I noticed you have joined me recently, but have been very remiss in not thanking you, so I hope I have made up for this now.

Have a good day everyone!!

Hettie

Funkie Junkie 12 Tags of Christmas - Tag 5

Hello There!

What a perfect weekend to sit in your craft rooms and craft.  Yesterday it was pouring with rain and not very warm!  I spent the day in my craft room with my friend having a Christmas Crafting session.  My Christmas Album is now well underway and I may just share some sneak peeks with you shortly!

I want to share with you my number 5 Tag for the Funkie Junkie Challenge sponsored by Funkie Junkie Boutique.  Don't try going back to look for number 4 - I haven't done it yet, though I may today.  I just had an idea for this one and wanted to create it there and then!

So here it is......

I started with a box that had been delivered and I cut a tag using y TH die.  I tore off the top layer and I got my Ferro past and a NBUS Ivy stencil which I bought some time ago.

I heated the Ferro to dry it and also to make it bubble a little for extra texture and once dry I added layers of Paperartsy fresco paints and Pebeo paints in various shades until I was happy with the overall effect.

I brushed over the tag using Treasured Gold waxes.  I just wish you could see the sheen in real life.  I raided my Snippets draw for some papers and I managed to find some that had come from the bottom  of my spray box so they are multcoloured and have lots of shimmer to them!

A stamping of my Santa stamp by Inkadinkadoo with Archival ink and cut with Spellbinders and layered onto a cut piece which I embossed with a NBUS embossing folder.  The poinsettia button was bought in a very expensive shop in Hay on Wye!  

Some scrummy laces and two bows made from Thermomorph - a plastic that you melt in hot water mould into any shape or mould and let cool to harden.  Great stuff and you can put what you don't use back in the pot so no waste.  I painted them with some accrylic paint and brushed some more Treasured Gold wax over the top.  Layered onto some red hessian from Funkie junkie Boutique, some ribbon and I was happy with my tag.  

Thanks for popping over and have a great week y'all.  Don't forget to call by HERE at Funkie Junkie to see all the rules and inspiration pieces.  You still have time to join in before the Big Day!!

As there are Snippets in this I shall be taking it along to the Snippets Playground.

Hettie

xx

Wallhanging for a Special Friend...

Hello Friends

What a beautiful day Saturday has been.  I am hoping Sunday will be the same.  I am up a bit late as I have been working on Wednesday's dancing class preparations and it has taken a while and I needed some time out. 

Last month it was the birthday of someone very schpecial to me and I made here a lickle wallhanging using my latest style of painting - Paint Fusion with Sheena Douglass.  Here is the whole thing....

And the reverse side....

A lickle close up....

The flower shapes were cut using a Nesties die.

And now the front....

All painted with Pebeo paints on a background which has been inked with DIs and stamped with TH stamps.  The purple ribbon is VOS and as I have said before is a special favourite of mine so I tend to only use it on special projects.  Of course, some of the cardstock I used came out of the Snippets box so I shall be taking this down to the Pixies Snippets Playground.  Well, it was for the Snippets Queen!!

Thanks for popping by and enjoy the rest of your weekend.

Hettie

Happy 1st Birthday to Twin Girls

Hello there Friends

Today I thought I would share something which does not have a great deal of ink on it and is totally NOT my usual style!  I know a certain someone who will like it as it is pink!

A friend of mine in work asked me if I would make a card for her to send to her great Nieces, twin girls, for their first birthday.  Time to hit the panic button for sure!  I don't do girlie girlie cards as a norm.  I had to rack my brain for a few days and then decided to take a look on my Silhouette images.  Unfortunatly, in the meantime, my friend pulled the date of requirement forward a few days.  I had to get it ready for Friday.  This was Thursday evening!!!!!!!   I saw a fairy castle and then came across some princess images.  And here is what happened...  

I downloaded the princess designs and panic set in as I had a choice of dark haired or blonde princesses.  Never mind, I shall ring her.   No reply!  No reply ALL Evening.  Never mind, I will make 4 princesses (two of each) and just make the card with the princesses ready to place once I knew.

Next panic......when I downloaded the princesses onto the sheet, I could only get the blonde one on there.  Ok!  Let's just hope they are blonde.  All princesses want to be blonde.  You only have to look at Disney!  

I printed and cut multiple copies so I could decoupage them, as well as the castle.  I even printed and cut the banners which I had downloaded before and proceeded to fiddle faddle adding layers, rock candy stickles and diamantes where I could.  The 1s were VOS chipboard and painted with pebeo paints and covered in the stickles.  

I even printed the inside and placed VOS schparkly flutterby stickers on the inside and the envelope.  I put it into a clear cellophane bag as I knew she would show it around the office if she liked it.

My friend didn't like it!  She LOVED it and so did the parents of the little girls, who ARE blonde (phew!!) and it got pride of place on the mantlepiece.  I have since been told it has got a frame to go in which was bought the next day, as soon as they feel it has been on the mantlepiece long enough! Phew! 

There are a few Snippets as well as VOS and NBUS on there so I shall take it over to the Playground.  

I likes a challenge - NOT!

Thanks for looking.  I truly do love my Silhouette.  

Hettie

Been Art Journalling Again!

Hello Peeps

I have been having fun in my Art Journal again.  This time I have been trying some wooden stamps that I have been holding for a while without being used, so I gathered them up and put them together on this page.

I first of all gessoed the pages and then painted them with my orange Pebeo paint before using a irridescent red one to create "tartan" stripes.  Love these Pebeo paints.

I stamped the paisley stamp with white acrylic paint, stamped some bubblewrap in yellow paint, then onto the large flower stamp which I bought in Abergavenny Market quite by chance.  First with the turquoise paint, then white acrylic paint and finally red paint, without cleaning the stamp in between!   I edged around the Believe as the stamp was not vibrant enough for me, and then filled in the letters with a fine paintbrush.  

I stamped my Tim Holtz stamp (my favourite sentiment in fact), then brushed over with Perfect Pearls.  I used some irredescent purple paint and a bottle cap or two.

Then I went around the edge with a rope stamp which I bought in Amsterdam and brushed again with some purple PPs.  I love the sheen on the red paint. 

Well that is it from me for now.  This is only my second page and I am loving the freedom of this Art Journal thing.  It is a great way to try out ideas and techniques, as well as new stamps and paints.

TTFN

Hettie