A Tag with a bit of Scribble!

Here's my latest make, a Tag, plus a black lunch/snack bag to match. I'm hoping to find a few challenges, one being, TagTuesday   the theme this challenge is to add 'asemic writing' to your make, which is, just a lot of 'words' or scribble, which doesn't mean anything. Easy!

 I've had this curvy clothing label hanging around for ages and was dying to make it into something! It's mostly made up of washi tape, tissue papers, stickers and lables. I decided to make another lunch/snack bag pocket again, only this time I used a black bag. (Can't wait to make something in a Halloween theme later in the year as I also have orange!)

 

 Here's a close up so you can see the 'Asemic Writing' (my scribble) I've never done this before but I'm definitely going to do it again! Here's a link to Ceri the crafters Paper Bag and Tag Video  where I first saw it about a year ago. Thank you for stopping by!

                                           Challenges

                             tagtuesday.-asemic-writing

allsortschallenge-#769 (Butterflies and the clock on the Bag)

thecraftyaddicts- Anything Goes

Ellibelle's Crafty Wednesday - Anything Goes

Its WedNESDAY! That means WOYWW!? #769

 

 As always, I'm a bit late, linking up with Stamping  Ground. I was still trying to comment yesterday! So you could say I'm sort of early too!(no yer not) There's not a lot of difference on this weeks craft top. Nearly the same  as last week, as I'm still just playing at sticking things on other things. I was making a tag or tab??? to join in with a challenge. 

 The first one looked soooo much better in my head! (Made from book pages) But I hated it. Then I found a waving edged price tag and used that instead. Much nicer. Then  covered a black lunch/snack bag in whatever I could find. 

 The tulips I fussy cut from  our village magazine's cover, which we get free every month. Might save it for a glue book, but I'm still not really 'getting' them and it looks nice up against that purple lunch bag.
So! not much to report this week...although I have mastered quite a lot! Here's a picture of Granddaughter after just finishing a game of Rugby!

Well, that's it from me! Hope you all have a fabulous WOYWW week!

Thank you for stopping by!

A Ticket For T Stands For Tuesday

  Rather than have  my boring breakfast at the top of my post for 'T Stands For Tuesday' over on AlteredBooklover, I thought I'd start with this tag, which I will add to the decorated black lunch/snack bag I found after playing with a brown one last week...(there's now even a video of that...play it at double  speed, coz my rambling will drive  you crazy) Anyway, I found Tag Tuesday which I'm going to have a go at, as there's another week left to add your tag creations. The tag has to include 'asemic writing' which, after googling it, means just simply, scribble anything!! Which I have! I'm going to add more pictures on another post later.

Well, here's a mixed up breakfast. I started to eat it. I whisked up some eggs with a dob of butter and some milk and they came out really fluffy and yummy. I've also made it with added grated cheese. I googled what I can eat, chops, bacon, eggs, cheese, after being told to lay off them ages back... and at last have a blood test booked in a months time, mainly to check if I can stop taking the cancer pills. (it says on the packet I can stop next year... By then I'll need a wig! Could be fun! I think telling them I'd stopped taking all my meds made them... ummm speed up a bit. They said I must restart taking the meds...(and keep notes on how I feel) even though I've been feeling sooo much better without them. Anyway, that's another story!

I'm really late posting this, so will finish with my hot chocolate with a teaspoon of Nutella...it's a treat for spending most of Tuesday hunting out lights for the kitchen, then finding a shop that had them AND getting up to the third step on the ladder to fix them in!! No wonder there's a smile on the Nutella lable! YUM! Night Night!! Thank you for stopping by!

It's A Freebie....on a Saturday! Also link to the coloured digi too

 

 Sorry, I got side-tracked again and didn't do a Wednesday freebie, then I like to keep you on your toes!! So  here is a little bear hug from me!! I hope you like him! Go HERE to download... If he isn't there when you get there, just send me an email! dragonsmoore at google mail dot com. No sharing without the water mark, and a comment would be nice!!! Thank you for stopping by! 

I've added a link to the coloured bear  here too... I'm not sure that it worked though... yes, it did!

What's On Your Worktop this week?? #768 Lunch bag tags

 

 Good Morning WOYWWers! It's Wednesday, so here's what's on my worktop this week. Nip over to Stamping Ground and join in!  Yes, I'm in my craftroom doing a bit of 'bit sticking'

As I mentioned yesterday, I'm still tidying up... I don't think I'll ever get everything in my craftroom in its own home, but I can but try. I was looking for raffia earlier, behind the door in a bag. No...it wasn't there...It has a new home. Where!? So I get bored and find a 'bit' of paper that's too 'nice' to throw out and usually, if it's small, I find a space in one of my mini journals to stick it. Yesterday I found a brown snack bag, one of many, gifted to me by a fellow woywwer many years ago and...yes, some bits and spent an hour (or two) playing with them.

