Vintage ladies and Tuesday Treasures

I was hoping to get a Smash Book done for today as I had seen my blogging friend Silvia make one but hopefully next time round.
So for today .....

Here is a set of four cards, all in the same design, just different images. I have made them to be part of different sets which will become presents for our hosts and family when we go to America in the summer.

 I will show you the others as they get made.

The music score is TH tissue wrap, images I found in a pack which came from a craft fair eons ago. 

I stamped the French text on the backing piece. 

All pieces were lightly edged with walnut stain.

The sentiment and insert I made myself using frames from Digital Crea. Flowers and ribbon, a heart and pearl to finish it all off.

Aren't these vintage ladies treasures?

If you have something special you would like to share this week, please link below and I will come over to take a look. This is all about sharing the good things, the treasures we have made or just something special this week. It is just for fun so thanks for joining in.

hugs {brenda} xox

PanPastels - Father's Day

OK how different is this for me? I longingly look at the LiM cards people make and wish I could do that and yes this is fairly LiM but it took me ages, and I mean AGES to make.

The panel is made with PanPastels blended for the background, a stamp by Oxford Impressions, some music paper, sentiment and baker's twine.

This is perfect for my husband for Father's Day, I hope he likes it.

I am looking forward to seeing the entries at PanPastel UK this week and there is a generous prize of a PP set from Your Creativity Store.

I hope you have been having a good weekend - enjoy Sunday.

hugs {brenda] xox

Listen to this

Helene from Lotsa Scrap shared this on her blog. 

I love Florence and the Machine and this is performed so beautifully.

I thought you might enjoy it as well.

hugs {brenda} xox

Tuesday Treasures

Tuesday and a Bank Holiday here in the UK which feels like a Sunday  and because of that I almost forgot Tuesday Treasures, but my treasure fits the theme of the weekend with the Diamond Jubilee celebrations at an end now.

These were the celebrations last night at the Diamond Jubilee Concert. The queen obviously enjoyed herself.

We had a small gathering a my neighbour's house on Saturday night and I managed to finish the bunting I was making just in time.

There are 65 finished triangles and they have been sewn back-to-back so 130 of them cut altogether. I wouldn't have got it done without Becca who cut them and started sewing them together last weekend.

Now completed this measures at least 18 metres long and went all round the conservatory and through into the dining room.

The next time it will be used is for our summer Diamond Celebrations garden party in July as Ken and I both celebrate diamond birthdays this year.

I hope you have had a great weekend and enjoyed some sort of celebrations.

If you have a special treasure you would like to share please link it below and I will be over to see you as soon as possible.

I do have to warn you that I have internet problems at the moment. There is a network fault with Virgin and they tell me it could be a whole week before it is resolved. In that time I will only have intermittent service, but I will get over as soon as I can.

Have a great week and see you again soon.

hugs {brenda} xox

PanPastels Vintage

Hello Everyone, this is my second post for today, please scroll down one to find my DT piece for FSC.

As you can see Vintage is the theme this week at the PanPastels UK Challenge blog and I have created a card using a fabulous Crafty Individuals stamp CI-056, coloured with PanPastels - turquoise shade, phthalo green, magenta, raw umber and titanium white. I sealed it with spray and shine.

I ran a piece of card through the Damask embossing folder and again swiped magenta and white PP over it and layered everything with some vintage elements and flowers.

We would love to see your vintage art this week and you do not need to use PanPastels at all, but if you enter you stand a chance of winning a fabulous set of PanPastels from Your Creativity Store.

I hope the weather cheers up a bit, we are supposed to be going to a Jubilee picnic where my son lives, but I think it will be very dependent on the weather today.

Have fun whatever you are doing to celebrate the Jubilee.

hugs {brenda} xox

FSC - Birthday Fortune

There is a new challenge at Fashionable Stamping Challenges today with a theme of Magical and Mystical. So what are you making over the next fortnight that could link in?

My tag is around the clairvoyant, extrasensory and fortune telling aspects of the magical and mystical theme with a focus on 'Birthday Fortunes'.

My stamps are Paper Relics and Invoke with a distress ink 'spritz and dip' background. A little extra patterned and dictionary paper to create the collage effects and I didn't think it needed any other embellishments.

Have a wonderful Sunday and I hope you are enjoying the Jubilee weekend if you are in the UK - shame about the weather isn't it?

