Tilda Card

It's been a while since I last made a Tilda card, so I dug out this image that I have had for a while, and not previously used. Please ignore my messy piece of white cardboard, it's what I put over my craft mat when I am colouring in :D
Also please excuse the darkness on the pics, I did have the flash on, but the light was poor this morning.

I would like to enter this card in to the following challenges please:

• A Gem of a Challenge: Sketch
• A Spoonful of Sugar: At least 2 types of textures {Sequins, Ribbon, textured papers}
• Creative Card Crew: April Showers
• Paper Sundaes: Spring Blossoms {Used yellow flowers which are a spring colour}
• The Crazy Challenge: Just add Flowers {My 2nd entry}
• DYSU: Yellow
  
• Crafty Card Makers: Recipe - Use Yellow as your main colour, Add Ribbon, Use faux/real stitching and add Rhinestones/gems. {Yellow is my main colour, blue ribbon added, real sitching used to tie the sequins together and on the slanted dp and faux stitching used on the sentiment dp, flat back self adhesive pearls used as my gems}
  

Altered Note Book

Good evening everyone.

At the moment my PC is broke :( so I have had to use my OH's PC to upload photos etc. It's really annoying not being able to do this on my own PC, but it looks like this might be the only solution until we can get me a new PC. I do have a laptop, but I really don't like working on it!
So until then, this will have to do!

Anyways, I couldn't find my old notebook that I kept details in, on challenges, so I decided to turn a tatty old note book, that I found stuffed away somewhere, in to a brand spanking new 'Challenges' notebook. I know I do have all the challenges listed in my sidebar, but I like to have something by the side of me whist I actually craft.

You will notice that I don't have a watermark on these images, that is because that is stored in PSP on MY computer lol

Note: I really hope entering this notebook in to the listed challenges are okay, but I couldn't find anything in the rules that said it was for cards only. If not, then that is absolutely fine :)

PS. Please ignore the grubby white card on the photos, that is what I use on top of my craft mat when I am colouring in lol

The before picture. Yucky! As always, click on the images to view in full.

Front.

Back.

Inside. Not the most perfect, but it will do! As you can see I removed the old ribbon marker and made a matching spotty one.

And below a few extra photos, juct click on them to enlarge :)

I would like to enter my altered note book in to the following challenges please:

• Magnolia Stamp Lovers: Use Ribbon
• One Stitch at a Time: 3D
  
• Stamptacular: Buttons, Bling & Blooms {4 white buttons, stickles on sheep's hair and tail, and flowers, prima flowers & 1 wild orchid flower}
• Delightful Challenges: Flowers
• Just Magnolia: Anything Goes with Optional use of buttons {4 buttons & magnolia image}
• The Crafty Pad: Flowers
• One Stop Craft: Spots & Dots {spots on the ribbon}
• Craft Your Passion: Anything Goes
• Pollycraft: Use old or neglected stamp or image {I've had this image in my stash for ages and never used it previously!}
• The Crazy Challenge: Just add flowers
• Papertake: Anything Goes with Optional use of something new {my spotty ribbon was brand spanking new}
• Passion for ProMarkers: Yellow and Pink {The sheep is pink with yellow hair, also pink ribbon, prima flower and wild orchid flower. Yellow prima flower also. ProMarkers used, see recipe below for colours.}
• ABC Challenge: R is for Ribbon
• Allsorts: Blooming Blossoms {2 prima flowers and 1 wild orchid flower}
• Craft Your Days Away: Spots and Stripes {spotted ribbon and striped designer paper}
• Stamp, Scrap & Doodle: Glitz {stickles on sheep's hair and tail}
• Crafts and Me: Glitter {stickles on sheep's hair and tail}

Wow, I didn't realise it was eligable for so many! Hopefully is IS eligable anyways, if not I will have to have a re-think!

Recipe:

• One dirty tatty old notebook
• Striped designer paper is Smirk
• Magnolia sheep and trees images
• Prima flowers
• Wild Orchid flower
  
• Pink spotty ribbon
• White florists ribbon
• To Do {or not to do... that is the question}, Do This ---->, This item belongs to:, and Designed by: Stamps from Basic Grey
  
• White buttons
• Stickles
• Flat back self adhesive Pearls
• Calendar tab
• ProMarkers {Cinnamon, Cool Aqua, Mint Green, Grass, Ivory, Rose Pink, Tulip Yellow and Blush}
  
• White card stock
  

Thank You Card

A thank you card, that I am not 100% happy with... again lol

Even though I am not happy with it, or the photograph it's self {I am still playing with my camera settings}, I would like to enter this card in to the following challenges:

• Cowgirl Up: Sketch
• Paper Sundaes: Use Metal {Small Metal Brad in Flower, and used Silver Mirror Board which gives off a metal effect}
• Wild Orchid: One for the Girls {Umm, it's pink and have used lovely Wild Orchid Flowers on it!}
• Ooh-La-La Creations: Spots & Dots {Spotty paper on one of the panels}
  

Tilda Card, Bracelet & Altered Jar

I am very proud of myself today, not only have I completed a new card, I have also made a 'tester' bracelet and an altered jar.

