Easel Cards

I was asked to make a couple of cards so I chose the easel style as they both required quite a few different pictures on them.

They were both for 50th birthdays.

Huge MDF Tags

This is a 12" x 6.5" mdf tag covered with a piece of TH paper and then stencilled with gathered twig and iced spruce distress inks and a bit of background stamping in the same colours with Seths borders.

I added a couple of the vignette boxes with some bits and bobs inside them, and then some other ephemera onto the tag. The numbers and letters don't represent anything, they are just random!

And finally I coloured a piece of rope with distress stains in vintage photo and ice spruce, however it turned out green!! And the sun was out so I took the photo outside.

I covered this tag in a piece of spiders web paper, the silver web is actually embossed onto the paper. I intended to create a spooky kind of tag.

As you can see, it didn't turn out spooky at all, in fact, I think it looks more like a clown than a skull as the wings look like tufts of hair!!

And this time I used black soot to colour the rope, and again the photo is taken outside and it hi-lights the embossed background. I guess it's still spooky it an odd kind of way!!

I decided to paint the skull with carbon black media paint and then wiped some of it back to reveal the colours underneath.

So this is what it looks like now. It may stay like this or it may not!

Changed it yet again, added and wiped back white antiquing cream.

This is it now, not changing it any more!!

Holiday Scrapbook Pages

So I have finally finished all my scrapbook pages of our holiday photos. Don't worry, I won't bore you with them all. I've just selected a few to share with you, this is the front page.

Those of you who know me know by now that I don't do anything fancy as to me it's the photos that should be the centre piece.

Simple matting and layering.

Martin went on a snowcat ride and he got to sit in the front of the cab.

Plain card stamped with snowflakes in decoart chalky white paint (everlasting).

All in all I ended up with 27 pages and now need to buy some more page protectors as there is only enough for 20 in the book I have!

Mail Art Money Envies for Christmas

As luck would have it, I needed some Christmas money envelopes for my niece and nephews and it just so happens that over on the PaperArtsy blog they have a theme of mail art.

Scrapbook Pages - Holiday 2015

Just to let you know that these pages are all extremely plain and simple, and most photos are just matt and layered and placed on a 12 x 12 piece of card with a few stickers thrown in, but that's just how I wanted them to be as I like the photos to be the main focus. So this is the front page with the abbreviations of the states we visited.

And then our journey from Utah to Wyoming began and we also went through Idaho along the way.

We stopped over at a lovely place called Bucks T-4.

And skied at Big Sky, Montana.

Steep downhill pitch.

The top photo of this page is taken from the highest point we could get to via the tram.

And opposite is another resort owned by a private ski club!!

Then on the way back down to Wyoming, we didn't realise until we went past the sign, that we actually dipped into Yellowstone, so we went back to get a photo!! Below is one of the snow coaches that take visitors around the park in winter.

I've always wanted to see a Bison or it's other name, a buffalo, and as we were coming back through Idaho, we found a whole herd of them in a field. Not quite what I was expected as I wanted to see a wild one, but this was good enough for now!! And when we were back in Utah the deer came on the front of the B&B we were staying in.

Whilst still in Yellowstone I saw a wolf and when we pulled into a layby he was just joining his 3 mates. You probably can't see on the bottom photo, but there are 4 wild wolves there, glad the water was between us!!

Then we stopped off for a ski in Targhee before heading back to Utah.

Next we hit Powder Mountain, except this year, there wasn't much powder, in fact the snow depth was extremely low because in all our years of going we have never ever seen the car in the creek!!

And finally the snow came!! Only 4 x 4's or chains were allowed up the canyon.

And the next day was a blue sky day, so we went to Snowbird.

And so did everyone else, I'm not sure if you can see the queue's at the lift in the top photo.

And we took a trip up the cable car and took a photo of it one the way down.

And finally the full moon rising from out balcony.

Thanks for looking xx