Alter That

The Octopode Factory

2012-01-23T15:12:00.005Z

I love messing around with The Octopode Factory stuff , so after finishing making a postcard for a swap (third picture down) I also made an envelope , im sure it will come in hand for a swap sometime. This picture shows the front of it. And this is the reverse.

Here is the postcard for the swap. It had to have a heart on it and the word "LOVE" .

1st Friday 2012

2012-01-09T13:21:00.003Z

I do wonder how long it will last , this blogging lol . But here we go. First Friday and I have taken my photo's. One was of Liv going to school, as I dont work Monday or Fridays (well im not suposed to ) I watch Liv from the doorstep meet her friend Izzy on the corner of the street and walk to school. that's one of the 1st things I do every Friday.

The first picture is of the scrapping stuff I have bought to do this year long project. It's Simple Stories papers , looking forward now to making a start.

This other photo is of my craft room , it's a double size bedroom and when the photo was taken on Friday there was a narrow footway to my desk. I have doen a little tidying since and now it's a litte wider footway to the desk lol.

But it was wide enough to get there and do a little messing around .

2012 and a Resurrection

2012-01-03T14:10:00.003Z

Well 2012 and this year im starting back with my blog ,(not 1 post last year , bad blogger) we will see how it goes. Gail and I have decided to do Photo Friday . We are going to take at least 3 photo's every Friday and then scrap about them for the year. We have the paper , the album etc so what's the reason why not to ????
Time will tell lol

An Early New Year's Resolution

2010-12-29T07:53:00.003Z

Yes that's right An Early New Year's Resolution to blog , not just blog more but to actually blog lol.
Been busy and have remembered to take photo's so here we are.
I need some little gifts for Liv's Guide Leaders so made these calenders

2nd day of conference

2010-11-08T12:57:00.003Z

2nd day of conference and we moved on to the last 2 motions .The first one was about The Global Financial Crisis and it's Impact on Women and the second on the Use of Women as Weapons of War. Again some great contributions from women from all over the world sharing there experiences and feelings.
Bento box for luch today was like getting all the soft centres in the chocolate box (i like soft centres lol) After eating this lovely lunch we went and watched a tea ceremony , this was very nice and we then had some of the green tea and cake.
In the afternoon we had 4 ladies from Japan telling us about Gender Equality in Japanese Trade Unions and Society.
Then came the close of this 3rd conference , the next UNI Women's World Conference will be held in Cape Town.

Monday - today was a day off , so we went shopping , but didn't buy much as things are soooo very expensive. This afternoon I went on one of the trips to do some Japanese cooking. I made traditional cake and champon soup , another local dish. We then went in to China town for tea.

Bento boxes and more

2010-11-07T14:08:00.002Z

Yesterday was the first day of the 3rd UNI World Womens Conference. It was opened by japanese school children playing to songs on bells. We then had opening speeches from Takaaki Sakurada chairperson of the UNI Liaison Council Japan , followed by Naomi Okamoto vice president of the Japanese Trade Union Confederation (Rengo). Plus a few others.
This conference has unions from 66 countries in the postal , telecoms , finance and media industries. 116 trade unions had sent women to this even . 181 delegates , 72 observers and 188 guests. It runs for 2 days.
When we broke for lunch I had my first experience of a japanese Bento Box. For me to sum up a bento box all i can say is that it is like a box of chololates , somethings you love and somethings you dont lol.
In the afternoon we moved on to the motions.The 1st one was about Strategic Priorities UNI Equal Opportunities Interprofessional Group and the 2nd one was about Migration and Traffickimg of Women. Both had very interesting speakers from around the world taking part in the debate. Both of these motions were adopted by conference.
We then attended the reception event for about an hour and then came back to the hotel as we are all feeling pretty jetlagged.
Last nights dinner was an indian lol

UNI Women's Conference , Japan and me

2010-11-06T10:40:00.002Z

Yes im here in Japan .It took quite a journey to get here. I set off from home at 4.30pm Wednesday to fly Newcastle to London . Then Thursday moring it was 11.25am flight to Hong Kong (12hour flight) , Hong Kong to Tokyo (4 hours), Tokyo to Nagasaki (2hours). To finally arrive at 7.30pm Friday in my hotel .The lovely Hotel New Nagasaki. And you know your in Japan when everytime you sit on the toilet the seat is lovely and warm.
Went out for a quite bite and then it was to bed. Up at 7am today and off to the 1st day of the UNI Women's Confernce. This is a 2 day conference. So I will try and update everyday on here.

Busy

2010-04-07T22:14:00.002+01:00

Yes very busy sorting out and putting together a design team for 3D JEAN. Well it's all sorted and the blog is now set up , have a look at it here www.3djean.blogspot.com
Crafting and a bit of food as well

Mother's Day Cards

2010-03-24T09:56:00.004Z

This year Mother's Day Cards . I borrowed Andrea's nesties to cut out the heart shapes , i now think i need some ofthese in different shapes .

