Oriental ATC's

I've had a busy crafty day today. OH took the boys out this afternoon and I got my ink and stamps out, dusted them off and set to play. These three ATC's are for a swap on CSF, I used distress ink pads to do the backgrounds (old page and walnut) and then I used different small oriental stamps to finish off the background. The geisha's were stamped onto photo paper and then rubbed over with a little more distress ink. I just added an oriental "coin" and a bit of red ribbon/fibers.

Fat Book Pages

Again, carrying on with the oriental theme I made a couple of Fat Book Pages, for a swap on CSF. I used backing papers from Joanna Sheens Oriental Dreams cd and stamped and embossed the geisha's with gold embossing powder onto off white cardstock. I then used irridescent gold H20's and just painted over the cardstock to give a lovely shiney effect. Mounted onto red and black card and then I just added a couple of gold fans on the side.

These next two Fat Book Pages were stamped and embossed again with gold embossing powder. This is the first time I've used this stamp and I love it - it is a Crafty Individuals stamp. I used scrapbook paper for the background and just mounted the stamped images onto pink and brown-grain card, inked the edges of the pages with brilliance ink and added a pink bow.

A Couple of Scrapbook Pages

This page was made for a challenge on Craft Swap Forum - the subject was "presents". The papers I used are Papermania. I stamped the word presents and punched them out using a tag punch then threaded ribbon though them.

This page was my first attempt at scrapbooking - I made it about 12 months ago. I just need to put the date in the bottom left corner.