Workin 9 till 5..what a way to make a livin!!!

Oh i wish.. try 12 hr night shift!!!
{ok so now your either singing Dolly Parton or The Commodores lol}
Well its another long working week for me, so hence another quick card to share, I hate it when real life gets in the way of my crafting but i guess someones gotta earn the money to pay for all my stash needs lol
This is another simple stamp and ink jobby using my beautiful Pucinni's Muse and Floral Silhouette stamps + broken china and dusty corcord distress inks.

Simples but very effective don't ya think!
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Right i best get my butt in gear, Have a fab week whatever your up to !!!
Happy Creating!
♥ HUGZ ♥

Shabby Chic....

....and oh so pretty!

Morning peeps, The birds are tweeting and the sun is out and i'm not working woo hoo.

Perfect excuse to have a play and enter this weeks Lots To Do challenge

This week they want you to 'Use a Machine'

After being totally inspired by some of the wonderful blogs i visited on the OWOH Magic carpet i fell in love with all the gorgeous shabby chic fabric samplers i had seen and just had to try it out for myself.

My efforts were a little more reserved though, as i'm not totally comfortable with fabric working yet, so figured i'd start slow and i used a canvas as my base.

If you've not guessed by now, the 'machine' i used was my Sewing Machine, this is also something i'm not quite comfortable using lol but the piece came out ok in the end.

I used a small collection of fabrics and a lrg lace doillie, I frayed the edges on one piece of fabric and that gave me the loose fibres that created the birds nest.

I used the beautiful 'Lotus' stamp from Stampington & Company onto some glossy cardstock.

I used my machine to sew several of the layers together, and to also give a nice finishing detail.

 I stamped several outline hearts from the Roses are Red plate by The Artistic Stamper onto some old book pages and cut out and distressed um a bit with vintage photo then it was just a case of adding a few buttons and feathers and voila. Jobs a goodun.

Definatly not my usual style but i kinda like it and can see more being attempted!

This piece also fits in with a few other challenges

• The Corrosive Challenges-  'Sew it up'
• One Stitch at a Time - 'Use Stitching'
• Sophisticats - 'Stitching'

Thanks for dropping by, I'm off now to lose myself in ink, Ta Ra

♥ HUGZ ♥

Hel's Angels Tag Swap

This is just one of the Tags i have made for a monthly swap i do, again with my fellow Angels.

This month the subject is Oriental, and well lets just say i was in my element, i adore all things oriental, and having struggled with the last few months topics, this month i was happy as a crafter with new stash, and managed about 5 or 6 (these can be seen in my bucket)

I used 3 of my absolute fav stamps on this one, Lotus by Stampington & Co, Brush Butterfly and Wings by Penny Black, also used is the Martha Stewart Gothic Alphabet.

This wasn't excatly a hard tag to do, i started with a handmade white tag 6" x 3"

Stamped the lotus lady down one side using Black archival, and then stamped and cut out the brush butterfly in black soot distress ink from a seperate piece of white card, which i attatched to the edge of the tag with silicone glue.

The second side was covered with a paper i printed from one of the many papers cd's i have, i think this one was a Craftymizz one. Again stamped the wings (tatty moth) on a seperate bit of card using black soot and cut and mounted with silicone. I lightly edged all the way round with a bit of cut and dry foam and black soot disrtess ink, and the wording, which finished the tag off, i choose mainly from looking at the 2 penny black stamps and thinking that it is always the butterfly that gets all the attention, but a moth is just as beautiful if you take the time to look.

Take for examply this beauty, It is a Giant Moth, i had to get a pic when i visited a butterfly attraction last year

I know alot of us struggle with the way we look in some form or another

but you should always remember

Tall or Short

Fat or Thin

Your real Beauty

Lies Within

xxx Hugz xxx