How Longgggggggggggg

2010-03-19T16:09:00.006Z

These cards were made from Pink Paisley set of papers i bought .This top one was the valentines card i made for Pete.The other 2 were my entry in the monthly art raffle.

o no how long has it been , well here are some cards to make up for the longness.

Late xmas

2010-01-13T14:58:00.003Z

Here is a picture of the xmas cards i made this year , well one of the types. Forgot to take photo's of the others. It's a lovely stamp i borrowed from a friend but cant remember which company makes it. I sparkled it up with stickles on his hat bobble and rim.

Award goes to

2010-01-13T14:19:00.005Z

Im going to pass this award on to Julie , http://notesonpaper.blogspot.com/the women of many many words , mostly the written word , a lovely friend who's blog i just love reading and also to another dear friend http://art-and-sole.blogspot.com/

Thanks Andrea

2010-01-12T13:10:00.002Z

Thanks Andrea for giving me this award , so kind and i think the reasons you gave for giving me it should realy be the other way round lol.
Now i need to sit down tonight and send this little award on to others.

Some more christmas stuff

2009-12-31T13:01:00.003Z

I made quite a few of these this year.These two are the ones I made for Olivia's teachers.And the other one i made was more 3d as it as the flowers were mounted on a foam ring.The flowerds are so easy to make from the Stampin Up Oval punch .
To make the flower..
Punch out 8 ovals from double sided paper, ink the edges, make a fold on each side at one end to form a point.
Glue the eight pieces onto a punched out circle. Cover a die cut circle of chipboard with paper Cropadile two holes to make a button and tie in the centre of your flower and that's it.

Owls

2009-12-22T13:56:00.004Z

Andrea gave me some printed out owls to colour in , they are so cute. Here's what i did with them once they were coloured

Lots of christmas

2009-12-10T17:03:00.005Z

Busy busy busy it's that time of year again , anyway here are some christmas creations ive done over the last couple of weeks.

Busy , so no blogging for ages

2009-11-19T12:30:00.004Z

I have used one of my very favourite stamps on these ATC's .It's a lovely skull stamp by Michelle Ward .I also used my love new punch by Martha Stewart I just know im going to use dripping blood on everthing now lol

Life , Busy , but here is a picture of the ATC's i made for a halloween swap . Got lots to do at the moment so must remember to take photos and add them on here for all to see.

Halloween

2009-10-08T17:46:00.005+01:00

I dont realy need an excuse like Halloween to make soemthing like this as all my art work for myself is donr in these colours and theme lol. But since it's coming soon i thought why not indulge. Spent Monday making this and for a change got it startted and finished in a day.

4 CARDS

2009-10-02T08:51:00.004+01:00

Another set for another swap , the stamp is an old one i have had for a lot of years i think it's by Queens Dresser Draws. I just stamped it onto a distresssed tag and then mounted it on the card. The corners are laser cut which i coloured with liquid chalk to match the papers.

Just simple

2009-09-24T16:03:00.003+01:00

A very simple book i have made with the Bind It All. It's for putting LAST years holiday photo's in all i need to do now is print them out. Im thinking i might make another for my brother as they spent teh first week of the holidays with us.

Another Layout

2009-09-17T13:39:00.005+01:00

I like scrapping but never seem to get the time at home , or space. Dont get me wrong i DO have the space a spare double sized bedroom , just there is never any spare/clean surfaces to put anything down as big as 12x12 , im sure a lot of you know what i mean lol.
So this was done were most of my scrapping is done at a crop .

Stick it out

2009-09-13T14:45:00.002+01:00

And as you can see from the layout she did lol. Funny little thing that she is , she loves pulling faces and doing silly things.Which makes life fun and i get some great pictures to scrap

Quilting

2009-09-10T09:06:00.003+01:00

I dont realy do sewing and my sewing machine is crap and was realy cheap , just realy for sewing paper and messing around. But having started this quilt i now feel i need a better one. Will have to start shopping. So here it is my first attempt at quillting . Still alot to do , but im pleased with what ive done up to now. It wasn't suposed to be in these colours but my jelly roll didn't turn up in time so looked throu my pill of material and found these fat quarters and soem other that i can use for the sides and backing. will post again with more pics when more is done.

Yet MORE cards

2009-09-06T17:26:00.004+01:00

Ok that's all i seem to make at the moment.These again were made for a swap , theme this time being Birthdays.I love this large birthday stamp , it's a Purple Onion one and are available in the shop www.3djean.co.uk , in the rubber stamp section if your interested.It just seems to work so well.
Well tomorrow im having a change from card making. Im going to attempt to start my first ever quilt.

Just for fun

2009-09-05T21:19:00.002+01:00

I made these cards just for fun ie not for any swap.

Stamp-n-Foil

2009-09-02T17:16:00.006+01:00

ooooo how nice is this stuff , so nice it's now in the shop , want some here's the link www.3djean.co.uk This is a tag made with the Stamp-n-Foil , Stampee Diva made it for a tag swap i was in.She's the wonderfull lady who is responsable for this wonderful Stamp-n-Foil fun Here is how she made it
1. The tags were cut out of a cream colored parchment style card stock.

