Once Upon a Time

.... there was a chicken who thought the sky was falling down! He went on to tell Henny Penny who then told Cocky Locky....

 I love this theme which is over on Sunday Postcard Art. Come over and join us... you have til Friday :-)
TFL
Mandy x

What a sad day....

to hear that Happy Daze is closing down. Moira is sadly very ill and cannot carry on with the shop :-(   It's kind of ironic that I had already made this card featuring the words 'a lovely day'

BUT there is a sale over on Happy Daze for 40% off all items

Mandy x

Down at the bottom of the garden.....

are little tiny fairies ~ I've captured one for my tag for Lunagirl challenge Garden Fairies

TFL
Mandy x

Lot's of Loverly Layers

This week on PanPastelUK the theme is lots of layers. Here is my tag, which features new images from Hidden Vintage Studios ~ kit is called Girls of Summer.
The layers began with a spritzed background, I decided it was too dark so I added some Bundled Sage distress paint on top on it. the spritzing still shows through. Then I added some washi tape at the bottom. I used paint through a mask, and then stamped some images. Next the collage images and finally some ink around the edge and some pan pastels around the focal image.

I'm also entering this tag into Sunday Stamper ~ writing ;-) and also into one stitch at a time ~ not square

TFL

Mandy x

Sleepy with the Flow of Streams.....

We are celebrating the Summer Solstice which is 'officially' the first day of Summer. It falls on 21st June so we thought it would be a fitting theme for this week's SPA. The wonderfully talented Kersten has joined us this week as hostess with an amazing sample to inspire us all... head over here to join in with us!

Here is my postcard

TFL
Mandy x

Summer Breeze

makes me feel fine.......

joining in the Lunagirl challenge blog yet again with another tag. (that die was deffo worth the money!)
I've even used a luna girl image! you can find the collage images here 

 and a June inspired ATC for Anne for our monthly swap.

TFL
Mandy x

Destiny

It's fathers Day on Sunday, and on SPA we are having a masculine/fathers day theme. I went down the 'when i grow up' boys theme.

 Also on the 'manly' theme I've made this tag using one of The Octopode Factory's newest digi's

Putting both of these into the PanPastel ~ male theme and One stitch at a time ~ use a digi.
TFL
Mandy x

Celebrating Father's

There's plenty of challenge blogs celebrating Dad's this week. SPA is also doing a masculine theme on this coming Sunday.

My project this week for Happy Daze was made with men in mind.... here is the tag I made

and so I'm entering this tag into

Simon Says Stamp ~ fathers day/masculine

Anything goes ~ fathers day

Here come the boys ~ ribbon

TFL

Mandy x

Purple

is the theme on Sunday Stamper this week. So I've gone with purple!

Also entering this into PanPastel UK ~ anything goes AND flutterbywednesday ~ anything goes (but must have a butterfly/fairy on it)

Thanks for looking
Mandy x

wake me up inside

that's the words I've used on my journal postcard for this week's SPA ~ hosted by Marion

TFL

Mandy x

ATC swap with Deb

Every so often Deb and I embark on an ATC swap. We choose a theme each and then the third one is open

This time Deb certainly challenged me with her choice of theme 'Rusty' !

I used an ATC base that I made a while ago using nail varnish for the background

My theme ~ Circus

 and my open theme... one of my faves Marie Antoinette 

Go and check out Deb's side of the swap here It's amazing just how different out artwork is! I got Deb's ATC's this morning and they are lush. So textural.

mandy x

To all who enter.....

BEWARE!

Here is my project for That's Crafty this week....  you can see just how I created this here 

I'm entering this into the Pin and Tack challenge ~ anything goes

use it tuesday also have an anything goes theme

TFL
mandy x

She sells Sea Shells

here is a postcard, using one of the paper sirens from HVS. I'm entering it into
Lunagirl ~ bathing beauties  and  Simon Says stamp and show ~ letter 's'

TFL

Mandy x

Faith, Hope, Love

On one stitch at a time this week it's anything goes!

 Here's some tags I've collaged

TFL
Mandy x

Take a Word ~ orange!

colour challenge over on take a word this week. Here is a tag I've made using the Hidden Vintage paper sirens set

TFL
mandy x

Sirens of the Sea

I've made these Mermaid tags using some images from the new kit from Hidden Vintage Studios on Deviantscrap! I'm entering them into the PanPasteluk where the challenge theme is TAGS. I have been using pan pastels just lately to do the shading on my projects.

I must admit I have a penchant for tag art just lately.

 TFL
mandy x

1000 reasons to know there's

NO PLACE LIKE HOME! This week's theme over on SPA

TFL
Mandy x