This Sweet Life

This is something I've been "playing" with for a few days now.  I wanted to try out the lovely Rusty Rose Fresco Paint and the texture paste with a mask so I used a small canvas board to experiment.  The paint went on really well and the canvas gave a nice texture.  Not too sure about the paste though - I think I still need some practice to get it right.

The stamp is one of my favourites from Crafty Individuals and the butterflies were cut from one of their background paper pads and dabbed with a bit of acrylic paint.  I tucked a little bunch of flowers behind the folded ribbon topping that lovely bit of lace I've had for ages.  The hexagons reminded me of a honeycomb so I added the little bee stamps and the "sweet" sentiments.  I cheated with the stitches and used rub-ons which I think look quite effective.

It was easy to turn this into a hanging by adding a piece of burgundy satin ribbon and backing the whole piece with some burgundy card.  I think my Mum will quite like this instead of a Mother's Day card and she won't mind a bit that this is a practice piece.

Wish I'd made this ......

Just had to post this pic today of the fantastic swap of an altered mint tin I got at our craft class.  When you think, this tin is just 4 x 2 inches in size - she has packed an amazing amount of detail into it and almost everything is handmade.  The lady is into dolls houses and makes all sorts of miniature items to fill them.  I was thrilled to be the owner of this lovely piece of work as my fingers and eyes could never cope with anything that small.  Enjoy!

Just look at that corset and the fantastic "perfume" bottles - just brilliant.

Vintage dreams

Had a lovely time playing with my new Fresco paints and texture paste (more of which later on) after getting some tips from a very good friend Laura who has been so generous with her advice - isn't blogland a lovely place?  You just have to ask for help and someone will always give freely of their expertise.

Anyway, the tag background was done with the Fresco Finish Ice Blue (I'm starting with the light colours first) and overstamped at the bottom in white with a lace stamp. The vintage stamps were from a lovely free gift on the cover of a recent Creative Stamping magazine - I love this set.  The little flowers stamp was also a freebie with Craft Stamper and I did a bit of touching up with a white opaque pen before adding a bit of twine and a Tim Holtz chit chat sticker.

Getting on now with a little canvas and the lovely pink Fresco paint and texture paste - ooh, I love getting messy!  Thanks so much for stopping by and listening to my ramblings.

Entering this into the Fun with ATCs challenge - Vintage.

Scissor sister

Really enjoyed making this sewing themed card for a crafty friend's birthday.  You could really go to town with some lovely ribbon instead of the cotton lace I used - see Heather Cserni's great examples and her templates here

Enjoyed a lovely, lazy birthday lunch with my son and daughter in law today so not much getting done tonight!  Feet up, dogs on lap and just relaxing ........

Hope everyone has had  some nicer weather today - I detect the scent of Spring in the air here in Northumberland.

When you have to make a card for a man.......

I usually dread making cards for men but when its for your son, you have to make the effort and it was made much easier with the contents of the goody bag I bought recently.  I stamped the main image on acetate before adding the metal cog and brads to attach it to a piece of card.  I added the picture of the man as I thought it looked a bit like my son would when he gets older - but I didn't tell him that LOL

Been working on a sewing themed card this afternoon - much more to my liking!  Thanks for stopping by and for your very kind comments on my efforts.

Lovely Ladies mini album

I've really enjoyed making this little album for a crafty swap with a friend.  The theme was Lovely Ladies and I found some really nice pics for it, including the one of my gran in the second picture - look at that hair!

Going to my craft group tomorrow so I'm looking forward to catching up with the girls I haven't seen since before Christmas.  Hope everyone enjoyed some love on Valentine's Day.

Thanks so much for visiting - I really appreciate it and any comments you have too. x

Entering this little book into the latest Crafty Individuals challenge "For My Friend"

Sharing some love

I haven't had much time for crafting for myself lately as I've been busy with props for our village concert.  Loads of knitted and crocheted cakes, outfits for our songs and even crocheted varicose veins!  Yes, if you've ever read Pam Ayres' "The Pole Dancer", you'll understand.  Its going to be a hoot with one of our older ladies taking the main part wearing a blond wig, stuffed bra, pink shorts, black fishnet tights and white high heels!  I'm taking the part of the Night Club manager doing the interview and at last, managed to find a stick-on moustache (otherwise it was going to be a knitted one!)

Anyway, I enjoyed making this little canvas for my dear DIL and used my new Stampsmith stamp for the main image - isn't she gorgeous?  The little hearts were a free stamp from the Craft Stamper ages ago and I got the idea for the canvas from the magazine. 

Hope to get back on track with my crafting soon - once the concert is over and I can relax again!  Thanks for looking today.