2. The edges of each tag were aged with a combination of Slate and Meadow Adirondack alcohol inks from Ranger. I just took a few drops of each color on the dabber and added a bit of blending solution. Then I started with the dabber off of the tag and brought the color onto the edges and blended. This gave the tag a nice aged effect that coordinated with the distress technique used to apply the Stamp-N-Foil.

3. Using a large french script stamp inked with Encore gold pigment ink, both from Stampin' Up, I stamped the background image over the whole card.

4. Using the distressed foil technique I applied Stamp-N-Foil in Aquamarine, from Stampee.net, over the entire background image. Note: when the turquoise foil is removed, small areas of gold pigment ink are revealed.

5. After the background was completed I used an embellished Cherish stamp inked with Encore gold pigment ink, both from Stampin' Up, to stamp the image in the top right hand corner of the tag.

6. I then used the distressed foil technique to apply Orange Stamp-N-Foil to the newly stamped image.

7. My tags were ready for swappin'. :)

want to see how it's done well here is the video www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhu_Bz-C5y4

Flowers

2009-09-01T21:13:00.005+01:00

Another set of cards that I have made for a stamp card swap .The theme being flowers. I made a few extra. Im enjoying doing these swaps makes me use stuff and do themes that i dont normally use, which is good .I have 2 more themes to go at the moment so i better go and sort them out .

Hats

2009-08-31T21:12:00.003+01:00

A great photo of Olivia with a friend of ours Ian. It was Goth Weekend at Whitby and the two of them where trying on lots of hat in a shop. I cant remember who's paper it is but i do like it and thought it suited the photo fine

Birds

2009-08-30T11:40:00.002+01:00

Im taking part in a few card swaps at the moment.I only need to make 2 cards for each swap so finding it very easy to do.Im also tending to make 4 or even a few more at teh same time. They will come in handy they always do. These are teh ones i made for this swap. Also made me come up with the next theme for the Monthly Art Raffle Swap, BIRDS.So if you are reading this today and you take part in the Monthly Art Raffle swap then you are one of the first to know as im not putting it up until tomorrrow. lol

Im taking part in a few card swaps at the moment.I only need to make 2 cards for each swap so finding it very easy to do.Im also tending to make 4 or even a few more at teh same time. They will come in handy they always do. These are teh ones i made for this swap. Also made me come up with the next theme for the Monthly Art Raffle Swap, BIRDS.So if you are reading this today and you take part in the Monthly Art Raffle swap then you are one of the first to know as im not putting it up until tomorrrow. lol

Scarlet Lime

2009-08-29T21:42:00.003+01:00

How i love these kits. Ive been getting them for most of the year and each month is packed with so much lovelyness. Anyway it takes me ages to use it all but this is my lastest creation using one of the kits. Cant remember which month is was though .The photo i used is just one of Olivia messing around with bubbles in the bath.

Some Tgas

2009-08-28T12:34:00.006+01:00

Efemera sets us tags to do over on the pad to do with the alphabet and im very behind with them . In fact ive only done 4 , here they are.

Bad Blogger

2009-08-27T09:11:00.004+01:00

Ive been a very bad blogger , 2 month's and nothing , but panic over im back.
I wanted to post a picture of the lovely Shimmerz products

I love them so much that i am stocking them , pop over to the shop if your interested. www.3djean.co.uk .I have been using them to paint prime flowers to give them a sparkle.

A while

2009-06-20T21:06:00.006+01:00

You know how it is busy busy busy , but i have had time today to have a little mess around here are the results . I love this stamp set by Hero Arts .
Ive now made three sets just in slightly different colours . Have just got some new stamps from Hero Art so i think i may have a mess with them tomorrow

Bombshell Stamps

2009-05-24T10:02:00.002+01:00

I just love the Bombshell Stamps that i sell and thought it was about time i made something with them. So here is my take on a shadow/shrine box that Gail made for Craft Stamper. Seemed to be very hard to get a good picture of it , but i dont think this one is too bad.

No more cute

2009-05-19T11:50:00.005+01:00

The cute stuff just couldn't continue and I had to get back to grunge. So here are the lastest cards with a box to hold them in. These stamps are my favourite ones that I have and they are Stampotique ones. The paper another big favourite Basic Grey.

Another Mirror

2009-05-11T06:57:00.002+01:00

I wanted to make another one for a friend of mine and thought i would use these lovely papaers out of my Scarlet Lime kit with some of teh embelishments that went with it . I think she will like it .

I DONT Do Cute

2009-05-10T10:13:00.006+01:00

Honest I dont , but I wanted to make a thank you gift for a friend , and just know she will love this cards set I have made for her .

And i never by cute , but here we are again looking at 2 cute stamped girl images , so yes i have bought 2 cute stamps , but having a 9 year old girl is my excuse .

