Scrabble board

Good morning folks, yes it's Jen back again. Jude isn't feeling too good at the minute so I'm filling in for her with the blog. 

You may remember last year when I put together a scrabble board with all of our families names on it. The trouble I had fitting them all on lol. 

Well since the arrival of our newest member, Charlotte Rose in June, I have been thinking about redoing the board to be able to fit her name on. 

The last time I did it, I cut a scrabble board down to be able to fit in a 12 x 12 frame. But this time I ordered a new 16 x 16 inch frame online, so that I could leave the scrabble board whole. 

Mum picked me up a new scrabble board in a charity shop and then I spent hours and hours trying to get the names to all fit together!

But eventually I managed it, all 24 of us. So it's official Charlotte is now part of the family lol.

Hope you like it, take care and I'll see you soon.

xxx

Craft Artist Frame

Good morning all, today's is a very quick and easy project.  Our cousin's little boy was one last week, so as well as I few gifts I made him this frame for his birthday. 

The frame is an 8 x 8 deep box frame from The Range, and I used Craft Artist Software to produce an 8 x 8 scrapbook sheet.

I used the BFG (Big Friendly Giant) digikit for the background and the image in the corner. Then I used a letter from another kit for the 'S'. I made it really big and changed it to black so it would really stand out. Then I printed the page on to white card. 

Then I used scrabble tiles for the rest of his name and stuck them down with Cosmic Shimmer glue. 

A really quick and easy piece, but will still look lovely on his bedroom wall. 

Hope you like it, take care and I'll see you soon.

xxx

It's a puzzle

Good morning crafty friends, hope you are all well. I have the lurgy again (tonsillitis) so have been back to the doctors for more antibiotics. Which I then had a reaction to, anyway I have different ones now so hopefully I will be on the mend soon. But because I haven't been feeling well, I haven't really done any crafting, so I decided that while I was resting I would do the name frame for me, that I have wanted to do for months. Thinking it would be an easy relaxing job! ha ha. 

So I got an old Scrabble board and cut it down slightly to fit in a 12 x 12 inch frame.  Then I got all the letters out that I would need for the 23 names in our family. That is when the fun started lol. After puzzling over this (easy) job for quite some time, and nearly getting everyone on a few times, I eventually had to call in some back-up from Jude. Then it still took us over an hour to go from this.....

.....to this. Yeah, we finally got there, and managed to get everyone on, although I must admit we haven't used that 'important' middle square lol.

Then all I had to do was glue all the letters down and fit the board in it's frame.

This will now be going on our staircase somewhere I think. Hope you like it, take care and I'll see you soon.

xxx

Name frames

Good morning all, I have had a request for a couple more of the Scrabble tile name frames this week. So this is what they turned out like. 

I had to buy a big 12 x 12 frame for this first one as it needed to have 9 names in it. 

I added a little bird and an owl to finish it off.

This second one is much smaller so could go in a standard 10 x 8 frame. 

And this one just had a little bird added to the corner. 

They are both very simple but elegant I think. Hope you like them too.

Take care, see you soon.

xxx

Friday 4 July - Doggy Scrabble Frame

Good morning all, hope you are well today. Hopefully by now I am laid by the pool on holiday soaking up the sun :o)) But while we are away we have scheduled some posts to keep you going lol. 

Today's post is another of my name frames. This one my cousin Kirsty asked me to make for my aunt and uncle.

It contains all of the names of the dogs that they have had over the last approx 35 years. 

Sadly most have passed away over time but they do still have Emily. They have all been Yorkshire Terriers and have all had very different characters. Starting off with Susie many, many years ago, who used to love bacon sandwiches and biting my brothers feet lol.

I used a large 12 x 12 frame for this one and kept a neutral feel.

My aunt and uncle loved the gift and it now hangs on the wall in the summer house in the garden. 

Hope you like it too.

See you soon. Take care.

xxx

Scrabble Board

Good Morning all, hope you are all well. Today's post is another of my Scrabble name frames, but a little bit different.

This time I used the Scrabble board too! lol. 

I made this one for a friend of my daughter's, but as she wanted 6 names on it I thought I would see what they looked like on the Scrabble board. 

I had to cut the board down to get it to fit a 12 x 12 frame. But I think it looks good. 

And Louise loved it, so hope you like it too.

Take care, and I'll see you soon.

xxx

New frame

Good morning blog friends. Hope you are well. 

Today's is a very quick post from me as the only thing I can share today is another of my name frames.

This one was commissioned by my cousin Kirsty as a gift for my Aunt. It includes all of the names of the dogs she has had over the years.

Hope you like it.

See you soon.

Take care

xxx

Altered frame

Good morning. I thought we would have a little break from the birthday cards this morning. So I can show you another of my little frames. 

This one is for a friend of my daughters. She wanted a neutral finish so I kept to a brown and cream palette.

I altered the scrabble tiles in the same way as before, with sandpaper and distress ink. Then i found a frame the right size for the words. Trouble was the frame was shiny green!

So I set about altering that too. I gave it a good sand over and then applied two layers of cream acrylic paint. Once that was dry I gave it two coats of Vintage Photo Distress Paint. After that had dried I took it outside and gave it a good spray with Iridescent spray glitter.

I added some pearls and a butterfly to finish it off. Now just got to hope that Helen likes it. Hope you do too.

See you soon, take care.

xxx

Altered Scrabble tiles

Good morning all, hope you are well and having a good week. Today's post explains how I went about changing the plastic scrabble tiles to look more like the wooden ones that I originally used. 

These are how the tiles started out ,

I gave them a good sand over with a rough nail file, keeping the grain going one direction on the tile surface. You do have to be careful not to file the letter and number off, but just to rough up the plastic a bit.

Then after a few failed experiments lol, I found that Gathered Twigs Distress Ink, was the best thing to colour them with. 

I wore gloves as they are quite fiddly and your hands do end up in a mess lol. But this is what they looked like afterwards.

To show you the comparison, the letter R is from the original wooden tiles and the S is one I have altered. They don't look exactly the same but I don't think they are a bad copy of the wood effect.

Once I had them all done, I used them to create another name frame for a friend. 

That's all from me today. Hope to see you again soon.

Take care.

xxx

Last of the name frames

Good morning all, hope you are all well. I haven't managed to sneak in much crafty time this weekend so I'm afraid I don't have anything new to share.

So today's post will have to be the last of the name frames that I made. Well for now anyway, as I've had a few requests for some more :o))

This one I made for my niece and partner and their little girl Keira.

The frame is from Ikea and the tiles are some original scrabble tiles that I bought last year. Now that they are very popular they are a lot harder to get hold of ! So I'm working on my own (watch this space.)

A couple of little embellishments and it was all finished.

Hope you like it. Take care and I'll see you soon.

xxx