Well, whaddya fink?
I found this AWESOME site that allows you to pick up templates and attach them to your blog to add a bit more bling to it. It's bugged me for AGES that I had these blank panels either side of my blog, and now they're gone.
This template is a little bit full on for my liking, but was preferable to any others I saw on their website (see little tag, top left, for details). Once I can get my head round their "how to" template, I will have a stab at making my own on PSP. And if that fails, I shall have to sweet-talk an acquaintance of mine, the fabulous Inchy at Siggi Shop, to extend her range and maybe make something that matches my header. My fabulous header. Which she made.
Sunday, 5 October 2008
Friday, 3 October 2008
Star
Over on the Inchy by Inch blog, the latest challenge is "Stars".
I went away, did mine, came back..... and realised that I'd done something almost identical. I'm just going to have to go away and do another one, aren't I?
Anyway, here's the one I've done for now... LOL
I went away, did mine, came back..... and realised that I'd done something almost identical. I'm just going to have to go away and do another one, aren't I?
Anyway, here's the one I've done for now... LOL
Wednesday, 1 October 2008
Arty Girlz
I made a last minute card for the challenge on Aunty's, and then after having a wee tiny surf around blogland, suddenly realised I'd done something that would count for the Arty Girlz Red Challenge! Yay!!!
So here it is....
The stamps are all from The Netherlands (thanks Anette!), apart from the alphabet which is Studio G. I did the background with perfect pearls, and the stamping was done with blue ink that came with the set, embossed with clear powder!
Oh, and the answer to the question.... "how do you build a home?"
Inside it says.... "With Love"
So here it is....
The stamps are all from The Netherlands (thanks Anette!), apart from the alphabet which is Studio G. I did the background with perfect pearls, and the stamping was done with blue ink that came with the set, embossed with clear powder!
Oh, and the answer to the question.... "how do you build a home?"
Inside it says.... "With Love"
Tuesday, 30 September 2008
My favourite friends
I just had to share these pictures with you. I WAS going to use them on an Aunty's Challenge, but just didn't have the time to do the layouts. Hopefully I will sometime soon!
The challenge was, "What makes your house a home?"
I think the pictures say it all....
The challenge was, "What makes your house a home?"
I think the pictures say it all....
Saturday, 27 September 2008
The end of summer for sure....
LOL
After all that - we've had more good weather. So it's the end of summer, take two.
This isn't exactly going to be a long post - I'm here mainly because I know one or two of you often check in to keep up to date with what's going on in my life.
Well, there's not much happening, if I'm honest.
My world mostly exists of staring at the ceiling at the moment. Any other position ranges from just uncomfortable, to downright agony. I'm not complaining - don't get me wrong about that - it's just a fact of my life right now, though how long for I don't know. I am still working - though I got sent home Thursday lunchtime and forced to take some extra time out of my holidays. That's ok as I still have plenty to take!
As mentioned in my previous post, my back is playing up. In fact it's creating merry hell, so sitting at a computer for any length of time is not good. Shame my work basically is all done on a computer, eh? ROFL. Ouch.
So I'm on Diclofenac Sodium, as much rest as I can get, and a healthy dose of physio that I had to crawl into the local hospital and practically beg for. Ho hum.
So my sincere apologies for not being here when I should have. I have no obligation to blog, but a desire to. And I miss it.
There you have it.
I will try and come back again soon!
After all that - we've had more good weather. So it's the end of summer, take two.
This isn't exactly going to be a long post - I'm here mainly because I know one or two of you often check in to keep up to date with what's going on in my life.
Well, there's not much happening, if I'm honest.
My world mostly exists of staring at the ceiling at the moment. Any other position ranges from just uncomfortable, to downright agony. I'm not complaining - don't get me wrong about that - it's just a fact of my life right now, though how long for I don't know. I am still working - though I got sent home Thursday lunchtime and forced to take some extra time out of my holidays. That's ok as I still have plenty to take!
As mentioned in my previous post, my back is playing up. In fact it's creating merry hell, so sitting at a computer for any length of time is not good. Shame my work basically is all done on a computer, eh? ROFL. Ouch.
So I'm on Diclofenac Sodium, as much rest as I can get, and a healthy dose of physio that I had to crawl into the local hospital and practically beg for. Ho hum.
So my sincere apologies for not being here when I should have. I have no obligation to blog, but a desire to. And I miss it.
There you have it.
I will try and come back again soon!
Saturday, 30 August 2008
The end of Summer.....
Hello readers!
Sorry I've not been around for a while. Life kind of caught up with me - since I last posted we've had a long weekend in Cornwall (all fabulous, gorgeous weather and icky sunburn), spent 12 long days in Shropshire with Wolfshead Bowmen in the (mostly) pouring rain, and been to the Great Dorset Steam Rally.
