Rainbow Lady's Challenge #185 Your Choice!!

I can't believe we are on Rainbow Lady's last challenge of the year, how fast  has that gone? This week it is an open choice of whatever you fancy. I thought I'd share some of the bag charms that I've been making over tha last few weeks. I love these big chunky hand made glass beads, they are so gorgeous. Might even make one for myself lol. Please pop over and join in with whatever you feel like creating, just click on the link on my sidebar. Happy New Year Love Elizabeth xxx

Merry Christmas

Just wanted to say a very quick Merry Christmas to all of my blogging friends. I hope you are all ready for the big day? Everything is peeled, chopped and prepared here at Robinson Villas, so am about to settle down with a glass of something sparkly and my old scruffy pup, Oscar. Can't believe he is 17!! Love and Hugs all round Elizabeth xxx

Rainbow Lady's Challenge #184 White Christmas

This week over at Rainbow Lady's Challenge the theme is "White Christmas". This time last year we were well and truely snowed in, and Mr Robinson had his annual event for the third year in a row!!!!!!!!!!!! All the presents are wrapped, and my food shop will fit in between work and physio tomorrow. Phew.....
My card this week is very simply a piece of Polkadoodles paper trimmed, and then added on to a white card, along with some embossed snowflakes and gems.
I hope you pop over and join in our challenge this week just click on the link on my sidebar. Merry Christmas everyone. Elizabeth

Rainbow Lady's Challenge #183 Angels

This week at Rainbow Lady's Challenge blog our inspiration is Angels. I chose to make a tag this week using some very gorgeous stamps from Curious by Design. They are coloured using a mixure of distress inks and polycolour pencils. I decided not to over fuss this week and just added a Marianne corner to finish it off. I hope you pop over and join us in the challenge this week, just click on the link on my sidebar. Elizabeth x

Rainbow Lady's Challenge #182 Tree's and Baubles

This week over at Rainbow Lady's Challenge the theme for your projects, is Tree's and Baubles. Everything I've used this week is from my Anna Griffin stash, with a few gems and a little ribbon added to finish off the card.
Hope you join in with this weeks challenge just click on the link on my sidebar to take you there!

TIO#107 Time Traveller

This week over at Dragons Dream TIO sees our last challenge of this year, we are all sooooooo in need of a rest lol, and to recharge our creative batteries ready for 2012!!
This last choice of film has been chosen by Frankie, the head Dragon herself so please join in and remember to use at least one real stamp!

My offering this week is of course the very dapper "Jasper" from Kanban.  He was stamped out on to white card stock, and coloured in using promarkers, cut out and added on to a piece of black Kanban card which had been stamped with the cogs and clocks from the "Jasper" set and then embossed with brass sparkle Wow powder. The corners were cut out using a Marianne die from scrap card. Please pop over to join in this the last challenge of 2011, just click on the logo on my sidebar for a direct link. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Elizabeth xxx

Rainbow Lady's Challenge #181 Christmas Carols

Well another week and another challenge over at Rainbow Lady's, where we have chosen "Christmas Carols" as our theme. What a task picking just one!!!! This is such a nice stamp of Sheena's that I had to go along with "Joy to the World" as it fitted perfectly! The images are coloured using promarkers with a little fine glitter, ok well a lot of fine glitter lol. The edges are tinted with tumbled glass distress ink, and then it was mounted on to a scrap piece of HOTP paper. I'm not sure where the village stamp came from as it was in a swap. Hope you pop over and share some of your creations with us, just click on the link on my sidebar to take you there. Elizabeth x

Rainbow Lady's Challenge #180 Something for the Boys!

