dragon crafty den

Paint fusion

2012-01-13T12:24:00.000Z

This is my first try at paint fusion and I dont think its too bad, do you?

Jewellery made from clay

2012-01-13T12:17:00.000Z

All these are made from air dry clay.

I have use h20's to paint them and used glossy accents to make them shine.

Also used silver embossing powder for the back of the round one and the flower.

Wine glass charms

2012-01-13T12:06:00.000Z

I decided to make these for our wine glasses so

that we all new who's glass was who's on Christmas day!

What do you think?

Memory wire Bracelet

2011-11-29T11:31:00.000Z

This memory wire bracelet is the first one I have made.

It was for a friends birthday and the stone/gem is Lapis Lazuli

More jewellery

2011-07-27T21:20:00.000+01:00

Here are some more beaded jewellery, what do you think?

Forever friends card

2011-07-27T20:22:00.000+01:00

Here are a couple of quick and easy cards

Bead rings

2011-07-06T22:28:00.000+01:00

These are the first three rings I have made, I dont think are too bad for my first effort, what do you think?

Paper Folded Earrings

2011-07-06T22:25:00.000+01:00

These are inspired from youtube and an American girl using starburst wrappers. But as with a lot of things from usa to the uk things change in size so I decided to use paper instead of the wrapper.

I think they look really effective dont you?

Anniversary cards

2011-07-06T21:39:00.000+01:00

This is my first easel card. I really like this card

Fathers Day Cards

2011-07-06T21:34:00.000+01:00

All very different cards here....

Mothers day Cards

2011-07-06T21:21:00.000+01:00

These are my first step cards, not bad for first time I think.

New Arrival Card

2011-07-06T21:07:00.000+01:00

Welcome to the world Mason......sorry I'm just showing this now.

your a cheeky little chap xx

Birthday cards

2011-07-06T20:59:00.000+01:00

Here are some birthday cards from the year, hope you like them.

Peg earrings

2010-10-06T22:35:00.000+01:00

I bought these little pegs ages ago and not used them so I thought I would them into earrings. What do you think to them?

Melt pot jewellery

2010-10-06T22:18:00.000+01:00

I like the white, silver and black hearts the bests. Which do you like the best?

Shrink plastic earrings

2010-10-06T22:07:00.000+01:00

These earrings are really long, you will need a long neck for these but I still like them.

Jewellery

2010-10-06T22:05:00.000+01:00

Made this bracelet for a christening for a friends daughter.

The rest of the jewellery I made last October!

Not been around much

2010-08-15T17:07:00.000+01:00

As you will have noticed I have not blogged for over a year, this is not to say I havent been crafting because I have on and off. The main reason was because I have a rough pregnancy and just couldnt be bothered towards the end. (but he was worth it :-)) But now where I have a little time I will be adding a few bit as and when I can. Hope you will be along to visit soon xxx

Table cloth flower

2009-08-23T15:04:00.003+01:00

Whilst at my parents I seen this lovely tablecloth so I decided to take a pattern and make it into a card.

This was the result I came up with.

I then decided to do the same but add the colour instead of being all white which gives it a different look dont you think

Birthday card

2009-08-23T14:59:00.000+01:00

This was a image from google and I just pyramaged it.

Sympathy card

2009-08-23T14:53:00.001+01:00

This was for my family who has had recent loss of a family memeber, we will all miss you xxx

Thank you cards

2009-08-18T23:57:00.005+01:00

I needed 2 quick thank you cards so I decided to use bubbles (top) and dandelion (bottom) stamps that I had.

3 birthdays cards

2009-08-11T00:37:00.006+01:00

This card was for my hubby's Nan so decided to make a pergamano card as it was a special birthday, though I would show you a close up picture to show all the detail.

This card is for my brother-in-law so decided to do a pyramage card with mario so easy to do

This last card was for my hubbys cousin who as you see was 30.....all three birthdays are on the same day!!! so they had a bbq party to celebrate

2009-08-11T00:20:00.002+01:00

This card was for my cousins daughter's birthday which was a nice quick and easy to make and so cute.

Lorry card

2009-07-01T17:21:00.002+01:00

This card is for my cousin who is a lorry driver found the image on google and them pyramaged it.

