The Wheels on the Bus.....

It's sunday and time for a new challenge over at Sunday Postcard Art
I missed last weeks challenge having had a busy week, but I have was home all day saturday and managed to fit in making my postcard for today.

Kay is the host this week and she has chosen the theme "Wheels"..so I have thought outside of the box a bit and used the children's song "The Wheels on the Bus"
I have used a selection of different London stamps, the actual Bus stamp was a freebie from PaperArtsy many moons ago when I placed an order with them, in fact I have only used this stamp once before.
Be sure to check out the challenge, postcards must be 4"x 6" and you can find it here at
                                     Sunday Postcard Art

Tag # 9...Beach Huts

Hazel is the Guest Designer/Host over at Go Tag Thursday for this weeks challenge...and she has chosen the theme Beach Huts for Tag # 9.
Well I was delighted because I love nautical / seaside themes and thought I would recycle an old clothing Tag...and here it is...

                                        From this Tag....

to this Tag....

     Why not pop over and enter the challenge...you can find it here at... Go Tag Thursday

Tag # 8 Children

Time for another challenge over at Go Tag Thursday
The theme this week is "Children" so your tag can be of children or anything related to children...

This is my 1st Tag...this has to be one of my all time favourite stamp..I have had it for years, but unfortunately I cannot remember the designer / company.

 This is my 2nd Tag....the little vintage girl is a free download. The background stamp is by Crafty Individuals that I won a few weeks ago. The script, unfortunately isn't that visible is also from a stamp set by Crafty Individuals and reads..."Through the eyes of a child"

So if you like making Tags..any size, any medium, then why not pop over and join in the fun...
                          You can find the challenge here at
                                       Go Tag Thursday

August Challenge at Rhedds

No project for Rhedds from me this month..I decided to take a break from the challenge for August...

As always the challenges are Altered Art / Mixed Media only....no papercrafted items as in Tags, cards, Atcs etc..
If you enter more than once,you must use separate blog posts for each entry.....
                    You can find the challenge here at
                           Rhedd's Creative Spirit

Sunday Postcard Art...Eggs!

What a cracking theme...lol...
Over at Sunday Postcard Art  this week's challenge is now underway...love the theme, its so different and was chosen by Hazel...

                              Here is my" Egg" postcard.....

I wasn't sure if I could create a postcard with this theme without going digital...but I am pleased to say I did manage to craft it.
I sourced some postcard backing paper from some of my scraps and glued that to my postcard..it was pretty bare so with some stamps I created a busier background.
The label was cut from a scrap of backing paper ( I throw very little away,lol ) as well as the bird and crowns.
The little girl and eggs were from some free downloads that I printed about a year ago. The ladybug I stamped and coloured in red.

I know somewhere in the depths of my craft room I have a couple of tiny bird's nest, but do you think I could find them...no.

So I coloured some string and raffia with distress inks and created a nest by twisting and weaving the fibres...actually quite pleased with the way it turned out...took a while to get the ink off my fingers though!

I did use glossy accents on the little girlies wings and on the bird and eggs, but it dosen't really show in the photos....stickles stardust glitter on the crowns.

So, if you want to join in the fun..make your postcard (4" x 6") and enter their challenge..take a look at the other entries too...some amazing talent over there.

The challenge is here at 

Sunday Postcard Art

Things with Wings

I cannot believe that I overlooked posting about the Tag challenge yesterday... I will have to make a mental note not to do that again..lol.
So over at Go Tag Thursday the challenge for Tag # 7 is now underway....the theme is "Wings"
Here are my samples...

The challenge is here at Go Tag Thursday

As always your tag can be any size,you can use any medium, just stay in theme...hope to see you over there....

Guest Host at Sunday Postcard Art....

I was very honoured to be asked by Mandy to be the Guest Host over at Sunday Postcard Art this week...
I loved that I was able to choose my own theme for the challenge.
Why not pop over and take a look, maybe enter the challenge..your postcard must measure 6 x 4 inches and you ust follow the theme...hope to see you over there...
You can find the challenge....HERE

                       The theme is Cowgirls / Cowboys

 I just love this set of stamps from Artistic Outpost.....well, I actually love all their stamps, but some are more my favourite than others,lol.... so I shall be heading on over there to enter my postcard in to their challenge....which you can find here
                             Artistic Outpost Challenge

Steampunk Tags...Tag # 6

This week's Tag # 6 is now underway over at.....
   Go Tag Thursday....and the theme is Steam Punk
As always your Tags can be any size, you can use any medium..just stay within the theme, easy right?...why not pop over and enter the challenge.

                          Here are my Steampunk Tags...

I love how the cogs turned out after painting them,then covering the with crackle accents.

I created the background with some small mechanical style stamps and distress inks.

The main image is a Tim Holtz stamp.

Again the background was created using distress inks. The main image was actually given to me..in fact I had about 4 that were put in with an Atc swap I did quite a few years ago....I unearthed them in the depths of my craft room recently and coloured one of them....so glad I did as he is just perfect for the theme.

Do pop over and enter the challenge if you like to make Tags..it's a weekly challenge and the Sneaky Peek Tab in the side bar tells you the theme of the next challenge...would love to see you there.

Here's the challenge..........Go Tag Thursday