Tags & tiles

I have been playing with the melt pot again - definately not as easy as it looks! More practice required! I find the clear utee goes a bit yellow if it is reheated for one thing and boy doesn't the utee set quick once it is out of the pot!! Anyway made the tags for a swap on Craft Swap Forum, the first one melting platinum & inter blue utee then adding gems and stamping into it with the butterfly stamp. Middle one has an image dipped in clear utee & the last just the edges dipped to give a "frame". The squares at the bottom of the picture are little tiles made in a silicone ice cube tray - I quite like those!

Map challenge - Xmas 2008

Made this scrapbook page for the Map Challenge on Crafting Corner, the theme being Christmas.The photos are of my youngest gransons who are both 4yrs old (cousins)They dont get together that often but had a great time on Christmas Eve as you can see!

The strips of paper are from a Anna Griffin kit along with most of the embellishments. The "stitching" is done with gel pens.

Bottle card - 70th birthday

Suddenly remembered we have a 70th birthday party to go to on Saturday and no card made so.......

Didn't have a template for this so printed off a picture of a champagne bottle to get the shape and background colour then embellished it with black shiny card, glue pen & glitter,gold stars and peel-offs (which I rarely use but it works on here!)The top is covered with some gold foil off a chocolate and finished off with black organza ribbon and a gold tag.

Fat pages - male theme

Three fat pages were required for Andreas' swap on LTD - 1 green 1 blue and 1 freestyle with a man/male theme. The green is a browny green background paper overstamped with stripes to create a plaid pattern then the picture of the 2 men captured in utee and edged with gold - a bit rustic looking but I like it!The blue one is a background coloured with a dye-based ink then stamped with a Hampton Arts "sun" stamp in silver topped with the oriental warrior. The freestyle one is a paper by Dovecraft topped with the military man picture which was dipped in utee.

Guess who had a melt pot for Christmas then.......................ha ha!

Altered box

Decided to alter this detergent box as it is the perfect size for storing atcs!
I first painted it with several rough coats of white acrylic paint inside and out then "daubed" with several coats of black acrylic using a cosmetic sponge which gives a surface that feels a bit like old leather, a bit distressed. I then embossed with a versamark pad through some plasterboard scrim, overlapping and varying the pressure to give distressed/aged effect & heat embossed

with silver.Finally I added a black button which was stamped and embossed with silver also.

Decorative boxes

I decorated these little papier mache boxes using acrylic paints then stamped with Versamark and heat embossed. The inside is lined with vintage paper from K&Co.

Note Pads & Photo Frames

Not a brilliant photo!

Here are some frames and note books I made for Christmas presents for my sisters & daughter. They are made from mountboard and coered with papers from the Cosmo Cricket range and a few sticky gems and chipboard embellishments.

Lots to Do Challenge - music

The theme for the Lots to Do weekly challenge is music. I decorated this arch with a print of Bach on music score background, then coloured with rub-on wax in various colours, printed out the cleft ,covered with 3D gloss & attached with a chain & brad. The back is stamped with musical notes.

Yellow skinnys

Yellow skinnys for a swap on Lots to Do.

70th Birthday Card

Not posted for a while as been busy with the Christmas cards and stuff! All done now and a bit of light relief - a birthday card! This one is for an uncle who is a great gardener.

Fat page,skinny & Gothic Arch swap

Not made arches before but enjoyed doing these for the swap on Lots to Do hosted by Sam.

Cards

A couple of Christmas cards.........

Indian Card

This card is a commission for someone who has a "thing " for American Indians! Wasn't sure what to do but this is what I came up with - just hope she likes it! The hair and fringing is made by fraying out satin ribbon and glueing on, the neck decoration is a mixture of beads and 3d paint. I then finished it off with a string of beads....

Purple Skinnys

Skinnys for Andreas colour swap on LTD. These are my first attempt at the "bandana" technique - it isn't showing up very well!

Atcs - "Q"

Atcs for Tessmatts Alphabet swap on Crafting Corner.