It's WEdneSday-Just in time for WOYWW!? #791

Evening WOYWWERS! Click over to sarahs craftshed and join in!! I'm very late, busy playing with two four legged friends, and not long come back from a nice long walk (in the cool) along the river. One of them now is sitting behind me on my 'office' type chair and the other one's sleeping on my feet! So, this is going to be a short post!  Well, it's the end of the #gelypostcardplay challenge and I did it! All 31 postcards, done! I just want to give a shout out to Angela, 'Felix the Crafty Cat! Lookie see above! My number 28 card...wozzzers! That's Angela's ATC card sent to me back in May for the WOYWW!? 15th anniversary. It fell out of one of my little ATC's drawers yesterday. Somehow it must've made an impression on Brian my brain...because look!! Without realising I reinvented the almost same idea!!  Thank you Angela!

 

 Above, I've started clearing up now.... so there's not much to see...

So I'll just show you all the cards in a heap...

 All 31 of them....Well, yes I know some of you manage to make tons of cards and things everyday...but this was kinda a first for me!

If I had a trumpet, I'd blow it...luckily, I haven't!

That's all the cards, maybe a couple could be missing...(fallen down the back of the sofa probably) I was thinking of doing a video 'flick through' with all of them...many have done it but, maybe not! That's it from me! Catch you all later! See you over on WOYWW!? Thank you for stopping by!!

#gelypostcardplay, Cerithecrafter- Number 31-The Last Card!

 

  It's the last day, the last one!! Ceri The Crafter's July Challenge #gelypostcardplay, Number 31 today! I'm late...I have two four legged friends staying with me....so I got way-laid! Haven't even had time to link up with WOYWW yet, but I will! Here's my last card...

And no one's more surprised that me, that I managed to do all 31 cards! It's a fish! It's nothing like I imagined my last card would be like... I had no idea what I was going to do...I had blue geli prints and orange ones... so I drew a fish on a dark orange and a lighter orange, cut them out, stuck them together and Hey presto!  I had a fish...

The mostly blue background had 'bubbles' on it, which looked like it could give the impression of being under the sea, and the rest was done using my Pasco pens, a few diecut  balloons, the number 31... a few times, stamped tiny fish and a fishy sign showing the fish where the fishy party is!

It's not the one I was hoping to finish with, but...it's growing on me! Thank you to everyone who's popped in to 'look'. No comments but quite a ton of 'looks' over the month! Which is better than a poke in the eye with a wet stick! (I was thinking 'fishing' there) So that's it from me and her and them! You can join this challenge at any time, or go and have a look and join #pmartistsstudio, or even the star of the challenge, CeriTheCrafter. Thank you for stopping by!

#gelypostcardplay Card Number 30. If only we could fly!

  Morning! Well it was, it's afternoon now...the day is flying by! Here's my 30th postcard for Ceri The Crafters #gelypostcardplay July Challenge. Last card tomorrow. Did you know, that August used to have 31 days too, because the god of August didn't like the fact that the god of July had one more day than him... of course, I could've dreamt all that! Here's my postcard!

I'm quite chuffed with the way it's turned out! I don't know what Jack Bernard Cull (or Bernard Jack) would think of me, giving him butterfly wings. Yes, that's a little boy wearing that lovely dress, related to hubby on his mother's side. We think he might be Lady Pam's Dad...

I wanted to use the golden dragonfly tissue paper, which was given to me wrapped round some flowers back in March, but leaving it as a white background didn't work and I didn't have enough pink brayered tissue left to cover a postcard, so! Out came the paints and the rollers, pushed back my breakfast and rolled out a transparent Pinkish red, (Oddly, there's no name on the tube) Now, this tissue is great, coz if you roll over the back of it, the gold shows on the gelliplate. (I'm new to all this, still learning!) and it will lift up on your next pull, (or whatever it's called)

I'd already stamped a dragonfly onto a very pale pinkish (kissed with paint) card, you can just see him through the tissue. The golden dragonflies are already on the tissue. I then fussy-cut out great great cousin Jack (twice removed, probably) and added half the butterfly wing. (all butterflies, the bird and the music bit at the top are from Katy Sue) I die-cutted the 'butterfly plant' and put it into a flowerpot, added the number 30, which I did on my laptop, and then fixed on all the little tiny butterflies. I love the way the golden dragonflies shine as the light catches the card! That's it! Card number 30 done!!! Yay! Thank you for stopping by!

Time to have Tea On Tuesday!

