Me to You Swap Project 1

I joined in a monthly swap, along with about 14 other people. The object of this swap is to create mini projects of your choice to send to others on the list. The general idea is that once you have received a piece of craft, then you could use it for inspiration or interpret in your own way. This is the first project I have made.

I used a blank wooden picture frame and covered it with aluminium foil tape and then dabbed alcohol inks over it. I then added 6 small paper flowers, each with a touch of gold glitter in the centre. The rose picture is from one of Joanna Sheen's CD's. I printed the design out and then decoupaged it up. I also printed "Sammy" on the inner frame.

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What are Fat Book Pages?

A few people have asked what are fat book pages, so I will try to explain. A fat book page has to be 4" x 4" and like ATC's, you can decorate/embellish it however you want to.

When you have several pages, you can make them into a little book and put a front and back cover on if you wish to. I am involved in a couple of different fat book swaps:- flowers, winter and distressed pages. In the swap there are approx 20 people who all make a page and physically post it - so for each list/swap I am on I will receive 20 pages and then I have enough to make a gorgeous little book. So I should end up with a book full of winter pages, another with flower pages and also one with distressed pages.

I hope this makes sense, as I am not very good at explaining things.

More Fat Book Pages

These are a few I've made this evening .... well I mean these are a few of the different ones, I made about 10, but most are variations of these three. For all of them I used distressed ink to make the backgrounds and then I used various things off Tim Holtz Elements CD.

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Mona Lisa Fat Book Pages

These are two fat book pages which I have made. I used distressing inks for the backgrounds. The stamped images of Mona Lisa were sent to me by a friend and I coloured those using distressing inks and added them to the background. I then cut out the crowns from the Tim Holtz Elements CD and used silicone glue to attach them to the page.

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Mother's Day Gift

This is a little box which my 3 1/2 year old son made at nursery school for me for Mother's Day. It had a little chocolate inside.

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Been playing with ink again

I've had a very crafty morning. I've started on 20 Fat Book Pages - I've done all the background using distressed inks and I am now just waiting for them to dry.

I have also altered another frame. I used a cheap wooden frame and covered it with aluminium foil tape and then used my alcohol inks on it. I added a picture of my youngest son and we are giving this to his great nan.

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What a Charley

This card I made using Cuddly Buddly papers and rubber stamp - the stamp is called Charley and is soooo cute. I stamped the image in versamark and embossed it with gold embossing powder on white cardstock and then I did the same on some patterend paper. I cut the dress out of the patterend paper and placed it on top of the stamped image. I used marvey le plume pens for the colouring of the rest of the image. I matted the image onto some peach card and then gold card and I added a strip of the background paper with a strip of gold underneath and added a few flowers, held in place with little gold brads.


This card is for a challenge on My Time to Craft, this weeks challenge is to use flowers on your project.


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I've got an award

I got a "you've made my day" award from Hels and She - thank you both :-)

The rules of the award are simple, pass it on to ten people who have made your day in Blogland! Pop a message by email or on their blog and then they pass on the award. If you receive the award back again it means that you are a very nice person and you have made their day too.

So I need to pass this on to another 10 people who have made my day so here goes:-

Hels, She, Ann, Craftyc, Shaz, Shazza, Andrea, Jacky, Vanessa and Claireabelle

I've Been Tagged

Well I have been tagged three times in one day, by Nessy, Shaz and Shazza - so here goes:-

What were you doing 10 years ago? Working full time

What were you dong a year ago? Worrying alot as my daughter had gone travelling for a year - good for me she came back home after only 3 months.

Name your 5 favourite snacks Crisps, pies, chocolate, toast and sweets .... all not very healthy I know LOL

Name 5 things you would do if you were a millionaire Pay off all my debts, buy another house, buy a car, give the kids some money and move to Cyprus

Name 5 things you like doing Crafting, eating, chatting to my friends online, nosing at all the wonderful blogs and staying in the house where I am nice and warm.

Name 5 things you will never wear again All my clothes I've grown out of, a wedding dress, a duffle coat, contact lenses and high heeled shoes

Name your 5 favourite things All my internet friends, my pc, my children, my bed and my hubby who is also my soul-mate

Now I need to tag 5 people so here goes:-

Jane
Lesley
Ann
Jozza
Heidi

Happy Mothers Day

Well it's mothers day here in UK and I got some lovely crafty bits and bobs off the boys today, some DCWV paper stack - Once Upon a Time, some lovely brads and some chocolates too.
I've still not made anything - I coloured some Tilda's and some Cuddly Buddly Charlie's yesterday, but that's about it. I think I will stick with altered things and tags for a while as cards just aren't happening for me now.

