Not had a lot of playtime over the Christmas period, haven't done any more of the TH Tags, but did manage this simple digi lo last night!

Not had a lot of time to play but snatched odd minutes to do these two tags.


My version of Tag 5, shame I only posess one suitable Santa face stamp! Lots of improvising here too, for the green tag, the numbers and the flower, oh, and I don't seem to have a holly stamp either!

So I've gone out of order, this is Tag 9. I do actually have the rosette die, but had to improvise the rest! Not sure I like the piece of tulle on there!

My version of Tag 3, used a SU punch for the bird, made the flower from gathered up ribbon, and had fun! Think the only TH product used here were the distress inks!













And Tag 4. Didn't have any of the fragments so used a metal embellie and alcohol inked it, then stamped stars in white Stazon, they don't show up too well, then glossy accents on top for dimension. The Santa face is stamped, coloured, hat and beard glittered then stuck on to a distress inked and stamped background! Again only TH distress inks used.

My poor neglected blog! I have been so busy making cards to raise money for my daughter, who is going to climb Mount Kilimanjaro next February with her husband to raise money for Marie Curie Cancer Care, that I haven't had much time for anything else.
If any kind soul would like to donate to their cause the Just Giving site is
http://original.justgiving.com/rachel-andy-kilimanjaro-challenge

But I wanted to have a play with Tim Holtz techniques for Christmas tags, even though I do not have much of his stuff, and will have to improvise!




Here is my attempt for Day 1, I had to cut out my house by hand, and the tree, and made the wreath with small punched out holly leaves. There is some similarity to the original!













This is day two, didn't have a pinecone stamp so just used leaves, but did stamp with distress ink and then emboss with clear powder, which leaves it looking very shiny! Again, a different greetings stamp, and the bird is a Sissix die, scanned, then reduced in size, cut out and embossed with silver! Think it should have been a bit larger!


I now have very stained hands from the distress inks, but have enjoyed playing, and will have a go at day three!

Blue Brads Challenge

This is a digi lo I did for a challenge in Blue Brads house this weekend. We had to include blue brads somewhere! I love to look at garden ornaments, although I wouldn't give half of them room in my garden!

This week's challenge on UKS was to use a theme of education/learning, include 123/abc and use one of the primary colours. I believe the older generation have a lot to teach youngsters, just by being with them and talking to them!

This photo shows me and dgs1 learning together, how to assemble a new toy!

I know this isn't a perfect lo, but I have always wanted to try this sort of photo and lo. I still have a lot to learn! First thing is to take a photo suitable for this purpose!

Yesterday we tried to get hand and footprints from dgs3, he wasn't too impressed, we did get these of his feet and will try again for the hands another day! Luckily the paint didn't stain his skin!

More playing with digi in different styles, photos of dgs3 taken today!

Sleeping peacefully after a cuddle from Nana!

I suggested that he smiled for Grandpa, and this is the response I got!

I think I am a little "paper" scrapped out after the Create 10 classes, so have been having a play with digi, still experimenting, and came up with this lo. The elements are all taken from different freebie kits.

Apologies for the poor photo! My lo for July week 4 challenge on UKS, scrap in a different size, have done A4 for the second time ever, use ribbon, scraps and have visible journalling!

I've had a really good week for using up scraps, just wondering why my stash mountain doesn't look any smaller!

I have managed to complete three more of Create 10 classes.

This one was using more scraps of paper and experimenting with cutting out my own paper shapes, not brilliant! Also used a few more of those buttons! The photo is a tree sculpture at Winkworth Arboretum.

This class was all about using up those odd number stickers. As I tend to die cut most of my own letters and numbers I didn't have a vast collection, but quite like the effect. The numbers in the centre of the lo depict a special date, in this case dgs2's christening.

This class used up ribbon scraps and an old zip that was in my sewing stuff! The centre circle is ruffled ribbon. The small skull embellishment is a left over from dd1's Goth days!

I did have a little time to work on this digi lo over the weekend, again cutting out a photo which is of ddil and dgs2. Title doesn't show up too clearly on here, says Magical Mummy Moments!

Class 6 for Create 10, love the simplicity of this one! Chance to use lots of scraps of patterned paper and buttons and other bits and bobs!

This is the lo for the 5th class of Create 10, using up papers you love and hate, I have had the check paper for years and keep ignoring it! Also a good chance to use up lots of little bits and pieces!

This week's challenge on UKS had many parts to it, making your own background paper, I used paint and stamped with bubble wrap and silver ink, Dry embossing, the flowers on the pink cs, summer colours, stamping, the flowers and the butterfly, and some lace. So another lo completed for my dear sister!

Had another play while the engineer fixed my dishwasher, and came up with this, very similar to the other one but using a different photo! Not sure I have the effect of dgs2 sitting on the leaf quite right!

Up early this morning so decided to have a play with digi! Tried cutting out a photo from the background and quite pleased with the effect!

Class 3 of Create 10, using up lots of scraps to make the layered flowers, and some of those little buttons too! They were time consuming to make, but look good! I also liked the torn edges with scraps of paper underneath. The only thing I don't like is the white cardstock I used, would look better in a colour.

Class 4. This made me dig out those fibres, have a huge box of them! As I did this page A4 I had to put part of the tree under the photo but think it looks alright!

I discovered ComputerScrapbook.com was giving away some kits today, so downloaded the Baby Boy one and had a little play this evening. The photo shows my first cuddle with dgs3!