SOARTFUL CHALLEGE - Beautiful Men from the movies

my Beautiful man from the movies has got to be George formby lol, anyone remember him? I used to watch him as a child on saturday mornings in black and white with his ukelayli in his hand mmmmmmm... say no more.

well heres my altered digi for this weeks challenge over at soartful

Adirondak Spray inks & Distress inks

Another beautiful day, time is flying past so quickly enjoy the sun while we can.
I'd like to thank everyone leaving such lovely comments I do love to read them and lots of them make me laugh which is fantastic...
Here is my card for today... I love this image its from acey ducey, the backing papers are made using distress inks and mist sprays and over stamped with several different stamps

Ive added funky fibres and layered onto black so it stands out. I always like to finish off with a white card blank.
But thats just me.... Have a crafty day ju x

SOARTFUL CHALLENGE - A jug of wine, a loaf of bread and thou

This week the challenge at soartful is the saying a jug of wine a loaf of bread and thou.... Heres the image for inspiration

Heres my piece....

I do like to have a bit of fun with my digi art, the background is actually a photie of Dartmoor

Hope you like it.....

My NEW crafty address book with Distress inks

Last evening I had a real good play lol...... I dont usually make things for myself, but I wanted to put all my crafty friends addresses together so I wouldnt loose them or have to go searching through emails to find them.
So I made a little crafty address book with my zutter machine for binding the ends Its all stamped and inked with distress inks......

back and front

and all the pages inside.... the damask stamp is from Judikins

I am looking forward now to filling in the pages with addresses

Its nice to make stuff for others but occassionally you have to do something just for you.....

Dont you think

Have a crafty day ju x

Seashell tags & Barbequed EGG!!

Morning Folkies,

Its another beautiful morning here, but I fear I have done too much this week messing in the garden and today I am paying for it,

so a day for just relaxing for me, how lucky that on qvc this aft. there is craft for 2 hours.

Altho its all about Christmas and I aint buying anymore christmas this year(for sure)

I have no ironing to do while its on, so I will just have to sit and cut out decoupage lol.....

Heres a little quickie using the shell stamp free with craft stamper this month, stamped with blue distress or with a mix of pink & peach

Beautiful shells from the beach in my stash box

I cut the top and bottom using a pair of fancy cut scissors which I bought yrs ago and thought I would never ever use, it just goes to show you if you save something long enough you will eventually use it lol

They have turned out rather cute me thinks.....

Heres a little snippet of someone waiting to be barbequed - my Eggypegs.
Didnt want to disturb him by removing my weed bag lol, but it does spoil the photie somewhat lol....
Have a crafty day everyone.... ju x

FREEBIE - from me to you

The backing paper freebie at the bottom of this post has been made by myself in photoshop using this image of the flower, I dont know what they are called but I think they are beautiful and I took the photie at a friends garden last week

if anyone knows what these flowers are I would appreciate you letting me know the name thank you.

Heres the beautiful background paper I have made, and you are welcome to take this for yourself to use in your creations, however you wish, you can change the colour in your graphics programme to what ever you like.

a little FREEBIE from me to you.... Enjoy and create

FREEBIE BACKING PAPER

I would love to see any items you make using the image so if you leave a link I can come and take a look, its always nice to see what other crafter have come up with

Here is a quickie card I made myself using the image as a background and as a topper

Have crafty fun with it. Enjoy ju x

SEAVIEW COLLAGE

What a fabulous morning it is here today, the sun is shining, tho a bit breezy in the garden.
well I did get the sewing machine going but for how long I'm not sure, it seems its a common fault, lots of us have.
Loving the thought by Karen that piskies come in the night and sort it out, cant they see how untidy my house is and sort that out too...... lol
Anyhow
Loving this new media(for me) that I've added to my papers, simple stitching... dont want to get too DISTRACTED!!! just want to keep it simple, well at the moment anyhow.
For me its more about the papers and the textures so many thoughts of where you can go with this, do I jot them down or just go for it and experiment as I go on......

Here are some close up snippets.

keep meaning to make journal pages that I can look for reference but never seem to get the time
note to self:- MUST TRY HARDER! lol
But here is how its turned out........And a beautiful frame a friend gave me to finish it off, its a bit difficult to photie with the glass in as you get reflections but I did manage it lying down in the kitchen, thats the frame and not me, by the way lol....




Hope you like it x Have a crafty day everyone xxx