Tim's tag rehashed tag 2

I really didn't like my reindeer on the #2 tag. too small, too insipid - and besides which the poor thing the dimensional paint went everywhere and made him look like he had a blood nose - very sad. So this afternoon I consigned him to the rubbish and tried again. Used a cutout Christmas tree template and then put that through my lacy tree cuttlebug folder - better. I was going to add some jewels (for decorations but decided that perhaps it was better to stop. You decide

Tim's tag #2

Well I've gone from no entries to frantic activity. As soon as I saw today's tag I loved it and knew how it would/could work. It doesn't quite show up - but the reindeer has a red nose. Thanks for looking

Tim Holtz 12 tags of Christmas tag 1

I have made my first Tim Holtz Christmas tag. No pinecone tag but I've made use of what I have just as he suggested

Tim Holtz 12 tags of Christmas

These tags are just amazing -now to get started. What? how? oh boy oh boy - exciting time

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a 70th birthday card

We were recently invited to a friend's 70th birthday - and I wanted to make her something a bit nicer than the normal card. A friend on my yahoo group mentioned a tri-fold card and bingo I knew it would be perfect.

The birthday girl loves purple so it was a matter of searching through all my 'purple' collection and starting from there. The only problem I really had was that the original sheet that I cut from was a little bit smaller than the specified 12x12 inch sheet. Never the less I will be trying this one a second time later in the year. I'm sure it gets easier - cutting the slits was a bit tricky - but my fiskars cutter worked well with it .

March update

I figured it's time I updated my blog - showing a glass of red wine - some would say it's very me; and the profile picture was taken in Florence Italy last year.


Townsville is recovering from all the tree damage from cyclone Yasi - now if they can just repair ALL the potholes on the roads we won't need to play dodge em cars anymore. I've also had my eye surgery - finally finished - so now I'm busy re-training my brain, waiting to get the all clear to drive - and get my reading glasses. I never realised just how much I wasn't seeing - until I saw perfectly again - cataract surgery is just an amazing thing. The colours crisp and bright - and the detail!! All good.


And hopefully I will be posting here more often in 2011

blogspot winner

The blogspot winner for the Christmas trees is marilync. 
Your comment made me laugh as (a) I live in the tropics and haven't seen snow in 20 years and (b) where I live was hit by Tropical Cyclone Yasi last month - and 65,000 trees were destroyed locally. We were lucky though that no homes were damaged - although further north is a different story. Marilync if you'd like to email me on tropical.stampa@y7mail.com with your address I'll get your trees in the mail to you Monday - thanks all for participating and dropping by my blogspot.


Have a good weekend all
Julie