Stenciling a Carved Flower

Hello Everyone,

And happy Saturday to you all. I had an unscheduled break from posting this week. I was so exhausted after a very hectic weekend of making pages for the cyber crop a rest was called for. I'm feeling a lot better today though and because it's started to rain again what better place to be than in my craft room, just raring to go.

Some time ago I wrote here about how disappointed I was with these backgrounds created with the older distress inks, Old Paper, Evergreen Bough and Black Soot, rather than the new oxides.

I have since invested in a wee stash of oxides but, so far, not tried to create the desired effect. Instead, I thought I'd try to rescue at least one of these and, at the same time, have a play with the large stencil, Carved Flowers by Darkroom door, won in a recent giveaway from Godelieve, Stamping Matilda - bragged about here.

This is the result. First, I started by trying to bleach out as much of the background using just plain water through the stencil. This didn't work as well as hoped for but that could be because it had been a few weeks since the background was created and the inks would have been really well dried out. Because of this, I then decided to just go ahead and stencil more colour over the background and chance that it would work.

The colours I chose were Ripe Persimmon and Evergreen Bough in Distress Oxides. It still wasn't wonderful - too dark with not enough detail - so I decided to outline the details with a white Gelly Roll, medium, pen. That I liked better. To finish, I embossed a simple greeting, from Technique Tuesday's Cosmo stamp set, in white and called it done.

This Sunday is Christmas Card Challenge day and I've been playing with sprays - more of that tomorrow.

I hope the rest of your day is good - rain or shine. Should any of you live in or near Whaley Bridge, in the High Peak area of England, my heart goes out to you. I lived in the area for a few years and it was only a few weeks ago that I visited the town while on holiday. I know the reservoir well so am following the news closely. I can see that the emergency services are doing a sterling job trying to stop the water bursting through the dam. I'm thinking of all the residents and hope that they will be able to return home soon.

WOYWW Week 520 - Celebrating Ten Years

Morning Deskers & All

Congratulations to our Head Desker Julia for ten years of What's On Your Workdesk Wednesday! I'm sure she did not foresee that with that first desk shot post all those years ago that ten years on she would still be inviting us to share our desks ... I know, not everyone crafts at a desk, one notable desker favours the floor ... and whatever crafting projects we're working on at the time. Who would have thought we'd all love the concept and join in as soon as we discovered the Stamping Ground - for me that was 2010! After all those years it's still one of the highlights of my week. And I have made so many lovely crafty friends, both virtually and in person, through WOYWW - all of us united by one clever lady's brilliant idea. So thank you Julia. May you and your brilliant idea continue for many years to come.

Here's my desk for this Wednesday.  I should say, in the interest of full transparency, this shot is from Tuesday evening (I have my reasons) and that really is the dying sun throwing a golden glow across the desk. As you can see I've been creating backgrounds with distress inks, Old Paper, Evergreen Bough and Black Soot. I was inspired after spotting Wanda Cullen's beautiful card with a background created with distress oxide inks. Because I haven't any oxide inks I thought I'd try with old-fashioned distress inks instead. The result, however, is very different - nowhere as smooth as I'd hoped for - even though ink brushes give a better finish than sponges. I may have to succumb to temptation and invest in a few oxide inks very soon.


Something else that's been on my desk this week.

 After finishing, at last, My First Quilt I can now reveal another first completed. My first pair of socks. And this involved another first - the Kitchener Stitch to finish off the toes. It would seem that the British Secretary of State for War, (WWI) H H Kitchener, was so concerned for the foot problems that uncomfortable sock seams caused soldiers in the trenches that he found, and issued through the Red Cross, a pattern for socks which included a seamless grafting technique - the 'Kitchener stitch'.

That's all I have to share this week. I'm skipping the book bit - no time.

The reason I hinted at for being so early this week, apart from the need to celebrate WOYWW's tenth anniversary, is that I going to be MIA for much of tomorrow. I'm off to spend the day with two lovely crafters, Rita of RMG Creations, who lives nearby, and Kate of I Love Socks and Cards who has come down from the Black Isle, in the Scottish Highlands, for a visit. I'm sure we are going to have a fun day of chat and crafting. Which means, of course, that I will be late to the party but promise to visit and comment just as soon as I am able.

In the meantime, I wish you all a wonderful WOYWW and a fabulous week ahead.

Tuesday's Card - A March Morning

Afternoon,

I've been playing with stamps, inks and sprays to make another card using the March Hare set from Hobby Arts.

