Always By My Side

I haven’t been crafting for  a while as I have been unwell, with a dreaded trip to A&E, but the Covid precautions were very good. Today I am sharing another card made with one of my hand drawn die cuts and a cute Mouse stamp from one of Tracy Easson fabulous stamp sets called Just A Girl and Her Forever Friend.

I used watercolours to create the background, and a circle stencil on the top of the card. I drew and fussy cut some heart balloons to tie to the wheelchair.  The sentiment also comes from a variety of Tracy Easson  stamp sets.

Today is world Sepsis day, and September is Sepsis month. I have had septicaemia 3 times, the first 2 times were very serious, and I nearly died. The second time I was even discharged from hospital with all the symptoms of  septicaemia, and I had to be rushed back in hours later by which time I was unconscious. So many people including Drs are not aware of Sepsis and it’s symptoms. It is very serious, and can leave permanent damage.  Be Sepsis Aware #WorldSepsisDay

Thank you for visiting, and please Stay safe xx

I would like to enter this into the following challenges. 

Happy Little Stampers Watercolour

Happy Little Stamper Stencil

Happy Little Stampers Dies I drew and die cut my wheelchair image so I hope that it counts 

We Love to Create Anything Goes

2 Crafty Critter Crazies

Virtual Hugs

With so many of us not being able to see our friends and family at the moment, it is nice to send virtual hugs instead. This is another card using one of the lovely images by  Anita Jeram. Sending Virtual hugs to everyone who needs one xx

Thank you for visiting today xx 

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges 

Happy Little Stampers Water colour Challenge

Chocolate Baroque I Love ... I love water colours I always use them for making my cards. 

I love Elephants !

I love elephants, and I often try to draw them in my journal. Jane Davenport bought out a new line  of wild and whimsical stamps which included an elephant so of course it had to come and live with me ! The  stamp has a lovely little lady balanced on her head, on this occasion I just wanted to use the elephant. I took my time to ink up the stamp trying to avoid the lady. I wiped off  the ink which still managed to find its way onto the lady.

Water colours are my favourite colouring medium,  I used them to create my background, and also to add colour to my elephant. 

Thank you for visiting me today xx

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges.

Penny Black Allsorts Animals 

Happy Little Stampers Watercolour

Craft Stamper Anything Goes

Alice and Mad Hatter Canvas

Hello, I am back in Wonderland today, probably the best place to be!  Today I am sharing a mixed media canvas featuring Alice and the Mad Hatter.I used Paperbabe templates for the bow, hat and clothes, and drew the facial  features. Of course I  used my favourite watercolours on everything! 

This is one of my most favourite quotes by Lewis Carrol “Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality” So I was thrilled to see it as a stamp at Lost Coast Designs.

I used several gorgeous Alice collections on this canvas, Bo Bunny and Echo Park. Have you seen the new Alice collection by Stamperia, it is stunning! 

Thank you for visiting today, hope to see you again soon. If you have time, please leave a comment so Alice and Mad Hatter know you were here!

I would like to enter this canvas into the following challenges, thank you.

Artistic Stamper Heart It 

Penny Black Anything Goes

Craft Stamper Anything Goes

Are You A Good Witch or a Bad Witch?

Hello, I hope all is going well for you. I am still struggling to craft with my right arm in a splint, but I keep trying!

I  wanted so much to enter the this months Paperbabe Stamps Stars Challenge and Lost Coast Designs Follow the Yellow Brick Road Challenge. So I was determined to do my best to create something left handed! 

I found out my Wizard of Oz stamp set, and selected 3 stamps, I especially like the sentiment “ Are you a good witch or a bad witch” I think I would quite like to be a witch, and  have some of those witchy powers! I created my background including of course a yellow brick road with my Aquamarkers, they are nice and chunky and easy to hold left handed! I spritzed them quite heavily with water. 

My fabulous witch is a die cut, I added some sparkly stars to her dress, red glitter to her shoes, a few sparkly dots to her witchy hat a few markings to her broom and then she was all set. 

Thank you so much for visiting, take care xx

Alice Challenge Enter Today

I have made this Alice tag to tie onto the winning gift for my Alice Fun Challenge. Today is the last day to enter so if you have time to create something Wonderland today please do enter  and of course Don’t Be Late xxx

I will be back tomorrow with something special for the day!

Thank you for stopping by.

Alice In Wonderland Challenge Reminder 7 Days left !

Hello, how are you, are you enjoying the sunny weather? 

Unusually for me I have created a clean and simple card today! If you are thinking of creating something for Alice Day, and I do so hope you are, there are 7 Days left to enter. 

There is a huge variety of  themes you could use for Alice, so why not take a look through your little box of crafty supplies (yes I know it isn’t really  little !) and I am sure with your creativity and talent you could conjure up a little something to celebrate Alice Day.

