Sunday Stampers 100

You still have one day to enter into Hels 100 blog give away, a fab prize awaits one lucky winner so why not join in :) I decided to have another entry into Hels Sunday Stamper challenge... just

because I can.... LOL.

Here I have stamped, painted and clear embossed using the same Tandastamp on this ATC as one I did for last weeks challenge over at SCD see further down the blog. The diamond stamp not used on last weeks SCD ATC is one from Crafty Indiviuals.

Will be back later have some more pictures of my dining room furniture being altered.

Thanks for reading.

Chriss x

SCD challenge the letter H and TANDA

This week over at S C D the challenge is to create something and it can be anything at all :) lots of scope there, create something using the letter H and as you can see mine is Hosiery and I just adore the main image stamp from T A N D A.

Why not join in with them the Design Team are a great bunch.

Wishing you all a great weekend I know have a fab one as I have Chris here for lots of crafting :))

UPDATE.

After visiting Zoe's blog I see that this weeks challenge at TANDA is vivid colour and as this is one of their fab stamps I will enter it for the challenge over there why not pay them a visit.

Chriss x

Something Completely Different

This week over at Something Completely Different we are challenged to use the letter 'W' in our creative offering..... I can hear you say ah! ....it must be..... 'W'oman :) and yes, it could be...


BUT this is me we are talking about and as I wanted to show this piece ......my very FIRST digi ATC which I created about 5 weeks ago with a tute from Chris (there's nothing that girl can't do)

I looked at it long and hard and came up with..... wait for it..... PMSL

'W' rought iron fleur-de-lis... ...LOL

The fleur-de-lis (or fleur-de-lys; plural: fleurs-de-lis; French pronunciation: [flœʁ də lis]) is a stylized lily (in French, fleur means flower, not that you didn't already know this.

All elements are from Lisa's Altered Art digital images.

Hope that this counts.

Have a great evening

Chriss x

Psssst, Chris' Zetti link

Just a quickie to give you a link to Chris' zetti eye candy over at her place HERE. this is one of them, I watched her create all of 5 for the challenge and more when she was at my place last week, she made it look so easy.

Be sure to also check out her journal pages on her blog, they are fantastic.

May have to get her to set us a challenge on here... OMG HUSH MY MOUTH SHE MAY READ THIS..LOL

My Zetti ATC's are on Sundays post below it's been a great challenge over on our ATC blog and the response has been unbelievable if you would like to join in you still have 'till the 31st January to get them to me....want to know more then check out HERE in the header and on the 31st December post.

lOVE

Chriss X

NEWS UP DATE, Zettiology ATC challenge

Over at our ATC swap blog this month we have a challenge set by the talented and gorgeous Hermine, to create 5 Zettiology ATC's.

Zettiology is new to me the 1st one I created I wasn't keen on, the 2nd I quite liked the 3rd and 4th were a completely different style altogether, which I do like but will save those 4 for another time as the next 5 ATC's are the ones I am entering for the swap over HERE.

I was soo lucky to receive some wonderful NEW stamps from Crafty Individuals on Wednesday and fell in love with the BIRD stamp and just had to use it on my Zettie's

The first ATC I created using a stamp from Cherry pie over at Scrapz.

ATC's 2 3 4 5 I have incorporated CI papers and stamps although the cup and saucer and the penny farthing are not there's and I cannot remember who's they are, sorry.

The striped limbs are those of teesha moore ...love them.... love them... love them x


1 removed for publication :)

Thank you Hermine for being our Guest ATC Designer for January.

See post on the 31st December over HERE

thanks for looking.

Chriss x

UPDATE,

KAREN OF SCRAPZ IS BACK IN TOWN WHY NOT POP OVER TO HER BLOG AND SAY HI, SHE HAS SOME NEWS, HER BLOG LINK IS ON THE RIGHT.

ATC friut challenge

Meet my gorgeous grandson Marley He now lives with me and is wonderful company.

