More Than Words - December Challenge - Rejoice in the Memories

More Than Words - December Challenge

Rejoice in the Memories

Hi Everyone

I have had a busy December with a lot of personal things happening and major changes in the house along with the end of year wind down.  Even with all the changes that have happened I was lucky enough to get into my craft room the other day which allowed me to bring together this beautiful little  layout in-between finishing off Christmas Presents for teachers.

This beautiful little layout was made with paper from 49&Market 

 Ethereal / Whisper - is the background where I have ripped the hanging leafs on the top right hand side and laid corrugated paper behind the ripped section.  

and Beautiful - Garden Letters has been used in the background across the layout and also behind the photo. 

The flowers, dragonflies and other background pieces are from the Ethereal - Collection Pack 

The chipboard used is from 2 Crafty chipboard - Bricks

I have used Tim Holtz Distress Ink - Tea Dye around the edges with Prima Opal Magic Vintage Silk rubbed over the background textured with paste.

I do hope you like my page and please hop over to the More Than Words Challenge Blog to see all the other wonderful entries. 

More Than Words November Challenge Runner Up

Hi

What a wonderful surprise I got at the beginning of the month when I received an email announcing that I was Runner Up of the More Than Wods November Challenge - Runner Up with this layout I submitted.

I thoroughly enjoyed making this layout -;I found that the picture just talked to me.

Thank you to all who have visited my blog and Facebook pages and especially those to have left messages of encouragement

I will be submitting my entry for the More Than Words - December in the next couple of days please come back to visit again

Thanks Glenda

Love of Music is the KEY to Success

Hi Everyone

I got really excited with the

 More Than Words November Challenge

With the Word - 'Success' and 'Key' to be used within the layout. 

Looking through my photos I came across this wonderful photo which just screamed the

Love of Music is the KEY to Success.

I used 49& Market paper Vintage Remants Paper #9 as the background and Paper #2 for some of the music notes and the background strips. I stamped the background with a music notes stamp to highlight the the music theme.  

I did not add any texture to the paper as I thought there was enough texture and background colours on the paper and I thought to add further texture would make it to busy. 

I tried out my new machine the Silhouette Cameo 4 where I cut the music notes and symbols to add to the music theme. 

The chipboard in the background was from a 3 Quarter Designs paper pack I had which just fitting in well with the brick bohemian look. The Hinge and Key are from Dusty Attic

These little photos are close ups of the page - showing the chipboard, music notes and the music paper used in the background.

Hope you have enjoyed the layout and 

hope you all have a wonderful crafting day

MTW - October - Honourable Mention

Hi Everyone

I was once again lucky to be mentioned in the 
                                             HONOURABLE MENTION

for the 

More Than Words Blog Challenge for October

The Many Costumes of Venice

with this beautiful piece.

I thoroughly enjoyed putting this piece together even though the 

gold on the black was a little bit of a challenge. 

Autumn Fun

Hi

This is my latest page - Autumn Fun

And I had fun making it 

I used 49 & Market Paper - Vintage Remnants No: 01

I used Cadence Paste (Sage)  along with the Dusty Attic stencil (Chicken Wire)

to add some texture to the background.

The other products used are 

2 Crafty chipboard

49 & Market - Laser Cuts - Dandelion Paradise

Lavender Scented - ground nut shells

Tim Holtz - Distress Ink - Antique Linen and Crushed Olive

Vintage Journey - Pinworthy Mention

Hi 

I entered the beautiful Box Card I had made into the Vintage Journey September Challenge

 'Box It Up'

And I was lucky enough to receive a 

Pinworthy Mention

I was so excited when I received the wonderful email from Julie Aston at Vintage Journey 

I wish to thank everyone at Vintage Journey for the opportunity to enter the challenge and will be returning regularly. 

MTW Honourable Mention

Hi 

It finally happened I got an 

Honourable Mention 

for my entry in the 

More Than Words September Challenge

The challenge was 

Word - Origin

Colour - country colours 

This was my entry. Follow this link to read more about ‘Remember the Journey’ layout I created 

   

Couture Creations Design Team Audition 2019

Hi Everyone

This is my blog to apply for the Couture Creations Design Team Audition 2019.

I have to showcase my three favourite projects and have found that very hard as I love most of the work that I do. 

I have chosen three pieces that have been special to me

The first one is a layout which took me out of my comfort zone and it is the layout 'Red Lips"

I have used texture paste on the background for this layout and have also stamped  black and red inks on the background with bubblewrap.  I then layered die cuts, black lace and feathers and with lots of flowers scattered on the page.  Please email me for the instructions to make this beautiful project.  

My second piece is the GypsyVan that I created. 

I had such fun making this project with adding the flowers on the roof of the van, on the little windows on the side of the van and the back not to mention the pair of shoes on the front fence. 

Please pop over to the GypsyVan page where you can also see the video of the photos. 

My 3rd project was harder to chose as I wanted to show something that I had used Couture Creations papers and there are a couple of posts show casing the beautiful papers but I also wanted to show my cards so decided on the trio of Hatbox Cards

I hope you all like the beautiful projects and please follow the links to find out more about each of the projects. 

Please continue to explore other pages I have done such as: 

Pretty in Yellow

Travelling Little Boy Blue

Art Deco Book for Kaye

Last year made this book for a dear friend of my who decided it was time to retire.   

I knew that she loved all things Art Deco and so I decided to make this beautiful little book for her.  I used the wonderful Couture Creations papers to make the book and decorate the pages inside. 

 There are three sections to the book and each one had a different cover on it and each of the pages were decorated with pictures and pockets but I made sure that there were still pages available to be used as a journal or for all those little notes and sayings that you want to keep.

Now that I have given this lovely little book away I am in the middle of making a similar one that I can keep and use myself. 

Treasure Always

This little Treasure Chest is something I put tougher one lazy afternoon.  I had the little chest and although I had decorated it many years ago I never really liked the outcome, so one lazy Sunday afternoon after cleaning my craft room for the 100th time this year (it always gets so messy while I am creating) that I decided to use the Couture Creations paper Seaside Me paper.

I had fun decorating the box with chipboard shapes of fish and coral and, 

little beads to represent shells on the sea floor and then little shapes

like the anchor and little bottle of beads. 

 This is a little video showing all the pictures of the little Treasure Box.