The new challenge this fortnight over at The Stamp Man is being hosted by Vix and her choice of challenge is to use red. We want to see your cards, altered projects, tags and more that contain "red" Preferably lots of it. For my project I created a card. The image is done with Every Woman Is A Star - Plate 82 - Non-Sequitur stamp set colored with Tim Holtz Distress ink - Barn Door, Fired Brick, Aged Mahogany, Black Soot and Old Paper. The star is colored using a Gold Pen. The background is colored with Brick Red Distress ink and stamped then layered with Gold Mesh Paper from The Stamp Man.

Now pop on over to The Stamp Man Blog and see all the great samples from the rest of the team. the join in. We can't wait to see your creations. We really enjoyed seeing all the fav's last fortnight. There are lots of really amazing projects out there. It was wonderful to see them all.

Thanks for stopping by and have a wonderful day. Angela

Try it on Tuesday challenge

Its that time again and the changes are brewing at Try it on Tuesday. This weeks Theme is Resist. So we would like to see all your ideas for resist techniques on a tag. It can be glue resist, emboss resist, ink resist or anything you can think of.

Remember it is tag week.

For my tag I used an embossing resist technique and multiple layers of distress ink. i decided to do a winter tag since it was snowing when I started my tag.

You can hop on over to the TIOT blog for more wonderful samples from the DT.

keep an eye out for some of the new things we have in store for you.

We cannot wait!

Thanks for stopping in and have a great day. Angela

Another crafty weekend

I got to go to a crop this past Saturday with the usual crowd plus a few. Seems like everyone has plenty to work on after the holidays. Even the kids got a lot done. This page I did as a kind of challenge from my friends. One was going on about using these buttons since they are really old from EK success. Then they started teasing me about how I use the Bubble wrap scraps for my painting so I decided I would also incorporate some of that. This page was the outcome of all their taunting. I stamped on the buttons with a script stamp from "The Stamp Man" and used grey Dylusions paint with the bubble wrap to add some texture. I also added some paint around the edges. The flowers are Prima and the Letters are from American Craft. The papers are from MME.

The pictures are of another one of our Fosters Maddy who was only with us for a few days. We are currently fosterless now as we wait for a new furry friend to temporarily join the crew. Lexi went into a trial adoption over the holiday so we are still waiting to hear when that is final. That was hard because Lexi was really special and since we were away we did not get to say goodbye. She will always hold a special place in our hearts. It was a tough decision not to adopt her ourselves but if we did we would have to give up the fostering as 2 would be enough to handle and our house is tiny. So we made the decision to continue fostering. I find the older dogs so much harder to part with than the puppies. Although each one is hard in its own way.

Back on the crafty front. Not much else accomplished this weekend. Just a few DT projects and a lot of Chit Chatting throughout the day on Sat. Sunday I finally got to hook up with my crafting Pal Anne from the UK on Skype. We have been trying to hook up for quite awhile now but never seem to be around at the same time. It was so nice getting to talk and catch up . I also got to talk and catch up with another friend Sandra and her girls from our old Village in England. Sunday seems to have become our skyping day.

Well that is about all to tell for the moment. Got a lot of work to accomplish today and tomorrow so I had better get too it.

Thanks for stopping in and have a lovely day. Angela

double digits.....

Yesterday my baby turned 10. I cannot believe she is in the double digits now. Seems like yesterday she was just a baby on my lap. where does the time go? She wanted me to make her a cake again and wanted butterflies. Of course my Tim Holtz stamps came in handy. I stamped all the butterflies on vellum and colored with my Promarkers. I then gluedotted them to Tooth picks and placed them around the cake. Belle loved it. The cake itself was a Victoria sponge one of her favorites.

Belle had lots of Pressies to open so she opened them in size order saving the biggest for last of course she had to fight off Sun(our furbaby) while opening her gifts. Sun loves to open pressies and gets very jealous if she does not have anything to open so she started to open Belles.

