3 TAGS CHALLENGE LAST DAY

This month, Heather set us a tag challenge. The themes were:
1.  season of mellow fruitfullness
2.  vintage birds
3.  the daydreamer

The idea was to use the finished tags within a journal page so we were asked to leave some places, both front and back, for journaling.
This is what I came up with:

This is the first one. I prepared the base with stains and then used Terra through a stencil to make the raised flowers. Once dry, I added the vellum Flower Fairy. The leaf at the bottom is from a Marriane design which I anchored by the stem only so that journalling could be added underneath without spoiling the effect with writing showing. I simply covered the reverse with K&Co paper.

The colours go well together.
The second tag had me thinking about Heather's pesky parrot ATC that for some time has fascinated me. I came up with this - not anything as good as that ATC I might add.

I distressed the edges of the card and then stamped all around with some mini flower stamps. The parrots were from free downloads, the punched border was made with a Martha Stewart punch and the centre paper is from some of Tim's stash. Again I used a download and altered it a bit for the reverse.

The addition of some peel offs helped the appearance.
The last one was fun too.

I stamped the girl and carefully cut her out. I then prepared the base by making it from a nestabilities die, distressing it and stamping the girl onto it. The word is a Tim stamp, the flowers and leaves are Prima. I finally glued the cut out image over the stamped one by the log at the top only. This gave a hidden space ie. the reverse, on which to include writing. I had fun with the back on this one.

I used the stencil from the first tag but blended subtle colours through it. I added my details around the white bits to show the recipient where journaling could be included.
I had to make these tags within a couple of days of the challenge beginning because we went away for a couple of weeks and are really busy now we are back. But for all my rushing to join in, I had great fun.
Thank you once again to Heather for this challenge and roll on the next one.

WOYWW HOME AGAIN

Back from our little jaunt. This gorgeous weather makes me feel I'm abroad somewhere not in the UK. Aren't we lucky to have the chance of topping up our tan at this time of year? It also gives us chance to complete a few jobs which have been waiting rather a long time due to operations etc.
We went to the Lincoln motorhome show last year and it cost an arm and a leg because we bought a new canopy and sides for the motorhome. This year it cost the other arm and leg because we had to replace the solar panels and I felt generous and bought 'T' a 1950s fiesta red Fender Stratocaster which he was 'drooling' over in a music shop we found. Looks rather tearful don't you think.....

That's his Christmas and birthday presents sorted for the next 10years!!!!!
Well back to woyww. Just popped over to Julia's but she was out on the rounds (she could have been but I made that up). Without her wonderful idea none of us would be able to do this desk hopping lark and be nosey without getting caught. Love it.
Not got going yet - only got back Monday and am still doing the washing!!!! but I did take a bit of craft with me and managed to finish my bead project. Can't show you that 'til near Christmas, but it has turned out ok and looks good on the card I made. Just need to figure out how to attach it.
So this is my space today.

A pill box bought yesterday for 85p to hold little beads when I am working with many colours. A lovely Chinese man gave me this idea at the show. He and his wife had a stall selling beaded phone charms etc.. 2 tiny skulls we found, also yesterday, 10mtrs of seam binding (10p a mtr) bought from Scarborough and a T-pouch I made whilst away following the instructions Hels put on her blog a couple of weeks ago. You can also just spy the lid of a plastic box with some beads in which is what I used for my project. So nothing exciting. I'll pop round to yours then for something better.
Happy woyww.

A WEEK OF BIRTHDAYS

I'm still in Lincoln at the motorhome show but leave tomorrow for home. We have had a good time all round, plenty of nice weather with a bit of horrid stuff now and then, nothing to spoil our fun though.
There were a couple of family birthdays whilst we have been away so I had to make cards and buy presents well before we left.
I'll have a search through my pictures and see if I can upload photos of the cards, if not, I'll catch up next week with all things blog related.

This was our Natasha's 14th birthday card.

I can't find the other card so I may not have taken a photo.
Right, I'm off to watch the Singapore GP now.

WOYWW FROM YORK

I'm very late today in joining in the fun over at WOYWW run and organised by the ever lovely Julia.
Just click on her name to be whisked away around the world.
I've been whisked away this week and am in York at the moment. We have (that's DH and I) been all over since last Thursday when we set off. Scarborough, Harrogate, York city centre and today we walked the city wall. The weather has been kind and we have enjoyed the break. We move from here tomorrow to go to Lincoln and the showground for the outdoor motorhome show.
However, we have only spent one day in the motorhome, ie not venturing out, and I crafted whilst DH wrote some music, set up a radio for his RC models and generally did our own thing. Since then, which was last Saturday, I haven't done any crafting.
So I'm afraid I don't have a photo of my craft desk to show you. Instead - if it will load - I'll show you the amazing sunset from last night. Happy woyww everyone.

GOTTCHA

That's not bad, after days of trying I've finally managed to upload the photo of Sonia's ATCs.
Worth waiting for though eh?