Category: Design team posts

Hello and welcome. The title to this post is the name of the new challenge at A Vintage Journey challenge blog, inspired by Tim Holtz and this tag is my entry.I started by sprizting the tag with water; I added Distress Stain in tea dye and bundled sage from the Tim Holtz range from Ranger, onto… Continue reading Use every stamp in the set

Hello and welcome to my tag inspired by Kate's tag board, which was her brilliant project for her Tuesday night GD spot on the Paper Artsy's blog.I also chose to use colours that would meet the theme for SanDee & amelie's Steampunk ChallengesI covered my tag in French Roast Fresco acrylic paint from Paper Artsy… Continue reading Kate Yetter Project

Hello and welcome! Today I'm going to show  a Tag I made for the challenge at County View Crafts.This challenge was chosen by Gabrielle of crafty Thoughts  and the Theme was 'Only Men Allowed'.I thought I would use the new Decoarts Americana acrylic paint I have just purchased, (recommended by a friend) brayered onto a… Continue reading Men only… Really!

Hi everyone, today I went to the high Swedish Store at Thurrock to purchase some photo frames. I got the frames but also bought 3 of these.I wanted to try and age one so used the same colours I used on a Tag recently. There are'nt many instruction - All products except lamp are from Paper… Continue reading New to old…

I still have cards to make, so when Emma did one for the Paper Artsy challenge blog last night I thought, thank you, I think I will.I needed a male card so had to adapt the flower. The card I used was a butterfly cut one. I cut myself a piece of card to fit… Continue reading Inspired by Emma's flower card, well sort of…

Hello, I'm so excited about this tag, I have just loved making it. I hope you like it too lol. I was inspired to think 'wings' by the Vintage Journey  Blog challenge, theme of wings and things. I wanted to use birds as it is not something I usually do and thought it would be… Continue reading Birds

Hello and welcome, another one from me tonight featuring the colour red. This is not a colour I would normally choose, but I thought it would be nice to enter the challenge at the Artisic Stamper blog, and the theme is red. Check out the inspiration! I started by painting my tag red using Blood Red… Continue reading It's All Red

Hello, I'm still feeling pretty rough but head has cleared so managed to play for a bit. I didn't start out with anything in mind and tbh, probably sat for about 30min thinking,  what shall I do? Before I got going, lol. I started inking a mantilla tag with Old Paper and Vintage photo. Then… Continue reading Imagine

Morning all, I've been doing the rounds of blog land and came across this from Alison Bomber and thought I would share the love. It is such a generous giveaway to celebrate her second year of blogging.All you need to do is leave a comment  at Words and Pictures: Butterfly Blogaversary CandyThank you for your visitTake… Continue reading Words and Pictures: Butterfly Blogaversary Candy

Hello and welcome to my 3rd post tonight. This tag was using my 3rd background using Tim's technique he showcased here.If you follow my posts you may remember my two other posts using the technique,  you can see them again no 1 and no 2.So here is how it went, I  started with my tag.I then added… Continue reading 3rd Tim Holtz background