New blogger ..screammmmmmm

Hi can any of you help me out here, I have been using new blogger on and off since it was announced, and the last couple of weeks were OK, you have to get use to where things are now but hey-ho. That was until thursday, omg, its all gone crazy, my 2020 card file where I keep everything waiting to be blogged appeared to be empty, I really struggled every which way and ended up having to do my post via copy and paste from else where, but as soon as I reverted to Legacy it all appeared again, so just tried again, because there are a few things I liked about  the new one, to no avail, all gone again, its bizarre and PLEASE, don't tell me to go to the Help page or any other page, no one is listening.....SO, can anyone help please, oh and yes, no comments were showing up and a friend contacted me to ask why..!!!!!!!!

CraftyCatz challenge #512 ATG

Good morning what a week its been lots of ups and downs, all best put in a box and tied up real tight.

This weeks challenge is hosted by myself and the optional theme is Friendship/Friends you know what I mean.

We have another lovely sponsor for you with alot of images to chose from in the shop HERE

Some Odd Girl who so kindly provided our images.

I used  Lounging Dakota from SOG and the wall is from DisDigi Images, I won it ages ago and have used a couple of times.

Coloured with Copic and Flex markers. Stamp from a set I won.

Thats all for today, have a lovely weekend.

Yes I am here again....

Ok so I thought I would do a few more Christmas things while in the mood, so here is another of the wooden hearts I got from the works recently, done old style, I say that because anyone who has been here alot over the years will remember me making a few many Christmas' ago for friends.

So covered it with some old paper I found and cut round when dry.

Sprayed with CC spray and shine and quickly covered with fine glitter, hot glued some silver beads round about and added some little wood embellishments, honestly I have had them for so long its criminal, the image was coloured with alcohol markers and I cut a frame and covered it with glitter and added some plastic over the image so its like a photo in a frame..The plastic was from the kids Christmas gifts last year, Yes, I am that Nanna who follows them around while they open gifts so she can 'nab' whatever may come in handy...

Thats it again folks, don't think I will be back now until Friday, I do not want you getting sick of me.

Thanks for any comments I love to read them. Off now to binge watch some more Parks and Recreation, laugh so much at this fabulous programme.

Christmas card..

Happy Sunday and I hope your doing better than we are weather wise, after a long stormy night, it was so dark this morning it was like winter, now its sunny one minute and stormy skies the next, I managed to get a couple of pics from my front window I will add at the foot of this post, so much for flaming June, ha !!

Right, the other day doing my rounds in blogland I came across this gorgeous Santa image on Brenda's blog, well I just had to get him, he is from QKR Stampede.

Coloured with Copic and promarkers, lots of shimmer  and little bells, do think he's cute.

Sorry for the blurry image

Hope you like, you can find him and more HERE.

Thats it for now, here are the pics I took earlier, right now the sun is beaming although still very blustery.

Sunny Saturday...yay!!!!

Hi everyone I hope your having a good weekend, happy midsummers day also, gosh the longest day already....

OK, so if you read my post the other day about all the stuff I am up to at the moment you will know I mentioned doing a woodern heart, omg, its been an uphill battle,  ANYWAYS, its here, love it or hate it,  it drove me nuts.

This thing hs been so many different colours, I put down a base coat of hessian, stencilled some brick work with stencil paste and then started to build it up, I broke up a mdf window and added that across, the smile is also mdf from CraftStash, then added power tex beads, metal scissors, broke a couple of paint brushes and also made two little pencils, wood hearts and the butterfly I made heaven knows when from air dry clay, everything is more or less oldish stash.

So finally this morning I added some gold and copper acrylic, still not doing it for me, thought it looked rusty and to be honest, thats not my thing at all, so added glitter, NOPE, then thought I wonder if that creamy stuff I bought and hardly use will bring it to life, yep, I am liking it better but even now it could all change before it makes its journey, haha...

Great stuff should use it more...

