Mini Box in Distress!

Well I had the most amazing time this weekend at Ally Pally, the weather was glorious and the company exceptional. I had such a good time in fact I hardly had any knee pain all weekend, what a bonus.

A big thank you to everyone I spent time with, Especially Gillian and Hels x {oops and how could I have forgotten Alison, sorry hun}

I managed to empty my purse and get lots of lovely things, though I can't share pics just yet as i'm still at my Mums, but will load them as soon as i'm home {or if I can figure how to do it via my mums comp!}

Before I left home I uploaded some of my unblogged pieces..

So today I want to share a little box I decorated, I used several layers of paint dabbers in silver and pink and then scratched and sanded with my timmy tools.

I stamped some paperartsy grass round the edges, and topped the box with some timmy stamped and perfect pearled clay pieces.

The little knob is just an old metal button stuck on with E600.
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I know it wasn't made especially for Simon Says Stamp'n'Show but i'm gonna enter it as it is distressed, and that just happens to be their theme this week.
Stay Inky
♥ HUGZ ♥

Busy Busy Busy!!!

OK you got me, i'm not super busy like that title claims... but i am entering the

Lots To Do challenge with this weeks theme which is 'Distressed'

I can't believe its saturday already, All i can say is,"wow the adults were right", the older you get the more time flys by, talking of flying that leads you nicely to my entry...

I sliced into a canvas and wrapped the cut pieces round the frame to create a shadow box type thingy, I backed it with my 'distressed' piece of cardboard.

The frame itself i coated with distress crackle paint and then splodged on some distress ink to darken the colour, it didn't really crackle like i'd hoped but it did leave a cool textured finish which was good enough for me.

I punched out a bunch of circles in white card and proceeded to ink and stamp em using Timmy products, these once dry were stuck inside bottletops and filled with UTEE adding a sprinkle of micro beads while the UTEE was still hot.

I created a little birdy scene inside the frame, making a cage from wire and cutting the bird from an old book page.

The white mass behind him is actually UTEE, which i poured direct from melting pot to TSS big daddy mould , i then dusted it with a smidge of perfect pearls.

I printed the wording on my comp as couldn't find any sayings i liked so i made up my own.

Finished with some twigs from my garden and a few musical notes and you have the finished artical.

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I've no actual plans today for me which means a spot of crafting me thinks lol... was hoping to get an email with good news but i don't think its coming to me.. never mind.. am sure someones weekend will be made special, the lucky buggers... sorry don't mind me lol... i'm waffling to myslef here...

So do you have Lots to do today?...

Have a fab weekend peeps x

♥ HUGZ ♥

Only me...

...And day 3 of my timmy tag calender..

that means the next 3 months to share with you all.
Enjoy!

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See ya tomorrow for 3 more tags :)

♥ HUGZ ♥

Tim Tags Continued...

Well here we are for the first 3 months of the calender...

{these posts will be short and sweet, as i know everyone's super busy}

Like i mentioned yesterday..

All the supplies i have used are:

Tim Holtz stamps

Distress Inks

Blank kraft Tags

Printed calender pages

..and on some pages some Gold or Black embossing powder,

a couple of embellishments here and there,

a splodge or two of stickles and thats about it!

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If you have any questions please feel free to mail me.. One last thing, the pics really don't do this calender justice, its way more shabby and tatty than it looks and i love it lol

See ya again tomorrow for the next 3!

♥ HUGZ ♥

Tim Tags - Minxy Style

It's been absolutely ages and ages since i did anything in my favourite Tim stylee.

I figured as i had completely missed his 12 tags of Christmas i would conjure up 12 tags of my own with nothing but Tim stamps, Distress Inks and a Minxy twist!

That twist being that my tags actually make up a rather nifty 2010 calender.
Here's the front view....

... And here is the back.

I'll be sharing the 12 calender pages over the next few days.. just in time to take part in the FAB CANDY being offered by the very kind Jennie @ The Artistic Stamper
If you haven't already joined in, all ya need is to make a Tim tag or too.. check out the link in my side bar at the top of the page :)

See you tomorrow for the first 3!

♥ HUGZ ♥