A Twinchie and Atcs

Hi All A day to make your heart sing here with a beautiful pale blue sky and lots of bright sunshine. Hoping you have all got the same sort of day where you are

This time at the Twinchies Challenge the subject is  Animal Instincts.

I used a little rhino stamp I have had for ages. Not sure who made the stamp as it came from my daughter in a whole bag of little animal stamps. I guess the rhino's instinct must be to charge-well this ones is for sure.

At Wicked Wednesday they have the theme Creepy Halloween. I looked on Google for some creepy images then played around with them in Paint Shop Pro and made them even creepier. I printed them out and then cut around them and added them to the backgrounds.

That's it for today so far but I am planning to do some crafting while Vic goes for a bike ride.

Love Chrissie x

Stencil and Flower

Hello All. Hope you have a lovely day today. I got up early to finish off some crafting as there are quite a lot of other things I have to fit in today. Shopping then rugby to watch and a Formula One Grand Prix qualifying as well--not to mention Strictly Come Dancing :) All that exercise will wear me out.

At the Craft Room this time they would like us to use masks or stencils. I have a lot of brass stencils and haven't really made use of them so I looked up how to use them on Goggle and found out that they could be used in a Cuttlebug.  That was me hooked for a whole morning trying various ones.

This is the card I made by using a stencil to emboss a piece of card then dabbing a distressed ink pad all over the finished embossing. I mounted this on some embossed card and lightly ran the same ink pad over it and then stamped with the same colour on a pink card.

The next challenge I made the card for is Crafting with Dragonflies where they would like to see our home made flowers. I made mine with ribbon and the leaf is made in the same way. I am not sure if I got it all quite right but the tutorial is here at What a Beautiful Mess if you would like to try it

Also I would like to add this to Crafty Creations where the theme is make it yourself-only just found this blog.

Enjoy what ever you are doing today

Love Chrissie x 

Tag Along

Welcome to my little bit of Blog Land-always great to have people drop in.

This week at Tag Along they have the theme Day of Dead and what great sample and entries already for this. Such wonderful colours when you Google this subject.

This is one of biggest tags I have ever made-had to look for my bigger easel for the photograph.

I made a background with skeletons on though most of it covered up now. The image was a black and white one I found that I coloured. Then I searched in my stash for coloured flower bits and bobs and some ribbon in bright colours. This should brighten up my wall for sure.

Beautiful sunshine here so far today--hope it is the same where you are

Love Chrissie x

N page and Hexagon Flowers

Hello to everyone who drops into Jumbled Crafts. I always appreciated all of the comments that people leave and the friendship that is shown to me through this blog. Thank you :)

At the Craft Barn Alpha Challenge this time the letter is N -I chose the word Neopolitan

I coloured the page in the ice cream layers colours and found some images of cones on Google. Then looked up the origins of this icecream. My alpha book is bursting at the seams and a I love looking through it--what a great challenge.

A Journey of a Quilter it is time for us to join Karen for One Flower Wednesday, Well I have now completed my first ever patchwork piece and it is hung in the conservatory. I took it outside to take the picture as it is so dark here this mornings.

I used four of my hexie flowers and sewed them onto white squares then sewed them together. Added some orange ribbon and then edged with green. I'm sure it isn't perfect but I am still a learner and so pleased to have made something. Thank you for the support from all my new found patchwork friends and from my usual friends at Jumbled Crafts.

Have a wonderful day everyone

Love Chrissie x

Faux Cloisonne

Hello Again everyone

I was having a browse on friends blogs and came across Technique Time Tuesday where I found something I had never heard of before so I followed the tutorial for the challenge and I am just in time to enter .

The technique is called Faux Cloisonne so I had to look up what Cloisonne means

cloi·son·né  (kloiz-n, kl-wäz-)

n.

1. Decorative enamelwork in which metal filaments are fused to the surface of an object to outline a design that is filled in with enamel paste.

2. The art or process of producing such enamelwork.

[French, past participle of cloisonner, to partition, from Old French cloison, partition, from Vulgar Latin *clausi, clausin-, from Latin clausus, past participle of claudere, to close, lock.]

There are lots of wonderful entries for the challenge and the DT samples are amazing.

I found a glossy picture of a turkey and used some of that for my background for the Chocolate Baroque clock stamp

Hope your day is going well

Love Chrissie x

Tree Photographs and Moos

Hello Everyone from a very sunny NE UK. It is very cold outside but so good to see the lovely sunshine.

At Moo Mania this time the theme is cats

I made a very small Good Luck card to send to my daughter as I thought she could use as a book mark as well. The cat on the Moos is one of her three cats. Not sure which one as two of them are twins and the other one is black and white as well The background is made with distressed stamps and stains and edged with a Promarker. Then I added some old peel -offs--still lots left yet :)

Yesterday I did 20,000- steps and enjoyed everyone of them as we went to Sewerby Park which is a walk  all along the cliff top from where we live. Here are some photographs of my two favourite trees in the park

                                                      This is a very old tree that loves a hug

This is Vic giving it a hug

These are some of the beautiful branches that almost reach the floor

This is me at the bottom of one of the tall monkey puzzle trees that I love

Every year a row of branches are removed leaving these images that look like eyes on the tree trunk. You can see from the bird droppings that the birds love to hide up high in the branches

Hope you all have a wonderful day and great to have you drop in

Love Chrissie x

Tag Tuesday and Artful Times

Hello Everyone. I hope you all have a great day and thank you for popping in.

At Tag Tuesday this week the theme is Halloween and at Artful Times Spooktacular so I decided to combine my effort for both challenges.

I made the background for this tag in Paint Shop Pro then added a haunted House image that I found on Google and it was free to use.

The other things I drew in black Promarker and highlighted here and there with white pen. The charm and the tile I have had for a while in my bits and bobs box. My Halloween ideas have run dried I think.

Love Chrissie x