on the 6th day

Hi everyone, I'm back on the 6th day with two tags: #3 and #4.

I know I am far behind everybody else, but I am just not able to do one tag every day, need some improvement in the organisation skills area.

Anyway, here are the tags:

Tag #3

 

Since I had no tissue tape at all, I had to find out something. I got my simple masking tape and stamped on it and it worked out OK. I am not totally satisfied with the tag though, I don't like the flower, cos it's too big, I tried to make it smaller, but the tape was too wide.

Onto the 4th one:

But I like this one a lot, I used Pink Paislee paper and this Santa with the list is my fav. I used some liquid pearls in silver instead of the bling. I also tried the stamping on the facet, but It didn't turn out that nice, maybe because of the Stazon inkpad, I'm not sure. So I covered it with some alcohol inks and stamped the snowflakes on to it.

I am off to work on tag#5 and #6 I might be back today with the results...

TFL,

2nd tag

Hi everyone, seems like I'm one tag behind, but I'm definitely having fun. I haven't got any reinkers so, I couldn't try the "good to know" technique, but I tried to make something similar. This is it:

I used the mini festive stamps and a bird charm. I think I like this one better than the first one. Let's see what tomorrow will bring.

Something else:

I managed to finish the first batch of Christmas cards, in numbers: 11. I didn't go too far with the design, stamping and a bit of ribbon. I saw this stamping technique in the Craft Stamper magazine.

 

That's all for today, be back tomorrow, hopefully with two tags.

TFL,

1st tag of Christmas

Hi everyone out there, I hope you're all OK. Here in the snowy Ireland (LOL) life got a bit slower than usually. Even my class in college got cancelled due to the bad weather. So I stayed in and made the first tag of Tim Holtz's 12tags of Christmas.

I haven't got the dies he used but I didn't mind. I tried to get inspiration and use the techniques he did. So this is what I came up with.

For the background I pressed inkpads onto the craft sheet, spritzed with water and place the tag on it (you know how), I repeated this  a few times. Then I tore a little piece of paper to mask out one corner of my tag and stamped over with the music notes background stamp. I also stamped and embossed some pine branches on the corner (pine needle distress ink& clear embossing powder).

The ornament: Embossed some cardstock with CB dotted folder. Covered it with gold acrylic paint, sanded and applied some distress inks, just exacly the way HE did. Then cut pieces and adhered them onto another sheet of paper. I cut the shape out with scissors. After inking the edges iIcoverd the whole piece with rock candy crackle paint. I placed a little bow and pearl on the top.

Banner: stamped and embossed the sentiment onto the groungepaper piece which I covered with gold acrylic before. Distressed the edge with TH distresser and inked with walnut stain. Then folded into the shape, adhered with hot glue.

Pop over to the Crafty Alley ning network where we share our tags and I hope to see yours.

I'll be back tomorrow with another tag, can't wait till morning so I can see tag #2 on his blog.

Scrapzville Swap - November

Hi everyone, three posts in two days, wow!! I just wanted to quickly show you the mini I made for the Scrapzville November Swap.

Looks like I wasn't entirely following the rules, I hope my partner doesn't mind. Not bigger than 6x6, mine is slightly bigger, but that is because of the envelopes. Envelope?? We had to include one envelope somewhere, not remembering this I made the whole mini as an envelope mini LOL.

I made a little video to show you. I am sorry for not being a perfect narrator in the video, I still get bit nervous when I'm recording.

I hope you like it. I'll try to make a tutorial on my way of creating an envelope mini, so check back around the weekend.

Thanks for stopping by,

The ONE who kept me busy

As I mentioned in my previous post, I was busy in the last few weeks, because I got a cat. I adopted Mitzee (originally Benny) from Dublin SPCA two weeks ago. Mitzee is a little boy, approx 20 weeks old. Very cute and hyper, love everything with a bell on it, therefore he loved the Christmas mini I made (check out tomorrow). He loves to sleep on the sofa and also loves to scrach it. The funny thing is that we wanted a little female cat and Mitzee is a boy, but when I saw him in his pod I knew he was going to come home with me.

Here are some pictures:

He is so funny, goes into every box and corner and  he loves to play. I am very happy that we got him, since I wanted to have a cat for a year now, since my other can went missing. I miss her still, but I wanted to have a cat company, cos they are so adorable.

That's all for today,

Simon Says Stamp and Show - A tag

Hi Everyone, I'm back. Not that I went anywhere, but I wasn't really blogging for the last few weeks.  I got very busy with my newly adopted cat (piccies in another post) But today I'm showing you a tag I made for the November Swap, which was organised by Nicole on the Crafty Alley Ning network.

I made tags for everybody in the group, each with the same design, but the colours turned out a bit different. And honestly my favourite one was the first, but I forgot to take a photo of it.

I am entering this into the challenge over at Simon Says Stamp and Show

This is by the way a little warming up activity for the 12 tags of Christmas. Nicole and myself are planning to follow Tim making his tags, check out here.

Thanks for looking,

new blog background

I know, I know.... a new one again. But I like to change it and this one I made myself. It was a long-long process in Photoshop and all the 'how to' entries in google, but finally I got there.

I tried to get an inky splattered look, I think it turned out almost like I wanted. Only a few things left to finish and I will have a first 'made by me' blog 'outfit'.

By the way, there is a few projects in process: Christmas cards, ATC for swap, tags for swap, mini album for swap, but none of them are compeletely finished. 

I hope you all have a great weekend, I'll be back later with some piccies,

Timi