Happy Sunday
Hello everyone hope you’re all ok
I will just thought I would quickly show my MYOS creations
I have screen printed my own work t shirts and work bag (I go though Bach’s like nobody’s business so I decided to make my own) have a great day

Hey everyone-I can’t believe how time has flown by - my life has changed so much since my I last  posted.  I am now a Nanna to a beautiful little girl who is 18 months old - I cannot wait till we are able to craft together-My husband has been very poorly so crafting time has been very limited.  Anyway I have been doing little bits and pieces of crafting and have decided that I am going to start posting again as it’s a fantastic distraction to Life.  So my first post is about Screen Printing with the screen sensation.  My friend got the little one just before Christmas and I tried it with her and it didn’t go well.  Then my husband presented me with the compact screen sensation for Christmas.  I was thinking Oh no what am I going to do with this!!!! After lots of practicing I was hooked and then my friend Wendy Gay brought me the 12x12 for my birthday.  I have had so much fun with it and have treated myself to the MYOS to.  Here are a few pictures of some bits I have created.

Thank you for stopping by.  Tomorrow I will show some of my creations with my MYOS 

Happy Saturday 

Tracy 

Another 21st Birthday

Here is another 21st birthday card I have done for one of my daughters friends, I used a papermania embossing folder, some ribbon, a diamonte brad for the centre of my bow and a simple stamped sentiment. Quick, simple but effective I thought .
Have a good week

Long Time No Speak

Hello everyone I hope that you are all well, long time no speak.  Sorry I have been away so long, life has been very busy infact it seems to have sped along so fast that July is nearly over (how did it happen) and I am starting to panic about Christmas cards.

Here are two cards that I have just made.  My daughters friend turned 21 at the weekend and she celebrated her birthday with her mum and dad as it was their 25th wedding anniversary.  Both cards were inspired by Wendy Gay, (have a look at her blog Beebys Boutique) she has some amazing work. The flower on the first card is made using a spellbinders die.  I just layered up the paper and used a brad as the centre piece.  Hannahs. 21st card is made using a set of free indigo blue stamps that came with a magazine - the patterned paper is also a freebie.  I used a memory box die under the stamped sentiment and punched the edges of the blue paper with my martha stewart punch.  I made the flowers with the smallest of of the same spellbinders die used on the first card. I added glitter and bling for that extra sparkle.  You cant see it that well but I also added some stitching to the card.

I was pleased how they turned out.  I haven't done very much crafting recently and really enjoyed making these cards.  I hope you like them to.  I will try not to leave my next post so long.  Thank you for stopping by.

Love and hugs

Tracy
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Belated Resolutions

Hi everyone hope that you have enjoyed your Wednesday.  I have been tempted by so many goodies on create and craft tv just recently, not that I need anything else!!!!! My little craft area is bursting at the seams - I have so much stuff now that I can never find anything which is soooooo frustrating and I think that is the reason why I am shying away from my craft table. SO with that in mind I have decided not to buy any more craft bits (only essentials like tape and glue), and have a massive sort out in my craft area.  So from now on I am using up what I have.  Wish me luck as I may get withdrawal symptoms.  Here are some cards I have made using stash I already have.

 The first 2 are Indigo Blu Alice in Wonderland stamps.  On the 1st card I used a mask to add a little interest to the background both cards are stamped withTim Holtz black soot ink and I added a little glitter.

 Both these cards are Lilli of the Valley toppers.  I have added faux stitching an buttons to the first card and some homemade flowers, faux stitching, a doiley and some cosmic shimmer pva glue home made pearls.  The backing papers were from a huge stack of papers that I have had for about 3 years and not touched (I rest my case).
                                               

Hope you like my cards. Enjoy the rest of your week.  Wish me luck going "cold turkey"

Carry on Crafting

Tracy 

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Happy Birthday Mum

Tuesday was my mums birthday (Happy Birthday).  I have attached a few photos of the card and pressies that I made for her.  I hope you like them.

 I used Indigo Blu "Sew Easy" stamps for this one, I embossed the button pack, the cotton reels and pins.  It was Versa fine sepia ink.

 The MDF heart was Indigo Blu - I covered it with white so gesso then stamped and embossed the sentiment again with versafine sepia the dandelion seeds are off the indigo blu Wild Meadow range, I glittered them to add a little sparkle and added the flowers and pearl flourish.  I was pleased with the finished product and so was mum. ( I hope you was mum!)

Last but not least my first attempt at a sweetie tree. I got all the components from Hobby Craft.   I hooe you are all well and enjoying your weekend.  Take care and thank you for stopping by.

Tracy xxxx

A very belated Happy New Year to you all.

Hi everyone I hope that you are all well in the land of blog.  After a very busy and rocky start to the New Year I have finally found some time to do a little card making and write a post for the blog.  I am so sorry its so late......... But finally I can show you :-

The first and is from Dreamees templates CD.  I have just really added some gems, glitter and a die cut that I coloured with my spectrum noir TN7 pen.

