Last week of our Birthday Month

wow hasn't that gone quickly?

This week Ang has chosen the theme for our last Twinchie (2"x2") and she has chosen:-

Crowns

so, here is my crown twinchie:-

The base is another fabulous Tando Creative Twinchie, which has been distressed using two different inks and then spritzed with crafty notions white spray, then stamped over with a T!m stamp and then a new paperartsy mini stamp - the bird is made out of metal and is another new Paperartsy stamp, the body and crown was puffed out and filled and then when set painted with inka gold. The edges were doodled before Inka gold was used. A few gems finished off the piece.

We have another FAB sponsor this week, the lovely Caroline from Bubblyfunk has donated a fabulous range of goodies for this weeks lucky winner


- Bubblyfunk are also a named stockist for the Tando Creative range, Caroline also stocks a varied range of crafting goodies at a really good price, and delivery is always so prompt - so do pop along to her shop and treat yourself.

this weeks GD is Karen, Karen is new to blogging but is a long term crafter to do pop on over to her blog and see what she has created.

Pop on over to SCD this week and see what the others have created and if you fancy a chance of winning this weeks blog candy and the months stash all you have to do is create a 2"x2" piece of art solely for SCD and your name will go into the pot!

TFL xx

ATC's

Over at Chriss Rollins, Swap til you drop blog the theme this month was peeled paint....

and this is what I came up with....

The paint is by Claudine Hellmuth and the images were printed off the net, I'm really sorry but I can't remember where from! I think it might have been a link thro' Chriss's blog - the backgrounds were all overstamped with Tim's stamps....and black viva pearl pens drops in the corners.....the edges were all treated to the viva inka gold treatment!! lolxx

Also, Chriss and I are doing a 1-1 swap, so, look away Chriss, (these should be with you tomorrow tho')

The theme was "Marie Antoinette" and "Rock the Clock"

TFL xx

week 3 in our Birthday month

over at SCD - where on earth is this year going? although I will be glad to see the end of this week - its been one dramatic incident after another! believe me!!

So, onto week 3 of the Birthday Month over at SCD...and its the lovely Dawn's turn to choose the theme, and she's chosen:-

Paris

Dawn has been awol recently due to having moved house - but, she's back this week!

So, here's my piece:_

The base is another piece of Tando white board - this board is really hardy! believe me! I coated the piece with terra and then heated it till it bubbled, then when cool I painted it and then added perfect pearls spritzing it with water. The little Eiffel Tower, and the wording "Tower Eiffel" are from a stamp by Invoke, the lettering was stamped using little 99p stamps! all the stamped images were coated with glossy accents and edged using inka gold! The little flower and butterfly are charms which were lightly covered with the inka gold. All the edging around the twinchie was done using inka gold (can you see a pattern appearing here?? lolxx).
Right, I'll let you into a secret - I did intend to have an "appearance" each week of the previous weeks theme, so last week you saw a flower, but, it also had a butterfly, and this week, as well as the current theme I've also got a flower and butterfly - I created next weeks twinchie last night and I can't do all four!! so, thats it, game over!! roflxx

This week we have the very talented Artyjen with us, as you know, or may not know, she's the current "Craft Stamper of the year Stamper" so we're very priviledged to have her join us, she has also, very generously donated this weeks prize too...so Thank you Sioux xx

Don't forget it's my class day over at papermaze on Saturday - for those of you that are coming please don't wear anything nice this week, its very messy!! roflxx also, please bring your craft mats and blending tools if you have them...along with normal crop tools! see you then xx

TFL xx

Happy Birthday SCD

so, on the 15th May 2009 SCD was launched. The first challenge was Twinchies and the first theme was "Wings" - 18 players took part and off we went on the start of our challenge journey!

We've had a great 12 months - we've had some fab guest designers, now some sponsors and seen some fab artwork along the way. A very Big Thank you to everyone that has taken time out to join us.

This week, Hels Sheridan has joined us as Guest Designer, pop on over to SCD to see her lovely twinchie.

The theme for this week is:-

Flowers

Here is my Birthday Flowers Twinchie:-


The base is a gorgeous Tando Creative twinchie which has been coloured using distress inks. The flower has been created by using distress inks on grungepaper and then stamping out flowers by studio 490, the leaves are a martha stewart punch and the butterfly one of sir T!m's....bling and a bit of stickles finish off the piece.

