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Hello All. Hope you are feeling happy and healthy today and that 2013 is being good to you. If you would like to be a part of our Friendship Quilt at the Hatters please look at the page  here  to find out more about it This week at Out of a Hat Creations  the challenge is to make a set of Three ATCs with any subject but each card must have red, green, white and black somewhere on them. I thought it would be easy but I seemed to be stuck from the start for some reason. Do visit Janet and Sandra's blogs to see the beautiful work they have done for this challenge. I digitally painted this face and used it on my set of ATCs by adding effects in Paint shop Pro. Here she is pegged out to dry on the cactus cause I varnished the cards and it took ages for them to dry. Here they are again all in a row. I think when I see the word ATC my brain goes back to when an Artist Trading Card meant just that and they were an artist's own efforts printed onto little cards to hand out to sho...

Hi All--hope your day is going well and that the weather is being kind where you are. Dark, wet and dull here but no floods or snow at the moment. Spent ages making this inchie for Every Inchie Monday  where the subject this week is Hut First thing I did was take a photograph of one of my beach hut money boxes and I have used that on the inchie. The door is closed on the money box but I have made it look open and added a bathing bell behind the door. The dog is a little pixel image I drew years ago together with folders full of little pixel images--I guess they might come in handy for inchies. I printed the hut out twice so that I could decoupage it. I have also made a sheet to save all of my inchies together so I can make a hanging or picture with them when all 52 are done. I thought that I will be able to cut out the grid and add the year and details to the middle bit. Love Chrissie xx

Hello Everyone. Hope you are all safe and well. So many tragedies at the moment with the floods and the snow-I am thinking of lots of people and wishing them well. I saw this challenge at Catered Crop and I couldn't resist looking back over my crafty year to see what I could chose. I always enjoy making anything but some things just seem to turn out better than others so here is my list. Most of my choices were made for the challenges at Out of a Hat Creations  where 2 friends and myself challenge each other every week and anyone can join in with us-just for fun. 1. These are knitted flowers with a stamped background 2. A Poundland BBQ fork decorated 3. Four corner bookmarks on a clock project 4. Paper Dress with silk tie at the waist 5. A stamped Gift Bag 6. Metal look Tag 7. Oriental Fan 8. Altered Bottle 9. Sewing Kit 10. Scanogram picture 11. Steampunk Doll 12. A box of notelets Thank you for looking Happy Crafting Love Chrissie xx

Hello Everyone-hope you are well. We have about 4 inches of snow that arrived in the night -just when we thought it had all gone away. I won't be venturing out today so lots of crafty hours ahead for me. At Addicted to Stamps and More this week it is their 5th CAS challenge. Not something I am very good at but there are some great samples from the team as inspiration I used a folder to emboss a piece of white card then distressed it with some Rangers Ink on one of their ink pads. Mounted this piece of card on another piece of coloured card. Stamped the sentiment-distressed it and mounted it onto the same colour as the other piece. Stuck them both onto a white card.Clean and simple. Thanks for looking Love Chrissie xx

Hello Everyone--hope your day is going well. We are going to the cinema this afternoon to see The Quartet. Our cinema wasn't going to show it but so many people had asked if they would that they have decided to put it on in one of the smaller screens. It's nice to know that people power is working. At Craft-room challeng e this week the theme is monochrome. It was good to see what that really means as I used to think it meant just black and white but it can be any colour which is much easier for me. Lots of inspiration from the DT and the entries that have flooded in already. Always lovely challenges here and a friendly team. I collected together various brown papers and emblies and went from there. The round shape is one I made using crushed eggshells and the flower I painted with brown paint to make it fit in with the theme. Nice to have you drop by Love Chrissie xx

Hello Everyone. I hope your week has gone well and that you have been enjoying some great crafting. This week at Out of a Hat Creations  the theme is Clocks so lots of things you could chose to make if you join us in the challenge. I bought this old clock last year at the car boot sale near to where I live. It only cost 50p and when I added a battery it worked and kept perfect time--what a surprise that was. I put it up on the wall in my craftroom until this challenge came 'out of the hat' then I thought it would be a good time to transform it. Now is a Steampunkery Clock. The first thing I did was cover the edge of the clock with aluminium tape then work in various inks to make it look like old metal. The wings and cog I stamped onto the tape as well using Chocolate Baroque stamps. That done I could concentrate on the middle so I looked for the Roman numerals clock face on Google and printed it out to fit my clock. I cut a slit at the centre of the circle so that I could slip ...

Hello to my Friends and Followers and thank you for popping by and leaving such wonderful comments on my projects. I made this page today for the Alpha, Dictionary Challenge at The Craft Barn . It is a wonderful challenge and I am sure I will look forward to making every one of the pages I scanned the relevant pages from my dictionary as I was unable to find an old one. The word I chose for C is Carnival and it was the first word on the left hand page. The background is painted in various H20 colours and spritz with Cosmic glitter mist. The stamps are 4 I have had for a while-they are made by Tabby Kat. I stamped 2 of them straight onto the pages and the others I had already stamped and coloured a while ago so I stuck them on. Thank you for the challenge and for looking at my page Love Chrissie xx