twinkle twinkle little star!

Hey there bloggers,
well hey there bloggers, wow what a week, I have been inspired by Tim's 12 days of tags, although still have tag 1,2 and 3...half done!!The tags and Tim's talent are amazing and I have to say I have been shocked that despite having a huge crafty stash and being very lucky there have had to be a couple of purchases and much improvisation..but plenty of inky fun and many more goodies for Santa's list!!!
Anyway, here is my tag for Sunday stampers hosted by the fab Hels @  http://pinkleart.blogspot.com/. This tag has been waiting to be blogged for half the week!!!So here she is:

I started by dividing the tag into two halves.The right hand side was inked, then over stamped with a text script in broken china. Once dry I spritzed with perfect pearls in pearl.The stars were stamped using a cover stamp from craft stamper designed by the very talented Jo Capper-Sandon.They were stamped in snow white paint dabber and then filled in with crackle glaze to give a soft subtle finish!!

The left hand side was covered with Tim tissue wrap, which had been coloured with picket fence distress stain.The 3-d stars used the same stamp and were covered with glossy accents and then some pearl glitter, thanks mum!

I am entering this for the following challenges:
stars @ http://pinkleart.blogspot.com/
stars @ http://simonsaysstampandshow.blogspot.com/

thanks for stopping by,
let me know what you think
have a great inky day
ta trace x

Guest artist sneaky peak for the Artistic Stamper for December!!!

Well hey there bloggers,
This has got to be an all time exciting post for me today ...as I am honoured, chuffed, excited and more to have been asked by Jennie and Hels at the Artistic Stamper  to be their guest artist for December! I know, little me!!!..how exciting.
So without further ado here is a sneaky peak of my first offering:

Hop across to the Artistic Stamper creative blog @ http://theartisticstampercreativeteam.blogspot.com/ to see all the details,
All the products can be found at http://www.theartisticstamper.com/
Thanks to Jennie and Hels, I am so chuffed and hope this does you proud!!
Have a great inky day
Hugs Trace x

Down the farm, in vintage style...

Well hey there bloggers,
Here I am today with another offering and this time the theme was down on the farm over at gingersnaps here , now this struck some fear in me, as I really didn't have anything to suit...I stuck to my favourite colours of distress inks for vintage feel cards and a stamp from eBay..
So here she is :

I started in my usual fashion of doing two halves for my background.
The left hand side was on card coloured in tea dye and gathered twigs DI, then stamped over with script, Tim one...an absolute favourite!
The right hand side was card coloured in antique linen, then spritzed with tattered angels glimmer mists in creme de chocolat, when dry I then edged in gathered twigs DI.
Right down the left hand edge is my some Tim tissue wrap...I LOVE THIS!!!! I coloured this with picket fence distress stain and then when dry gathered twigs DI.
The main panel is made by colouring card with DI, spritzing with water and dabbing off , drying and then the image stamped on.
The panel behind the image is some canvas off a roll, torn and coloured with DI.
To complete I added lace, a sentiment and a flower made from plaited paper string.

I am entering this for the following competitions:
farm @ gingersnaps
thanks for looking and have a great inky day!
hugs trace x

woyww #130.....a boring desk!!sorry!?!!

Hey there bloggers,
well where did my week go ? It is that fab time of the week where we get to wander through crafty wonderland looking at other peoples crafty places and showing our own courtesy of our hostess Julia..@ http://stamping-ground.blogspot.com/
Well here is my sad looking desk today:

There has not been a lot of craftiness this week, so I am afraid apart from a few hat pins , there is not a lot on my desk!boring eh?sorry..but I am hooked on this thing and didn't want to miss a week.Even cooker crafting of last week has been slow as little Lucy has been off colour, we have been decorating and well life just was this week!!!
have  a great crafty day and hop around, the desks I mean and look at others far more exciting spaces @ http://stamping-ground.blogspot.com/
happy woyww
hugs trace x

A snowy tag for the stampman!

Hey there bloggers,
well here I am on a very wet and windy day, yuck!!!
This is going to be short and sweet, but here is my entry for the stampman challenge, which is to use one of Tim's fabulous tags as inspiration or to follow the tag whole, follow not swallow!?
So here is mine:

I tried to follow the instructions for this tag no 1 , 2009.......using the supplies I had and as good as possible replicate the tag, which is no mean feat, for this reason I have not put the instructions as the one and only TIM can do this so much better....@ http://timholtz.typepad.com/my_weblog/12-tags-of-christmas-2009/
So a couple of pictures of various pieces of my tag:

I am entering this for the following challenges :

Tim's tag techniques @ http://thestampmanchallenges.blogspot.com/
snowflakes @ http://4craftychicks.blogspot.com/
tag you're it @ http://simonsaysstampschallenge.blogspot.com/
christmas @ http://fairytale-challengeblog.blogspot.com/
snowmen @ http://craftycatzweeklychallenge.blogspot.com/
christmas and winter @ http://gingerloftchallenge.blogspot.com/

have a great inky day,
ta trace x

Altered or decorative corners for anything goes challenge.

hey there bloggers,
Well it is challenge time over at anything goes and the theme this time is altered or decorative corners, so here is my dt piece:

Make sure you hop on over to see the other dt members fab creations @ http://anythingchallenge.blogspot.com/ and for lots of crafty goodies hop across to thecraft den @ http://www.craftden.co.uk/
I started by creating a background using tumbled glass DI,with some iced spruce around edge, then I spritzed with perfect pearls mist in pearl..Once dry I stamped small snowflakes from creative expressions plate using tumbled glass and silver paint dabber.I added a torn strip to the top this time, coloured in same way..there is a simple satisfaction in starting with White card and ending up with a complete card or tag.
The central tile is a square tile coloured using emulsion and crackle medium.
The sentiment was stamped from creative expressions plate in iced spruce and then ink added to edges of torn shape and then rock candy applied to give icy finish.

Finally the decorative corners were made using fab Tim snowflake die cuts, four left white and pearl glitter added and four inked lightly and spritzed..pearls have been added to the centres of all of the snowflakes .the snowflakes have then been added to the corners on flourishes.

Make sure you pop across and join in the fun @ http://anythingchallenge.blogspot.com/
have a great inky day!
hugs trace x

100 posts in blogland!!!!!!!!!!thanks everyone!

Well hey there bloggers,
this will be my hundredth post in blogland, little did I realise that this journey would be so rewarding and open up such a fab crafty world full of some lovely people and true crafty gurus!!!
thanks for all the lovely comments and opportunities and thanks to all my followers, it means a lot!!
have a great day!!
hugs trace x
and THANKS!!!!