The Southern Girls Challenge this month is ‘Circle Shaped Embellies’. I had some vintage style flair in my stash, and I wanted to make a little recipe book for my sister. These flair matched beautifully with some Pink Paisley paper also in my stash. For the cover, I got out a jar shaped die and…
Category: Distress Inks
A Village
Wow, it is so long since I wrote a blog post! Not that I haven’t been creating, just not blogging about it… I thought I’d share with you my latest love, creating mini houses with the Tim Holtz Village dies. These dies come with the base buildings – the Dwelling and the Brownstone; then you can…
December Daily 2015
It is that time of year again – getting my December Daily ready! This year I’ve chosen to use Simple Stories Claus & Co range, a lovely clean colour range. I did an Album-in-a-Day class with Vicki Boutin, and I used some of the techniques I learned with her. And I matched with with Barn…
May 2015 Tag
Wow, I can’t believe my last post was the April Tag from my 12 Tags of 2015, and here I am with the May one! It has been a busy month, and if you follow my Facebook Page you can see some of the things I’ve been doing. I love all the layers on the…
April 2015 Tag
Welcome back! It’s that time of the month again, 12 Tags of 2015 time, based on Tim Holtz’s April Tag. As usual I made a few changes: I used my flower stamps but didn’t have a stem so used a permanent marker and drew them in! I coloured using Tim’s technique, and I thought this…
Catching Up on Photos
I’ve been a busy trying to catch up on my photo albums recently. As I said before, I decided to do Pocket Scrapping for my photos from the beginning of 2011, and I’m well on my way to being up to date with them. I thought I’d share some of the quick pages I’ve been…
Last four Christmas Tags for 2014
Here are the last four tags from my 12 Tags of Christmas inspired by Tim Holtz 2011 12 Tags of Christmas, I finished the off on Christmas Eve – it was great to spend a hot afternoon, in my cool studio! Tag number 9 uses a faux enamel technique with Distress Ink and heat embossing,…
Christmas Tags
The past few days, after finishing my Imagine If… Design Team projects and gifts for people, I have been happily working on my 12 Tags of Christmas, inspired by Tim Holtz 2011 Tags, and of course I finished my 12 Tags of 2014 December Tag. I love this December 2014 Tag, it is soft and twinkly…
Christmas Recipe Book
Welcome to our last Imagine If…Blog Hop for the year! If you have come from Carol’s Blog you are in the right place, and if you want to start at the beginning you can go to the Imagine If… Blog. We are doing books and boxes this week, so I took this opportunity to document…
12 Tags of Christmas – Tags 1 and 2
As promised, here are the first two tags from Tim Holtz 12 Tags of Christmas 2011 that I’m doing over December this year. I love Tag number 1, all the gorgeous greenery and the pinecones with the glitter above! I reduced the wintery look a bit with a swirl embossing folder rather than snowflakes, and…