Graphic 45 Design Team 2013 Audition

Hey everyone, just a very quick post today. I have decided to try out for the Graphic 45 Design Team 2013 call. I had to choose 6 projects to showcase so here they are :S

This was one of the hardest choices I have had to make lol but I am just leaving it in the hands of the gods and only hope the judges at G45 like what they see. I will keep you all posted if I hear anymore from them.

 

 

Eveyone have a happy, crafty Thursday :) xx

OOOH OOOH blog candy

Hey everyone
Just a very quick post today

Check out this fabby blog candy giveaway by Crafty Emblies. Their items are brilliant value and so versatile, can be used on cards and altered projects.
Stop by and have a look :)   http://crafty-emblies.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/blog-candy.html

And on the subject of altering this has been my crafting effort today = an altered jar - covered in lace and material and decorated with a paper napkin, IAMROSES and of course a CRAFTY EMBLIE treble clef .

Hope you all like and are having a crafty day

Late night ramble

Hey folks,
Well it is 20 mins to midnight and this is late for me. My hubby has managed to waken me with his coughing so I have escaped to Iona's room. I am a light sleeper anyway but it is impossible to sleep with him making that racket lol
Hmm what have I been up to lately, well plenty crafting and I cant wait for the Crafty Emblies Papercraft Design Team Challenge to go live in a few days, it is so exciting. The Altered Art Team have already gone live with their Challenge and it was wonderful to see what everyone had come up with. Check out http://crafty-emblies.blogspot.co.uk
I have been pretty busy crafting and I have enjoyed making a couple of 12 x 12 pages which has been lovely as I guess I had been working more on altered art projects of late

I was out in the garden for a little while today but I was very sensible and only worked for an hour. I cant wait to be able to start sharing the garden with you but as yet it is still at the messy, and not very green winter stage the only thing that has started appear are my snowdrops and few daffodil stems.

 

Anyway that is enough for tonight I really should try to get some sleep. Mal is off to Dubai in the morning for a couple of weeks, so no doubt he will waken my at 3.30 am when he leaves.
xx Tracy xx

Personal Journal

Hi everyone
I have seen 2 blog posts today from different people showing journal pages that they have made and it reminded me that last year I started a personal art journal myself.
My best friend Vikkie suggested doing one but I wasnt really sure how to go about it. I dont know if I have mentioned before but I suffer from MS which leaves me exhausted at times and I also suffer from depression. I kinda think I am on the side of being bi-polar as I can feel great at times then can feel like I am in the depths at others. Anyway Vikkie suggest a journal might be a good way of getting my feelings out as I do tend to bottle things up and put a brave face on things for the sake of my family.
She gave me a book all about journalling and a couple of the pages I did were kinda loosely based on some of the pages folk had done in the book. It was very helpful and it was very interesting to see how some of the people came up with the pages and the stories behind them.
Anyway I decided to use a 12 x 12 scrapbook album to hold my pages and use papers that had been lying in my stash for literally years (but being a tight fisted scot I just didnt want to throw them out lol) so I could paint or whatever I fancied on top of them to cover them up.
These are the pages that I came up with ;-

 

Anyway after seeing the pages today that others have done I am thinking it is maybe time to get a few more pages done in my own journal.

 

Cya all soon x

I {heart} my body art

I got my first tattoo when I was 31 ......... I had always said even from being a teen I wanted to get ink done and for my 30th birthday I decided to get a tattoo but chickened out. One trip through to Aberdeen with my hubby when i was 31 I convinced him to come with me to one of the tattooists in the city. I pondered over the racks and racks of pictures available and decided upon an eye and to get it on my lower back. I remember being really excited but very nervous about getting it and unfortunately I think I worked myself up far too much and the whole experience was a bit of a nightmare - I felt faint and the tattooist found me a very difficult customer lol.  Anyway I survived and decided that that was probably going to be my one and only tattoo as I wouldnt put myself through that again.
Anyway a few years back a friend and I decided to get matching tattoos. We decided on elvish writing which means "friendship". Since that fateful October I have been hooked and at 43 I now have 5 tattoos, 3 of which are a pretty decent size lol. I think some folk think I am having a midlife crisis and my hubby doesnt wholly approve but the way I see it is as a form of art and expression. I put a lot of thought and consideration into the art work I get and I will never regret getting the ink that I have.

I would love to get some more and have a couple of ideas drawn up but it isnt cheap to get a decent tattooist so other things get priority. I once did a journal page which sums up the way I feel about my tattoos the title being LOVE ME ..... LOVE MY INK :)

 

Here is my newest tattoo :)

 

Hiya everyone,

Good grief it is only Tuesday and I am shattered already AND I had a short week last week with there being inservice days at school.

I said in a previous post I am now on the Crafty Emblies Design Team and I am very excited as the first DT item will be going live in a couple of weeks. I am waiting for a package with an order in it to arrive but I am getting impatient lol I just want it to get here so I can get my hands on the things I ordered.

I will put up pics of my latest crafty projects. I am enjoying taking part in the daily challenges being held on the Craftymess group on Facebook and have tried to join in on a daily basis. I actually won a challenge last week and got to choose the next days theme so that was nice. It is a lovely group and everyone is very supportive of everyones work. It is all taken as a bit of fun and a good way to encourage everyone to be crafty on daily basis. I chose Butterflies as my theme as I LOVE butterflies hence I have 5 tattooed on me incorporated into various personal art work I have.

I dont have much else to talk about today so I will leave you with the pictures of my craftyness this week.

Hugs Tracy x

Crafting Crazy :)

Hiya all,

Well I have had a busy month so far. First off my blooming computer crashed on me. Hubby tried to fix it and did to an extent but it still wasnt the best but he took it into his work for the IT guys there to have a play with and low and behold I seem to be back in the land of computerisation again - thank heavens.
My lovely friend Vikkie came over from Norway for a long weekend and we had lots of fun shopping and chatting and just generally having a laugh. It was so nice to have her here and I just wish we lived closer so we could do the "pop round for a coffee" thing, I do miss not having that with her and although we chat most days face to face on skype it still aint quite the same.
I am really enjoying my crafting at the moment, I think being asked to be on the Crafty Emblies design team has definately given me a boost. I have also joined Craftymess on FB and I am having great fun doing the daily challenges on there. It is so nice to have a catalyst to force you into a project instead of humming and heying over what you want to do.
Anyway I am gonna get pictures for this post sorted out later of some of my crafting efforts of late but just now I am going to go out to the garden for a while as it looks really mild this morning.
I need to start with doing an hour every day out there to keep on top of things as it is quite a big space and needs a fair bit of sorting out and I really want to get stuck into my vegetable garden again this year as last year it was a bit of a disaster. I have to be careful about how much I actually so tho as the MS is suffer from doesnt like me doing too much at a time and will make me suffer if I tire myself out too much lol
Anyway I will be back with pics later today - have a lovely weekend all

Hugs Tracy x