Three Muses Challenge - Steampunk

OH HOW I HATE THAT WORD!  This was a hard one for me.  I have a love/hate relationship with Steampunk.  I love the look, the feel etc. but there are various reasons that I hate it. I won't go into it because I'll probably offend someone but I will be content with my love/hate relationship.  Therefore doing this challenge definitely was that for me!  I don't think I've done a particularly great job but it's ok.

Credits:

Building: Goldenthrush
Gears: RedHeadStock, NieblaStocks - all at DeviantArt
Glasses: iKink
Woman: Tumble Fish Studio - Freestyle
Frame: Beth Rimmer - Diary Declassified
Overlay: Altered Emporium - I'm With The Band

End of holiday ...

... today is the last day of our escape to the country.  We are on Mr Fidget's family's farm in Wales where I only seem to get wi-fi at silly-o'clock in the morning! 

I got some great postcards and vintage books this week so will be posting some freebies this weekend.

Hope you're all well xxxx

Take A Word Challenge - Egg

I DO love a challenge ... I thought I'd take part in the Take A Word Challenge which this week was 'egg'.  Here's my entry:

Credits:
Border - HA!Designs
Border and chicken - SassyArts
Girl with eggs - mimi_1993
All found in the Collage Images Group on Flickr

Lettering: Vintage Lettering Kit - Tumble Fish Studio
and
Various - Crowabout StudioB

Layers - from my own collection

Snail Mail

When I was younger I had MANY penpals - the highlight of the morning was the post arriving and letters, tapes and FBs (Friendship Books) dropping into view.

I don't get much time to write any more even though I am still very much in touch with 5 of my old penpals - I still count them amongst my best friends!  Recently I decided to start writing more letters and the search for decent writing paper ensued.  I'm a big fan of Tara Mcpherson and got this lovely set from the Flood Gallery in Greenwich :)  However, I needed more variety!  So I started designing my own.  I'm going to try and design a range with paper and envelopes later this week - so keep an eye open for the free download and let me know what you think!

Btw. I recommend for best printing using an inkjet - use 100gsm pure white paper.  The colours are a lot perkier!
Check the set page on Flickr to see the credits for the elements used.

Sharing ...

I thought I'd do a blog on people who have used some of my free resources :)  I found all of these on Flickr - if you want to be 'featured' just drop me a line x


AutumnSensation on Flickr used one of my faces on the image in the bottom right hand corner and it was featured in The Stamper's Sampler :)  You can find the original sheet here if you want to create your own!

- BlueRidgeLady - using the same sheet

*veronuchika(y-tu)* from this sheet 

panykattack - using this sheet

LauraPM using a lady from this sheet

by tammybeck using this sheet

Some wonderful work here :) If you've used any of my resources let me know I'd love to see what you've created x

End of March Freebie

So here's the freebie for this week - just for blog readers:

and another that's also on my Flickr account:

Enjoy using - but don't forget the terms of use!

So it's been a while ...

... and I've been missing playing with paper ephemera, creating a mess and sharing sharing sharing.

I've unfortunately been knocked down with the worst flu bug I've ever had in my life.  The first four/ five days were spent with a fever, hallucinating, weak, feeble and sweating to the point where I dreamed I was drowning.  Thankfully the severity of that has passed and I'm now simply exhausted and full of mucus (tmi?).  The enforced sick leave has left me feeling very stressed and depressed - which was thankfully relieved by one website yesterday ... DEVIANT SCRAP RETURNED MY SANITY!

Last year I'd downloaded a couple of kits from there; unfortunately I lost them when a hard drive had a bit of a hissy fit - thankfully the wonderful Hollie returned the keys to me so I could use the kits again.  On top of that my bank balance groaned (they're really not expensive at all!) as I bought more and more kits.  I just found my creative juices over-flowing and my mind was kept from stress and the big-D!

I've been creating journal layouts to build on - here are a few:

 You can see the whole set here on Flickr - with the links to the kits used.

I've also started to do some writing paper - I can never find writing paper that I like so this seemed to be the solution:

For details about the kits used go to the Flickr set here. 

Enjoy!