This week over at Rainbow Lady's Challenge we would like you to create something for the boys! As we all know, they are the hardest to make cards for. So we would like you to keep them in mind, and create cards, tags, in fact whatever you fancy making!
My card was made from Debbie Moores Stamping Inspirations magazine. Issue 1 is just crammed with boys toys, and just perfect for this weeks challenge. Hope you enjoy this weeks theme, just click on the link on my sidebar to join in. Elizabeth xxx

Dragons Dream TIO #106 The Da Vinci Code

This week over at dragons Dream TIO Lyn has chosen the film "The Da Vinci Code" to inspire us. I love Leonardo and have serveral books about the great man, but not so many stamps lol!!! I so wanted to do a tag with horses on, but all of mine were far too pretty by Leonardo's standards. So I settled for the Pre Raphaelites theme plate from Non Sequitur, as it has a mixture of buildings and people that fitted the bill. The "Art" meaning is from Stampcamp, another Port Sunlight find. I had a play with pastels to create the background, blending the colours with my fingers, and then heat setting, so I could stamp over the top. I hope you join in our challenge this week, just click on the link on my sidebar to take you there for even more inspiration from my fab team mates. Please remember to include at least one real stamp on your tags! Elizabeth xxx

Thanksgiving at Rainbow Lady's Challenge!

This week at Rainbow Lady's Challenge blog we are celebrating Thanksgiving. I love this stamp from Imagination Crafts and it fits the subject perfectly. The edges are inked in a mix of chipped sapphire, peeled paint and black soot distress inks. I typed out the wording and then die cut it to match the picture, inking around the edges to finish it off.
I hope you pop over and join in this weeks challenge, it's sure to be a popular one! Just click on the logo on my sidebar for a direct link to share your creations. Elizabeth x

TIO #105

Over at Dragons Dream TIO this week my team mate Silvia has chosen the film "Chinatown" and would like everyone to dream along with us in oriental style.
Have got to confess to having a mojo (less) problem this week, my inky brain seems to be elsewhere lol.
I've used fired brick to ink up my tag, along with black soot to distress the edge. I also used black soot to stamp the Cranes, before adding some white pastel chalk pencil. The Bamboo was heat embossing using the brass sparkle Wow powder, which I know I've said it before, but it's just gorgeous! All of the stamps are from NonSequitur. Hope you feel inspired to join in the challenge this week, just click on the logo on my sidebar for a direct link, and please don't forget to use at least one real stamp! Off to Llandudno now for coffee, cake and gossip!!!! Elizabeth xxx

TIO #104 Letters to Juliet

This week over at Dragons Dream TIO challenge it's AJ's choice of film with "Letters to Juliet" and me being the old romantic that I am, was instantly transported to Italy, with love letters, romance and roses. No hope for me I know, lol but one day I will get to Italy!
My tag base is TH cardstock and overstamped with a Venician scene from Stampcamp, coloured in with promarkers for a little more shade. The edge of the tag has been inked around using black soot distress ink. The letters are out of an old HOTP ephemera book on travel, and aged with distress inks to blend in. The smaller of the flowers are TH ones with colour added using promarkers, and the larger rose is the new Spellbinder Spiral Blossom One die, it's gorgeous!!!!! No doubt it will be appearing on everything I do over the next few weeks lol. Hope you enjoy this weeks challenge and pop over via the link on my sidebar to join in. Elizabeth x

TIO #103 Mr Magorium's Wonder Emporium

This week over at Dragons Dream TIO Wanda has chosen the film "Mr Magorium's Wonder Emporium" as our theme. Have to confess to never having heard of this one, so am following the instructions of steampunk! I embossed the base tag with the cogs folder, and then painted it with a gold paint dabber. The stamps I've used are from The Artistic Stamper and were free when I renewed my Craft Stamper subscription earlier this year at Port Sunlight. They are stamped out using brushed corduroy and dusty concord, then a little blending with a wet paintbrush. Please pop over via the link on my sidebar to join in. Elizabeth

Rainbow Lady's Challenge #176 Spooks and Witches

This week over at Rainbow Lady's Challenge blog we are being sponsored by Caroline, who has put some gorgeous Christmas digi images up for grabs, so thinking caps on guys!
 This isn't what I had in mind for this challenge at all. I'd planned on buying the Witch, and the Cat stamp from Lavinia Stamps when I was at Port Sunlight, but alas I was distracted, and lost my train of thought!!!! LOL.  The stamps are Graphicus and coloured in with a mixture of Promarkers and distress inks, then mounted on to some HOTP backing papers which are yonks old. Hope you enjoy this weeks challenge, just click on the link on my sidebar to join in. Elizabeth xxx

