Had a go at a self portrait!

This is a 'cringe' moment..

Also a little shaky on the focus!

While the football was on last night!

While My other Half! was watching the match, I sat listening to music, trying to hear it over his shouts of glee with each goal! I got creative and made these two cards.

The one above is 3d decoupage, even though the picture does not show all the layers!

I thought it was a cute image for that most important first birthday.

This card I just had to make, the stick on label Tag was just shouting to me to be used.

It has a delicate glitter effect that is just so lovely.

I wasn't very productive, but took my time over these two.

I now have one song running through my head 'falling into you' by Celine Dion.

It has beautiful words and so much meaning.

Wow, first day without much crafting!

I am amazed, I have gone a couple of days now not doing much crafting, I have made 2 cards this evening but I have yet to take pictures. My mind has been else where, and being kept busy with other things. My lovely little boy has shared his cold germs with us all, so I'm feeling sorry for myself. Plus of course any time I become off colour or ill my Back will be the one thing that suffers the most. So any time crafting or sitting at the computer is quite uncomfortable.

Sending you all some hugs for tonight.

Some more Altered tins.

I bought these tins via E-bay, from USA. They are meant to be used for candle making.

I have decorated three so far as Christmas gifts for friends who are crafty, as I will put mojo inspired messages in them for when they need a challenge or when they are stuck for ideas on what to make.

Top picture is the lid of tin 1, next picture is side 1 of tin 1. I used scrapbook papers to decorate the bottoms and sides of all the tins. Added embossed stickers for extra colour.

Below is the other side of tin one.... I think these have come out better than I expected.

Below is tin two, a slightly different flower for the top.
It goes with the colour scheme though.
Side one of tin 2, even though this was my first go at this size of tin... if I do say so myself I think they have worked well.

And the other side of tin 2, I matched the butterfly with the lemon shade of paper.

Below is the final one out of three, this flower is the same as tin 1, but slightly smaller.

Side 1 of tin 3, are you confused yet? I am!
This is the other side of tin 3.... Again I have tried to decorate it in matching colours.
I would love your comments on these.
I have no idea what today will bring in the crafty sense.... time will tell and I will be back to show you all more!

Another creative time....

I can not believe how long it has been since I last added to my blog, though I have been busy trying to get ahead with up coming birthdays and anniversary's, before I begin making my Christmas cards. A big thing that does get in my way though is making ATC's. I have just been unable to stop making them. the one below is called Enchanted.The set of three below are all geisha's I have loved doing oriental theme for quite a while now, it all began when I was asked to do an altered puzzle piece with oriental theme.
These love theme Atc's were made for fun, but they kind of look nice and fun!


Some more love Atc's.

These tins below were an experiment to see if I could alter them... They turned out ok, better than I thought they would. I think they would make nice gift boxes to give my Handcrafted bracelets in.

I had to let my Son know how well he did on his first morning in reception class. He took this card in the following day to show his teacher.

This year I have been married for 7 years, the time has gone so fast. I made this card last night for my dear hubby. Once again though I have made it blue just like our colour theme on our wedding day.

The card below is for my best friend, they have been married 6 years in October. Again I have made it totally without thinking in the matching colour scheme.


This is for a special lady who turns 60 next month. I hope she likes the style of card.

And finally, one card I am really pleased with is this one, for my best friends daughter who is three next month... She loves Disney. This one being her favourite.

Where has all this MOJO come from?

Well its been a busy weekend, I have been working hard to make a mixture of cards for all upcoming events. Some of them I have left blank to add a greeting until I know what I need the card to be for.

This one is for a friend on the Card making and papercraft forum.

I found these papers and sticker tag in a box and felt it was time to use them even though I thought they were too pretty, too nice to use!


This car image is another one from lili of the vally, I have fallen in love with all their new images.
As well as the other two car cards below.






I really love this cyclist image. Its one that would suit any man in your life!

I decided to go for an oriental theme for the following three cards.
This card is a 3d image, I thought there were too many layers to make one card,
so I decided to spilt it into two different pictures, The results are the two cards below.
I think they both work well as individual cards. I also used my gel pens to highlight some of the text to make it stand out.


I loved this little mouse 3d decoupage. I felt the background colours had to match the border of the main picture.

Again the two cards below were meant to make just one layered card.
I like to split the parts up and make two pictures.
That way they are my own style of card.





I think this duck is so cute, any child would fall in love with its brightness.


And finally, I fell in love with this image. Though at the time I didn't have much ink in my printer so the final picture came out quite pale.
I used my gel pens to highlight different areas of the image to make it stand out.
I think this card works well.

Well I haven't made a single card this evening, so maybe I have burnt my mojo out for now. Though I have decided to get back into making some ATC's. Time will tell as to what I come up with over the next few days, also it matters who's company I am in....

Had a busy afternoon, I love these images!

I have to say that I love these images from : http://www.liliofthevalley.co.uk/LILIOFTHEVALLEY.CO/index.html I have fallen in love with the fairy collection and thought that the added glitter on the wings of rose made her look pretty.
I had to make this card for tomorrow, but got carried away with the other images i found. I think they have a wonderful quality to them.

This is another of my favourite cards today, it worked out so much better than I thought it would.

Something a little different, which will do as a congratulations card or birthday.

This football card is the scond time I have used this image, its very good for boys or men that love football.
Plain and simple always seem to work well, plus of course lilac is my favourite colour.

I also had to make this card today.... this is for a school friend of my son's, he will be going to his party tonight.

This is also another picture I have used again, my nephew loved a card like this one.


This card is embossed in the corners with a flower design, I thought a singer had to have a flower tribute!

This one is cute as so many people use the computer these days. Just some versatile cards for different occasions.