Last post for Just for Fun

It's with a sad heart I have to say this is the last challenge at Just for Fun as Zoe is moving on to do other things.

So we hope you will join us with Neets  last choice of the month and distress your man. to me that means old  comfortable and much loved :)
I've made 2 backgrounds the bottom one of torn papers and distress inks and the top one dry brushed with acrylic paints and DI stains and images from Paperartsy and kanban
We thank you, all our follower for your support over the last year and hope you will say a fond farewell to Zoe, Neet and Just for Fun and see you all in another guise soon :)
Hugs to you all and thanks for play 

Sports mad at Just for Fun

Looks like you enjoyed Neet's vintage men  and we certainly saw some wonderful mixed media pieces :)Now Neet would like you think of a sporting card for the man in your life, mind you I did have to smile when we had a few black and white sport themed cards at the begining of the month so now you can colour them in tehe
In this house if it hasn't got an engine they're not interested lol with snooker being the exception . I have made a backgound as seen in my last post with butterscotch and cranberry and simply stamp my image ,

I can't think why making mens cards has brought out the c&s crafter in me lol

Hope you will come and see what Neet and Zoe have made at Just for Fun

The Creative Crew are also having men as their theme

Vintage men at Just For Fun

Didn't you all do well with the black and white mens cards :) and I'm sure you will find this weeks of vintage mens cards just as much fun, you will won't you Neet said you will love it . This month I have the privilege of asking Valerie to be our guest designer she has such a wonderful way with paper paint and ephemera

Another reasonably clean card from me on kraft card with Tims car and cog and a rather handsome chap from I know not where.
So it's thinking caps on and we hope you will join us at Just for Fun 

It's Black and White in a Mans World

I'm handing the reins over to Neet this month who has choosen men to be the theme of the month starting off with Black and White and if  like me you don't make that many mens cards, how ever a friend ask me to make a card for her husbands birthday ☺

Just 2 stamps used the silhouette from Personal Impression and the background stamp from Dee Gruening and the text done on the pooter . A simple lookng card but I'm pleased with how it came out
So come and play along with us at Just for Fun with Zoe and Neet
I would also like to enter this in the Fashionable Stamping Challenge who also have men on their minds :)

Medieval Times at just for Fun

In days of old when Knights were bold and wenches hearts were won, he'd don a suit in hot pursuit until until the job was done


It's the last week of my choice at Just For Fun of time travelling and we are taking a big leap this time back to the medieval period where fact and fiction till us stories of knight slaying dragons, maidens in distress and magic in the woods .
I have taken my inspiration  from the illuminated pages made by the monks the frame is made from a Crafty Individual boarder stamp as is the little flourish ( I used the flitter glue and metal flakes wow is it good and so easy to use )on a distress ink background and a TH flourish peeking out from behind my maiden
 

Now don't forget to check out Neet and Zoe's creations for more inspiration :)
Aren't you glad I take take you back any further to the prehistoric era lol

Art Nouveau at Just for Fun

I hope you are enjoying our little travel through time at Just For Fun :)

Going back just a little further this week at Just for Fun with Art Nouveau for me it's a very feminine style, rich in colours and texture and so organic  

For my piece this week I have embossed a piece of foil with an image I printed off the Internet to use as my patten and distressed with black acrylic paint and mounted onto the front of a note book.I am please with it but just can't make up my mind whether to add ribbons and the such like to the spine

To find out more and see what Zoe and Neet have created please visit Just for Fun and I hope Bloger is being kind to everyone after the troubles of last week

It's also anything but a card at Simon Says

Art Deco at Just for Fun

Well we certainly enjoyed your memories of the 60's & 70's at Just For Fun  and I hope you will enjoy going just a bit further back the glamour of Art Deco probably not to memories of the period but maybe of things you saw in your grandparents homes.
 Oh how I love the Erte ladies and the strong architectural shapes of the building's coming to the fore with Hollywood and all that glamour.Then there's our English ladies like Clarice Cliff, Susie Cooper and Charlotte Reed with their pottery designs

The stamp from non sequential is embossed in gold and coloured with a gold gel pen and promarker and distress ink matted on black and white, and of course Zoe and Neet have there take on it as well as our guest designer Chrissie who has made the most amazing mirror :)
This is a cigarette case which belonged to my late farther in law just love the way the straight and curved lines work together

Have you collected a piece you would like to share ?