Alice Theme Ideas 

Tea party, cups, saucers, china, plates, cake, tea, sandwiches etc 

Time, clocks, watches etc 

Flowers, roses, etc 

Doors, keys, locks etc 

Butterfly, caterpillar

Trees, toadstools, rabbit holes 

Hare, Rabbit

Top hat

Playing cards,  suits hearts, spades, clubs, diamonds

Queen of hearts

Jabberwocky everyone must have on of those in their craft stash ! 

Enter the Wonderland Challenge here

One random winner will selected to win the following

Thank you for stopping by today, stay cool xx

Imagitation can take you anywhere !

I am always finding pressed flowers in between book pages, so after  experimenting with stamping on pressed rose petals  ( please see this post) I thought I would try using punches with them. I began by gluing my pressed rose petals onto card, I used a Pritt glue stick. I then  used the beautiful  Fiskars punch to create lots of  rose petal butterflies. 

I created a sky background with watercolours, and stamped the lovely little Phyllis Harris Stamp by 

Unity onto card.After giving her some colour I carefully cut around her, and adhered her to the background. I wanted the butterflies to float her up and away to a magical land. So I arranged the butterflies above her and drew a line from the butterflies to her hands. I stamped the brilliant quote next to her,  I love that sentiment - imagination really can take you anywhere...

Thank you for stopping by, I am off to Alexandra Palace tomorrow for the big craft show.

Blog Giveaway 

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A Peep Into A Magical Land

 

Tread quietly... today we are peeping into a magical land... can you see the lovely horse and foal.Did you know that at midnight every night the fully grown horses start to magically grow a beautiful horn and turn into magnificent unicorns for the night. In this picture the mother is whispering to her child telling her all about the enchantment  she will enjoy when she is older !

If you would like to make an exploding  canvas you can find many and varied  videos on you tube to give you the basics. I used Lavinia Stamps and Die cuts to make this magical land.I watercoloured the images and canvas, and I used pearl stickles on the enchanted toadstool, and a signo white pen on the pink flowers.I also slotted  in some skeleton leaves to add more layers and depth.

 

Thank you so much for visitng today and taking a peep into this magical world!

I would like to enter this into the following challenges

Penny Black Colour Challenge 

Artistic Stamper Floral Fantasy

Crafting When We Can Bright and Colourful

We Love to Create Anything Mixed Media

Creative Artiste Anything Mixed Media

 

Win Indigoblu and Fiskars goodies!!

 

A fabulous opportunity for the IndigoBlu Belles today - we have teamed up with Fiskars,manufacturers of fabulous punches, trimmers and where would we be without those scissors!  We are showing you how well our stamps and Fiskars punches can work together!

Here is my card, I created the flowers with the fabulous Fiskars Daisy punch.

Look at the generous prizes below! 

Just visit Indigoblu's Facebook page for more info, it's easy to enter Good Luck !

 

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Save 20% on Indigoblu Stamps !

I have had my eye on the new Robin stamp by Indigoblu for a while.This weekend they have 20% off so I may treat myself.....

I found a Christmas gift for a friend in the Amazon Black Friday Sale which was a very good buy. I can't say what it was incase he reads my blog!

I have sensitive skin so I always use Clinique products, they have 10% off all their products this weekend.

I think Hobbycraft stores have a Black Friday sale, but I have not been so I don't know exactly what they are offering in store.

Hope you all find some good crafting bargains in the sales!

Alice In Winterland

In the winter, Wonderland becomes Winterland, and Alice loves to walk in the snowy forest.

I painted the top of my 20cm (8inch) canvas with Iced Gem paint, and randomly painted on Snow White metallic paint on the bottom. I used the star stencil and Slap it On to add some raised stars to the top of the canvas and also painted those pink.

 

I used Archival Olive Ink pad to stamp the trees from the Winterland wood stamp set. I stamped the two distance trees without reinking the stamp, so it gave a more faded and distant look. I used white paint to add snow to the trees which was followed by flitterglu and white glitter.

 

I stamped and coloured Alice from the Indigoblu Alice stamp set, and stamped the bunnies in black Archival from the Winterland set. I fussy cut them all out and adhered them to the canvas.

I spread glass bead gel medium to the bottom of the canvas to give some glistening texture to the snow. When it was dry, I lightly added white paint to some areas.

 

I Die cut some snowflakes and stars in various sizes and covered them in Flitterglu and white glitter. I adhered them to the top of the canvas using sticky foam pads.

Thank you so much for visiting, I hope to see you again soon.

I would like to enter Alice in Winterland into the following challenges.

That's Crafty Christmas

Craft Stamper Anything Goes

Daring Card Makers Favourite Book

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Back from a few days away

i spent a couple of days in Brighton, and went on the new http://britishairwaysi360.comBritish Airways i360. It slowly ascends 450 feet in the air. At night with the lights on it looked like a UFO!

Enjoyed a lovely sunset.

I found this lovely doll necklace in one of the eclectic shops in Brightons Lanes.I couldn't resist, isn't she gorgeous!

Kay is on Hochanda this afternoon with Indigoblu's new Stamps, it is set to be a great show with lots of inspiration.