A Christmas Wedding

A few days ago, a dear friend asked me whether I could possibly make her some tags to put on the Christmas tree which would be put up at the wedding of her son just before Christmas. Of course I said yes! It turned out that combining Christmas with Wedding and Vintage and Lace and Bling and digital collage elements which she liked a lot wasn't all that easy, lol. I can't do digital collages, I am strictly a cut and paste girl. I found some lovely vintage French wedding images to combine with the elements she had emailed me, and finding lace and bling is never a problem in my workroom :-). This is what I managed to come up with -

Finally finished them today. Fingers crossed that they will make it across the sea in time for the wedding.

Toodles xxx

Got sidetracked again!

Seems to happen more and more often these days, lol. So, finally, I can show you the beautiful card my dear friend Alexandra sent me for my birthday. I so admire her style, the combination of vintage and modern, the gorgeous colour scheme, it is perfection in my eyes -

Ganz herzlichen Dank, meine liebe Alexandra, die Karte kommt mit nach Frankreich und rein in meinen Craftavan!

I also managed to find time to make my Tag Tuesday tag, on the right day! The theme was EGGS. I used 3 different greens and a yellow distress ink to colour the background in kind of Springy greens and then embossed it with little flowers. Highlighted some of the little flowers with Treasure Gold, it doesn't show up very well in the photos though. Used a scrap of 18th Century book page, printed out some antique egg images and added a sliver of corrugated cardboard. That was pretty much it -

Toodlepip xxx

A little bit of crafting

I know I said I definitely would not be making any more domino books, but I just couldn't resist making a couple more. Just had to make a cat domino book for our charity auction, another dog domino book for another charity auction, and finally a new bird domino book for a friend.

This is the cat one -

And this is the birdie one -

Also made a tag for Tag Tuesday, the theme is blue and green -

Toodlepip xxx

Simply Neutrals Tuesday No. 13 - The Giveaway Wins

So much to do, so little time, lol. As usual at this time of the year, I start panicking because I am so behind with things. So for this week's Simply Neutrals Tuesday party, I am just going to show you three little giveaway wins, which will be on their way to three lovely people very soon. No time for special photo trips or searching for beautiful things to photograph, but I am sure you all understand.

One of the winners asked for religious, fabric scraps, lace and ephemera, so this is what I put together -

Winner No 2 also asked for ephemera and lace -

and winner No. 3 asked for small metal bits for assemblages -

I have made a few more customer tags etc to go out with orders but I keep forgetting to take pics of them. The only pics I took recently are of a tag for one customer and a little pressie for another -

Happy Neutrals Tuesday, my dear friends! Toodlepip xxx

Simply Neutrals Tuesday No. 6 - Night, Night!

Dear Wen is hosting the 6th Simply Neutrals Tuesday today, this is so much fun! I am feeling a wee bit tired, been staying up too late too often, so I thought I go with a Night, Night! theme, lol. I picked a few photos of a pretty Edwardian lady's nightcap and a very pretty frilly and frothy, but much later, lady's bed jacket -

In between all the Etsy stuff, I have also made time for a few crafty things. Tags, of course, like these for customers -

I am also chomping at the bit, wanting to show you the first pocket letter I made, but it hasn't reached its recipient yet, so I can't :-(. Yet. Soon though, hopefully.

Until then, toodlepip xxx

Tags

I realised that the last 5 posts were all posts for Wen's Simply Neutrals Tuesday party. What happened to all the other things I wanted to post about? Like the absolutely stunning surprise nest from Vicki, which I was lucky to be able to buy, or the wonderful things from Suzy? Or any of the tags I made for Tag Tuesday? No idea, lol. But I am going to show them over the next few days, promise, and I'll start today with the tags. 4 weeks worth.

Four weeks ago, the prompt at Tag Tuesday was 'I remember when.......' ......movies were in black and white was my choice -

The next prompt was Something Old, Something New -

Then came Nature's Bounty -

And this week, the prompt is Pastels. I coloured the background with various pastel Distress Inks, gave a hand tinted little girl a pair of pastel wings and stuck pastel crystals to the background -

Toodlepip xxx

Rainy Day Crafting

We had a massive thunderstorm last night, and it is still raining today on and off. The water butts are full, the veggies are drinking up the rain, and the yellow courgettes are being checked morning and evening now to make sure we don't get any more monsters :-).

I love being in the craftavan when its raining, it is cosy and somehow more inspiring and productive. I made this week's Tag Tuesday tag, Blues and Browns, and also the Linen and Lace ATCs for Kimberly's September swap ( see sidebar ).

Please do tell me, which background do you prefer for the Blues and Browns theme this week? I really can't decide -

Blue, brown or white-ish?

Linen and Lace is a wonderful theme of course, and I had such a good time making these ATCs. I finally got to use some of the lovely images and words my friends Dorthe and Rhonda had made a long time ago, and I used some beautiful antique laces on the cards as well. Can't use my sewing machine at the moment, so everything had to be glued ( fingers crossed that it all stays glued, lol ) -

I am going to the kitchen now to wrestle one of yesterday's monsters into the soup pot! Toodlepip xxx