Hope you all have fun with is challenge

On a final note I'd just like to apologise if anyone recieved a spam email from me as I was hacked, but it's all sorted now :)

Heads in a spin

Happy New Year to you all and I have the pleasure of setting the theme first month of the year :)  at Just For Fun
What a fantastic variety of creation we had for the anything goes last week seems you were all pleased not to have to think of Christmas
Yes we are going to be time travelling this month so please step aboard as we go back in time to the 60's and 70's flower power and free love Mods and Rocker, the opening of Habitat. For me the days of my youth and I expect the same for a lot of you an era of great changes in society especially for young the retro period. More great designer in fashion and furnishing can't say much about the architecture though lol


So get out those colour and make it bright and cheerful like Zandra Rhoads or black and white like Mary Quant

Hope you have lots of fun with us this month as we go back in time
For my card I have used the toy spin art love this it's great fun lol I did quite a few and cut then into smaller squares stuck them together to make a strip and stamp the Anita stamp groovy girl cut the love hearts on my silhouette , so come on get in the groove and join us at Just for Fun with Zoe and Neet

Anything goes at Just for Fun

How are you all ? were you good and did Santa bring you some new toys to play with if so why not get creative and show them off here at Just for Fun as it's anything goes .
I have had a play with an old toy had to blow the dust off mind you lol

I've taken 2 files from my Silhouette library and joined them together, not sure if you can see but I have used green and pink chalks on the flourish and bird and distress ink for the edge this was then mounted on a background made with reinkers on tissue paper. Zoe and Neet have of course come up with fab ideas :)
Have a wonderful New Year all and I look forward to visiting you
XXX

Week 47 at Just for Fun

A quiet week for Zoe's choice of seasons and summer at Just for Fun, but so lovely to see those of you taking a break from the Christmas cards :)  now we are revisiting autumn on this the winter solstice so days can only get lighter and hopefully brighter from today .
For my creation this week I've used part of a stamp from Third coast a fairy among the brambles, my OH think she looks a bit scary. I've made a chip board frame by glueing layers together cut with a nestability, coloured some card with the autumn DI's love that seedless preserve just the right colour for all those autumn fruits, die cut some leaves and used candy cane stickles for the berries , so if you have time to play along with us this week Zoe Neet and myself will only be to happy to come and vist you :)

Sunny days at Just for Fun

We're working up a sweat here, well we can live in hope can't we lol at Just for Fun with Zoe taking us into the summer.
We also have a guest this week Ann  invited by Neet whom I'm sure will have come up with something pretty amazing being a tallented crafter
My little offering this week is a domino stamped and embossed with flowers and butterfly from Personal Impressions on an alcohol ink background and coloured with sukura pens and topped off with glossy accents

It's getting warmer at Just for Fun

We're here with the second week of Zoe's choice at Just for Fun
After winter comes the spring, longer day and warming sun bringing forth new life and for me a favourite sight are the woods full of bluebells of which there are plenty of near to me :)

I hope I have captured that feeling of a bright day in the woods with an alcohol background and trees from Kanban and a suggestion of bluebells . Zoe and Neet of course have their own vision of spring which are just wonderful

Hope you are keeping nice and warm and dreaming of days to come

Baby it's cold outside

It's the 1st of December and Zoe's choice at Just for Fun and she would like to see your interpretation of winter. Winter always bring to mind a poem we learnt at school. When the north wind doth blow we shall have snow and what will the robin do then, poor thing

I have used a shallow tray into which I have added a background of distress inks and Penny black trees a TH flourish to represent the cold wind part of a TH on the edge twigs and of course the TH bird.

Favourite shape at just for Fun

We certainly saw some wonderful techniques this last week :) from all you wonderful crafters
This is the last week of Neet's favourites at Just for Fun
What's your favourite shape ? maybe a die cut or card shape like Zoe
Well mines the Paisley from spellbinders I've used the largest a number of times as a tag but thought for a change I'd use a smaller one on a card inked up some paper with the new seedless preserve chipped and stamped my image with chipped sapphire cut 2 out and had a happy accident 2 make a heart shape :) nothing was planned it all just sort of happen as I went along, I've used sequin waste for the dots with spun sugar on the base card

