Here we go again!!!

Would you believe it!

There's nowt so queer as guys on dating sites!!!

That guy I met the other Saturday?....well you guessed it....did not ring...and then stopped replying to messages.

I stopped it right then and made it clear I'm not the sort to chase after a man and neither was I one of those desperate women out there who wanted any man at any cost!!

Bye, bye sunshine!

I'm not standing any nonsense from now on!!! ROFL

I'm on a dating site 'cos I'd like to go on dates!!!!
In reality I'd like to meet the man of my dreams but at this rate it does not seem very likely!!!
ROFLIA

xoxo Sioux

Eurovision here we come!

You know I love the Eurovision Song Contest don't you?

No? Well where have you been! LOL

I have placed my bet on Ireland (it's the one thing during the year that I have a flutter on ;))...I love it but what is more important is the odds are in my favour for a rather nice return if it does win....(secretly I liked Denmark better but I'm not wasting my money on an odds on bet!!)

I feel some very sexy Zumba moves coming on!!! LOL

xoxo Sioux

Lets take a chance!

So about Saturday!

I'm sure you are dying to know!!! LOL

It had a faltering start as the time had to be altered as he had two viewings for his house sale that is ongoing....O.K. I thought, is this the start of another lot of excuses! LOL ;)

Any ways...we met...and funnily he approached someone who happened to have red hair who was in the vicinity (I was looking out over the harbour and had my back to him and also had my hat on so he did not know it was me!).

I think we got on.....only time and further meetings can confirm that though...I am not expecting an instant attraction (although the hopeless romantic in me keeps hoping) ;)

He says he is going to ring to arrange a dinner date!
Well that will be a first!!! ROFL

Or is that a euphemism for I like you but perhaps I don't like you that much but can't say so to your face and in reality I'll never ring you again ;)
Heavens it's tricky trying to find that special someone as you get older! LOL

I am still holding out for that HERO....it needs to be nothing less!!!

The journey continues.

xoxo Sioux

How many Frogs?

I've made a journal page for the delightful Dawn's Journal Journey's challenge this month which is  "Quotes".

This quote has always made me smile.....more so just recently ;)) !!! ROFLIA

I created the frogs in my graphic programme and cut them out and attached to suited men ;)

Of course the only real Prince I could include had to be RA :)

Mmmmmm.

I'm meeting a guy on Saturday lunch for the first time....we talked on the phone the other day and he sounds nice....only lives in the next town and he is a couple years younger than me...
...oh er that's a little scary to me as I've always been attracted to older men but the older I get the less attractive that proposition is!! ROFLIA

Sounds like he might actually have time to go on dates if we hit it off too!!! LOL

Thanks for looking today.

xoxo Sioux

Flower Card for The Artistic Stamper

I'm sharing a card today over on the The Artistic Stamper Creative Team Blog

Curious? Then just hop on over to The Creative Team Blog for all the details.

Thanks for looking and happy stamping
xoxo Sioux

P.S. I appreciate each and every comment here but time is short in all our lives so please do not feel obliged to comment both here and on the creative team post.
...I'll see your comments and share the feed back all at the same time if you use The Artistic Stamper Creative Team Blog post ;)
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Caro Mia!

I loved...loved....loved the Caro Emerald concert on Radio 2 and on-line tonight.

But......who were the audience?

I could have made that much noise on my own!!!!

When I first bought her album Deleted Scenes From The Cutting Room Floor I fell in love with every track.....but...little did I know that those tracks would help with the journey I have taken on the on-line dating thing.

And bloke in next town did not live up to expectations!

His window of opportunity closed. ROFLIA

It is his loss not mine!

RA just might be watching this blog and waiting for his opportunity!!! ROFL

xoxo Sioux

This is the life!

What a gorgeous day today.

Sunshine and blue skies.

Breakfast in the garden.

Putting together my new garden furniture.

xoxo Sioux

Spirit for The Artistic Stamper

I'm sharing a card today over on the The Artistic Stamper Creative Team Blog

Curious? Then just hop on over to The Creative Team Blog for all the details.