Sorry I had to black out the family as they are not too thrilled being on my blog.

Below is a pic of the butterflies when they were taken out of the cake. So pretty.

So it was a lovely evening. Today was spent cleaning up and tidying the house including my craft room which was torn apart right before we left for Orlando. Now its all nice and neat and ready to start crafting in.

Now I am off to tidy up the dishes from tea. Thanks for stopping in and have a wonderful day. Angela

Its time for the first Challenge of 2012 at TIOT

Happy New Year! The new challenge is up over at Try it on Tuesday and the first challenge of the Year is "Do it Yourself" You need to create a card with all your own papers and embellies. No store bought stickers or papers. Easy enough, Huh? I chose to make my card with various Stamps from Tim Holtz and The Stamp Man, Distress inks and distress stains. I love making my own backgrounds it is fun and inspiring to see what you can come up with. Now we would love to see your lovely creations. Just link them up at The Try it on Tuesday blog. You can also see lots more great inspiration there from my teamies. this week we are being sponsored by our wonderful card week Sponsor " One Stop Card Crafts".

Now on another note I am sorry to have been so MIA lately. We have been away on a long holiday to Orlando. It was nice to spend Christmas in Disney and get away from the cold. Unfortunately a cold found me as I wound up sick most of the trip but had fun anyway. Here is a shot of the castle all lit up for the evening.

And this is a bit hard to see but it snowed (yes I did say snow) each night on Main street. It was wonderful. The little white spots in the frame are snow coming down from the roofs of the buildings.

Now it is back to the daily grind of school and work and of course crafting. One of my New Years resolutions is to craft and blog/visit more. Fingers crossed I can accomplish it.

For now I am off to get everything ready for the day.

Thanks for stopping in and hope you had a wonderful New Year and Holiday season. Angela

Stamp Man ATC for January

The new Theme for January at The Stamp Man ATC swap is "Recycle". One of my favorite themes. Unfortunately being on Holiday this week with only a small stash of supplies creates quite a challenge. Just up my alley. I used a recycled Christmas card for the card and the bird. The background is done using distress inks and stains and a recycled plastic piece. the stamping uses Non Sequitur Across the Miles stamp set for the script with watered down Walnut Distress stain. Now its time to go have a little play then why not join in the swap with us? We would love to have you. Details can be found here.

Now don't forget The Stamp Man is holding their 3rd Annual awards so please do pop on over and check it out here!

Thanks for stopping in and for all the wonderful visits and comments throughout 2011.

Wishing you a wonderful New Year! Angela

The Stamp Man 3rd Annual Favorite crafting project awards

Its Time for the 3rd annual Stamp Man Annual Awards challenge and we'd love you to join us this year by proudly presenting your best/favorite project that you feel you have made during the year.

It doesn't have to be something you entered for our challenges, Just as long as it was something you enjoyed making and would like to share. The most important part of this challenge is to have fun and enjoy taking time to look back on your crafting over the last year.

My favorite project of 2011 was from the Dragonflies and Butterflies challenge. You can view my original post here. I loved making the vellum butterflies and the cage from recycled plastic packaging and one of my favorite stamps the mesh from the Christmas set Aspects of Design. The butterflies and dragon flies are also another well used set in my collection. On gossamer wings.

Now if you pop on over to The Stamp Man Challenge blog you can see all the other DT favs from the year and then show us yours.

There will be a random prize draw for the top prize which will be

£30 of Stamp Man Gift Vouchers, and 4 runner up prizes!

For a chance to win a prize you must:

- Display The Stamp Man award blinkie in your sidebar

- Link to a post about our annual awards. Within the post you should then either show your project again or you can place a link to your original project whichever you wish to do.

- Use Inlinkz on The original Stamp Man post to link to your post.

We have really enjoyed viewing all your wonderful work throughout 2011 and hope you will join us again in 2012. Thanks for popping in and have a wonderful New Year!

Angela