Sunday Stampers #328 Autumn Leaves

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I love Hel's theme this week over at The Sunday Stamper's "Autumn Leaves" there a hundreds of them in my garden, the price you pay for living alongside woods!Not that I'm complaining, the colour changes are fabulous, rusts, reds and golds, beautiful.

I decided to give my mirror a little makeover, well it was hugely expensive, from the big blue shop, have to get my monies worth lol. And thought I'd incorporate Hel's theme, with leaves and of course flowers.
This sheet of butterflies is one of the gorgeous Rustic Harmony papers, that I just couldn't  bring myself to chop up, so having such a big area to cover was far less painful, as there are lot's still showing :) and I have some left!!!!

All the flowers are Rustic Harmony papers cut out with the Mini Tattered Florals die along with leaves and twigs cut out with the Autumn Gathering die, love both of those. The edges are inked in Brushed Corduroy Distress Ink, to hive then a little more vintage feel, and pearls added to the centres of the flowers.

The stamps that match the paper collection are gorgeous and stamp out perfectly every time. Took a chance and added the "Laughter and Love" after I'd glued down the paper lol, would have cried if it all went wrong!
The butterflies and the "Live, Laugh, Love" sentiment were stamped onto cream cardstock and aged with Brushed Corduroy ink to blend in.
So there you have it, my new mirror frame, and I even managed to keep myself out of shot lol.
Happy Crafting Elizabeth xx

I'm also going to enter this into the Craft My Life Challenge Oct/Nov
And also into Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge 

Sunday Stampers Challenge - Music!

Hels theme this week over at The Sunday Stampers is  "play that funky music" so choices are backgrounds, stamps, songs etc.
My older Sister loved (still does) the Everly Brothers, so this made me think of "Whenever I want you all I have to do is Dream, dream, dream, dream.............) good job you can't hear me lol.
The background has been made from various Cottage Garden paints with a spritzing of Snow White metallic over the top, to give it some shimmer.
Sleeping George was stamped out in paint first then again carefully over the top with Archival.
The word "dream" and the splodge frame are both from Sarah's Choice.

Finally I added Megaflakes around the edge of the background and also the frame.
Yey two weeks running I've had chance to enter Hels fab challenge, it's been yonks since I've done that!
Elizabeth xxx

Dragons Dream TIO The Letter "J" and Die-Cuts

This time around at the Dragons Dream TIO it's my turn to choose the recipe, so with the letter "J" I would love to see some Die-Cuts and also at least one real stamp on your tags.

As some of you know I recently joining the fabulous team of demonstrators at IndigoBlu and this is the front cover of my Tag Book, used at Demo's to show various techniques. It has lot's of gorgeous Altered Egos, some paste and layers of the gorgeous new metallic paints, along with a couple of stamps from the Sarah's Choice stamp set and a fabulous Owl Embellishment.

I was going to say that I kept the back quiet simple, but I think this little fella is cute!
Elizabeth x

I'm also going to enter my tag book covers into Hel's Sunday Stampers Lavender's Green as it would be rude not too! x

Sunday Stampers #316 Everyday I Write the Book

Hels chosen theme this week at the Sunday Stampers Challenge is "Everyday I write the Book". I haven't entered anything for ages, so was determined to join in again this week.
This is a recycled project partly from an old Dragons Dream tag and also from a box my sat nav arrived in (off on my travels this week, steer clear of the M60 lol).
I was never happy with my tag, but loved the butterfly and the bookpage paper, so inspired by the corrugated piece of box that I'd ripped and painted with "Mermaid" Fresco paint, I ripped into it to create a shape to fit onto the cardboard, and added some paint around the edges.
I was going to pop the whole thing on to a canvas, but decided that I liked the shape as it was, so just added eyelets and garden twine, which I think looks fab with kraft and corrugated cardstock.
Happy now I am, lol.
Elizabeth xxx