Well the house alterations are almost complete although there is still some work which needs to be finished by the builder but not sure I will ever see him again ... a word of advise.... never pay up in full until all the work is complete .

I hope to have more time to play with my stash again after Christmas in the meantime here are some ATC's I did in July before I moved house, they were made for the Fiskars ATC challenge theme on fruit....If you look closely you can see my backgrounds are recycled paper which has fruit on it....reminds me of Pims

the others from the set of fruit ATC's are on a post further down the page

Thanks for looking.

Chriss x

TWINCHIES & JEWELRY

Happy Friday,
During the time that I was without a puter I played with my beads here is another necklace for a friends craft table at the weekend... The hot pink beads are from Denise in Dubai...thank Denise xxxx This one is called 'Pink Wink'

Now then Chris and I got together this week and had a great time creating 2''x2'' pieces of art, they are otherwise known as Twinchies, we know alot of you know about them already but what you may not know is that there is a challenge blog out there for both Inchies and twinchies and my pal Chris introduced me to it and am I so glad she did.... why not check it out over HERE

The theme for this week is 'SCHOOL' and this is my take on the challenge using 'Lisa's Altered Art' images.

LAA has a brand new sheet out on sale right now its 'ZANY' go see for yourself over HERE I can't wait to use it.

Chris not only told me about that blog but she also told me about another great challenge blog too and it just happens to be doing twinchies for their 1st few weeks

check it out over HERE.

Today their theme is BIRDS and as I just happen to have a new Crafty Individual bird stamp here is my entry for this week.

I also caught up with the last 2 weeks challenges and had a great time doing them.... the green and pink being my 1st ever twinchie.

And the bottom one well I just couldnt resist using that little girl in the background who is waiting for her wings as she looks just like me at her age...must find you a photo out one day to show you.
Thanks for looking and big smiles to be back.

Chriss xxx

Have a great weekend x

altered drawers

Do You remember this set of drawers I showed you earlier in the week...
I promised to show you how I transformed them and brought them up to date.
As I have had them at least 10yrs although packed away for the last 5 I decided they needed a fresh new look.

By giving them an undercoat using Gesso (however If I did the same again I would use ordinary craft paint to give an undercoat) I then used a brown acrylic paint on them giving them a lovely look of dark wood.

Insided each of the eight drawers I painted a different colour,



I then added a 1 inch button to the front of each...now you would think I would be going to keep buttons in them but ...no....

I am using them to house some of my gorgeous beads.... my new hobby...my lovely friend Denise has turned me into a bead monster...LOL.

Thank you for looking and I have not forgotten that I have promised to show you some other 'stuff '...I have been altering.

Chris and I have had a great 48hrs crafting away and we will show you all very soon.

Have a lovely Friday tomorrow.

Chriss x

Fashion ATC

Morning,

Sometime ago I was lucky enough to win a gorgeous set of 'The Artistic stampers' 1920's plate on the Arty Girlz blog.
The fabulouse background is from Crafty Individuals over HERE

Here is an ATC I created using this fashion diva on 1 of my monthly swaps over on the 'artist trading club'... to see more of our club members ATC's and those of our friends who often join us.... please pop over HERE.

WE HAVE AN ATC MONTHLY SWAP THEME .... if you feel that you would like to join in with the swaps then please just email me on.

chrissylamata@live.co.uk

Thanks for looking and have a great day.

Chriss x

artygirls blue and yellow

Hello once again for the Arty girlz challenge the theme being Blue and Yellow for this week..now I may have told you at some point that that colour combo is not one I would use I am a real Autumn girl...however I did play with inking backgrounds last week and the above is one of them...so on seeing the challenge this morning I came up with this ATC.

The image and words are both from 'Lisa's Altered Art' sheets... the background branch used to give more depth to the sky is one I purchased from Karen at Scrapz over HERE.... It is from 'The Cherry Pie' collection.

This fabulous 'Birds of a Feather' ATC is from Denises in Dubai her take on Blue and Yellow colour combo.

for the Arty Girlz...Thanks Denise.

