Wooden cube necklace

Okies, so here's a necklace that I've made today for the OH... some of you may recognise the style if you watch Top Gear closely, as Richard Hammond wears one like this but with darker wooden cubes... so because my OH thinks Hammond is great I had to make him one of the necklaces.. so just a quick, simple make using; clasp, jump ring, 7 wooden cube beads and black cotton thong... now I'm just waiting for him to say he wants to grow his hair like Hammonds lol!

Seasons ATCs

So the new challenge over at Tilda & Friends has been set by Vanessa and it's going to last for a whole 4 weeks! Her theme is seasons, so we have to make an ATC for each season using a magnolia character or stamp, I've used 3 tildas and an edwin for my ATCs.

My spring ATC uses an image of Tilda skipping coloured in with mavrys, flower vellu for the backing (thanks alison i've recycled it) and some green butterfly ribbon.

My summer ATC uses an image of tilda going swimming coloured in with my marvys, 2 felt flowers, backing paper from the kaboodle doodle kit 'skulls' and some papermania sticky ribbon.

My winter ATC uses a christmas edwin image coloured in with marvys, backing paper from the kaboodle doodle kit 'allstar', a wire crafty bits star and a christmas tree from a pack of Anita's dimensions stickers.

My autumn ATC uses a windswept tilda image coloured in with my marvys, wood effect backing paper, 2 gold eyelets, a wooden leaf embellishment, papermania stickers, and some wired wool from my ooh lal la goodies :)

One mammoth challenge completed, thanks for the great challenge nessy!

Blog candy!

So bev is celebrating her 5000, no 10000.... no 15000... oh nearly 20000hits on her blog... so she is giving away some fabby candy! What are you waiting for give it a go!

Gisela is also celebrating reaching 5000 hits with some candy!

Maria is also giving some gorgeous candy!

Katharina is celebrating 100,000 hits with some fab whiff of joy candy!

Vintage with a twist

This week's Arty Girlz challenge is 'vintage', so being me i had to do it with a bit of a twist lol. I got the image from crissi's blog. I took a beermat and stripped the papers off, then i used neon colour inkpads dragged across it to create the background, then smeared back around the edge and finally stamped swirls and hearts onto the mat... then the image was stuck on top... so i guess that makes this kind of retro vintage lol!

Recycle!

Ok so this week's challenge over at A Spoon Full Of Sugar is 'recycle' and here's my piece for the challenge... the recycled part are the chunky blue buttons that my nan found buried in her room from a jumper long ago thrown away along with a variety of other buttons... i've used; white card, kaboodle doodle backing paper from the allstar kit, red dotty ribbon, blue gem brad, 2 chunky blue buttons and a sugar nellie image coloured in with my marvys again :)

E is for... embellishments!

Ok so this fortnight over at the ABC challenge we have chosen the theme 'E is for embellishments', between us we have tried to use a variety of embellishments to inspire you.

I've made an altered beermat where i've inked the background, added a tilda image coloured in with watercolour pencils and then embellished the remaining space. My embellishments are; mulberry ribbed ribbon, a gold eyelet and pink felt flowers.

So come give the challenge a try, you can make whatever you like.. and who knows perhaps you could introduce us or other viewers to a type of embellishments we haven't seen or used before :)

No pink hedgie!

So here's a double challenge card that I've just made, it's for this weeks Penny Black challenge 'no pink' and this weeks Scrummy Stash Cafe challenge 'Angie's eyelet challenge'.... So i've made a card using; white cardstock, lilac decorative paper, gold ribbon, 2 gold eyelets, gold hearts, 2 gold star brads, 2 vellum flowers and a stamped image of my new PB stamp coloured in with my marvys :) not a hint of pink in sight :)

It's A Boy!

Ok so one of the ladies I work with is due in a few weeks and she knows that she's having a little boy so i merged a challenges together with some of my kaboodle doodles download kits to make her a card... ooh yea i forgot to mention i'm on the kaboodle doodles design team now lol... so anyway i've made this card to fit in with the Arty Girlz challenge 'blue'... it's been made with a simple bit of white card, dark blue ribbon and the rest is from the kaboodle doodles download kit 'Baby'.

Lots To Do- A Pair Of Glasses

So this weeks challenge over at Lots To Do was set by Sam and has the theme 'A Pair Of Glasses', so all you have to do is make something that has glasses somewhere on it... so i took a picture of Sam's pup Frazz and put some funky heart shaped glasses onto him... doesn't he look cute lol!

Josiannes blog candy

Josianne is celebrating 1000 new visitors and over 1400 hits and is giving away some blog candy to celebrate! It includes:

Assorted papermania papers, Couple images - Papermania , Hedge Delivery images - Penny Black, Skipping Rope images - Penny Black, Peter Radishes - Beatrix Potter, Pink Silk Rose Petals, Ribbon, Beads and Buttons