Thank You Shelly

Thank you so much Shelly for nominating me for a Proximidade award. I feel really honoured and so lucky to have made such lovely friends through art.

The details of the award are as follows:
"These blogs invest and believe in PROXIMITY - nearness in space, time and relationships! These blogs are exceedingly charming. These kind bloggers aim to find and be friends. They are not interested in prizes or self-aggrandizement. Our hope is that when the ribbons of these prizes are cut, even more friendships are propagated. Please give more attention to these writers! Deliver this award to eight bloggers, who must choose eight more and include this cleverly-written text into the body of their award."

Have a look at these beautiful blogs for inspiration.

Christine Webb
Gillian Hamilton
Julie Hetherington
Sarah
Belinda Schnieder
Jane Jones
Ro Bruhn
Jacqueline de Jong


Thanks again, sooooooooo much!!!!

Happy Birthday John!!!!

Happy Birthday to the most wonderful person in the world, John!!! You are such an amazing man and you've made my life so full of adventure and fun. I love being with you and I thank you for all the kind and thoughtful things you do for me and our girls. You are a true gentleman.

Beeswax ATC and ♫♪♫Four Days To Go..♪♫♪

This is a beeswax ATC. I used a little wax from Scraptivate and a clover iron to melt it on top of the images. Thanks to Kelsey for your inspiration and advice.
Four days till the holidays- woohoo!!!

New Journals

,I made a couple of journals as gifts this year. I used heaps of stitching and of course, the Cuttlebug!








Happy Birthday Uncle Malcolm!

Jacqueline's Beautiful ATCs

I received these beautiful ATCs from Jacqueline deJong and just had to show you! They are so beautiful in real life!!!
Thank you so much, Jacqueline, they are exquisite.


Happy Birthday to my mum, Marie!!!

In The Sky Tonight!

Just went for a walk tonight and looked up to see Jupiter and Venus with the moon looking like a sweet, smiling face. So beautiful!(The moon looks a like an O in the pic because of the timer delay).


Starry, starry night...

Peeled Paper 3-Adore

I used the Peeled Paper technique and lots of stitching.

Peeled Paper 2 & Mini Canvas

This mini canvas has texture paste cuttlebug bits.




The shiny bits are bits of old cds I ran throught the cuttlebug.
x

Peeled Paper ATC

The peeled paper technique is something I've been wanting to try, so I had a go. I added some melted sealing wax, cuttlebug borders and fabric.

Award!

This week has been a strange one. There have been so many negative and stressful things happening. I was delighted to receive this blog award from Jane. Thanks so much Jane for brightening up a very sad week.

Thanks so much, JANE!!!!

With receiving this award I have to pass it on with these rules :-1. The winner may put the logo on their blog.2. Put a link to the person who sent you the award.3. Nominate 5 blogs.4. Put links to their blogs.5. Leave a message for your nominees. OK so here goes...

Jacqueline's Blog

Eclectic Me

Fragments

Dawnie's Day

KO-OK

Eni Oken's Journal


Bel's Nook

I know I have extra-lol!

All these blogs are an endless source of inspiration in so many different ways. They are a pleasure to look at and read.

Red Leather 2 More Bindings

Long stitch

Caterpillar

I'll eventually add some bling to both of these journals.

Red Leather Diamond X Journal

I made this little journal last night using the Diamond X binding.

Woven Chain Binding

I made a book with a woven chain binding. I had a lot of fun making this. Keith A Smith books are inspirational.

Diamond X Binding

I made a Diamond X Journal today.

Invoke

Invoke- I stamped straight onto the matt board and embossed using seafoam white embossing powder. I used Collections window elements for the frames which I inked with spiced marmalade and peeled paint and then stitched. I also used the cuttlebug, (my favourite), for the corners.

Resist Background ATCs

Fragment
Idol
Yearning

I made three resist background ATCs with a little sewing:)

Another stitched ATC

Here is another stitched ATC. Happy Birthday Bionicle Boy!!!!

Stitched ATC

I just had a go at stitching and I think I am addicted!!!

Stitching on ATCs

I am dying to try stitching on ATCs. Does anyone have any tips on getting started? I'd love some advice.
xxx

Honey King Prawns

We had a go at making Honey King Prawns the other night. They were really delicious, if I do say so myself. Lol.
x

Meer Image

Steven Vander Meer is a wonderful artist. Check out his fantastic range of fine art stamps- simply gorgeous!!!

Finally-it is done!!!

I have finally finished my journal for uni. I had many challenges binding so many papers together- you could say I put my blood, sweat and tears into this assignment. Now I just have my major story to send and that's it!

New Links and Journal

I added some new links to the favourite blogs section.

Rein has fantastic ATC's, cards and some great free images too. It is a beautiful place to visit.

One Of Life's Little Moments is a wonderful site by Sonya, full of beautiful scrapbooking treasures.

Fragments is a cool blog by Sarah- The Terminator. She shares her fishing exploits and other adventures.

Aquatic Arts is a blog by the Dolly who loves creating all sorts of things.

Blue Bazaar is a FANTASTIC online shop with a wide selection of items at terrific prices and excellent service.


I have nearly finished my journal for a course I'm doing. I used Japanese stab binding to hold it together. The covers are suede and I used some grunge board and the Cuttlebug diecuts and embossing folders as embellishments.






Now off to finish my major writing assignment. xxxx

Halloween Cards by the Dolly and an ATC...

Cards made by the Dolly for Halloween.

Immortal-(Dorian Gray played by Stuart Townsend in the League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen. Love that movie!)

Used tissue paper technique again. Now I'm really going to finish my work.

Little Shrine

I thought I'd try a few different colours this time. Normally, I always use green in whatever I create, but this time I thought I'd go cream.

The major writing assignment I was working on and had just about finished, (2800 words), got wiped off the computer a couple of days ago. I have rewritten most of it...but I had better go finish the rest. Have a beautiful Sunday!!!