Snazzy time again

Here is my second project for Snazzys this month, again using one of the wonderful Darkroom Door London sets. If you want to have a chance of winning one of the two London sets, head over to Snazzys and leave a comment on this post.

Hope to see you there:o)

Project for The Artistic Stamper

Here is my project for the Artistic Stamper, hope you like it and for a full description please head over to their blog by clicking here

Snazzys project for June

Hello everyone. This week it is my turn to show my projects over at Snazzys. We are featuring the Darkroom Door London stamp sets. For a chance to win one of these sets, run over to the DT blog by clicking here.

Here 's a peek at my first project

Tag book complete

Here are the final pages for my tag book (see post below)

Front of final tag. Again I  drew over the original image to bring it out more and then collaged some further details and added embellishments. I think that this is my favourite.

Back of final tag

Front cover

Back cover

Finished tag book

cover detail

Happy Sunday everyone!

Altered tags, the next installments

Hi everyone, hope you are having a good weekend. A few days ago I posted an altered Crafty Individuals tag. A pack of 5 of these were given to me on commission to alter them and make them into a tag book.
They are great fun to do, although at times also a bit tricky, because one side has beautiful printing on them, and it's not so easy to try and enhance them without spoiling the beautiful design that's there already. The back of the tag is quite plain, so there, there is plenty of space to play.
Anyway here are my next lot of attempts.

Front

Back

Front

front detail

Back

back detail

Front. Here I drew on and around the lady that was on the original design to emphasize her more

Back

detail

Only one more and the covers to do now....

Friday Freebie tags

I had some unexpected free time on my hands and did not feel like getting inky, so played with some pixels instead. Here is the result. Like usual, many thanks to the wonderful Graphics Fairy and her endless resources of free images and also some other kind souls whose images I have downloaded over the years.

Like always you may take these tags for your own personal use. They are quite dark, I guess because it was such a cold and dark day here again.

Spellbinders Project for June

Hi everyone. Today is the day when it is my turn to show a project on the Spellbinders blog. Even though I have done it a few times now, it is still quite a big deal for me. I would absolutely love it if you show your support by leaving me a comment there. All you need to do is click here

here is a sneak peek and thank you!!

Altered tag

I have not posted for ages as I have been incredibly busy, both at work and with creating and scheduling projects for my various design teams. As I am away for most of July and had to schedule my July posts too well and create the projects of course. But today I finally had some time to play. I was sent a pack of 5 large decorated tags by Crafty Individuals. Someone has asked me to alter them for her and make them into a tag book. At least that's what I decided I would do with them. Here is the first one, both the front and the back:

 This side had a beautifully printed background already, all I did was add an image, some flowers and lace, and a bit of stamping. The little butterflies which were stamped also.

 The back was really plain, so here I created the background pretty much completely.

First Post for the Artistic Stamper

Today is the day that my first project will go up for the Artistic Stamper, whose Design Team I was lucky enough to become a member of.

I decided to make a hanger, using the stamps for lots of texture. You can find full detail on the DT blog here

Vintage French mini

Finally managed to almost complete the vintage french mini I have been working on for ages. I have done the cover now and some more big tags. (just a few little tags to go now)

Cover

cover detail

cover detail

tag

tag

tag

tag

For those of you who enjoy this sort of things, I have also made a little video where you can see all of the pages and tags.

Freebie Time

Hello everyone, here is your Friday freebie for this week.
As I am a teacher of adult students I am going to be extremely busy over the next couple of weeks with graduations etc and will be away from my computer for most of July, so this will be the last Friday Freebee for a while, sorry. I am also getting a bit stale and keep coming up with the same sort of thing, so hopefully come the middle of August I will be back with some fresh ideas. Thank you for all your kind comments and welcome to all my new followers. You are all very much appreciated!!!

tags etc

6 x 6 paper

6 x 6 paper

Vintage French mini (Second Instalment

Her is the second installment of my vintage French mini. You can see the first instalment here

Page with little waterfal cards

waterfall cards

close up

close up

Page with decorative pocket

Another page with large pocket

page with tag tucked in

showing page and tag separately

page with side pocket and small tag

tag

page with large decorative pocket

mini accordion book that will fit in one of the pockets

cover of accordion book

back of accordion book

Now there is only the cover to do and a number of bigger tags to fit in various top and side pockets.
I have used a whole variety of papers from different collections but as they are all totally altered anyway, it does not really matter.