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

An award and only 1 full day to get your This Thursday entries in

I have recieved an award, and I must admit to being a bit lax when it comes to following awards through, or even posting Ive been featured, but I do promise that i will be better

Anyway I have recieved

From someone I have been lucky enough to meet blogging, The very very talented Charli whos 1st blog is http://charliscrafts.blogspot.com/
and whos second blog is http://www.charlisart.blogspot.com/
you should really take a lok at her amazing work, then check out her age and be amazed.
anyway the award comes with some rules you should nominate
1. Only 5 people allowed
2. 4 have to be dedicated followers of your blog.
3. One has to be new or recently new to your blog and live in another part of the World
4. You must link back to whoever gave you the award.

1 Heather Robinson A very friendly and creative lady http://creativesolace.blogspot.com/
2 Rosie a great friend and brill artist http://alteredartandstuff.wordpress.com/
3 Susie my talented This Thursday Team matehttp://whiteribboncards.blogspot.com/
4Fiona my other very talented This Thursday teammate http://www.magickdiva.blogspot.com/

5 Racheal http://loopycrafting.blogspot.com/

Challenges galore friday

Hi all


Well todayI have tried to do as many challenges as I can So here we go my 1st peice

Uses a picture from The CDRoms from This Thursdays challenge prize . I created my own papers of Inspire me Thursday Polka dots with a white and a grey background. I also used sequin waste to add more dots, I used Crazy Amigo Staples to hold together thr two sections of the Theme Thursday heart

My second peice is for one challenge only Make a moo or two. Mona lisa and friends

my third peice Is for ATC Wednesdays Circles and Rainbow ladys Orange

So thats my crafting for today. Don't forget to check out This Thursday for a chance to win over £40.00 worth of crafting CD roms

This Thursday challenge ALL Change

Hi All

The challenge this week on This Thursday is all change, we have a great prize this week 3 CD roms

Which have been provided by our sponsor this week Little Lous Craft supplies . Prize value is a wopping £40.00 so an extra special thanks to Hayley from little lous

So here are my examples for the weeks challenge

As the theme was change for this card. I did nt use any of the backinbg papers on the cd I took a small section of the main image and blew it up with my photo editing softwear then ran a watercolour effect. I printed the background the mount and the image and flower embelishment

and the greeting as I panel and added fake stitching and borders with Sakura pens

I used the backing papers from the cd, but I also used the teabag papers, to create a small medallion as an embellishment

I think this although not yet completly finished will be my favorite peice. The image is printed onto fabric, wadded then quilted There is a project sheet available with suppliers at http://www.thisthursday.wordpress.com/ on the project page

I also altered a small tin with a small section of the image . There are so many more projects that I want to do with this Cd. My neice has ordered a t shirt. I am going to print the image onto fabric with a black border. Stitch onto the t shirt with border left free. Then fringe the border. I am going to print a number of the images onto shrink plastic and make a charm braclet. I am going to make matching earings and pendant . I am going to transfer some onto fimo. In fact Im sure that there are loads more projects that I will end up using these images for.

Oh our sponsor Little lous craft supplies is having a show on Create and craft tommorow 18th at 2pm showing some more great projects , and if you hang on till the 3pm show you will get a preview of our next weeks sponsor The Stamp man and possibly a hint at the prize next week.

I also have one of the papers from this weeks This Thursday downloads for you to download free.

You can download this free here FREE PAPER DOWNLOAD
If you like this one you can download more matching papers at THIS THURSDAY on the downloads page

I will be back on later today to do some more challenges so there is more to come

Mixed Media Monday , This Thursday

Hi All Still not feeling 100 per cent but have managed to enter Mixed Media Mondays "Lets have tea"
have combined it with another example for This Thursdays Opposites Attract
I have used a muted main image and a bright background . Don't forget you have a chance to win your choice of 1 full plate of Cherry Pie Art Stamps



Also here is the preview of the Prize for This coming Thursday.s This Thursday challenge
Winner is chosen by random number generator, and will recieve all 3 cdroms. Kindly provided by our Sponsor for the week Little Lou's Craft Supplies

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, Created by hand, Saturdays Workoutand Sketches by tamara challenge entry

Well I have combined a few challenges again. 1st of all This thursdays, Clearly clever I have used Starburst Stains and Moonshadow inks which I think fit the title Clearly Clever. If you like them you can buy them at http://www.thestampman.co.uk/ I have had moon shadow inks for a while but today is my 1st time with Starburst stains and they are ace. I want them all . Plus I have used a Cherry pie art stamp , which the lucky winner of next weeks This Thursday challenge, will be able to choose a whole stamp plate of.

