Distressed Tag Swap

These are the tags I have made for a distressed tag swap running on Lotstodo Forum. The top 2 are made from mountboard and the bottom one is just a manilla tag. The backgrounds have all been made using distressed ink and then sprayed with either red and/or green glimmer mist. An image has then been stamped on with Staz on ink. I added an 'M' embellishment to the bottom one. Brown string attached to finish

AngC's Birthday Bits

These are a couple of bits I made for Ang's birthday which is tomorrow. I cut the letters out of Tim's papers along with a piece from the pen nib and car no plate sheets and covered the wooden block, I had wanted to make it into a key ring but my stash didn't arrive in time. Ang commented that she liked the bottle made from black UTEE so I attached the letter 'A' to it and made it into a fridge magnet - I hope she will like them

Mixing and Matching the Baked Clay Pieces

Nothing is stuck down, was just looking to see how they worked out before I make some more!!!

More Clay Baking in my Melt Pot

These pieces were made slightly differently to the ones below. They were again all made from black clay. The top ones were made by putting the clay through a pasta machine a few times until the right shape was created. A rubber stamp was stamped into the piece of clay, top left, no release was needed for this technique. The piece top right has just been left plain. The pieces on the bottom left and right were again made from moulds. This time though the perfect pearls was added before the pieces were baked. Metalic perfect pearls were used for all the pieces except the little rose flowers and petals, the interference range were used on those. All the pieces were then baked in the same way as previously and left to cool and harden

Baking Clay in my Melt Pot

The above items were all made from black clay, the shapes were created by working the clay and pushing it into a mould. They were then carefully peeled away from their mould ensuring they didn't loose their shape. They were then covered with micaceous iron oxide and put in the melt pot on 140 degrees for 15 - 20 minutes. They were placed on the craft sheet to cool and harden. A couple of hours later I coloured them using perfect pearls. Top left is gold with a hint of light green, top right is gold at the top and pewter at the bottom, the face has been left naked. Bottom right is an assortment of the interference colours, as are the dragonflys, bottom right. I am quite pleased with the results and think they look ok for my first attempt

Hilda's Birthday Card

I made this birthday card especially for Hilda, hope she likes it. I used her signature from the forum and decoupaged it!!!!

February's Atc Lotto Entries

Every month we all send in 3 ATC's of our choice and then Andrea's husband draws a name out of the hat. That person wins all that months Atc's, apart from their own, which go forward into the following months draw - it's great fun, and when you win, you get loads back!!!

Around The World - Neverland

These are my around the world swaps, for this leg of the journey, we are going to Neverland courtesy of Ryan, Ang C's son!!!

Wooden Blocks

Ang and Ann sent me some wooden blocks and I was intending to make buddies out of them, but they were too big. So instead, I covered them in gesso, lightly sanded them down, dipped them in UTEE, screwed some hooks in and attached the blocks together with jump rings. I punched some faces and put them inside bottle tops and have stuck them to one side of each block. I might make bodies for them and attach at a later date, I haven't decided yet!!!!

More Bits

A few more bits. Another key ring / chain or necklace on the left. The pieces on the right are possible fridge magnets / brooches or key ring / chains. None of the letters have been stuck down in case anyone fancies anything

More Bits

Can't decide what to do with these ones. They will either become key rings / chains (when I get some more) or necklaces. Again, they are all melt pot creations!!!! I've put a hole and a jump ring on them all in anticipation!!!!

More Necklaces

Top left is my favourite one up to now. Star shaped with a silver coloured embellishment stuck in the middle , 2 jump rings and separate pieces or cord for each side to make up the chain. All the rest are the same except I've been playing around with my letters and tried out a black 'C' and a gold 'S' to see what they would look like as opposed to it being left 'naked', bottom right. This time I made a hole in the heart shape and managed to thread the cord through

Necklaces

The top left are heart shapes all with findings attached at the top to string the cord through. The ones on the left are donut rings, 2 with findings attached and already strung and the other has been strung using the centre hole. The bottom is star shaped and has a hole with a jump ring and cord attached - all made from UTEE and all different - again I will be displaying these in my shop

Key Rings / Chains

Made a couple more key ring / chains but I've run out of them so the one on the left is 'naked' for the moment!!!! I love the colour combo for the one on the left, no idea how I ended up with it!!!

Buddies

Made some more buddies today, which I am going to put into my Ebay shop. Unfortunately they haven't photographed very well as the heads and bodies are quite dark, but they look good in the flesh