Dragons Dream #135 Night Riverbank

This time over at Dragons Dream TIO May has chosen the theme of "Night Riverbank" and would love to see driftwood, insects and a night riverbank scene.
Can you tell I'm looking forward to Summer with these colours lol, the wind is howling here today and it is very chilly.
The riverbank stamp is one of Sheena Douglas's, and the Dragonflies are from Caroline's, she has some beautiful stamps all designed by herself. You will find her at Port Sunlight in May, as well as on line.
I did have a genuine piece of driftwood, honest, but my little furry mate took a liking to it, and it was gone!
Hope you join us in our challenge this time, just click on the link on my sidebar to join in, just please remember to include the use of one real stamp on your tag. For some reason I keep thinking about Hammie Hampster now lol, 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 150 Take a Town or Country Break

It's a fat book page on offering from me this week for Rainbow Lady's challenge - Take a Town of Country Break, where this week we are sponsored by Sharon Duncan. The Paris stamp is one of Clarity's and stamped out using stormy sky distress ink, which was also added around the edge of the image. The Dragonfly, and parts of the Fobwatch and Postmarks were given a hint of colour with promarkers, then certain area's were picked out with a versamark pen, and embossed with Sheena's Neutral Ultra Shimmer for a little sparkle. Then the whole lot was matted on to a piece of 4" x 4" paper from one of Sharon's cd's with not an embossing folder in sight.
 Off to read instructions for new camera now, got lot's to share with you be warned LOL Elizabeth xxx

TIO 62 Golden Haze

Sir Tim with a little Anna Griffin!
Inked up the tag in scattered straw and black soot distress inks trying to keep muted gold tones.
The stamps are also sir Tim's from two different sets (pressie from Oscar for Christmas shssssh). The flourish and the corner were stamped out in versamark and then heat embossed with Sheena's pearl gold sparkle, which is a really pretty pale gold with a gorgeous sparkle which doesn't show up very well on here.
The Lion and the text were stamped using black soot again, and to finish off a royal crown from Anna Griffin.

Frames

Rubbish photo's I know, have got a daylight lamp, but it doesn't stand a chance today it's so dark! These are a couple of the frames that I've made for the fair tomorrow. The Lady that ordered them wanted photo frames, but sadly my frames are still in the post somewhere. So made a substitute and if she doesn't want them I'll just pop them out on the stall. Primed the frames with Eco friendly acrylic paint in lake, then I've used a mixture of cosmic shimmer ultra thick embossing powders and also Sheena's WOW embossing powder in silver bell's. As the ironing board was up I had a play with fantasy film and fibres, along with a Lavinia stamp. Added a touch of colour to the Mermaid on the reverse with promarkers, then just glued her in to the shadow box with Art Institute glitter glue.

Rainbow Lady's Challenge 130 Christmas Food or Drink

The one thing that's always on my Christmas table is chocolate cake made with my Nana's recipe.
My nana was a fab baker and we all looked forward to Sunday tea at her house, apple pie, scones and the yummy chocolate cake with chocolate icing on top!!!
I made my chocolate cupcakes with Elusive Image cakes embossed with Sheena's Wow powders for sparkle!
The flowers and leaves are cut our using Crealies Dies (on everything I make at the moment LOL) and the sentiment and backing paper are from craftwork cards. No doubt No 1 Son will be starting Christmas morning with his selection box as usual for his breakfast, twenty something going on five on Christmas morning LOL Elizabeth xxx