Unfortunately, it proved to be a difficult card to photograph and although this one is the best of a bad bunch it doesn't show the depth of the colours that can be seen in real life.

Here's a close-up that is a bit better.

Here's how it was made:

1. a smooth white A4 (8.27 × 11.69 inches) sheet of cardstock was cut in two halves and then one half was folded to make the card base.
2. the card front was sprayed with gold Cosmic Shimmer. To do this the fully opened card was taped to the craft mat and the back covered to prevent the gold spray getting anywhere but the front. It was then put aside to dry. Note: I should have kept it taped down to prevent the cardstock buckling as it did - I think you can just detect that in the photograph. 
3. the topper was made using a scrap of watercolour card which was lightly spritzed with water, then the images of grasses - from Hobby Art's March Hares - were stamped using distress inks - Squeezed Lemonade, Scattered Straw, Crushed Olive and Shabby Shutters - and then it was given another light spritz of water to encourage the ink to bleed then left to dry.
4. once dry, more stamping was done using VersaFine Vintage Sepia first and then Olympia Green - again it was left to dry before the next step which was to spray a little yellow colour, created by mixing Mustard Seed from a re-inker with some water in a spritzer. This spraying was concentrated n the centre. Next a light flicking and spritzing of the gold Cosmic Shimmer was applied and left to dry before stamping the greeting, borrowed from Sarntangles stamp set, using Memento Rich Cocoa ink pad.
5. finally, the topper was matted and layered on to scraps of dark yellow and kraft cardstock and then adhered with sticky fixers to the front of the card.

A technique described by Jaine Drake, found in an old issue of Craft Stamper, provided the inspiration for this topper. She, in turn, was inspired by the effect of the sun on her herb garden.

It's a fun technique and well worth having a bash at so I hope I've explained it clearly enough for anyone who would like to give it a try.

Happy Crafting,

Rudolph Day Cards

Hello Everyone,

Here we are starting the 2017 Rudolph Day Challenge, hosted by our lovely ScrappyMo over on Scraps of Life.  The whole idea of this challenge is to make Christmas cards/projects throughout the year thereby taking the pressure away from finding time to make them at the last minute - like I did last year! That being so here's my entry for January.

The beautiful illustration of Christmas Roses is recycled from a card received in 2016. All I did to make the card was trim the image to size, mat it on to satin finished gold card and then adhere it to a white card base measuring 5¾"x 4". Next, I stamped a greeting from the Christmas Visitors set, from Sheena Douglass' A Little Bit Festive collection, on a scrap of white card using Tim Holtz Tumbled Glass distress ink, trimmed it down to size and matted it on to the gold card, and then adhered it to the top left corner of the card with dimensional adhesive pads. The final touch is the three aqua coloured dew drops.

As you can see there's not much to making a recycled card. Often the image says it all, as is the case with the following three cards.

I can't resist images of kittens and this one was no exception. All I did was trim the image down to size, mat it on to red card and add two groups of red dew drops. The greeting was already on the image, as was the silver sequins you can just about see in the photo.

The same was true of this image too, greeting and glitter already done for me. I simply cut it to size and adhered it to a black 5" square card base and then added a group of silver enamel dots, from Simple Stories' The Story of Us collection, to the top right and bottom left corners.

Finally, this beautiful scene of a shepherd bringing in the sheep. This image also had the greeting already printed on it so, like the previous card, I trimmed it to size, adhered it to the black card base, and added a group of black enamel dots, Echo Park's Petticoats & Pinstripes collection, to the top left and bottom right corners.

So there we are, four Christmas cards made in absolutely no time and all recycling favourite illustrations from Christmas 2016. I've deliberately kept them as flat as possible to help save on postage - always a consideration for us pensioners, as I suspect it is for everyone in these expensive times!

Hope you are all enjoying a wonderful weekend wherever you are.

WOYWW follow up

Hello Folks

Later than ever today ... I've just had one interruption after the other and somehow never seemed to find the time to sit down and put this post together.

I hope you are all well and happily crafting away.

Yesterday, on my WOYWW post, the photo featured my first attempt to follow Kate Crane's instructions, in the most recent issue of Craft Stamper, how to mix distress inks with mica powders. Here's the finished piece.

After sponging inks on and leaving to dry, I stamped the script stamp in a distress ink which I then brushed with a silver mica powder (from Craftynotions). There's a lovely sheen which, as usual, is better seen in real life.

