This Weeks Penned Wednesday Freebie CLOSED

 

Well, I used my Sharpie... and a bit of digital tiding up, as my art pen usually blurps and splatters out ink... and before it's dried, I'm covered and the paper's all smudged. So, here's a Christmas Penguin... Might call her Penny or him, Peter....or not!

  A comment would be lovely, no sharing please. Thank you for stopping by! Stay Safe! CLOSED

I say? What's On Your Worktop Wednesday? #651! And T for a Very late Tuesday

 Woyww #651 I wonder how many crafty things we've all made since WOYWW #1?  Millions I should think! Click on the link and come and join in! And if you've popped over  for Tea  from T for Tuesday, yes I'm 'running' (I can't run for toffee!) a bit late! So have joined you onto this post. My craft space hasn't really changed a lot since Sunday... only a little 'tidier', after the Grandkiddies. Note Naimh changed the date on the wooden calender...I never remember!

Very happy to find these little tiny die-cuts at half price at The Works.

And for those of you who haven't had to have a  Covid Flowflex Rapid Test (for self testing) yet... Here's mine from Monday. I have to do one everytime I visit my brother. Odd though, they let him out to go for Sunday Lunch with his two daughters, plus two others... what about all the pub people he was mixing with? I was meant to visit but... there was Sunday Lunch on offer, so I had to cancel, again. Saw him Monday instead. The little red line means I'm clear... but if there were two!!!!? Self isolate for 10 days! This is a bit like an MOT, for a car, it's only good for that one visit!

We had Lola the little dog to stay over...and Niamh and Lola got on swimmingly! 

Lola jumping for a toy, which is bigger than her!

and one last picture of my cocoa Mug again... it's definetly a mug and not a tea pot... the little hat holds some cocoa, so you can sprinkle some on the top! That's it from me for this week! Have a fabulous Crafty WOYWW Tea Day. Thank you for stopping by!

Craft Room Invasion- Niamh Makes a Card!

 

Grandkiddies invaded us over the weekend,after I'd just managed to 'tidy' by craft room, only to have it  back to its normal untidiness in a matter of seconds! 'I want to play with the monster Charley game' sez Oliver, 'Nanny where are the monsters?' 'Nanny I want to make a card! What's this do. What are these? Can I use this? ' sez Niamh turning the handle on the big shot...and then 'I like this little one Nanny!' she sez pointing to the little mini Gemini. 'I want to make a card with this.' and again from Oliver, 'Where's the monsters Nannie?'

 

In the end Oliver went off with the Chase Me Charley Board, seen in  WOYWW a little while back, after I'd found him the new monsters and the new dice. Then Niamh soon chose her papers after sorting through about a dozen boxes.

Niamh picked a midnight scene of a deer family from 'The Little Book of Foxy and Friends' by Hunkydory. Matted that on some purple mat mirror card and then onto a 5x7 white card. Then added a Happy Birthday sentiment.

  

The inside came from PaperCraft Essentials #198 'Fairy Wishes Foiled Collection' papers, (there's also a fairy freebie download, you may have to sign in first) and added a black silhouette diecut from the same paper pack. After she found the diecut she wanted (made easy as I sorted a lot out a few weeks ago) she used the BigShot to cut it out and fixed it to the inside page. She covered her message as she didn't want anyone to see it!

                         

Sorry my  picture of the finished card didn't come out so good, but Niamh was very pleased with it!

 

And this is the aftermath! The, 'What are these Nanny?' were the packet of wobblers. And shown here are the half price dies from The Works, and the box of 'Monsters and dice' that Oliver wanted. Niamh even knew the name of the 'Snow Buddies' paper pad and took a few home to finish...along with envelopes, little cards and glue.... "Can I have that one Nanny....it's got more glue in it!" Of course you can... 

I'm tired out, but it was great fun! Thanks for stopping by!

This Weeks Wednesday Freebie-CLOSED

  Happy Wednesday Everyone! Hope you're all fit and well. Here's this weeks freebie, not as late as I'd thought it would be. I've called it, 'We five Owlz' but that might change...another one might fall off the branch. Actually, I'm thinking I might make the leaves bigger... 
A comment would be lovely. No sharing please, unless it has the watermark. A link back here is always welcome! Thank you for stopping by. Have a great Day and do something you haven't done in a long time... and I don't mean cutting your toe nails!

Sorry CLOSED!

***This will stay here to download-until no one downloads it and then GoFile will automatically delate it.

It's WOYWW 650!

Morning, afternoon to all WOYWW fans. Nip over to The Stamping Ground and Join in! I'm typing this very quick coz I can log in to Julia's (yay!!) but that could change at any second... here is a link (just to the page but not to the post)

Here's my bench this week at precisely or near enough, one o'clock this morning.

