It's been a long time

It's been such a long time since I blogged. The knee surgery has taken longer to get over than I first thought it would, and after feeling a vast improvement I now seem to be back in a downward spiral with a lot more leg pain. Anyway, less of that! I have been doing a few bits of crafting and the one I am most proud of is my coffee table.

We have redecorated in the lounge and so I decided to do the top of my coffee table. It is a much darker colour in real life dark duck egg, stamped with Dylusions and Tim Holtz crazy birds.. I actually coloured them with my Spectrum Noir colouring pencils and topped it off with three coats of clear varnish. I love it but some think I'm a bit of a weirdo.

I have done quite a few cards lately but I forgot to take pictures of a lot of them. My favourite is one I did for friends for their golden wedding

I made it to fit a gold box I'd had a card in and it looked really luxurious. It's nice when something turns out well.

I have used this stamp quite a lot for making cards, it's just a little bit qwerty!  This one was for Ashley, Rob was also 50 in May and I used the lady in the swimsuit that's on the coffee table for that one. Just have to make one for my daughter in law for her 50th which is on referendum day, racking my brain to see if I can bring that in in some way! Well that's all I have pictures of for now so will catch up later.

Happy Christmas

Sent with love

Few more pics for art journaling

The topic for these two pages were IrRESISTable and look fear in the eye

Would you like to see Halloween Eva, it's scary lol

I'm trying to do a gluten free diet so have been doing a bit of cooking, this chicken pie was so delicious

See you soon x

Christmas cards and stamps

These are a couple of cards I have done and the new stamps. Can't wait to try them but not today as its my big 70. Oooopppss where did the years go? 

Bubbles

This is challenge four in my art journaling group. I'm enjoying doing these challenges and I'm trying to use a different medium for each one. This time I have used neo colour 11 water soluble crayons. Painted over them with water and used black and white pens for decorating.

More art journaling

These are my first two pages from the new art journaling blog I belong to. The one on the left is to use your initials to do a page. This was just a painted background and then some doodling with black and white pens. The chicken one was titled flattering fabrics. I made these chickens during a workshop when I was patch working and never did use them. But I saved them and hey presto they fitted perfectly for this page. Background was painted and the picket fence was just strips of white card. Food for chickens was split peas, they came in useful for something as well.

Started to do a bit

It's a little difficult to see this, but a little person has just moved to endear you and wanted a frozen bedroom. This was a pine unit we used to keep her books in. Now it's her bedside cabinet. I painted it with white emulsion two or three times and when it was dry embossed snowflakes all over it. The handle I painted blue and sprinkled blue glitter over it. When it was dry I varnished the whole thing. She loves it anyway.