Blink...

...hurrah and thrice... I can!! Blink that is. Yes, my eye is better... well, it is still a bit prickly but nowhere near as bad as it was. Phew!! To celebrate the return of my vision, I set about altering a plain old A5 Journal... tis my day for Bubbly Funk so... all the deets are HERE if you would like to see how I did it :O)) Here's a snippy little piccy... Check out that font in the frame... I lurve it... tis called This Charming Font and I have had it for yonks but never tried it before, I shall be using that one again!! Oh and of course, the gorgeous Studio 490 flowers and leaves... they are the best aren't they!



Cor, I am as hot as a badger **I know, we wouldn't normally think of badgers as being hot but most things I liken to an animal of some description and badgers always seem to be favoured... on account of me thinking that they are cute!** today... tis time for the old towery-whizzy-fan-thingy-wotsit to make an appearance in the Room of Stash... I am seriously thinking about investing in an air cooler for in here... tis at the back of the house so it gets the sunshine all day, which is nice because it makes the room lovely and light and airy... but it also makes it very hot and stifley.



Anyways... this post should have been called Blink & You'll Miss It... because... that is all from me for today, I know, I know, I usually waffle on alarmingly for hours on end but you see, it's imperative that I get my old carcass moving because... Mr Mojo is here... I am whispering just incase I scare him away.. so, I will strike while the iron is hot and get cracking on some inky projects! Thanks for looking... have a fabby Friday! TTFN

Hels x

Simon Says.... Wendy....

...aha, the theme over at Simon Says Stamp & Show this week is to show some Wendy Vecchi stylee art. Well, of course, au naturellement indeedily, I lurve Wendy Vecchi and anything Studio 490 stylee... so I set about making a little something as an entry... and then... lo! I got a block! I know, how can I lose the old Mojo half way through playing with Art Parts and 490 stamps!!! But it happened, so, I walked away from the desk and sat and growled for a while, sulking in fact.




When I returned, the old Mojo was still being reluctant to show its face, so, being as I am a bit stubborn, I decided to crack on anyway and just enjoy myself with all the goodies I had assembled on my desk. So, Clearly For Art... love the stuff... can't get enough of it... and my little clear butterfly was looking rather splendid, stamped in Coffee Archival and all that. Then I had an attack of the sausage fingers and managed to wipe all the stamped bit off... so I was left with a rather manky looking butterfly. But! Layered over the top of a Grungeboard one, he looks kinda goldy in colour, so he stayed.




I had tried to do a bit of muted stamping on the base of the Art Part circle and bodged that too... it isn't very visible... so instead I just stamped a dictionary def. text in black Archival and that covered up that oopsie-daisy. I stamped the Spider in the wrong place, he is covered up by the Ornate Plate... all in all this is so not how I wanted it to turn out but... I kind of like it! The hand has a rather blinging bright diamond on it to go with the lacey cuff... I broke up an old brooch I got in a bag of junk from a car boot sale... I wonder if it is a real diamond, that would be cool, there are about 30 stones in the brooch lol




Check out the watch.... behind it are three Memo Pins that I have popped a 4, a 9 and a 0 behind and filled with Glossy Accents (thanks to the Wonderful Wendy for that idea!!)



I have to say... Art Parts... they have to be my favest bases to work on... I have used Distress Stains on them and corrr, they smell divine when the heatgun is drying the ink... like fireworks (mind you, I have always been a bit strange, I like weird smells, like diesel and plastic paddling pools and the inside of those big catalogues you get from Argos... told you, strange indeedily lol) So, this is my entry for the challenge... a whole lot later and a whole lot different than planned but nevermind, I had a whole heap of fun making it. Oh and I nearly forgot... all of the stashly goodies I used are available at The Stamp Attic... (just being an enabler ;o))


I best get a move on... I need to make the Sunday Stamper for tomorrow... haven't a single clue about the theme this week so be prepared that it may be a bit of a wacky one... or a repeat of one we have already had lol Thanks for looking... enjoy your Saturday! TTFN

Hels x

Full Steam Ahead Sir!!!

