pens, pots and naughty pups....

Well, I know it's been a while, 

And to be honest, this new blogger layout is

driving me nuts!!!

Anyhooo.....

Two makes, 

pen collection and some naughty pups!

Just my ususal! 

 

I have returned to a creative writing group, 

and decided to jazz up a plain kraft A4 folder.

One of the ladies who goes there loved my folder,

so I did one for her. 

I really loved the black heat embossed

 powder on the purple vellum butterflies.

Question.....

How do you store your promarkers?

My latest way, is in small colour groups, in pots in a box. 

Still not perfect but seems the best I have tried so far.

And lastly.....

I was downloading the camera my hubby normally uses....

And discovered this......

 

She has never done this before.....

Well not as far as I know!

 

Butter wouldn't melt.... *sigh*

Hope you are all grand,

Love Teen xx

stuff & scraps

I was chatting to so some of my
work mates about card making,
and told them the wee ribbon bow
on the cotton bunny card I was showing
them had been cut from the ribbon
you find hanging inside tops.
It was the perfect colour
and I usually cut them off
as they just annoy me.
Both ladies said they cut them off
and bin them, proceeded to chop off the
ribbon from inside their tops and
hand it to me!


I made some wee cardss
and used their ribbons on them.
I have made one for each of them.

The backing papers are I think, papermania.

The other lady who was there has been
taking me in all her odd buttons,
so I made her a pair of earrings.

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I had Bella at the vets for her monthly
vet nurse check.
Our vets do this free of charge for their
first year so they get used to going,
being handled and they can make sure
they are growing fine and dandy.

Bella is sure growing !!
She is still Poppy-dogs baby though!

They spend almost all their time together.


Hope you are all well.

love teen xx

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

Friendship

I have several friends
who have Epilepsy.

Today is
National Epilepsy Awareness day.
So in honor of them
I wear purple.

This is my friend Craig and
his best Friend Cassie.

Today's card is purple and green.
and my Friendship is extended
to many people today.


Do not walk in front of me,
I may not follow.
Do not walk behind me,
I may not lead.
Walk beside me,
And be my friend.

Albert Camus.

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.....?

puppy stamps and stuff.

Thanks for all your comments about Poppy Dog.
She is all better now, back to being cheeky !

I have taken two days from work this week.
This working lark is seriously getting
in the way off my crafting time......

This is a long post.
So make yourself comfy!
Here are some of my makes.

This wee box came with flowers in it,
I can't remember which flowers it was....
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This box is decorated to match
a card I made earlier this week,
the flowers are Bo Bunny,
I have filled it with goodies,
and it will be posted to a mate
as soon as I get organised!

The wee bee brad is Poppicrafts
and the sentiment is See D Stamps.
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This one is very different from
what I normally make.
But I like it.
The stamps are Stampin Up
I like the fact the centre
is just the buffed cards stock.
I used sukura pens to glitter the stamps.
I used the cuttle bug on the blue card stock.
The ribbon flower is made with Poppicraft ribbons,
I was thinking about entering it in the
competition over there to use ribbons
as the main feature, but I am going
to have another go at this challenge.

I am entering it in Cute Card Thursday
who want flowers on the cards this week.
ABC Challenge this week is
J for jagged edge.
I have tied wee knots in the ribbon on the left
and used that to hold the beads in place.
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This one is not for any challenge.
The petals are vellum on
a punched out large flower.

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I just love this new stamp of mine!
It is beautiful but I am struggling to colour it
as well as I would like.


I have tired a couple of ways now.
This card has it embossed with versamark
and then heat embossed with glittery black powder.
Then shaded it with grey pro markers.

It is perfect for Creative Card Crew's
Monochrome Madness.

A spoonful of sugar's challenge this week is
To use die's or punches.
I have used punches to cut the flowers
and my nesties to cut & emboss the matting.
The flowers are vellum and glitter card.
The wee sentiment stamps are again SU.

Beady Jan suggested that I tired stamping it
on black or dark card and then
embossing with silver or grey powder.

I tired but I think the stamp is to detailed.
But thank you Beady Jan for the idea.
Thanks to everyone who left me tips
and ideas about colouring in black.
it is a work in progress!
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Last one I promise!
Over at Just Christmas & Birthday cards
Janina has done a lovely sketch.
I have used a house mouse image
that Vanessa has sent to me.
The wee snowflake is is a See D Stamp,
used with silver ink.

The ribbon is also Poppicrafts .

OK, I am away to go see what you have all been up to.

Much love
Tina xxx

Crafty Pad # 13

oooh I made the Crafty Pad number 13 challenge on Friday 13th !!!!

Anyhooooooooo!

This week it is a sketch challenge.
We want you to use one of Crafty Pad Stamps
and again there is a wee prize on offer!!
go look and see what my fellow DT girlies have done!

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I have used.....*sigh* ok, I know I have a problem ....
I am slightly over fond of these beautiful stamps...

But yes,

I have used my favourite Butterfly stamps with verse set again.

You see what happened was,
Debbie is going to be giving away free downloadable papers,
and I saw the orange one,
I rememebred I had foudn some orange vellum....
and thought.....
This is perfect for a butterfly!!!


The swirly lines behind the butterfly and text
are also a stamp from the butterfly set.


I did get a bit carried away with doodle lines on this one.

I added soem peel oss stickers of flowers
and teh sentiment is a peel off by Anita I think.
From their wedding peel offs.
I have added it using a piece of acetate
to make a springy thingy.....
Added X-cut vellum punched butterflies to the corners.
The yellow layering card is from Stampin Up.

I hope you come and join us over at crafty pad this week.

love teen xxx

weekend almost over

I am not sure why I chose that title.
Since Andrew's work pattern changed from being off every weekend
to now working some, our weekends don't always feel like weekends at all.

I used to work all sorts of shifts,
I hated working a late shift where you finished at 10 pm
and had to be back into the ward at 7am the next morning.
But I did love driving home after a night shift on a Monday morning
to go to bed when everyone else was having that Monday morning feeling.

I never slept properly, worries about sleeping in
and the evenings goings on in the busy ward often kept my mind in over drive.

Man I am waffling on these days....
too much going on in my mind,
stuff to be processed,
decisions to be made.

Anyway , in between tackling the mountain of washing that somebody
has left in our linen baskets....I did make two cards today.

This one is using the stamp the wonderful Sammi designed and MADE
and sent me for Chrimbo!
Thanks babe! you are a wonderful friend!

It is her Princess Amber and I have layered the wings using a shimmery vellum.
It is also brown and pink so fills the needs of Cute Card Thursday since they want to see something you got for Xmas.
I love pink and brown together.

This card is green and browns...I love them together too!
It is my take on the sketch on Sketch Saturday.
the green tag will have the person's name in it.
But I didn't want to post that on here!