Card 2 is all indigo blu stamps on cream card with Vintage photo distressed ink.  

Card 3 are papers printed from the Dreamees CD again, I punched the flowers and the scallop edge border, made the bunting and distressed all the borders.  The stamps images are lilli of the valley. I hope that you like them.  I must say I really enjoyed doing them.  It really is good therapy when I can sit quietly and craft.

Have a lovely rest of the weekend everyone. Take care and thank you for stopping by.

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Merry Christmas to you all

Hi everyone, I hope that this blog finds you all in good health and not to stressed with organising for the big day ahead.  I am so sorry for the lack of posts recently - time has just run away with me.  I just wanted to wish you all a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.  Thank you for taking the time to read my posts.  I look forward to catching up with you all soon.

Enjoy whatever you get up to

Best Wishes

Tracy
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As promised - New goodies

Hi everyone, what awful weather we have had today eh !  Yesterday ran away with me yet again and I didn't get much crafting time again!!!!!!!! As promised yesterday please see my new goodies that I purchased at the NEC.

No where near what I would normally buy but I am pleased with my new stash.

This is what I was able to complete yesterday evening with my little bit of craft time

I used my new Inkylicious stamps, chipped sapphire distressed ink, the Inkylicious mountains and valleys dusting tool and highlighted with a little glitter glue.  Hope you like it.  Enjoy your evening

Tracy

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Another Christmas Card

Hi everyone, hope that life is treating you all well.  Sorry for the lack of posts recently, life has been a little hectic.  I completed this card last week, I was quite pleased with the results as I completed it in a limited amount of time.  I felt so craft starved I had to do some crafting or I felt I would combust.  I used the Inkylicious film strip - Clarity mini Christmas stamp set and an Indigo Blu Christmas sentiment.  I stamped everything in Black Momento Ink and added some Stardust glitter glue just to high light areas.

Next I would like to say a big thank you to my good friend Wendy, we had a fantastic trip to the NEC yesterday.  It was an early start and a very busy day but well worth it.  We walked our little legs off and fought our way through the crowds.  One thing I did think was a little off was the fact we had to pay £10 to park!!!!   I brought a few goodies which I will try and post a picture online a little later today.

A big thank you to Sally Holmes @ Crafty Salutations for my fantastic Blog Candy win on Saturday, I was so pleased on Monday when my package popped through the door.  Have a look at her blog (theres a link at the side).  I really want to try and do a little crafting later and try out my new goodies. Enjoy your Remembrance day everyone and thank you so much for dropping by.

Love and hugs
Tracy

Weekend Away

Hi everyone hope you are all well.  The nights are drawing in, and its getting cold outside, but we were lucky enough to have a weekend away in Norfolk last week.  We stayed in a lovely lodge on a lake so my husband and son could do some fishing and I got to do some crafting.  I started my Christmas cards.  My stash supplies were limited as car space was a problem with all their fishing gear.  This is what i managed to complete.

Hope you like my creations.  Have a good weekend, thank you for stopping by.

Tracy 

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Last Minute Entry

Hi all, I hope that you have enjoyed your weekend! Gosh hasn't it been a wet one today.  I am sharing my entry to the Indigo Blu challenge today, and I have had a mare trying to complete it.  I had something very definite in mind and it just hasn't worked out - I have walked away from this so many times.  I hope you like it! The challenge is Things with Wings - All the stamps used are off the Grand Tour II set.  I have combined Distressed inks, chalks, Flitterglu and sequins waste to adapt my background.  Thats all for now.  Thanks for popping in Tracy xxxxx

Birthday Decorations

Hello everyone hope that this post finds you well.  I have had a busy time making birthday decorations for my daughters 21st Birthday.  I made boxes and a banner which has taken some time to complete so I thought I would share them with you.

 

I had loads to make, it was hard going but worthwhile when she said how pleased she was with them and all her friends were blown away with them.

Last but not least is a picture of the card I made her.

All that remains is for me to say sorry for not posting anything for a while, have a pleasant evening 

 and thank you for taking the time to drop by x. Take care x Tracy x

Such Great Service

Good evening hope you are all well.  I know I have told you all this before but I will say it again, I am so lucky to live next door to Bellaboo.  I placed an order online late yesterday afternoon and Kate delivered it to me yesterday night!  Such great service.  Thank you so much Kate I really appreciate it.  I was very naughty and ordered myself some more Indigo Blu stamps.  I had a little play with some of the stamps today and thought I would share them with you.

This one was created with my New Grand Tour II and I stamps and Tim Holtz faded jeans distressed inks

This one is made using Sewing Mends the Soul stamps and Tim Holtz vintage photo and tattered rose distressed inks.  This isn't a new set but I just love the stamp set.

