so happy.

Hellooooo! Well I bet you weren't expecting to see me today! I have just joined the Stamp With Fun design team and today is my debut!

So this week, we have a summer theme! You just can't beat a summer wedding and so that is what I chose.

Papers: The Girl's Paperie ~ Kitch.

Image: fast becoming one of my favourites Magnolia Wedding Tilda. I coloured her with copics and stickles.

I've used Spellbinders dies for the circles and circle scallops. Added loads of Frantage. Loving that right now!

I added a vintage key. First I frantaged it, but didn't like the effect. So I sanded it down and then rubbed on some metallic paint in different shades until I had the look I wanted. Love that some of the frantage still shows through!

The wooden clock is by Prima and got the frantage treatment too.

Some handmade flowers.

I am entering this in at the following challenges:

• S for stitching (I have machine stitched around my circles) ~ ABC Challenge
• polka dots ~ City Crafter 
• anything goes ~ Crafts and Me, Crafty Calendar Challenge, The Crazy Challenge
• texture ~ Crafty Creations Challenges 
• dies & punches ~ Cute Card Thursday 
• bingo board (I have flower, free and diecut) ~ Fussy & Fancy Challenge 
• special occasions ~ Tilda's Town
• wedding ~ Totally Tilda
• vintage summer card with butterflies ~ Vintage Udfordring

Thank you for looking.

Keeley

having a {me} day

Hello! Well it is Friday and that can mean only one thing ... a new challenge at Crafts 4 Eternity. Today we have a colour challenge with 'Corrosion' colours.

I had so many ideas for this, but as with everything, when you start creating, it kind of turns into something else and you think, that wasn't what I was thinking of!

So I had this art journal by Dyan Reaveley, which I bought way back last February, some six months ago!! It arrived a bit bashed and battered, but I guessed that didn't matter if I were to cover it anyway.

Well I didn't even hide it away, it has sat on my craft desk all this time, awaiting inspiration. So when I saw this colour challenge, I knew that I would use it to decorate the cover of my journal.

Now, having read a bit about art journalling, I know that people don't always start at the beginning or work page by page, but that they work randomly on a page here and there. OMG! This is just completely alien to me and sends me into obsessive compulsive disorder! I have to take each page in turn and cannot even start that until I have decorated the front cover. Hence, this is why six months have passed without me touching my art journal. I think!

OK, so for my front cover, and I haven't even touched the spine or back, as that may spell a different story by the time I get there. 

Firstly I stuck down Kaisercraft music paper. I love music, but couldn't read a note to you sadly :( 

Then I added my letters to spell out 'Having a {me} day'. Well I mean, what else could my art journal be about? My letters and numbers were from a chipboard Basic Grey alphabet which I bought way back when and untouched, so it seemed good to use them for this.

I added some other abstract symbols from the chipboard alphabet and also added some Tim Holtz grungeboard elements. 

Then I coated this all with gesso, which I diluted down first with a bit with water, so that the music paper would show through.

Then, when dry, I went about stamping the numbers and symbols with stamps using Archival Ink. The 'Having a {me} day' letters, I dry brushed with paint dabbers using a paint brush. Then rubbed the edges with Treasures paint.

Finally, I randomly inked some splodges and a cup stain with a Bo Bunny stamp. Then painted the whole cover with Clear Rock Candy Distress Crackle Paint.

My elastic band got a bit covered with paint and stuff and has gone a bit baggy. So be it!

OK. Not sure I love the end result, but this is my first foray into art journalling, so will go with it! It's either that, or coat the whole with a thick layer of gesso and start again! 

Anyway, I am putting it out there! I do like the texture of it.

Thank you for looking.

Keeley

just married

Good morning! Today we have a WEDDING challenge over at Crafts 4 Eternity.

I have decorated an MDF horseshoe to create a wedding horseshoe, using Mr & Mrs papers from Pebbles Inc.

Image: Magnolia ~ Doo Bee Pops Bride Tilda. What a name for a stamp!

Lots of embossing going on.

I added some flowers and buttons to the left hand side.

And to the right, a Magnolia tag ...

... and some butterflies.

I'm entering this in at the following challenges:

• anything goes ~ Crafts and Me, Creative Inspirations, Cute Card Thursday, Simply Magnolia 
• you favourite things ~ Magnolia Down Under Challenges (Magnolia heart tag, embossing powder, flowers, butterflies)
• celebrate something ~ Natalie and Amy's Challenges, Stamp with Fun
• bingo (I have pearls, buttons, ribbon) ~ Lovely Hanglar or Sweet Magnolia

Thank you for looking.

Keeley

tea time recipe box

Helllloooo! I've been gone a while. over a month it seems. I just completely lost my mojo. It happens. No amount of pushing paper around will bring it back, so after doing that and failing, decided to just kick back and chill. Result .... finally .... was MOJO! Yeah! 

For our challenge this week at Crafts 4 Eternity is anything goes! So what will you make?

I've made a recipe box. Been wanting to do one of these for ages, so this was the perfect opportunity.

I created the box myself and then added Glitz papers to the sides.

I've created flowers using the . The lid has a Tim Holtz Curio Knob to lift.

One side of the box using a Magnolia Bon Voyage Flower Die.

Thank you for looking.

Keeley

for beautiful eyes ...

Good morning! We have a new challenge for you at Cupcake Craft Challenges today: clean and simple with NO flowers.

How easy is that? This card took me no time at all.

Image: Stamping Bella ~ Uptown Girl: Audrey Loves Make Up.

Thank you for looking.

keeley

where flowers bloom

Hello and happy Friday! We have a fabby colour challenge over at Crafts 4 Eternity today.

These colours really did help brighten my day. The weather is so dreary and depressing at the moment, as I'm sure you all know!

Papers: Little Yellow Bicycle ~ Elizabeth Park.

I went a bit crazy with the frantage on this one. It wasn't only the card that got covered in glitter.

I made the flowers from a Martha Stewart punch, which I bought years ago and only used once before.

Image: Magnolia ~ Forget Me Not Tilda. Isn't she cute?

 

I made a pull out card. Love those cute birds.

And where flowers bloom.

It's the first time I've used this Tim Holtz ~ Butterfly die, another one I've had forever.

I am entering this in at the following challenges:

• Favourite colours ~ Midweek Magnolias 
• I for image ~ Alphabet Challenge

Thank you for looking.

Keeley

bride. the album. fancy pants. hopscotch.

A new week and that means a new challenge at Cupcake Craft Challenges. This week we want you to add a BUG. You know, those creepy crawly type creatures.

I have decorated a BRIDE word album which features a ladybird on the letter 'D'.

Here it is in detail.

In full:

Letter B:

I have used Fancy Pants ~ Hopscotch papers throughout.

Letter R:

and the reverse

letter I: front

back:

Letter D, where I have my bug, a ladybird charm:

The front of the 'D' and back both have pull out tags.

The letter E:

And the back page:

I am entering this in at the following challenges:

• Recipe (I have lace, metal and inks) ~ Our Creative Corner
• Things with wings (I have butterfly and ladybird) ~ Crafty Calendar Challenge 
• For a girl ~ Deep Ocean Challenge 
• Anything but a card ~ C.R.A.F.T. Challenge 
• Punches & dies ~ Totally Papercrafts 
• Pennants (on letter D) ~ Fairytale Challenge  

Thank you for looking.

Keeley