First up is a Tilda card that I made for my friend in the US' birthday.
I coloured her in a couple of days ago with me new ProMarkers.
I had to order some new ones as I didn't have any 'pastel' coloured ones, and as they were under £5 a pack, I figured why not!

I would like to enter this card in to the following challenges:

• One Stitch At A Time: Follow the sketch or use Pink {I used Pink}
• The Crafty Pad: Ribbons & Flowers {Ribbon in her hair & Mulberry paper flowers}
• Crafty Angels: Something Old, Something New {Old = All the papers used on this were old. New = Flowers, Pin, Pearls and the die to cut the ovals}
• Ooh-La-La Creations: Birthday {Though it doesn't say on the front, but this card is intended for my friend's birthday.}
• Creative Card Crew: Cute & Girlie {my card is umm cute & girlie lol}
• Dutch Dare: Anything Goes
• One Stop Craft: Patterns {Papers are patterned}
  

Recipe:

• Tilda pre-stamped image {from eBay}
• ProMarkers
• Stickles
• Anita's Glossy Accents
• Pin
• Self Adhesive Flat Pearls
• Mulberry Paper Flowers
• Leaf
• Laura Ashley Paper {deep purple}
• Papermania Papers {pink & lighter purple}
• 3D Foam pads to lift Tilda off the card
  

Next up is a little bracelet that I quikcly put together, more of a tester, to see whether I would enjoy making more before I bought all the tools and lots of beads.
And I found some wire and basic beads in my stash, so I gave it a go, and I did enjoy it, so I will be investing in some better beads and tools etc. soon!

Recipe:

• Wire
• Beads

And lastly is an old pasta sauce jar that I altered to put my new mulberry paper flowers in.
As the lid was green all over I decided to keep the green theme.
I didn't have any green ribbon though, so I recycled an old piece of green ribbon I had laying around.

As you can see, the paper didn't go all the way around, but you can see all those yummy flowers and delishious colours!

Recipe:

• Empty glass pasta sauce jar
• Papermania paper
• Ribbon
• Prima Flower
• Lovely mulberry paper flowers to fill jar

I almost forgot....
I got new toys a few days ago, a sealing wax gun, wax, and a 'J' sealing coin, and I totally *heart* it!
I can easily see how addictive this might become!

Major BIG Catch Up Part III

Part 3 of my update.

A nice Audrey Hepburn twisted decoupage card. I could have split up the layers but I wanted to go all out on this one. Used card stock, gold mirror board, prima flower and gem, and I can't remember what designer paper I used as the backing paper.

A side view so you can see the layers.

A single layed Audrey Hepburn mounted on a different style of card {which name escapes me right now}. Again, gold mirror board was used, excuse the reflection from the camera lol

A miniture version of the twisted decoupage featured on the first card.

A nice big 3 way fold {again the proper name of the fold has eluded me} card of James Dean, I believe. Once again, this one is twisted decoupage, mounted on gold mirror board.

Side view.

Inside, with the magnetic bookmark I made to go with it, and as you can see from the picture below, the magnets are pretty strong.

The card on it's side, showing that the magnetic bookmark does not slip off.

The other side of the bookmark, with me holding it up and giving it a little shake, still doesn't slide off!

The inside of the magnetic bookmark.

And finally, the King! Though this pic does the card no justice at all! And the silver mirror board doesn't help much either! There is a space at the bottom to allow for personalisation, or for one of the generic tags to go on it that came with the set.

A side view to see the layers.

Major BIG Catch Up Part II {incl. WOYWDW}

Part 2 of my major big update lol

Here's the card I made for my Mum for Mother's day. I decoupaged Tilda on to the background, she and the grass and flowers were coloured with promarkers, the cloud was dusted with chalks and the grass also had a light dusting of chalks to make the grass and cloud appear softer blended together. Adhered prima flower and stickers. I forget which designer paper I used, will look it up later, I think it is basic grey??

A flower soft card I made a while back, it has since been sent to one of my Aunt's for her birthday in April.

Cheque Holder made with a Forever Friends Bear, which I slightly over-coloured lol

Inside.

With the cheque attached.

Now, this is a kinda holder-thingie-me-jig lol that I made to put some used stamps in to send to an animal charity that I collect for. I think I manged to get about 160 stamps in this one. If you want to know more about the charity or how to send me your used stamps {UK and foreign} just leave a message on this post with your e-mail addy and I will be more than happy to e-mail you.

The main image is dufex, so it doesn't photograph very well, but this pic came out pretty okies!

And this is what was on my workdesk last Wednesday LOL
I like to sit in front of the TV to craft, esp. now all my favourite shows are back on air, so I have this little table that I use, but the majority of my 'workspace' is either in a box on the floor or/and on the sofa next to me lol
So here we have a dovecraft scoringboard with scorer, scissors, tweezers, magnetic tape roll, pencil and all the bookmarks that I made that day and the day before!

I kinda altered the dalek bookmark, by putting it on to a piece of blue double sided card and made it in to a magnetic bookmark.

The back of the bookmark with a dalek and some star glow in the dark stickers!

I have LOADS more magnetic bookmarks, which I will post later.