I figured it was high time I shared some of this with you.
Here is a picture of a beach in Cornwall. Wa-hey. Thrilling, eh? We're the little shelter at the far end. Yes, a Cornish beach with no-one on it. Amazing for late July. Which I why I though to share it with you. It was like this for about 45 minutes after we got there, at about 12.30pm, but didn't exactly get packed. I think that was cos only locals knew about it. The reason we went there was that it was the only beach in about a 30 mile radius that was both clean, safe for swimming, AND allowed dogs.
By complete contrast, here are a couple of photos from our stay in Shropshire. Note the pouring rain. Note the rain, pouring off all the canvas. Note the mud. It was like that for about 8 out of the 12 days we were there. And all the while my back was playing up too. Ho hum. It did dry up towards the end of our time there, so it was fun in the end.....
Sorry I've not been around for a while. Life kind of caught up with me - since I last posted we've had a long weekend in Cornwall (all fabulous, gorgeous weather and icky sunburn), spent 12 long days in Shropshire with Wolfshead Bowmen in the (mostly) pouring rain, and been to the Great Dorset Steam Rally.
I figured it was high time I shared some of this with you.
Here is a picture of a beach in Cornwall. Wa-hey. Thrilling, eh? We're the little shelter at the far end. Yes, a Cornish beach with no-one on it. Amazing for late July. Which I why I though to share it with you. It was like this for about 45 minutes after we got there, at about 12.30pm, but didn't exactly get packed. I think that was cos only locals knew about it. The reason we went there was that it was the only beach in about a 30 mile radius that was both clean, safe for swimming, AND allowed dogs.
By complete contrast, here are a couple of photos from our stay in Shropshire. Note the pouring rain. Note the rain, pouring off all the canvas. Note the mud. It was like that for about 8 out of the 12 days we were there. And all the while my back was playing up too. Ho hum. It did dry up towards the end of our time there, so it was fun in the end.....
Monday, 14 July 2008
Cards.....again..... LOL
I only ever seem to upload pictures of cards or ATCs these days. The cards following are for this month's challenge on Aunty's Forum (Yep, novel eh? Like you haven't heard THAT before!) which was set by "Full of Scrap" team and is "Things with Wings". HOWEVER. Whilst I uploaded them into the members gallery there, I didn't put any info about them. A cunning plan. That way I get to impart the information here, instead. And also, I didn't show a picture of the inside of the Oriental card - so there's also an exclusive here! PMSL
OK. Card Number One.
For a start - it's A5 sized, cloud 9 style in a duck egg blue. Or green, depending on how good you see colours and what you think is blue and what you think is gre.... I'm rambling, aren't I? Sorry. OK, to continue. On the right hand half of the card I stamped a stars and moons background (manufacturer - Anita's) using Brilliance Pearlescent Lavender ink. On the left side of the card I layered some lilacky-purple (ya like that word???), textured giftwrap, and edged it with a silver peeloff. I then put a mat of one of the sheets from the DCWV "Once Upon A Time" Mat Stack (gorgeous, drool). The Fairy is one of the Faerie Poppets die cut decoupage range. They're lovely, especially as all the cutting out is done for you! I felt she needed a "proper" background, so I watercoloured a blue and green background, and then tapestry-stamped a scene using a few random Clarity Stamp stamps that I own (small bare tree, grasses) in different shades of pigment greens and brown. Finally I layered this onto lilac cardstock, edged the picture in more silver peeloff, layered Madam Fairy up, and tied a spot of organza ribbon in a bow round the spine of the card. I think she's lovely!
Onto Card Number Two - the Oriental One.....
This one came about because it's my Mum's 77th Birthday tomorrow.... (Hi Mom)... and she loves all things Oriental. The eagle eyed amongst you may well have spotted that the pictures used are from the Papermania Oriental collection. I was lucky enough to acquire a boxed set of this from my local Range store at a bargain 33% off. It's been lurking on a shelf, waiting for me to visit Hong Kong with work (like that'll ever happen! Sheesh.... ) so I thought I'd use some of it to make a post pop-out card for Mum. The red and gold paper, I'm afraid to say, is actually gift wrap I bought in a craft shop in France. Sorry ladies....
I used a WS designs large popout rectangle template to make the card (I can do a tutorial if enough people ask, but it's too longwinded for now)and then basically decorated it with the gift wrap, some gold peeloffs and both the 3D and the flat stickers from the Oriental collection. Ta Dah! Done. Oh, and I added a verse behind the window... It reads:
Take a little pinch of comfort
Add warmth and kindness too
Throw in some love and tenderness
And the end result is you.
