Dragons Dream TIO #114 "The Secret Garden"

This week at Dragons Dream TIO Frankie has chosen the theme "The Secret Garden", one of my favorite childhood stories. My imagination has run away with this dream, with tropical birds and flowers, and gems for dewdrops on dancing blades of grass, and of course lots of ink! I hope you pop over and and check out what the rest of the team have been up to, and we also have some fab new members on there this week, so welcome on board  girls.  Elizabeth xxx

TIO 74 a tag by any other shape!

Here's my offering for Frankie's TIO challenge a tag by any other shape. Well you know me and seahorses, so I just couldn't resist making a seahorse shape non-tag LOL. Both the seahorse and the seaweed, are cut out from the "lifes a beach" cricut cartridge, and then very simply inked up with a selection of distress inks. The sentiment is from one of Crafty Individuals seaside stamp sets, which are also on my desk full time at the moment. Seem to have my pastel head on this week LOL. Elizabeth x

Bah Humbug Challenge 46 Feeling the Blues

Feeling blue with cold here, although Snowdonia is beautiful when it's covered in the white stuff, shame about my front path!!
The background papers I've used are all from Hot Off The Press, and have been lurching for a few years now. The main stamped image is a stamp from Imagination Crafts. I stamped this out using Hydrangea Blue Stazon ,then shaded around the edge with a mixture of Tumbled Glass and Faded Jeans Distress Inks. The flowers are cut using a Crealies die from Graphicus, the swirl was cut out from a Cricut cartridge and the border punch is Martha Stewart. Can't believe it's the last challenge already, well done Girl's. Merry Christmas Love Elizabeth xx

Rainbow Ladies Challenge 126

Scrapbook page for a change.
The paper is from HOTP it reminded me of the checked shirt's my Grandpa used to wear for work. The photo has been printed out on to text and graphic paper as I wanted to keep the image as matt as possible, then mounted on to black mirri board.
The Kanban poppies have been stamped out using memento tuxedo black ink and coloured in with promarkers, then a touch of black glitter added in the centre of each one. They were cut out and added around the photo. The font is cut out from the Cindy Loo Cricut cartridge, I decided not to use the top layer as it was too fussy. The handsome tanned chap in the foreground was my Grandpa, a Royal Engineer that made it home, a fantastic pianist, bookworm and my playmate whilst growing up. My Hero.