... I have always wanted to say that... so I just did lol So, I have some new stamps to play with... and I lurve them lots already... so much that they are probably going to become my new faves. They are the Steampunk set from THE Duke of Distress and they really are rather splendid... and I got them from The Artistic Stamper :O)) I was going to try and speak like a Victorian for this post but, by jingo, it is not as easy as one thought it would be... nah... I am better off speaking like me... even though you probably only understand every other word it is easier for me to waffle on... you know, in my own voice.



Speaking of which (pardon the pun) a few weeks ago I met a lady whom I have been talking to online, emails and the like and she was really surprised when I started talking... she said... and I quote... "ooooh, you talk like a Northerner!" So, I sat there a few minutes and started wondering what she had thought I sounded like... because, you can't get someone's accent from blogs and words on the t'internet... which has now got me to thinking... when I read the lovely comments left here by peeps that I haven't actually talked to in the real, I read them in my own voice... so, if you don't mind, can you please leave me a comment and tell me what accent your voice is? Then, when I read it, I can read it in that accent. **Wonders if Hels is actually losing the plot here?**



Anyways... my tag... as I said, the new Steampunk stamps... I lurve them... and I lurve Distress Stains.. so I put them together... the Wild Honey/Vintage Photo combo is getting a bit over used methinks... so I am banning myself from using them together for at least...erm... a day (ahem) but even so... they are a goodly combo. The ickle ruler is a strip from the Crowded Attic stack, stuck to mountboard, cut, inked, hammered, I added an eyelet without an eye... can't remember what they are called rofl and some Idea-ology... and glued some Ball Chain on. The sentiment is also a Duke of Distress stamp... one of my other faves lol



Cor blimey! Have you had weird weather today? This morning was bright and sunny and then it went as black as your hat and thundered and lightninged... and then sunny... and now we are in the middle of a storm! I am sure I am a witch you know... whenever we are going to have a bad storm or the weather is going to be freakish, I always get heaps more pain... like my old bones know that it is going to be bad. Right... best go, I have a broomstick to polish (rofl!!) Thanks for looking... TTFN!

Hels x

Al Fresco...

...corrrr blimey... those Fresco Finish paints... lusciousness in a bottle or what!! Now, I have had a few colours to play with ... and I am soooo lucky because Wendy from The Stamp Attic sent me some more to play with for my DT thing. They arrived yesterday and I got playing straight away... trying different colours with the Crackle in the middle of them... this one is a rather lovely combo... Little Black Dress and Moonlight... subtley mauve... like I said... lush!!!


I love that Sewing Room die... you know, I said when I first saw it that I would never use it and wouldn't need it... ahem... famous last words... thing is, I say that about loads of stuff and end up having to have it lol



Right... time to get cracking on more crafty stuff that is waiting attention... you will be pleased to hear that my room is still impeccably tidy.. I have been clearing up after each make...oh and I have even been washing out painty Cut & Dry foam... and paint brushes too!! I know! Whatever next?? Baking?? No, that is taking this domestic goddess malarkey one step too far rofl... Anyways... thanks for looking... have a goodly Friday! TTFN...

Hels x

Simon Says... Grungy...

...cor blimey, I don't know, I turn my back and the next thing I know I have gone through a weekend and a day and I am already on Tuesday! So... here I am with my entry to the Simon Says Stamp & Show challenge this week which is one I just couldn't resist... the theme is to show a tag! Cool!! And... over on the wonderfully talented Linda Ledbetter's blog there is a new theme for the Grungy Monday challenge. If you haven't seen either of the challenges before, do take a trip over to both to see all the amazing artwork on them. Of course, the Grungy Monday challenge pays hommage to the one and only Duke of Distress, none other than Tim Holtz... the theme for Grungy Monday is Distress Inks... if you click HERE you will be whizzed away to the Duke's blog and if you click HERE you will be whipped away to the Distress Ink heaven that is Ranger Ink.




