I bet you thought there wasn't going to be a freebie this week...me too! I've done another Mushroom...well it could be a toadstool, but seeing I'm calling it 'Mouse's Mushroom', it's a mushroom! Go HERE to download it without its watermark. No sharing please, just send people here, because the more times it's downloaded, the longer it stays. A comment would be lovely! Thank you for stopping by!
PS, if anyone would like it in png, just let me know!
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Hello to all you Woywwers! It's Wednesday again and time, if we can, Link up with Stamping Ground! (I can't add a link here either) Update!! Yes I can! Hope you are all fit and well. This week I've been crafting in the Kitchen making this wrap-a-round box from a cat food box. (the one I'm copying, was the box my phone came in, which I've decorated)
I've also been doing all sorts of stuff, nothing whatsoever to do with crafting (motor bikes, more bikes, electric bike, tools and things in the garage, mowing, mending,lights not working etc etc) although, the 'tidying' up of my craft room, is getting along just dandy! I've cleared it all out, I can see the floor and the bench is almost visable too...my bedroom, on the other hand - I can't get in the door! No matter... I can see the light at the end of the tunnel (There's a tunnel?) and as I said above... there's always the kitchen!
Yesterday was Elizabeth and Bleubeard's, from Altered Book Lovers 10th Aniversary, so have been over the last few weeks making my ATC's for the swap. I used playing cards for a couple...um...I was thinking of doing Alice in Wonderland with the Queen yelling 'Off With Her Head!'
Here's a few more that I made for the swap, including the little 'folder pockets' to put them in.
I took these pictures out in the garden and the wind kept blowing them off the table...(which is why a couple of them were left outside over night and got nibbled by a snail) Here's one of the pocket folders. Some had two, three, four or even seven pockets! I loved making them and they are soooo easy.
I've also been watching junk journal / Altered Art/ Mixed Media/Glue books etc Youtube vids so made my very first cover by covering a brown envelope in torn book pages (seen below) I then covered it with some tissue paper from W.H.Smith and Mod Podge and added stickers (I do love that 'world' tissue paper, I must look out for something different!)
Here's the torn pages...I used a glue stick to stick them to the brown envelope (and a little bit of collall glue too)
...and to end with....I found this a little bit naughty but quite funny! There really wasn't a need to add the M or the W, was there!
That's it! Have a great week. Happy WoYwW!? I should be able to link, if I use my phone, stand on my head, face west and turn off the WiFi! Thank you for stopping by!!
I made it! On the ten year anniversary of Bleubeard and Elizabeths Altered Book Lovers T stands for Tuesday. There was a big swap of ATc's, most have already gone off, I still have a few left, if anyone fancies one, let me know! My Partner for the swap, (lucky me!) was Jo from Lets Art Journal and this is what she sent me!
I also had a go at using playing cards with a bit more success! But then went back to making the 'normal' ATC card.
Here are my Atc's, altered playing cards, tags, and pocket folders. I forgot to take a picture of the ones I sent to Jo, but they're in there somewhere! I bit of a mixture. There's only about three or maybe four altered playing cards...so that's when I attacked a tea bag...ummm, nothing you want to see! Honest! so then I went back to making the ATC's, 'normally''.
Have a great week everyone! I'd better go and link up, as I told Elizabeth at seven o'clock this morning (Monday) that this post would be done by midnight! Thank you to Jo from Lets Art Journal and Thank you to you for stopping by!
I just had to pop back and add this...
I called this weeks freebie (see below) "It's not all black and white...." and as you can see, it's not! I printed off a sheet, coloured it with the rainbow colours of Tim Holtz Distress Inks...gave it a bit of a splintz with water and then splattered some white paint and some gold cosmic shimmer. Then sorted out a few die cuts and added butterflies, lables and tiny gems.... not bad really! What will you do!? Or, what shall I do next!? Happy CrAfTiNg! Thanks for stopping by!
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| This is what I made with it... |
Late again, at least I'm consistent. Happy WOYWW. I'm not rushing, coz I know I'll have to do backward flips to get linked into Stamping Ground and it takes ages! I was trying last night, and suddenly thought I'd left a light on in the bedroom...but it was the SUN shinning in through the window @ 5 o'clock. I still can't show you my 'real' work top, it's still a mess of total confusion, and so is the floor. At least I can show you something that I started after a tree fell on me.
Let me quickly add, it was a Lawn Fawn tree I made probably a year ago... it needed a home, so, out came the pop up box thingy diecuts and I made a purple stage for it...just have to add a few little critters having a party and some small bunting I think.
Along side is another box I covered with tissue and Mod Plode, I mean Podge, to make a small container for my Lawn Fawn Dies and other small stamps and dies. I sorted them out, put them on magnets, white side for stamps and magnetic black side for the dies. Just gotta find a place to put it now. The little name file thing on the front (what are they called?) is a bit rubbish because if you use them, they pull out....maybe a bit of hot glue would help. Well, that's it from me. Will try my best to visit. Happy WOYWW! But without the links its sometimes very hard to find you... Thank you for stopping by!
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| selfie of me and Lola at the party |
I had Lola for the weekend. A few weeks back she was attached by....the vet said....a cat. She was left completely paralysed in both back legs. Lola...she was a showgirl. With yellow feathers in her hair and a dress cut down- I'll stop there, you know the song. Anyway, as soon as I saw her, I said straight away, that I thought she'd most likely been grabbed and then dropped by a big bird, because there were no scratches to her anywhere except a large claw gouge in her side and like pin holes further down, and I mean, a cat couldn't leave a dog paralysed, even if it was bigger than her!
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| Grass. 😱It looks better than it did. |
At one point the vet suggested amputating the worse leg😡 and even having her put down. No! 😱 I think I may have said this before... I'll come back to it in a minute...
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| Views of Party...Lots of food and drink. There was a bouncy slide there too! |
Some weeks before I'd been invited to a party, and the evening before, had a message from Caroline, asking if I'd do some face painting in the afternoon of the party, coz there'd be loads of kids. I used to do a lot of Face Painting, decades ago! Dressed as a Clown. So that meant a trip up the ladder and into the Attic... scarrry place. I found my bag... also think I found some woodworm! (must get that seen to, just in case)
Anyway, Lola loved the party, the kiddies loved Lola and took her off on a trolly for a ride around the field. (See that little red trolly in the picture...oh, let me add quickly that Lola is fully recovered, maybe has the odd drag of one of her feet, but she mangaed to pull Tigger, the large hot water bottle cover, all the way down the hall to the living room. (This is usually the first thing she does when she comes to stay)
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