If you fancy having a go at this challenge click on HERE for more information.

Thanks for looking

ROFPMSL..LOL... you have not gone crazy...I posted the top Moon Fairy ATC earlier however I went back to it a while later and thought ...this is not yet finnished...enough for me... so out came a franked postage stamp to complete it ..now I am H A PP Y with it. xxx

Denise and Chriss xx

ATTENTION... PLEASE READ This will stay at the top until challenge finishes x

Hi everyone,

Please read this update....

Due to constructive feed back from some of our friends in blog land Chris and I have decided to change the poll voting system.

We have decided to use the RANDOM GENERATOR to pick our winner....
If you know of anyone taking on this challenge would you please help us by spreading the word that the voting system has changed.

If you would like to take part in our challenge then PLEASE put your before and after altered photo/foto onto your blog... post a comment with us telling us you are taking on the challenge, and please include your blog address so that Chris/Chriss and fellow bloggers can come and visit you :))

As before PLEASE send by email the 2 copies of the pic before and after to...

Chris at chrisrowe@gmail.com she will then put them on 'the papergirls' blog giving each one a number ready for the random generator draw.

We do hope that this has not caused you any problems, we want to get it right for everyone taking part.
We appreciated the feed back, thank you.

Please see post Friday, 23 January 2009 for this months challenge.
Good Luck to one and all.

Chriss and Chris xx

Alter a photo challenge

Here we are as promised our January challenge to 'ALTER A PHOTO' our challenge challenged both Chris (Mrs Bling) and I as we had never done one before..lol
But that's what it's all about.

So here we go this first photo is of Chris' DD and DG and don't you think they are the spit of our Chris.

Here it is altered...Chris gave it a real grungy background with a modern feel to it, those letters are so small, she did them free hand and then took for ages to cut them out .... 'Fancy that'Chris enjoyed it so much lol she did a second one to share with you... once again DG. Wait till you see this altered piece it is sooo gorgeous and original the words are wicked.

What did I tell you..it took her all night to come up with those words but hey it was worth it Chris....how original is that.

Mine, well, some of you have seen my photo I chose to alter already in the post below but for those that have not here it is.

2nd from the left is my youngest son Leigh, he was best man for his good friend Jez 2nd from the right.

Although challenging I did have alot of fun with this one... I used gesso on the background to start with.

changed the heads using images from Artchix studios which I have had a lonnnng time... searched a catalogue for the red pieces and combed a magazine for the words.

I am actually so pleased with it I am framing it.

O.K. you want to join in the fun I can tell :).... and so you can....

Everyone can take part by altering a photo and sending..... *****UPDATE*****... THE BEFORE PHOTO AND THE ALTERED ONE....by email to Chris at ..... chrisrowe@gmail.com by the closing date Friday 30th Jan 09. at midnight UK time.

Chris will put them up on here along with a poll for you to vote on your fave piece of work....ATTENTION.... there will no longer be a poll voting system PLEASE see the post above. THANK YOU. xx

This month we have been sponsored by Caroline at 'Bubbly Funk' she has been kind enough to donate this fab prize below of 6 assorted shades of chalk inks by Versa Magic...how cool are they, we are so jealous as we cannot win them...neither Chris or I have tried them YET, watch this space!

So why not pop over and visit Caroline and see what other goodies she has .... hey, whisper... ''She has up to 50% OFF many of her products.''

Click on HERE

She also has a forum that you may wish to join in with the fun.

Now feast your eyes on this selection of goodies and they could all be yours

What are you waiting for, get out those photo's and have some fun.