Having a play

2009-06-28T18:54:00.002+01:00

Today while I was sitting at the computer I thought I would have another play with photoshop and I have managed to tweak my old header which a friend very kindly did for me.

And im proud to say that I made another header for my other blog all from scratch and im really pleased with the result and if you want to see it you can here. I dont think they turned out too bad as I didnt really know what I was to start with lol!!

Would love to know what you think any comments good or bad are welcome!!!

another birhday card

2009-06-28T18:40:00.002+01:00

This card is for my friend, hope she liked it and it was nice quick an easy too!!!

Birthday card

2009-06-28T18:01:00.002+01:00

This is for my Hubby for his birthday, I thought I would make him a card with Mario and pyramage

Fathers day cards

2009-06-21T16:29:00.004+01:00

Top card is for my hubby

Middle card is for my Dad

Bottom card is for my FIL

Birthday card

2009-06-16T23:39:00.002+01:00

This card is for my good friend Kaz............hope you like it moo!!!! lol!!!!

Xanders Card

2009-06-16T20:26:00.002+01:00

This card was the card I did for my son Xander who was 4 last Friday

Bunny Birthday

2009-06-13T17:05:00.003+01:00

This card is for my BIL for his birthday and I used a picture of 1 of their many rabbits which they have played with to make to background, all I did was cheat and print it out and then mat & layered it onto a card......nice quicker and easy!!!! Oh yes by the way the bunny is called Florence!!!

Anniversary card

2009-06-13T17:02:00.003+01:00

This card is for my Mum & Dad for their Wedding Anniversary. I think they liked it but who can resist those cute adorable bears.......I know I cant....lol!

Elephant card

2009-06-13T16:58:00.001+01:00

This card is for my SIL for her birthday, I think this elephant is cute, what do you think?

Handbag birthday

2009-06-13T16:56:00.002+01:00

This handbag card is for my MIL for her birthday, I think she liked this too.

60th Birthday

2009-06-13T16:36:00.002+01:00

This exploding box was for my FIL for his big birthday. I think he really liked it.

Melting pot

2009-05-17T01:03:00.003+01:00

These are my first attempts at this melting pot using black and silver utee with cookie cutters. (Even my husband had ago!!!) The bottom one I poured the utee onto a stamp, let it cool & then dusted it with cosmic shimmer ultra marine. I had fun with this as well.........I can see another addiction coming my way.......lol!!!

Encaustic Art

2009-05-17T01:00:00.001+01:00

These 5 pieces are my first attempts at encaustic art.........don't know what you think to them but I fun doing them :o)

Altered Dominoes tin

2009-05-11T18:21:00.003+01:00

For this i used black acrylic paint and use versamark ink and silver embossing powder with some stamps. Its ok it didnt turn out quite like I hoped it would but i have another one I can alter another time!!

Canvas print

2009-05-11T15:15:00.003+01:00

This is the first one I have done and it more trial than anything, a friend of mine wants a picture on canvas of her children so I thought I would give it a try and here is the result with my son Xander (who will be 4 in June) having fun playing with bubbles.

30th handbag card

2009-05-11T15:11:00.002+01:00

I decide to try something a bit different for this card and this is what i came up with as you can see this person will be 30 on Wednesday, Hope you like the card Lisa and hope you have a great day xxx

Thomas card

2009-04-28T22:16:00.003+01:00

This card is for my friends son who turned 2 yesterday, Hope they like the card!!!!

Anniversary Card

2009-04-28T22:08:00.003+01:00

This anniversary card was for my in laws and made this the day before we went to see them......nothing like last minutes cards.......quick and easy......lol!!!!!

Altered Maya Road Coasters

2009-04-24T11:36:00.012+01:00

As you can see this is for my Auntie birthday which is today so Happy Birthday, hope you have a good day and this arrives on time.

Woof!

2009-04-22T00:17:00.003+01:00

Happy belated birthday Emma, so sorry i was late sending you these......hope you had a fantastic day

Mother's day cards

2009-04-22T00:13:00.002+01:00

For the background on both of these card i used my brayer and metallic encore inkpad and buffed it up with kitchen towel. Top card was for my mum and the bottom was for my mother in law.

