Tuesday Treasures

Welcome to Tuesday Treasures and I am showing a book I made on Sunday at a class with Lin Brown (Formerly LB Crafts), made with one sheet of 12 x 12 card, Fresco Finish paints and Leandra's (PaperArtsy) fabulous new sewing stamps. (Guess what I have had to order them LOL).

Stamping with brown Memento ink and colouring with Prisma pencils I coloured up the images and displayed them on the pages.

The background pieces are painted, masked and stamped to create these fabulous designs.

I have added some buttons, lace and other embellishments to add dimension and detail.

I didn't get finished during the workshop but came home and worked till 1.00 in the morning to complete it. I was totally inspired by Lin's fabulous sample and just had to get mine done straight away.

My sister should have come with me but is poorly at the moment so Lin very kindly gave me her Vintage sample to do with Chris, so I will be doing another one myself too.

So share your treasure with us this week, this is all about having some fun and hopefully meeting new people in our amazing blogging community.

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Have a great week. The Farnborough Air Show starts next week and already the planes are starting to fly in. We are almost under the flight path and get a great view of everything, just a shame there is so much low cloud and rain around again.

Take care.

hugs {brenda} xox

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PanPastels - Use a digi

I rarely use a digi, much preferring real rubber, but with the challenge this week at PanPastel UK I had great fun both sourcing and then using a digital image. I found the background frame in my folders (sorry didn't keep the name of where it originally came from) and thought I would love to use this and perhaps I could layer a digital image over it. So next I found the 'Best Friends' image in my files and decided I would try and put the two together and colour with PPs. I made the digi image into a ping file, layered it on top of the frame, resized it and hey presto, just what I wanted.

After I printed it out I painted the image with the PPs (tutorial coming later).

Then cut out the frame and layered it onto some French dictionary paper adding some collage bits with the sentiment....

and also a ribbon.

 As I had used a scalloped edge card I just cut around the edge once the dictionary paper had been glued on.

I really love this sweet card.

I hope you will join us at PanPastel UK this week and be in with a chance to win a set of these versatile pastels from Your Creativity Store.

Have a great day.

hugs {brenda} xox

FSC - Oriental

I rarely make an oriental themed card and find them quite difficult so I chose the red, gold and black which seems to be the most popular colours and some gold embossing powder.

I stamped the flower and embossed with black EP, coloured with metallic promarkers. Having masked it off I stamped the chinese letters - don't know what they say lol, then sprayed with gold sparkle.

The red mount was stamped with a flower border and ep with gold embossing powder and the roughly added gold ep on the other edges. Some mounting, a chinese embellishment and tassle and a black ribbon finished it off.

Phew not my style at all.

Have a great Sunday.

hugs {brenda} xox

UPA - Eclectic Elements Column 2 - Botanical Bunting

This is the year of bunting, it has been everywhere in the shops in the UK, but particularly with the Union Jack on it to celebrate our dear Queen's Diamond Jubilee (what an amazing weekend it was and a fabulous concert outside Buckingham Palace).  We also have the Olympics being held in London this summer - the irony is that I will be in the USA for alot of that time.

My bunting is to fit in with the Unruly PaperArts botanical theme this month - Buds and Blossoms.

I loved making this and the shabby chic style that evolved.

Do pop over to UPA to see the full version of how I made this on my Eclectic Elements column.

Have you got something for Tuesday Treasures Blog Hop this week? Enter your special piece that you have been making and join the hop too.

See you soon.

hugs {brenda} xox

Tuesday Treasures

Welcome to Tuesday Treasures and thanks to those who are joining in.

No 'make' from me today - only photos and some special ones all from the Isle of Wight Festival at the weekend.

Now I know the TV coverage only talked about the rain and the mud and I felt very sorry for those who were camping as it must have been awful in the rain on Thursday, but for us non-campers it really didn't affect us that much. The weather was nothing like the forecasts and in fact apart from some rain over Saturday night, we didn't see any on the Friday, Saturday or Sunday, in fact I have come home with a burnt face from the sun on Sunday. The ground was wet underfoot and very muddy in places but not enough to spoil the weekend.

