a card and an altered art challenge

this card has been made for a work friend that gets married in may. Paper used is from my minds eye. The small butterflies were cut from a paper tray ink die and stitched through the middle. The large butterfly is a sizzix die and the flower is from a paper pack of flowers. I have used some Tim holtz tissue tape and lace as a border. Her theme is butterflies and blue for her wedding so that's why i have come up with a vintage shabby look.
Finally a friend that i go to the Bramford crop with set an altered art challenge. She gave each of 3 small jenga pieces. Originally i had it in mind to do a trip tic, but after i painted then with the snowflake fresco paint from paper artsy i decided to attach them together with T/H tissue tape.

I found some old 7 gypsies paper and painted it with the fresco paint and then stamped my image on the top, made a frame from chipboard, painted and then stamped with a text stamp
I set the image in the frame and covered it with beeswax and buffed, small watch parts were added and distress inks and stains to the edges to add splash of colour.

On the back i added distress inks and stains. Stamped a pattern to the edges and stamped my watches on to patterned paper. Adhered to the block, used beeswax to give an opaque finish and watch parts for dimension

the top is again watch parts with small beads placed on the top and wire connecting them together.

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WMS case competition

Waltzing Mouse Stamps have been show casing there latest stamps, with the DT coming up with projects and cards over the last 4 days. I'm totally in love with Mona Pendletons work, not only does she make totally gorgeous cards and layouts with the stamps and spellbinders dies, but she also comes up with some fabby home decor pieces. When saw what she did on day one, i just had to use it as inspiration and made this card. The papers are all from my minds eye and the heart in the middle is from a waltzing mouse stamp set. I crimpled the text paper with paper crimper, used a punch to add a frilly edge to my heart and brad to my ribbon.

apologies,car boot find, cards and 1 layout

i apologise, its been along time since i last blogged. Life has just taken over which has left very little time to craft and update my blog. Firstly the cards and layout, the 40th birthday card is made with the new crate paper line and paper trey ink stamps and number dies. The baby girl card is for a friend at work who is due to have a baby girl in June. The paper is from k and company and the pram is made from a scalloped circle and circle punch and some wire, and finally machine stitched to add texture. The layout was inspire from Emma Trouts blog. I love her work and its totally outside my comfort zone. I Love the pic, but i still think there is something missing from it. I have used a selection of Websters pages, ribbon, stickers, tags, stamps and a metal embellishment from 7 gypsies

Finally my car boot find. I'm so going to love altering this and it only cost me £10. I love the handle, a little clean up, some well placed photos and this could make a fab addition to the hall.

What do you think

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PTI buttons

PTI have a challenge on using buttons on a project and this is my take on it. I love the pic of my little boy playing with his duplo bricks and wanted to circles. When i finally got the effect i wanted with my paper circles i machine stitched in place and used bright coloured buttons as dimensional accents

Its been such a long time,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

since i have posted anything, so i thought i would update you all. In December i entered a layout competition at Sarah's cards blog and i won. They asked if i would do a layout for the next challenge with the theme being 2010 and multiple photo's and this is what i came up with



I have used lots of 2inch by 3 inch photos, in colour and black and white and layed them on my page to make a modern frame after i misted my white page with black dye mist. Stitched around the edge and added small patterned paper. The bird cage is from tando and the bird is a spellbinders die. Now this week i finally got to do some crafting and the Bramford crop sets an ATC challenge and this month theme is "LOVE" I had two ideas in my head. The first was the heart with wings and a crown. I painted my ATC and then covered it in rock candy distress crackle, stitched a fabric panel and ribbon to add texture and cut out my shaped from spell binder die and adhered to the centre of the ATC. The crown and wings were cut out of grunge board from my cricket using the indie cart. The heart is a Heidi Swap stamp (i think???) stamped on to card stock and covered in glossy accents and a small tag added to the bottom of the ATC.

For my second ATC my base was some canvas which i misted with stream dye ink and sunflower glimmer mist. I knew i wanted a bird cage on this one so i made one from scratch using a small pair of pliers and brown wire. This took simply ages to make. I used a paperarsty branch stamp and colored in my leaves with a green promarker added a small tag that i stamped with love and then stitched around the edge. I adhered the frame to the ATC with super glue. Cut out my birds on the cricket (home accents) painted and adhered to frame. Cut out heart, painted covered in rock candy distress crackle and placed in the centre of the frame.