a piece of work

I fell in love with making canvas
pieces after doing one last year
at the first
Girls Just Wanna have fun
with Kath, Debbi & Anne.


The photos are again nae great,
as they say round here.

The first three here, were Christmas gifts.

This one was my Mother in Law, and very inspired
by the one we did at the girls day.

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This one is made using various bits from our
niece Robyn and her new husband Paul's wedding.
Including the menu, invitation,
the seed packet all the ladies at the wedding
were given for favours,
and some raffia held the menu scrolled up.

The birds were used to decorate the
hall, there was a bird theme
the whole way through the wedding.
I edged them with inks,
added stitching and gems for eyes.

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The next one is using photos
of a lovely friends wee girl.
What a beautiful wee honey she is too!

The last one,
is kinda personal to me.
It is representative to changes
in my life.

I really enjoyed making all of these.

Hope you all had a lovely Christmas.
Wishing you all many good things in 2012.

much love Teen xxx

pups and birdies & WOYWW

Been a busy few days here....
Managed to get my button challenge
done for Crafty Ribbons.
I will show them to you when the
glue is all dried!

The earrings are naked, but threading them
meant they didnt stick to the earring posts.

(Don't look Kath!)

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Right over to WOYWW.....

My Mum asked me to make
her a card for her neighbour who is
moving away.
I noticed after taking the photo
that one of the poor wee birdie's eye
has slipped!
I will get that fixed
before giving it to my Mum!

I have used this idea before,
but I love it for a new home card,
and I love my MS birdie punch.

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This one is for my Dad's birthday.
My first attempt at a
double twisted easel card.

My time to craft are looking
for makes with Perfect pets on it...

Talking about my beautiful babies....
Bella as you know was spayed last week,
and she was really feeling sorry for
herself and whimpered and howled
the first night, so I took the mattress
off one of the spare beds and slept
downstairs with her....
Only when Andrew went to go upstairs
with Poppy to stop her cleaning
Bella's stitches.....she started howling
even worse!!!

So.....and you will only understand
if you are owned by a dog yourself....
We both ended up sleeping downstairs,
on mattress's.....

Much to Poppy's delight!!!



Bella is now feeling all better,
just a struggle to stop her jumping
and running around like the crazy
girl she is......

This is her keeping guard on mini scotch eggs
we made with quail's eggs our local farm sells!

brown bags and birds.

I can't believe it is Wednesday
again all ready!!!
I was going to join in with WOYWW
but all you would see is a pile of stuff
that I have abandoned in a half hearted
clean up session this morning,
before I left it all to go and meet a
friend for lunch!

I bought a pack of brown bags
to decorate and use instead of wrapping
for gifts, so with only 6 or so used so far
and 100 in the pack....
you will be seeing a lot more of
these babies!

The junior at my hair salon
is moving into her first home,
so I made a card and decorated the
bag with some mugs, tea bag, coffee
and a few other goodies.

I am enetering the card in the
following challenges ~
Papertake weekly want anything goes
with optional extra of flowers.
Penny black at allsorts want flowers as well.
Penny Black want you to follow a sketch.

I flipped the sketch round.

I made the edge of the tag to match the mugs.

Hope you are well.
Am off to dog class with Bella Boo.....
her report card might say
"Must try harder..."

Moonlight and setting sun

I think one of the best things about blogging
crafty stuff is learning new techniques
and getting inspiration!

A sure place to get lots of inspiration
is over at Curt's world.
His photography is absolutely amazing!!
And his doggy boys are just gorgeous!

Curt has a link on his latest post
to Michelle Zindorf
who has done several tutorial
including using a brayer and ink
to create amazing cards.

So this is my attempt at this style of cards.

My moon is slightly two yellow
but I like the end effect.


I had a second attempt.
And this time, I made the sun too
yellow! I am never happy
am I?

You can't see it that clearly
but there is wee blue gems
on my second birdie.

I really enjoyed making these
and can see me playing with
this style again.

Hope you are grand.
Love Teen xx

shapes in the middle.

First of all I am so chuffed
my card was picked by the random
number generator
over at Papertake Weekly!

*Happy claps* LOL

Right back to this next selection
of cards from the last few days.

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This card is using
Lisa's sketch over at
Sketch & Stash.
The new stash is the birdie stamps.
The ribbon is new from Crafty Ribbons,
but the ovals is using fiskers cutting thingy
that I just can not get the hang of at all!

I have a nice new blade, the right mat,
(Thanks Kath!)
but nope.
So I draw round the holes
in the template sheet
and cut them out!

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Next one is also a challenge card,
can you tell I am
on holiday from work this week?

Sugar Nellie have a sketch by Marlene
and have the added girlie theme if you want it.
Well I am not sure she is feminine
but she is a girl!
I love this wee Gothic Girl !

After being all messy with chalk inks
I just wanted something clean & simple.

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Creative Card crew want
and easel card.
And my sentiment means
I can enter it in
A spoonful of sugar
who want
good luck or best wishes.
Anyone for Anya want flowers.
I have punched out parchment
instead of velum this time.
They looks so much softer.
This card is using Tash's Sketch
over at Oh Alice!
And Tash wants daisies on the card.
So there are in fact daisies
on the card.

The beautiful Lace was a gift from
my lovely mate Amanda!

No puppy photos today.
Camera they are on is flat!
Hope you are all well.
much love Teen
xxx