The papers are Making Memories and i have had them for years .I realy must start using my papers up lol

The box is one that a friend of mine makes and all i have done for this is make it bigger so that it fits 6x6 size cards.

Mirror mirror on the wall

2009-04-23T11:23:00.003+01:00

Here is the other class i did for the cyber crop.Just a cheap mirror from Ikea 97p , last of the big spenders lol.The chipboard is painted with black crackle paint , i love thsi stuff. The paper used is one of the 7gypsies new flocked ones , very nice. And then just lots of stamping and embelishments on the fan pieces.

Scrapped at home

2009-04-19T17:14:00.003+01:00

Yes ive scrapped at home today , dont often do this , i never seem to have the time. There is a week long cyber crop going on on the pad so i thought i would try and do soem of the layouts and use up a whole collection of Basic Grey. I was also asked to do 2 classes and this is one of the layouts i have done for it. Now i must get of here and go and do some of those other layouts.

New stamps

2009-04-06T16:43:00.002+01:00

Got a few new stamps so thought i would have a mess around and here are the cards i made with them . I just love the big Happy Birthday stamp it's by Purple Onion

Mother 's Day cards

2009-03-28T20:51:00.003Z

Her are the Mother's Day Cards I made this year .This time i have just used the March Scarlet Lime kit for making them .

Two Layouts

2009-03-21T19:51:00.006Z

Cant remember the last time i did any scrapbooking but with the arrival of my new kt Scarlet Lime i thought ive got no excuse now .So last Saturday at the crop i finally got round to doing two .All i used was the stuff out of the kit and a little extra piece from some new 7 gypsies in Jet's layout.
The 1st is a picture of our new puppy Jet , who we got last year and is now 6 months old so had grown a little to when this picture was taken.

And this one is of me , a very rare type of layout LOL , but i thought it would by nice to scrap the pink hair , before i get bored and change it to another colour.

Happy Birthday DAD

2009-03-19T07:43:00.003Z

And here is the card I made for him,. I have started to get the Scarlet Lime kit every month and just took this to the crop last Saturday and nothing else. There is so much stuff in it that i didn't need to take anything else. I got the birthday card for Dad done and also 2 layouts. Willpost the layouts tomorrow when i have taken a photo of them.

Purple Tree

2009-03-08T12:20:00.008Z

Purple well fancy that LOL. Was round Gails the other week and we wanted soemthing quick to make. So she got me on teh sewing machine and showed me a new technique and then we made the ribbon string thing into a little tree. I was rather pleased with the result. And it's purple hehe ...............

The 4th project of the weekend was

2009-03-05T13:47:00.005Z

MINE. I thought it woudl be nice to do a mini book so we could keep all the weeekends photo's in it . It's a Kaiser ones and so are all the papers and rub ons we used for them.Here is my finished book

3rd project of the weekend

2009-02-25T20:05:00.004Z

Was Sharrons project and it was a russian doll with a fold out book shaped as a doll inside. So very messy and lots of pieces to draw , cut and stick .I must admit to getting a little fustrated with it at times. It still needs a face and the book to put in it also needs making. I will get round to it just not sure when LOL.

Circle

2009-02-17T09:00:00.002Z

Hannah's project for use whilst away on the wekend was to decorate a little round tin with a glass lid. So here is what i did , i think it looks rather cute.

Square

2009-02-14T16:43:00.004Z

One of the things i made when i was away on the weekend with Gail , Hannah and Sharon last month .We all had to take a project for each other to make .This was Gails project. It one of those squares that you can keep turning inside out . The squares are inchie size so were ideal to cover with some lovely inchie stamps Gail had bought.

I Liked Them So Much

2009-02-13T12:16:00.003Z

The cards i made for the Art Raffle i liked them so much that i have made somemore . I used darker background papers this time. But they siut my still better i think . LOL

Arty stuff challenges!

2009-02-08T06:42:00.003Z

Gail has put together a fortnightly challenge on the pad.The 1st was to make a tag with a bird on it and a piece of material .This weeks was to make another tag with faces on it and metal. So here are both of the tags i made for it.

Art Raffle Jan

2009-02-06T08:27:00.002Z

So here are the 2 cards i made for the January Art Raffle. The theme was shinny , so the images are stamped on acertate which has been covered with alchol ink , tissue paper and floor polish , great effect , but not done justice in the photo.

A very late HAPPY NEW YEAR

2009-01-24T10:09:00.004Z

Been so busy making things and sorting other things that i have not had time to pop on and put up any piccies. Well here are some pictures of the ATC's and tags i have being making for a couple of swaps i am taking part in.

Christmas Decoration

2008-12-31T09:35:00.001Z

I took part in a Christmas decoration swap on the pad and this is the one i made. Just cut on the sizzix in chipboard , very easy , but very effective.

