Mad March Days on DragonsDream Tag It On

This week, there is another challenge on my other blog, DragonsDream and again, it has been made by my lovely crafty friend, Blackdragon. We want you to dream with us, so I am offering some stuff for your stash. There are stamps, sticker sheets, decoupage sheets, cardstock, Tim Holtz tool and ink pads etc etc ... The theme is Mad March Days and we look forward to seeing what you dream up... Thanks for looking!!
Frankie
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TIO is back on DragonsDream with a Guest Designer

This wonderful tag is the dream this week on the TIO #28 challenge. It was made for us by the lovely Blackdragon, who kindly volunteered to get me back on track until I can do my own stuff again... how fabulous is that??!! And how beautiful is this tag??? I am highly delighted...

If you feel able, and have the time, please visit my TIO blog and join in this newest dream there... next week, there will be some blog candy on offer for a new dream!!
Thanks for Looking
Frankie
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Happy Monday!!

Hi All. Thanks for visiting again, it has been so good to see you all in the last few weeks, when I have been so fed up with not being on my feet and not being able to doTaiji or craft. I think I have a solution to that, so visit the TIO blog to find out how I will get round not being able to do the challenges!! I have such good friends and followers, I am so happy!!

I now have a date to see the surgeon on 19th March and the waiting list will be 11 weeks from then. I shall opt to take any cancellation, so I could have my knee done anytime after seeing him!! However, you know I am hoping to be handfast with Freddie in June, and this timescale might be difficult. We SHALL handfast, but we might have to decide to cancel or postpone Venice - what a shame eh??!! Hands could be anytime soon!!!! SO, things are looking up. Right now I have no voice, but that virus will soon pass... What a lot Freddie has had to put up with since we got together!!! He really is a great chap, eh? What a lucky lady I am...
Thanks for looking
Frankie
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Dark Days of January!!

Happy New Year everyone.... our own and Chinese just passed this weekend.

I have been so sad not coming to talk to you, but I have been in so much pain with my knee and hands, because of my arthritis. My hip operation went REALLY well, but my knee got worse and worse. The kneecap has fused to the rest of my kneebones and I have had to rest it full stretch out, mostly in bed because bent up in a chair was too painful. I need some injections in my hands before I can get back to serious crafting.... So no Taiji Quan - boo hoo and no crafting - boo hoo!!! I am waiting for an operation on my knee now...

I have been so thrilled to see that many of you have left me messages and I am truly grateful for your lovely comments. I shall go off now and see some of your lovely blogs and leave a few comments of my own!!

Thanks for looking
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Two Enjoyable Sessions

As soon as I saw Sheena with these little tins, I knew I had to have them... I bought 3 lots and have just finished these ones, as pressies... I am doing a couple more before I finally stop for the holiday. I used a variety of alcohol inks and made sure to wear some gloves, as it really is a bit messy!! YEY!!

I stamped with UMount stamps and used Moonglow twotone ep on them. The flowers and butterfly (because I got bored with the flowers!!) are on alcohol inked card, finished with diamond glaze to make them shiny and more robust. Pearlidoodles and a few gems have been used to finish off the patterns.


The second session this week was to make a card out of the gothic tag for a friend who lives over the road, who has a birthday on Friday. I hope he likes it. I just made a background in the same sort of style and colours, and thoroughly enjoyed the whole process, using those ubiquitous distress inks!!. It is full of texture and the hanging sun is quite a smiley touch!!

Thanks for looking and for commenting this year. It is coming up a year since I began this blog, and my life has taken many turns in that time. I have met so many lovely crafters and have appreciated each and every one of your visits and ideas. I notice I am almost on 10,000 so that will also be exciting!! Thanks SO MUCH for looking

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Crimble Cards - Venezia Bird

Hi ... I made my tag on TIO #26 with this image and liked it so much I decided to do my crimble cards with it, so here is a very small selection of the colours. I used alcohol inks on photo paper, and stamped the birdie, from Crafty Individuals, in black. The scrolls are coloured with various cosmic shimmers, brushed over a layer of sticky stuff, heated like ep after stamping with verasmark. This makes them permanent and removes the need to fix - so well worth using... I got mine from Stamp Addicts, by Judikins.... great product!!

Next week, over on TIO, there will be a Christmas theme for 2 weeks, so why not have a go? Then it will be New Year for a couple of weeks. By then, I will be back from visiting members of my new prospective family in the Canaries!!! Bit of sun and TLC will do no harm what-so-ever!!

What think you???

Thanks for looking

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Blue Moon... this week's TIO#25 Tag

Over on my challenge blog, I have reached a quarter of a century - 25 tags... would have been more but I did have a holiday and did have a major op!!! Glad to get to this though with people still joining in.

I made this tag using pale blue card, overprinted using Vivid ultramarine and distress ink in broken china, embossed in clear ep, as so often!! The stamps are basically from UMount, but the mon is my cloudy one from Judikins, via Stamp Addicts. Simple but quite effective... Thanks so much for looking - I am always so gratified to find your comments, and am sorry for those I lost... if I get any more spam, I shall have to relent and add a level of security...
Thanks and have a great week
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So sorry to say...

I have had a problem with my blog this week... have had some spam messages which interferred with some of your messages and I have, unfortunately, been unable to publish them without the spurious ones... so those of you who left kind messages here - thanks - I was not able to note down who you were. Please come back and visit again though... and I am sorry I have not been back to your blogs...

Dratted spam!!!

Birthday Cards for Son and his son

Here is the front of a card I have made for my son's partner's son... complicated!! I used my new shades of alcohol inks in line layers, to create the background, then overprinted trees and pergoda from Lavinia stamps. Below is the backer, where I used the tool to make a more dotty background. He is a young teenager and I don't know him well, so I hope he likes it. it is late as I was in hospital for his birthday.

My son (my baby!!) is 36 on Sunday!!!! Ridiculous that he is that old, cos I am SO young!!! This is the front, and below is the back. I used the pear tag and some wonderful Dove of the East paper. I hope he likes it... I have not seen him for nearly 2 years... Sad that I seem to have lost him when I lost his dad... he is busy with his partner and work and new house etc. Oh well...

Thanks for looking
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Save the Date Cards for Handfasting Ceremony

As many of you know, Freddie and I are having an alternative wedding ceremony next year, so we can make a public committment to each other without signing an official register... These are the "save the date" cards we have sent out, made with alcohol inks on photo paper, and printed with flowers from a UMount set, in Vivid raspberry, with a gold pearlydoodle centre.
Thanks for looking
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