Bookmark card

On our crafty weekend we had a go at jewellery making - and bookmarks too!  I just loved the bookmarks so much - they were gorgeous.  So, I took photos of the ones we had made, posted them here and on my facebook page.  One of my friends commented on the photo on FB so I promised to send her the bookmark.  AND of course, I couldnt just send it - so I made it into a card!  YAY!

I coloured the card with my copics, loving the colour intensity of these - the image is from the Greetings Farm and I have had it printed out for absolutely ages, so it was great to use it now.

The little plaque thingy doodah was in our goody bag for the weekend - we had two packs of them each - and there are loads in each one - fabulous!

You can't actually see the bookmark very well in this pic, but if you want to get a better view of it, then you could just wheel through some of my previous posts to see it.  

AND, I finally managed to get my whole goody bag unpacked and put away - this has caused untold issues - it has just tipped me over from "full storage" to "not enough storage" - eeeek!  I now have to craft like I have never crafted before to try and regain control over my crafting area (our dining space!).

Gotta go and craft...NOW!

Rx

Crafty Weekend

Oh how we laughed!!!  That has to be the first thing I type!  I cant believe how well the various girlies bonded - no cross words, no short tempers - and thats 11 women in one house!  Some were loud, some were quiet - some drank lots (you know who you are N!!), some didnt (although there was an awful lot of tea consumed Shell!). 

I had an absolute blast.  

We had huuuuuge goodie bags - will get on here and thank the companies in the next couple of days.  

Amy and, her mum, Chris were incredible hosts.  They greeted me when I popped my head round the door after lunch on Friday, Chris cooked dinner on Friday evening - yummy and no mean feat for 11 people, I couldnt have done it!  They just made the weekend run so fabulously, without getting bossy!  

I bunked in with Shell - we spent two hours the first night chatting in bed!  Top girl - lots of giggles!  Mind you, we got a bit freaked when we found out that we share the same birthday and got married on the same date!  oooooo!   

Ok - I am not going to chat about everyone now!  I could be here all night!  I just came on to quickly show my weekend makes....which, I have to fess up, where not as prolific as most of the other girl's.  I blame it on the sore tummy muscles - they suddenly developed gigglyitis (when you laugh so much it hurts) and I think it affected my ability to craft!!!  Yeah right!

This card is so unlike me!!!  The stamp was from Crafts and Me.  How gorgeous is it?  We got given 6 stamps in total (I think - am still in shock!).  I really need to unpack my bag properly!  

I coloured the image with aquamarkers.  Now, I have a set of these at home already, but hadnt really used them much.  I saw the set Letraset had sent us to play with on the table and thought I really SHOULD get to playing with them.  What have I been missing?  I loved them so much - I am definitely going to be doing more with them.  I used them by scribbling on my glass mat and used a watercolour brush (the ones with a reservoir built into the brush) to pick up the colour. OK, its not the best ever, but I was quite chuffed for my first go! 

Amy showed me a new technique - using dreamcaster brushes - to do the edge of the card - now this is gonna be a staple for me from now on!

Bookmarks!!!!  I played around with beading etc years and years ago - but didnt really put any great effort into it.  Some of us had chosen to do some jewellery making and Amy and Sarah (Tiggertastic) showed us some great techniques.  I made the bookmarks first and will definitely be making more of these for Christmas pressies etc.  In fact, if you know me, you are likely to end up with one of these at some point!  They are just so sweeeeeet!

And this is the bracelet I made - yes, really, I made THIS!  It hurt the fingers a bit to do - and I seemed to take 3 times as long to make it as the other ladies!  BUT I DID IT!  Aint no one having this baby!

I mean....LOOOOOK!  I cant believe I did it!

In our bags, also (besides heaps of paper, card, embellishments, sparkly things, ribbons.....sooooooo much stuff - did I mention that?)  was some Sculpty stuff.  I am sure I am not the only person to have a lickle pack of fimo lurking at the back of a cupboard - bought it for Josh and he never used it!  Well, there was lots of it in our bags!

The blue and white "pendant" was what I formed from a blob Amy was playing with...then I made another one from the leftovers from the beads.   And the fried eggs?  Hey, I had fun ok! 

This is my little piggy.  Ok, you probably could have worked that one out for yourself!  Amy and Chris used to make these little piggies and showed me how to do one.  Well, actually, their ones looked far more refined than mine - my one is a flying pig!  Not on purpose, but look at the size of those ears!  The metal bit sticking up the middle is so that I can put it on a phone dongle!  Mind you, I nearly didnt manage to impale him with it because Shell kept making "piggy screaming" noises and making me feel awful! 

This was my bear - again, stating the obvious (at least I hope so!).  

It was such a wonderful weekend, with a lovely talented group of ladies!  I learnt lots of new stuff and got to play with materials and STUFF that I had not experienced before.  

Ok -thats me done for tonight - gonna go and have a play!

Rx

Delicious Doodles - Something New!

Over at Delicious Doodles, to celebrate the New Year, the challenge is to "something new" - either to try a new technique or use something new!

Oh I did find this hard!  And I went and did something I should never do....I looked at what my other teamies had made.....bad idea!  There are some seriously fabby things over there...which, of course, made me panic!

