Journal page and an amazing gift...

After weeks and weeks I finally got round to doing some journaling again.... I had loads of painted and gessoed (how on earth do you spell that??) pages prepared but just never got round to doing anything with them. Well finally, last night I did and here are some photos of the result...

This morning I had a wonderful surprise! A while back I won some candy and look what arrived in the post today...!

Two gorgeous stamps from Vilda stamps and the most beautifully decorated envelope with two lovely tags. The lady who sent them is the wonderful Anne

Kristine. She does incredible work. If you don't know her, go and have a look here

WOYWW #149

Well, this is my very first time participating in this and I truly don't know how often I'll manage, but as I'm on holiday just now there is really no excuse and I promise I'll try and get round to as may of you as I can. Seeing it is the first time, I'll show 4 different picks, showing my space at different angles. It's a corner of a room which I share with DH, we call it our "study", but trust me precious little studying gets done in here. Slowly all of my stash is starting to take over and DH has debunked to an armchair in the living room where he works with a laptop on his knees.

This is my actual work area, about 5 min after I tried to tidy it to keep working. In the foreground is my next DT project in progress, a mini made out of envies. Can't show any more details yet...

Here you can see some of my paints and distress stains etc, wished I had more of those, love them!

My ink pads in my wonderful swivel ink pad holder, all the distress inks are on the other side and re-fillers and alcohol inks on the top.

Finally my messy die cutting station, the drawers hold (some) of my stamps. My biggest regret is that I have nothing that will cut the Tim Holtz dies properly. Yes, you can see an old Cuttlebug tugged in a corner there but I cannot get it to cut my TH dies properly ever..... One of these days I'll get a big shot, unless someone wants to donate me a Vagabond of course....

Happy Easter to you all!!

Wishing all the most wonderful Easter!!
Don't eat too much chocolate!!!

This week's freebee

Time seems to fly at the moment, I can't believe a week has passed already, but Friday it is and a special Friday to, Good Friday, two days before Easter.

So here are the last of the Easter themed tags. Hope you are not getting sick of them...
Images used are from The Feathered Nest and the Graphics fairy, many thanks! Sorry the background to the tags is a bit mucky but I did not have the time to clean them up....

Shabby Chic Easter project

As some of you will know, I love Shabby Chic style. Here is a little project inspired by something I saw on Pinterest...

I painted a little peat pot, first with gesso and then with Titan Buff acrylic paint. I lined it with printed tissue paper aged with some Vintage Photo Distress ink, made a handle out of raffia wire and added a rose. I filled it with moss (can't see that on the photo), and added an aged rose and some little eggs of course and voila...

Two traditional cards

After all the Tim Holtz tags, here are two more traditional card. I love playing with my inks and sprays, but I love playing with beautiful papers and dies too, so here goes. One is an Easter card and the other a thank you card for a friend who did me a great kindness.

And card number two:

Stamps are from Just Rite and from Flourishes

Last of week One and a card

Here are my last 4 tags of week 1 of Tim Holtz's Creative Chemistry 101 class. Only one more week to catch up on now and I know I won't do them all as I don't have all of the supplies.

And here is a card that I made for someone special, playing with some of my Spellbinders goodies

Creative Chemistry the next installment

Well, here are my next tags from day 3 and the first one of day 4. I know already I am going to struggle to do them all as I don't have half of the products Tim uses so will probably have to improvise a lot, but I have to say it is great fun and has given me the chance to use some stuff that had been gathering dust for years lol...

Alcohol Ink Agates

Archival Resist.
I struggled with this one as I don't have any light coloured archival inks so mine turned out very different from Tim's.

Reflection Stamping
Again this is my own version as I don't have any reflection stamps but inking an embossing folder is a great technique and I love the result.

Watercolouring with Re-Inkers.
I have only a few colours of reinkers so was rather restricted. I have to say, re-inkers are not my favourite colouring medium........

Playing Catch Up

Like most of the rest of the crafting world it seems, I signed up for Tim Holtz's Creative Chemistry 101 class. Unfortunately I was away from home when the class started and only came back yesterday, so I was finally able to start my tags today. Here are the first ones:

Tag 1 Blended Spritz & Flick

Unfortunately I did not manage to get nice small droplets, I think I need to practice this one...

Brushless Watercolour

 This is the one I struggled with most as I did not have suitable stamps somehow. In the end I used two Darkroom Door stamps, and now it is my favourite so far. I added the strip of old print for an arty effect.

This is an extra one I did, using the same colours as the  brushless water colour. I combined Wrinkle Free distress and  Spritz and Flick

And this is the last one, Wrinkle Free Distress. Wished I had added more blue....

Last of the sneakpeeks and this week's freebie

Here is a little glimps of the last of my projects created for Snazzys DT blog

Hope you like:o) If you leave a comment on the DT blog you have a chance to win the Chocolate Baroque stamp set we have been using this month.

And here are this weeks frieebies:

Second DT project

Here is a sneak peek of my second project on the Snazzys DT blog

If you pop over there and leave a comment you have a chance to win a fabulous stamp set by Chocolate baroque (see my previous post...

Snazzys DT sneak peek

This week it is my turn to post on the Snazzys DT blog
Here's a tiny sneak peek:o)

This month we are featuring 7 Dots Studio "Wonderland Collection" and a very cool stamp set, The Art of Chess from Chocolate Baroque. If you leave a comment on the blog there you are in for a chance to win this set!!
Make sure to pop over to the Snazzys DT blog and leave a comment on any of the posts during March!!

Friday Freebie

Easter is coming closer. Hopefully you will be able to use these tags for some of your Easter projects...

Friday Freebie

Here is this week's offering. A few posts below you can see a project using some of the elements.

Please feel free to use for personal projects.
As you can see the post cards are not sized to fit in the envelopes, but if you have a photo editing program it should be easy enough to make them fit if you want.

Mini Printer's tray

A while back I received this gorgeous little Tando Creative Mini Printer's Tray from our bosses at Snazzys. It was lying around looking somewhat lost. Well, finally I decided to do something with it, so here it is.
Papers are from Kaisercrafts Sweet Nothings collection, images are mostly either from the Graphics Fairy or other free sources on the net. The one on the left side is one of my own papers reduced. It matches the Kaiser papers pretty well I think, in reality a lot better than in the photo.

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I left the cover pretty blank to show off the gorgeous papers.

Fun with Flowers.

There are so many different tutorials out there about how to make you own flowers. This evening I decided to spent some time making a little collection. I used my Spellbinder dies Rose Creations and Spiral Blossoms 1 and a variety of papers, card stock, book pages and coffee filters. Such fun! Now I just need to find the time to add them to projects....

Book pages and glimmer mist

Thick card stock, glimmer mist and Distress ink Aged Mahogany

Coffee filter and glimmer mists

Thick card stock and chalk ink

Card stock, glimmer mists and stickles

A card and some exciting news....

Outside of card

I thought it was about time I showed you a card I made using only my own papers that I post as freebies once a week.
Here are some details

This little postcard will be coming your way soon

Here is the inside of the card, I left the left side pretty empty to allow for space to add a personal message

Left side, this paper is not on my blog as blogger would not let me upload it for some reason. You can find it on Pinterest under my own free printables

Right side

Now for the exciting news:
SPELLBINDERS HAVE INVITED ME TO BECOME PART OF THEIR INTERNATIONAL BLOG TEAM!!!! I will be in the company of some amazing crafters from all over the world. You can read all about it by clicking http://spellbinderspaperarts.com/Community/Blog/Post/12-03-12/Welcome_Spellbinders_2012_Spellbloggers_Team.aspx?Pa