Making Jewellery Again

I have been making some different bits and pieces this week... and trying not to get upset by my mum's behaviour... she can't help it, but it's still very distressing... so I am making jewellery so I don't have to think about it!!! The make at Simon Says Stamp and Show is anything goes, so I shall enter this piece into their challenge...

 This is a close up of one side of the central piece. I have two bits of chain here, and the flower is attached to the smaller chain. I wrapped the roses, and hung them from the other piece of chain...

 This is the whole necklace, with the large pendant, which is an encased butterfly!!! - Well, I poured UTEE on to it, inside it's case, after I lined it with a piece of Sir T!m paper...

 And of course it had to have a tag!!! - top right (your right that is...) The butterfly is quite sparkly with his UTEE jacket on!!!

 This bead cap is fabulous, and opens enough to wrap around this lovely faceted bead... I ordered some more today!!!

 I used some Sir T!m leaves to wrap this bead... same colour as the large round one we saw earlier...

 The whole thing again, and  pair of earrings above, made from the same sort of glass beads as in the necklace...

 I used some of the wrapped roses as drops with the beads for the matching earrings... I really enjoyed designing this set, and look forward to wearing it... So, this will be my piece for SSSS this week. No for number 2...

 This pendant is made from a Vintaj round blank, popped through a texture folder and my Cuttlebug - thank goodness for him cos my Victor Vagabond Mk 11 has gone caput !!! So that's two since Crimble, or whenever they came out!!! I don't think I shall be replacing him, cos it's SO disappointing when you use him one day and he is dead the next!!!! boo hoo, poo!!!

I joined several layers of Sir T!m flowers and foliage to make this drop...

 Same here at the back, but a Vintaj rose in front... I made this necklace to fasten at the front, with a large hook. I am thinking of wrapping it, or altering it in some way...

 This large metal bead has great texture...

So this is the whole piece... it jangles really pleasingly, and I got to use my very newest tool to make some holes - the punch from Sir T!m.... it's great and does lovely ickle 1/16" holes just right for jewellery.. I have a couple more of the creamy cube beads to make a pair if earrings... that will be for tomorrow... off to post this post on the SSSS site before I change my mind!!!
Thanks for looking
Love and Light
Frankie
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WOYWW - #111 - Making End of Year Cards

Well here we are again, it's that time of year, that is end of the school year, and time for thank yous... Both my grandsons have had a GREAT year, and so I decide to make thank you cards for their teachers... I have recycled some of my recent tags, and made them into cards. The fourth one is mostly new and is what is on my desk this week. I also want to enter this one into Hels' challenge at Sunday Stamper ( building a flower embellishment)

 So here is my desk as it is this week, with the beginnings of the fourth card. I so enjoyed working with the dress form last week, that I decided to go with it again this time, but to embellish it differently. I stamped with TH papillon text stamp and embossed in clear ep, after painting with pool and denim acrylic dabbers. You will see some rub 'n buff, which I smooched over the texture... I LOVE this stuff and the great effects you can get with it...

 Here is the boddice smooched with the gold and ancient gold rub 'n buff,  isn't it pretty??  I used some of my lovely lace wrapped round the form as a skirt. I then sprayed it with perfect pearls ancient gold mist, to age it.. A single flower was cut to decorate the rosette, which was later cut down to make it even smaller - I wish TH would make one this tiny size!!!

 This is my flower, built up from Ten Seconds metal and TH paper stack. The dies used were PaperArtsy and TH tattered florals.

So below is the finished card, for Matthew's classroom assistant, whom he says is his girlfriend!!! - well he is only 5 years old!!!

 To follow are the other three cards, for Jaden's teacher and classroom assistant, and Matthew's teacher - he chose  the creamy brown one, because he says she likes those colours!! The pink and purple ones are for Jayden's staff...

I do hope they like them... I don't think there is anything not to like!!! We are going to put a voucher into each one, so that should be a nice present, I think... So that's it for another week.  I hope you have enjoyed your visit and will leave me a comment, cos I LOVE hearing from you...
Thanks for looking and have a great week
Love and Light
Frankie
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Sunday Stampers - Building a Flower

This week, Hels at Sunday Stamper, has asked us to make a flower, for her challenge, so I have made mine from metal and TH paper stack, lost and found. I used tattered florals die and one from Paperartsy. The finished card is one of a series of four, made for my grandsons' teachers and classroom assistants... I recycled the background from a previous tag, but all the rest is newly done...

Here is that flower up close and personal... I used the front patterned, and plain back of the paper, sandwiched between metal pieces. The centre of the flower is the smallest tattered floral die, cut in small slices, in order to curl it and make it look like stamens... I like the effect, taught me by Lin at Yours Artfully.

This piece is full of texture, and colour. Even the buttons stand out. I put some thin organza ribbon through the centres, to echo the ribbon through the tag hole. I painted the dress form and buttons in denim and pool acrylic paint then stamped with the large text stamp from the TH papillon set, and embossed in clear ep. I highlighted the embossing by rubbing with rub 'n buff - lovin this stuff!!!