You can see it better on this photo. I over-stamped with Sheena's Silhouettes Grasses stamp set and black Archival ink. The butterfly has been given much the same treatment with DIs and mica powders and finished off with some green gems.

Materials used:

White deckle-edged square card base; piece of smooth white card for topper; Tim Holtz distress inks in yellows and blues; mica powders; Inkylicious Simply Script background stamp; Sheena's Grasses Silhouette stamp set; black Archival ink pad; green gems

Having completed this and liking the result, I went on to try different shades of distress inks and, again, here's the finished card.

This time I chose an ivory coloured watercolour paper which has, as you can see in the photo, a textured finish which was not as successful ... the texture makes it more difficult to get an even distribution of ink - I'll stick to smooth card in future. 

Materials used this time: 

Black square card base; square of ivory watercolour paper; Tim Holtz distress inks; Perfect Pearls and Craftynotions mica powders; Stazon black ink pad; Sheena Douglas Highland Silhouette stamp set

This is one technique I'll be repeating, just varying the colours and stamps to get the effect I want. 

I did find a wee window in which to finally open my set of H2Os and have a dabble with them. There's now several wet pieces set out to dry. Hopefully, tomorrow I'll do something with them - though not too sure what at the moment.

As I said earlier, my day has been somewhat fragmented and I'm now ready for bed, I won't need much rocking tonight, so I'll bid you all goodnight.

Happy crafting,

WOYWW 174 - What's On Your Workdesk Wednesday

Hello WOYWWers, Followers and All,

Well, would you believe it, we're into October already! I feel as though I've been well and truly cheated this year ... whatever happened to summer? Apart from a few, a very few, hot and sunny days, the last few months have been abysmal. Anymore summers like that and I may have to emigrate :(

Fortunately for us, crafting is, for the most part, an indoor pursuit :))  And as it's WOYWW day, courtesy of the admirable Julia, of Stamping Ground fame, and keeper of workdesks extraordinaire, I am here to reveal what's on mine today.

It's not too bad this week. There's this month's Craft Stamper open at a page describing a technique that involves distress inks and mica powders - which explains why the piles ... yep, more of my piles Lisa :))  ... of those distressing items scattered about. The piece of card at the front is my first attempt at following the instructions and, you'll have to take my word for this, the result is a lot shinier and prettier in real life than it looks in this photo. Most of the other bits and pieces - scissors, rulers, glue tape, etc. - are just part of my permanent crafting arsenal. The exception is the wheel of gems ... they were used to embellish the bunch of snippet cards standing at the back there and they are there until the glue gel under the toppers sets.

And that is my desk this week - pretty boring really. For a heap more interesting desks click the icon on the sidebar and go check out what everyone else is up to today - if you're a WOYWW novice you'll find a warm welcome at every link :)

In deference to Julia's brief, to keep it brief, I'll stop here and just leave you with my hope that you are all keeping well and enjoying better weather than the interminable rain that's our lot in the west of Scotland. I will, as usual, be popping in to visit as many of you as I can, if not today then sometime during the week.

Happy WOYWW and happy crafting,

Dancing Meadow - A Very Green Tag

Hi Everyone,

Flying by the seat of my pants this evening - this is a late minute submission to Hel's Sunday Stampers Challenge - Week 220 - Green Tambourine.

Hels asked for green and some stamping and this tag has got both in spades. The sponge has been sponged with a combination of Adirondack inks, starting with Willow, adding Sunshine Yellow and then Citrus. This mix was a bit too bright so to calm it down a bit TH's Shabby Shutters DI was added before spritzing with water and dabbed dry to get a dappled affect.

A Crafter's Workshop template, Butterfly Meadow was inked through using mainly the green end of the Spice Big and Juicy, but adding a touch of deeper shades and there's even a smattering of the Sunshine Yellow. Next I stamped, using VersaMark, more meadowflowers, this time from Sheena Douglass's Silhouette Grasses stamp set, and brushed several shades of Perfect Pearls Forever shades over it - green, violet and red.

The little Sleeping Kitty (Stampendous) was stamped in Versafine Vintage Sepia and the quotation, also from the Silhouette Grasses set, was stamped in Versafine Olympia Green. I've used two shades of gold Rub n Buff around the edges, Olive Gold and Autumn Gold.

Finally, the flower is made up of several dismantled silk flowers, sponged with green ink and hot glued together and the little wooden butterfly was sponged with green ink too, then it had violet Perfect Pearls brushed down the  body part and autumn gold Rub n Buff added to the wing tips.