TIO #102 Planes, Trains and Automobiles

Well here we go this week with round two of our films challenge here at Dragons Dream TIO. This week Helen has chosen the theme of "Planes, Trains and Automobiles" so lots of scope there folks! My first thoughts were of steampunk and that lovely era of man and machine, then for some unknown reason I came back down to earth thinking about Magnum PI, think it was the K and Co BP that triggered that one off lol. Aywayz, the ephemera is all from a HOTP book about travel, the BP is K&Co, the distress ink and the ticket stamp are Sir Tim, and last but not least the flower stamp was a freebie with Craft Stamper last year (I think). O yes and a couple of leaves chopped out with a Crealies die. Please pop over and join in the challenge this week, just click on the link on my sidebar to get there! Love Elizabeth xxxx

Rainbow Lady's Challenge #175 Silver!!

Happy Silver Anniversary Cynthia and Geoff xxx
This week over at Rainbow Lady's Challenge blog we are asking you to use a silver coloured theme, in celebration of Cynthia and Geoff's Silver Wedding! I was drawn like a little magpie to this gorgeous girlie (and silver) cardstock from Kanban. I love the holographic perfume bottles and butterflies on it. I added the silver and black mannequin, along with a silver basque, black bow and feather to make a skirt.I hope you pop over to our challenge this week and join in, just click on the link on my side bar. Elizabeth xxx

TIO #101 The Good, The Bad and the Ugly!!!!

Over at Dragons Dream TIO for the next few weeks we are dreaming of Films. It's my turn to take to the screen first with "The Good, The Bad and The Ugly". I thought this one would give lots of scope for all sorts, Angels, Demons whatever you decifer the title to mean. My tag this week is made from TH cardstock with added stormy sky and black soot distress inks. The bad ugly guy at the bottom, along with the saying and ink rings are all by TH, and stamped out in black soot. I stamped out the TH wings for my little Angel (Moi) lol, in versamark and then heat embossed with Wow silver sparkle powder, then cut them out and added then to the tag. The flowers and leaves are all die cut using Crealies, inked around the edges and then shaped a little. The chubby little angel was born the year this film hit the big screen, lol, work that one out yourself!! Hope you enjoy this weeks challenge and pop on over to join in via the link on my sidebar. Please don't forget to include at least one real stamp on your tag.  Elizabeth xxx ummmm also entering this in to Hels Sunday Stamper as it has leaves on!

Rainbow Lady's Challenge #174 Falling Leaves

This week over at Rainbow Lady's Challenge blog we are asking you to add falling leaves to your creations. I've used a Graphicus tree stamp coloured in with promarkers, and then sprayed with gold spray and sparkle. All of the leaves are cut from scraps of card with a Joy die, the only new piece of card is the black Kanban base card! Hope you pop over and join in our challenge this week, we look forward to seeing your cards, tags etc all adorned with fallen leaves! Elizabeth x

TIO #100 Ticket to Ride

This week over at Dragons Dream TIO Challenge Frankie has chosen the song "Ticket to Ride" by The Beatles. My tag is cut from a sheet of TH Vintage Shabby papers with TH tickets stamped around the bottom in weathered wood distress ink. The Horse is from Dimension Fourth and coloured in using promarkers. The admit one tickets are also TH and stamped out in faded jeans. I hope you like our challenge this week and pop over via the link on my sidebar to join in. Please remember to use at least one real stamp on your tag and have fun! Elizabeth xxx

Llansanan

We,ll have to hold  my hands up, my blog is my crafty space, none of my personal stuff but, at after attending the Llansanan meeting of the WI this week. I have to say their Male Voice Choir is amazing (they were practicing in the room next door)!!!!! Way to go chaps, fantastic! Send me an invite and  I will bring  a cake! What else can I say!! xx       

Rainbow Lady's Challenge #173 In the Misty Moonlight

This week over at Rainbow Lady's Challenge blog we are being sponsored by Joanna Sheen, who as always has put up a great prize for grabs!
The challenge this week is "In the Misty Moonlight" as or in our case here in North Wales, the wet mooonlight lol. The image I've used is from Sweatpea Stamps she is called "Soft Goth Night". I coloured her in using promarkers, and then inked around the edge of the tag with stormy sky distress ink. Hope you join in this weeks challenge, just pop over via the link on my sidebar. Elizabeth xxx

TIO#99 The Whole of the Moon!

