IT'S MONDAY ALREADY!

 Hello everyone,

I know I'm pretty quiet these days with posting and I think it is due to projects that take up time then editing everything and getting THAT mixed up and not being able to see properly to sort everything into the right folders and just life in general keeps me on my toes, BUT!!..my back is feeling so much better thank you xox..

So what can I share....remember the Steampunk clock I said I was making..well, I finished it..

This first photo was the frame and the cards I had made for her.

She wanted me to pull the cards apart and put them onto the clock base with other bits and pieces, like the music sheets she supplied and had the have the words Die Uhr showing..

( The clock or the Watch in German )

So I did..and mod podge it within an inch of its life 

as we don't want the hands to scatch onto anything sticking up..

Then came the dismantling of the cards, yea gods, I make strong cards!

What a job that was without messing up the lightbulb and girls face.

anyway, I got there and trimmed the edge and glued them down..

it was about this stage I knew by trying out the hands that I could go a little bit dimensional.

so started adding cogs and gears, so layered a little bit.

but really tried to keep it flat and that is where Stamperia 

die cuts and ephemera came in as they look real 3D but are flat as pancakes..

Then it left my possession and went home for the hands and framiing..

Hands on and still had room to maneuver..

the clock frame..

 My DIL had a first time sponging colours onto it..then,

 the photo was blurry, but it looked pretty good in real life.

mechanism in the back..

 The nearly front photo with heavy brass chains for hanging and decoration.

I was glad it was over and she was very happy with her Steampunk clock and the cards forever safe..

Thank you so much for stopping by..

I'll see you soon..I have to go and sort my editing..

Luv CHRISSYxx

NEW YORK STATE OF MIND...DT

 Hello everyone,

 I'll start by saying thank you for the nice get well comments re my back, unfortunately it is not that much better, I thought it was but I think the pain relief told to believe that so I stopped taking so much pain relief, until this morning when  it bit me again so I'm struggling this Wednesday morning sitting in, should I say, Holly's chair writing my post, but I will get there..

This week at LITTLE RED WAGON it is our lovely Kate who is hostess with her theme of..

New York State of Mind - urban scenes or travel, skylines etc..

I was a little stumped for awhile and treated the theme loosely by making a travelling booklet..

I made theses ephemera pieces using pictures and stickers and layered them all up.

paper matted..

Holtzy papers..

cut them,,,shock horror, but had to be done..

Then folded brown card stock

hinged them together..

and added hessian to the spine for movement..

made and inked up tags

oh no, it got stuck together and I made a mess..

This time ephemera made with stickers and also hidden paper clips..

these a great fun in a book.

So here we go..

just pictures unless I find something to mention.

other wise we could be here all day..

coat button from garage sale  purchases, 5 of them for 10cents

vellum envelopes from Temu and lots of stamping..

fixed the mess I made..

made flip downs as well as flip ups..

so many tickets

and back to the beginning..

so do come and join us HERE

Thank you so much for stopping by..

I'll see you soon..

Luv CHRISSYxx

WINDOW ENVELOPES

 Hello everyone,

The sun is shinning today, the flood waters have gurled their way down the drain and into the soil, no longer a problem and I should be out tidying the yard, BUT..I hurt my back, do not know how, it is just lower back pain and difficult to walk sometimes, but it will move on like the rain, and I'll be fine.

Do you get mail in window envelopes ? we don't normally anymore but I did get my hands on one, so I recycled it...and I'm so sorry the photos are dark, I do edit but they still look so dark, anyway squint your eyes and it may look better..

So this is the envelope and I cut the front part off to make a flap.

Cut some busy patterned paper to slide inside..

and left the side slit open for now..

Then my Holtzy papers came out to play...

Cut up patch panels and popped them on..

the arrow showing the patterned paper inside..

nice and neat for me!! and time

to glue the side.

cut a notch too because a tag will go inside..

added loads of number stickers..

and made a tag, so when it goes inside the picture changes..

take it out and the patterned paper shows..

Here, the tag is inside..

it has a little eyelet and string to pull..

and a decorated the flap too with the same stickers as the tag..

and that's it, simple easy and fun..

Thank you so much for stopping by..

I'll see you soon..

luv CHRISSYxx