And the reason why I'm very much last minute?! Well, this is the second attempt at this tag. I dropped the stamp on the first and ruined it completely ... hey, ho, them's the breaks :)

Must dash - got to submit this to Hels before 9pm.

Hope you are all enjoying your weekend and wishing you all happy crafting.

Tim Holtz August 2012 Tag

Good Evening Friends

It's only taken me from Saturday, but I've finally completed my first Tim Holtz tag!

Of course I didn't have most of the materials as listed by TH himself. I just had to exercise the little grey cells and improvise and, guess what, it was fun :) I didn't even have a tag ... I cut this one out a piece of leftover cream cardstock. I substituted a Cuttlebug embossing folder, Beautiful, for the one used by Tim.  Surprise, surprise, I did have the Adirondack dabber, Juniper, and enough of a selection of distress inks to be able to make a passable job of the inking.

The silhouette stamp is a digital one from Floppy Latte, Ribbon Flair, printed out onto smooth white cardstock and inked before adhering to the back of the frame. The frame, Papermania's white chipboard, has three coats of black embossing powder (Stampendous Midnight Black) and to get the 'carved' effect I stamped into the hot embossed surface before it set with a stamp with an all-over tiny flower pattern from Docrafts, V&A Quilt Posy Background.

Needless to say, I didn't have the right dies but I did have a Marianne Creatable Rose and the Sizzix Country Foliage dies and a really lovely leafy flourish die ... another one of the die-cuts in the package Chris Lee sent me - and it was perfect for the job. The rose die I have is the straight edged one, and of course, I really wanted scalloped edges so that my flowers looked more like the ones on Tim's tag. To get the effect I wanted, I trimmed the edge of the spirals with my fancy edged scissors - fiddly and time-consuming, but it did the job. I've used several snippets of coredinations card and after the flowers were sanded, rolled and shaped, the edges were inked with distress inks and then finished off with a little gold ink from a Papermania ink pad.

The words I chose for the tag are the last lines taken from a poem by F.VERR entitled Silhouette. The poet is a contemporary artist who uses 'colors, sounds, words and motion to adorn and inspire feeling on the blank canvas we perceive as space and time'.

 I won't quote the whole work but here's the last verse.

Where is she?
The one for me has not yet crossed my path
And though my mind's eye sees her
The sight is obstructed
She, only
Fills the silhouette

I thought the lines I've chosen worked well with the theme of the tag.

I don't know why I've resisted joining in with Tim's tag making ... well, I do really ... I didn't think I was up to it and, because I hadn't invested in all the TH materials, thought that I couldn't possibly make anything that looked like the TH original.

However, I did enjoy having a go, overcame the lack of materials, and am happy with the end result, so I won't be put off in the future ... in fact, if I can find the time, I might just have a go at his July tag too.

We had a dry spell today ... it didn't last long, but long enough for me to take the opportunity to trot round the garden collecting flowers and leaves for squishing. I also did a fair bit of dead-heading, especially on the EM's petunias which were looking horrible. He loves them, I loathe them ... it's the bright and gaudy colours that appeal to him. He puts them in planters every year and then neglects them terribly!

I'm thinking of having an early night and snuggling down with a good book. The current book, entitled The Ladies of Low Arvie, is about cows! I know, sounds an odd choice, but it's about an English couple who, wanting to live the farming dream, bought a farm in Galloway, Scotland, and decided to concentrate on rearing cows - the ladies of the title. So far, I'm thoroughly enjoying their story and finding it hard to put the book down.

So I'll bid you all goodnight and happy crafting,

Sewing Themed Thank You Card

Afternoon Everyone

Been rather preoccupied with the tennis today ... didn't Andy do well :) ... so just a quick share for you.

This card is a variation on one seen in the most recent edition of Docrafts Creativity magazine and it was an easy make.

It's made almost entirely from bits and pieces left after making the mini photo album for my daughter.

The cutting out of the various embellishment and the ruffling of the ribbon was the most time-consuming elements ... and fiddly.

Materials used:
Cream square base card
Papermania's Happy Days 12x12 paper stack
Tim Holtz distress ink, Squeezed Lemonade
Scalloped circle punch
Yellow gingham ribbon, pink button and green/white baker's twine from stash.

I'm still working on my first every Tim Holtz inspired tag ... progress is slow but it's beginning to take shape.