It's the weekend

Well this week has flown by and it's the weekend again. My hubby just took the boys out to get something for Mother's day and he also brought me a little present from him

Mojo Gone AWOL - Things with Wings

Well I've had a rough few days with my card making - my inspiration has totally gone. So I decided today to make a few very simple cards. The background on this card is printed out and the fairy is decoupaged with a little glitter added here and there.

This card fits in with the challenge on My Time to Craft - which this week was "Things with Wings"

I made another tag tonight - I love making tags. I used distress inks for the background and some Cats Life Press and Tim Holtz stamps.

This card is a Penny Black stamped image which a friend sent me and I coloured it and cut it out. I mounted it using sticky pads onto a small card which I firstly covered with green card with flecks of gold and some Cuddly Buddly swirly papers. I just added a dark green ribbon where the two papers met.

Di Hickman Sketch #3

This is the sketch for the challenge on Di Hickmans challenge blog. I used papers from cuddly buddly and covered an A5 card with the two papers. I used a friendship rub on for the sentiment and simply layered the pink card onto some blue card and added four little heart gems. I used a big bloomer flower with a small button flower embellishment in the centre. Not really my style of card, and I'm not that keen on it to be honest - but at least I had a go :-)

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Funky Fairys Challenge 9

It hasn't been a bad day here today, dull but dry. I managed to get a little crafting done.
I made this tag for the challenge on Funky Fairys "Create a tag, something tag-shaped or including one or more tags, and your tags can be any shape or size"
I used Tim Holtz Distress ink for the background and then stamped the Tim Holtz sentiment/saying randomly over the tag. I used some DCVW paper and stamped the sentiment again and also stamped the Tim Holtz bird and then I tore the papers to get a nice rough edge on them and then inked the edges using old paper distress ink. I then just added some ribbon and fibres.


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Time Flies

I bought some cheap 4" x 6" frames to alter and I really like the effect I got. This is the frame before and after.



I cut out the letters "Time Flies" on my Craft Robo and stuck them onto the bottom of the frame using a little glue. I covered the frame with Aluminium Foil Tape and then used Ginger, Butterscotch, Caramel and Latte alcohol inks to colour the frame. I used an adirondack ink pad and tapped it over where the letters were and then wiped off the alcohol ink so the words stood out against the coloured frame. I took two pieces of DCVW Far East paper and tore the edge off the blue piece and then I inked the edge using Old Paper distress inks and I also distressed parts of the paper to make it look older. I printed an old photograph onto photo paper and then distressed it using the Old Paper distress ink and I went around the edges with a distressing tool and then inked them with the distress ink. I used a watch stamp, which I got from The Artistic Stamper, and using a versamark ink pad I stamped it onto some white pearlescent card and then covered it with Gold Tinsel embossing powder and heated it. I cut out the stamped watch image and put some German Scrap gold wings behind it. The photograph I put flat on the background and I raised the watch with wings using foam pads.

The weekly challenge on Sunday Stampers this week is "Time" so I thought this would be ideal.

The weekly challenge on Funky Fairys this week is to use a photograph on your card, scrapbook page or brag book etc etc - so this also qualifies for that challenge too.

Addicted to Tags

I think I'm addicted to making tags - I just love doing them. I got a new set or should I say my first set of Tim Holtz stamps, so I had to try them out.

Lace Friendship Card

This card I made for two challenges:- Daring Cardmakers challenge is to make a Love and Friendship card and My Time to Craft challenge is to use lace on your card. I used cream cardstock and a penny black stamped image which I was sent by a friend. I simply coloured the image with watercolour pencils and then matted it onto some pink patterend paper. I stamped the Friendship sentiment onto white card and again matted it onto pink patterned paper. I then added some lace down the left and right hand side of the card.



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Another Tag

Good morning, it's quite a nice morning here - cold but no frost. Hope everyone has a good day.

I made this tag for a friend, hopefully Royal Mail have delivered it by now. I used distress inks for the background of the tag. I put some of the ink onto a craft sheet and spritzed it with water and then laid my tag down on it - I love the effect from this technique and you always get something different each time. I used Cats Life Press stamps and stamped them using Broken China distress ink and sprinkled them with clear embossing powder and heated them. I then stamped the "Butterfly Fairy" onto a piece of blue patterned paper and then cut her out. I cut off her wings and replaced them with a pair of gold German Scrap wings. On the back of the tag I stamped using rusty brown and black stazon and also edged the tag with the rusty brown stazon.


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