F1 racing car

2009-04-22T00:10:00.002+01:00

I find male cards really hard to do but i think this turned out ok ish

Atc and Hanging

2009-03-19T16:17:00.002Z

This was the result of the Feb challenge set by Seona, she sent us all the same items and when had to use at least 3 items in our piece. I think i manged to used most of it. This was a great challenge and every bodies pieces was fantastic and completely different from each other.

Valentines day card

2009-02-15T19:55:00.002Z

This card i made for my hubby. I triple embossing with gold embossing powder and stamped the heart into with black stazon. I used my sizzix die cut machine for the tag and I used a chipboard key embellishment with gold embossing powder and used black stazon to give it an aged look.

Matchbox

2009-02-13T12:15:00.004Z

This was a challenge set by Seona to alter a matchbox on a little forum I'm on. Thanks Seona i really enjoyed doing this, it was my first one, but I'm sure it wont be the last one.

Spinner card for a man

2009-02-12T13:08:00.003Z

This card is for a man who as you see likes Portsmouth fc! Hope he likes it

Edited to say, yes Kaz the football does spin!

Engagement Card

2009-01-30T01:12:00.002Z

This card is for my friends who got engaged on Christmas day. Sorry im a bit behind. Congratulations to you both x

3 year old card

2009-01-24T02:27:00.005Z

All the above pictures I have drawn as a present and then laminated them so she can use white board pens to colour them in over and over again.

30th birthday

2009-01-24T02:19:00.002Z

This card is for my cousin, I'm sure were all the same but i find male cards really hard to do, but I think this turned out OK.

Cross Stitch

2009-01-20T23:54:00.002Z

This cross stitch I started ages ago and I finally finished it now. I have started another one so hopefully that one wont take long to do. I think country companions hedgehogs are cute.

Photo candles

2009-01-20T20:24:00.004Z

These candle we bought as a set and then i vandlised them with photos and nice poem on the back. We bought two sets and we gave both sets of parents and candle set each for Christmas. I think they all really liked them.

Two Anniversary cards

2009-01-20T20:06:00.002Z

Both of these cards I made for December Anniversaries, but just got round to blogging them now. Hope they liked them x

Mug card

2009-01-20T14:09:00.002Z

This card is really appropriate for my Dad. As he likes his coffee in his big mugs!!!!

1st birthday

2008-12-17T14:09:00.010Z

This was for my friends son who was 1 at the end of November. She really liked the candle so im pleased, its her favourite picture of him 2.

Rocket in space

2008-12-17T13:56:00.002Z

Heres a card for my cousins 5 year old boy, his birthday was in november so im a bit behind and im trying to catch up now, so I hopefully will be blogging some more.

Candles for a friend

2008-11-06T14:23:00.005Z

These candle I made for my friend Kaz to give to her friends on Halloween, I think they all liked them :o)

Exploding box for 60th Birthday

2008-11-06T14:03:00.004Z

I made this exploding box for my Uncle who was 60 in August. Unfortunately I forgot to take some photos of it and have not long got my hands back on it! I think he really liked it!

Pink castle

2008-10-17T15:12:00.002+01:00

This card is for my friends daughter who turned 5 yesterday. She loves pink, fairy's and castles, so this was hopefully the perfect card for her. I have used some glitter on the front on the castle and the background paper and inside I used it again for the swirls from the fairy's wand!

Autumn

2008-10-13T14:16:00.003+01:00

Is the theme for craftaway a sunday. This is what I come up with.

Birds

2008-09-28T16:59:00.004+01:00

Birds is the theme for craftaway a sunday. For this atc I use my brayer for the first time and adirondack stained glass ink. I used some oriental stamps with black stazon ink.

Niagara Falls

2008-09-24T14:32:00.002+01:00

Water is the theme on craftaway a sunday, so I decided I would try a scrapbook page for the 1st time so here it is. I have used a swirl stamp using versamark ink on the background but the photo doesn't show it. This memories mean a lot to me as I went to Canada on my own & with out knowing anybody when I got there. I'm quite a shy person and to me this was some achievement.

Christening Exploding Box

2008-09-19T23:48:00.012+01:00

I was asked to do Exploding box for A christening and here it is, hope they like it!

4th Wedding Anniversary Card for my Husband

2008-09-19T23:48:00.006+01:00

I was kindly given some clear stamps, so I decided to use them for my husband's card. I was making this card wednesday night as it was on thursday! Nothing like last minute cards. I didnt know what I was gonna do until I sat at my desk!

