Some of my new goodies

So much to buy and so little space in case..... here goes.....  bevelled fragments, game pieces, lots of rolls of tissue tape just love the stuff, philosophy tags, sprocket gears and lots of tubs of the wonderful Inka gold - pink, blue, silver, gold and slate grey..... superb - great for colouring grungeboard.
A large tub of matte medium by Claudine Hellmuth again super stuff.
The feet for the box are also shown on here - yet to attach .....
All the above were bought at the wonderful Tim Holtz workshop that I attended last Thursday - wow what a day we had..
The Claudine Hellmuth stamps were waiting for me when I got home.... they were from QVC.
You can also see one of the little boxes we removed from the big configurations box (you can see that on another posting).... I can do something else with them..... eventually.
What a lot of lovely stash..... gorgeous.
So.... this is what is on my desk this week so am adding to WOYWW  woo how lucky am I?

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My Configurations Box

Partially completed but still lots more bits to add.
We celebrate our silver wedding in October so I made my box as a tribute to that special occasion..... hence the initials mine and Geoffs, the figure 25 and various relevant trinkets to signify events in the 25 years. 
He he I plan to paint my gallstones and put them in one of the large glass bottles..... well it happened during our marriage.... lol.
I just loved this idea and the fact that we all had very similar trinkets and stash but all boxes were very different. Behind the man in the top hat is a little tea light.... makes it look lovely when lit......... more to follow eventually....

People pics

Me and the lovely Tim - I was actually squeezing his waist and saying ' bet you are sick of all these women' to which he replied 'no not at all'..... he actually meant it too.














The equally lovely Mario













Mario and the floosy lol

Our own Frankie

Sweeties, stash, crafters, and yes the BABY

 Here is the BABY..... and behind the lovely Alain the Ranger Director..... what a nice man.....I took a fancy to him lol

The start of the day

The start of the goodies

Wonderful stash...... and candies too..... and yes I did eat some....

Smiling Glasgow gal Lorraine

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Our lovely Ali

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The box in packaging more without later

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Feet for configuration box

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Snacks and goodies

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Essential supplies

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Classroom door

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Goody bag

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Shabby Chic

My challenge this week is 'Shabby Chic' so here is my DT card. The main background is made from grungeboard sprayed and over sprayed with Cosmic Shimmers and glitter sprays and run through the Cuttlebug embossing folder Divine Swirls. The curved layer is cut from a Go Kreate die also run through the Cuttlebug Plum Blossom embossing folder and swept over with Worn Lipstick Distress ink. I cut the small flowered die using a spellbinders die,  from aTim Holtz pad and cut the flowers and leaves from the same paper using my new Crealies dies.  I love them. I added glitter and the Hope ticket, coloured in worn lipstick and fired brick to pick out the red in the flowered papers, again from Tim and added a couple of green gem centres to the layered flowers.
This is going to be page one of a little Inspirational book I am creating.
I hope you like it and if you fancy entering my challenge you could win a set of 10  fab cds from my lovely friend Steph at crafting.co.uk.

Pay Spring Forward

Here are two for the price of one tags for Frankie's 'Pay Spring Forward' challenge this week. (How I hate that phrase 'pay it' as it does not make any sense to pay it forward.... I think it should be pass it forward he he).
I have just bought the new Craft Artist cd so was playing with the text buttons to see what can be done and this is the first result.  I like the varigated colours you can make it.... like the rainbow effect on MCS so I printed out the tag shapes with the word Spring (I did the other seasons as well - will come in handy I am sure) I then stamped some flowers and leaves and coloured with Copics before distressing the edges and backgrounds.  I added some Glitter glues and glitter sprays and attached some ribbon  with a staple or two.
Hope you like them my friend x

It's Martini Time

Here is my DT card for my 'Use a cd' challenge this week which is sponsored by Amber Inks.  They gave the DT some lovely digis to work with - the martini glass being the one I chose for this card.  The background is from My Craft Studio... 'Womens Images' .  I coloured with Copics and decoupaged the glasses over the top.  The wine bottle and glass are stickers from a wine set from QVC.
Do check out my challenge - you could win some lovely digis yourself.

