Hi,

I hope you all had a lovely Christmas, I have enjoyed spending time at home with family and recharging my batteries before returning to work in January.

I thought I would share two projects with you today that I made just before Christmas, both were made to give as gifts for my school Headmaster and his wife.

So after having a little a go at wood turning back in the summer, I have now taken this up as a new hobby! I work out in the shed at the moment which is a little cold but the patio heater comes in handy! I have a small lathe set up for now, and was lucky enough to be given a large lathe and lots of tools.

In October I joined Kent Wood Turners and A.W.G.B, have had two lessons so far but still have much to learn!

My First Pen in Acrylic

The pen is a sienna Pen in blue acrylic and the seam ripper is in Turquoise acrylic

Seam Ripper closed

Seam Ripper open

Thanks for looking today

Happy New Year to you all

xx

Hello Visitors

I was asked to make a medal holder, well two actually a meter long,

so this is three times the size that I have been making.

Hubby cut me some MDF to size and routed the edges, then I rubbed it down lightly.

Then painted it with gesso

I rubbed it down lightly again between all coats, I used art Americana Decor chalk paint in Remembrance (a lilac colour)

then using a sponge and some white paint I dabbed it over the whole area.

I added the runner and wording from my printer and stamped flowers onto it, I did these one at a time as they were then heat embossed in clear embossing powder.

The flowers are mainly from Lavinia stamps, I added a few butterflies and Inkylicious grasses, and put 24 hooks in place

I hope Lyne and Martin are happy with their medal holders and I’m sure they have plenty of medals to display

thanks for looking today

crafty hugs

xx

Hello all,

I was asked to make the table plan for my step son Rik and his future wife Abi, they had a beautiful wedding last week, and the theme was a rustic vibe and the venue looked amazing, so congratulations to the happy couple who are now on their honeymoon.

I think I can say on behalf of everyone there it was a truly wonderful day.

I used a sheet of A1 mount board for the base, printed off the names on to some kraft card cut to correct size, then hot foiled it in red and mounted it onto some wine coloured card cut slightly larger leaving a 5mm border. I add some lace to each one and glues them into position.

I used some wider lace and contrasting ribbon and finished off with a wooden heart, I continued the lace to the back of the mountboard and the glued another sheet of mountboard to it so that it gave the whole table plan some extra strength.

For the Wedding card I typed up lots of loving and romantic meaningful words in different fonts and added their names and wedding date to the centre the printed it off on some silk card.

I then heat foiled it in silver and cut it out using a heart-shaped die, and then using a larger die cut another heart from silver mirror card. I mat and layered it using mirror cars and silk card and mount this onto my scalloped base card. I stamped the sentiment in black versafine ink and heat embossed it with clear embossing powder, and added a few gems to finish.

I think the Bride & Groom were happy with my efforts lol

thanks for looking today

xx

Hi Everyone

It’s been a while!

I have recently taken up running!!

I joined a club called Beginners2runners in January and graduated about 10 weeks later. After being able to run a 5k.

I haven’t really done any running since leaving school, many moons ago!!

 I am actually amazed that I can do it, even more so that I love running.

Anyway I only  have one medal at the moment but hope to add to my collection.

I kept seeing medal holders pop up on face book so I decided to make one for myself.

As usual my friendly MDF and some distress inks, a flowery stamp and some water-colour pencils.

Firstly I printed out the words and running lady onto some card and then foiled it.

Then glued it onto the MDF and trimmed it.

I used picked raspberry, salty ocean and wilted violet distress inks for my background and blended them together. Then I stamped the flowers and heat embossed them with black embossing powder. I coloured the flowers using Inktense pencils and a white pen.

I added some splodges and little leaves then sprayed it all over with a clear sealer.

I cut out black circles to take the letters and behind these are the hooks for the medals. To finish off I added gems and some clear wink of stella.

I hope it’s not too long before it gets filled up lol, my one medal looks a bit lonely!

I’m not really fabulous but it’s encouraging lol

Thanks for looking today

crafty hugs

xx

Hello there

It’s a lovely sunny day here in Lordswood so I thought I would share my Sunny Scrapbook page with you all today.

Its coming up to Chloe’s 6th Birthday and usually I buy flowers for my daughter Shan, but I thought I would make her a gift this year instead.

I haven’t made many scrapbook pages as I am quite a beginner at this, the pages I have made and put in an album don’t get seen often, so I thought Shan could display it for as long as she wants then when she wants to change the picture it can go in an album and I can make a new one to display for a while.

I had some flowery paper to use as my main page but after taking the advice of my friend Sue Bage it turned out much better as she suggested a white background. So thanks Sue x.

I used Heartfelt creations Cut Mat Create dies 1A,1B,2A,2B to mat and layer my photos, inked the edges of the white embossed card with distress ink in ripe persimmon and used the flowery paper to cut out the leaves.

I added a few embellishments and put it in a white frame to which I added some silver gilding flakes and then varnished it.

Page layout

White box frame

Gilding sheet in silver

Thanks for looking enjoy your day

xx

Hi

I liked the shaped of this coffee syrup bottle and wanted to bling it up a bit.

After painting it with gesso, I mixed up some chalky grey paint with some black gesso and painted it onto the bottle with a sponge,

then went over it with white acrylic paint again using a sponge.

I chose a black and white napkin and separated the three layers, using just the patterned layer.

It was glued on with mod podge and varnished once dry.

The lace at the top was brown, but I went over it with a black pro marker and glued it in place.

I added the bling and some glitter paper to the little indents of the glass.

Then finished off with Heartfelt creation delicate Aster flowers, which I painted in silver and added some feathers.

Thanks for looking today

xx

Hi

I found a really lovely paper pad by Prima called Bella Rouge and used one of the papers to cover this heart.

I made the flower using Heartfelt creations delightful daisy and coloured with distress inks.

Then I brushed the petals with some varnish and dipped them into some glitter.

The sentiment is from Dylusions by Dyan Reaveley which can from Hobby Lobby.

I added a red bead and some string to finish off

Hope you like it

xx