Around the World - Germany

The country we are visiting next is Germany

I have made

ATC with Oktoberfest on

Fat Page with a map of Germany

Skinny with a tourist poster

Tag - images of the Berlin Wall

All these are for the Around the World swap on Lots to Do hosted by Andrea

D,E,F Skinny Alphabet Swap

These are my skinnys for the skinny alphabet swap on Lots to do hosted by Andrea

D - Dogs

E - Elephants

F - Friends

Thankyou Andrea for taking the photo of them - seeing as I forgot to do it myself!!!!

Lots to Do challenge - week 15

This week it is my turn to choose the theme on the lots to do challenge blog.

I have chosen butterflies - cos I absolutely love them - they are amazing creatures that unfortunately have a short life span.

I have altered a cd for this week.

I covered it in some backing paper and then on separate paper I stamped several images of the butterfly and coloured them in with whispers pens. I then decoupaged the butterfly and stuck it on the cd at a slight angle and then added some glitter to it.
I then added the irish blessing above it.
Next I got my die cutting machine out and cut some butterflies and stuck these at the bottom adding some glitter. I added a metal butterfly too.

I finally threaded some ribbon through the eyelet which was made with my crop-o-dile.

Beermat Swap - Lots to do

Here are my beermats for the swap on Lots to do - hosted by Mags


I covered my beermats with cream card and then used brushed corduroy distress ink to age the card.

I then added some of my favourite Tim Holtz stamps using black staz on.

Lots to do week 14 - Children

I can't believe we are up to week 14 already!!!!

This weeks theme is Children and has been chosen by Andrea.

I made 2 gothic arches for this challenge both of them have traditional rhymes on them.

The one on the left has what are little girls made of and added a cute picture of a little girl - as you know the rhyme goes on as asks what are little boys made of - so I found an image of some boys sitting on a street corner looking like they are up to no good. I used distress inks for the background and stamped it with my crackle stamp I then added a stamped flourish to a corner.

The one on the right is the rhyme There was a little girl who had a little curl - I found an image and once again used distress inks to age the arch and stamped some flourishes then added a butterfly stamp with a couple of sticky gems to finish it off.

Skinny alphabet - ABC

Here are my ABC skinnys for the swap on Lots to do

Lots to Do - Words

The challenge for this week is "Words"

I made a skinny and used one of my favourite stamps from Crafty Individuals.

I stamped my journey stamp onto my skinny and then stamped it onto a separate card and then 3d it.

I added a stamped image of the Eiffel tower and also 3d that.

I finished off with some postmark stamps over the skinny.

This skinny also works in so well with Sunday Stampers theme of "Ebony and Ivory"

Lots to do - Teddy Bears

This week on the lots to do challenge blog is Teddy Bears.

I absolutely adore teddys so this was quite easy for me.

I decided to alter a CD.

I covered the the CD with backing paper with a Teddy bear design and then added the die cut teddy with some mulberry paper behind it to add some texture. I then added a poem and aged the paper. I then added a smaller teddy image at the bottom.

Award

I have been given an award from my friend Hilda

I would like to pass it on to

Andrea

Mags

Alison

Angie

Kathleen

Monthly Fat Page Draw - Green - Lots to do

Every month on Lots to do I host a Fat Page Draw. The winner of the previous month sets the theme for the next month. The winner gets to keep all the pages entered for the month.

This months theme was set by Chris and she chose GREEN

Around the world - Narnia

Every month on Lots to do we have an around the world swap - make a tag, fat page and atc on a certain destination.

This month we are off to Narnia

ATC Lottery - Lots to do

Every month we have a lottery draw on Lots to do - you send 3 ATCs as payment and then you are entered into the draw - the winner gets to keep all the ATCs entered for that month.

I decided to make a series of ATCs for this months draw.

Tags swap - Lots to do

These are the tags I have made for the swap on Lots to do

The smallest is my rubberstamping as a main feature

The middle one is my free choice tag - I cheated a bit and put an ATC on

The largest is my distressed tag.

Brights swap - Lots to do

I have made some ATCs for this swap - we had to use bright colours and had to have some stamping on the items.

Hope these are "bright" enough

Rainbow Ladys challenge - facelift for an old friend

Here is my piece for this weeks challenge.

I chose the stamp as it is one of my favourites and is so versatile.

I used clear embossing in on it and then chalked over the image - I have never done this with this stamp before. The colours are very subtle.

I then matted and layered it onto a card and finally added the Happy Birthday peel offs

Lots to Do challenge - Rainbows

Here is my piece for this weeks challenge

I chose a beautiful sky for my background and then printed a rainbow and stuck it to the top of my skinny. I then found an image of a little girl and stuck that on. I then punched out some balloon shapes in the colours of the rainbow and stuck them on - some were 3d to give a better effect. I then added some "strings" for the balloons. Finally I added the wording "A Rainbow of Colour" in the colours of the rainbow.