Tis The Season Day 19, November 26th

        

Once again Leigh is hosting a "stay crafty @ home" Blog Hop to help keep our spirits high, creatively inspired and busy while celebrating the season safe at home during this terrible pandemic!

This is a 2 month long hop to celebrate Fall/Autumn, Winter, Christmas and Craftmas and the hop ends December 20 at 11:55pm pacific!  

Join in as little or as often as you like...

For more details go to

LeighSBDesigns 'Tis the Season Blog Hop

Presented by
LeighSBDesigns Art Stamps

I will be sharing today's crafty makes on Leigh's info page...

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Thanks to a virtual retreat that I took part in at the weekend with Hillbilly Scrappin'

and Lucy Campeanu I have been practising with water colours.

I think I need a lot more practice but this is my next attempt - a Christmas Elf!

Happy Hopping!

 

Tis The Season Day 18, November 25th

       

Once again Leigh is hosting a "stay crafty @ home" Blog Hop to help keep our spirits high, creatively inspired and busy while celebrating the season safe at home during this terrible pandemic!

This is a 2 month long hop to celebrate Fall/Autumn, Winter, Christmas and Craftmas and the hop ends December 20 at 11:55pm pacific!  

Join in as little or as often as you like...

For more details go to

LeighSBDesigns 'Tis the Season Blog Hop

Presented by
LeighSBDesigns Art Stamps

I will be sharing today's crafty makes on Leigh's info page...

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Thanks to a virtual retreat that I took part in at the weekend with Hillbilly Scrappin'

and Lucy Campeanu I have been practising with water colours.

I think I need a lot more practice but I had a go at the following Christmas card toppers...

Happy Hopping!

 

What's On Your Workdesk Wednesday #599

             

It's Wednesday again - so I am linking this post to the Stamping Ground.

I finally managed to visit you all - very late this week - but I am hoping to do better this week. I am actually on holiday in a holiday let in Paynesville, East Gippsland. Now that restrictions have eased we can visit regional Victoria - so we have come over to visit out youngest son and family. So yesterday we picked up the granddaughters from school and were very pleased to spend some time with them...

The holiday house is lovely - this is what we saw when we arrived on Monday afternoon from the back veranda.

Anyway, although I am away, I am still going to add a post - the numbers are getting so momentous - 599!

Here's my desk picture for WOYWW 599!

As you can see I am in my 'messy area'. Last weekend I took part in a virtual retreat with Hillbilly Scrappin'. We had two workshops with Niamh Baly.

Her first one was to use an old pair of jeans to make an apron - in the above picture it was midway through the painting and stencilling.

I took the following picture when it was finished and dried.

Another workshop was to make the following page inspired by Tanya Froud.

We were inspired by Michelle Grant to make a number of pieces - the following are two:

The next journal page was inspired by Mel Johns.

As you can see we had a very busy weekend and these are not all the makes!!

I will finish with my watercolour from last week which ended up like this:

Have a happy WOYWW and see you next week...!

25 Days of Christmas Tags - Day 22

           

This is my third year of participating - I really enjoyed it last year (and the year before!)

 And when it came to Christmas, I had more than enough tags made!!

It is hosted by Tracey McNeely and you will find the main hop post here
She works really hard to organise this hop and secures many sponsors!

Day 22 sponsor is Erin Lee

Each day I will CASE or be inspired by at least one tag...! Usually there are several that I am inspired by. Then visiting and commenting on other participants means that I see ideas that I have missed or see more inspiration!!

  
Here are my tags:

I was inspired by Ardyth and Kim Heggins

 on Day Twenty Two with these lovely tags. 

These are mine:

Thanks to a virtual retreat that I took part in at the weekend with Hillbilly Scrappin'

and Lucy Campeanu I have been practising with water colours.

Because Ardyth's tag was very sparkly I used my shimmery watercolours. Like Kim I have added lots of embellishments... My sentiments are from Happy Little Stampers stamps.

I will link these to the main hop post

I will also link these to

LeighSBDesigns 'Tis the Season Blog Hop

Presented by
LeighSBDesigns Art Stamps

I will be sharing today's seasonal make on Leigh's info page... Day 17, November 24th.

25 Days of Christmas Tags - Day 21

          

This is my third year of participating - I really enjoyed it last year (and the year before!)

 And when it came to Christmas, I had more than enough tags made!!

It is hosted by Tracey McNeely and you will find the main hop post here
She works really hard to organise this hop and secures many sponsors!

Day 21 sponsor is Studio Katia

Each day I will CASE or be inspired by at least one tag...! Usually there are several that I am inspired by. Then visiting and commenting on other participants means that I see ideas that I have missed or see more inspiration!!

  
Here are my tags:

I was inspired by Ardyth 

 on Day Twenty One with this lovely tag. 

These are mine:

Recipe:

1. My dotty background is white card run through my Big Shot is a Swiss Dots embossing folder. I trimmed these to size and used a corner rounder punch on the corners.
2. The sentiments are chipboards from Stamperia.
3. I added a few gems.
4. Finally red and white spotty ribbon.

I will link these to the main hop post

I will also link these to

LeighSBDesigns 'Tis the Season Blog Hop

Presented by
LeighSBDesigns Art Stamps

I will be sharing today's seasonal make on Leigh's info page... Day 16, November 23rd.