Tuesday mutters....

I am hating blogger tonight!
I published this post earlier this evening,
came back to check on something,
and discovered the text had
all disappeared!!!



First card is a never ending card.
You can see one in action
by LOTV here.


It starts here...

opens into this....

And then into this....

and ends up opening into this....

It can stand alone like this too.

I used Stampin Up and SeeD stamps.
the papers were all from my scrap box.

A lovely fellow crafter at work,
who I altered this notebook for,
showed me how to do this type of card,
and brought this notebook and images in
for me! Thank you !
( I know she has my blog address!)

I love how the hair and pig tails have
been decoupaged.

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This card is for another lady at work,
her new baby Granddaughter
Ami was born yesterday!

I may have O'd on the gingham,
but I love it on baby cards!
The rabbit is a Cotton Bunny
from Sugar Nellie.


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The next card is a challenge card
for One Stop Crafters Challange.
who want some distressing....
Blogger loosing all my text is
distressing me!!!

The flowers are See D stamps,
the text is my new Penny Black.
I have added the person's name to it,
but not sure if she reads my blog,
and since I only posted this today,
she might see it before it gets to her.

FINALLY!

I LOVED the new Twilight film,
saw Eclipse on Saturday and
want to go and see it again now!
It was the best of all three films.
But not sure what the stylists have
done with the Vampires hair!!!
Jasper had various styles
from a 80's shaggy perm...
to a blow dry and set!

But my boys were as gorgeous as ever!

Much love and vampire kisses....
Teen xx

the beads bit

My blog header has been a bit of a
trades description problem for a wee while.
Not been beading for some time now.

I must admit I go between various
crafty hobbies from time to time.
I do enjoy my card making,
and I always tend to wander back to it.
This card is for a few challenges.
Papertake weekly want stitching.
A spoonful of sugar want animals.
Penny Black, want paper patching
I am not sure if I should call this
paper patching so will maybe have another go.

But the beads came out to playthese last few weeks.

These are such sweet beads that you can get at
Sugar Nellies.
I got two sets for me and these two sets
are for gifts for a friends
who all ready have the bangleyou thread them on.

A few makes to share with you....
My fave make so far...
green ceramic beads on cord necklace.

this wee bangle.

And a cord /bead necklace.

Also in purple.

And red with back.

Some beaded wrap around bangles .

And to end,
my fellow crafter....
AKA Bella the destroyer...

who is shattered
after raiding my craft room,
tipping out the paper scraps bin,
running down stairs and out side
into the garden with
the loo roll in her mouth,that was attached to the
loo roll holder.....
and shredding most of the leaves
of my beautiful bay leaf tree!

With her big sister Poppy-dog.

and yes Bella always sticks her tongue out when
she sees food!

Bless!

Cuddles and undies.

Bizarre title for todays post,
but hey hoe.

My mate Bev is 49 tomorrow.
She is one of the funniest people
I know and has a wicked warped
sense of humor....and huge boobs!
That she always boasts about.....

SO boob/bra cards it had to be.

Penny Black Cat in a bra card first.

Bra Card next.....
(this one is for another mate
to give to Bev. )


Said mate takes the micky out of me
for my slight Twilight obsession...
She hates Bella....
And her answer to most things is
"It's not all about you!"


So I made her this bookmark..

I have used my new Pixie Dust digi
Twilight images....
I have not been keen on downloads before.
But friend has told me about paper that suits
downloads better, and gave me some to try,
and Kathy at Pixie dust says to
seal the images with heat gun,
AM much happier with results!

Kathy at pixie dust has been so helpful
today as well. Came across the site
by accident but will go back to it again!

Can I ask anyone who uses promoarkers
what skin shade would you use to
colour in Jacob's lovely
Native Indian American body?


Talking of colouring in....
Andrew AKA Hubby has been painting
the metal frame of our garden bench.
And guess who touched the wet paint....

She has green stripes on her head
and her ear lobe....

She loves as you know to cuddle Poppy-dog.
And this is how they are in the car....

Poppy does not seem to mind...

Not sure how she will feel about it
when Bella-Boo is fully grown....

Hope you are having a lovely weekend.

hugs
Tina xxx

Wedded Bliss

Whats on my work space....?
A blinkin mess to be honest,
I dare not show you the rest
of my work area, this needs
a good tidy up as it is.

I had a day off work today,
so I got time to make some cards.