  

Morning! It's Time for  Tea Stands for Tuesday!  Pop over to AlteredBooklover and see what's going on! This is last night's Hot Chocolate, sprinkled with some Cadbury Flake. As you can see, morning or night, I just have to push back my crafty stuff, and carry on! I'm still doing CeriTheCrafters July Challenge, #gelypostcardplay, last card tomorrow... today's card coming up next! 

I'd already eaten my mixed cereal and wanted to finished off the watermelon AND show off my latest new drink. I've been told to eat MORE green vegtables. If I eat any more I'm sure I'll turn green! The drink is called 'Cold Press and is made up of...Kiwi, apple, cucumber, spinach, lemon. ginger, banana and vitamins B C D and E. The first slip is sweet-ish then it's sort of greenish veg! But, it IS nice and I will buy more. (Actually, its very simular to what I have mixed up myself) There's different flavours.

Just had elevenies, pot of tea and some plain chocolate HobNobs and Bourbon. In between breakfast and now, I finished todays Post Card...so there's that mess pushed back behind...Butterflies?? yes, I'd say there's is a few! That's it from me! Happy Tea Day Tuesday! Thank you for stopping by!

Ceri theCrafter's-GelyPostcardPlay Card Number 29

 

 Morning All You Crafty People! Another day, another card! Here's my card number 29 for cerithecrafter's July Challenge #gelypostcardplay,.I feel I've cheated a bit on this one. Was up about five minutes before I went to bed to do some more Geliprinting, I wanted a lighter back ground to use with a velum lady I know I have...somewhere! (This is not a lady Lyn) I know...but it is velum. And I liked the sentiment. 

It was a bit shorter than the card, so added at the bottom is some  'World' tissus paper. I had a go at adding some meltalic circles, but they are quite hard to see. Then stuck the whole thing over my freshly dried geliprint background with Collall glue, after first fixing a darker geli print scrap under the sentiment  to make it show up more, edged all around it to make it look a bit ragged, or is the rugged? (who knows) 

 Found an aeroplane sticker, die-cut the numbers, and then fixed it all onto a black background. But it does feel like I've cheated a bit, because for once, it didn't take me all day!

 So, I feel I've caught up nicely! Definitely going to go to the Market today and have a snoop around the charity shops too. Might find another Bargain Of The Week! That's it! Click on the links above to see Ceri's Number 29 and other YouTubers. Wish I could do a 'proper' YouTube Video. Before he passed John did set me up. 'go on, craft!' he said...and I did. But it's leaning all the other bits that brian (My Brain) can't cope with...yet!  Have a great crafty week. Card Number 30 tomorrow!! Thank you for stopping by!

#Gelypostcardplay, Number 28. Under The Sea,

Evening Crafty People! I'm a bit late with my  #Gelypostcardplay, card No:28. In fact, the card is still wet, and bendy with the paint I've just flicked over it. I'm amazed that I'm still playing along with the challenge created by #CeriThe Creafter. Only three more cards to go! I was going to call this one 'Under The Sea,' but decided on just 'Wave'

This card started off as that blue swirly stencily piece of paper that I thought would be just right. Only, as I pulled it out of the pile, it had a circle cut out of it! (See circle below, card number 27!) There was enough of the blue left to one side to cover the hole, no one can tell...it's under the net and once it was fixed to a card, didn't show at all.

I then die-cut out a load of wavy 'grasses' for the sea weed, plus the anchor, the fish, the lobster and the little diver. The sandy beach at the bottom was made from Woodwares 'Fluffy Stuff' and heat set. Mine is really old, but it still worked okay. Then I covered that with those little beads you find in those tiny pockets of 'Oxygen Absorbers' you get in shoe boxes, or hand bags...mine came from a packet of dog treats! After that I went over it with a little yellow acrylic paint.

For a finishing touch, I splattered the whole thing with white acrylic paint, using an old tooth brush, then added the number 28 to the net a little screw-whiff. Job Done... Fingers are still covered in glue! The next job will be to fix a stronger piece of card on the back. That's it for today! Look out for tomorrows card! Thank you for stopping by!

A Christmas In July Card

  I keep meaning to play along with some Christmas in July Challenges, but with my small brain, sometimes called Brian, I forget!! or I just can't find any. I made a few cards, so I'd be ready...But where did I put them???