This week over at DragonsDream TIO Lyn is heading up the team, with her song choice of "I saw the Whole of the Moon". I love that song and I have to confess that this tag is not what I had planned, it's just after the day I've had .............. I will say no more!!!! Maybe a Red Dragon would be more appropriate LOL.
Anywayz, I've used an Elusive Images stamp and coloured it in using pro markers. After letting dry out for a while I then added dusty concord and black soot distress inks around the edges to get rid of any white cardstock, may have to tweek this a little as I feel a dollop of glossy accents coming on LOL. Pop on over to join us this week via the link on my sidebar to share your creations!! Hugs Elizabeth xxxx

Rainbow Lady's Challenge #172 Autumn Flowers

This week over at Rainbow Lady's Challenge blog we are being sponsored by Glitter Babe digi images, who have put up a fab prize for grabs!!
I chose the "Nature 1" set of digi images as I love both the flowers and the sentiment. I printed them off on to a piece of Graphicus patterned paper, and trimmed the side with the flower on, down to A5. The sentiment was cut out witha die and added on along with some ribbon. Very simple card to make!! Have to confess it took longer to print off the images than to make the card, LOL. Thankfully my printer has now been overhauled, and is in perfect (yer right) working order. Pop on over and join in the challenge via the link on my sidebar, and good luck. Elizabeth x

TIO #98 These boots were made for walking - Nancy Sinatra

This week over at the DragonsDream TIO it's Silvia's choice of song with Nancy Sinatra's "These boots were made for walking". Have got to confess this one got me, I don't own a stamp with boots on at all, how have I managed that???? LOL. Inked up my tag with a mixture of faded jeans, black soot and dusty concord. I created the boots by inking over a peel off!!!  The swirl stamp is a HOTP one I've had for many years, and the saying has no name on it, and I can't remeber where it came from! Hope you pop over to join in this weeks challenge, just click on the link on my sidebar. Elizabeth x

TIO #97 Pink Flloyd - Embroidery

This week at DragonsDream TIO Challenge it's AJ's choice of song, with Pink Flloyd and some embroidery along with your stamps somewhere on your tag.  I used K&Co paper for the background and inked around the edge with black soot distress ink. The faux stitches are a HOTP stamp and the tailors dummy and phrase were both cut out with cricut, from the home decor and more cartridge. The felt flower is one left over from making felted corsages, I decided to use long stitches for the centre, and add in some bugle beads for a little sparkle, not sure they show up though? Hope you enjoy the challenge this week and pop over via the link on my sidebar. Elizabeth xxx

Rainbow Lady's Challenge #170 Christmas Sweet Treats

This week over Rainbow Lady's Challenge our theme is Christmas Sweet Treats. We are being sponsored by Whimsy Stamps who have put up some fab blog candy for grabs!!!
The hard choice I had to make was which one of there scrummy Christmas treats to chose from! I finally went for the cupcake, and orginally planned to do pink, but being a traditional kind of girl at heart, how could I not do red and green? I used a selection of promarkers to colour in my little cake, and then added some extra holly from a little Nitwit stamp free with Simply Homemade magazine. Thought it went well, and made a lovely border. The paper is DCWV and of course I had to have a little sparkle in the icing from Art Institute glitter! Hope you enjoy, and pop over to join in this week's challenge, the link is on my sidebar, good luck. Elizabeth x

TIO #96 Dedicated Follower of Fashion!