Created by hands challenge was pastel colours . so I created my main feature peices in pastel Starburst stains.

Saturdays workout was Raster backgrounds, so I used the stains to create a raster background to stamp on.

As the final challenge I fitted my four completed peices, into this weeks Sketches by tamarachallenge

So what does my completed peice look like

I wish it had photographed a little better the stamped images are a lot more defined in real like ans the whole thing shimmers
Oh well thats my Challenges for today.
bye for now. See you on This thursday this week for the chance to win an acrylic album and loads of great acrylic shapes

Next weeks prize on This Thursday

Well all

We again have had fantastic entries on This Thursday, its going to be really difficult to select our favorite 15 again. But what a joy to look through.

Someone lucky person is really going to enjoy playing with all those wonderful acrylic goodies from our sponsor Clever Cut I really want the acrylic album so much

Anyway here is the preview of next weeks prize on This Thursday

Kindly sponsored by Cherry Pie Art Stamps owned by this weeks guest designer Marina

so here is the prize. Your choice of 1 of Cherry Pie Art Stamps ,stamp plates

To take a look at what you can choose from if you are this weeks lucky winner Cherry Pie Stamp Plates

I will be on later to upload some challenge entries

This Thursday, its all about.... Clearly clever plus arty Girlz,Created by hand and Theme Thursday

Hi all

Loved last weeks challenge entries, there are three specific peices that I would love to own, because they are so stunning, and a fair few that I wouldn't mind owning as well.. You can see last weeks entries on This Thursdays challenge 2 round up post.

Anyway this weeks challenge is called This Thursday, its all about..... Clearly clever

With a brilliant prize sponsored by Clever Cut an acrylic album and loads of acrylic shapes

Here are a couple of my examples

clear being the arrow
Clever being the revolving disc



The acrylic shapes, tag and owl stamp were provided by Clever cut. I altered the tag with foils and alcohol inks and also stamped the owl onto old newspaper and cut this out. Then adhered it with Ranger glossy accents behind stamped image at back of tag.

There are more of my examples on This Thursday including an Making Memories clear eyelet pot which Ialtered with permamnat markers and featuring a cute little bird stamped image, again from Clever cuts Stamps away range. Plus a project to make a really cute pendant necklace with an acrylic tag. No beading skills required this week. LOL

This Thursday also has Free downloadable digitals 2 doodle overlays including a sheet of doodle lines you can use individually or as a full overlay and a doodle frame overlay and 3 tonal papers
here are three more papers from the doodle overlays set


available to download here FREE PAPER DOWNLOAD


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


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

(LEFT) I have also attempted Arty Girls Favorite song. I have loads of favorite songs but I love the lyrics to Live Laugh Love which you can find HERE The title is not quite right but its on my new design runner so i had to use it (you have to play don't you) I combined it with Created by Hands Black white and grey challenge I stamped the image in grey then using white soufflee pen and black pen highlighted specific areas. It also is for Theme Thursday winged people. As soon as I saw the challenge I knew Ihad to use my favorite stamp by Crafty individuals STAMP HERE

Right Having been inspired by the Black white and grey I combined it with This Thursdays clearly clever and used a see through shimmery ribbon The stamp is again from Crafty Individuals and you can find it HERE

So thats really it from me. I have been awarded an award by Susie which I will post about tommorow , as I write this, I still have a lot more to do yet for This Thursdays posts and I've already been up since 5 am and will not finish till about 1 am
See you tommorow or catch me in the This Thursday chatroom between 9 and 10pm Thursday night

Mixed Media Monday dance challenge This Thursday prize photos

Hi all
have been amazingly busy over the last few days. But have managed to get one challenge done, although its only a digi ATC.
Its for mixed media mondays challenge dance. Which I will post in a minute.
Just a quick reminder if you want to be in with a chance to win this amazing prize


nip along to This Thursday, its all about..... and enter the challenge before wednesday midday.

Plus here is a preview of This coming Thursday's prize kindly donated by Clever Cut as acrylic peices do not photograph well. The peices are grapically shown


what a stunning prize. Shame I can't enter LOL
Don't forget we also have free downloadable projects and free digi downloads too

Anyway finally here and this is my Digi ATC entry for Mixed media Mondays Dance challenge


bye for now
Tracey