Not too much activity, mostly stuff left over from making sis in laws card in an earlier post, where's there's links to some of those freebie papers  you can see on the left. I had a push back moment when my mags arrived at the same time as we got back from shopping...well, hubby did the shopping and I raided the Charity Craft shop, but not much this week.

And here's this weeks freebie before it's been 'beefed up' a bit, on the kitchen counter. I haven't loaded it up yet as, although my scanner has power, my laptop can't 'see' it! Damn thing! I threatened it by saying I'd use my old computer, but it didn't work... it must know the scanner isn't connected to it. Sorry, no freebie till much later...

Freebie is on it's way!!! Thank you for stopping by Happy WOYWW!

Time For Tea On Tuesday...or Coco

It's Tuesday! Happy T Day. Pop over to Altered Book Lover, if you're into food, drink, places you'll never go to and all that messy paint stuff!
 Here's my lastest Charity Shop buy. A snowman mug.... plus his hat is a cocoa 'shaker.'  Who could ask for more!? (me!) 

I finished off the cocoa very quickly, and a card, not so quickly, I was making for sil. birthday (below post) so, now, of course, my crafty space looks like the cat's invited all his friends round for a cat party! Sooo messy! I won't show it. It might make you cry. Hubby does every day... then laughs in a manic way, when I say 'I'm going 'to tidy up.'

And!? Guess what!? Remember the Tye Dying!? The grandkiddies are doing so well, their dad has opened up an Etsy Shop!  Brilliant!

One of my favourite places to visit, so green back in the summer.

A foot path near home...not so green

Time for a pub visit? 

And is it time to take the rainbow window down? That's me for this week. Hoping to pop round to you all later! Happy Tuesday Day

Happy Birthday Debs. Another Year Older! Plus Links to Freebies

 

Happy Birthday Debs! Hope you had a lovely 'day off'! Debs is my sis in law. Here's the card I gave her today along with a bottle of wine and a Pussy Cat by parastone. (and this one last year.  )  She likes cats...so??? why have I made her a card with an aeroplane on the front? Well, I don't really know, only, the last time we got together was at Bournemouth Airshow and I fancied having ago at Sam Calcott's MultiPanelPopupCard. Hmmm, I shoulda gone with cats or dogs! (Bother! Now I've an image in my head using a couple of the Snarky cats! watch this space!)

The Card. 7x5 card stretches out to be a lot longer.  The paper I've used of the multi Hot Air Balloons  on the inside, is from Crafter's Companion freebie  download of the month Aug 2017. 'Journey To The Sky' (might have to sign in)

The Airplane, Hot-air balloon, helicopter, houses, birds, banner, are from Tonic Studio Magazine Vol 14. Coloured with Promarkers. The Rainbow stamp and the Happy Birthday were from a freebie set from a mag from 2019. And the Rainbow/Cloud paper was a freebie from PaperCrafts Inspiration #138  (Kites and Hot Air Ballons) you may have to sign in there too. I printed all the papers out on 160/200/ and 260 gsm. 

Plenty of space on the back to write a sentiment.

What was a bit weird was none of the little stamps that came with the Tonic mag, fitted the banner, so I just wrote on it. I put Glossy Accents on that bottom plane, but decided just to add a Wink of Stella on everything else. Plus the die cut for the plane cut it into pieces, so I had to cut loads, and make three or four layers to get them nice and thick. 

I was trying to copy the card in the mag that shows three planes, which spin round on a wheel, but with just pictures and 'words'  that sounded like gobbledygook in my small brain, I made it a single plane spinner card instead.

The balloon had a stamp and a die with an outline die. It would've been better if the plane had had that too. Then... the planes were too small to hide the penny, so I cut out a cloud to fix the planes on to hide it.  (more than one plane on a spinner just crashed!)  Well, that's it! Will try and add some challenges later. Thanks for stopping by! Stay Safe!

Challenges 

Craftyhazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenge

 Happy Little Stamers-november anything goes with dies

paperbabestamps-anything goes-anything goes

 Pattiescreations-Anything goes (with Stamps or digital images)

WHAT'S ON YOUR WORKTOP WEDNESDAY#649

 Yes, it's Wednesday WOYWW again YAY!...funny how it comes around once a week. Really sorry, I know I didn't get around to everyone last week, but that 'thing' that's blocking me from Julia's blog is being very mean!  Here's my bench at the moment! I got my paint box out. I love it. Never seen another one anywhere else like it. (Bought it in St Austel Cornwall years ago) I was just starting to paint the Ginger Bread men when I spied the dice I bought today (yesterday) from The Works 'specially for this game, which I made when I was 16/17! Yes! A hundred years ago! Nearly. You have to have two dice or if there's a few of you playing a dice each and one for the monster. My idea came from a pony game, called Chase Me Charley. Two teams start at each end of the gymhana arena...they start off (in pairs) both teams charging around the jumps, they meet in the middle, which could be fatel, and when the  teams jump their last jump, the next team goes... but of course there's no ponies in this as every one gets a little creature and starts at the beginning...but coming up from the other end is... The Monster! Who's called Charley and who you have to get away from! So, everytime the dice is thrown the monster moves too. Whoever is left standing is the winner. Debbie, my sil, (who was about 6 when I made it)wondered where it was a few months back and once the grandkiddies saw it, they loved playing. I've lost the money and the cards, but that doesn't matter! I can make some more!