Cute card

2008-09-19T23:48:00.003+01:00

This is the theme over at craftaway a sunday. I think he is cute. I know is says sunday but i might be able to get to it on the right day soon (well hopefully lol!)

Halloween

2008-09-13T17:16:00.004+01:00

Is the theme over at Craftaway A Sunday. This is my first time doing a challenge! So I hope I have done it right. Ok I know im a bit late with my entry but better than never is what I always say!

Mums Birthday cards

2008-09-12T16:23:00.002+01:00

The top card I have used a dragon stamp from stamposaurus. I used versamark and gold embossing powder and used sakura souffle pens for the colour. For the back ground I used the Sprizter shown here for an airbrush effect. (I bought my from my local craft shop).

The bottom card I googled an image and printed it out and used a silver pen to edge around the elephants. I used black stazon and white shrink plastic.

Christening Card

2008-08-28T16:23:00.002+01:00

This is a quick and simple card to make (After I made my own backing paper with the word christening over and over again) printed onto vellum in grey. I used gold peels off the the message and I used stamps for the hands and embossed them in gold.

Birthday card

2008-08-28T16:19:00.002+01:00

A bit of decoupage for this one and some peel offs. (I know not all crafters like peel offs but I think sometimes they can finish the card off, they are useful for quick and easy cards too!)

Fairy Atc and Forest Box

2008-08-28T15:36:00.005+01:00

The idea behind this is that fairies live in the forest and this is what I came up with for a circle of friends for August for Audrey.

You cant see it on the pictures but I used Sakura silver stardust pen with water so all the panels are sparkly (like fairy dust! if you believe that is lol!!!!!)

I hope you like it Audrey!

Cute Penguin Christmas card.

2008-08-16T23:07:00.003+01:00

This is my first christmas card of the year and I probably wont do any more until december now lol! This is from crafters companion festive occasions cd rom. So quick and very easy to do.

Two quick male cards

2008-08-12T15:23:00.004+01:00

Top Card
I have used one of my swirl backgrounds using the shaving foam

and a googled image of the Wii remote. I have decoupaged the remote a little.

Bottom Card

This is also a googled image of a pair of tigers and edged with a silver pen.

Stamped the greeting and the paw prints in black ink.

Exploding box - for a baby girl

2008-08-11T15:39:00.006+01:00

As you can see this is for a baby girl.

I have used some baby stamps and pink card stock and embellished each square with some kind of baby themed stamp. I have coloured them in using whisper strokes pens.

The lid have used tea bagged folded papers and a pink teddy button for the center and I used shrink plastic for the dangling bits with some silver thread and pink and white beads.

For the top layer I decided to leave space for all the details, Name, date, weight and time.

To finish inside the box I was kindly given a template for the shoe and the idea to put the shoe in the middle from Fran.

Award

2008-07-30T16:45:00.005+01:00

Thank you Patsy for my award it really does mean a lot to me,as it is my first one.

Now here are my nominees for their fabulous blog and creativity

and who are also my good friends:

Audrey
Emma
Gillian
Karen
Karin
Seona

Shaving Foam background technique

2008-07-27T23:52:00.026+01:00

For this you will need the following supplies; Shaving foam, Pot, Paint brush or similar, Card stock cut to size (can use glossy if you prefer), Scarper (i used an old member club card) and any inks of your choice.

I also used a piece of kitchen towel (sorry not in the picture).

Take the dish/pot you have chosen and half fill the dish with foam.

Take you paint brush handle and flatten it out the best you can.

Now add a few small drops of your chosen ink and colours. Here I have used Alcohol inks (stream & wild plum). But you can try any inks you wish. (I have used Pergamano inks aswell in the past).

Take your paintbrush handle and gentle mix the ink into a swirl,

but don't over do it mix.

Next take you card stock and place into the foam and lift up and out at the same time.

Turn you card around until all of the surface it covered in foam.

This is what it should look like (a bit of a mess but don't worry!)

Take your scraper and scrape of the excess foam and put it back into the dish/pot.
Rub over the surface of the card stock to make sure all the foam has gone.

This is what it should look like, a pretty bright swirls.

You can do more than one in a batch of shaving foam,

the more you do, the lighter they become.

This was the 2nd one from this batch.

