Why I love words, another layout and

Well I have been inspired this week to do a layout about why I love words. I write the odd poem and read loads and loads. I am dyslexic and was unfortunate to change areas at a key stage in a childs reading ability. I could read fairly well early, however I went from one area to another and they used phonics and made me start again. I didn;t really manage to read fluently again till I was 11 . I went to secondry school and we did the 1st world war in history and I read some of the war poets poems and that was it . I was moved and inspired by the sheer depth of feeling they could inspire with so few words. If you haven't come across their poetry you should take a look. Rupert Brooke and Wilfred Owen both died in the war and I have represented this by changing the center of their poppys to the watch face to represent their running out of time.

So here is my layout

The kit used is Eclectic by Imagination at Design House Digital 

I also fell in love with Vanessa Fentons Two new kits Moody Blues stunning arty papers Ill be using all of them they are moody and magnificent  and Haven a fantastic gothic alpha. They are so up my street. So here is my layout featuring them. It also feature one of Vanessa;s fantastic floral brushes.

Anyway I have also been doing a little designing and put together the two papers below

If you like them you can download my freebee papers here

Well thats it for me today. Have a great day!

TTFN Rattytatty

This Thursday Challenge 10.

Hello everyone

This weeks challenge on This Thursday, its all about is entitled Blings the thing, so we want to see sparkle, shimmer, glitz, metalics anything blingy.

Now I will warn you two of my peices are much more sparkly in real life than in my examples, shame that I could not get the sparkly bits to show up on my photos.

My 1st peice

I wanted to do something that was blibgy yet subtle although the two probably are mutually exclusive, The beads are a lot more sparkly in real life .

My second peice I edged with copper leafing pen, I also edged the grungebaord letters . I added clear sakura glitter over some of the details in each of the papers. . The ribbon is shimmery. So again anopther subtley blingy peice/

However nothing subtle about example 3

I used a terracotta mist over a whit slide mailer. Then silver embossing poweder in various areas and various depths. I stamped the butterfly stamp into the thick area of embossing powder. Then coloured areas with copper leafing pen. I cut 4 strips of friendly plastic and adhered to front of mailer. Then heated, and dragged friendly plastic comb through in three directions

The inside I made friendly plastic corners. Then I cut up sections of friendly plastic in large bits for the top and 3rd slide sections and small bits for the 2nd and 4th sections. Heated and then pulled it around with a needle. Then embedded multi coloured gems and pearls into each section

So that is this weeks examples Hope you like them.

This Thursday also has 4 papers for you to download today

You can download them here Free Paper Downloads or you can download them on This thursdays free printables page, along with many more papers

Tracey

This Thursday challenge 6 . The golden rule Mixed media monday and Theme Thursday

Well its been an amazingly busy week partly because I could nt resist making so many examples for this weeks challenge on This Thursday One idea lead to another idea and then another and so I have loads of examples. So the Theme is The golden Rule. based on a quote by William Morris and you have to Create something beautiful or useful

These are my a bit about what makes me me Bag panels . I had meant to do some more panels for my bag and i adored the effects of the Moonglow inks and Starburst stains supplied by our sponsor THE STAMPMAN . The prize this week is a set of 5 Moonglow mists thanks to The Stampman . A great prize

I made various papers by painting moonglow inks onto card. Then covering in creased cling film, or sprinkling salt onto it , or crunching it up when wet. i also sprayed some moon rock paper with The moonglow mists.

I created the basic panel with peices of each paper added some peel of boarders to highlight the gold in the panels.

I stamped some images and coloured them, but no matter how I coloured them they did nt create the effect iI wanted, So I stamped them on plain white card and I love the contrast it gives.

Each panel is titled A bit of , and we have Mystery and magic, Drama , History, Sea air, Fun and wildlife.

If you like these they were created with starburst stains and moonglow mists and there is a tutorial on the This Thursday project page.

So this is my Pull and push card. I misted on sheet of card with Starburst stains Alpine Ice Rose, Mist and the other both sides Edelweiss Moss Green I just adore the way these glimmer

I used some butterfly clear stickers and some fairy clear stickers to finish this off. Its a card for my butterfly and fairy mad neice.

Here is my screwed up grungeboard bangle , which I painted with Moonglow inks Volacious Violet , In one light it looks like a faded leather in another it has a metallic purple shimmer. I added some screw brads, Coloured a mm Flower purple and brown.

I wanted to show the moonglow inks of so you could see the different look when you change the angle so I dribbled some different colours onto white cardstock to create this background. I also painted the hessian ribbon as well, but the effect on that is really really subtle.