With all these fine ingredients
It's very plain to see,
Why you are extra special
The best Mother There could be
Not one of my own creations, I'm afraid - it came from Verse Writer by Kaz.
OK. Card Number One.
For a start - it's A5 sized, cloud 9 style in a duck egg blue. Or green, depending on how good you see colours and what you think is blue and what you think is gre.... I'm rambling, aren't I? Sorry. OK, to continue. On the right hand half of the card I stamped a stars and moons background (manufacturer - Anita's) using Brilliance Pearlescent Lavender ink. On the left side of the card I layered some lilacky-purple (ya like that word???), textured giftwrap, and edged it with a silver peeloff. I then put a mat of one of the sheets from the DCWV "Once Upon A Time" Mat Stack (gorgeous, drool). The Fairy is one of the Faerie Poppets die cut decoupage range. They're lovely, especially as all the cutting out is done for you! I felt she needed a "proper" background, so I watercoloured a blue and green background, and then tapestry-stamped a scene using a few random Clarity Stamp stamps that I own (small bare tree, grasses) in different shades of pigment greens and brown. Finally I layered this onto lilac cardstock, edged the picture in more silver peeloff, layered Madam Fairy up, and tied a spot of organza ribbon in a bow round the spine of the card. I think she's lovely!
Onto Card Number Two - the Oriental One.....
This one came about because it's my Mum's 77th Birthday tomorrow.... (Hi Mom)... and she loves all things Oriental. The eagle eyed amongst you may well have spotted that the pictures used are from the Papermania Oriental collection. I was lucky enough to acquire a boxed set of this from my local Range store at a bargain 33% off. It's been lurking on a shelf, waiting for me to visit Hong Kong with work (like that'll ever happen! Sheesh.... ) so I thought I'd use some of it to make a post pop-out card for Mum. The red and gold paper, I'm afraid to say, is actually gift wrap I bought in a craft shop in France. Sorry ladies....
I used a WS designs large popout rectangle template to make the card (I can do a tutorial if enough people ask, but it's too longwinded for now)and then basically decorated it with the gift wrap, some gold peeloffs and both the 3D and the flat stickers from the Oriental collection. Ta Dah! Done. Oh, and I added a verse behind the window... It reads:
Take a little pinch of comfort
Add warmth and kindness too
Throw in some love and tenderness
And the end result is you.
With all these fine ingredients
It's very plain to see,
Why you are extra special
The best Mother There could be
Not one of my own creations, I'm afraid - it came from Verse Writer by Kaz.
Friday, 11 July 2008
Good Grief....
Where DOES the time go? It's simply not on, you know! Somebody stop the world, I want to get off - at least for a little while!
There's nothing particularly exciting to report at the moment, so I thought I would do something I promised a long long while back. Remember the "Time" ATC swap I did ages ago? Well - here's the long awaited picture of the ATCs I received back...
Fabulous, aren't they???
Actually, what AM I saying??? Not much to report!!! I'm sure my pal Debs would be getting huffy right now because I went and stayed with her for the weekend in Cornwall (much to DHs disgust, LOL), and this photo was one of many taken over the weekend. But by far the funniest. There's a long story behind this, but I won't bore you all - you had to be there.
What I will say is - We love you Storm!
What else of note is there to impart to you, my humble readership? Not much, I spose, but if I remember, I will indeed return, and report!
Adieu.....
There's nothing particularly exciting to report at the moment, so I thought I would do something I promised a long long while back. Remember the "Time" ATC swap I did ages ago? Well - here's the long awaited picture of the ATCs I received back...
Fabulous, aren't they???
Actually, what AM I saying??? Not much to report!!! I'm sure my pal Debs would be getting huffy right now because I went and stayed with her for the weekend in Cornwall (much to DHs disgust, LOL), and this photo was one of many taken over the weekend. But by far the funniest. There's a long story behind this, but I won't bore you all - you had to be there.
What I will say is - We love you Storm!
What else of note is there to impart to you, my humble readership? Not much, I spose, but if I remember, I will indeed return, and report!
Adieu.....
Thursday, 19 June 2008
An age old question. Well, a question anyway...
On Aunty's Forum one of the girls has come up with a question. It's a good question.
Fi asks "Is it just me that is fed up with seeing the same images on some of the blogs?", wanting to know if anyone else felt the same.
I'd have to agree with her. A lot of the work we see is no longer "original" per se, but just continuous rehashes of someone's original work. A kind of "well, that works, I'll copy it and tweak it and and and....". Which is fine. It's all well and good. But when you see endless repetitions and variations of the same thing, it can get a little tiresome. And oh how I know and understand that. We have our own version of it on Auntys, called the monthly challenge. When the challenge calls for "monochrome with one embellishment of a winter colour" or "at least two bows and two buttons", you're going to see a lot of similar work. The challenge then becomes being original within that theme. If everyone else is using ribbon to make their bows, make yours out of paper or stamp and emboss them. The trouble is, it gets tiring trying to be original.
