Lotstodo Swap - Butterfly in the House

Hilda is also hosting a house swap, with a theme 'there's a butterfly in the house'. I'm not sure if these will qualify or not, as I kind of cheated. I don't have much in the way of butterflies, so I searched through my CI images and found these 3. They each have a butterfly on them. I then found some rub ons. You might have to enlarge the photo to find them!!!

Lotstodo Swap - Atc's

Hilda is also hosting an ATC swap with the theme of numbers.

Lotstodo Swaps - Alphabet Arches

Hilda, over on Lotstodo is hosting lots of swaps at the moment. This one is for 3 Arches which had to include at least one letter of the alphabet. I have no idea why, but I chose 'A', 'F' and 'H'. Each one is complimented with one of Sir T!m's die shapes.

Faces - Lotstodo Challenge

Again whilst having a clear out I found these 4 jigsaw pieces still attached to each other. I painted them with black acrylic dabbers and stamped the PaperArtsy alphabet background with pearl acrylic dabbers. I stuck 9 small square porcelain tiles together with texture paste trying to keep them level!! Once dry I used black stazon to stamp onto them. The image is from the Dreamer PBS plate. Using the same image I stamped onto white paper and cut out the alphabet letters, randomly stuck them on the jigsaw pieces and covered them with a large clear gem stone. Added a silver clip to the top to hang it with.

Alteration Dies by T!m Holtz - Sizzix

After having a play with my mates dies, I decided I just had to have some, they came yesterday, so last night I was having a play, along with my new Paper Artsy stamps. The fab things about these dies is that you don't have to mess around with the sandwich. I put through thick cork, thick card covered in paper, thin fabric and leather and all I used each time were the 2 cutting plates. Once I'd cut the cork ones I stamped them with some of the new PA Hot Picks stamps.



This stamped background is the new PA clocks 3 set on alcohol inks. The largest cog was cut out of leather but was suede on the other side, a stamped cork cog was set on top and another stamped cork one to the right. Thanks Hilda for the pieces of cork.

Flower Tag

I'm not sure if this works or not. I cut the flower dies and used them but used the backing to created the background pattern. It actually looks full on in this photo but it's not as bad IRL!!!! I took the photo out in the sun in the garden, so it was bright - perhaps too bright!!!!

Fraser - Dixon Woods

We decided to go round Dixon Woods this afternoon instead of our normal jaunt of Bradley Woods



He appeared to be enjoying himself, although it was very hot!!!!

Leaves / Trees - Lotstodo Challenge

This weeks was an easy one for me. There were trees everywhere on holiday!!!!

Postcard Swap - Spring Time

Zoe over on Lotstodo is hosting a postcard swap with a 'spring time' theme. I decided to use up the remaining bits from what were cut from the Alteration dies at the weekend. The bottom one is stamped using Adirondack inks spritzed with water to give a water colour effect.

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Should have read the post properly!! The theme is summer not spring time!!!! And as Hilda has just pointed out, the swap was for 4 and not 3. Just not my day is it!!!!

Happy Birthday Andrea

I made this hanger for Andrea's birthday.

Play Day WIth Tim's Alterations

Went to my mates yesterday for a play with her new Alterations dies. This is what I did with the tattered florals and elegant flourishes.



And the caged bird.



And the fab gadget gears - love the background on this tag.



This 4 x 4 has the wings and the crown from the 'heart wings' set.



And the 'fanciful flight' on the corrugated with an image from Lisa's Altered Art.

Alcohol Inks - Lotstodo Challenge

As I was having a massive tidy up of all my stuff and trying to find homes for my holiday stash I came across a piece of glass. This got me pondering on what I could do with it. I decided to colour it with the lighter shades of alcohol inks, juniper, willow, salmon, lemonade. I then stamped the quote, the flowers and the scratches with black stazon. Added gems to the centre of the flowers and a piece of lace to the top so that I could hide the ribbon to hang it with. I had to attach a piece of white card behind the glass as you couldn't see the background colours.

Tags & 4 x 4's

Been playing with my silkies again, but this time I used them as a background. I splodged a bit of each of the 4 colours onto a craft sheet, took my brayer, loaded it up and rolled. The colours came out too bright and the stripes were too clean, so I spritzed it with water and got a much more muted effect. I'm not sure if you can see or not but because they have mica in them, they sparkle!!!! The background image (stampers anonymous - diamond collage) is clear embossed on all the pieces.



I am entering the one on the right into this weeks My Time To Craft challenge as the theme is pretty pearls. I don't know if black ones are be classed as 'pretty', I can but try!!!

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It was sunny this morning, and I've done some close ups, so I'm hoping you can now see the mica which gives it the sparkle

You may need to enlarge the photos to see properly

On this one there are two stripes across her dress that are prominent

More Tags

Decided to make a couple of large tags using the Sheena technique again. This time I used demin Adirondack, spiced marmalade distressed ink and green perfect pearls. I just can't get enough of this stamp set, so I used it again!!!

Acetate and Silkies

I printed these images onto acetate and painted the backs of them with my new silkies. Then made them into 4 x 4's. I've only got 4 colours so I was a bit limited, but I'm pleased with how they turned out.