Looking forward to seeing what you can do with your favourite shape

Techniques galore at Just for Fun

Well I didn't think it could get any harder but Neet's choice this week is favourite techniques ! oh what to do I have all ready done a few this month bleaching , kiss resist, wrinkle free and letterpress with embossing folders ............. wow there are just so many out there
Ok so here we go with my first Christmas card of the season embossed with snowflake tinsel and water coloured with distress inks and perfect pearl not difficult but effective :) I use an acrylic block for my pallet and just touch the corner of my ink pad to it to lay down some ink then spritz with a little water, pick up a little PP with my paint brush and mix, a little goes along way . I used a new colour Biscotti which is a lovely compromise between the pearl and the gold :)

I hope you can see the subtle shimmer the PP has given.
Now it's time for you to have a play and share with us at Just for Fun
Oh and do check out Zoe's and Neets they are extra fabulous week :)

What's Yours at Just for Fun

Vodka and lime please :) opps I mean favourite colour, gosh that's as hard as favourite stamp. Neet your a little stinker lol
Well black and denim are my favourite colours to wear the more faded the better but then again I do love bright colours and the colours of autumn and then there's colours that are in the background like grey which enrich other colours like the reds pinks and mauves boy was it hard to settle on one well you don't have to settle for one just make your favourite the main colour of your creation for this week at Just For Fun

A chipboard tag painted with dabbers in wild plum, chewing gum, bottle and pumice stone DI and the image coloured with le Plume pens

faded jeans and snow cap white distress stains for the background then stamped with faded jeans and broken china



Now don't forget to come and share favourite colour or combination with us at Just for Fun as we would love to visit your
Take care all xxx

A Month of Favourites at JFF

Neets turn to set the scene for this month at JFF with Favourites and the first is a favourite stamp ! what a hard task that is with so many to choose from, but with it being Autumn I could only choose this wonderful lady from Third Coast with the wind and leaves blowing through her hair if only I looked that good haha

Lookng forward to seeing what is a favourite stamp of yours
I would also lke to enter this in Make My Monday Autumn leaves which I haven't joined in for a while sorry girls

Here we are at the last week of re/up cycling and it has been a challenging month and even though it's my choice I have found this one the hardest. So this week it's any found object, be it natural or man made .
No really much crafting here more an as semblance of objects flower made from a beer can painted with inca paint a broken pot from the garden some lichen and seed heads found on a walk with a stone with a hole from my pot of stones and some autumn foliage from the garden and all stuck with a hot glue gun

I left it on the windowsill as it looked quiet at home there :)
Zoe and Neet have both come up makes this week me up with some great creations

What's in your bedroom

Well we are still recycling things from around the house at Just For Fun so what can you up-cycle from your boudoir :)  or sewing box.Well I had lots of ideas dress up a perfume bottle decoupage an old handbag with some of the pages I cut out of the book, jazz up a pair canvas shoes but ..................... when your mojo goes on holiday with out you all these things seemed so daunting I would love to see if you can make them come to life for me :) so my creation for this week is very simple I coloured some air dry clay with wild plum AI and formed it to make a frame for a mirror I took out of an old eye make-up case and to hang it I've use those annoying bits of ribbon they put on the shoulder of garment, a great source of free narrow ribbon

You must check out what Zoe and Neet have made and Neets guest designer Hazel all stunning pieces
Thank you for stopping by and hope you will find time to join us this week

Recycling in the Kitchen Challenge at JFF

Well it looks like I took you all by surprise last week but hope you agree we did see some imaginative recycling of different paper

This week it's all in the kitchen, all those free containers, tins and plastic, will you be brave enough to make your own stamp using vegetables or a cork or maybe a piece of polystyrene the possibilities are endless remember Neets bag from a milk carton. So with all these ideas why did I do a tag I hear you ask, well I have used a cereal box Shreddies nice and white on the inside :) and takes ink beautifully ( I often use cereal boxes for die cutting ) and then what I haven't tried before the inner sleeve that holds the cereal I used a nestabilities cut out 4 circles and inked with AI 's I was very pleased at how it held it's shape when crumpled :) The back ground is brayed through a piece of netting from some lemons just love how random it is and to finish off some onion skin and the handle of a carrier bag

Last but not least a bag I'm still working on made out carrier bags simply cut off the bottom and then into strips loop them together to form your yarn and crochet away :)

Zoe and Neet have both come up with something completely different :)
Have fun and thinking out of the box is a must for this one so put the little grey cells to work