Have fun and have a fab week.
Chriss xxx

Artygirls challenge Small Art

Here is my entry for the Artygirlz challenge this week... the challenge is to produce a piece of small art no larger than an ATC size and as I am back into making ATC's I thought I would enter this one ...the background is from playing with inks and the stamp is another of the fabulous Crafty Individual stamps.
click on image to get a better look of the background... as I enlarged it I have just decided this Rabbit has jumped over a stream and a red sky at night...lol
Thanks for looking
Chriss x

Tag Your It

The very talented and lovely DAWN left me a comment on last weeks Arty Girlz post and right at the end she challenged me to join the TGI challenge for this week, Red and Green being the challenge..... Set by one of the 'card making queens' of blogland Kath.....

Now I like both colours but not always together (unless it's Christmas) so this was a double challenge because I also challenged myself NOT to do a Christmas tag.

Why do we do this to ourselves. lol.

If you want to take on the challenge then pop over HERE

The image was given to me last week as a gift by friend and papergirl Chris, it is a transfer on fabric thanx C...enlarge for a closer look.

Chriss x

We have a winner for our Altered CD

We have a winner for our Altered CD.....

DRUM ROLL PLEASE....

Karen Gist from Cornwall,

Here is the copy of her email she sent with the pic of her CD

Hi Chriss,

Great challenge!!!

I have altered a CD for you. I am still a beginner so its not as fantastic as the ones you have on your blog!!! But I really enjoyed doing it all the same and am pleased with it. I used 5 newspaper words and couldn't for the life of me find a 'from' so just wrote it!!!!

Karen50.

It just goes to show beginner or no beginner she is a winner.

Thank you to everyone who entered we were sooo thrilled, we want you to know in our eyes the Altered CD's were ALL worthy winners.

Thank you to all who VOTED because without your votes we would not have a winner.

Hope you are able to join in with our challenge for December to alter a piece of jigsaw to our downloadable shape and size, read more in the side panel on the right of our blog this weekend.

Pop over and visit our winner HERE

Here is a link to our other fantastic Altered CD's

Dawne, Karen, Anesha, Kimmie, Joanne, Linda, Jaqi, Patricia, Ellen,

I will add the others to this list as I receive their blog addy's.... silly me (Chriss) should have asked for them earlier. DOH.
The Papergirls xx

Awfully big art adventure L & R

For the challenge on Linda & Rosies BAA where the challenge was to create a thick wooden ATC... well I had no wood apart from some mounted wooden stamps and so.... into the microwave for a couple of seconds (please don't try this at home..LOL) to loosen the glue and off came the rubber image. just like that.

I gessoed the wood twice and then poured a few drops of ink onto a makeup pad and rubbed it into the gesso...cut out some images and adhered them to the block and with some of my fave stamps I added postal franks.

Chris took the top 2 pics and somehow we didnt get the reverse photographed b4 she left for home...what were we thinking about... so I must appologise at my attempt at using my camcorder on my laptop, the pic is really bad. The top pictures are the true colours.

The bathing beauty in a sitting pose had to have some celulite removed last night... I swear... you ask Chris..lol.

I have only had this laptop 2years this Christmas.. lol and never used the camera ...but really must get one of the DGC to show me how.... ROFPMSL.
My ATC block I have decided is a wooden postcard.
Thanks for looking and thanks for the challenge ladies.
Have a lovely weekend.
Chriss.
PLEASE CHECK OUT THE ALTERED CD CHALLENGE ENTRIES BELOW AND VOTE FOR YOUR FAVE TO WIN. x

CD Challenge Prize.

Just to remind you about our next blog challenge that is coming up soon.

Our next challenge will be on Monday the 10th of November... the challenge is to alter an old CD which must include words from a magazine/newspaper and as before using any other medium you wish, email them to me at chrissylamata@live.co.uk.

The Postal stamps above have been donated by Andrew at TANDA STAMPS

as our prize for the altered CD challenge, the winner will be chosen once again by YOU using the voting poll. Click on the Tanda stamps above pop over and start making your Christmas wish list...leaving it next to the kettle, in the bathroom, on their pillow, in their lunch box ,everywhere where it can be seen by the whole family... lol.

Hang onto those old CD's everyone is welcome to join in the challenge.

Thank you sooo much for your support xxx