tangled flower thank you cards

I have been away for a couple of days for my Birthday 

 with Anna my Daughter. 

We had a lovely time Osprey spotting in Wales, 

and we had some gorgeous weather. 

 I took some card blanks and my Micron pens away with me. 

Below are three of the thank you cards I produced. I hope you like them I am hooked on tangling.

Anyway folks I hope you are enjoying this sunshine. 

Thanks for looking at my blog, I hope you all have a good week.

two hours lost in Doodling!!!

Hi hope you have all had a lovely Sunny!!!! Sunday

I have just spent the last two hours getting lost in my doodling.

I doodled my next page in my new doodle book.

I then decided to draw some squares on some lovely watercolour paper my colleague Becky gave me 

 I am going to use these designs to make some cards.

very relaxing doodling these.

Have a great week everybody. I promise I will show you what I bought 

at Happy Stampers the next time I Blog.  

Hello again

Hi Folks

Well its now 10th May where has this year gone to!!!

 it's the eve of Happy Stampers at Port Sunlight.

I have a couple of cards to show you that I have made this week 

with three products from one of my favorite suppliers that will be at the show.

The first card is made using Crafty Individuals Butterfly paper from the Background

 papers Springtime Book 3 Paper Collection. 

Crafty Individuals Floral Branch Die

 and the Crafty Individuals  CI-347 Butterfly Stamp.

The second card is also made using the Die and Stamp.

Looking forward to seeing lots of lovely new products.

I will report back and show you my stash tomorrow. 

Have a happy Saturday.

WOYWW

Hi, its ages since I managed to get here but as I am on holiday now until Bank holiday Monday I decided I would try and sort out my blog. unfortunately it has not let me upload photos successfully for ages. I hope it will this time. So, I am here returning to WOYWW. Hello everyone. If you have not already been to this blog then pop over to Julia's stamping ground and see what everyone is talking about, and visit some fantastic peoples work from all around the world.

Today on my desk is my journal, this year I decided I was going to journal / draw something every day - here are 4 pages from my book so far.

I am looking forward to meeting up with a few friends this weekend at the Beamsley craft retreat.

Have a great week everyone and thanks for visiting. 

Hello folks

Hello everyone,

just thought I would pop by to say - looking forward to blogging again very soon :o)

1st July

Hello folks how on earth did it get to the 1st of July - this year is going so fast I hope all my followers are all well and if you are new to my blog then please sign up and follow me as I am giving away a small blog candy prize for the 80th person who follows my blog.

I have been busy preparing for a Tim Holtz inspired workshop I will be doing in a couple of weeks at The Craft Shop at Lady green Garden Centre where I work.

The frame is one inspired by Oyster crafts adapted by myself. Using Tim Holtz colours and various stamps to decorated the frame.

Jubilee

Hello folks I'm back blogging.

 I hope you have all had a good Jubilee weekend?

 I worked on Saturday which was fun with Becky.

 Then off on Sunday which was a family day.

 Monday and Tuesday in work, which was good.

 It is not many people who can go to work and play. 

With it being the Jubilee weekend I decided to do a Red White and Blue demonstration.

So for my WOYWW I am going to show you some of the cards I produced using

 Indigo Blu stamps and some Anita's promotion stamps.

watch this space for photos 

Blogger has scrambled them

and are investigating for me

Have a great day everyone whatever you are doing

Bank Holiday Monday

Hello and thank you for visiting my Blog today  

I hope you have had a good Bank Holiday Monday. 

I was in work at The Craft Shop at
Lady Green Garden Centre.

It was quite busy with people buying Haberdashery and wool this morning. 

This afternoon I decided I was going to demonstrate the
Michael Powell Urban Stamps, 

which are a docrafts product. 

I stamped with Memento Ink and painted them with
Tim Holtz Distress Markers.

SHORE THING PRODUCT NO : MPL 907210

Distress Pen colours used Bundled Sage and Barn Door

a mixture of Distress Pen colours

Background made with Crushed Olive and Chipped Sappire Distress inkI

Image coloured with a mixture of Distress Pen Colours

THE CHAPEL PRODUCT NO : MPL 907205

Image coloured with a mixture of Distress Pen Colours 

I am very pleased with the results I used the Distress Pens 

with a water brush and found them very easy to use and blend.

I hope you like what I have done with the stamps and pens.

Thank you for calling by Love Liz 

WOYWW Box Clever

Hi I have not been to WOYWW or blogging for a few weeks, but just thought I would share a project with you that I made a few weeks ago.

If you have not been to my blog before, Welcome. If you are wondering what WOYWW is. If you have not already been to this blog then pop over to Julia’s stamping ground and see what everyone is talking about, and visit some fantastic peoples work from all around the world.

I got this box at an ATC meet and fund raiser last August.

At the time I did not know what I was going to use it for

or what I was going to do with it.

I hope you like what I did?

Using Tim Holtz tissue tape I covered the box.

I then coloured the box with a selection of Distress Inks

and then decorated it with stamped images which I think look great.

My distress inks look great in it too.

BUT

For a few weeks now I seem to have lost my MOJO.

So with this in mind, I thought instead of my Distress Inks

being hidden away in the box.

I decided to have a tidy up in my craft

space and make some storage for my ink pads

and distress stains.

Next to each ink pad is a piece of blending foam with the

name of the ink printed with my label maker.

The shelves are made from some Ikea CD racks I bought a while back.

So now I just need to find my Mojo and get back to crafting. So this is

what is on My work space this week ZILCH.

I do hope my MOJO will come back this week.

I will let you know next week.

Thank you all for popping by I hope you have a great week

HAPPY CRAFTING XXX

Red Letter day - without the Letter!!!!!