This is what is on offer this week for our lucky winner...


its part of the very generous selection donated to us by this weeks sponsor, Tando Creative. The twinchies in the top left hand section of the picture is what I've used to create my twinchie this week.

To be in with a chance of winning, pop on over to SCD and take part in this weeks challenge - everyone has a chance to win and also go into the pot for the monthly stash prize - multiple challenge blog entries won't be taken into consideration tho!

Hope that you can join us during our "Birthday" week.

have a good weekend.

xx

Birthday Month...

over at SCD this month. Can't believe that "my little baby" lol, is nearly a year old!

To celebrate we have some fab things lined up:-
Each week we have a special guest designer joining us and we will have weekly blog candy to give away too - each week everyone's name will be added to the "hat" and will be in with a chance of winning the monthly stash -which believe me, is well worth entering....(piccies to follow!) the only critieria is that you make themed pieces solely for SCD - multiple entries will not be eligible for the win!

So, without further ado whats the challenge and theme this month/week?

To celebrate our birthday month we are returning to:-

"Twinchies"

these were our very first challenge and we thought it would be apt to revisit them....a Twinchie is a 2"x2" piece of craft....

This week, to kick us off...the very talented Gez has chosen the theme of "Butterflies" - and the GD this week is the lovely Zoe, take a trip and visit her gorgeous blog - she has also written a bio which is on the SCD blog...Zoe has also kindly donated this weeks prize of a plate of Tanda stamps - which the winner can choose! so a massive Thank you to Zoe for donating those!

Here is my Butterfly Twinchie



background card and a piece of white paper were coloured using distress inks. The background was overstamped with a T!m Holtz stamp. Using the coloured paper I punched out butterfly's and adhered them to the base, gems were added to create a body. Little butterflies were stamped and hi-lighted using glossy accents. The word butterfly is computer generated and hi-lighted using glossy accents. The edges were doodles and hi-lighted with gold dauber.

Pop on over to the SCD blog and see what the other DT'ers have come up with. Can't wait to see all your Butterfly Twinchies.

Just to let you know that I won't be able to comment this weekend as I'm going to be enjoying my Christmas Present - a weekend at the "Artsycrafts" weekend! how lucky am I?

see you all Sunday night!!

TFL xx

please bear with me this morning, have just spent the last hour trying to get SCD to publish there is something wrong with the html coding, it will go live as soon as I can re-type and post it all xx

The last letter....

well folks over at SCD this week its the last letter theme - its been a fantastic month which has seen loads of players each week and lots of new ones taking part too which is just great!

Next month is our Birthday Month and we have something VERY VERY special lined up so don't forget to join us next Friday...

So, this week its Laura's turn to choose the letter and she has chosen:-

"X"

Ok so not an easy one, but, our SCD'ers this month have been extremely clever and come up with some fantastic takes on our theme so can't wait to see what you all create this week...

so, here's my piece:-


the base is stampbord which has been coloured using a variety of alcohol inks....then using a grungeboard letter as a stencil I scratched around it and then blocked out the relevant parts....the little metal flower is one of T!m's. I beaded some wire to make the hanger and the bottom is a length of beaded trim.

Pop on over to SCD and see what the others have created. The lovely Dawn isn't joining us for the next couple of weeks as she's eventually moving into her new house - so we all wish you well Dawn!

TFL xx

Tando Creative - flying solo...

Today is my first "solo" DT post over at Tando Creative.

Di sent me a few pieces to play with and as soon as I saw the frame I knew what I wanted to do with it... after seeing the pieces created in Tim's workshops for the few lucky ones, I decided that this would be a great piece to have a go with.....

The finished result:-


Firstly I prepped the chipboard pieces - the frame comes in two sections, the scalloped front and a base. Then you have the stand, which also comes in two pieces...
I painted all the pieces with acryllic paint and then when dry the frame front was dry brushed with acryllic and viva ferro added to a corner, stamped over and then dry brushed with paint.
Using some scraps of left over paper which had been stamped, embossed, distressed and AI'd I adhered fragments and created little gems....These were then placed around the frame and a couple of pieces of Tim's Ideaology range adhered too....
The centre is a piece of Tim's new paper range with Wendy Veechis stamps stamped onto distressed grungepaper....

The stand was stamped with Purple Onion stamps and then embossed before being dry brushed with paint...
and, as you can see will make a great stand for photographing all those "other" pieces...

TFL and I hope you like my first "solo" piece.

xx