Stamping in soot

I thought I might give the stamping in soot technique a go, after seeing the sample on Hilda's blog. The technique was so easy to do, and the results quite stunning! Not the best of results, but I was pleased with it, just need a bit more practice.

I did give Mum a bit of a scare though! she thought I was about to set the house on fire!

Charity Auction

This is one of the pieces that I have made for the Lots To Do charity Auction.

This is a photo brag book, handbag sized so easy to take with you to show off your piccies!

When opened up it has two conertina pull outs ready for you to put your photos on, it will take up to 14 photos.

Please bid for it and help us to raise some money for charity, thank you.

Charity Auction

This is one of the items that I have made for the Lots To Do charity auction.

It is a 5 piece wall hanging for photo's (not included) I got the idea from Lesleyanne who made one for me last year and to which I have added a series of photo's of my grandaughter Tyra.

Please bid on it and help us to raise some dosh! thank you for looking.

Stamping with Candles

I'm in christmas mode at the moment as you can see!

I followed the 'Stamping with Candles' technique for this one. This is my second efford, the first one melted! oop's!

Caught in Crystal

I was just having a play with the 'caught in crystal' technique. Not sure I have it quite right yet, but I liked the effect. Decided to mount them onto mountboard and stick a magnetic strip on the back.

Having a Baby Card

I made this card for my Case Admin officer who is off at the end of next week to have her first baby.

As loads of my colleagues wanted to sign her card and make a contibution to the baby shower, I decided to make it into a concetine tag card, this way there was plenty of room for everyone to wish her well.

I used a Moorhead decoupage image on the front with a CI stamp. For the inside I ripped layers of patterned paper to make the pockets for the tags.

Torso swap

These are my entries for the LOTSTODO forum torso swap. They have a bit of a seasonal flair. A summer flower fiesta, an autumn feast of golden hues and a saucy winter warmer! (I messed up the spring one, so thats been filed in the bin!)

Christmas cards

These are a few of the christmas cards I have been making.

The top one is a bow window with a family scene behind. i used acetate to give the apperance of glass.

For the middle one, I used papernations christmas pet decoupage.

The bottom one is decoupaged using the Hummel christmas collection.

Thank you for my Award

I recieved this award from Kathleen and Mags, thank you so much, it was a lovely suprise.

I now have to nominate 7 other blogs to recieve this award:

Sam

Hilda

Alison

Andrea

Mags

Ang

Chris

My First Moo's

These are the first moo's for swaping that i have made. the theme is 'altered/distressed' and are for a swap i am hosting on Lotstodo forum.

My Street of houses

Well this is a first! I've never built a street of houses before. This is my 8 for a swap on lotstodo forum, Hope they are OK, as not quite sure what I was doing. :-0

I started by cutting mount board into 2.5" strips and then into pieces between 3" and 6" in lenght. I used a varieyt of mediums and embelishments to decorate, I think I might like to live at no.1 or no.7

2" summer swap - Lots to do forum

This is my swaps for the 'summer' theme 2" mount board swaps.

Who is having more fun?

I Icouldn't resist sharing these two photos with you all, who do you think was having more fun in the pool, Ian or Tyra??

Scraping off the page and up the wall!

This is my latest project. I have so many photos in frames on the wall and so many scrapbook pages. I liked the idea of combining scrapbook pages with frames for hanging. I did these two yesterday, one for me and one for my daughter kristy. Just gotta get ian to hang mine for me now.......................

Altered storage case

This little case got a bit damaged in the post, so to disguise the dents i covered it with Alcohol inks. I used the same colour combination to decorate the little storages jars as well. All i need to do now is put my glitter into them!!

Lotstodo CI swap the 3rd design

This is the third design for the CI swap. For this one I have used 2 CI stamps, the first image i stamped onto the backing paper and the second image was stamped on to contasting paper. I used interference pearls to highlight the flowers and leaves. I them cut an opening into the stamped image and made a kind of doorway, which I then glued over the first image.

Altered Work Folder

This was rather a tatty and dull black folder which I keep records in at work. It has to travel with me to various places and was looking rather glum and tatty, so I have started to give it a bit of a face lift.

Crafty Individual fat page swap

These are 2 of the designs for the Lotstodo CI swap. I hope to add a few more designs so that I can use some more of my yummy stamps.

Tag book from scraps

These are 6 of the tags I made from pieces of scrap card I had left from another project. I made the cover from a scap of left over chipboard.

I used a mix of distress inks, crackle paint (first time out!) and bits and bobs i had lying around.

Not bad for scraps!

I have bound the tags together and it now belongs to Andrea, Happy birthdayxxxx

LOTSTODO Fat page book

At last!!! I have done some crafting! these are the designs for the lotstodo forum fat page book swap.

The theme was open, but had to have a stamped image on them. I used my new Laura Ashley papers for the backgrounds which I distressed using various matching inks.

On the first one I used one of the LA clear stamps for the centre, the sencond one I use a LDV stamp. For the third page I used LA tapestry stamps to give a shadowy effect in the corners and then finished with one of my favorite sentimant stamps.

Phew! and i have completed all 20 this morning, must be on a roll!