This is BLUE, my first Buddy

Well, I have made my first Buddy! and a bit chuffed I am with him too!

WOW how lucky am I?

How lucky am I to have such wonderfully talented and generous friends!

The gorgeous little photo book was given to me by Lesleyanne, I have yet to choose the photos to put inside, but I have so many choices.

The delightful little plaque was made for me by Chris, I just love the colours and the image, they go so well together.

The ingenious little Buddie was a gift from Sam, he is such a cutie, I love him to bits.

The 'believe' keyring was a wonderful suprise gift from Jo, I love the stamp and the colours and it will be put onto my craft display board along with all my other gifts.

Thank you so much, you are truelly wonderful people and I am blessed to have you as friends.

Lots todo distressed stamp swap

For these ATC's I started with blank white card, distressing the edges with inks and then spraying with glimmer mist. Once dried, I stamped different images on to the cards with black stazon. I also stamped the same images onto shrink plastic.

To highlight the faces I used crackle glaze. before shrinking the other images I stained the reverse side with alcohol inks to give the clear plastic an aged look. (I also remembered this time to punch a hole in the top before shrinking!)

I attached the shrunk images using legal brief brads which I coloured with ink.

Lots to do 3 2 1 distressed swap

These are for Sam's swap.

3 fat pages, 2 tags and 1 ATC with the theme distressed.

These were fun to do, I love the distressed look.

Lots to do Valentine swap

This is for a valentine swap with a difference.

we have to make 3 ATC's but not use red or hearts. I thought it would be easy, but hey, it was a bit of a challenge.

So made three the same.

Crafty Bitz Wall Hanging

I needed to find a way to keep all my wonderful crafty gifts together and on display, rather than have them in boxes and drawers where no one could see them.

I decided to make a wall hanging so that i could display the wonderful gifts that I had been given by my forum friends.

Some of the gifts were given to me when we all met at the NEC last November, other items were gifts sent to me for Christmas.

This is not all that i have received, but a selection from everyone (I decided not to put christmas themed items on here, as I think I will do a seperate one for them. There is room for a few more pieces, but I hope all my friends will recognise the pieces that they have made. There are items from Hilda, Ang, Angie, Alison, Mags, Lauren, Jo, Ann, Andrea, Sam and Claire (I hope i haven't forgotten anyone else!)

Distressed swap - Lotstodo, the final piece

This is the final piece for the swap, and I think it is possible my favorite!

Distressed swap - Wall plaques

These are two wall plaques were made for the distressed items swap on lotstodo forum.

I used mount board for the backing which I covered with caligraphy paper. I aged the edges using distress inks.

For the top picture I stamped onto stamp board, using the same the same inks to edge them. I used extra thick embossing powder to give them a glazed look.

I used the same technique for the other plaquge, but stamped on to altered dominos. I have highlighted the faces of the stamps with crackle glaze. Just ned to think of a third item now???

Four seasons swap - winter

This is for the 4 seasons swap that I am hosting on Lotstodo. There are 3 swaps in total, an ATC, a fatPage and a Tag swap.
We have to make four of each, one for each season, this is my collection for the Winter swaps.

Four seasons swap - Summer

Four seasons swap - Spring

4 seasons swap - Autumn

Autumn Colours swap

These 9 2" squares were made for a swap on Lotstodo.

I used mount board which I sprayed with memory mist for the background. I then added copper, gold and bronze moon shadow mists to give them an Autumn feel. I used a selection of stamps for the embelishments using versa mark and copper kettle embossing powder.

My secret Santa Gift

A gift from Sam

A gift from Hilda

A gift from Claire

This is the tag book I made for the pictures I have taken of Tyra. I had so many of them and wanted to take a selection of photos with me to work to show off. I decoarated each tag individually and used the BIA to keep them together. They are now all together in a handbag size format, sorted!

My First Grandchild born December 11th at 5.49am. Her name is Tyra Marie, and she is just adorable.

Book covers and a page for Hilda

Right at the top is a fat page I made for Hilda, it is from the general list 6 swap on CSF. I spritzed the background with Glimmer mists, used a TH style stamp with black Stazon for the sentiment. I used black stazon for the bachground stamp too.
Below the page are the book covers I have made for Hilda, the top set of covers are for her general pages and the bottom set is an extra set I made for her Tim Holtz collection of pages.