All your eggs in 1 basket

I know you have all been stamping your feet waiting to see this so here it is, DD's entry to the 'decorate a plate' comp

I trusted her with my craft knife. Yikes! I was having kittens beside her though. She cut the handle bit out herself. Not bad for a 6 year old eh?

Arty girlz - Welly doodles

I wonder if the Arty girlz have ever had welly boots as an entry.

Well(y) they have now!

The challenge was to create using doodles. DD has to have wellies for school but as eveyone has the £1.99 woolies ones I made her's a bit different.

Competition Time ....

.... not for you lot though! lol.

It's nearly easter so theres lots of Easter competions at the schools and nurserys.

Here is DS (age 2)'s entry into a 'Decorate a plate' comp.

This is DD (age 6)'s entry in a 'Decorate an egg' comp

The chicks name is Elizabeth & looks to me like she has had a hard life already lol.

DD also has a plate but that is work in progress. I'll show you tomorrow if you can bear to wait that long.

I've not blogged for yonks. Thanks for the nudge Julie, I'll make more of an effort. (I think, I'll try)

Arty Girlz Challenge 19 pockets

Have you seen the prize the Arty Girlz are offering this week?

As they say you've got to be in it to win it so heres my card to make sure I'm in it lol. Oh I so need those stamps.

Here's my entry. In the pocket is a tag saying happy birthday

What time you drawing it then Arty Girlz?

PS the blue bit isn't the card it's a bit of paper I put in my scanner. I don't know why, maybe to show you how wonky I can scan

Glitter Flower Domino

Last domino to show you for now.

This is very sparkley IRL.

Fairy dominos

This is a set of fairy dominos. Pond fairies, cornflower fairies and butterfly fairies. I still have to add a ribbon and beads to the butterfly one but wanted to show you now

1950's Pin up girls dominos

I have been busy domino-ing again. This time 1950's pin up girls. What do you think?

Oriental Bambo Tile

I'm getting fed up with making cards so I have gone back to making 'stuff' Here is my latest creation a sort of hanging dangley thingy lol.
It is a bamboo tile, don't ask me where you can get them was this was kindly sent to me from Jane (doodles&scrapsofme blog) I have stamped an oriental pic in white stazon, but it has come out as a sort of blue. Then I've threaded beads into organza ribbon (http://www.mollydaydream.com/) Could of done with bells to finish off really but all my bells are either too big or too shiny so I made do with some shell beads instead.



What do you think?

Arty Girlz Challenge #18

I thinkI have lost my blog mojo :-o but I'm trying ...

The arty girlz challenge #18

This week we have set 'Animals' as our challenge theme

here's my entry ....

ok so the animal bit is tiny but as I say I'm trying to find my mojo, that's my excuse anyway lol

Arty Girlz and more

Yikes you can tell Christmas is over. There are challenges everywhere!

This card I made to fulfill ....

1) Arty Girlz

Hi everyone, we'd like to see BUTTONS on your projects this week so as usual you choose the format be it a scrapbook layout, card, atc, a sewing project. altered art ... we love to see a whole range of crafts

2) A team challenge at Aunty's Forum

make something in black & white only but with one added splash of colour. This colour should mean winter

3) It is a Christmas card the first of my 2008 collection.

New Tilda Challenge Blog

Have you seen there is a new challenge blog starting? No? well here it is Tilda and Co . I guess the name on that link kind of gives it away. All the challenges have to contain a magnolia stamp. What a shame eh?

Here is my contribution to the first challenge that had to also include flowers. Please note the centre of the flowers, ooh how they sparkle Santa very kindly left me a bejeweler hot fix tool and some swarovski gems. I must of been a good girl lol.

Arty Girls Challenge #11 Squares

I can't believe the Arty Girlz are up to challenge 11 already. I'm afraid Christmas has got in the way of my blogging. I will go back to regular posting when it is all over. (Christmas that is, not blogging) I have however managed to complete the arty girlz challenge 11 "squares" mainly because it is DD's birthday tomorrow. Can you guess how old she will be? lol

Arty Girlz Challenge #9

I know I am late but here is my entry to the Arty Girlz challenge.

This week's challenge is 'Hearts' so as usual feel free to interpret our theme as you like and it's entirely up to you whether you make a card, an atc...bake a cake etc. etc.

Here is my ATC. I've had this stamp for ages. I feel quite proud I've finally used lol.

Magickdivas "words" challenge

Magick diva said

Today's challenge is to add a WORD to your artwork - any form of artwork can be submitted - and there are endless possibilities for a WORD to be included

I went to my stash found something with words on & created a card round it. Quite pleased with the results really especially as it took about 2 mins to make lol. What do you think?

Get Crafty Comp Part 2 (broken rules fixed)

I didn't read Emma of Get Crafty's comp rules properly so my 'sassy' card broke the rules (shock horror) there was no embossing!! I have now added my daughters name in silver ink, on silver mirror card, embossed with clear embossing powders. I have never made her a Christmas card & I just know she is going to be happy with this one. Just need to work out how to get all those feathers in the envelope now :-D

Think I have done it in the nick of time ...comp ends today :-/

Arty Girlz & Magickdiva & Daring Card Makers

I have managed to get 3 challenges in to 1 card.

Arty Girlz Challenge #8 Bling

Magicdiva Something with a number on it

Daring Card Makers hand cut something

This looks quite dull in the pic but the card is pearlised so is the paper. It is edged with silver ink and finished off with sparkly gems.

Inching Artists Challenge #7 Housies

The challenge on Inching Artists was to make a housie inchie.

I had an idea.

I would get my daughter to draw a house & I would make it in to an inchie.

She drew a lovely little house & I set too colouring it and mounting it. Turned around and saw she had made herself one. I think it is fantastic so I mounted it for her.

Mine is on the right with the sun, hers is on the left with the clouds. Do you think at 5 she is the youngest inchie artist?

Arty Girls Challenge #7 ~ Rainbow Colours

I know I am going to be in trouble for this one. Lol. This is for the Arty Girls Challenge

I think Crissi would call it thinking out of the box

I think Julie would call it cheating

I call it last minute rush

To be honest I am not even going to think about what Cynthia would call it, because this is what she said

"I would like you to create a work of art using just THREE colours from the Rainbow spectrum. In case you have forgotten they are (Richard Of York Gave Battle in Vain, or Run Off You Girls, Boys In View)RED, ORANGE, YELLOW, GREEN, BLUE, INDIGO AND VIOLET.No mixing of colours please just use them as they are."

Well as I am in Christmas mode & can't get out I went for red and green (obviously) but I couldn't get the third colour in so i went for gold. From the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. lol lol

Oh well at least I tried eh?

Sassy Christmas

Emma form Get Crafty put up a challenge to make a sassy Christmas card. I looked sassy up in the dictionary & this is what it said.


sas·sy 1 (sās'ē) adj. sas·si·er, sas·si·est
1) Rude and disrespectful; impudent.
2) Lively and spirited; jaunty.
3) Stylish; chic: a sassy little hat.


I think my card fulfills number 2.


Personally I think it is terrible. (In my opinion Christmas should be red & green.) DD thinks it is "beautiful" but then she is pink and fluffy.

Don't know if you can tell but the background is hand stamped & coloured (pink) baubles.

Tilda all made up.

I have so many stamped images of Tilda all coloured in several different ways. Most are rubbish, some are ok & it is the ok ones that I have started to make some of them in to christmas cards. Here are my first 3