Diaries of a craftaholic & demented housewife

some smashing and a card

2012-06-01T15:43:00.002+01:00

hi!! here are yesterdays smashing play session results and a card I got to finish, hope you are having a good friday xxx

layouts & card

2012-05-31T17:04:00.003+01:00

hi all, some shares on some stuff I have worked on over the last while, all the ingredients are from docrafts :)

happy thursday xxx

pimp my thickers

2012-05-30T19:18:00.002+01:00

hi all! this is a result of a playing session a while ago with the american crafty diy thickers from create with kate here, I so love these there is so much you can do with them, had right auld fun playing to see what would come of them, I will definitely be using these on more scrappy layouts!

the ingredients I used to pimp my alphas are: festive berries distress ink pad by tim holtz (2 coats)

cosmic shimmer mist in scarlet mist (few spritz's!!) and finally finished with a sprinkle of clear glittered glass (loads of!) = pretty pimped alphas!!

hope you have a lovely wednesday xxxx

another painted girly...

2012-05-23T10:07:00.000+01:00

she turned out very "alice" looking..again...they always seem to do, definitely still in my alice in wonderland obsession frame of mind!

alive......I think! some makes :)

2012-05-18T10:02:00.001+01:00

a suzi blu inspired mixmedia painting

and some scrapbooking layouts

papers are odds&ends cosmo cricket & emmas shoppe collection crate paper

shadow box & recent pics

2012-04-27T20:05:00.000+01:00

sharing some pics of the last few days.....I think I might be "slightly" addicted to instragram!

also a little shadow box I decorated with the october afternoon sidewalk collection and cath kidston washi tape.

the little bits and pieces I have used in the box are not stuck down just yet, I keep moving them about, not quite happy with the layout of them!

hope you all have a great weekend, see you in limerick sunday!

xxx

Tutorial video on mini canvas

2012-04-26T07:54:00.005+01:00

Hope you enjoy

xxx

wedding deep frame canvas

2012-04-25T16:45:00.001+01:00

finally finished our canvas, I started it weeks ago and had put it aside so I could finish some other projects. so yesterday I was in the mood to craft so I got it finished.....there is alot of prima going on here, I got carried away! hope your all creating away in this rotten weather

xxx

little decorated brads

2012-04-24T18:23:00.000+01:00

Handmade mini brads...these could be used as little decorative frames in shadow/configuration boxes!

Created with: Songbird Prima & Papermania build-a-brad kit in antique gold.

xxx

where to mini canvas

2012-04-23T14:41:00.000+01:00

mini canvas created with prima "en francais" paper collection and prima bicycle clear stamp :) I also played with ranger antiquities verdigris embossing powder along the edges of the canvas xx

recent card makes

2012-04-23T13:32:00.003+01:00

its nearly cha jamboree time!

2012-04-13T12:32:00.004+01:00

its nearly here....cha jamboree this sunday 15th april with create with kate in the hudson bay hotel athlone, so looking forward to a day of fun and playing. here is another sneak peek :) see you there xx

CHA Jamboree In Ireland.....

2012-03-30T09:56:00.000+01:00

its coming yay!!! on the 15th april kate from create with kate will host a fun packed day of crafting, classes, demos, shops and much more,all the latest goodies straight from the latest cha show, I can not wait, super excited! click the link here to follow for all the details...sneak peeks coming soon :) xx

altered mustard tin

2012-03-23T12:22:00.000Z

hello! sharing an altered tin that had contained mustard from tesco's, decorated with prima paper, flowers, pins and general prettiies things. I changed the tin colour with splodges of alcohol inks too :) thanks for swinging by, hugs xxxx

cards, videos and more cards :)

2012-03-21T15:50:00.001Z

hello!! how are you? hope you are all well. creations the last while with me seem to be a feast or a famine, so sorry!!! I have some quick make cards that I put together using october afternoon sidewalk collection.

another card created with the free websters pages with this months simply cards and papercraft magazine.

here is a sneak peek of a layout on the docrafts website, click here to check it out :) there is some wonderful inspiration there so why not have a nosey too!

