Moo Mania

Hello Everyone. Beautiful day again here 'sunny and warm'. No rain forecast for days here but the plants continue to thrive. The nights are a bit cooler so I think they are living on the condensation--how clever is that?

At Moo Mania the challenge this time is in a row.

I found this piece of gold card-well I found several pieces of the same gold card but haven't a clue where I got them from. If you sent them to me--thank you.

I first splodged the card with different colours of Distressed stain but all that did was separate into little droplets so not much effect really.

Then I made my Moos using the Distressed stains  and stamped some small images in a row before adding gold Glimmer mist and a Promarker Edge to each.

The bling was already in a row so I added that as well.

This is my tag for Tag Tuesday this week where the theme is the Swinging 60s

I did everything I could think of from the 60s and even a bit of psychedelic drawing on the left hand side. The camper van is a peel off and I coloured it.

Have a lovely day and great weekend all

Love Chrissie x

Out of a Hat Challenge 75

Hello Everyone--hope your week has gone well.

Here we are with another challenge at Out of a Hat Creations.

The theme this time is 'A Pennant of Bunting.' I'm sure that conjures up lots of ideas and here is what I made.

The bag after Chrissie treatment

Bag when I rescued it at the car boot sale. I really bought it for the handles as it was only 50p. It is lovely linen and lined so I decided it was too nice to take apart.

I cut out 12 triangles and made those into bunting by sewing them to some ribbon and adding sequins. Then I made some flowers just by gathering two sizes of circles and scrunching them up. A button to finish off the centres and that's it done. It now holds a lot of sewing threads that are only suitable for hand tacking etcs they break if I use them on the machine. It will save me getting them mixed up with the good stuff.

Hope you visit Sam,  Janet and Sandra to see what they have made for this challenge.

I am entering this at Altered Eclectics-better late than never.

Always good to have you drop by-thank you.

Love Chrissie xx

One Flower Wednesday

Good morning Everyone. It's another beautiful morning here and we are off to the old town for a walk. It is always good to go there and like being transported to another era. It did have cobble streets until recently but they have covered the cobbles now with some modern stuff so spoiled it all a bit. I expect it was some EEC rule that said it was dangerous.

I forgot to post my flower yesterday at Journey of a Quilter. Not sure why but it doesn't show up on my blog roll-must sort that out.

I am so enjoying making all the flowers for my quilt and seeing all the colour that can be created when they are joined together.

A wonderful pastime.

Thank you to the members of the blog who made me very welcome

Have a wonderful day

Love Chrissie xx

Use your Stuff and Fun with ATCs

Hello Everyone from a very sunny and warm NE UK coast. I am keeping out of the sun today as I think I over did a bit yesterday. Nice to be in the cool of the craftroom.

At Use your Stuff this week they have a recipe

Ingredients:

1. add texture - embossing, heat embossing, molding paste

2. use paint or mist - splatters are acceptable

3. add a quote or a saying- famous or not

I made this hanging with two pieces of square card at angles to each other and used inks, staines and water to make a nice effect. Then I stamped the Kanban man and woman on the hanging and also onto paper to use as a mask. Next I stamped various other things here and there. I added the little flowers at the top by using part of a brass stencil and Grunge paste then I painted those with some acrylic paint to add even more texture. There is some Gold Glitter Mist on the edges as well. Just the quote to go then the recipe is fulfilled and it can all go into the oven to be baked. Forgot to mention that I made a hole at the top and added ribbon and material flowers which I coloured with a Promarker.

Next Challenge is at Fun with ATCs where the theme is Black, White and Red.

I Used a couple of our photographs and turned them black and white then digitised them and made then ATC sized. Coloured some the ATC in red and that's it

one of  Vic's photographs taken in our garden--this is the one I used for the first ATC.

Hope the sun is shining where you are and thank you for dropping by

Love Chrissie x

Inchie and Fairy Projects

Hello Everyone who pops in today

Looks like it might be a nice day for Bank Holiday Monday so I expect our little seaside town will be packed full of people enjoying themselves.

Today is Every Inchie Monday day and the theme this week is SONG.

I chose the song Lady in Red by Chris de Burgh. I printed out the inchie then decoupaged the lady to give it more depth.

At Anything but a Card it is Fantasy and Fairies and I did enter an ATC already but thought I would make something else as well. This was because I found a brass stencil with a fairy--it had fallen down the back of my work bench a long time ago and had never been used.. Not sure what make it is as I expect I threw the packing away.

This is the stencil if you know who made it can you let me know please

I used a piece of paper for the backing from A Bumper Book of papers I bought a long time ago and the letters I have had a while as well. I used acrylic paint splodged onto plastic for the background then Paper Artsy Grunge Paste for the fairy. A few old peel offs to finish off the page.

Here it is in the scrapbook

Have a good day everyone

Love Chrissie x

Is it really Saturday ?

Hello Everyone. Yesterday I really thought it was Saturday when I did my post and I was pleased when Sam made a comment to say that it wasn't--thanks Sam. All the days seem like Saturday to me and I enjoy every day with so many fun things to do. Hope you all enjoy your day today and thanks for popping in.

This time at the Craft Room Challenge they have the theme something new-this can be a technique you have never tried or something that you haven't used yet in your stash.

I made this ATC.

The background is my new venture as I used the bubble technique. It is so much fun to do and no two backgrounds will ever be the same.

This is what was left of the background and the piece of paper that I used to print the image onto. Not sure that was a good idea really but it did give texture.

The fairy image is one I drew digitally with pixels in Paint Shop Pro many years ago. Feel free to save it and use it if you like.

I would also like to add this to Anything but a Card where the theme this time is fantasy or fairy based.

Love Chrissie x

Ahhhh and Craft Barn Alpha Page

Happy Friday Everyone! Nice weather here so far today but the forecast says it is all about to change so we will be off for a nice walk along the seafront and the cliffs to make the most of the good weather.

I thought you might like to share some pics that Vic took yesterday.

We have had a very large hedgehog eating the slugs and bugs in our veg bit of the garden for ages and noticed that she hadn't been around for a few of weeks. Now we know why! She has moved to next door where the garden is kept wild and lots of little creatures live there. Our Hedgehog must have thought it was a suitable place to have some babies and she has had three.

Our neighbour, Roger, called us out yesterday to see them on his lawn so here they are. Two seem to stick together the other one stays on it's own. No sign of mum though so I am hoping she is ok.

They are quite small and may be be about three weeks old we think.

Now for my O page for the Craft Barn Alpha page challenge. I chose the word Orris which is the posh name for Iris.

I printed the image onto acetate and just stuck it over the words as I thought it didn't need anything else it is so beautiful.. Thought I would add a bit about the Orris Oil as it sounds interesting stuff. Always great entries for this challenge and I love to look at the book I am creating.

Have a great day everyone

Love Chrissie x