This is the only pictures I have of what I'm calling my 'use again card' In the top picture you can see the insert is still there...then, because it's fixed inside the main card with a magnet, you can take it out, and use the rest of the card again! Silly idea really, but I had fun making it.  I used the lovely Christmas papers from a 12x12 paper pad by Craft Consortium, such lovely papers! I didn't want to cut into them! So! I think I'd better make some more cards! (You watch; as soon as I do, I'll find the others!) Thank you for stopping by!

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12monthsofchristmas-anything goes christmas

#gelypostcardplay, Card Number 27-doing it with circles

 Morning Peoples! It's Saturday! The sun is shinning, hoping to pop out to the market today, then...do a bit of gardening, but it's never ending! As fast as I pull up the weeds, they grow back again twice as fast! And that brings me nicely to my Number 27 postcard for Ceri the Crafter's July challenge #gelypostcardplay, 'Never Ending Circles'. I wanted something quick as I didn't want to get behind over the weekend. So I just die-cut loads of circles out of some of the scraps left over from geliplate printing. 

 Some are tissue, some are on copy paper, some are on book pages and there's even a couple on wallpaper. I then inked round them with a black Posca pen. I haven't signed it, so instead added a tissue spider, with eight legs not my usual drawn one, which only has five! 

The only thing I wish I hadn't done was to use rectangles for the numbers, I shoulda used circles. Smaller circles. Never mind! I'm ahead of myself... almost, and that's what I wanted to achieve today! 

 All the circles are fixed onto to a geli rolled file card, but it was still a bit flimsy, so I added a black backing to it. That's it! My Number 27 postcard for  Cerithecrafters #gelypostcardplay challenge, is done!! Thank you for stopping by!

#GelyPostcardPlay, #Cerithecrafter, card number 26-Raining Cats and Dogs...

Yay! Thank Crunchy, it's Friday... even tho' every day feels the same to me! One long tunnel of light and dark, light and dark but it's nice to know I've reached the end of the week in one piece! Luckily yesterdays 'Sporting Advent', was rained off, which was a good thing really, I couldn't imagine the occupants of the care home, running the egg and spoon race or the three legged race while trying to manhandle their walking or zimmer frames! (Still, we had a really lovely lunch and Lola got loads of cuddles and tip bits)

 Lola

 Here's my next card, number 26 in #Gelypostcardplay, hosted by #cerithecrafter. Of course this isn't the card I planned to do, but never mind, this one's here now, and it's slowly starting to grow on me. (What? Like a wort?) It was the blue post card, with spots and dashes and droplets and rings decorating it,  that made me change my mind. I immediately thought....rain. I knew where an umbrella die-cut was, which was a good start, then I stenciled some more 'rain drops' in a purple metallic paint... (Purple rain?) ummm, I think I've put them upside down! So, then I die-cutted a few more larger ones and added them too. My Stamperia rub-on sheet, left over from yesterday, was suddenly found to be stuck to my foot! So they were ruined...well...I still used them! 

 

  The writing on one of the rub-ons mentions a black cat sooooo....I come up with the idea of raining cats and dogs. The brightly coloured sticker cats I've  had, forever, too cute to use, I've even got a rubber stamp of one of the same cats, so that was it, I knew I had some party dogs I could cut out, and as you can see, only three turned up, coz you know dogs, if it's raining they'd rather stay in and party than go out, unless of course, it stops raining and there's mud... (ask me how I know!)

Well that's about it! I typed out the words, die-cut the number on black card and coloured it with the same purple metallic paint. No: 26 for #gelypostcardplay, done! See you tomorrow for number 27! Thank you for stopping by.

Always Freebies for you! Spyder's mess

You might be able to play with this. It's just what was a Geliprint that got bombarded with all sorts, including, stenciling and a lot of stamping, (practising you see) I scanned it and thought I'd add it here as I know I'm going to be very late with this weeks normal freebie. I've just called it, Spyder's Mess, coz my home at the moment is a mess!!! 

They're both the s . print out as A4 or A5, for a smaller printed mess. Cut down to size they should make good backgrounds for ATCs, tags or post or journal cards. That's what I've done. I'll show you when I've finished making them. Just click and save. A comment would be lovely! Thanks for popping by.

Gelypostcardplay-25-We're All Mad Here...

Evening Crafty People! I'm late, I'm late!~For a very important date! Yes, you've guessed it! Alice in Wonderland! Today's been so busy I feel like I really have fallen down a rabbit hole! I'm here again with postcard No: 25 of

#GelyPostcardPlay,Card Number 24-Snakes and ladders

 

 Hello crafty people. I'm a bit late again...went to the beach this afternoon instead of doing this card! So here it is, Card number 24 for Cerithecrafter's July challenge #GelyPostcardPlay, I got the idea, while going through some of the 'What's On Your Worktop Wednesday blogs.' first thing this morning, I spied a ICAD... I have no idea what the difference is, they look about the same size, my brain was away with the fairies, and I couldn't come up with anything else that I 'thought' I could do quick... so, Snakes and Ladders it is!

