End of year

Hello, and thank you very much for stopping by to visit me today. As the year is drawing to an end 

I thought I would share some of my makes from the year. 

This was my first make as a member of the Fiskarettes UK Design Team. I very much enjoyed my time on their team. 

I enjoyed making this card, I always enjoy using items from nature in my art. This card was made for Indigoblu 

I enjoyed being a Guest Designer for Crafty Individuals.

It took a lot of time and patience, but I stamped this flower onto real pressed rose petals. I also used real leaves to stamp the leaves onto

I love Lavinia Stamps, and I was thrilled when this card was featured in Craft Stamper.

The reason why I created this canvas is not very pleasant, the crafting world can be very nasty place... but I was thrilled when a magazine asked me if they could publish this canvas.

I look forward to hopefully being able to continue  to craft in the new year, I have a lot of serious health/ disability problems which  are getting worse and I am also developing new ones. 

Myself and my family are all under tremendous stress which is seriously affecting our health and well being. 

Heartfelt thanks to everyone who took the time to visit and leave a comment, I appreciate it very much. 

I wish my crafting friends and crafting visitors good health and happiness in 2019.May you have lots of time to enjoy your crafting.

I look forward to hopefully having new crafting adventures in 2019.

“Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality.”

Lewis Carroll

Be The Light

I recently received this gorgeous stamp by the super talented Phyliss Harris, she is one of my favourite artists.

I used watercolours, texture paste and flowersoft  to bring this little girl to life. 

Thank you for stopping by.  I hope you are having an enjoyable December. We hope to decorate our Christmas  tree this weekend.I have lots of gifts  to wrap up too.  No handmade tags to go on them this year though! 

 I am still waiting for my treatment and MRI scan....

I would like to enter “Be The Light”  into the following challenges 
Craft Stamper Anything Goes

That’s Crafty Anything Goes

Paperbabe Stamps Anything Goes

Artistic Stamper Christmas

Lost coast Cold and Frosty

Stamping Sensations Winter Sparkle 

Drawing and Painting onto wood slices

Hi how are you? Have you made all of your Christmas cards yet? I am pleased to say that I have! I also enjoy making ornaments to give instead of cards. I recently had my first experiment with drawing and painting directly onto wood slices.

I drew them from my imagination so some look like hares, or bunnies, others look like an entirely new species! But at least they all are 101% original!

I am giving these to my friends for Christmas, and I would like to enter them into the 

Paperbabe Challenge Anything Goes

Take care xx

Winter Animals Shrine

Hello I am back again with another glittery Christmas ornament, there is no escaping the glitter!  I made this one a while ago, I often make ornaments to give instead of Christmas cards.

I used a lovely little stamp set from Hero Arts to make this snowy scene, called Winter Animals, it is just adorable with bears, hares and lots more.

I used lots  of texture paste and glitter to cover the shrine. 

I fussy cut the stamped animals before embedding them into the snow.

I hung up some die cut stars from inside of the roof.

To add a little bit of colour I added some natural berries and leaves.

Thank you for visiting me today, I hope all s going well with you, and you are enjoying a magical December so far. I am still waiting for my treatment and mri... hopefully it will be before Christmas! 

I would like to enter this into the following challenges

Try It on a Tuesday Winter Wonderland 

That’s Crafty Anything Goes

Artistic Stamper Christmas

Lost coast Cold and Frosty

Stamping Sensations Winter Sparkle 

Snowy Winter Foxes

Hello and Happy December! How are all your Christmas plans going? I have started making lots of Christmas decorations and cards  so that of course means glitter everywhere!

I am sharing how to make this Snowy Winter Foxes scene over on the Indigoblu Blog today, I hope you can pop overl

I will be posting more Christmas Decorations and cards soon. It is a slow process creating them with my problems. I am now waiting for an MRI scan, and an ultrasound guided injection which will hopefully help the pain. Take care and have a magical December xxx

I would like to enter my Snowy Foxes scene into the following challenges.

Try It on a Tuesday Winter Wonderland 

That’s Crafty Winter Wonderland

Artistic Stamper Christmas

Lost coast Cold and Frosty

A Proud Deer Making A Wish

Hello, how are you today? Today I am sharing this proud Deer he is making a special wish on a star.  I used aqua markers spritzed with lots of water for the background and a Lavinia Stamp die cut.I added some white flower soft under his feet. I hope his wish comes true... 
I would like to enter it into the Paperbabe  challenge Animals/Pets

We went to The Shrouds Of The Somme at the Olympic Park this morning to pay our respects, and to look for our relatives names.We had to wait to go in as Princess Anne had made an impromptu visit. It was heartbreaking to see so many shrouds, I found only one relatives name, but when I asked it was explained that the 72,396 shrouds only represented those who had died with no known grave.Some of my relatives who died at the Somme have known graves. A very sad morning.

Lest we Forget 100 years

In memory

My Great Uncle he was killed at The Somme aged just 19.

I don’t have a photo of my My Great Grandfather, but he also died at The Somme aged 41 and is remembered on this plaque. 

My Grandfather fibbed about his age and joined up at just 14 years old. He was 18 when the war ended, he is pictured here with the Belgium family who looked out for him.

I made paper poppies, and my sister crocheted poppies, so we could decorate our porch. To say thank you to all those who fought for our country and those who continue to do so.

The Weeping Window at The Imperial War Museum.

Lest We Forget