Here are some pretty glass beads and bead caps. One of them looks like a rose. There is a lovely piece of lace on the background, painted to match the rest, and a piece of TH frilly ribbon, coloured with distress inks to match the tag. It is all so rich in colour, in real life. The pretty lace wrapped round the form has been distressed with ancient gold perfect pearls mist...

The button and the dress form are all cut from grunge board... great stuff from Tim Holtz, which holds it's shape so well, prints up so nicely and smells SO good!!! tee hee...

The tag was mounted on a piece of Kraft resist paper then added to a crease card made of matching distress cordinations. It has turned out well, so I hope the teacher likes it!! ... The other cards can be see on my WOYWW post for this week...

Thanks for looking and leaving your great comments
Love and Light
Frankie
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I shall also enter this piece into

Grungy Monday challenge - use grunge board/paper
Simon Says Stamp and Show - embossing
Scrappy Frogs - flowers

Sunday Stampers - Flying

Well, better late than never, I have finally finished something for Hels' challenge... She wanted us to go flying, and created a great "industrial" looking piece with planes and maps etc... but I have gone altogether more delicate!!! - oh get her...!!!

 Hels said we could choose anything that flew, so I chose butterflies... one on an Elusive Images stamp and the others from my new Martha Stewart punch...

 I smooched the tag through a mixture of worn lipsick, spun sugar and bundled sage, then stamped the images in black archival and embossed in clear ep... I love this saying...

 The flowers are made from 3" card circles, cut in a spiral with my wiggly scissors (can't think of the name just now, but they cut an irregular edge!!) They are simply curled round and round and stuck...

 The MS butterflies are doubled up to give more texture, and the card for them was again smooched through worn lipstick etc..

 It's very dimentional and quite pretty - not at all like most of my makes these days!!! The colours are a bit more vibrant in real life, but it was dark when I took the photos and the lights bled out some of the colour...

So there it is... it's quite a large tag, to give me room to put lots of wings on!! Hope she likes it... Thanks for looking... please leave a comment as I love hearing what you all think!!
Love and light
Frankie
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I also want to enter this for
Paper Cutz - anything in the sky
CRAFT - butterflies
Crazy Amigos - fly away

More Crimble in July!!!

Here is a couple more of the DT cards I have made for the Stamp Addicts next show, all details here... I have found it hard to consider such stuff at this time, but lots of people have said it's good for the soul, and that they do it all the time... ahhh!!

 Opps!! sorry the camera is so wonky, but the card is straight!!! This ickle bear is a great favourite... he is looking up, and I always felt I had to make him see something... in this one, it is the lovely Bethlehem star. The background was made by stamping the star background stamp in clear ink and clear embossing, then smooching in blue distress ink...

 This one has a background of snowflakes, most of which are from the set... I cut the largest one from the centre of one of the sentiment circles, so I could use it independently...  After layering up with silver mirri, I added one of the small flakes to his nose!! Aww, cute...

Here are both of them, sitting in their cave with icicles dropping from the ceiling... opps!! The background is the large dots stamped in white acrylic paint and smooched through blue distress inks, and overstamped with a sentiment circle...

So there you have it,  another peek at what I have been making... the samples are winging their way to SA Towers, so I hope they like them...

Thanks for looking and commenting - I love hearing what you think
Love and Light
Frankie
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Project Tim Holtz

I have created a DT piece for TIO and the Stampman this week, and I want to enter it into the Grungy Monday and Simon Says Stamp and Show some stitching challenges.

 It's all about sewing this week... I really enjoyed making these letters, painted with the fresco finish acrylics in vintage lace and london nights, then stamping and highlighting with vinatge gold rub 'n buff... The clock is from a TH stack, stuck to a clear bauble...

 The frame is distressed in a sandwich of vintage lace, pva glue and london nights, rubbed over with trad tan from Claudine Hellmuth. This left side of the piece holds a tag, the bottom of which is adorned with some dyed TH flower border... each one in the colours of the piece, being milled lavender, victorian velvet, dusty concord, pumice and vintage photo...

This photo also show the torn picture of 4 dress forms. The stamp is from Creative Impressions, and I did the other required technique with it, namely stamping with different coloured  pads on the same stamp, so I used vv, dc and p... I just painted the forms with a dilute solution of inks, smooched on my craft mat... here is the link to that TH tag technique - check it out, it's fabulous!!!

Here is the whole thing - a square frame, divided by some added strips of the chipboard, to make smaller sections. I cut the TH haberdashery dies from chipboard too and painted them with the fresco finish paints- just must haves!!!

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This is a very close up of the dress form, painted, stamped with a TH flourish and embossed in clear ep, as ever!! The broidery anglais edging border "skirt" is the stitching required for SSSS!! Hope it is ok?? The ickle rosette is from a TH die, but cut down a lot and a button added to set it off...

