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

distressed or messed....so not sure

I adored the canvas we made at the
girls just wanna have fun day
with Kath, Anne & Debbi.

I got a few canvas frames to play with,
and this is my first attempt at one by myself.

I used Annie Sloan chalk paint,
this is cream, but I think I prefer the
whiter shade we used at the workshop.
Next time I think I will take the whiteness
away from the canvas.

The finished piece is made a
friend and it is her Dad
in the photo
when he was three.
I scanned it to make a birthday
card and had two spare copies
so had a wee play round with one.

Hope you are all grand
Love Teen xx

Babes and Blooms

You know what it is like....
you make a few cards,
some you like....
and some not so much....


This one I do like.
Lady at work is very prompt with
keeping her filing up to date
and called the file fairy by
her co-workers.
She is also very fit.

So this was for her.....

This one I am very unsure of.
I have seen similar cards
with the paper cut into squares
and stuck in the pattern below.

The paper is Bo Bunny,
and more busy than I usually use,
But I think it looks sort of ok.
The flower is cut from Tim Holts die.

This one is using a down load called Stella
from Bugaboo, I love them!

Stella with a different hair colour!
LOL

Now for another couple of babes....
My wee brown eyed girls.
Bella managed to get into the
recycling box, where my Hubby
had put the empty sacks
the dog biscuits come in....

This took her about twenty minuets....

She also stole the plant from the table
and replanted it,
in several bits,
in a nice deep hole....

Bella is 6 months old,
and now just a wee bit taller
and longer than Poppy!

Am pretty tired today,
Andrew was on a night shift,
Poppy woofed at 1.30am
to let me know that she had scared
off the scary monster....

Bella woke me at 6am by poking Andrews
touch bedside lamp with her nose
and switching it on and off,
and on and off,

Like a disco!!!

*yawn*

Hope you are all well.

Love Teen xx

fish & bits.

Had two requests for cards
from a lady at work.
The first one is for her son,
who loves fishing...
so that was easy enough.

The second one was for her neighbour...
I find it difficult to make cards
for someone else to give to someone
I don't know....so I asked.
"tell me what he likes?"
"Well he likes smoking fish in his garden...."

It seems he smokes fish to preserve them...
But she loved my take on it.
Just as well...
I know they are both similar
but I loved the paper that was
left over from the scrap page I made
my Dad's fishing page from.
They are also quiet similar in colours
as I thought it was fishy colours.

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This one is for my Mother-in -Law
who the family call Mop.
I am really into using green just now.
I am trying my distressing inks to colour again,
smudged a bit on his cheek
but I did like the rest of it.

Poppy has been poorly lately.
She suffers from colitis, and
as long as were are really strict with her
diet is usually really well.
But she found something nasty when
out for a walk.....best not to ask what.
And had a wee flair up of tummy problems.

So a trip to the vets, 3 injections,
some antibiotics and a oral syringe of
stuff to soothe her gut were prescribed.

I know you don't share medication....

But Bella doesn't....

It wont do her any harm,
they both love it!

Poppy's puppy is growing fast.

They love to play,
Bella has no interest in the small puppy bed,
unless Poppy is in it!

I know the wrong dog is
in the wrong bed

But they are happy!
Hope you are well.
love Me xx

golden baby

Have not got much crafting done all week.
Been too busy with the wee one
who has taken over our lives since she
arrived two weeks ago.

I have downloaded some more photos.
We have only taken a few hundred
so far.............

Here is the first picture of her,
moments after we picked her.
She was one of four wee girls.
Who all look identical!
So picking her was so difficult.

Here is wee Bella.

And the three wee one's we left behind.
Bella never looked back as we walked away
with her, but they cried....

This was her meeting her new sister Poppy.
Poppy liked her until we got in the car....
and then ignored her ALL the way home!

This is one of the few bits of crafting I finished.
It is a card to show off a photo of Bella
to my niece Becca who can't wait to meet Bells.
Becca loves Eeyore, and Bella loves her
wee Eeyore toy!

Bella seems very unimpressed with the card.
She is more concerned with digging holes.
pulling up shrubs with her sisters help....
and breaking the last of the pots thats
survived the bad winter!

Andrew took this picture.
It is like she has always been here
with her Poppy-dog!

I did start a few other bits, after moving a dog
create into my crafting room.
Bella was not very happy at going
into it at all. But she did fall asleep quickly.

Need to get them finished soon.

hope you are well.

Love teen xxx

spring is in the air

I do love the fact warmer weather
is here at last, for how long....
who knows....

Spring is trying it's best to come.

Warmer walks,
green sprouting everywhere.

Poppy with a small stick
no matter what the weather.

It is a bit blurry,
but is it not easy to get a
Poppy action shot!


The garden is starting to show
signs of life life now too.
These Crocus bulbs always
remind me of someone I loved.
The make me smile when
I see them pop up every spring.

I used the purple and green as inspiration
for a wee card today.
The photo is not great
but the dark shimmery card card
is a dark bottle green
and quite pretty in real life!

iI am entering it for a couple of challenges
My time to craft want Lace this week.
Anyone For Anya want spring cards.
and ABC Challenge want Quotes.

I am not sure who wrote the quote,
I have looked it up online and
it seems to be a mix of a few quotes.
But it says what I need to card to say.

Greeting Farm seems to be
the stamps of the moment,
I like them!

Happy Birthday Nikki!

These wee makes are a Birthday goodies for my lovely mate Nikki.
All the Photo's I have used on these goodies are one of Nikki's daughters.
And with is beautiful smile I am entering it in

Arty Girlz Challenge who this week want some Smiles!

The wings are made from my fave stamp

of the moment Debbie's Butterfly with Verse stamps.

I stamped it on to purple vellum using stayzon.
I have added a wee bit of colour using sukura pens.

These are four simple notelet cards using photos.

This is a wee spare picture I had left over
that I made into a wee photo frame.

I only noticed after editing the photo
that I had smudged a wee ink squiggle on it
So have added a small heart sticker to cover that up.