Finally the new CJ

2008-12-30T09:39:00.004Z

Finally got round to putting pictures of the new CJ i am in on here. This one was to again choose a stamp to go round with the CJ but to also choose a colour .Well i chose black , (fancy that LOL).So here is the cover and my 1st page .The stamp i chose is a Zettiology one , yet another suprise LOL. I love doing these CJ's , they are so much fun.

1 Day to go

2008-12-24T11:24:00.005Z

Only 1 day left and the the big day , so finally here are some pictures of my christmas cards i made .

Novembers Art Raffle

2008-12-05T09:56:00.004Z

So here are the two cards i made for the Art Raffle this month. Now all i need to do is get on with my Christmas card making.

A few odd n ends

2008-11-24T18:36:00.004Z

Just a couple of odd cards ive mad lately and had not had time to put them on here.

NEW Shrines

2008-11-17T21:16:00.010Z

Got some lovely NEW shrines in the shop. So nice that Gail and i have had a play around with some.Here are some pictures to give you some inspiration of what you can produce with them .I think they are just so cute .These are what we did.The first three pictures are Gail's creations and the other two are mine.So if you fancy playing with them i would get on over to the shop whilst stocks last www.3djean.co.uk

some houses

2008-11-15T08:20:00.002Z

As well as taking part in a big ATC house swap i also made some for a smaller swap and remembered to take photo's this time. So here they are.

Halloween ATC's

2008-11-11T17:20:00.002Z

oooo couple of days , well maybe a couple weeks since ive put any pictures on , well here you go .Some halloween ATC's i made for a swap. Nearly finished the new CJ im taking part in so will get that up on here also sometime this week

Halloween Tree

2008-10-29T08:32:00.002Z

Here is a picture of the tree i made for the UK Art Raffle.The idea is to make something related to the monthly theme , Octobers being DARK. Then you send it in and this entitles you to a place in teh raffle. At the end of the month one person is drawn out and they get all the raffle entries sent to them .Nice idea and it has been running for 3 months , this was the first time i had made something for it.
Next months theme is CIRCLES.

One version Three cards

2008-10-19T19:39:00.004+01:00

Title says it all , i made the one card and then liked it so much i did 2 more in different colours

Another Card

2008-10-18T09:14:00.003+01:00

Only one today but i need to take some more pictures of some of the others

Wednesdays Cards

2008-10-15T17:01:00.002+01:00

So here are some more. Tonight im off to a 3 hour crop and agin im just talking "stuff" to make cards with. And thinking about it i realy shoudl be thinking about starting those Christmas cards

Today's Cards

2008-10-13T18:44:00.004+01:00

Two more from the little collection I have being making.These are made from some digital stuff I bought a couple of months ago that I quite liked. I printed the paprs and embelishments out on to photo paper and then made these wth it all. Wish I could remember which site I got it from.

Card Making

2008-10-12T20:28:00.005+01:00

As much as I love crafting I feel these days that I realy struggle with making cards. One upon a time I found it realy easy. So last week I poped round to Gail's and whilst there I knocked up a couple.I liked what I did so made more than one of each design. Then this saturday at the crop instead of scrapping I had another go and made some more, so over this week i will post them all on here. Andrea if your reading this hope your impressed LOL

The Fabric CJ

2008-09-24T17:29:00.003+01:00

I think i mentioned that im involved with a fabric CJ . Im sure Gail talked me into it , not realy my comfort zone but im having a go. So here is a picture of the first entry i have done .Hopefully they might (and that's a big might) get better as i do more. The second entry i did i forgot to take a photo of it. Will see if i can get hold of one so i can put it on here.

Away from home

2008-09-15T16:56:00.006+01:00

When im away from home i like to be able to still do a bit of glueing and sticking. Last xmas a friend bought me a 2 foot wooden skeleton to make , but not only did i have to make it she wanted me to cover the pieces in paper first and then make it.
She bought herself a little owl to do and thought a 2 foot one would be great for me. So he is started and i am now taking him with me when im away from home working for a week or more. I have no idea what hotel staff must think

I have used Basic Grey Black Tie on him and think it works rather well. Just hope i have enough of the paper to finish him as there is rather a lot of him still to do.
(so if anyone looking has any odd"n"ends of Basic Grey Black Tie i would be gratefull , just drop me a line)
will post updates of him from time to time and i will have to give him a name at some point.

stamps

2008-09-07T16:09:00.003+01:00

Hangers

2008-09-06T11:10:00.003+01:00

These were fun to make and they are now hanging on the wall down the stairs , very unlike me to have any of my work anywhere in the house except the craft room.

some CJ entries

2008-08-29T21:17:00.004+01:00

Not done much this week , well actually done nothing in the crafting department.
Spent a lovely Thursday at Sheffiled seeing the Vivian Westwood exibition , realy nice stuff.Took Olivia and Hannah with me. Today went cloths shopping with Olivia , she seems very happy.
Anyway here are 2 entries in CJ's that i have done lately and not uploaded.They were both in the stamp Cj's i took part in.