I also noticed that the Theme on Mixed Media monday was rust and knew I could create some rusty looking items with the Moonglow inks so here are my final peices both for Mixed Media Monday

This is my acrylic and acetate Lamp. I created an acrylic box using 3mm acrylic sheet , you can buy it HERE They aslo do 5mm acrylic sheet in A3 and A1 great for making your own acrylic albums . The lamp is lit with a changing bulb this is presrntly a purple light, it looks amazing as it changes , and when unlit too .


and unlit.

You can use moonglow mists and starburst stains on Acetate if you use inkjet acetate and spray on the rough side and leave to dry. Or you can use a heat gun carefully or if you want something that looks really unusual you can heat the acetate until it warps, Keep doing it until you are happy. then flatten a bit by heating with heat gun and pressing flat with acrylic block. I also used Acrylic inks which will dry on normal acetate which you can buy HERE

and my final peice

I think this looks like rusty enamel





You should see all the other examples by my talented team mates,

plus Theme Thursday Flowers

This is a mini acrylic album I made using the 3mm Acrylic sheet from www.fredaldous.co.uk

I used fusible fibre which came from www.thestampman.co.uk and heated it on the acrylic sheet

sprinked embossing powders over and heated it then flattened the sheet with an acrylic block

Interestingly the bind it all had no trouble punching through the 3mm acetate

So that is my final peice for Thursday hope you like it.

I also have some papers that you can download

and you can download them here FREE PAPER DOWNLOAD There are 8 matching papers available on This Thursday free paper download page

This Thursday, Daring Cardmakers and Layers of Colour

Hi all
Have not been so well over the last couple of days but have managed to do a bit of crafting . So here is my peice that fulfils This Thursday opposites attract.( I thought the contrast between the coloured paper, and the black and white stamped image would work well.)
Daring cardmakers Cards with A peel ( I adore these peel off corners I bought loads of them. I used to be a peel of hater but for the last year I have found peel offs have improved and you can do some snazzy things with peel off pens and make some really doody butterflies see pic)

and layers of colour berries challenge
so this is my finished peice . The bird is actually on an acetate spring so that it trembles as if flying Which you can't see on a photo


I have also been playing with Fantasy Film dip kit that I got from Fred Aldous and I am really impressed. I created a daffodil. I am going to put this inside an explosion box card. Won't that be amazing to find this fragile daffodil inside


If you like the fruit background from the challenge card



you can download it here as 12 by 12 then print of at whatever size you like Free Paper Download

This weeks This Thursday challenge plus Rainbow Ladys challenge

Hi all
This weeks challenge on This Thursday is Opposites Attract. The prize this week is the winners choice of 1 full plate of Cherry Pie Art Stamps . All stamped images in the projects are Cherry Pie Art Stamps to see the amazing range of plates the winner can pick from Click HERE

There are some really great examples from Susie, Fiona and guest Designer Vicki
Here are two of my examples from this weeks challenge you can see all the other challenge examples HERE






There is also a downloadable tutorial on an unusual melted baby wipe background on the This thursday projects page



and some free downladable papers on the download page

here are three of the papers fo download on my blog

which you can download here Free Paper Download

which you can donload free here Free paper download

which you can download free here Free paper download

There are matching papers on www.thisthursday.wordpress.com on tje download page.
thats all from me for this morning will be back this afternoon with some challenges

Thought you might like to see this. I was looking through Craftster and in their "What do I do with this" section someone asked about Cigarette cartons the big ones, and this led to someone asking what to do with cigarette boxes. So inspired by my unfortuanly bin full of cigarette packets I set to work
This is what I came up with

Hope you like it. It uses tissue paper and paint to cover the box . The sealed with glossy accents. The bolt is coloured with alcohol inks . Its says Trash or recycle reuse , Inside I am going to make a matching book all about recycling tips

Rainbow Ladys challenge this week was make something oriental .


I made these a little while ago but there is an available project download sheet HERE My favorite is the decoupage bird

This Thursday its all about, beaded beauties. Plus created by hand, altered challenge and Arty Girlz Nature

Hello all

This weeks challenge at This Thursday is beaded beauties . With an amazing prize which you really must check out. Our sponser this week is Daisy Chains Beads

So here are a couple of my entries

Carnival Button shank Bracelet with beads I bought at one of our sponsor Daisy chains Bead fairs

Beads of Dew Card using beads of Diamond Glaze as beads of Dew. I think that flowers studded with natures gems are stunning . For Arty Girlz nature challenge

my quick altered beads . altered for the Created by Hand challenge. The one on the left I stamped with stazon, although you could just draw your design in permanant marker, then I used ranger alcohol inks to paint in the detail. The second one I used a high tack glue and adhered a fancy gem sticker to the front of the bead. I will use these as feature beads in future beading projects

