Winner of my Giveaway

Congratulations to the winner of my giveway....Valerie of Bastelmania aka CraftAttack.

Thank you so much everyone for dropping by, leaving lovely comments and wishing me birthday wishes.

I have emailed Valerie with info so when I receive your email back I will get your goody prize out to you following the weekend.

I have been one busy chick outside with hubs getting our veggie garden ready. There has been an explosion of carnivorous black flies. I am not sure if I hate mosquitoes or black flies more, they are equally something I do not care for. Weed control is outrageous but has to be done befoe tilling, gotta grab and toss those nasty root systems. Pansies are potted and placed on the deck, I bought some when I went to Loew's this week to up my supply for my key chains. I didn't feel so bad after buying something. I have a whack of them now they are so addicting. I will be posting some things over the weekend. Rain in the forecast so what a better way to catch up on challenges and create a bit too. 

Take care and thanks again for dropping by.

♥ Lesley ♥

It's time for a Giveaway

I am now just over 200 posts and 110 followers so that's a reason to celebrate plus I just had a birthday.

So to say thank you for listening to my dribble, and coming by to leave lovely comments and friendships I have made with most of you ,I would like to offer you this token of my appreciation.

Now this picture shows only a small sampling and since taking this photo I have made the pile grow a bit larger. Whatever I can fit into the box will be going to one lucky winner.

I will be running this giveaway til Friday May 13th.

What do you have to do...

1. Leave me a comment.

2. Become a follower if you are not already for another chance to win.

3. Grab and post my giveaway button on your blog and let other peeps know about the giveaway (but please leave your link so I can check your blog out if I haven't already). :)

4. If you leave an anonymous comment please give me a way to be able to contact you in case you win.

And that is it.

Whatever I can put in the growing box I will ,and you have til Friday. I will pick the winner and announce Friday evening.

Oh.... and see that ATC book with the Umbrella man? I made that as a stamp out of fun foam. It isn't a Tim Holtz it is a Harmony Road stamp. LOL You just put a bit of glue stick glue on either side, attach to your acrylic blog, use the stamp as you would any stamp. Remove and clean off the ink and the glue washes off as well,  ready to use next time, great thing about it is you can flip it unlike other stamps. I love my Umbrella man. I have a mini one too I used on a domino.

Take care and hurry on over and comment away.

Lesley ♥

Happy Mother's Day

To my dear Mum
for all you do and continue to do for me, for listening to me, giving advice and just being you.
I love you with all my ♥

Happy Mother's Day to all my friends and family.
I hope you had a lovely day.

More musings to follow in the days to come.
Stay tuned.

More of my Musings

Hi there peeps. Bet you thought I had drifted off to someplace unknown. Well I have been keeping a bit busy with travel and such and tomorrow is my birthday.

Yesterday I went to see my sister and we had a nice visit. We hadn't seen each other in quite some time and I got to view her new home and we had a good time catching up on things. Traffic was not so good coming back. I always question why construction on a busy highway and turning 2 lanes into one during the busy times of the day, it's like sitting in a parking lot and moving inches every few minutes. I am so glad I do not drive for a living. I do appreciate those who do but you are crazy to be putting up with that.

Onto better things. Take a look at these lovely flowers my big Sis gave me yesterday. They are sitting on my table where I create and they smell ever so loverly. Robin isn't really a computer girl but I will thank her here anyways just in case she comes by. They just brighten up the room.

Next, my friend Jeanie made some key tags from the little tutorial that I put up here a while ago made out of  samples for counter tops. Well last night after supper I was  feeling a little antsy so I put that energy to good use. I made up a few more. These ones had a plain cream background so I used my alcohol inks and then used Artchix images for the focal point and cut and added some words on a couple. The green one turned out really cool and of course green is my ultimate fav colour so it is already hanging on my key chain. Woo hoo I actually kept something I made. I really modged the image on there too so it won't come off very easily, and I used a gold paint pen to go around the border to give it a finished look.

These would make great gifties for MOTHER'S day which is coming up very shortly. HINT HINT Ü

And.... I know every one is so sick of winter and cold and snow but I have to show you these snowies.

