A Challenge Duo.

Mornin Peeps

Today I wanna share with you a journal page that I created 

{there should hopefully be a utube vid to match soon, if I can get my converter to work}

I had 2 theme's in mind when I started this page.
Crafty Boots has a Home theme this week.
And Art Journal Cafe would like you to use 'Anything that can be used as a stamp'.

 I decided to use some empty pill packs and a die cut heart for my stamping.

I had no clue when I started how the page would develop, which is the case for many of my pages but I got there in the end. I hope you like it,
Sorry it's a short but sweet post, i'm feeling a little under the weather today.
Do leave a comment so I know you dropped by x
Stay Inky

♥ HUGZ ♥

Feelin... Hot Hot Hot!

So here we are over half way through the year.. can you believe it!!
 It will soon be chri***** LOL
{Hush my mouth I hear you cry!}
But far from that, this months new Artistic Stamper Challenge congers up visions of long summers days with their
'HOT HOT HOT theme'
{basically use hot colours}
I have to confess that I find it really difficult to work with this colour pallet, I'm not sure why, but I worked through it and I decided to alter an 8x8 canvas

Using a selection of Artistic Stamper stamps and Tim Holtz Dies I created a little slice of summer.

Make sure you hop on over to see all the smoking 'hot' creations from the rest of the team.
Stay Inky
♥ HUGZ ♥

Ho Ho Ho...

Hold on a minute i here you cry, it's far to early for christmas.
And I totally agree but I am being a good little minx and keeping to my new years resolution you see!
I made a pact with my good buddy Ann that we are both to make 5 christmas cards a month.
And so far we are both doing really well.. even though Ann's last set were a tad late.. TUT TUT Ann!!
Wonder if she's kept up this month???
Here are my 5 for the month of march..
The first 2 were inspired by some of Tim's 2007 christmas tags..

Can you tell which tags there from! 

 the rest i just threw together!

Bo Bunny santa and some die cutting using my Slice.

 

Tim holtz santa collage & fern stamps and some star sequin waste

More sequin waste this time with an Inkadinkado santa, and BG paper.

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I'll be back tomorrow for the Artistic Stampers new Challenge theme.

Until then

StAy InKy

♥ HuGz ♥

March on Springtime!

Hello my lovelies,
The month of march is upon up and with it brings the start of a new challenge and later in the month my birthday!
So as a little thank you to my followers i'm having a little

The only rules i have for this is..
You must be a follower and post at least 2 comments on my work this month.
That way the people who really do follow me may be rewarded.
So no advertising on your blogs is needed this is just a thank you to MY followers x
{not sure what the prize will be yet but i'm sure whoever wins will be happy}
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Right now for the new challenge
Over on The Artistic Stamper team blog the theme this month is
'SPRING' 
And what signifies spring better then new life... captured in this altered frame.

I started off by covering an old wooden frame with brown paper.
I then got the a piece of the plastic packaging from one of tims idea-ology packs, i think i used the time pieces one.
I got a piece of green paper and stamped the distressed background all over it in pine needles distress ink.
I then placed it over the plastic and carefully cut out holes where the plastic circle dips of the packaging were.
I attached the paper to the plastic
Then it was time to fill the holes

 I stamped the large bird directly onto the plastic from the back using stazon, i then stamped 2 of the little birds onto white card, cut them out and placed them in the circle with some old string to look like nest material.

 More little stamped birds for this window but with some punched out branches, i used the MS branch punch.

 Same as above only this time i stamped the little bird onto sticky back canvas

 More punched branches, and the little bird house gathering made from shrink plastic

Another big bird in sticky back canvas coloured with distress inks, and more string bedding, which i placed by his feet so it looks like he's been out collecting for the nest!

Finally i stamped the saying onto a scrap of paper {i like the shape of it!} and added a teeny tiny real feather i found and had been saving for a special project.

All the bird stamps used were from either the Birds of a Feather or Free as a Bird sets.

The last thing i did was to mount the finished plastic onto another piece of paper, this time kraft coloured {which i had also stamped with the distressed background to see a contrasting colour through each window} and placed into the frame.

I hope you've enjoyed my project today, sorry it's been a bit of a long post. Hope you didn't nod off lol
I look forward to seeing all your 'spring' creations!
♥ HUGZ ♥