Joanne's Bra

2008-08-25T21:22:00.003+01:00

Well here is the last of the Bra's ,. I have been waiting for some jewels from Banana Frog so i could finish it , they arrived last week so over the weekend i finished it. Im sure we are going to look great on the day..........
Anyway we will see in 2 weeks , im hopeing to get a photo of use all waering them together.

Couple of ATC's

2008-08-19T09:30:00.002+01:00

Been away on holiday , but im back . Not done alot of crafting of any sort but feel the need to today. So tonight i think i might do some cards. In the mean time here are 2 ATC's i have made. The base of the ATC is made with Tyvek , a great medium to work with , i just love heating it and seeing it change.

Bra's

2008-08-03T17:02:00.008+01:00

The CWU North East Women's Group are taking part in the Sunwalk in Newcastle 7th September. It's all for breast cancer and you do it in your bra. So instead of having boring bra's i thought it would be nice to jazz them up a bit. There were 6 to do so Gail , Hannah and my self got to work Friday night and produced the following. there's one missing (that's yours Joanne) as I am waiting on green pearls to arrive to finish it off.
But here are the rest

JACKIE'S made by Gail

MIRANDA'S made by Gail

SHARRON'S made by Jean

JEAN'S made by Hannah

KATH'S made by Gail

JOANNE'S made by Jean
to follow

6x6 pages

2008-07-31T09:42:00.003+01:00

A couple of 6x6 pages i have done for our glue and stick class we hold on the last Monday of the month. Again like the cj's i had been doing you use a chosen stamp to creat a 6x6 .

Ive used a Glimmer Chip butterfly on one , told you i was liking these and a lovely grungeboard swirl painted with crackle oaint on the other one. Lots of fun spraying and painting

Banner Swap

2008-07-29T16:51:00.004+01:00

Ive used some of the lovely Embossed Glimmer Chips as the wings on the hearts , colouring them first with Glimmer Mist and then rubbing them over the top with Staz-on. I think they are very effective and must order some of the new ones for the shop.

Here are the 5 banners i have made for a banner swap on ukScrappers. They are all very similar and i must admit i thought they were going to be a bit bigger , but after getting the measurments from Monika's blog for them i realised they were smaller than i had in my mind.Not to worry had fun doing them.

Cards for Andrea

2008-07-27T07:49:00.005+01:00

A blog section of 4 cards i made dedicated to Andrea the queen of card making .Not quite as cute as yours but im trying LOL .
I had to use the new Core'dinations Black Magic Hocus Pocus card stock that i had just bought. It's the card that has a coloured core , so if you sand it you get the colour coming through .

21 Houses

2008-07-17T17:45:00.005+01:00

Here are the 21 houses i made for Sarah's house swap , i was realy running late with this one so ended up making them on my weekend retreat at Gibside in Newcastle the other weekend. I ve now got the other ones back and they are realy nice , a great swap .

CJ's again

2008-07-07T21:33:00.004+01:00

Both CJ's are coming to an end , infact i think i have now finished .I just need to take a picture of Efemera's that i have just done and that's it , but (ther's always a but ) im now doing a fabric one.And i also have an idea for another one which i think i might start putting together in September.Get the summer ( what summer i hear you ask) out of the way first .

Last 4

2008-06-28T20:54:00.005+01:00

Yep the last 4 skinny pages are done.Once I got into them Ii just loved messing around making them. Just hope I haven't made everyone wait for them to be swapped out. Now all i have to do is wait for the swap to be sorted and posted out.
So off to get supplies tomorrrow so i can finish off my fabric CJ as it needs to be posted Monday , at least i know what im doing with it. I also need some odd n ends for the 21 houses i need to make and post by Friday .
Must also do some ATC's and my 6x6 page for glue and stick on Monday. Will i have time to sleep ????????????????

Deadlines

2008-06-25T22:48:00.007+01:00

Why o why do i always end up having to stay up half the night to finish swaps off.
I have a few on at the moment but they all seem pretty big ones , 5 material skinny pages and 5 paper skinny pages is the one that needs finishing first. As it stands at the moment I have 4 finished fabric ones and 2 finished papers ones , with 3 paper ones drying for one reason or another. So here are the finished ones ive done in the lst couple of days and tonight. Just waiting for it all to dry now .Think i will do the fabric one i have eft tomorrow night and that will be them finished

Rusty Pickles

2008-06-20T16:01:00.004+01:00

Wednesday night saw me at a three hour class in Castle Eden run by Mr Pickles himself Lance Anderson . Great night nad a great class .Just love the red/black and cream papers we used , just my colours LOL
So here's are some pictures of what i made.

Bag

2008-06-03T20:18:00.003+01:00

Hannah bought some bags for use to decorate . I've actually had mine made/decorated for a couple of weeks , just never got round to taking any photo's . So here is a picture of the back and front .I used Cosmo Cricket Fleuriste , i realy like this paper and thought the best way to show it off would be to use it on this bag. Stamped ladies are Catslife Press stamps another favourite. All in all i think it turned out rather well.