This week it's Wanda's choice of song to dream along to over at the DragonsDream TIO, with "A Dedicated Follower of Fashion". Now I've been shopping on many occasions with that Lady, and she can shop!!!! (Love you Wanda xxx). All of the stamps that I've used on this weeks tag are from Kanban. I love the Coco Chanel saying at the top, and knew it had to be on there some where!. I stamped the dress form out on to some K&Co paper, and cut out the dress, inked around the edges, and overlayed on top of the black image on the tag. The pink card stock was inked up using tattered rose, black soot and worn lipstick distress inks. The finishing touches just had to be a classy black bow and a string of pearls, LOL. Hope you enjoy and pop on over to the DragonsDream TIO Challenge to join in. The link is on my sidebar. Love Elizabeth x

Dragons Web Birdcage Tag Swap

As you know the very talented Frankie over at Dragons Web held a Birdcage Tag Swap. We had a couple of weeks to create our tags and the get them in the post last Wednesday. The birdcage above is the one I made for Julia Dunnit over at WOYWW. I decided not to include any birds, but to use butterflies instead die cut from vellum. The bird cage was cut out from board and painted with acrylic paint, before adding sepia glossy accents on to it. The clock face was a free download of the internet, and also given the sepia glossy accents treatment, after a little black soot distressing around the edges. The TH flowers were cut out in shrink plastic, and over stamped with a Joanna Sheen Honeysuckle stamp. The were then shrunk, and yep you guessed it sepia glossy accents!! I finished my bird cage off with a key and a bell, wrapping the narrow ribbon up around the cage bars to make a loop at the top to hang it up with. Then I decided to add a touch of gold promarker around the edge of the clock face to fish it off.
As we all sent our swaps to different people, I received a beautiful work of art from Sam aka Hettiecraft. Sam has made me a gorgeous tag, with mica birdcages and birds flying around on a beautiful inky background (sorry Sam my piccie doesn't do it justice). all embellished with a golden shrunk plastic birdcage and my initial dangling from a chain and ribbon. Thank you again Sam it's gorgeous, and is on display in my workroom!

Count me in for the next one Frankie xxx

TIO #95 Red Red Wine!

This week over at Frankie's Dragons Dream TIO Challenge, Helen is inspiring us to dream along to "Red Red Wine". Your tags this week must be predominately red!!! Aside from the obvious (I love a glass of the red stuff) I found myself dreaming of Paris and the fuss, frills and feathers of the CanCan Dancers! The BP is one from my HOTP Christmas stash  LOL. The stamps are a mixture of Sir Tims and Artemio, and stamped out in black soot, the feather, charm and lace are from my stash bag! I hope you come over and share your dreams with us this week, just click on the link on my sidebar and you will find the challenge waiting for you. Elizabeth x

Rainbow Lady's Challenge #168 Lets Emboss it!

This week over at Rainbow Lady's Challenge we are being sponsored by Joanna Sheen, who as always has put up a fab prize for grabs! We would like you to show some embossing on your project this week, I chose to have a play with UTEE. I chose this frame as it has a nice wide, flat surface to emboss on to. I sanded and then painted it with acrylic paint. I then added two layers of my chosen colour of Cosmic Shimmer UTEE directly on to the frame with versamark ink. I had already melted a mixture of clear UTEE, gold and copper embossing powders and left them to set on a heat proof mat. I melted a section of the frame and added chunks of the pre heated embossing powder, melting it in to the frame as I worked around the edge. The finish is very organic and has a beautiful sheen to it. Hope you like, please pop on over to join in this weeks challenge via the link on my sidebar. Elizabeth x

TIO #94 Bed of Roses - Bon Jovi & Metal

One of my most loved songs of all time has to be "Bed of Roses" by Bon Jovi, it's such a beautiful love song, and I'm a soppy old Hector at heart!
Inspired by Frankie's metal flowers I decided to have a go at making some of my own, the perfect match for my song choice. The base stamp of a rose is a sale bargain from The Stampman, coloured in with promarkers. I then inked up the tag in a mixture of peeled paint, shabby shutters and black soot distress inks. The sentiment is from PSX and stamped out in black soot. My roses are made from the Tattered Flower die, and coloured using red pepper alcohol ink. The prima leaves were left over from another project. I hope my choice of song will inspire you to dream with us this week.  Elizabeth xxx If anyone doesn't know the song, scroll down to the bottom of my blog and check out my playlist.