Jake our little diamond Using a free paper below and a frame and diagonal overlay available at This Thirsday on the freebee page

You can see my other examples at This Thursday and You can download the Frame and diamante stripe overlay plus two other peices on This Thursdays freebee page . My freebee downloads today are the background paper from the Jake layout, and A bit of a Bling thing paper

If you like this you can download it here FREE PAPER DOWNLOAD


and if you like the look of this one you can download it here FREE PAPER DOWNLOAD
as I said you can download the Frame and the diamante diagonal overlay at This Thursday

Bye for now catch you laters

Thursday and Its This Thursday its all about.... Fresh 1st Challenge

Wow its been so exciting working on the new challenge, and its finally here. Our 1st challenge is fresh . It can be fresh techniques, fresh products . the word or whatever else fresh brings to mind I love my design team mates work and here is mine. As you can see I got a bit carried away and have made loads of stuff, to see my other peices , design team examples and some free downloads as well go to

http://www.thisthursday.wordpress.com/




This is my 1st Fimo plaque I made some fake malacite for the base, I will be doing a tutorial for Fake malacite and other fimo techniques on This Thursday at a later date . I ran my fimo through a pasta maker to condition it and also to get a consistant thickness. I also used Liquid fimo to which I added a tiny spot of alcohol ink to tint it to create the blue and green tinted glazes. This is put onto the Plaque after the oven and then cured with a normal heat gun I inked around the edge of the white plaque with one of the colorbox queue Rain Forest ink pad which is part of the great prize supplied by Craft 4 Creation all my examples use the queue ink pads except the Digi layout

This is a daisy pyramage There is a round version of the pyramage sheet available for download free on This Thursdays freebee page and an equivelant GSD file for all craft robo users
This card I directed tapped the ink pads onto a cuttlebug embossing folder. Then embossed onto white card. The I inked over the raised pattern with black ink. then cut out the two main shapes. Then punched two circles. I used the corners as added detail on the card. Oh and of course added the fresh as a daisy
This Digi Lo I wanted to find out if I could paper peice digitally this is my 1st attempt. I used the word and the defintiton for Fresh

There are a couple more examples on the challenge including a clipboard with Inked Grungeboard letters oh and a project using Cuttlebug embossing .

Well thats This thursdays, 1st challenge can't wait to see your examples, and I am hoping to catch up with some challenges that i have missed over the last week

Here is todays free paper

If you like it you can download it free here FREE PAPER DOWNLOADS

There are also more free papers on This Thursday, its all about..... Freebees page

Just a quicky

Am off to Scrap a ganza tommorow with my sister . have three classes booked. Extra texture, Words to loive by and technique crazy can't wait to get there and play. Could have done with it being a different week as next week we are starting This Thursday, its all about challenge blog. A challenge blog for artists and crafters of all varieties. Can't wait to share the design teams examples, check out the challenge blog to see what the prize for the challenge winner is. Challenge winners will be picked by draw.

Anyway I have a free paper for you


which you can download free here FREE PAPER DOWNLOAD

if you havn't been to my blog before you can download all my free project sheets from my blog HERE

Free Project. Free Paper and news about This Thursday Challenge Blog

Hi all
As you may or may not of noticed I have been away for nearly a month. Due to having a minor op that left me feeling a bit rough for the last few weeks. However I am now back and have great News

This Thursday, Its all about...... challenge blog starts 19th June or next Thursday if you prefer. Its a challenge blog for any artist or crafter so if our challenge inspires you to sew, paint, sculpt,scrapbook or make cards you can enter it. Wether your thing is Hybrid, Multi media or digital we want you to be inspired. Visit us HERE

I will be posting an introduction of our design team later in the week. You can already see a slide of examples on the blog. Our blog also has a chatroom where you can arrange to meet each other to discuss techniques used in your work or ask our designers questions (Date and time to be arranged that designers will be in the chatroom.) We have 9 great sponsors for our 1st 9 challenges so come along and join in.

I have just been looking at the examples for the 1st 2 challenges and am so very very impressed with my team mates and our 1st guest designer. Can't wait to share it all with you.

On This Thursday we are also planning a project and tutorial page and a freebee page and every week there will either be a freebee project or printable

Anyway as I have been away so long I have decided to give you a free project and a free paper today So here is the free project

and you can download the instruction sheet free HERE as well as any of my previous instruction sheets.

For my free paper. I thought I would play around to create a Bandana technique style paper hope that you like it.


which you can download Free FREE PAPER DOWNLOAD

Will catch you all tommorow