Hi folks - hope your day has been good - mine has been

great.

look who I met today for WORK!!!!

I was at the NEC this afternoon at a

Ranger On TheRoad Workshop

I have been waiting for my ticket

to come for ages - but

it did not arrive -

but this is what it would have looked like if it had arrived.

Thankfully they let us all in, as I was not the only

one without a ticket.

So what did we use?

The first workshop was with Tim Holtz :o) using the new

Distress Markers, Water Brush,

Idea-ology elements,Tissue wrap

Claudine Hellmuth Studio multi -medium matte

all of which we could bring home with us !!!!

What did we make?

This lovely hanging using the products provided

Isn't it Gorgeous

I will show you another project we did with Dyan Reaveley next time

Tidy!

Hello folks, at the start of this year I decided I needed to have a

tidy in my craft space, it is a very compact room that also houses my husbands growing collection of tools. The room is only about 7ft by 7ft so finding extra places to store things is difficult.

Last year though at a car boot sale I saw this Kompliment storage from Ikea see link to photo below I paid 25p for mine but at £3.99 I still think this is a good price. I hope you like what I have done with it.

Sorry not a very good photo!

I have used mine to store my ribbons I have looped them onto the frame in colours so I can see what I have at a glance. I have not put all the ribbons I have on here yet it took me 2 hours last night to get this far. This is probably only half of my collection. I do think that this is not only a good way of storing my ribbons but I also think it looks nice and colourful,

Also the back of the door is a great place to see some of the artwork I have done, along with some from other people. The beautiful hanging that is at the top is from my lovely friend Janet it says-

Learn to Pause....

or nothing worthwhile

will catch up to you.

How True.

Thank you for popping by my blog today I very much appreciate your comments

Happy New Year

HAPPY NEW YEAR

TO ALL MY BLOGGING FRIENDS

&

for all your visits and comments

left here on my blog over the last 12 months

I hope that 2012 brings you all that you want and most

importantly that it is Happy and Healthy one.

Much Love and (((((hugs)))))

IT'S CHRISTMAS YAY

Hello one and all Happy Cristmas to all my Blogging friends.
Sorry I have not been aroud the last few weeks but I was off line and not a happy bunny. But I am back and have some photos of some Christmas projects I have done.

Each year for the last 10 years I have bought a new snow man to add to my collection this years addition to the family is the one in front of the O of SNOW - the S N O W letters are a new addition too, and are from The Craft Shop Online.

Two of the batch cards I made this year using stamps from The Craft Shop Online item 24-111 Christmas Eliments Stamps £ 3.90 page 163. Tim Holtz Distress inks and Martha Stewart Pine Needles Edge Paper Punch 42 40005 .

Have a Happy Christmas On and all - Lets hope it's a good one without any tears. Hope Santa brings you all lots of lovely suprises.

I have been painting

Faces

1st December!!!!!!

Hello, how did it get to the 1st December!!!

Here is a door sign I made recently for my craft room door using TH distress inks, and various stamps, and bits from my craft stash.

thanks for looking

Handmade Christmas Decorations

Good morning

Christmas will be here before we know it, so time is precious and so is money! here are some decorations I made for the tree at the Craft Shop at Lady Green Garden Centre where I work, all made with paper. I have always enjoyed quilling so I had a go at using some Paper star paper from The Craft Shop online.

I think they have turned out ok.

Have a lovely Wednesday whatever you do.

Early Bird catches the worm

Morning all, up early looking forward to another day at work. Couple of things to sort out before I go - hence the early start, and still keeping to my promise to blog every day for seven days. Hope you all have a happy MmWwaA.

This is a frame I altered a couple of months ago for a lovely friend, the frame was from B&M discount stores and cost £3.99 I used some of my favorite Dylusions paints from a range designed exclusively for Art from the Heart by Dyan Reaveley to decorate it. I also used some of my favorite word stamps. I hope you like it.

Have a great Tuesday whatever you do

Monday madness

Hi all I still can not work out why blogger did not like my photo of my broaches, but that is sorted now.

Blogger has let me upload this lovely photo - YAY!!!! so hope I don't have any more problems as I have lots of things to show you this week.

This photo is of some swans at Martin Mere a couple of weeks ago. I love the gracefulness of Swans. It was a lovely Autumn afternoon spent with Anna & Robert my two lovely kids - they are both keen photographers with super cameras - I took this with my point and shoot cheep camera - and love the result. I hope you like them too.

Sunday Post (with photos sorry) all sorted

Almost did not make it to blog today. but hey ho I'm here and have some Knitting to show you. Hope you like these flower broaches they were fun to make, and a good way to use up odd bits of wool and buttons from my button box.

All sorted - don't ask me how - it just fixed itself - was thinking I was going a bit madder than I am - I tried all ways with the photo last night - so pleased the problem is now sorted.

7 days of blogging - I hope

I am going to try and blog each day now for the next 7 days.

FUN AT WORK TODAY

Amy Shaw, Lemon Drizzle cake & Reindeer

Where I work in The Craft Shop at Lady Green Garden Centre, it was very busy today. We were lucky to have Amy Shaw in the shop, she came to do a day of Demos; she is lovely. Amy did some gorgeous Christmas cards using Woodware stamps and the crafty edger punches.” Something I must put on my Christmas list.” Mmmmm - Note to self (Must start using some of my craft purchases in the New Year!!!!!) Lemon Drizzle cake was the cake of the day,

it seemed to go down well.

The main shop was very busy too with the Grotto opening – Santa arrived with real reindeer , they were sooo cute and soft. The queue to see Santa was 2 hours at one point so we had a lot of Mums popping into the shop! While Dads and Nans stood in the queue.

Looking forward to a quiet Sunday.