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!

2" x 2" swap - spring colours

Well i finally found some inspiration and made some 2" squares for the LOTSTODO swap.

I sprayed the mount board with glimmer mists then stamped them with different inks. On some I embossed them with sparkle powder, to give the impression of early morning dew.

My Circle Journal

This is the latest CJ to be returned to me. It is stunning! thank you to all that contributed, you are all so talented. I will treasure this forever.

This is the front cover and the first page that i made before it started it's awesome journey, take a look at the other fab pages.

Pages from Vicky

Altered dominos! now they are window boxes, such a cleaver idea and a really stunning set of pages.

Pages from Claire

Altered beer mats, these little beauties are stunning!

Pages from Ang

Altered Bagdes! I think Ang has well and truely risen to th challenge, such a beautiful set of pages!

Pages from Bridie

Altered CD's and for a first attempt at altering, I think Bridie has done a teriffic job!

Pages from Andrea

Altered dominos, a truely set gorgeous pages!

Pages from Connie

Altered beer mats, they are now stain glass windows, now theres inspiration!

Pages from Hilda

Altered CD, It's now a clock, Fantastic!

Guess what?

This is the first item that I have made and blogged for a while (Thank you sam for pointing that out to me)

It's not fantastic, but it's just an experiment for something more fantastic to come.

First person to guess correctly as to what it actually is and what it is used for can have it, with my blessing!

Inspiration Cards

These are two inspiration cards , one for Hilda (top) and the other for Ang.

They are on 4" x 6" card. For Hilda's I used strips of ripped co-ordinating papers in nutral colours, including a piece of Leo DV background paper. The edges of each were inked to aged them. Using a very muted colour ink I stamped an image of Leo's Cosmos on to a piece of matching paper and mounted on white handmade paper, tied taffetta around it and mounted onto the card. To finish I used individual letter stamps to spell out COSMOS.

For Ang's I started with a piece of glossy card and dabbed alcohol inks onto it. Using the same colour inks I put a striped effect onto another piece of card and then stamped onto it twice, using stazon ink. One image I mounted onto white card and the other image I cut away both sides, leaving just the centre piece. I folded the cut image down the centre and placed, using silicon over the other image to give a raised effect with out it being 3D'd. I added tiny tags to the bottom of the card using brass brads that I coloured with permanent ink. To finish I stamped the whole image again onto shrink plastic, cut out the individual sections and heated until they shrank, I then attached them with a few jump rings to the corner.

Tyra, she's just 6 weeks old

I could just eat her up! she is the most precious thing in the world to me. Grandpa is rather proud of her too!

Myce just wanted to say Hello

He's such a darling (most of the time) but he just does not like being left out!

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.