Button tag...

This week's Wednesday Stamper is 'Buttons'... I used this week's sketch from Sketch this:cards and also the challenge from JustBex to use up your scraps - aha! Multitasking :)
Ingredients are, Buttons from a Charity Shop and Carolyns, more of that K&Co Paper, Paperchase Stripey Paper, Little Silver Hat Ribbon, Bazzill Brad, Primas, Hero Arts Birthday Stamp, Creative Impressions Safety Pin, Mini Brads and Photo Hanger (see below :)), Jolee's flowers, Staples, Mum's Net Curtain(!), Sizzix Star Die, Cuttlebug Flower Die, Flower Eyelet from Stash....

My fantabulous prize that I won from CPS arrived, from Creative Impressions, it is the most marvellous parcel, filled with yummy ribbons and loads of bits and bobs like brads and photo hangers and safety pins, it is all so lush - thank you lots!


Josh has chicken pox....
My suspicions were first aroused when he didn't want any tea yesterday, followed by a refusal of my offer to go to McDonalds to get him something, followed by a few spotty dotties on his tummy....

and Jared has of course been a model child - not his usual 'spirited' self...
Little wonder I don't do much stamping lol - apparently it made him look 'pretty'(!)

Wednesday Stamper - Flowers

This week's Wednesday Stamper is 'Flowers' and I actually managed to use a stamp that is not homemade! The item in question, is one of a pair, I made a whole heap of toppers destined for eBay this week but it was not until I took a couple of piccies that I realised that the camera battery needed charging...
Never mind, will have list them at a later date...Off to look for a spare battery to purchase now...

TFL :)
jo xx

Oh What a Night!

Both boys are poorly :( Jared woke up at around midnight, swiftly followed by Joshie at around 3... I was at the hospital at the time. Strange, my leg swelled so much that I thought an elephant had swapped with me. I actually went cos I was convinced that it is a DVT but apparently just a compressed vein... I did call NHS direct first so it was on their advice that we bundled up there, called Jim *thanks Jim* to baby sit the poorly ones so Jase could take me to the Hospital...

Calm this afternoon for a while so caught up on some sleep :)

Was cheered up lots by Sue letting me know that I won the card template comp on Bex's forum...woohoo! :) Thank you so much for choosing my card.... and they asked me to set the next card challenge over there in a few days time. Fantastic!

and... made this yesterday for the fantastic Wednesday Stamper challenge 'Turquoise' could not take a decent piccie at all for some reason so this one will have to suffice;



Turquoise Bazzill card, DCWV spotty paper, Little Silver Hat ribbon, printed spotty card, cut with scalloped scissors, pink brad from Carolyn's shop, inking and stitching, printed sentiment, flowers from possibly Wilkinsons and the stamp is of course my trusty homemade one *winks*

TFL - hope everyone is having a good weekend!!

jo xx

Butterfly...

This week's Wednesday Stamper is themed 'coloured' - Do you have a favorite way of colouring your rubber stamp images or backgrounds? Or do you like to colour a photograph? We’re anxious to seeing your favorite colouring !

I don't have a wide range or stamps or things to colour them with, I think that my watercolour pencils which might have been the only suitable thing vanished a long time ago in to the collective pot of crayons...


I do have though, some dies and patterned paper. I used a sizzix butterfly die cut from foam to make a stamp and stamped it in black on to coloured paper :). - I only also have 3 colours of ink pads, brown, black and pink so using them was not an option...

I also used Basic Grey Phoebe paper, angel kisses flowers, cuttlebug circle frame, ribbon from Little Silver Hat, a bit of mum's net curtain (!) button, staple and eyelets from stash, hand stitching and doodling.

The overlay is from Typo Generator I used the word 'Butterfly' and used the generator to randomise it, printed the result on to paper (I would like to say vellum but I think it was cheapo tracing paper!). A pretty cool overlay methinks :)

Wednesday Stamper - Flying Eye!

I found the Wednesday Stamper Site through Gillian's fantastic blog. They set a fun weekly challenge - The theme can be interpreted in any way but it must include a form of stamping - be it rubber, foam, clear etc. Now.... if you have read any of my previous posts about stamping, it just does not agree with me, or I don't agree with it lol. I really wanted to give this a go though - this week's theme is 'The eyes have it!' and... also made my first ATC at the same time!!! I caught a little bit of crafting on QVC this week whilst Jared was napping and was reliably informed by Dawn Bibby that the next big craft thing is gonna be 'Punk' So I made this...


It does have straight lines IRL :)
I made the background using Word and WC Rhesus A Bta font, Stamped over the top of this with Black Ink (although it came out kinda grey!) using a clear Fiskars stamp. The eye is free clip art and I added wings using el&font gohtic! font, printed them using a high ink setting and sprinkled embossing powder as soon as they came out the printer, set using a heat gun. The same font was used for the 'flying eye' writing, added some white handmade paper and scraps of tartan paper. Hand stitching and inked edges, Added a safety pin and eyelet and then suddenly thought that maybe ATC's are supposed to be flat so in an inspired moment, flattened the ATC with my Sizzix machine and converter....

So there it is, my first ATC and Wednesday Stamper Challenge. Not being sure what to do with it now, I am offering it as a little bit of blog candy - My first too :) I have also cut out some big scalloped squares and circles and some cuttle bug chipboard to go with it...

If you would like it, leave a comment, telling me whether or not you think that Punk is gonna be big - or what other trends we are gonna see in the near future :) Leave a comment by the end of Tuesday and I will get one of the little ones to pull a name out of the proverbial hat on Wednesday...

TFL :)

jo xx