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Tuesday, 10 January 2012

Top Tip Tuesday - Anything Goes - Week 2!

WOW - we are only half way through this weeks challenge and what an amazing turnout we have had so far!!  I guess you like our

ANYTHING GOES
challenge!

There is still one week to go to enter the challenge, however, we wanted to showcase the creation that half way through who has

CAUGHT OUR EYE!!

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The mid-challenge 'Caught Our Eye' winner, who wins a Guest Designer Spot is:

Audhild
with this absolutely AMAZING creation!!
Thats just the front of it, make sure you go and visit her blog to view inside of the box - AMAZING!!

Congratulations!!  Please contact us at toptiptuesday@hotmail.co.uk for the details of the
Guest Designer information and also to get the code for your badge to show on your blog!!


We also have some fabulous 2nd week inspiration


From StampFairy Design Team

Jackie


Dora


How gorgeous are those??!
Remember, there is still a week to go of our ANYHING GOES challenge - please click here
to take you to the current challenge to add your creation, which is open until Monday 16th January.

From the TTT girlies



Tuesday, 3 January 2012

Top Tip Tuesday #67 - Anything Goes And News!


EDIT - Well we are settling well in the house, net not 100% at the moment so it keeps logging in and out! Will hope to add some pictures soon!! 

 Good Morning!

Well here we are the first challenge of 2012 for Top Tip Tuesday, I have to say I don't know where last year went, its flew by, only feels like yesterday that I wished everyone a happy 2011!.  As I have scheduled this post I can't say what I'm actually doing but probably getting the house ready for the re-wiring that due to start on January 9th! We are between houses as we have access to stay at my MIL's for a few days while our house is turned into dust city! 

OK so onto the challenge! 

This week....
ANYTHING GOES! 

We have some wonderful sponsors this week

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Ok so onto some inspiration for you, not that I think you need any as this one is so nice and simple for 2012! 
Oh how I love anything goes... although I do wish I had more 'get up and go' to create something a bit different!!! 
This is the gorgeous Hand Me Downs from Saturated Canary, Im obsessed with these digs, I have a little unit of draws where I keep odds and bits and I have a draw full of coloured digs from SC - and another draw full of ones to colour! I can't get enough of colouring them! 


This is a card I created for any occasion, I have to say I was so happy with the way her dress turned out, it was the 1st attempt and the green and pink matched rather nicely! Im finding now that I'm getting used to colouring with copics and now want to start adding more of the sketch markers to my collection! although I do miss my pro markers! 


Here she is up-close, now as I coloured her a while ago I can't remember what colours I used, I even added pink in her hair - now that was a mad moment!! I was also very happy with the way her hair turned out! - all in all i think this is on of my best colourings to date, and yes I will make my head get big but I'm feeling more positive about my colouring and my style now! Its not always how long something takes to do, but its the end result! 


Im loving these little bows, keep adding them to bits these days, I think its because I can't tie bows, its quite funny I normally wait for my mum to come over so she can tie a bow for me (she is a champion bow tie person in my mind!) - but these are so simple and so effective! 


Well there you have it! I hope you like her, I think she may have to be one of my 'keeps'! Stick her on my craft room wall when I get time! I would like to enter this card to the following challenges;

Cupcake craft Room - Anything Goes
iCopic Challenge - Smooth/Shiny Hair
Make It Monday - Anything Goes
The pink Elephant - Anything Goes
Pile It On - Anything Goes

Well I hope I may have inspired you to join us this week, we are after all easing you into the new year the best way possible with 

ANYTHING GOES! 



Sunday, 1 January 2012

Welcome to 2012!

Evening all, well I apologise that I haven't managed to post for a while and if this shows I'm pretty lucky! Firstly I would like to wish you all a Happy new Year! I can't believe 2012 is here, feels like only yesterday we were welcoming 2011! 

Well we are now moved into the new house and its FAB, Im loving having all this space! this girls are sharing a room at the moment and I think they will continue sharing, we have decided that we would like a computer/craft room and I think I like the idea too, at least I will then be able to lock myself away when I want to, well within reason! We have a lot of work to do before we get to the stage of fully deciding, we are hopeful that the re-wire will start on Friday... we have stripped the front bedroom of the fabulous wood chip paper, oh my will I be gad to see the back of that! I have even had a bit of the chip stuck in my toe and it still hurts now!!! 

Well I hope you are all well, I'm hopeful that the internet will sort its self out soon, had enough of the 'go slow' that it does! 

Im not going to risk trying to add any photos at the moment, don't want the net to crash on me! But as soon as things are sorted I will add some for you all! 

Hope you well, take are and see you soon 

x

Tuesday, 20 December 2011

EDIT; Just thought I would let you all know, We are moving on Thursday (22/12) so I won't be on here till the earliest 29th Dec (we have no phone line till then!) I hope you all have a very merry Christmas and if I don't get here before a wonderful new year! 


x


Morning all, well here we are, 5 days till santa will be coming down the chimney! I can't wait, I know Amelia is very excited about the countdown now, Nancy I think is still a bit young to understand, I can't wait to see their little faces on Christmas day with all their presents!

Im here this morning with this weeks challenge from Top Tip Tuesday! 

With the big day just around the corner we have what should be a nice and easy challenge for you all! Were looking for 

ANYTHING CHRISTMAS! 

Now that should be easy?! Those last minute Christmas Cards and extra special handmade gifts, or what about some handmade wrapping paper?!  I can't wait to see your creations!  