The dinner gong has just gone ... the EM is catering this evening ... so I'd better be off and see what culinary triumph is on offer.

Hope you have all had an enjoyable day.

Happy Crafting,

Flying High ATC

Hi Everyone,

Hope you are all having a lovely Sunday.

My cold has peaked today so no crafting has been done ... hopefully tomorrow will see it off :)

So, at the risk of boring you all rigid with the ATCs I've been making here's the third ... and the last for a little while!

The background on this ATC is a mix of Squeezed Lemonade and Peacock Feathers distress inks.

The Flying High stamp set with the balloons was free with Craft Stamper some time ago, and the foliage is from Kanban's Spring Meadow set. 

The stamps were inked with a variety of shades of Papermania cubes. A few of the foliage sprigs were inked with Versafine Olympia Green. 

A scrap of striped design paper was stamped and pieces for the larger of the hot air balloons.  I won't submit this to Di's playground ... I hardly think that scrap warrants being called a snippet :))

Embellishments are some tiny gems in shades of gold and green.

I think ATCs have finally won me over ... I could get addicted :) However, I've some pressing cards to make as there's a few birthdays looming so I'll be putting the ATCs aside and concentrating on the cards for now.

The cold remedy tablets I'm taking are making me sleep a lot ... not a bad thing when you have a cold but it does mean that I'm doing very little of anything. 

I am hoping to stay awake long enough this evening to watch Wallender on my brand new TV ... yes, the EM has treated me to a new flat-screen, DVD playing telly for the craft space. He has his reasons ... he hates Wallender!!!

Oh, and it is our wedding anniversary on Friday ... another reason for the pressie :) Sixteen years ... who would have believed it ... the years seem to have just flown by!

Right, time for another cuppa, I think. 

Happy crafting to you all,

It's the Little Things - another ATC

Evening Folks,

I hope this finds you all enjoying your weekend.

Haven't accomplished much today ... I've somehow managed to catch the EM's cold now that he's got over it - as if having tortuous trotters wasn't enough!

So this is just a quick share this evening.

Just another ATC using one of those inky backgrounds I did earlier this week. On this one there's a mix of all three of the Tim Holtz distress inks, Peacock Feathers, Shaded Lilac and Squeezed Lemonade.

The stamps are a mix of Lavinia Stamps (the spider web, trees, toadstools), Kanban (the foliage, grass birds) and Tim Holtz (sentiment).

The inks are also from a variety of sources - mainly Papermania ink cubes and Memento. I'm still practicing the technique of inking a stamp up with more than one colour, e.g. I inked the spider web stamp with brown for the tree trunks, green for the branches and grey for the spider web. I've found it easier to do this if the ink pads are small - either cubes or cat's eye shaped - that way I can dab the chosen area of the stamp with the corner of the pad.

To make the spider web twinkle, I've used a Versamark pen and silver mica powder (Crafty Notions) - bad photo but you can see the sheen on this view.

I've always considered ATCs more of a challenge than any other thing I've tried and creating a scene from an inky background the most challenging of all, but it's proving to be fun trying :)

I hardly dare mention the weather - it's been good today, again! In fact, the EM had to get the hosepipe out and water the garden!!!

Right, I'm off to settle down with a cuppa and Lewis, then it will be an early bed for me tonight, dosed up with a couple of cold remedy tablets ... never let it be said I don't know how to live :))

Crafty hugs to you all,

WOYWW 162 - Messing with Inks

Hi Everyone,

Wednesday - WOYWW day - so time for everyone to hop over to Julia's place, The Stamping Ground, and reveal the state of their workspace once again - just click the WOYWW icon to the left for a quick link.

I've been messing with my lovely new distress inks, making backgrounds on ATC blanks - four with perhaps too much water spritzed over the ink and one with maybe not quite enough ... I can see it is going to be a case of trial and error.

This basket is a new addition to the workdesk ... I've seen similar on a few WOYWWer's desks ... and spotted the one Di has on her desk last week ... her basket of goodies waiting to be used for the first time. Thought it was a great idea because, as I have a well-developed neatnik streak, I tend to put new goodies away immediately, stashed thus forgotten, so I've pinched the idea in the hope that I'll use everything at least once before it's put away :))

Eliza wanted to know how I use kitekat in art ... well, here's how - I store toppers in the empty box. I've been intending to cover it with something a bit more decorative looking for eons but it's just one of those projects that gets neglected - rather like the soap tablet box that can just about be seen in the background :) It's got more toppers in it ... maybe I should just get a bigger prettier box to hold all the toppers!

