We finally succumbed to a cold here and I’ve been feeling really crappy for the last 5 or 6 days, so I haven’t even had the energy to post or create much. I have a lot of projects in my head, the usual list of Christmas cards, etc. to make/write and I just know it won’t [...]
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Thjat’s this week’s Craftaway a Sunday challenge and I altered a boring photo frame for DH using CollageVisions images and some copper acrylic paint. The scroll stamp is from Crafty Individuals. I think it’s much more saleable now and gave me another opportunity to practise!!
It has just struck me how amusing it’d be if somebody [...]
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This altered frame was made this evening with This Thursday, it’s all about… ‘all change’ in mind for various reasons. It also happens to fit in with Theme Thursday’s ‘Hearts‘ challenge, so my little love triangle is now a double header!!
Poor ‘Sophia’ (well, she just looks like a Sophia to me!), is having trouble deciding [...]
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This Thursday, it’s all about… being Clearly Clever – sponsored by Clevercut.co.uk! Now DH and DD brought me some frames back from market with them at the weekend and I decided to alter one of them using my alcohol inks and the beautiful Oak, Ash, Thorn stamp from Third Coast RS. Here’s the result:
I stamped [...]
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Last Saturday, Lisa challenged us to depict “The Fabric of Our Lives“. I’ve been pondering this all week and then DD was ill and the week has vanished. I wasn’t really up to messing about with the sewing machine this evening and I haven’t any canvas board at the moment, so I opted to collage [...]
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Well, that’s it now – Crissi’s pressie is in the post and on its way to her. I hope she likes it… I learnt a lot from the making of it – mainly patience!! I also took Sheila’s advice and when I wasn’t quite sure how to proceed, I put it to one side [...]
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I started this frame a couple of weeks ago, after finding it at a Car Boot sale. Using Sheila Oliver’s floorwax technique (on the glass) with some very old bookpaper and one of the Tanda stamps from the Backgrounds set, I added some gold acrylic paint and a drop of sage alcohol ink.
I let that [...]
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