And this week there are some wonderful Tips from the girls, so pop over and see what that have to share with you! Plus if you share a tip with us (when you add your name to the link, please add TIP after) you can be in with a chance of winning our tipper prize!! 

Our sponsors this week are

Stash Books - Who is offering our featured tipper an amazing book 

(Pic of book To follow)

A bit about Stash Books: Stash Books is an imprint of C&T Publishing located in the San Francisco Bay Area.  If you’re craving beautiful authenticity in a time of mass-production…Stash Books is for you. Stash Books is a new line of how-to books celebrating fabric arts for a handmade lifestyle. Backed by C&T Publishing’s solid reputation for quality, Stash Books will inspire you with contemporary designs, clear and simple instructions, and engaging photography.

And 




Who offer a fantastic selection of designs in both digital and rubber stamps, 
They are offering our Winner three Digis of their choice from the store! 

Well I will share with you my little creation now, I had made this card for a friend.  It was for her dad from her children, as some of you may have seen me say before I struggle with men all year round, Christmas is just as hard I find... but then I came across this cutie from Mo's Digital Pencil - He is called 'Shall I Play For You', now I think is is once of the cutest digs I have seen, he has been sat on my computer since last year, I only used him once and then Christmas had come and gone again! 




I apologise for the deceiving colour on the above photo, I can't seem to find the original, and as the card is now on someones wall I can't take another photo, A good job the rest of the pictures came out OK! Here this little man it a bit closer, I love the little dog sat next to him, I can also think of so many sentiments I want to try with him - especially christmas ones! 


If you have come over from the TTT blog you would have seen my tip this week about making your own sentiments using a word/pages document on your computer, you can make them as small or large as you want and cut them to the shape you want too! I decided to use the wording 'Christmas Wishes for a Special Granddad' on this card, I printed a few different ones off all at the same time to make use of the paper! 


Both the image and sentiments were printed on Neenah card stock from Crafters Companion and the image was coloured with my copic pens - now once again I can't tell you what colours as I never wrote them down - plus with the move I can't find my lil book anywhere! 


I would like to enter this card to the following challenges; 

Bearly Mine - Anything Goes
Everybody Art Chalenge - Anything Goes
My time To Craft - Winter pals
Try It On Tuesday - Anything Goes
Make It Moday - Anything Goes


Now I hope that many of you will join in with us this week! I can't wait to see what you have created! Remember if you have a moment pop by the TTT blog and share some love with the fab girls over there! 

See you soon! 
x

Tuesday, 13 December 2011

Mmmm Red Shoes....

Evening all, well its been a busy day, decided that retail therapy was the way forwards.  So want a pair of red glittery shoes after my little project last night! but retail therapy was struck down when I had to collect paperwork from the solicitors! After lots of phone calls and discussions between me and numerous others - It looks like were moving next week! 4 days before Christmas! Got so much to think about now, to prepare and arrange and so this is probably the last post that I will sit here and wright, I do have some posts scheduled and so I hope they will appear, and I will try and get on to fill you all in when I can! 

Well onto what I managed to create last night after the stupidly long post on here, I browsed various challenge blogs and came up with some ideas.  I had a little hunt around and found a stamp that had slipped to the bottom of the draw, its one of the November releases from Whiff of Joy, Ok so it was the website that reminded me that it was there! This week at the WOJ Challenge blog there is a wonderful sketch by Karina!


And from there I managed to create a card from start to finish! Makes a change for me, have spent so much time recently just colouring due to lack of 'crafting goodies' available, and so I made do with what i had, it shows how much you get used to the 'nice' things you have, such as my big shot, there have been so many occasions recently where I have thought 'i'll just cut that' and I can't as I have no dies and no machine at the moment! Anyway enough waffling! 


Yes you can no see where my 'sparkly red shoe' idea came from! As a child at christmas I thought of nothing better than having red shoes for christmas, I never remember having red shoes for christmas, I remember being told to wear my school shoes with my dress so we could go to the pub for the 'Christmas drink'.  


There is my card, I hope you can all see the sketch in it! I decided to use some ribbon on this card as I have a bit here! The sentiment is also a WOJ stamp.  The papers and ribbon are from my stash. 


Here she is up-close, I wanted to keep her as simple as possible, i tend to start off well and then end up colouring it all in, but on this occasion I managed to get it pretty much how I wanted it, I used topic pens to colour and didn't think to note what ones I was using, I was on a roll though! I was so happy with the way she turned out, even more so now that I look at her more and more! 


There is the up-close of the sentiment, I did go a bit crazy with stickles last night, I wanted this card to have quite a bit of sparkle on it! I mounted the stamped sentiment onto green bazzill stock and rounded the corners just to soften the edges a bit, as I had used a scalloped edge 8x8 card. 


Here is an up-close of the ribbon bows I made, i cannot tie bows for the life of me, and so i make these cute ones! Normally when I want bows I get mum to do them so I make sure she is here when I need her! She is quite ill at the moment and so i haven't seen her for a few days! 

I hope you like my creation, i would like to enter this card to the following challenges;

Whiff Of Joy - Sketch 
Belles and Whistles - Lets Sparkle (lots of sparkles added!)
Hooked on Craft - Christmas
Make It Monday - Anything Goes
Outlines Monday - Shiny and bright

Thank you for stopping by and I hope to see you again soon! If you have a moment I would love to read what you think, look forward to seeing you again soon 

x
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