Crafty Loops

Artist's Canvas and water colour paper Portfolio Folder Good evening my little Loopy loo's.  Holy Moly it is extremely stormy here in Northern Ireland!!  Its mental out there!  Anyway, here is a little something I made for a very dear friend who I'm sure you've heard me mention before, Fiona Jennings. She has a Youtube Channel called Jennings644 . Fiona is an incredible crafter and an extremely talented artist as well.  She has been very supportive of me and extremely generous when it comes to sending me craft goodies.  I wanted to make her something that she wouldn't have (I hope!!) but I wanted it to be something that had little or no decoration on it so she could fill it completely, cover to back with her creativity. So I decided to make her a Canvas and Water Colour Portfolio folder.  WARNING....the photos will be boring!  As they are pretty much showing white canvas and white water colour paper.  BUT this is the whole point of this folder.  I wan

NOW CLOSED Thats right my little loopy loo's, I have decided to give away another bounty of goodies.  On Christmas day it will be 6 months since I started my insane ramblings and blogging (25th June) and since then I have "met" the most wonderful people, won some incredible candies myself, visited and seen the most incredible blogs and creations, had great craic writing my somewhat eccentric blog posts and enjoyed reading all your amazing comments. So, in the short time I have had my wee blog, I appear to have completely missed the 20'000 and 21'000 hits giveaway mark (opps....sorry) and have now nearly reached 22'000.  Didnt I just do a 10'000 hit candy which seems like 5 mins ago??  Whats going on here?? But anywho, I  want to offer more candy as a massive thank you to all my wonderful followers.  You must have the patience of a saint to sit and read through the "constant ramblings of an insane Irish woman" as I shall call it.  Ohhhh that

Stickpins, Flowers and Ghouls My Country Kitchen Collection of Flowers - Circles cut using Sizzix Circle Die Felt Rolled Roses using Sizzix 3D Flower Die Stickpins Galore! Yes, I have more flowers to show.........as always but also some stickpins.  Now again this is heavy on the photos but its for my own records.  Im not gonna waffle ("Say What Girlfriend?".....said with an over exaggerated America accent!) as there are quite a few photos and I want to get through them all.  I know, I know......Loops not waffling......Tis a strange day indeed. Admittedly some of the stickpins will NOT be to everyone's taste.  Those who follow my blog will know I dabble in a bit of Steampunk too (see altered guitar in a previous post) and some of the stickpins are a little Steampunkish/Gothic...ey style so Im very much aware that there are some who will not even give them the time of day.......BUT, I love'em. So here we go........heres what Ive been up to....

My First Altered Chocolate Box Altered Chocolate box I've made BEWARE.....A LOT OF PHOTOS But its so I can keep a record of what Ive done! Its not a tutorial...more of a "what I did" post as this is my first time doing one of these Yes, thats right.  My scrummy hubby, or should I call him "Scrubby" kindly bought me a box of choccies the other week.  Noooooooo, he didnt put a dent in the car, or buy something stupid (thats usually me does that!) Nor is he playing away from home or has a guilty conscience!  Heehee.  No tricks at all, my husband is merely a big suck and romantic and is always buying me flowers and chocolates.  Always has done......of course he would never admit to being a big softie.  No need to admit it Scrubby.........Ive gone and done it for you and just told everyone over the internet, haahaa! Anyway, enough of my antics.  Here is how this box of scrumpdiddliumptous chocolates ended up.....well, the calories ended up