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Well the last 2 pages for this year - not many more to do now - hope you have enjoyed the journey.


Feeling pretty pleased with myself this evening - just learned that I've won one of the Candies on Artistic Stamper - how cool is that for the last day of the year.



HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE - Thanks for all your comments and inspiration throughout 2009

I'm getting there !!!!!

On a roll here !!! and enjoying every minute - hope you are enjoying looking at them

Well I'm more than halfway there!!!!! Don't think I'll get it finished by the end of the year but it won't be very far in to the New Year when I'll be able to say "Another Project Completed"

From Cheryl









From My Family











from Chris in Canada







from my friends on the Lotstodo Forum

I will treasure each and every one

I would just like to take this opportnuity to wish each and every one of my blog buddies and followers a Wonderful Happy Christmas with those you love and a Happy Healthy and Creative New Year.

Thank you so much for visiting my blog - leaving me comments and giving me inspiration.

Have a fabulous time

Hugs Hilda

This is how my box started out a rather posh wine box








And this is how it finished









The corners look like this









And for those that are curious - this is what I've got inside









I sanded down my box - then gessoed it. I then coated it twice with black acrylic - the gold acrylic was sprayed on - and oh what a mess I made !!!!!The grunge pieces on the top had the same treatment!!! Inside the box I coated with gesso then used white acrylic - Graeme made me the little dividers. I used a piece of my own backing paper on the lid but thats covered with my masks.

A very useful place to keep lots of my Tim stuff together and nice and tidy

The wine was good too !!!! So - if you get a posh wine box for Christmas then you know exactly what to do with it

This is one of the shrines my very own Santa made for me - can't wait to get started on it - isn't it fab !!!!It actually has a door as well but I asked him not to put that on until I've done the inside

I got the inspiration to alter this box from an issue of Cloth, Paper, Scissors that Zoe had kindly got for me.

I sanded the box - then 2 coats of gesso - 1 coat of gold acrylic then when that dried I put on a coat of PVA and immediately a coat of cream acrylic - as the PVA dried the acrylic all cracked showing some of the underneath layers. I finished off by adding some walnut stain with cut n dry. The inside of the lid - I stamped on to tissue and added with modpodge before adding a few embellishments. A real neat box to keep some of my ever growing ideology bits and pieces in. Now on to finishing my next one !!!

This started life as a pine mirror from Poundland. I sanded it - coated it with brown acrylic and let it dry overnight. I then sprayed it with glimmer mist and whilst wet sprinkled siver and gold embossing powder on and used my heat gun to set it. Love the way it has textured - my rose was done with metal and coloured with alcohol inks. I've covered the mirror to take the pics

This is where I am today !!!! But I've all the heating on and am as snug as a bug in a rug

A free theme this week on the Lotstodo Challenge - maybe 'cos I was so busy with Tims tags :):):) This challenge will run until 8th January when we'll be back with a new challenge and some candy.

For this card I stamped and heat embossed one of my Mandala stamps on to black and white card stock - I then cut them out - glitzed them up and used foam squares to mount them. I then mounted the whole piece on to a mat I'd made with my Bigshot and Nestabilities and finished off with a bit of bling

Another fun filled day finishing my tags = I have so enjoyed each and every one of them - thanks Tim fo all the inspiration you have given to thousands again this year.

Great fun again today - love em all but my favourite is the one with the lampost - it took me the longest to do but I love everything about it in particular the parchment

I have had so much fun creating these tags from the Tims Tags 2009 collection. I have had to utilise quite a bit where I didn't have the products Tim uses - quite happy with the way they've turned out though and it was great to be trying the different techniques.

I've had lots of fun creating these pages - there's only a few more pages left in my journal now - I've really enjoyed the process of learning whilst I went along

Just a simple tissue box cover for this weeks challenge on Lotstodo

have a great weekend everyone

Hugs Hilda

Sorry about the quality of the pic. The acetate created a flash however much I tried!!! This is the first card I made at a craft group meeting that I joined last week. The acetate is bowed and looks really well on top of the snow sky background, the sleigh and the moon.