Rainbow Lady's Challenge #167 Faux Postage

This week over at Rainbow Lady's Challenge blog we are being sponsored by Glenda Waterworth at Chocolate Baroque. I've been a big fan of Glendas work for many years so to sent some of her gorgeous stamps and digi's to play with was fantastic!!
All of the paper's that I've used are from a paper pack I had from Glenda a couple of years ago, the colours are just beautiful. I downloaded the faux stamps sheet and printed it out on to 160gsm text and graphic paper, then very carefully cut out the centre of the stamps. I trimmed around the outer edge with a wavey line trimmer to make it look perforated. The bird and branches were already on the paper, and I thought they lent themselves perfectly to the "Mail Art" stamp set that Glenda had sent me. I added a selection of different stamps using memento tuxedo black ink, making sure they would be visible through the faux postage stamps. I then added the postage frame over the top of the bird paper. To finish off I cut out some flowers using a crealies die in some scrap pieces of the backing paper, and added a gorgeous piece of black lace as a border. Hope you pop over and join us this week as Glenda has very kindly put up some fab blog candy for grabs!!! Elizabeth xxx

TIO #89 Travel - Time to make a quick get away!

This week over at DragonsDream TIO Frankie is encouraging us to dream about travel and getting away from it all, I wish!!! I've had a very busy summer with lots of extra Country Markets, Artisan Crafts Events and Agricultural shows (yep you read that right lol). I have a weekend break planned for my Birthday in Caernarfon, where I'll be spending the two days at the Castle, on a friendly plastic course with the fantastic Liz Welch. My dream this week evolved from playing with some Tattered Angels misters in a mix of many colours. I added some more colour with milled lavender and faded jeans distress inks, than embossed the dragonflies with a moonglow embossing powder in hyacinth blue/jade. The picture is from a HOTP book of travel collage. Hope you like and pop over via the link of my sidebar to join in this weeks challenge. Elizabeth x
I forgot to add this on this morning, it's an old luggage label that I found in the loft with an address for a hotel in Colwyn Bay. Who knew Thomas Cook had been around so long LOL

Kanban

http://allpinkgirl.blogspot.com/ Kanban are launching tonight at 9pm on Create and Craft along with Wendie. Pop over to Dawn Wheeler's blog for a chance to win some Kanban blog candy and have a sneaky peek at some of her gorgeous DT cards.

Little Boxes

Bought a set of 5 of these little boxes a few weeks ago to alter, though I'd do a couple as gift boxes to go on the stall. They are painted with acrylic paint, crackled and then sprayed with a layer of iredescent glitter, spray and sparkle. The flowers and ribbons are from my stash box.

New Flowers

Have been having a play about with a pattern I found on the internet for a fabric corsage. Thought I'd make a few of them in different fabrics to pop on the Artisans Craft stall on Tuesday. They are very easy to make once you get the knack, sore fingers again though I realy must find a thimble lol. Hope you like. Elizabeth x

TIO #92 Childs Play

This week over at DragonsDream TIO the very talented Janet is leading us the with the theme of "Childs Play". Sadly for us DT members it's Janet's last week on the team due to other commitments, we will miss her lots!!!!!
I've inked up my tag this week in honor of two friends, who have had bad falls, and are both beautiful shades of purple and green at the moment!! Dusty Concorde, Shabby Shutters and Peeled Paint were the distress inks I've used. along with Black Soot to stamp out the art Journey child and Stamp Camp sentiment. The felt flowers were cut out with Sir Tim's Tatty Flowers die, and the one at the top is needle felted as a corsage, the others are just one layered.
I hope you enjoy this weeks challenge and pop on over to join us via the link on my sidebar. I promise to try and stay awake after all the fairs I'm doing this week to hop over to your blogs for a peep! Love Elizabeth x

Rainbow Lady's Challenge #165

This week over at Rainbow Lady's Challenge we are being sponsored by Chi Chi Memories who have some fab digi images up for grabs!