 I had in mind that I would like to make a set - of some shape or form!  So, in my usual organised way, I chose an image, printed it out in a couple of different sizes and then....stared at it!

 Then I remembered a technique I wanted to try - embossing (yes I know I have done this before) but then using pigment mineral thingies over the top - to make it sheeny shiny!

This is the notepad and pen set. 

The inside of the notepad and pen set - and a little box - the flower has a centre which says "my favourite things" - same on the notepad.  

 And that little lot, with the card - which I didnt take a close-up of but is in the top picture on the right - left me with one image!  Well, waste not want not...I made a little bookmark to complete the set.

This is a closeup of the strip - shiny.

Please do pop over to Delicious Doodles and join in our challenge - you can win some rather nice images!

Thanks for popping over today!

Rx

PS!  Have also entered these in the following challenges who all have either anything goes, something new or 3d gifts!

 http://crazychallenge.blogspot.com/
Craft your passion
Kaboodle Doodles
Creative Card Crew
Fab 'n' funky
Simon Says Stamp
Fussy and Fancy

I kept seeing these corner bookmarks around - so, of course, thought I just had to have a go!  I also had the perfect image for it...Mr and Mrs Owl from Delicious Doodles.  It was a breeze to make too!
 

I coloured them in with promarkers - then used sakura glaze on the feet and beaks and sakura tiara on their collars.  I decided it looked a little plain, so I went to town with the glitter....hmmmm, spent ages "scratching" it off Mr Owl's face after I saw this photo!

Hee hee - my son is now using it as his bookmark....why do I never get to keep any bookmarks for me?
Brainwave - whenever I make a bookmark, I will make two - identical!  Then I will get one to keep!  If you would like to buy this image then pop over to here!

Have a lovely Sunday and thanks for popping by!

Ruthie x

Little something for the dinner lady!

We went to buy Josh's school dinner tickets this morning and he told me that the lovely lunch lady, who has made him soooo welcome in his new school, had a birthday last week (or possibly the week before!  LOL).

When Josh joined this school, he came from an independent (private) school which had 8 children in a year.  He was very much a big fish in a small pond!  He was constantly getting dmerits because he would chat and giggle (challenging authority was what it was called) - although his class teacher didnt have a problem with him!  Very long story cut short....we decided to move him - within a week at his new school we were asked to go and get him checked for ADD.  Despite us having asked the original school loads of times if this was a possibility!  I have since had parents come and say that they felt that Josh was being picked on by certain teachers.

Although Josh was said to be "challenging authority", all the teachers (from the original and current school) have said he was a kind, caring and polite child!

About a week or so after starting the new school, I went into the canteen to buy some lunch tickets and the lady (Lisa) said Hi to Josh, by name!  OK there are 120 children in each year - and 4 years in the school ...so of course, being a mum who doesnt have rose tinted glasses (!!!) I questioned how she knew him by name already...she replied that Josh is one of her quiet ones and is always so polite!


I am so sad about what Josh went through at his old school - the sneaking suspicions I had that Josh was being as "challenging" as they said etc - he is not an angel (what child is?) and I am not naive!  But we now realise that talking in the lunch hall, chatting during choir practice etc are not grounds for suspension (he was threatened with this!!!!) - in the state schools, if you are suspended you are violent or abusive!!!

Wow - thats turned out to be a bit of a long post!

Inside the card are 8 bookmarks - the tag reads "Colour you own disposable bookmarks" and they are just a variety of images printed onto card.

The sentiment reads "Elephants never forget...but we did!"

Think thats about it for now!

Gonna go and hug my boy now!

Rx

Fairy Bookmark

I needed a bookmark!  I have just started reading books for the book award we run - so much fun!  But I needed a bookmark - can't believe I have lost EVERY SINGLE ONE!  I know that I leave them in books I return to the library, so lets hope that someone else is enjoying using them!

I have to say a quick thankyou to Vicki (Scrap Junkie) who sent me over this image - saw it on her blog and just loved it so I asked her where it came from and she sent me a bunch of different fairies - all from colouring pages I think!

But isn't she beautiful?

This picture doesn't do the twinkly bits any justice at all (as ever)....there is mock stitching around the whole thing too!  Well, I guess if I tell you then you can peer closer (or not, as the fancy takes you!).  )h, and I thought the paper looked a little plain, so I got my sakura glazes out onto it!

I think that I can just about sneak this in for Sir Stampalot's Challenge which was to use a punch!  Honest....look at the bottom....yes, its tiny, but its there!!!  Ooooo - wonder if I can also claim the corner punch??????


thanks for looking

Rx

AudSentiments - Hello Friend!

The Challenge on AudSentiments this week is to use the phrase "Hello Friend".  We were very lucky to be able to pick an image each from our sponsor Soft Pencil to play with - so I made a little set of goodies.

A little card....hmmmm, now what did I learn when I made this card?

Oh Yes - I learnt that, when you cut away the front of the card in just the way that I did, your card won't stand up!  LMBO!

Hence the little stand!




And then I made a notebook and bookmark to go with the card.

I had such a blast making these - just can't wait to see what everyone else comes up with!

OK - pop over to AudSentiments (link in sidebar!) and check out the other goodies the DT have come up with. 
Thanks for looking   Rx