I will be doing more of these for my fall shows but I was so happy with how they turned out I wanted to  make you smile Ü. The middle guy is my first one and I wasn't sure how it was going to turn out and it did better than I thought. These are gourds I grew in my garden last year. I had lots of them.

There is quite a process before the paint stage. We put them downstairs in our basement over the winter thinking the wood stove would help them go through the dry out process. Well we had all these little flies in the house and when I asked the girls in my paint group what was going on they all told me they just put them out in their garages. Well they get all moldy and when they are ready you have to clean this dirt and mould off them, dry them and then you can paint. YUCK but well worth it in the end.

The hats are made of air dry clay then painted and dry brushed as well as the noses and buttons.  

These are just my first and I hope to do some penguins and more snowies with different faces.

And, I have not forgotten about my giveaway.

I have been trying to make a few things and I will be going through some of my stash to put together a goody bag.

I am so happy to have to date 110 followers and over 200 posts.

I can't thank everyone enough for dropping by and leaving such lovely comments.

Stay tuned for my Blog Giveaway.

Tomorrow is my birthday so another reason to celebrate and give back to those that have been so generous to me.

Have a great day,

♥

Another Inkjet Transfer Tutorial

After visiting Inkstains with Roni and learning that she literally fell upon this neat inkjet transfer

by error, well I had to look into this.

Roni was using an ALL PURPOSE cleaner with Orange oil in it and well since here in Canada some of our products vary I thought immediately of Orange Glo. So I head out to buy Orange Glo while doing groceries, brought it home, tried it and no it didn’t work. Well I should have read Roni’s instructions a bit better because she said it was an ALL PURPOSE Cleaner, what I got was Orange Glo for furniture, it is a little heavier and more oily than I wanted thus it produced no results. Good thing I have wood furniture so I can still use it but I was still not going to be beaten by this result.

I was racking my brain thinking of what product could I get that had orange in it, well nothing other than Orange Glo but then I got to thinking and looking in my cleaning supplies and of course I had Pine Sol but with Lemon. I use it quite a bit now and love the lemon scent it has and just makes cleaning feel fresh but not overly sterile smelling.

So I opted to try it and I can’t wait to show you how very easy and readily available it is.

Here is what you need:

Pine Sol, I suggest Lemon Scent but if you have any other kind then try it first before running out to get the Lemon, the other Pine Sols MAY work but I am not going to tell you it does because I don’t have any other in the house.
A paint brush the size for an image, even a cotton swap would be fine, images either colour or B&W INKJET, receiving paper, cut size of ATC’s, use book pages, whatever you like even the center of a paper doily would be nice for a card and a small container to put some Pine Sol in. Bone folder for burnishing is optional as well as the cotton swabs, scissors for trimming images. 

Dip your brush into your Pine Sol.

Place your image face down on the receiving paper and brush the back of the image with the Pine Sol. You will start to see the image appear, keep brushing on Pine Sol til you have covered all of your image.

Now either take a cotton swap or your finger, doesn’t matter and start to burnish the image, keep moving around the whole image. Hold part of the image and lift to see how it is looking, if you are happy remove the image and look at your receiving paper. If you want to burnish it a bit more lay the paper back down and burnish a bit more even brush on a bit more Pine Sol.

Also something I noted, the inkjet ink does not bleed like other techniques, it stays put while you are burnishing, unlike Gel Medium which I do like to use just made this observation.

Now lift the image. You are done.

I now use my heat gun and dry the paper. Nice thing about Pine Sol is it doesn’t leave an oily stain on your paper which is what I was worried about.

Here are some other examples of the transfers here.

A tag, a Moo and an ATC.

Here is the finished ATC with the girl with the butterfly wings. I added a bit more to it since this pic but not much and of course dried now after hitting it with the heat gun.

Wasn’t that fun and so easy and something you may already have in the house.

I also tried Isopropryl Alcohol and it works but I found it wasn’t quite co operative with the colours, it sort of changed them and the image was not as clear most ghostly.

Thanks to Roni for her discovery for the Orange Cleaner and here is my discovery using Pine Sol.

Hope you enjoyed this, I would love to hear your feedback and would love to see your results.

Happy Creating ♥