friday things

It's been a busy week.
I am more tired back at work
than I thought I would be.
Have done no crafting all week till today.


This card is for a friends Birthday next week.
and is my entry in the Magnolia V's Stampavie
colour challenge.
They are looking for cocoa, sage, white and pink.
The green layering is not quite sage
but the leaves on the Elf are.

The masking effect was following a "How to...."
By Natalie on NG Cards.
Thank you Babes!

The leather effect cord on the tag
was from a tag on a bag of loose tea leaves !

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I have layered up the made by stamp
that I got from the Lovely Sammi,
and used it on the back of all my cards.

This next card is also for a friends Birthday,
several of my friends have Birthdays this month.
It is being entered in Cute Card Thursday
who are looking for Metal items on your card.

It has sliver shimmery coloured card
in two pieces of layering.
A metal hanging embellishment.
And two cat themed metal brads,
& three pink metal brads on the cat's square.

It's my take on Janina's sketch at JCBC.
It has a bow on the sketch but
I wanted to use this hanging embellishment.

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And lastly is a card for my Dad.
It's not his birthday till next month,
but I used a sketch from Sketch & Stash. #3
The stash is my Sugar Nellie stamp ~ Macbeth
and the new thing I used were distressing inks.
This is my first time using them to colour.
I need to practice a bit more with them.

Hope you have a lovely weekend.
love Tina xx

one word

1. Where is your cell phone? bag

2. Your significant other? Andrew

3. Your hair? long

4. Your mother? Patsy

5. Your father? George

6. Your favorite? cosy

7. Your dream last night? forgotten

8. Your favorite drink? ribeana

9. Your dream/goal? health

10. What room you are in? lounge

11. Your hobby? crafting

12. Your fear?fear

13. Where do you want to be in 6 years? happy

14. Where were you last night? home

15. Something that you aren't? angry

16. Muffins? lemon

17. Wish list item? lottery

18. Where you grew up? Inverness

19. Last thing you did? shopping

20. What are you wearing? cardi

21. Your TV? on

22. Your pets? Poppy

23. Friends? yes

24. Your life? progressing

25. Your mood?calm

26. Missing someone? yes

27. Car? scenic

28. Something you're not wearing? shoes

29. Your favorite store? crafty

30. Your favorite color? purple

33. When is the last time you laughed? earlier

34. Last time you cried? forgotten

35. Who will resend this?friends

36. One place that I go to over and over? blog

37. One person who emails me regularly? Nan

38. My favorite place to eat? home

Faith ~ word

Over at Crafty Pad we are using our Faith has the word stamps with

Embossing

Any kind of embossing, dry, heat, liquid.

So come and join in with us....
you can do a card, ATC, fat page, altered Art
and you don't have to use a Faith stamp...
but obviously we would love it if you do!!

The new stamps, and there is four in
Faith she's got the Word range
are available to buy from today.

So here is my card.

I used Tres Belle Faith stamp here.

and the shoes have been heat enamel embossed twice.
(top tip...do not rub your eyes while playing with this stuff!!
The hearts are from the Faith Love series.
And are 75 for three of them!!! Bargin!

They have been stamped on black and red card
and then heat embossed with silver on red card
and white embossing powder on the black card,

I have slightly folder the hearts and shoes to give it more
of a 3D effect & used silicon glue to stick them down.

Faith herself has been coloured using whisper pens,
but when I used 3D liquid embossing glaze.....
it turned more of an orange red!!!!

I used the cuttle bug to emboss both the red shimmery
card and the red vellum.
and the shimmery hearts are cut out from
Crafty Ribbons Valentine ribbons.

The sentiment was a gift from my lovely Friend Chrissy!
Thanks babe!
I have been looking for a way to use that stamp!

Go check out the other DT's fab cards !!

I have been having lighting problems for taking my pictures....
I have tried it in various places like....

outside on top of our gas BBQ

and on top of the wheelie bin!!

The best place seems to be at the back door
mid afternoon,
so thats where I took it!

blog candy!!!

go and have a wee lookie over at Dawny P's pink Piggy site.....
she has some scrummy candy for her blogaversary!

sent with love

This is a wallet with some stamped images for a swap with a lovely friend.
I need to get them in the post to someone on Monday.

It is also the only thing I have finished today!


It dose however fill requirements for a few challenges....
hopefully 6 of them!!!!



One stop Craft Challenge
are looking for buttons & bows.
Secret Crafters Saturday Challenge
are looking for an animal element.
My Time to Craft
are looking for A little bit of sunshine.
it is a lovely sunny yellow with some summery orange.
A spoonful of sugar is looking for
Love is in the air,
well as you can see this wee mouse is playing
he loves me, he loves me not with his flower.
Am I pushing my luck with that one?
It is made using the fab sketch on
Sketch & Stash.
The new stash on my card is the swirl stamps, the leaf stamps,
the beautiful yellow ribbon I layered
over pearl card so it showed up more against the yellow card.
The two different yellow brads are also new.
And lastly.....ABC Challenge are looking for
Y is for Yesteryear.
they wanted you to look out one of the first stamps you ever bought.
This Hobby Arts stamps were among the first.

I must admit, until I started using stamps at Sally's card class class.
I didn't like stamping at all, I was so bad at it.
And now I have used this stamp, I remember who fiddly it is to colour!
Probably one of the reasons it dosen't come out much!


This is the layering on the back.
It's my handmade stamp
that my lovely talented friend Sammi made me!!!

Saturday stuff

Had planned to go to Inverness
to see my folks and do a bit of shopping
but Hubby has the cold....
Thankfully, its not the dreaded man flu,
so am very relieved by that!
Due to my mum's respiratory problems
we never go near her when we have sniffles.

It gave me a chance to catch up on stamping images for
swaps & blogging about goodies folks have sent me!!

From the lovely Amanda...

From my amazing friend Sammi
a lovely card and news stamps!
Angelique and Princess Amber
who are available to buy on her Crafty Muse site!

As well as an ATC card
she also made me a
Handmade by Tina stamp!
Thanks babe!!

Did you know she can makes stamps
from your own designs for you,
or ATC stamps or handmade by stamps...
go have a wee look!

Talking of wee....

Here's three wee moo's she sent me too!
So cute!

And from the lovely Dawn

And this gorgoues 4 x 4 she made for our DT blog
Crafty Pad ussing a Faith stamp

Who also gave me this beautiful award.
That I want to pass on to Amanda & Sammi.

Talking about Crafty Pad.....
here's a wee sneaky peak for tomorrow's challenge!

puppy play date

Our friend was on an all day course so Poppy asked her
friend Brodie the Westie over for a play date.

Her first job was taking him upstairs to wake up Andrew!

Brodie knows his place,
on the foot stool higher than Poppy!

Puppy Love Kisses

Sharing toys...

Playing in the back garden
You Tube Video.

Time for a rest

Sleepy puppies

Poppy has slept since Brodie left.