Thanks for looking and happy stamping
xoxo Sioux

P.S. I appreciate each and every comment here but time is short in all our lives so please do not feel obliged to comment both here and on the creative team post.
...I'll see your comments and share the feed back all at the same time if you use The Artistic Stamper Creative Team Blog post ;)
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Breathless for The Artistic Stamper

We had some wonderful entries for the "Tags" in last months challenge...
...I just love tags :)
So..... how do you feel about this one then?

"Texture"...and guess what? I made a tag!!! ROFL ;)

Yes that's the challenge for April over at The Artistic Stamper Creative Team ;)

I started by doing a swooshing background of Distress Inks on the tag and then cut some letters with a Tim Holtz Sizzix die out of plain white card and then some corrugated card. Attached the white card letters first with glossy accents and added the corrugated letters on top.
I peeled back the top layer of corrugated card on a couple of the letters for some extra texture and smeared some Inca Gold copper over to highlight the ridges.
Then coloured a couple of the letters with Distress Paints in seedless preserves with pickled raspberry dabbed on top and the other couple of letters with raspberry first and seedless preserves dabbed on top.

I stamped the ruler from Sewing A5 plate by Katy Fox and Life is a Circle from Journaling words 1 in Archival sepia.

The dancer was stamped in Versafine black onto a cardstock that was textured and that made a lovely distressed look to it....and the plinth from the Architecture plate 1 was stamped onto some sticky backed cork sheet and cut out...then the thread top image from Sewing A5 plate was stamped onto some Claudine Helmuth sticky backed canvas coloured with Dylusions and sprayed with some Perfect pear mist over the top.

The wording is a mixture of the words from Journaling mini words 1 the word Life and a semi-handwritten word "Breathless" which I intended to be a rub on but my rub on letter sheets are ANCIENT! and did not rub off that good!

So went over them with a black marker pen and they then looked not half bad ;)

The open wing from the Dancer plate was stamped over a stamped background using the Dance plate and cut out...the edges were scuffed up and coloured with Distress inks bundled sage and vintage photo. and a bit of tissue tape was folded in half and added to the top and secured with a couple of staples.




You really must take a look at the "Texture" creations the rest of the team have made.

So don't forget.............the monthly challenge is "Texture"

The rules are simple... all you need to do is make a piece of art, be it a card, ATC, wall art, altered art, tag ;)... just remember that it must include some rubber stamping and the theme... and... if you use Artistic Stamper stamps on your entry you will be entered into the draw twice! The prize is £15 worth of stamps from the Artistic Stamper shop... along with the KlingOn to mount them onto.

I hope you get chance to play at the challenge... it is open until April 30th and the winner will be chosen by Random.org shortly after :)

Thanks for looking and happy stamping

xoxo Sioux

A little more Ruination!

More fun with the Andy Skinner Ruination book ;)

I've added to the layers and layers of paint.....I'm fairly happy with the edges now (afraid I went off piste with that Andy and did not follow instructions! LOL) and the general colour on the front and back as it looked a bit too blue before and has now got a nice green tinge ;)

Made the faux rusty element to be added soon....just as soon as I know I don't want to add to the paint on the book cover!!!

Done some stuff inside...and still wondering quite what to do next with that!!!

Thanks for looking and come back soon for the next stage....although I'm seeing my girl friends Friday evening for a fun night of shared take away and some wine to help one of our gang have a bit of fun after having had a big operation a few weeks ago...so won't get to do any more on this till maybe Sunday!!!

P.S. Can someone explain how come I had 428 views of my Kiss Kiss Kiss post when my normalish total is 50!!! Has is got something to do with the fact I did the original post from my smartphone? I did not even link to a challenge for it!
I have no clue....so any insite would be much appreciated :)

I have noticed a lot of odd stuff going on in the last couple of days....is it all to do with me having a smartphone now or is Google becoming a large scary juggernaut!

And can anyone explain to me quite what Google + is supposed to be...is it the equivalent of Facebook?
Why can't Blogger be the new Facebook? ROFL

xoxo Sioux

More painty fun

More painty fun with the Andy Skinner Ruination book ;)

Layers and layers of paint.....Mmmm....great effect.

Love it. Can't share how it's done obviously, so you will just have to take the on-line class ;)

I can see me using this technique on lots of things. LOL

Thanks for looking and come back soon for the next stage.

xoxo Sioux

Ruination again!