and finally a video (in 2 parts) I did this morning to show you a little bit of a craft/bits&pieces haul/shopping spree I did, I have shared the cards in this post too on the videos :)

hope you have a wonderful day xxxx

distress ink pad colouring videos

2012-02-29T09:38:00.000Z

gorjuss girl red hair colouring video plus a video of supplies that I use and find good :)

wings wall hanging.....with video

2012-02-20T15:24:00.000Z

hello all, hope you are all well and happy. we had a lazy sunday here yesterday and I had an overwhelming urge to put paint on paper all day, so after all that had to be done in the house (or as much as!!) I had an hour to spare before "call the midwife" started on bbc1 last night, new favorite programme, hope it doesn't end soon, anyhoooooowwww I grabbed a sheet of watercolour paper (leftovers) and made myself put down some colour and pencils lines, without thinking about it, and boy was that hard. I realise I don't create enough because I over think, I think too much about what I am going to do, paint, or make and need to just get on with it, and what happened surprised myself. I manage to create a little painting and messily done too ( I definitely over think and try to be neat when painting, this is stopping now!!) she/aka green haired girl appeared so quickly on the page and I was done with her layout and coloring in within the hour, result..happy days...........I am definitely painting like that again :)

so I sat down with coffee in hand at my desk this morning waiting on the kids while they fought, shouted and basically killed each other trying to get ready for school (mornings are pure stress here!!) and I spotted my painted lady from last night, so in a moment of stress and escape I decided I wouldn't just put her away in my folder, I was going to use her, make something of her and make a video................so kids off to school I parked my bottom done and got on with it and this is the result :).............amazing what stress and some get up and go does for ya, hope you enjoy it, first time editing a video so hopefully I will get the hang of it and get to share more, have a great day, hugs xx

p.s distress watercolouring video didn't happen last thursday as I ran out of the watercolour paper I use for the inks and picked up the wrong replacement one in the art shop....arrgghhhhhh.......will be watercolour paper shopping on saturday ....sorry !

new configuration

2012-02-09T17:13:00.000Z

hi blog/crafty people, hope you are well and staying warm, it is so cold here, it seems the weather is going backwards and all over the place at the moment.

I finally finished another configuration, I have created a video instead of taking lots of photos. I really need to make more of these, I forgot how much I enjoy them, configuration boxes I mean not videos! although I am running out of space to store any more creations around the house at this stage.... big hugs take care xxx

sophies 8th birthday card and wedding note book

2012-02-07T12:47:00.000Z

hi!! I am back with some more makes at last, below is sophie's birthday card which was saturday, created using a magnolia stamp and one of my most favorite paper collections of all time, "romantique" from prima, there are no words for how much I love this paper range, its perfect...in my eyes anyway!

and the next make is a little diary and pen I covered so I can scribble down wedding thoughts, needless to say I didnt do much scribbling!! off today to finish putting my configuration box together, hopefully I will be back with that tomorrow...if I can keep my bottom in the craft seat long enough!

take care xxx

crafty stuff

2012-01-31T08:34:00.000Z

..............yes I made stuff......I actually made them before christmas, thought it was about time I shared them :) I have been going through a shaker stage. I use to make them all the time, I was fascinated by them. I don't know how my love for them died off, maybe I just over did it!! but it was rekindled, I was so inspired by lollyrot 7, they lovely maria, I got to glitter and glass playing...........and of course I just had to shake a gorjuss girl up too!!! hugs xx

papers are mme lost and found and october afternoon, gift bag by papermania, inks used for coloring, distress ink pads.#

not been around...sorry.....

2012-01-30T09:23:00.000Z

but this is why.................................

christmas tag

2011-12-11T12:16:00.000Z

I am a bad blogger the last while, real life is as mental as ever and making things has just had to be put on the shelf for a bit, I hope now when everything is sorted and ready for christmas I will have some time to play with my stuff!! here is a little tag that I made a few weeks ago, betty, karen and myself had a play date and were determined to actually make and start something instead of sitting there chatting and eating cake :)

we created similar tags, all done with the same technique of debossing and paint scrapping in anticipation and excitement of tim's 12 tags of christmas starting.

todays crafting mission is to try and actually make a card after we get all the rest of the christmas decorations up..........hope it happens!

grunge album

2011-11-21T13:34:00.000Z

hello!! hope you are all well, here is the grunge paper & envelope album I created along with the girls of crafting ireland who held their first online ustream class saturday night, I had a brilliant time joining in. I didn't get all my album finished on the night so I spend this morning sewing and gluing to finish. hopefully the girls will do more classes soon, just loved it!! hugs xx

new journal page

2011-11-14T14:33:00.000Z

market street stamps wishlist

2011-10-23T18:29:00.000+01:00

my market street wishlist :) gorgeous gorgeous stamps!!!!