See - it was cool as the sun went down and then colder at night, but we had some lovely sunshine.

Bruce Springsteen headlined and was AMAZING, finishing off with his 'Born in the USA set'

The Big Wheel looked fabulous at dusk.

The next few are my Tuesday Treasures

This guy is called Terry Reid, I doubt anyone has heard of him.

Terry lived locally when I was a child and teenager and played at my Youth Club a couple of times when I was about 16 and really influenced my music style. I loved his voice and of course in those days living in a small town it was exciting to hear real bands and artists. He joined the Jaywalkers and later he toured with Cream in the USA. He was asked to join the new Yardbirds who became Led Zeppelin, but was committed to touring with Cream - I think his career could have been very different if he had done so.

Terry fell out with Mickie Most his producer and Terry has performed with a number of bands and been on soundtracks for films etc, but is again touring in the UK. 

He opened the very first IoW Festival in 1970.

Terry very kindly came to meet me when he heard I came from St.Ives near Huntingdon and we chatted about the area and our memories of it. His Mum still lives in Bluntisham.

(This one must have caught me off guard with that face!!!)

Thanks Terry, it was a great afternoon watching and meeting up with you.

Terry in 1970 on Old Grey Whistle Test.

This is how I remember him - we have both changed enormously.

My other Treasure for this week. Dear Hubby catching up on some sleep during a break on Sunday afternoon.

Please let me know if you have ever heard of Terry Reid and join the Blog Hop with your treasure of the week.

hugs {brenda} xoxox

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PanPastels - Anything Goes

This little box has been hanging around my desk for ages just waiting to be altered, so I decided to use my PanPastels on it. Firstly I painted it with white acrylic paint and when dry blended magenta, magenta extra dark and white PPs completely over it, inside and out and then sprayed with silver spray and 

sparkle.

 I stamped the sides and lid and onto some tissue wrap and added some pearls and lace round the sides and lid.

 To complete this little box I made rosettes - 5 layers in total, making 3 rosettes and added a little bead on the top.

Come and have some fun with us at PanPastel UK and you could be in with a chance of winning a set of pans and some tools from Your Creativity Store.

If you are reading this on Sunday then I am away at the Isle of Wight music festival. When I finalised the post the long range weather forecast looked like rain, rain and more rain. We don't camp thank goodness, but I will let you know what it was like when I get back. Some great bands on with Bruce Springstein doing a 2 3/4 hour set tonight.

hugs {brenda} xox

Tim's Tag for June

I have made this tag for my hubbie and used a photo of him when he was about 2 1/2.

 I so enjoyed putting it together and showing him what I had done. he said he remembers wearing those dungarees!!

The deets are all on Tim's blog if you haven't made yours yet.

Enjoy your week and thanks for stopping by to take a look at what I am up to.

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hugs {brenda} xox

This fits challenge themes at -
Try It On Tuesday - Anything Goes
Simon Says Stamp and Show - A Bit of Brown
Gingerloft Challenge - Vintage
Sunday Stamper - This Boy
Sugar Creek Hollow - More is better

Tuesday Treasures

Tuesday Treasures day and a huge thank you to those who are playing along.

Well following my last TT post when I had seen a smash book made by Sylvia, I have pulled out all the stops and made one for TT this week. In fact I have started another 4 as well lol.

Beware photo heavy - cos I have made lots of double page spreads and added lots of small pages, tags and labels etc.

This is going to be my holiday travel book. I usually come home with a bag full of memorabilia that I have collected and then I don't find any time to scrap any of it. So this time I will be taking my book and glue stick and come home with a book on the way to being completed with the memories of my trip.

The pages were all made by cutting down 12 x 12 papers and card. I have inked, masked and stamped in places and then bound everything together with my Bind-It-All adding in my tags, labels and smaller pages.

I will add titles, pockets and more embellishing as I complete sections, but at the moment I have the structure of the Smash Book made and in the process of making more for the girls as well.

I hope you like my treasure this week.
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Have a fun week.

hugs {brenda} xox