You can add more colour if you would like (here I added butterscotch)

but eventually they will all mix into one colour.

If you are going to try this please can you let me know how you find my instructions!

Thank you.

Have fun!

Circle of friend gift for july

2008-07-22T15:12:00.002+01:00

For the background on all 3 I used marvy metallics gold and bronze. I used black stazon with some Paris themed stamps and used holographic embossing powder to cover the front of the domino and the moo card. Hope you like it Kaz!

Silver wedding candle

2008-07-21T18:24:00.005+01:00

Silver wedding candle to go with the card below. I used the same swirl stamps I used for the card and added the champagne bottle & glasses along with the greeting. The back has got who the candle is from so when they come to look at the candle in a few years time they will remember who gave them it!!!!

Silver wedding pop out card

2008-07-21T18:11:00.005+01:00

For the parcel I decided to use my quickkutz die cut machine which I havent used in a long time! A swirl stamp and silver embossing powder used with versamark. Greeting stamp again used embossing powder and versamark ink. The champagne bottle is vellum which I attached using silver mat brads. To finish I added some white/clear little gems and added the number 25 to the parcel. The inside I cut out a heart and edged with a silver pen and placed the same vellum i used for the front and put behind the aperture and used a different swirl stamp with versamark ink and silver embossing.

Alcohol inked domino

2008-07-19T19:08:00.002+01:00

This is the first time I have used alcohol inks, I used wild plum, stream ink and silver mixative with blending solution. For the swirl I used a swirl stamp and veramark ink with silver embossing powder.

Backgrounds

2008-07-17T16:34:00.004+01:00

I have created these backgrounds using shaving foam and ink, this is my first attempt at this.
Click on the image to enlarge for a better view!

Altered clear cd

2008-07-07T17:57:00.002+01:00

This is from the top of blank cds/dvds, I thought I would have ago an alter one and see what it looks like. I used marvy metallics pen copper and gold and black stazon, and a set of trees and leaves stamps.

21st birthday

2008-07-06T18:30:00.002+01:00

This card is using gold mirri board and pink card with gold embossing powder and gold decoration.

Wedding card

2008-07-06T18:24:00.000+01:00

For this card I used papermania stamps and silver and black embossing powder, whisper pens watercoloured in and a horseshoe cake decoration.

18th Birthday

2008-07-04T15:50:00.003+01:00

A card for a young lady who will be 18 soon, who I believe likes black.

10th Birthday

2008-07-04T15:41:00.003+01:00

Here is a quick an easy card for grace who was 10.

Circle of Friends Gift

2008-06-26T18:13:00.002+01:00

This is for my friend Gillian for my gift to her, as you can see she likes Daniel Graig!

I have done a small candle, a tag (which is image transfer), a moo card and a domino!

Butterflies, Acetate and vellum

2008-06-26T16:49:00.008+01:00

For this card I used acetate and vellum for something different.

Oriental Kimono

2008-06-26T16:46:00.002+01:00

This card was the first kimono I had folded, and I gave it to my mother in law.

Baby Boy

2008-06-26T16:39:00.003+01:00

For this card I used blue metallic rubs ons and I stamped a teddy bear in black stazon on to acetate and coloured it in used crystal lacquer to get it texture, not that the photos shows it very well!

Shells

2008-06-25T16:46:00.002+01:00

This is for my hubby for his birthday, I hope he likes it.

Oriental card

2008-06-25T16:43:00.000+01:00

This was is for my Sister in laws. hope she likes it.

Fathers day cards

2008-06-17T15:59:00.005+01:00

This is for Gary (top one)

This is for my Dad. (middle one)

This is for my father in law.

Xander's 3rd birthday card

2008-06-17T15:51:00.002+01:00

I thought i would do Roary the racing car as he loves him. I have decoupaged it not that the picture shows you that!

Dragon card

2008-06-17T15:47:00.000+01:00

This card is for my brother in law. I hope he liked it!

Tree card

2008-06-17T15:41:00.002+01:00

This card is for Kaz for her birthday and as she loves trees too. The background is made by using h20's.

Candle for a friend

2008-06-07T22:38:00.005+01:00

This candle if for a forum friend called kaz, she is absolutely Gerard Way mad, so I thought I would do her a candle for her birthday which is soon.