Envelope Take 2

I made the insert for my Craftswap birthday challenge but it didn't go with my envelope at all, so I decided to decorate another envelope to go with my insert. So that I don't waste my first attempt I have decided to make a second insert that will co-ordinate with envelope number 1. Here is my second attempt, I've used various stamps and versafine inkpads as well as a few butterfly stickers and a cigarette card to embellish. Can you spot my deliberate mistake? I thought I'd used the letter I but I had in fact used the letter J. Ooops!

I made my insert in the same way but also used a quote from a HOTP collage book, some adhesive stones, glitter glue which hasn't shown up in the scan and country garden shapes which I'd forgotten I had. I think this combination of envelpoe and insert go together much better.

Craftswap Forum 2nd Birthday Challenge

I can't believe the Craftswap has been going for 2 years, once again we are celebrating the birthday with a challenge set by Simon. We have been separated into teams and each team has to produce and envelope book with inserts on their given topic, these will be auctioned off and all proceeds will go to the forum charity. As one of the lucky people to acquire one of last years books I can recommend putting a bid in!

The team I am in is called Seventh Heaven and our theme is bugs & critters. Here is the front of the envelope I have decorated, I tried to scan the back but my scanner went a bit wobbly. I used my Blonde Moments rubber stamps with a versa mark inkpad and clear embossed the images, i then used my mini versacolor ink pads to tap all over the envelope and used a tissue to wipe the excess off my stamped images. I then used my Sakura Gelly Roll pens to add a bit of colour to my images. I now need to make an insert but don't really have an idea of what to do yet!

It's Here in black And White

Here are a couple of examples of the fat book pages I've made for the black and white list on Craftswap. The first page was made by stamping a flourish stamp from Dimensions Fourth

onto white hammered card, I then clear embossed the image. I added the wording with my Dymo then popped on a few clear adhesive stones. The second page has a Hampton Arts face stamped onto the hammered card then the word art stamped and clear embossed, I finished the page off with some Prima flowers in the corner. Both pages were stamped with black Versafine ink pads. They're simple which i think works well for this list.

She's a Lady

This is one of the pages I made for the ladies fat book list on Craftswap, I stamped my Hero Arts lady in Versafine vintage sepia onto some cream hammered card and matted it onto some cream/bronze checked paper then popped it all onto a cream hammered card page. I added some Prima flowers that I attached with brads as I love Prima, they're just so useful. All my pages were made in the same way for this list but I used a few different Hero Arts ladies on them.