Just one last thing before I go to bed.

Last month I entered Sarn's Rudolph Day challenge - to make a Christmas card on or after the 25th of every month - it ends on the last day of the month - and blow me if I didn't win the draw ... number 13 - lucky for some, lucky for me :) This morning the postie delivered the beautifully packaged prize - donated by the lovely Di this month - together with a lovely card from Sarn. Many thanks to you both.

So that's me this week. The tortuous trotters are improving and, indeed, I did get out on Monday ... the first time in two weeks. I couldn't and didn't walk far ... baby steps :) Many thanks to all who have left messages of sympathy ... they were much appreciated.

I did rather better than usual last week and visited just over 90 blogs ... it would have been more but for the a few where I wasn't able to leave a comment. This week I hope to do as well, if not better ... well, I'm nosy and I like to see what you are all up to :))

As always, I hope you are all well and that none of you have been too badly affected by the unusual weather conditions that seems to be out lot for now.

Take care and happy crafting,

In the Direction of Dreams ... a canvas and matching card set.

Afternoon Everyone,

It's been a busy day for me ... well, a sort of busy day. After breakfast, I spent a good couple of hours this morning watching the new scrapbooking programme with Wendy Rhodes, hoping to pick up some useful tips. It ended in time for lunch so it wasn't until early afternoon I was able to hit the craft space, intending to do something with grunge paper but ... Outlook calendar reminded me of a birthday coming up. So I've been working on a shabby chic card today which I will probably post tomorrow. And for the last couple of days I've been working on this canvas and card set - another birthday - so the grungeboard and spool project just has to wait.

I started by making an ATC for Sarah's My Mojo Monthly. The theme this month is Play Petite ... go small, make an ATC ... so I did.

Our friend, Scott, has a lot of imagination, ambition and energy and is well on his way to realising his dreams. He recently completed an MBA, all the while building a very successful business ... he's aiming to become a millionaire before he's 40 :)) And as if that wasn't enough, he fills his spare time with distance running and the martial arts - mainly Tai Kwon Do, but he dabbles in others too. In fact, only this week he returned from Israel after completing a Krav-Maga course ... no, I don't know what it is either. Anyway, I digress, but it was thinking about what Scott does that led me to the making of this ATC. And I've finally used one of my collection of Clarity stamps.  The sentiment is a digital from Pink Petticoat. I'm afraid the photo does not do it justice - there's a lot of sparkle you just can't see!  Like Sarah, I decided to incorporate the ATC into the canvas I had started.

It's all about travel ... any kind of travel, places, directions, whatever, and maybe just a gentle reminder to write home too :) A lot of paint, distress inks, cosmic shimmer, stamping and gold embossing went into this project ... yes, I got messy for this one ... though the embellishments were kept to a minimum ... just a couple of brads, adage tickets and a tiny dragonfly.  Once again, the photo doesn't do it justice ... the colours are much better in the flesh, so to speak.

And after the canvas the card had to be simple, a ready-made card base, a bit of sponging with distress inks, stamping and heat embossing - silver this time, a ready-made greeting matted on to silver mirri card and some fab silver polka-dotted card candy - job done :)

Materials used:
- 7"x5" canvas board
- white gesso
- Adirondack paint dabber - mushroom
- Tim Holtz Distress Inks - Weathered Wood, Stormy Sky, Aged Mahogany, Black Soot, Pumice Stone
- VersaMark; fine gold & silver embossing powders
- Cosmic Shimmer - Pearl Mist, Rich Gold
- Stamps: Clarity - Postcards, Famous Places; Inkylicious - Simply Scrip;: Tim Holtz - Visual Artistry Collection
- Digital: Debbi Moore CD - Shabby Chic; Pink Petticoat - Tiny Sentiments
- Mask - Tim Holtz Idea-ology mini mask - compass
- Tools: heat gun; ink duster; make-up sponge
- Embellishments: Tim Holtz adage tickets; brads, dragonfly, card candy, greeting card topper, silver mirri card & silver/polka-dotted card candy from stash

I started writing up this post this afternoon in between cutting, sticking, distressing, and glittering, and then it was time for dinner, followed by Dancing on Ice - so many distractions :)) So now I'm sitting here in my PJ's after a lovely lazy easy Sunday - what more could a woman want :)


I hope you have all had as good a Sunday as I have and that all's well with your world.

Take care and happy crafting,