This card is an 8x8 it uses my new Enjoy Life stamps and Tim Holtz spiced marmalade, mustard seed and black soot distressed inks and some sequin waste.  I got this set as its full of different phrases.

Hope you like them.  Thank you for stopping by.  Enjoy the rest of your evening.  Tracy xxxx

Crop Creations

Hope your weekend is going well everyone.  Today I thought I would share a few cards that I created at the Bellaboo crop on Tuesday.  They all use Tim Holtz distressed inks and my Inkdusters, Inkylicious stamps and Black card. All the cards are 6x6 sizes.

I had to add a bow on this card as I had a little ink on my fingers and marked the card.  Argggggghhhhh annoying.  

I did one like this a few weeks ago that was an 8x8 size and I used a different sentiment.  I got the idea for this one from a demo that Sally from Crafty Salutations.  I just love the fact that everytime I do this I get a very different effect.  I love Inkdusters thank you Inkylicious.  

Enjoy the rest of your weekend

Thank you for stopping by.

Tracy

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I'm back!!

Hi everyone, I hope that this post finds you all in good health and enjoying the last of the summer sunshine.  I have not long got back from my holidays so haven't really had much time for much crafting.  This is a project that I wanted to do for an Uncle and Aunt who are celebrating their Ruby wedding anniversary this weekend.

I cut my letters out with my Cricut and stamped the red card with a majestix peg star stamp,I then added some glitter glue to bling it up a little (unfortunately you cant really see it all that well on the pictures).  The Happy Anniversary is also covered with glitter glue to.  I hand made the chocolates inside the little bags and stamped the heart on the wrapper then embossed it with white embossing powder.  The stamp is this months freebie from the Craft stamper magazine.  Hope you like my creations.  Have a wonderful weekend all, be back soon.

Thank you for stopping by

Tracy 

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Inkdusters are back in action

Hi everyone hope you are all well on this cold wet day, I am trying to get ready for my holiday but its hard to be getting out shorts and sun tops when I am dressed for arctic conditions.  I was really inspired to get my ink dusters and inkylicious stamps out this week after I watched a demo on Crafty Salutations blog which is run by a lady called Sally Holmes.  I just want to say a big thank you to Sally as her demo was so clear and inspiring it spurred me on to have a go myself.  My card is no where as good as Sallys but I was really pleased with my first try with wet inkdusters.  I didnt use the same stamps that Sally did as I dont have them so I used my faithful Gone Fishing Stamps and I used Tim Holtz distressed Inks.  Here is my 1st try with Wet dusters, hope you like it.

My next card is done with dry Ink dusters and the Inkylicious Ikebana stamp set, and again I used Tim Holtz inks.

So a big thank you again Sally. Have a great evening everyone. Thank you for stopping by.  Lets hope the sunshine shows its face again soon.  Bye for now. Tracy xxx

Monster Madness

Hi everyone, hope that you are all well.  I borrowed this wonderful stamp from my friend Kate, I just love it.  I coloured the little chap with my Spectrum Noir pens and tried the blowing technique for the background on the blue and green one (place an old empty biro pen next to the chisel end of the spectrum noir pen and blow through the top of the pen). For the brown and orange one I used distressed stains and literally just splatted the different colours onto the card.
I masked the monster off on both cards so that he looks like he is in front

of the backgrounds.  I edged both cards with fine line markers.  Hope you like them. Thank you for taking time to visit.  Take Care.

Tracy
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Indigo Blu Challenge

Hi everyone, hope you are all well.  I thought I would enter this peg into the Indigo Blu challenge this month which is call Shabby Chic.  I painted it with some distressed paint then stamped it with one of the stamps from the Grand Tour 1 set with Versa Fine sepia Ink.  I added feathers, Flowers that I made using the cricut flower shoppe cartridge.  The butterfles were stamped onto acetate.  I added some glitter glue just to make my stamped images pop a little more.  Wish me luck.  Have a wonderful day.

Lots of love n stuff

Tracy

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Bad Blogger

Hi everyone, hope this post finds you all well and enjoying the sunshine.  So sorry for being such a bad blogger, normal problem work! work! work!!!!!!!!  Anyway I have done a little crafting so I have a few cards to show you.  Here they are.

 This was made with a stamp that I got free with the Creativity magazine, I coloured the teddy in with Spectrum Noirs.

This lilli of the valley was coloured in with spectrum noirs added a little sparkles glitter and die cut using my x cut die  I used a pm paper, and edged both items with the spectrum noir pen then added faux stitching with Tim Holtz distressed marker.

I used majestix tapestry stamps for this one and coloured the house with promarkers.  I added glitter and white cosmic shimmer glue to the flowers.  I edged the card with a fine liner and you cant really see it very well but a little doodling around the horse shoe shape.

Thank you for stopping by.

Take Care

Tracy
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