Birthday Photo

As promised here is a photo of all my fab birthday cards, ATCs and fat book pages, thankyou to everyone who sent me a fab work of art xxx

It's my birthday YAY!!!! Once I've opened my birthday cards I'll take a photo of them and pop it on here, because oh happy days I found my camera round at my sisters house, double YAY!

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.

Bit of Bling

I'm joining in an ATC swap arranged through Paper Paradise, the theme this month is Bling, I've found this quite tricky as I'm not 100% sure what counts as bling. I used some Hero Arts lady stamps and added some adhesive stones as jewellry. I also added a DaisyD flower attatched with a Dovecraft gem brad. I made an extra ATC to swap with a friend in my local craft shop.

Back of envelope

I've finally got my scanner working again so here is my envelope back

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!