Happily Ever After

Well it has been a while but I am back over on Country View Crafts blog with a vintage inspired valentine.... and the project can be found here .

So here is the make :

and for all the details of how I made this please hop here  and a huge thanks to Susan for letting me pop back .... hopefully a bit more regularly x

Trace x

treasure everyday

So , after making my resolution to make more time to craft .. in tiny stolen moments - I have managed ...so far, alongside all the home school and mummy stuff to do just that ... in tiny stolen moments...

The challenge over at Frilly and Funkie this time is winter hues...and I do love this wintery palette , so decide to see if I could make something in time and  I have just managed to finish this in time ... so here goes :

So the front of this mini free standing piece has lots of Tim Holtz goodness and lots of layers of distress crayons and collage medium..I know late to the party but I am loving the crayons!

here is the back with another found relative...oh who is awaiting the new paper dolls eagerly...?

The base layer was some stencilled texture paste onto patterned paper from Tim stack...covered with collage medium and then plenty of crayons and some picket fence distress paint too..

 Here is the front side ...before I added it to the base ...some chit chat stickers and idea-ology to finish

and a close up , just because I wanted to capture the texture...

here is a side shot, I used clear rock candy glitter around the side for added sparkle..

and added some on the base which was painted and coloured with distress crayons...

and added a couple of the tiny idea-ology ice skates too

so there is my wintery hues make ... and I am loving my stolen moments and sometimes they are just a few minutes...and rediscovering why I love distress!!

So I would like to enter this into the wintery hues challenge over at Frilly and Funkie .

well that's all from me for today xx

trace x

See possibility everywhere

Well this tag was made a long while ago but has just never seen its day ...so I thought...why not...

This was made with lots of inky layers of distress and plenty of Tim Holtz goodness, I may dabble with lots of other things but somehow my heart always leads me home to my inks...they just make me happy .

This layered tag has been made with a large tag and a small one layered on top, some texture paste and resist stamping for the base layer...

And for the details, some die cut gears (Tim Holtz thinlits) made a little rusty...along with plenty of yummy idea-ology...

some dyed seam binding tied at the top ...and a hint of rusty wire....and a splash of idea-ology ...well maybe a few splashes!

so it still feels a bit weird being back in blogland and it my be sporadic at times  but it is a start ...

and I would like to enter it into the following ..

Anything goes @ Artistic Stamper

Anything goes @ Simon says stamp Wednesday challenge

so that is all for today ..

trace x

stolen moments to get inky! - do your best

Well it has been a very long while ... and I cannot promise when or how often I will be here ... but I can promise that I am going to try ...as and when life and time allows. ( no need for all the details x)

So here ,after a very long time ...is a tag...just for me to get inky and sit at my dusty desk....and play with some of my much loved Tim Holtz goodies!

So ... why a tag ? ....because I love them...they make me smile and take me back to playtime really...
 so this tag has some texture paste applied through different stencils...(inspired by creative chemistry 103- way back in the summer) -

 some of my favourite distress inks....still my favourite - although now have my eye on the new oxides..oh boy Tim is the total inky guru!

I added some of my much loved idea-ology and a found relative....cut out ....but soon I won't have too when the new Tim paper dolls find their way to me!

So there you have it ..a tag ... a promise to myself to try and find some small windows of inky time ...just for me ...

I have chosen some of the chit chat stickers that spoke to me ... and are there to remind me ...

So not sure anyone will still remember who I am , or if you're still out there ...but it feels good ...just to be here x

I would like to enter this into the challenge over at Frilly and Funkie (by tthe skin of my teeth ) - as the challenge is New years inspiration ....and mine is to try and find some small snippets of inky time...and play...

here's to finding stolen moments to get inky!

trace x

summer of creative chemistry - week three - part 2 - I love us

Well so after a weekend of Creative Chemistry summer school - week three , here are the rest of the results from my playtime... part one can be found here 

If you would like to see the results please see previous posts ...

So here are the results of the tag ... using crackle paint resist and also shattered stains... there are some more shattered stains here in part one ...of week three .

I used the shattered stains technique...and I brushed this with perfect pearls..it looks super shiny ...but is hard to photograph..

I added stamped layers and distress crackle paint, finished with a bow tied in seam binding dyed with perfect pearls mist spray 

I finished with mini staples and film strip and idea-ology and tissue tape.

I added some tied seam binding at the bottom of the tag ..

and here is the stapled wire ...

thanks so much for stopping by ..

keep those fingers inky!

trace x

summer of creative chemistry - week three - part 1 - creative adventures

Well after some playtime following some more of summer school at creative chemistry 101 - week three ..these tags are the results of my playtime using perfect pearls...

I will admit that I don't use them very often but have had fun with these ....

Here are some of the backgrounds ...

These used perfect mist distress technique and also perfect splatter technique .. the stamped background uses ...perfect distress technique .

here is my first tag ...

I created the background using perfect pearls and the effect is fab , but hard to take photos! 

I added some of the new Tim Holtz gears created using shattered stains effect

here are some close ups ..

I added one of the fab found relatives , some idea-ology and rusty wire ..

and tissue tape.

here is the background..

I added some seam binding.. to the top of the tag ..

and now for tag 2 -

using paint resist and shattered stains ...

I created the background using distress stains in colours to coordinate with 

the paint resist on canvas ..

and the gears created using shattered stains 

I added a photo booth and some idea-ology ..

I added some dyed seam binding..

and more idea-ology 

Here is the details of the canvas section..

So here are the results of the first part of playtime...

be back tomorrow with the results of the rest of playtime..

keep those fingers inky!

trace x

Home sweet Home card for Country View Crafts

Well it is my turn over at Country View Crafts again and my project can be found in full here ... For this project I have used the same Paperartsy stamp set , that I used for the home sweet home bunting , that can be found here .

So here are a couple of sneak peaks and for all the details of how I made this please hop here .x

happy hopping ...

keep those fingers inky!

trace x