I also tried out that new clamp thingy on my phone and wasn't sure it was filming... it's not edited, out of shot at times and just me waffling to me, myself and I. (John would out his head round the door and ask if I was talking to him or Mr Jinx the cat. Well, seeing they're both in Heaven I think I must've been talking to myself forever!)The day will come when the men in white coats will be knocking at the door.

I have two bargains of the week...one I showed yesterday, a little trolly, bought from Aldi for £12.99. (comes in black or white) Slightly smaller than my others but still very useful and seen here hosting books I found for 'cutting up' or gluing and a box of crafty ephemera. 

 And, there's more. This zipped journal in pale blue faux leather/suede, never used from a charity shop for £1.50. I'm going to do something to partially cover the front...not sure what yet.

 

 I've been watching a few YouTube videos that have given me loads of ideas and inspiration... but you'd need to be a millionaire to be able to afford all the crafty stuff they use!

And lastly...here's a picture of the finished bag with tags... it didn't turn out too bad, seeing I had no plan to make it at all... and the tidying up? ah well, there's always another day... Have a great WOYWW day, Thank you for stopping by!

 Ps a link to Ceri the Crafters Video from last year. It gave me the idea on how to use these bags! 

It's Tuesday and Time for Tea with Bleubeard and Elizabeth

Hello T Stands for Tuesday! I started off quite well last week and posted more than I've posted in ages...but then, well??? I got into a tidy mode...which means...making  a chaotic mess everywhere, while I try to find 'homes' for everything and decided whether to chuck, sell, give away, donate, store or keep. (Although I've been doing this for the past 18 months, I'll blame Ceri The Crafter and his 'Death Cleaning' talk but he does have a point and I can remember my mum and mum in-law doing just that.  So, I've been stepping over things all week (don't put the hoover away yet, you're going to need it again in a minute... and then treading on the plug, ouch!) and hardly crafting at all,  except, with bits. What do I mean by bits?? It means, in my case, finding a bit of paper and then needing to or wanting to stick it to  another bit of paper... or finding a  tiny bit of scrap and adding it to my mini journals... or tags...or whatever falls off the shelf! (sometimes even the shelf!) This was a paper snack bag... there is a video of me waffling...but I haven't worked out how to get that on here....yet.(lucky you!)

 So. I'm joining in with T stands for Tuesday, to try and put some sanity back into my life...and, as you can see, I've 'staged' my boring breakfast this morning, seen above and below. Cold cup of tea...no sugar (Yuk!) Then there's Porridge with no sugar but I added my  fruit whizz-up instead... not bad. Had the idea from a chap who started talking to me in Tesco's that he always puts cranberry juice on his cereal instead of milk... (I still use milk)

 

 The half empty bottle of wine in the background I found in the garage. I made a Cottage pie in the week and added it to the gravy on the third day left-overs. (If he made anything with beef, John would usually add red wine or white wine with chicken) and?? yes, very yummy. Seeing I made enough for four meals...On the second day I added curry, just to give it different taste...and then I found the wine...

 Then, as you can see, I had two boiled eggs with toasted seed bread soldiers  and sat them on those cute little eggcups again... and as for the warm chocolate chipped bun...yes, it has extra Nutella in it...

  Someone asked a while back, what goes in my fruit wizz.... basically, whatever fruit I have.  Grapes, Bananas. Blackberries, Raspberries Blueberries, sometimes an apple or a bit of water melon, or kiwi, or orange including those little oranges and always water..

 Sorry about the lighting....I have some bulbs gone in the kitchen.. and I can't reach to change them...unless I get the big steps from the garden... and talking about bulbs and the garden- daffodils are beginning to show! Spring is on her way! 

 My bargin of the week I think must be this little trolly I bought from Adli. It's smaller than my others but well worth £12.99 (the putting it together was umm...fun, not. A lot of swearing went on!) 

Last but not least...it's waaay past coffee time, closer to afternoon tea time, so I've just stopped for a cuppa and some dark chocolate Hobnobs!

Don't forget to pop over to AlteredBookLover and join in. It's 'spicey' again this week! Thank you for stopping by!

WOYWW!? #767 Crafty Goodies from Temu, Local Craft shop and Craftelier

 Morning, WOYWWERS! I mean afternoon Crafty Peoples! Hope today started off well for you... It's raining here! Surprise! I'm actually in my craft room today... and in the kitchen, joining in with WOYWW!? over on Julia's Stamping Ground! 