They sent us DT girls a few images to play with, a tough choice which to choose, so decided on two of them this time. The little boy who is ready for bed and the window. Thought it would be fun to have him looking out instead of in, so had fun drawing bricks with my promarkers! The images are also coloured in with promarkers, and the text stamp is an old one from PSX.

TIO #91 A Horses Life

This week over at DragonsDream TIO we are being encouraged to dream about horses, and with Zoe in the saddle to lead us it should be a fun challenge!!! (sorry how could I resist?)
I have played with a mixture of brushed corduroy,worn lipstick, victorian velvet, dried marigold, scattered straw and black soot distress inks. My tag has ended up looking very "Tootie Fruitie LOL, remember those?). I used three Clarity stamps along with brushed corduroy, as I wanted to keep a muted feel to the tag. The small stamp is by PSX and  stamped put in black soot. Hope you enjoy this weeks challenge and pop on over via the link on my sidebar to join in. Elizabeth

TIO #90 Natures Bounty.

This week over at DragonsDream TIO it's Wanda's turn to lead the challenge and encourage us to dream about "Natures Bounty". I knew exactly which stamps I wanted to use for this week, and kept everything crossed that both Wanda and Janet didn't use the same stamps, as we had all bought them last year at the Stamp Addicts Retreat LOL.
The stamps are by a company called A Stamp in the Hand and stamped out in a mix of bundled sage and shabby shutters distress ink, with a little extra colour added with Lyra Polycolour pencils. The background is antique linen with a little black soot around the edges! Click on the link on my sidebar and have a look at the fab tags created by the design team, and join in !!! Love Elizabeth xxx

Blooming Roses!!

Well here we go again just got a moment to show you the corsages that I've been making for the Country Market. This is a small selection from todays batch (which I hope will see me through the 2 markets this week lol). all are die cut from Sir Tim's Tatty Flower, the felt ones are then needle felted with various shades of wool and felted together. The leather ones are just sewn together, hence my very sore fingers!!!! Here's a couple of piccies to show the building up stage.

Sore fingers crossed - Elizabeth xxx

Rainbow Lady's Challenge #164

This week over at Rainbow Lady's Challenge we are being sponsored by Caroline, who has some fab blog candy up for grabs. Us girls on the DT were lucky enough to get hold of a selection of Digi Flowers to have a play with. How could I resist these gorgeous turquoise and brown ones, and combined with a gorgeous stamp from Crafty Individuals, papers from K&Co and some leftover leaves from a Crealies Die, along with a very big dose of brushed corduroy distress ink, another one destined for the Country Market me thinks lol. Please pop over via the link on my sidebar to join in the challenge and have a chance to win a fab prize!! Elizabeth x

TIO 89 Pressing Matters!

This week over at the DragonsDream TIO Challenge we are being led by Helen with Pressing Matters!! So it's embossing tools out!! I used a creative expressions brick wall folder to create my tag with cream card, then inked it up with rusty hinge, barn door and brushed corduroy.
The stamp is one of my favourite's which you've probably seen a few times before lol. It's by Chapel Road and coloured with the same distress inks as the wall. Had to add a few sprigs of fern, my garden is full of the stuff at the moment, one of the problems of backing on to woodland lol. Hope you pop over and join us, just click on the link on my sidebar to enter the challenge. Elizabeth xxx

Gossamer Silk Scarf

I had a great day out on Friday, Wanda and I booked ourselves in for a day learning to make a gossamer silk scarf at Stitch It in Llandudno. Ive got to say that as a crafting day out, it was one of the cleanest I've done lol. We started off by learning about all of the different types of silk, and silk waste that were available, and how they would look in a finished item. Then the fun began choosing what colour scheme we would use. I for once worked outside of my comfort zone and chose pink!!!! Not a snippet of blue anywhere in sight!! After a full day of tweaking, adding more bits and re arranging fibres, pre felting and finally felting, the scarfs were finished. Not sure how well they would sell at the Country Market, but if I don't try I won't know, and they can always be used as Christmas pressies lol. Will make a blue one next.............