This is the top of the tag, embellished with some dyed seam binding ribbon, a pearl bauble and some ickle scissors, aww!! The texture acquired when doing the TH technique for GM, is very pleasing... I did the whole tag in it, but then overstamped with my home made foam stamp of the dress form, and did the same technique on it...

 Here are two cute bobbins painted as before and adorned with some TH measuring tape and some dyed seam binding ribbon... I am LOVIN it... It only came yesterday and it's such a BIG roll... it distresses brilliantly and looks really good... it was a fab investment!!!

This pic shows how dimensional the piece is and how the tag is related to the whole thing. I THOROUGHLY enjoyed this one... a lot more work, but worth it and I shall put it up in my bedroom with the birdie one I did some time ago, which you can see here...

 The saying was cut out with my pinking shears and is stamped and embossed in the same technique as the rest of the challenge, and it comes from the same plate as the 4 dress forms one... it's very useful as a set... The buttons are sewn with some of the seam binding ribbon, cut down the centre...

And finally - here is the view of the bottom right corner, again demonstrating how full of texture and dimension the piece is. I hope it bring inspiration to those who see it for the challenges at TIO and Stampman (Friday), and that it fits the bill for the challenges it is entered for...

Thanks for looking, and leaving me your fabulous comment and ideas... I value each one, I promise you...
Love and light
Frankie
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WOYWW #110 - Tidy?? + Peaking at my Project

Racing along again this week, I can hardly catch my breath ... time to do some I-Spy chez Julia here... I managed a few more assignations again last week, even if one or two were very late!!! But better late than never, and I am still finding it SO interesting...

So this is my space this week!! Those of you who know my desk well, will notice that I have had a considerable tidy up - YES ... THIS is what calls itself tidy in my book!!! I have taken away the notebook computer from the right hand corner and put my punches and other bits and bobs there... it is having problems with getting online, so I shall ditch it, once I am certain I have all the images etc. saved from it... This is the beginnings of my project Tim Holtz for TIO and the Stampman this week...

 I painted the last of my frames with a vintage lace, pva glue and london nights acrylic sandwich, then distressed with some Claudine Hellmuth trad tan (fairly new to me but I like it Hels!!!) - just LOVIN those fresco finish paints!!! You can see I get a really great crackle effect with them and the glue...

 I filled the inside of the frame with some paper from the TH crowded attic stack... all the haberdashery stuff, cos my theme is sewing this time... here I have cut some pieces from the TH die set, in chipboard, and the cutting mat is out to make some strips for inside the frame, to make it have some smaller sections... The rub 'n buff is out too, as I used it to distress some edges... the paper is painted in a thin layer of trad tan, and all the pieces are painted with it too, bceause it makes a great surface to stamp on...

I like this dress form and I stamped the TH flourish on it in dusty concord, after it was painted, then embossed with clear ep (borrring!!! yawn) ... the rosette is also from a TH die, but I cut it down so it was very small, and added one of his accoutrement buttons to the centre. I shall enter this into the Simon Says Stamp and Show some stitching challenge this week, and here is the very sewing on this lovely broidery anglais border, wrapped to make a skirt.

 I shall also enter this in the Grungy Monday challenge this week, where the brief is to use an orange peel /faux rust technique from TH... please go to my Project Tim Holtz post to see all of my piece, how I did it, and the addy for the TH technique...

Here is another ickle sneaky peak, showing my buttons and the words, cut round with my pinking shears, to keep in with the theme... some died seam tape, a pearl bauble and a pair of scissors round off the tag, which sits on the left hand side of the bigger frame...

Hope you enjoyed your visit this week, and that you will look in to my post here, to see the end product... also, pop over to my challenge blog and join in the TIO theme this week - Project Tim Holtz, as I already said!!! Meanwhile have a great week...
Love and light
Frankie
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DT Pieces for Stamp Addicts

Hi again ... here I am doing something I have NEVER done before!!! Never, ever... and what is that??? I am making Christmas cards!!!!!!! OUCH!!! In the post last weekend, came some pretty ickle new stamps from Stamp Addicts, and yes, they are for Christmas... So I have been making some cards as samples for the next show... That will be July 25th at 4pm.

 They have designed some new roundels and I used these to create baubles... the background is silver card, but it looks grey here. There are a lot of these ickle penguins, and I printed one inside an empty roundel, as well as doing the same thing with the star in another...

This one is made of several images, collaged on the scene. I created the background using two of the texture stamps - large and small dots...They are VERY useful... I stamped them in white acrylic paint and dried them, then smooched the whole thing in distress inks - when don't I??!! I tried for some fun pictures in this set of cards, and this is one of them - I just wonder where that ickle skiing guy is going to land!!???

So that's it for now... had some fun doing these and I have some more to show you later in the week... The stamps will not be available until the show later in the month... Off to get inky now, and finish my "Project Tim Holtz" for TIO on Wednesday and Stampman on Friday... it's a biggy again, with a tag attached... Hope you will come back soon to see the next installment and please leave a comment, as I love to know what you are thinking...
Love and light
Frankie
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