Woo hoo! Rosettes!

I have finally used some of the rosettes I made using my Sizzix Tim Holtz dies.  I made these ages ago and forgot all about them, but I found them when I was searching for something to make a quick card for some friends who are having a rough time at the moment:

Must start taking photos before it gets dark - it's no good trying to take them in artificial light, but I wanted to get this in the post.  Off to do an online food shop now because I don't fancy venturing out in this nasty weather.
Stay warm!
X

A bit of a magic trick..........

......is what I perform every time I put my slim black phone in to my black-lined handbag along with my black gloves, black diary and black purse, because when I want to retrieve my phone it has just disappeared!  I am no good at putting my phone in to a zip compartment or special place, I tend to just lob it in to my bag, and I was fed up of rummaging around for AGES to find it.  So I had a play with some grungepaper, Lynn Perella stamps, Fresco paints, a bit of ribbon, some sticky backed canvas, some stickles and a magnet and I came up with this phone holder:

Can't seem to get a sharp photo today but never mind!
At least I can find my phone in my bag now, so that's a relief.  Here's the back of the holder:

 

Little books of Secrets, Steampunk and Alice in Wonderland

I've taken part in another fantastic swap recently where we had to make a little book surrounding three drawers made from matchboxes which we then filled with surprises for the recipients.  Here are the two secret books that I made and I filled all the drawers with crafty embellishments:

First of all a Steampunk themed book.

Then I made an Alice in Wonderland themed book:

Remember

UKS tag swap theme for November is "Remember" and the gemstone is citrine, so we had to include something amber/orange and something to do with remembering e.g. bonfire night, armistice day etc.

Lots of distress stains/ink used and my poppy is made from four red circles with a distress stickles centre.
It's beautiful and sunny here today (and dry!  No mist or drizzle).  I feel a walk coming on!

Have a lovely weekend X

Christmas Dressform

Another swap on UKS - this time making a Christmas fairy from Tim Holtz's Sewing room die.

I've made a little wand for my fairy, and a little reindeer friend.  I shall be receiving another 8 fairies from the other swapees and I'm really looking forward to them.

The photos are not very good, it's so gloomy today and I only had my iphone handy.

Thanks for looking X

Alice in Wonderland Jigsaw Swap

I'm taking part in a swap on UKS with 8 other ladies and we are making an Alice in Wonderland Jigsaw.
We are all decorating 9 pieces and then we will receive one piece from each participant making a finished Jigsaw with 9 different pieces.

Here is mine, almost ready to send in the post so it can be swapped with all the others.  I can't wait to get my Jigsaw back, there have been some gorgeous creations made already.

My puzzle pieces don't have a set theme, they are a bit of a mixture with Alice, "Eat me", the Cheshire Cat, the Playing Cards, Hearts and either the Queen, Rabbit or the Mad Hatter.  I wanted them to have an "old book" feel.

Going to get my thinking head out of the cupboard now and make plans for my next swap..........Christmas Fairy Dressforms!

Thanks for looking X

Artsycrafts weekend

I've just been lucky enough to spend another weekend at an Artsycrafts event in Warrington.  The time just flew by, the company was great, the projects were lovely and we had a fantastic time.

On Saturday we used Paperartsy fresco finish paints and grungeboard on the back of a wooden frame:

For our next project we changed colours and we used the paints on some glass bottles:

For our final project we used moulds, plaster and the fresco finish paints to create an antiqued panel.

I didn't use this lion mould but I'm going to use him at home, I love him.  I used a cameo mould:

I love these weekends, so thank you Lin and Leandra and I can't wait for next time.

p.s.  I do apologise for the weird placing of some of the text in this post - sometimes blogger editing will NOT do as it is told! LOL X