Here is where it started out.

This was collecting things, the flowers didn't make it, they are clay, been in a jar for two or more years and still not found a use, but you never know

The paint in the picture was to be the next step, may as well have never bothered but thats the way crafting goes at times.

Sorry for the long post, I hope you tell me if you think its ok, I really don't mind the truth you know, haha...

Enjoy whats left of the day, its gorgeous here at the moment and I have a Christmas card to finish...

CraftyCatz challenge #511 ATG + optional twist

Good morning and happy friday to all, hope your all safe and well and dodging this awful virus.

This week at CraftCatz our host is Jac who chose the theme of B/W and one other colour.

Our sponsor is LBB and you can find all images HERE

For my card I used the Dreamcatcher #3 image

Back to Basics DP and the colour is a promarker,easy peasy

Hope you can come and join us.

Thats all for now, see you all later.

Hello .

Hi and what a horrible afternoon it is, ok so I am nipping on as fast as I can to add this note book cover I made, its been hanging around since February 2019 and I couldn't find anything to make with it, I had a paint pouring session one day and I loved how this turned out, then last week sent for a little note book as I could not be bothered making one, and it just came now with my poor long suffering postie Ian, drowned rat sprang to mind as I opened the door..poor thing. anyway, here it is at last.

Just acrylic paints but I love the gold, cut a long piece of tough black card and scored it to the length I needed, added some leather cord and a charm I have had since I started crafting.

This is the start of it.

Little pad all in place, so chuffed, I can now use it for doodling and zentangle, which I LOVE.

Thats it till tomorrow, but I do have a few things on the go, just finishing a jewellery box that needed a re-do and making a woodern heart piece, the paint is drying as I type this. I hope you like, thanks so much for any comments.xx

CraftyCatz challenge #510 ATG

Good morning, so another week has passed us by and we have another lovely challenge for you.

This week our host is non other than everyones favourite lady Ginny, and the optional twist she chose is Add a number.

Our sponsor this week is DisDigiStamps

You can view the shop HERE

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For my card I used  Mo Manning image, I do love this cutie.

 

Coloured with Copic and Flexmarkers, nice sprinkle of glitter, the christmas word die was from craftstash and the number is I think crafters companion...I think, which I cut a few times and glittered up.

Did sparkle the edges up and then used lift tape.

Hope you like, this one will be going to a very special little cutie and he could very well be out having a snowball fight if he keeps growing like he is...haha

Thats all for today, I hope you are all keeping well, I am still 'under house arrest', as I call it, but better safe than sorry. Stay safe lovely people, and come on over and join our challenge.xx

Happy birthday Auntie Sue......

Today is my good friend Sue's birthday, this is the card I made her and my lovely postie 'Ian' actually took it and posted for me, bless him..haha..

A 'Mo'  image, of course, Joanie, you can find all Mo images HERE, I think she looks like Sue, the sentiment is also a 'Mo' it came with another image,I printed the image out twice, cut one out for a mask and had some fun, did lots of paint splats because we are always talking about what we should be doing with our paints and powders and never really geting into it, image coloured with Copic and promarkers, ribbon is stash, cardstock is papermill.

Inside view and abit of the envelope.

Entering the following challenges.

Mo's digipencil ATG

CD Sunday challenge, not just CD's anymore. ATG

Thats about it, I hope she has a great day with her brand new grandson Rory.

Thanks so much for any comments you may leave.

CraftyCatz challenge #509 ATG

Morning to all, hope your doing well wherever you are..

This week our challenge is hosted by Christine, she would like the optional theme to be CAS, nice and easy one.

We have a great sponsor again with Bugaboo who very kindly provided the team images. You can find them and lots more HERE

I used Brats best friends.

Coloured with copic and promarkers, paper from an old pad.
Oval dies eBay and word die Diamond press.

 

Hope you can come along and join us, we love to see your creations.

Have a lovely Day.x