CJ entries

2008-05-16T12:27:00.005+01:00

Here are a couple of pictures of 2 CJ's i have done this week. The stamp ones off ukstampers and ukscrappers , i get so confused as to who's is who's , but i think we are nearing the end of them now.
Must think up another one to do.

The 1st ones was to use a pear stamp and the green one was to use the tree stamp .
The tree i stamped onto acertate and then put this over the top of a church yard scene. The pear i did into a nice pair of ...........you can guess the rest im sure.

Skinny pages

2008-05-12T21:17:00.004+01:00

Well I made my first fabric one last night , wasn't as bad as I thought it might be. Gail said just treat it like paper , she knows what's she talking about but it's not paper and it doesn't have the same properties as paper but I think I got there in the end.
I made the cream one with the dangling houses last night at Gail's and was so inspired made another 2 for the swap today at home. I'm keeping the first one I made for myself.

Wearable art swap

2008-05-11T16:47:00.002+01:00

I took part in the Wearable Art Swap on Ukscrappers and forgot to take photo's of the 2 I made. But her are the ones I got in return. Thanks ladies good swap I enjoyed it.
Well lifes busy ive signed up to do 6 mixed media and 6 fabric skinniny pages. Havn't started yet but it means there will be lots of photo's for the blog.
Also signed up for a Fabric CJ this will be interesting and Gail is going to have to help me on my way with this I think. All ive ever done with fabric is my apron and the doll. Time to learn more stuff I think.
Im just doing cj entries this afternoon 3 down 1 to go , so I will post those pictures tomorrow.

Tagged

2008-04-23T11:33:00.008+01:00

I've been TAGGED!!!

Thanks Katie , I will get you back LOL!!!

1. If a movie was being made of your life who would you like to be cast to play yourself? And why?
I think (OMG this is hard)Cher , she would have to wear a blonde wig though LOL , why because she's got a great body (just like me , is that more peels of laughter i hear) she's a go getter and determined sort of person just like me again

2. You are spending a whole month on a desert island for charity and you have to choose your favourite celebrity to spend the first two weeks with & your least favourite celebrity to spend the second two weeks with, who would they be & why?

Fave would be Steve Tyler (Aerosmith), well you need someone to snuggle up to on a night.
Least fave would have to be Heather Mills she is so scheming and opinionated i dislike women like this

3. What are your three favourite crafting products?

Rubber stamps , couldn't do anything without them.
Stickles , well the black ,so handy for adding a tasteful glitter to an altered project
Basic Grey , i just love and use soooooo much

4. If you could invent something to do anything what do you think it would be?

I dont know about do anything but i wouldn't mind an invention that could give me a couple more hours each day

5. What are the last three books that you read?

A hat full of magic - Terry Pratchett
A crowded marriage - Catherine Alliott
Harry potter and the deathly hollow - J.K.Rowling

6. Qvc or create & Craft?

QVC if I must

7. Docrafts or Dovecraft or DCWV?

DCWV if I must again , not realy my style at all

8. What is your claim to fame?

Jeremy Irons nearly ran me and my best friend over in Stratford in the 1980's .He was driving his beetle we were on holiday.

I shall Tag........will get back to this bit
DARCY

More CJ entries

2008-04-20T07:43:00.003+01:00

Another CJ entry that i have done for the stamp CJ. Can not remember who's it is , sorry. I'm getting a little confused as im in 2 stamp cj's with a lot of the same people.
Sunday today and already been up for 2 hours, Olivia woke at 5am , now her and Pete are in the garden putting my new vegetable boxes in and then this afternoon ican start planting. In the mean time i have a little High School Musical album to put together.

Easter Holidays

2008-04-15T09:57:00.006+01:00

Last day of my Easter Holiday break today. We have had a week away in the caravan in the Wirral County Park.Lovely area but o so cold , caravan was fine as it has central heating , but the weather outside was very cold. Spent a day at Liverpool and did the Beatles story , Olivia realy enjoyed this.A day shopping in Chester and a visit to Tatton Park also.

Finally got round to making the holiday book from last October when Mum and Dad came with use to LEEK . So here are some pictures of the book I made for them to keep.I think for use I will make some scrapbook pages.

Quick Post

2008-04-04T09:34:00.002+01:00

Just a quick post as im about to go away in the caravan for a few days. Just got back from a training course for BT , could have done without it but there you go, have to show willing.
Before i went i had time to make this lovely little dog , not my usual colours , even Pete mentioned that , but i do think it's rather cute.

Another CJ picture

2008-03-24T21:06:00.002Z

This is another one of the Stamp CJ I am in on UkScrappers , the stamp to use this time was the wings.Not realy sure if I like it or not. I've used some of the Tim Holtz Crackle Paint on it as I love this stuff , so easy to use.
Had a realy nice Easter break. Met up with some of the Scrappad gilrs on friday for pizza. It was the first time of meeting Liz so that was realy good , hope she had a good stay up here and that it wont be another 10 years until she visits again. Took some photo's so will have to get them on here at some point this week.