Another problem is where one is looking - if you're searching for inspiration it can be hard. Though I guess that if you're going to go looking at a blog called "Tilda & Co", you ought to expect there to be a lot of Tildas, just as there will be lots of inchies on the Inchy by Inch (or is it Inch by Inchy?? ) blog. I love the Inspirational blog as they showcase such a lot of talent, and a lot of ORIGINAL art. But again, after a while the art on there can seem to meld into one big blur of gorgeousness.
I suppose there are some collage images that are done to death (like the Paper Artsy ones) but I admire everyone that can do that kind of work and get away with it - oops, I mean succeed at it cos I just can't quite do it (Yay - Rosie, and Esther & Ruth). I try to be artsy, but fail miserably 90% of the time. I'm rarely original enough to call myself an artist, just a bit artistic. At least, I think that's what that bloke called me.
But yes - to answer the question I'd agree wholeheartedly with Fi. Something new and trendy comes out and everyone jumps on the bandwagon - gotta have the latest thing! Be it Tilda or Sugar Nellie or Lizzie Kate. Next up will be Maggie - and whilst we are all cheering Sally very loudly on..... I hope I don't get sick of the sight of Maggie. Bless her two dimensional cotton socks. I've got my eye on the witch Maggie - but I'd really like to see Medieval Maggie and Tudor Maggie, and perhaps even a Maid Marion Maggie complete with longbow and arrows.......
Sally?
Fi asks "Is it just me that is fed up with seeing the same images on some of the blogs?", wanting to know if anyone else felt the same.
I'd have to agree with her. A lot of the work we see is no longer "original" per se, but just continuous rehashes of someone's original work. A kind of "well, that works, I'll copy it and tweak it and and and....". Which is fine. It's all well and good. But when you see endless repetitions and variations of the same thing, it can get a little tiresome. And oh how I know and understand that. We have our own version of it on Auntys, called the monthly challenge. When the challenge calls for "monochrome with one embellishment of a winter colour" or "at least two bows and two buttons", you're going to see a lot of similar work. The challenge then becomes being original within that theme. If everyone else is using ribbon to make their bows, make yours out of paper or stamp and emboss them. The trouble is, it gets tiring trying to be original.
Another problem is where one is looking - if you're searching for inspiration it can be hard. Though I guess that if you're going to go looking at a blog called "Tilda & Co", you ought to expect there to be a lot of Tildas, just as there will be lots of inchies on the Inchy by Inch (or is it Inch by Inchy?? ) blog. I love the Inspirational blog as they showcase such a lot of talent, and a lot of ORIGINAL art. But again, after a while the art on there can seem to meld into one big blur of gorgeousness.
I suppose there are some collage images that are done to death (like the Paper Artsy ones) but I admire everyone that can do that kind of work and get away with it - oops, I mean succeed at it cos I just can't quite do it (Yay - Rosie, and Esther & Ruth). I try to be artsy, but fail miserably 90% of the time. I'm rarely original enough to call myself an artist, just a bit artistic. At least, I think that's what that bloke called me.
But yes - to answer the question I'd agree wholeheartedly with Fi. Something new and trendy comes out and everyone jumps on the bandwagon - gotta have the latest thing! Be it Tilda or Sugar Nellie or Lizzie Kate. Next up will be Maggie - and whilst we are all cheering Sally very loudly on..... I hope I don't get sick of the sight of Maggie. Bless her two dimensional cotton socks. I've got my eye on the witch Maggie - but I'd really like to see Medieval Maggie and Tudor Maggie, and perhaps even a Maid Marion Maggie complete with longbow and arrows.......
Sally?
Thursday, 12 June 2008
David Bailey, eat your heart out....
Woohooo!
This month my workplace ran a mini photo competition. I wasn't going to enter, as we have several extremely talented photographers, and I figured I didn't stand a hope in hell of winning anything. I mean, one of the guys does it as a professional hobby!!!
But I gave in and figured you've got to be in it to win it - and entered these bluebells, as per my earlier post....
and I got....
SECOND PRIZE!
No prize, just came second.... LOL
This month my workplace ran a mini photo competition. I wasn't going to enter, as we have several extremely talented photographers, and I figured I didn't stand a hope in hell of winning anything. I mean, one of the guys does it as a professional hobby!!!
But I gave in and figured you've got to be in it to win it - and entered these bluebells, as per my earlier post....
and I got....
SECOND PRIZE!
No prize, just came second.... LOL
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