WOYWW

Here are a few bits I have been working on this week. I have been playing with Angelina fancy fibres and fancy film and created the stunning background piece by adding some gold metal flakes to the mix of fibres and films. The two masks and the heart are also from the films and fibres.  The other creations were made using mica pieces with embossing powder sandwiched between the two pieces heated then overstamped with Stazon. In real life they do look super even though I say so myself.... don't want to give these away lol. A technique I learned from Sarah Lawrence of Crafty Notions - thanks Sarah.
Do check out the wonderful Julia's WOYWW blog for more interesting photos of crafters workdesks.
Hope you like - at least it does not look too messy today lol and I blogged it direct from my android again.... yes it works well.

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Caroline's Silhouette - Fairy on a Branch

Just having a play with my new downloaded Craft Artist cd programme to see how it works. My lovely friend Caroline sent me one of her new digi kits to play with so here is my first attempt with both.  The fairy, branch, circle and circle background are from Caroline and the main page background, flowers and sentiment are from Craft Artist. I have changed the colours of the images and layered them over the pink material background from Craft Artist.  Had I had more time I would have printed more flowers and cut them out and decoupaged them.
Yes I think I will like the full programme when I receive it.
I already have these lovely images from Caroline in rubber stamps but now have the added extra of the digi kit.... way to go Caroline.
Hope you all like them  - pop over to Carolines' shop and see the other kits she has just created - clever lady.

CHALLENGE 139 - Love and Romance

My challenge this week is 'Love and Romance' in honour of Valentines Day and here is my DT card. The scalloped card is from a QVC pack, run through the script Cuttlebug Embossing folder and coloured with worn lipstick Distress ink.  I added a torn and edged piece of wonderful red and silver glittery soft material paper (bought at NEC) then attached the lovely bird digital image from ChiChi Memories (they are sponsoring my challenge this week). I coloured him with Promarkers and added a couple of glitter hearts and the ticket together with some red rick rack ribbon and red and pink gems also from QVC.
Do pop over and enter my challenge and maybe win some of these lovely digital images.

WOYWW - Embellishments

This is the first entry I have made to WOYWW - but now I have my new Tab I can post direct from the camera so here goes.
I have, as you can see, been making lots of different embellishments this weekend. Roses, now coming out of my ears as I love them so much, from a design my lovely friend Frankie passed to me, using both grungeboard and sticky back canvas, lovely moulding clay and moulds from Sarah at Crafty Notions and a frame I bought from Glenda before she closed down her shop.
I have been painting them with a mixture of paints some from Tim Holtz and Suze Weinberg and some others I found lurking in my paintbox.  There is just one heart left to paint on the right hand side of the picture and the roses at the front.
Maybe sometime soon I will get round to making a card..... he he.
I hope you like them - I am really pleased with them as not done anything like this before.

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Happy New Year - Chinese Style

Here is my DT card for my challenge this week which is Chinese New Year.
I made the card for my sister and brother in law as they are very fond of anything Asian. I used a scalloped card from QVC and ran it through the Cuttlebug Bamboo embossing folder then coloured with a couple of green Distress Inks. I made the little panda from shrink plastic -  a while since I played with it.  I stamped the rabbit, as this year is the Year of the Rabbit, and coloured with pastel chalks.  The lady is from a chipboard freebie magazine set.  The label is cut from my new and wonderful Cuttlebug Plus Fanciful Labels folder - how great to cut and emboss at the same time.  I stamped the message from a See D's Asian Designs set and coloured in the same distress inks.  I added a border to the inside of the card and some gems to embellish.
Happy New Year and do pop over and enter my challenge - you could win a  lovely Joanna Sheen voucher.