Friday Photo Flashback

Chloe

This is a picture of Chloe who was a pedigree 'blue' Beared Collie, she arrived at our home for Christmas morning when I was about 8 or 9, it was terribly exciting. She turned into the most gorgeous gentle and sweet dog you could ever have. She wasn't terribly well trained and pulled on her lead but she would come into my room in the mornings and sleep on the chair by the window. She loved to look over the gate at the people coming down the road, they would all stop and make a fuss of her. When she was young she even jumped the wall a couple of times and ran off, but fortunately she stopped that as she calmed down.

ABC - Easy as 1-2-3

Over on Something Completely Different this is the last week of Moos and the theme is A B C. I made this one from a lot of little bits and pieces so can't tell you what they are I'm afraid.

Never Mind the....Daring Card Makers!

This week's dare on Daring Card Makers was to use Tartan (Plaid) on our cards. As a Scottish card maker, you might expect some sort of kilty-stylee card and I have to say that if I had had the 'Hamish in his Kilt' stamp from Sugar Nellie, I might have been tempted to do just that. But, in fact, I have no Scottish themed stamps (note to self: must get some) so I had to be a wee bit more creative.

I rummaged in my fabric stash and found this tartan that I used to make my Christmas tablecloth (edged with holly print fabric) about 8 years ago. Looking at the fabric, I began to think... Vivienne Westwood, leading me straight to Punk, safety pins and union flags lol!

Graffitti background and the Flag image were Google images and I hand wrote the greeting with a Sharpie marker and highlighted with white gel pen.

I had a lot of fun making this, no idea who I might send it to, hope you enjoy seeing it too.

Dutch Apple Cake

Full details over on Farmersgirl Kitchen

Bubbly Scrumptious Monthly Challenge - Houses

As well as the weekly challenge on Bubbly Scrumptious crafty blog, there is a monthly challenge with prizes! This month the challenge was Houses.
I had various ideas, including trying to make up a chipboard house that I bought ages ago, but he instructions were not good so I thought I would do my own. I used an box that contained tea bags the kind that come in their own little packets, so there wasn't a pile of tea dust in the box.

I looked for inspiration in the Somerset Studio magazine I'd bought ages ago and found this vintage theatre programme image in one of their freebie pages of images and backgrounds. They are on good quality card so easy to use. That gave me the idea of making my 'house' a theatre and a chance to use my Dimension Fourth Comedy and Tragedy Mask stamps.

I also used some of those vintage stamps I got in the charity grab bag and the lovely new stamp, also from Dimension Fourth that I got from Karen for my birthday (thanks Karen, I love it). I used the tissue paper technique from Craft Stamper again.

Music stamp is also Dimension Fourth.

Papers are Basic Grey Sublime and there is quite a lot of gesso on there and a bit of Red Velvet Glimmer mists too. Yes, I did throw everything at it lol!

Friday Photo Flashback

This is a picture of my Mum and Dad's wedding. It was unusual to have colour pics in the 50s but this one was actually a slide and it was only about 10 years ago that we had it converted to a print. I love how my mum chose to have all the bridesmaids in different colours. The one in the green is my Aunt Hilda who sadly died last year, and my Aunt Carolyn is in the coral coloured dress, she is only 9 years older than I am and her son is between my two in age!

Bubbly Scrumptious Weekly Challenge - Vintage

I thought I'd do something slightly different for this week's Bubbly Scrumptious challenge. There have been a lot of vintage challenges and I've done quite a few cards, so I thought I'd make something from my vintage textile stash! This little heart is made from the whitework border on an old cotton underskirt, there are several layers of this embroidery so you may see it again! The pearl necklace is not vintage but the bracelet is gold and pearls and belonged to my grandmother, I wore it on my wedding day.