Have fun.

hugs {brenda} xox

Stamp Man ATC Swap

It's the 1st June, Jubilee month and the theme at the Stamp Man ATC swap is Diamonds for the Queen.

My ATC was made with a spritz and dip background using Dusty Concord and Worn Lipstick distress inks. I stamped a Stampendous crown and painted it in with the dusty concord DI and some silver acrylic paint. I added some silver and glittery gems and Beadazzles.

I hope you have a wonderful Jubilee weekend if you are in the UK. We are having a 'street party' style get together tomorrow night in a neighbour's garden and having 'high tea' just to be different! We also have a Jubilee picnic where my son lives on Sunday (if the weather holds).

Ken and I are having our diamond birthday party in July.

Congratulations to our dear Queen Elizabeth for her 60 years reign and many more to come.

Have fun wherever you are in the world this weekend.

hugs {brenda} xox.

The Stamp Man - Father's Day / For a man

My card today shows the Frantage Encrusted Jewel technique (EJT) which I used for the sea on this nautical card for a Dad.

Stamps used are Aspects of Design Nautical and Distressed Corners and Borders - both from The Stamp Man on-line shop. The corner stamp is Tim Holt's Urban Tapestry.

I stamped the main image with embossing ink and used blue and lava black EPs and then added some silver EP by using an embossing pen. I stamped a swirly border underneath and added some silver glitter EP and then did the EJT using Stampendous aged silver and shabby white embossing enamels as well as some pure white, clear and some shimmery flakes my sister gave me. Whilst this was hot and sticky I added an anchor charm and it stuck right in, no glue needed.

The prize as always is a generous £10 voucher for The Stamp Man on-line store, so I hope we see you over at our Stamp Man Challenge Blog for this popular challenge.

So have you joined in Tuesday Treasures this week? Please pop by and link whatever you have made or photographed that is special to you. It is just for fun and to share special creations with one another.

I have another special post coming up in a minute.

Take care and have a wonderful weekend.

hugs {brenda} xox

Tuesday Treasures

Hi to all and welcome to Tuesday Treasures. This is my little piece of blogland to show you what I treasure most this week and hope that you will join me in showing and sharing yours too.

This week I have a gorgeous shadow box to share. This is not one of my own, but a wonderful present given to me by Lucy at True Colours. Lucy has had a very difficult year and is in a new home awaiting her own one to be completed and remodelled following the most terrible flood earlier in the year. This saga has had an effect on Lucy's motivation and mojo for crafting, but she is certainly back on the road to creating the most wonderful pieces. Lucy this is just delightful, so please carry on experimenting and making brilliant pieces to share with us all.

You can see from the photos the wonderful techniques and materials she has used and the fabulous effects she achieves and this is even more beautiful and even better looking IRL.

So having shown you my Treasure for this week what have you got to share? Please link it below for all to see and I will certainly be over to take a peek.

I hope you have the most wonderful week and my thoughts and prayers are with my lovely FSC DT sister Lynne who is having a difficult time at the moment. Just to let you know you have my love and positive thoughts.

hugs {brenda} xox

PanPastels - Diamond Jubilee

I loved making this patriotic tag and had fun using my 10 second studio metal and tools to make the crown.

The background is made with PanPastels and an Indigo Blu Union Jack stamp, which I am so pleased to say has been drawn properly, so many of the UJ images have not!!!! 

I die-cut a white tag for this one then stamped using embossing ink, layering blue and red PPs over the top to create the flags. To age it more I sprayed with Goosebumps, dried it and then blended pumice stone DI over.

The crown, once made and mounted on a piece of card had several treatments of black and blue paint and some alcohol inks. The beautiful picture of a younger Queen Elizabeth was downloaded from the internet.

I occasionally use digital images in my work and the tiny flags have come from Digital Crea, I re-sized the banner, printed it and cut out the individual flags to make this little bunting. You can also see the distressed background where the Goosebumps have aged the images.

With the Jubilee upon us I know there are lots of themes out there in blog-land associated with our Queen and country, so lets see what you have been making and join us over at the PanPastel UK challenge blog and be in with a chance of winning a set for yourself if you win, courtesy of Your Creativity Store our generous sponsor.

Have fun today.

hugs {brenda} xox