Honey for the Honeymoon....

Hello There Friends

And a special Helloooo to Debra and welcome to my little blog.  Thank you for following me.

Sorry I have been absent, but things have been a little hectic in the Hettie household of late.  Mum is still in hospital.  Unfortunately during her stay some nasty kind so and so sat between Mum and the next patient, whilst visiting the next patient with a bad case of Flu and has passed it on to Mum, who like me is susceptible to these kinda things and now has a chest infection on top of the kidney infection she went in with.  As you may imagine, this has upset her just a tiny bit!  NOT!  This also means that I am not able to go visit now in case I pick anything up.  Honestly some people ey!!

On top of that I have been visiting our local hospital too, but I shall maybe tell you about that another time!

Right then.  On to today's post.

As you will know from previous posts recently, we have had a family Wedding recently whereby my Nephew got married.  Well, as Bee Keeper of the family we had to give some Honey to the Honeymooners.  However, I could not find a honey jar locally that I liked so I got to do my own jar instead.

I took a standard Kilner jar and decorated it.  Why not?  The papers used are the MME The Sweetest Thing range in 6x6".  Dies used are Memory Box which I bought at Ally Pally.  Let me just tell you, those Bees are little buggers blighters to make!!!

Any excuse to get the alcohol inks out to make a tag for the jar using memory glass and the stamps that came with the papers.  Well, it would have been rude not to buy them too (and the 12x12" papers of course!)

Here is the top of the jar, which I used some Spellbinders dies.

Don't you just love this ribbon?  My Buddy brought that back from USA for me, though I have since found a source fairly locally.

I raided the Snippets Box for some white pieces of cardstock for the Bee wings and also raided my ribbon and fibre basket so I shall take this to the Playground to share around.  Knowing my Nephew the honey is all gone by now.  I know Miss is a little partial to our Honey too so I may be forgiven for missing class this week!!

Can you just say a prayer for our bees right now?  They are not having a good time of late and what with the recent weather  they are really struggling.  

I hope you are having a good weekend so far.  I understand the weather in the UK is great for scrapbooking/quilting/sewing/card making so off you go!  

Hugs

Hettie

CC2C - Like a bit of alcohol.....ink!

Hello Friends

Linda over at StudioL3 has asked us this week to turn to page 59 of the Compendium of Curiosities 2  and following the instructions there make our creation.  I cannot tell you the techniques used but I can tell you it involves alcohol ink.  So here is mine......

I used the 1.5" Memory Glass and frame to make a double sided piece for my Christmas Album that I am currently making, which piece I want to hang on the spine of the book.  Here is the other side.....

I used Terracotta, Red Pepper, Cranberry and Black alcohol inks all by Ranger and then two of Mr T!m Holtz's lovely Christmas stamps to create the pattern with Archival ink.   The frame is also by Ranger and you are not seeing double with the link on the top, I have already added a jump ring to enable me to hang the frame when it is ready! There is also Snippets of metal foil in between the glass so that you can see the stamped patterns nicely.

And just so you can see my Christmas Album in creation (not finished yet), I can show you the undecorated cover with a few other embellishments I want to use on the cover/spine of it....

Thanks for popping by and please leave me a comment.  There is still time for you to join in with this Challenge as you have until Thursday evening.  I am quite surprised that we are on Challenge 24 this week!  It doesn't seem that long ago we started on the first Challenge!  I do love these challenges so thanks Linda!

Don't forget to call in at Mr T!m Holtz's blog for more wonderful ideas and creations.

TTFN

Hettie 

Grungy Monday No 5 - Flutterby Wings

Good Evening Crafters

What has happened to the weather then?  Never mind, it makes me feel just a little bit less guilty when I am sat in my room playing with my inks and paper!!!  (And don't forget scoffing Jelly Babies!!! LOL!!!)

You may remember from last night's posting HERE that the Memory Glass piece I had made would be seen again as I had an idea of incorporating it into Linda's Grungy Monday Challenge.  Well Guys and Gals, tah dah....... here it is!  Hope you like it.

This week Linda linked us to HERE where we watched Tim Holtz incorporating a found object into a piece of art.  As you may be aware, all my Grungy Monday Challenges are planned to be tags only so I knew my "found" piece would have to be small.  Hence my idea of using the Memory Glass for this Challenge. 

If you want to join in the fun of these fantastic challenges, why not pop HERE to Linda's blog to see how you can join in and also to see some of the other fantastic pieces which have been created for this Challenge.

Don't forget, click HERE and be whizzed across to Lord Tim Holtz's blog to be inspired in more ways than you can shake a stick at.

Thank you for looking tonight, and don't forget to leave me a comment so that I know you have been here. 

Enjoy your extended holiday and Bank Holiday Monday.

Hettie

Ingredients:- Ranger; Alcohol inks, memory glass, memory glass frames, DI - Peeled paint, Pumice stone, Victorian velvet, Embossing, Corner,Tag die, Perfect pearls mist, Tissue tape; embossing powder, Cavallini butterfly stamps, bazzill cardstock, funky foam, ribbons, charms.