CANDLE IN THE WIND..DT

 Hello everyone,

It's LITTLE RED WAGON time and our lovely hostess is Kate and she is carrying on with her Elton John songs inspired themes and this week " Candles in the wind " - any light source, sun, light bulb, candle and even the moon is eligible as it cast light on us..

My project started on background making day, I have those, and this was the biggest stencil I think I own, bought it, never used it, but on this day, I did..and  stenciled with modelling paste..then it sat there.

I had no idea what to really do with it, then these powders came to mind..

Nuvo powders, gorgeous colours and on black, well, they just worked.

Tap tap tap, very gently...too impatient, I squeezed it..

but lots of water and getting the powder to melt and move,

I ended up with this..

then I split in two and ended up with two tags..

I got my pencil out and sort of sketched a couple of light bulbs, 

then cut then out..

Coloured them yellow with silver gel pen tops..

and drew some electric wire things with thin black marker..

added die cut chains with silver mirror card stock..

This one had a single chain which was actually the chain off an anchor die..

and the we go, two tags with a background I had no use for but it turned out I did..

so do come and join in with us HERE

Thank you so much for stopping..

I'll see you again soon..

luv CHRISSYxx

NICE AND EASY NO FUSS..

 Hello everyone,

I suppose you have gathered by now that I'm really enjoying using up my stash and envelopes, and I enjoy making little booklets for no reason at asll, just learning as I go, some are good, some not so much, but still have a lot of fun..

This a booklet was made using sage green envelopes and a couple of black ones that were floating around and I though, why not..so I add them a bit differently for contrast.

This is after I glued them together which made 6 pages / pockets and a fold out with the black..

this is the cover..and as we go you can tell what page is what as they are all numbered as I got lost too many times..

all of theses ephemeras I made I used, all of them.

even had to make a few extra, there's a lot of pockets to fill..

each pocket has an ephemera page and an index card.

this is the black envelopes folded out..

So the ephemera was glued as decorative papers as well 

and then I added paper dolls from Tim Holtz..

Lots of scraps were used for something or another..

and dove into my number sticker container and used heaps of those..

I also added flower stickers, they just needed to be there, so I added them.

The index cards got the sticker treatment too.

No right or wrong way to add stuff, just do it.

before gluing these guys I did make sure that they fitted on,

 because they are pretty big..

More flowers and dolls - what a great day.

Looks at them all and this is only one drawer, 

I know, I think I have an obsession, not my fault though, 

You tube videos made me do it..

12 & 13 I just kept adding

Doesn't even matter what the numbers say, 

they mean nothing to me or anyone, they just look good..

Lots more flowers came into play, found some smaller ones..

and Tim Holts stamps which I'm slowly collecting.

This is the black envelopes folded out with more pockets

by sides decorated..

And at the end, 

20  pages/pockets altogether..

what a ride, I had so much fun, keeping it for myself ,just on my shelf 

and can look through it when I feel like it..

So there you go..

Such a lot of pictures and long post and congratulations if you made it to the end..

Thank you so much for stopping by..

luv CHRISSYxx

NOT A CARD..DT

 Hello everyone,

It is Wednesday, and over here in NZ we are having terrible winds, and too hot for Holly ( 28oC ) so she seems to nest somewhere inside where it is cooler..

this time in the darkness of the lounge on a tiny chair.

so she was comfortable and not annoying me in the craftroom, I set too and achieved  the making loads of Christmas cards  ready for a Fair evening at my sons workshop where I sell my cards along with other vendors and a food truck...yum..

Tags are next up today sometime, and of course gift card holders..

But onto today, it is Little Red Wagon time and our hostess this week is the lovely Brenda and her theme is " Not a Card "..

I went with a tag which I actually made ages ago when I was in the ink smooshing 

mood..

Background made

Stamping time and edge inking..

Luna paste by Simon Hurley, lovely stuff, never dried out yet

and had it for a long time now..

Ha!..top hat still in play and layered up my metal cogs and gears onto die cut 

gears..

Nice quotes - " What seems ordinary "

" Is often the extraordinary "

and done..a steampunk masculine gambling tag..

so do come and join us HERE just remember, no cards.

thank you so much for stopping by..

I'll catch up again real soon..

Luv CHRISSYxx

LEFTOVER PUMPKINS AND A BIRD

 Hello everyone,

Back so soon, yes I am, I've been really busy and missed quite a few days as I'm ploughing away at the latest scrapbook and it is going really well, so that's a good thing, I hurt my Achilles tendon, so that's a bad thing and things have been a bit awkward there, no walking for what seems like forever and I miss that, and in between I've been making booklets to share soon, from envelope and hinge binding, that was super fun, so very busy in the background..

these were leftovers from my tags, the pumpkins are really huge and layered

and weren't quite right for a tag..

I glued these leaves down on a kraft sheet of cardstock ( File folder really )

Then these ones on top..

then a fence and a bird were added..

and I had a quick card

bit of dimension going on but not too much..

Some quotes from a quote book and it was done..

" How fast in the time flying "

" Embrace life's adventures "

Nice..

So there we go.

Thank you so much for stopping by, 

I'll see you again soon..

Luv CHRISSYxx

Challenges to enter...

Cards For Guyz   ( Autumn /Fall )

A Place to Start  ( Anything goes - Pump it up for Pumpkins )

The Four Seasons Challenge   ( Anything goes Fall )