So... a tag... mwhahahahaaaa... I do love a nice tag... to the point that my tag basket is now too full and they are falling out... hang on a mo... I shall count them... FIFTY THREE!!! Oh and this one too... so that will be 54!!!! Chuffing chuff... what should I do with them... actually I have been asked that quite recently and the honest answer is... I er... dunno! The basket of tags doesn't include the Compendium challenge tags - 35 of those... or the tags I made at Ranger... eeek... I need a bigger basket... or a bigger Room of Stash lol



So... lots of lushy Distress Inks found their way onto this tag. Tis a while since I was colourful so I have chosen my old fave combo - Mustard Seed, Spiced Marmalade, Fired Brick and Walnut Stain with a smidge of Vintage Photo thrown in for goodly measures. And the Steampunk stamp set... and some Alterations Cogs and some Idea-ology... oh and the sentiment is on the Hanging Sign Alteration... I just chopped it down and bunged an Idea-ology Bulb into the already punched hole. The bottom has a banner of Ruler Ribbon, threaded with ickle Resistors (www.skybluepink.com for those... nope, I didn't "borrow" these from Grim's tool box lol) Oh and... I REALLY need that Japanese Screw punch jobby that Tim has just brought out... but as I haven't got one (yet ahem) I used a pokey tool, bashed the top of it with a hammer and made a hole in the Nib... still need the punch though ;o))



Anyways... I am in a right old huff today. I got up stoopid early to get ready for the Pain Clinic appt that I have been waiting for for over a year... I got the appt date through nearly four months ago after being referred last May (2010)! So, today was the day that I should attend the clinic. Up early, ready on time, drove to the hospital, parked Ferdy, went into the clinic 15 mins early, sat there filling in forms for 10 mins, sat there waiting... then got told that the Consultant had been on call last night so he had cancelled the clinic for today! HUMPH! Argh... and double argh!!! I wouldn't have minded so much if I had been called before I left home... or if they arranged for Ferdy to park for nothing... but no, I had to fork out a whole £2.50 for the pleasure too! So, now I am back to the waiting game... am seriously hoping it won't be so long to wait this time. Right... enough of me waffling and moaning on... time for me to get inky again - I am working on a little something that hopefully will be ready for tomorrow - if you want a right laugh, do pop back lol. Thanks for looking... TTFN!


Hels x

Mad Hatter Day...

...is today... well in the UK it is because we do the date as 10/6. This Mad Hatter is from the pen of Mabel Lucie Attwell, the stamps are available from The Artistic Stamper... who just so happen to be sponsoring The Altered Alice challenge this month. I have had a right good old nosey over there and you should see the divine art that their team has made... well worth a hoppety hop over there **did you see what I did there... hoppety.. like a wabbit lol**




Anyways... I made a quicky card using the Mad Hatter's Tea Party stamp, colouring in with a heap of Distress Inks and a waterbrush and then I printed off a few little words that I reckon the wabbit may well have asked... I used Word and "A Charming Font" font... isn't it just the best!! I was trying to find the one that was used in the movie but couldn't so opted for this one as it is similar.



Another lightning fast, super speedy post from me... mainly cos I have been playing with ink for most of the day and my hands are covered in the stuff... like seven shades of mucky... and I have to get the tea on... I made a chicken curry at 8am this morning and it has been slowly infusing all day so hopefully it will be nice and spicy and scrummy... can't beat a nice bit of curry! Part of the Challenge for this month is to bring something to the party... so I am taking the curry lol So, what you got for tea? Or should I say dinner? Where I come from it was always dinner and then tea... dinner at lunch time and tea at dinner time.. I know, confusing... I am sure that peeps from the North of England will know exactly what I am waffling on about... right... curry... best go otherwise I will start waffling on even more and it will be more like suppertime lol!! Thanks for looking... TTFN!

Hels x