Still having fun with the Andy Skinner Ruination book ;)

I bought the normal sort of masking fluid that is white (my old bottle had dried up...well it has been a long time since I was doing a water colouring course at night school!!! LOL) but could see the benefit of having a coloured version for the technique taught....so decided to experiment and added a few drops of  Distress re-inker to it! :) Seems to do the trick! ;)

Just a word of warning.....it is fine for this technique as it all gets covered up with paint anyway...but if you want the layer underneath to be the original colour when it gets exposed it will have taken on a hint of the distress ink colour!

Thanks for looking and come back soon for the next stage.

xoxo Sioux

Mmm Ruination!

Having fun with the Andy Skinner Ruination book ;)

I went to three different shops on Saturday that stocked the Acrylics mentioned in the class...and that takes some travelling miles round here!...but...in all of them the display stand had no mention of most of the specific colours!!!

So made a decision to get colours in different brands..but still not so easy, had to make an educated guess...in the end I got these....time will tell if they look similar!!!!
(Already had the white and the black)

So I made a start and this is the stage I'm at.

Thanks for looking and come back soon for the next instalment ;)

xoxo Sioux

Men are from Mars versus Venus Journal for The Artistic Stamper

I'm sharing a journal page today over on the The Artistic Stamper Creative Team Blog

Curious? Then just hop on over to The Creative Team Blog for all the details.

Thanks for looking and happy stamping
xoxo Sioux

P.S. I appreciate each and every comment here but time is short in all our lives so please do not feel obliged to comment both here and on the creative team post.
...I'll see your comments and share the feed back all at the same time if you use The Artistic Stamper Creative Team Blog post ;)
Thanks

Ruination!

When Joanne told me she had signed up for this on-line workshop by Andy Skinner I was intrigued by the title!

"Book of Ruination" ;)

It appealed to my senses...don't you just love that word "Ruination"! LOL

So I signed up for it too...

...will have to get some supplies tomorrow so that I can make a start ;)
The link HTML above was supposed to go on my side bar but unfortunately it does not display correctly as it is too big! I'm picky about the look of my blog so I'm leaving it off!

I'll be sharing something for The Artistic Stamper tomorrow...
...come back and visit me then :)

xoxo Sioux

P.S. Unfortunately it does not look like I shall be ruined any day soon!
But I keep on hoping!! ROFLIA ;) ;)

Kiss kiss kiss

I did not like that I can't do all the stuff you can on the computer to post...

...call me picky but I need to be in control! LOL

So created the photo again in my graphic programme and am posting again. ;)

It's probably great for just posting a photo to share, or perhaps I need to explore the phone app more?

And yes those are my lips! ROFL

xoxo Sioux

Dance!

I honestly loved everyone on Dance for Comic Relief tonight....but I have to say...no one was close to the performance last year of Roland :(

I gave my vote to The Soap Stars....and I texted my £5.00 donation...hope you did too ;)

xoxo Sioux 

Kissing with Confidence

I'm entering this in the Stampotique challenge this week (SDC 90) where the theme is "Inspired by a Song"

I'm always being inspired by a song...heard this old song on the radio today (sung by Will Powers if you are interested...no...I could not have guessed that one either) and it just seemed right...
ROFLIA

Thanks for looking
xoxo Sioux

Art Moment for The Artistic Stamper

I'm sharing a tag today over on the The Artistic Stamper Creative Team Blog

Curious? Then just hop on over to The Creative Team Blog for all the details.

Thanks for looking and happy stamping
xoxo Sioux

P.S. I appreciate each and every comment here but time is short in all our lives so please do not feel obliged to comment both here and on the creative team post.
...I'll see your comments and share the feed back all at the same time if you use The Artistic Stamper Creative Team Blog post ;)
Thanks

Lets Dance!

I've spent a very physical hour dancing already tonight ;)

(Need to work off my frustrations somehow!!! ROFLIA)

Now it's Dance for Comic Relief time again....yeh!

So.....Waterloo Road were good...

...John Culshaw was cool...but not as cool as Roland!

Katherine Ryan and her costume was fab-u-lous!

I don't do soaps so have never seen the Corrie guy before...

...I do love a bit of tap though :)

However my vote goes to Katherine Ryan.....I do love that song too it is so good to dance to. :)

xoxo Sioux