 Above you can see my small haul from Craftelier arrived, it took ages!! (Temu is quicker)  thought it was coming from here, in England, but of course it wasn't. I wanted The Magic Forest, had some from my local Craft Shop...Emerald Crafts, about 35 minutes away but they  only had some stickers (which I already had from them) and I really wanted more (don't we all!) But they did have some 'Deep Cocoa' A4 240gsm card, which I'm going to use for the journal. I've seen a few YouTube tutorials using The Magic Forest, which I'm going to use as a guide. I did try CraftStash first, wanted to use my 10% VIP, but no luck. 'Your search returned no results'   

At Emerald Crafts I also bought some Distress Oxide 'cracked pistachie' ink (the first one I've ever bought) and  this cute Tim Holtz booklet 'District Market', the only one they had with £3 off, so, that jumped into my basket too. Then I drove up to see Emma (lovely daughter) and the three of us went on to Hobby Craft, were some goodies popped into Niamh's basket.

Now I know you're going to moan, but....this pen holder came from Temu....it appears I had some 'rebate' so this was, well... no money at all!  A little while  ago this arrived... under £2 pounds...there is a dearer one.. (about £6) It's a little photo box with light and extra coloured felt to add inside...

 

 It's on my cooker. It folds flat and has its own little bag too. You can even take pictures from the top.

What else arrived?? Oh, well, I'm not having much luck with my GoPro Camera, still not found the grapper to hold it, so I ordered this for my phone...

Don't laugh, I can hear you! That thick wobbley bendy bit is very strong and hard to pull into the shape you want...I mean, it was getting in the way of any filming and...for the life of me, could I open that foot that fixes onto the shelf? No!  Temu got the seller on line and he couldn't workout why I couldn't just unscrew it and said he'd get back to me... Meanwhile, me wanting to use it NOW, drove over to Bro and Sis inlaws where Big Pat said, "threads twisted, you'll never get that open," and used a dirt big knife to false it open and Hey Presto! That did it... meanwhile, I have seen a phone holder with a ringed light attached that looks perfect for what I want it for...on Amazon. So, that's it from me! Happy WOYWW!? Thank you for stopping by!

This Weeks Wednesday (Always a )Freebie. It's Just Flowers-with update

 Here's this weeks Wednesday (always a) Freebie. I thought I'd colour it in for you, as spending hours trying to colour in the black and white picture, would probably course you to lose the will to live! But it's up you, you can give it a go, if you have nothing better to do! Just click and save!

And why have I put two coloured pictures on here. They look the same....they are....but one of them has one of my five legged spiders dangling from one of those flowers.... Bet you can't find him in two minutes!  Thank you for stopping by!

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Update... this was drawn on an A4 sheet of  200gsm paper and coloured on the laptop, using paint-net. I trimmed a tiny bit off the side where it was scanned as it left a line. Now, for same reason, on my printer it doesn't want to print it out in A4 only A5, and if I try to make it A4,  I feel it makes it a bit too dark, see underneath sheet in picture below. Kept at A5 it's a bit small so I've inked the edges and inside with Distress Oxide-blueprint sketch-and splashed it with a little water.

Another update: I changed the background colour to make it a little lighter AND got it to print in A4, but it looks sooo blurrrr, IYKWIM. So, I purposely printed it in A5....  I think it's better, as the black is not so blury black and the flowers are smaller. 

 

 I also left enough 'white from the paper I printed it on, to make a pocket by folding it inside (two if I'd moved it over a bit! (or a couple along the bottom) Again, I inked the white inside with the Distress Oxide. So now I don't feel this is totally useless!

It's Another T Stands for Tuesday! With some Tennis....

Boring Breakfast

Happy T for Tuesday!! Quick post! As I'm out walking dogs today! Hope it stops raining! And I hope your week's been good. Mine has been busy. It started off with a lovely surprise from Elizabeth and Bleubeard! Now, I know I made something for the 10th anniversary to send to her but can't remember actually posting it or taking any pictures of it... So? Where it is? And what was it? Is it still hiding in a heap papers somewhere? Or, lost in the Post? So, I will remake what I think I made...and that will surprise Elizabeth and Bleubeard and even me, when it adventurely  eventually arrives all the way over the pond and through her letter box!!

From Elizabeth and Bleubeard

 Visited Daughter over the weekend, and once granddaughter was back from playing Rugby, (under twelves) we went shopping at HobbyCraft. On my way up I had to pop into the Craft Shop in Lyndhurst. I can normanly find something I didn't know I wanted...and I did! Chocolate brown card. Just what I need for my next Journal...It's going to be a slightly bigger one with more pages and fold outs. It'll take me ages. 

Can't make out why my A4 freebie will only print it in A5...so moved the breakfast things to have a play... Now going to use the original as a cover.... Oops, I've gone off track... Anyway...

Grandson came back, from wherever he'd been, so we played, bowling, tennis and martial arts with swords..... I was knackered!  I beat him once in the Tennis and bowling, but kept being knocked off the high pavillian and into the moat on the sword fighting game...here we are....playing Tennis! Hope you all have a Happy T for Tuesday!