A lady at work asked me to make
her a Wedding card
in a similar style to the invite.

It was in white and pink,
with four diamonds along the
pink ribbon on the side.

I thought it looks an easy enough idea
BUT
It was a real pain in the elbow to do.

I made one and it looked too plain.
The white card looked all wrong.
So I made it again using shimery white
card....but once I stuck down the
second white layer I realsied
that I had not stuck down the ribbon....
The ribbon may have been pink
but the air was blue!

Third time....
I discovered I didnt have
two sheets of the white shimery card.
So it is a sort of oyster colour.
But by this point I really didn't care!


Anyway here is final card.

The pink flower is punched out in the oyster
card and darker pink ribbon is underneath.

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So this was the white card that looked wrong.
I stamped butterflies and dragon flies
and added the Penny Black image.
I think I will go back and add some
more shading to his tummy.
The top layer of the punched out butterfly
is a wee bit of left over vellum.

I am entering it in papertake weekly,
who want Fun, fun, fun!
Creative card crew who want pink & green
Penny Black Sat Challenge want in the garden.
My Time to craft ~ wild thing.

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OK so I had one more base card made
from the wedding card faff from before.
I needed a Thank you card.

I think I got a bit carried away
on the dots and dashes on the edging
but I like the end card.

My pal asked me to do her a
wedding card as well...
to be honest after the morning
I had with the other card
I almost didn't want to do this
card at all......

But I got on with it, and
I quite liked what I ended up with.

I am not keen on fussy wedding cards.
The off white card in this is also
a bit shimmery.
So is the purple ink I used to
smudge the edges of the
hearts and the sentiment.

Lastly.....
I really enjoyed making this one.

Passion for promarker want Books as this weeks theme.
Well you must know by now
I LOVE TWILIGHT!
lol.
So here is Bella & Edward.
I know Bella would not wear
a dress like this.
But she is the best I could do.

This evening Bella-Boo is going
to a puppy party at the vets.
She is being a wee toad.....so
a party is the last place I think she
should be getting to attend today!

Andrew took her and Poppy-dog
into town in the car.
He went into a shop for a short while....
came out and found her in the boot....
eating a slice of bread from
the loaf he had bought in the bakers.

She was quite happy!

Butterflies and soggy doggies.

Two makes today.
First one is an altered tin,
that always reminds me of
my lovely Blogger Buddy Amanda.
Who made one of these last year for me.

I am entering it in the
Penny Black Challenge
who want lots of dots....

The last time I made one of these
I added a large bloom on the lid.
But I wanted to keep it simple
and use this SU sentiment.
The butterfly was sent to me
by another bloggy buddy Sammi.

This acetate card is for someone special...
my Mum!

It has some pearls on it,
my Mum's Birthstones,
so fits One Stop Challenge,
looking for Birthstones.
Passion for promarkers want Mythology or Fantasy.
A spoonful of sugar want cute & girlie

Secret Crafter's Sat Challenge want no patterned papers.

The wee bow behind the cutie's
head is attached to a bow
with a sticker that says Happy Birthday,
which....I put on the wrong way round...
This means I can enter it
into Allsorts challenge of tags this week.
Colour Create want Light Aqua and soft green.

Anyone for Anya want Don't be square
so its a rectangle.....

So I think that is everyone.....

Now for some Doggies....
It has been a bit of a Bella-Boo blog
But I can't seem to get any new photos
of Poppy with Bella being too far behind...

Unless you leave the garden hose
unattended.....something Poppy is not
daft enough to to take on !!!

But Bella-Boo is....
and she lost.....

Poor soggy doggy....

Hope you are all well
lots of love
me xx

Saturday

Got a few cards done this evening
while DH watched eurovision.....
Don't know why I am admitting to that!

It is a multi challenge card!

For Penny Black its a recipe challenge

Recipe 3..2...1
Three Flowers....2 Papers.....1Charm/Brad

One stop craft challenge are looking for
Pink & Brown on this weeks cards.

Papertake weekly want us to show
some animal antics.


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The next card started life off as this

But it was on really more squint
than I thought it was,
and I wasn't keen on all green card.

So I chopped it up a bit and
layered it on pink card.
Applied it to white base card

A few gems, and a sentiment.
Am much happier with it now.

I have had fun with new images
coming out from Crafty Muse
and will show you those makes soon.

Have a wee sneaky peek for tomorrow
Crafty Pad Challenge.

Do you know what it is.....?