A fond Farewell

This is the last challenge for a while on Lots To Do and it's brayering . I have over the last year really enjoyed the challenges set by Hilda, Alison and Zoe. But don't despair there's a new challenge blog starting in February called ...... Just for Fun and I'm sure you will enjoy it.
So here's my finally card for Lots To Do

not sure the colours used show to well in the photo I have used Adirondack Peach bellini and Butterscotch ink.

ATC's and winter card

Thought I had better make a post before the internet goes on me again and they come to lay a new cable to  the house
So here we have some winter flower snow drops for the lots to do Challenge along with 2 other ATC's for a swap on UK Stamper

 A winters tale for Sir Stampalot yes I know it's a christmas card but had an idea so had to go with it but to late for christmas lol all done with Hobby Art Stamps

Post 150

I've made it to 150 posts :)
Lots to Do challenge for the next 2 week is to show your favourite card made this year so I choose this one mainly because it's a style I don't do very often and I was chuffed at how it turned out :) stamping, collage and die cuts Oh yes and one of the flowers now made popular by Tim Holtz

Another Tage for Christmas and as this is my 150th post I wolud love to send this someone who leaves a comment  by the new year along with a pair of earing made with UTEE

The Artistic Stamper a christmas Tag
The Stampman  anything goes
Lots To Do   a favourite card

A little bit of bling

I love to wear a bit of bling but when it comes to cards me and bling don't mix to well lol so a simple card with a little prisma glitter and 3 tiny star gems fits the bill for the challenge for Lots To Do this week.
One Stitch at a time

Book cover

This it the cover for a brag book swap all nice and clean on the inside but had to get messy with the cover lol and it fits in nicely with the challenge on Lots to do which is to use words :) and The crafty pad which is anything goes

Calendar pages

Lots To Do challenge is embossing. Bit late adding mine due mainly to the Internet messing me about :( , but here are 2 heat embossed pages from a calendar I have been making and a bit of paper casting using a rubber stamp so another way of getting an embossed image :)

Lots To Do

The challenge this week is your favourite technique  well thats like asking you to choose you favourite child lol but I love both my sons and all my stamps :)  so I choose to do something I have done for a while the Bandana technique with distress inks and another stamp I got at the NEC form a stamp in the hand and leaves from Magenta . So this is the last page for the 5x5 book swap. I have really enjoyed doing this swap and hope who ever gets my pages will be as pleased with them as I am

There are 10 pages all together and here are the other 2 not yet but now blogged
Up and away

Imagine. Silly me put the text on after I taken the photo which said Imagine you can fly for dreams have wings

Friends at Lots To Do

Another page for the swap on LTD forum which fits in nicely with this weeks challenge

Envelope Card

Seems cute is the order of the day again for the shaped challenge on Lots To Do .
I bought the template sold on behalf of the Samaritans as a cut file but you can buy it as a print file to down load as well.
Teddy stays hanging over the edge when the card is open with another hello teddy on the inside :)

Creative expressions strikes again lol

Clean and simple is the challenge of the week over at lots to do and I've made this card for a dear  friend in his 80's . Just walnut stain DI's and gold perfect pearls

Monochrome in yellow

Lot to do challenge this week is monochrome,so I have used scattered straw, wild honey and mustard seed distress inks and picked out the stars and moon with oyster h20 paint.The scan really doesn't show them off at the best, and these are going in the post tomorrow for a star swap
Thanks for looking :)

Lots To Do is all Distressed

The base colours are Barn door and Honey distress inks I have then gone over it with glue and and a willow dabber the Tim Holtz tree is the embossed with vintage photo distress embossing powder and some more wild honey around the edges

Zentangle

This measure about 2/12 inches and is my contribution to this weeks Lots to do Challenge .

I love doing doodles.

Here's one I made into an atc a while ago, thought it looked like a bird on a flower

This is for a recipe swap on a forum I run, we have to use corrugated card, peel offs and lace or feathers, all things I think we have lurking in the back of the cupboard, so I'm going to use it for the Lots to Do Challenge as well, a bit simple but sometimes that's good :)

The scenic route

The Theme for this weeks challenge over on Lots To Do is the scenic route so thought I would stop and admire the view .
The top two atc's are scenes I have put together and the card a Penny Black stamped onto a shaving foam back ground with some colouring,bleaching and a little glaze on the daisy heads

In the round

I've been away for the weekend visting a crafting friend in Wales ( yes it rained lol ) so thought I would combine a thank you card with the Lots To Do challenge shapes.

All the circles and the easle cards have been cut using spellbinder the stamp is from Inkadinkado and the words cut on the silhouette. All finished off with a touch of distress inks

A stitching Challenge

This is a piece of cotton I painted years ago so I've turned it into an ATC with some mesh, beads and embroidery then I stamped the word Flora.
I'm using this for a summer ATC swap and the lots to do challenge
If you look at my last post you will see the Trapeze card I started while at Zoe's

Lots to do Architecture challenge

This is my entry for the lots to do challenge Architecture, so think I'll send it as a birthday card to my friend in Austrailia as it's so nice and bright
The background is stamped with versamark and coloured with chalks and the building coloured with H20's

A quote for Lots to do challenge

All done with my favourite Distress ink, I've used worn lipstick and broken china wrinkle free technique for the background and stamped in Archival I also used glossy accents on the rose buds .I'm really pleased how this came out

In my garden

Well over on the lots to do challenge blog the the theme this week is wax and we were given advanced warning so have been working on it the last week, thanks for the push as I have only used it once before :)
I've use the wooden base of a brie cheese box and the image is from a paper napkin, I used bees wax from a local honey man but it's a bit dark . I added some pools of wax and stamped into it with some little hands added a little colour with perfect pearls and stickles in the center of the flower all topped of with a friendly plastic flower .

Thank for stopping by and hope you like my effort