A few

2008-03-19T15:05:00.002Z

A few cards I have been making.Not my normal colours for cards but thought I would use up some Basic Grey Scarlet Letter 6x6 I had left.I seem to have no inspiration for cards at the moment , yet I realy need to be making some as I am very low. A friend has asked me to do a baby boy card for her and I dont know where to start. Lets hope I find some inspiration over the Easter Holidays.
Off scrapping tonight , not feeling 100% as I woke up at 5am with another one of the terrible migrains again and now I feel sick and a little fed up from it. No worries I will be back to full working order tomorrow.

She's Finished

2008-03-17T15:47:00.002Z

Well there she is all finished. Im realy pleased with her , since it's only the second thing ive ever sewn i dont think ive doen to badly (even if i say so myself)
She now has pride of place in the bay window down stairs. Im now on the look out for some other project to sew, but ive lots to keep me going whilst i find it.

Calendar

2008-03-15T15:26:00.004Z

Yesterday I spent the day round Gail's designing a calendar for the ladies on a Monday's glue and stick day. It seemed a bit to easy , just hope they think so when we come to do it. I used last months Jenni Bowlin kit , I love these kits always so good to use on a project as everything always matches and goes together so well. It's not my normal grungy style but im very pleased with it.I think I will make soem more of these for xmas presents. This one has not dates in the months as im not sure if im going to use it this year or next.

Stamp CJ's

2008-03-14T16:28:00.004Z

Im now up to date with the 2 Cj's im doing.Next one is due to be posted on the 20th , so a couple of days off and then i will do that one. At least i know what i want to do with it and i think that's half the battle sometimes.
The following pictures are from the CJ im doing on UkScrappers , hope you like the finished pages.

Swaps

2008-03-10T17:24:00.004Z

Been busy doing things for swaps and remembered to take some photo's this time.
So first is the little tin I made for an altered tin swap im in on UkStampers. It looks rather cute and i would have liked to keep it , but off it's gone to a new home.

The other was an altered coaster swap and it was to be made into a caddy sort of effect.I covered 5 coasters and then cut the middles out of 2 and put in some asetate images.Looks better in real life , but then dont most things LOL.

Busy

2008-03-03T18:41:00.003Z

Just for a change LOL im busy doing lots of CJ's and other odd n ends and thought i would remember to take photo's and upload on to here.
The book and purse have been made as a thank you to a friend , her name is Babs if you hadn't guessed. I made it buy first cutting the letters out on the cricut and then cuting round them on the chipboard .Used the Bind It All to fasten all together and covered with Daisy D papers.

The Purse kit is a 7 gypsies kit and i used the same papers. Hope she likes it , im pleased with how it's turned out.

How's she doing

2008-02-28T23:24:00.003Z

Im sure you are all wanting an update on how my doll is coming along , so here is the lastest picture . Im realy pleased with how she is looking and can not wait to have her finished . I think prabably two more sessions and she will be sitting pretty on my lounge bay window.
Then all i need to do is come up with another project , which with so many ideas in my head all the time , wont take long.
Just putting the finishing touches to the next Alter That kit and also trying to get upto date with the cj's im in at the moment, I promise to take photo's of them and get them on here for all to see.

Altered Bunny Swap

2008-02-18T23:43:00.004Z

So this is what the cute version and pattern i bought look like.

And this is my version for an Altered Bunny Swap im hosting on UkScrappers , im sure it not quite what the designers of the original ever had in mind .

The doll is coming on fine and i shall upload pictures of her tomorrow for you all to see.
Off to Belfast on Thursday , which is Olivia's 8th Birthday , her and Pete are coming with me , so that's nice and we get a few days together there to do lots of sight seeing.
This week end was rather busy , with family and friends round Saturday afternoon/night celebrating Olivia's birthday. Then Sunday found use at Northallerton swimming baths with 20 other kids for her other Birthday party with her little friends. I think everyone had a great time , i know i did , i just love the wave machine they have there , didn't get to go down th ebig slide , toooooo busy with kids going up and down it .Olivia realy enjoyed herself.

She's got legs

2008-01-20T22:50:00.000Z

Well she has now , ive finished sewing them on tonight ready for making her arms tomorrow. Gail keeps trying to upset me by telling me the hands are going to be so hard and fiddlie and that's what were doing tomorrow, great i cant wait !!!!!!
Here is the picture of how she is at the minute.

Other news..... well last assignment was emailed last week and today Babs emailed me to say ive finsihed ,so im now fully qualified to teach adults ........yippee thought it was all over but there's talk about us doing a Cert Ed... like i say thought it was all over but thinking about it i will prabably do it , need a couple of months off to just teach rather than teach and write about it.
Another bit of news is that ive started tap dancing , yes your read that right tap dancing.Sharon , Gail and I went and we loved it , well Sharon and I did , Gails still trying to get her breath back so she can deside if she did or not. Anyway i will be there this week.