 So the painting of the Gingerbread men got put on hold...I painted one in gold...

 And then added a bit of orange to the brown but still not ginger enough! And that's when I spotted the dice...

Close up of my boxes, it has a handle, and the lid fits both boxes. The mug has sheep on it! Makes a change!

Brother was moved again. Hospital, home, back to hospital, then Macmillian Cancer Care for a while and then, they moved him out because he wasn't ill enough! So, he's in a Care Home now. All part of the same unit but I have to have a 'test' before I can visit... hopefully tomorrow! (today) It's all fun and games! Well, that's it from me. I've only just linked, but I should see you soon! Nip over to Stamping Ground and join in!

Time For Another Wednesday Freebie- Phebe CLOSED

   Here's Phebe the Purrrdie-Cat, well, actually, there's two, as I couldn't make up my mind about her eyes...or that hat. A comment would be lovely! No sharing anywhere without a watermark please but a link back here is always welcome! Don't forget to show me what you make. Thank you for stopping by!!

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T Stands For....Tuesday and Not Cookies

 Happy T For Tuesday. Pop over to Altered Book Lover and find out why. Busy week for me, well...not busy busy just 'stuff that takes an age to do but has to be done,' busy. My craft room picture this week is...no...they aren't chocolate cookies... they'd be gone if they were! They're clay Gingerbred men... A little bit more orange paint mixed with the brown me thinks! Hopefully I will finish them off later today... (hmm, I'm kidding!) 

Those are accompanied by my latest Charity shop buy, a gingerbread man mug. Had to have it. 

Then I ran out of magazine holders to put my magazines in. Hubby was just about to crush a really nice chucky box his walking boots came in. "Hang on! No! That looks useful!'  His eyes rolled. "Thought I could get it out into the recycle bin before you noticed it!" (Really? I'm right on top of that Rose!*) So, after a bit of cutting and sticking down of paper and lots of glue, it now holds a few crafty magazines!  (going to add a lable tag later)

Picture. Early morning on the beach. Remembering when I was a dog walker and got up at silly o' clock every day in all weathers. I do miss it! And below, a park I used to visit with the dogs three of four times a week. Now, we often just wonder round for our 'daily exercise' with no dogs.

Our post box was feeling a little bit chilly this week! Someone had been very busy!

 

A lovely autumn scene of a squirrel, a hedgehog and leaves.

Meanwhile, Hubby put the old garage door to good use...  He grinded off the rust, bashed out the dents, welded up other bits, added wheels so it can fold right back and painted it (to match the carport now with wooden bi-fold doors) which he built in the 'real' lockdown. Now he has more covered space to play with his bikes! (No...I'm not saying anything...)

Halloween garden across from us... terrible terrific fun! This was last year... this years garden was even better, more bones and skulls and chains with sound effects; shame my photos were too dark.

Last Picture... Jinx had to have another visit to the Vets this week. More meds... but it doesn't stop him waking me up! 'Where's my Breakfast?' Hope you're having a Terrific Tuesday. Sorry for any smelling mistakes... I usually get all the right letters, but not necessarily in the right place! Nip over to Altered Book Lover for even more Tea for Tuesday. Thank you for stopping by.

* 'Don't tell Mom the Babysitter's dead '

Happy WOYWW?! #648- Clay Ginger Bread Men

 Morning WOYWWers!  It's the day we all hop around the World and say, "Hi!"  to all the other WOYWWers! Starting of course with, Julia, over on Stamping Ground. On my bench this week is some clay, and I've been rolling it and cutting out these little gingerbread men with the cookie-cutter that came in The Papercraftsociety's box kit, along with everything to make a GingerBread House. (See Post below) Somewhere I have a bigger gingerbread lady, she's probably hiding in one of my kitchen drawers.

The black bits on some of their backs are magnets. Later, once they've air dried, I'm going to paint them and add beads and some Nuvo drops. I'm then going to add to the others, little eyelet screws in their heads, (it won't hurt!) then add ribbon or twine so I can hang them on the Christmas tree! (53 days to Christmas!) 

Oh poo! Just talk amonst yourselves for a bit...blogger's gone off line... It's back! No...it's gone again! The whole page went blank! Don't Panic!! Well. I'll go off now and draw this weeks freebie and I'll finish this later!  I've put it on timer! Fingers Crossed! Have a Happy WOYWW! See you when or if I can link in with Julia's! Thank you for stopping by!