I started off with a dark blueish swirly/stencily patterny card, then cut up about a dozen little squares from lots of different geli-plate pulls, edged them in black, found my Sizzix 'little Sizzles' adhesive assorted colour strips, and die cut loads of numbers. The snake was a freebie download years ago, from Dustin Pike and the ladders were also a magazine 'Handyman' download from the retired PaperCraft Inspirations from about 2010! I keep everything!

 

I'm going to back this card onto a stronger card as it's a bit bendy...and still quite glue-y, then maybe go over it with some Decopatch. I'm really liking that better than Mod Podge, even though I still want to call that plodge modge.

That's it for today! Go and have a look on YouTube, for the #GelyPostcardPlay challenge. There's some amazing makes full of inspiration! I will be late tomorrow as I'm going off to a sports do and taking little Lola with me...I'll take the doggy pushchair to save her little legs! Thank you for stopping by!

So? Whats On Your Work Top This Wednesday!? #790

 Happy WOYWW peoples! It's another Wednesday trip around the Blogland world visiting other crafty people. Pop over to sarahs craft shed  to find out more. I'm still spread everywhere, mostly in the kitchen, although, I can now see a small space in my craft room...but that's not usable for Gelliprinting! No room to roll that roller up and down and sideways! I'm still playing Ceri The Crafter's July Challenge #gelypostcardplay, and am in the middle of doing No 24...Ummm, still deciding on the colour of the card! So not really starting at all!

These are the cards I have left to decorate, to chose from....I really think I should do some more, these look a bit..blurrrrrph, want something a bit more, zingy!! Short post today! Busy busy busy!!! Pop over to Sarahs craft shed! and join in the fun! By for now!

#Gelypostcardplay number 23 number 23...plus

**I have an update, I can never stop fiddling, to Number 23, listed below. Above is the new picture with the flower coloured in with a red Promarker and a green Posca pen on the stem. I think it looks better but then I guess I'm bias. Below is how it used to look...and, I've got that black chip off of Kevin's shoulder too!

 

  Evening crafty people. I'm a bit late but I have mowed the lawn and trimmed the hedge today and just in time for the garden bin man! Here's my, umm-er?? 23rd Postcard for Cerithecrafter's July challenge #GelyPostcardPlay, Number 23... I'm not sure what I was thinking! Still, I think it turned out nice in the end...(it stopped raining anyway!)

I started off with an orange, swirly, stenciled card...Then stuck a large No: 2 and a small No: 3 in the top right hand corner...mmm?? Then for some reason I covered that corner again, with a napkin tissue, which had a masked-out hand made flower on it after I'd pressed it on my Geliplate. It was mostly stained, black and grey and ripped...and the leaves looked like a big black arrow, which you can't really see now, because I covered the bottom of it with Kevin, the R.a.c. man. I've been sent a few leaflets since the Van stopped with a completely dead battery a few weeks back. Kevin's got his thump up, so I made it look like he was holding the flower...Then I started looking for another number 23 and couldn't make up my mind which one to use...

So I used them all...For some reason there'd been a small pumpkin on the hall table for about a week... Oohh, thinks me. That's  Orange; so, hoping Kevin would forgive me for chopping his legs off... I stuck the pumpkin over his lower half. Then  I found the word 'Happy'. Why stick that on? I have no idea. Seconds later I said to myself, I don't like it, so wrote that on  the card...Then I really didn't like it! Gotta cover that up, I thought! and then, the song, 'Oh happy Day' came into my head. So I typed that out, along with 'I picked this for you' and fixed them in place. Doodled more scribbly bits with my new Posco pens including the music notes. Coated it all in Decopach, edged it all in black and Bob's your uncle, Fanny's your aunt, and we won't mention, second cousin Cyril, not on a Tuesday anyway.

So there we have it. Postcard No 23, for #cerithecrafter's #gelypostcardplay, done! Thank you to Ceri for creating this challenge, it's been really fun! Only a few more cards to go! And thank you for stopping by!! See you tomorrow! (Will there be a freebie Lyn???....Oh. Yes I think so!! But maybe not... ) who said that?