THE TORSO

A few weeks ago the "Ladies who lunch" had a play day and we chose to decorate a Torso. Ann (flutterby crafter) put a photo of them on her blog, at the time mine was unfinished but now it is. I haven't been able to blog it before now as my grand-daughter Isabel liked it so much she took it home before I had time to take a photo. This week she brought it back for me to photograph so here it is. Not a very good photo.

JULY

Blogger is playing tricks again and wouldn't allow me to post both photos at the same time so here is July in a seperate post.

Out with June in with July

The saying goes June is bursting out all over and some days it did and July has started well, nice warm, sunny days.My June pages are complete and are here for you to see and I did manage to prep my July pages on time but haven't had a moment to blog them till now. So here they are.

ATC SWAP

I posted an ATC  a while ago which is very similar to this one but  then I deleted it from my blog for various reasons. This particular ATC I made for my friend Ann Flutterby Crafter we do a monthly swap.This one was made using Tim's glossy card and alcohol inks. I quite enjoyed making this as I haven't used alcohol inks for a long time Here is a link to Ann's blog where you will find some wonderful art work.http://flutterbycrafter.blogspot.com/

SDC32 CLEAN AND SIMPLE

Here is my entry for the Stampotique Designers Challenge "Clean and Simple" chosen by the very talented Joanne Wardle. For my card I have used Stazon Timber Brown to stamp the images and quote. I stamped on to cream card and mounted it on to Kraft card. All the stamps used are by Stampotique.

A NEW METHOD OF ART JOURNALING

I spent a lovely relaxing day at AFTH yesterday, it was our regulars Art Journaling with Dyan. There were only a few of us, just how I like it. Dyan as usual set us a challenge which was a new way of journaling ( I never know if "journaling" needs 2 lls or just one) on a tag, it was brilliant as it makes it very difficult to read. We used Distress Stains but I only used them on my tag not on the actual pages. The pages were done in our usual way with lots of layers using Dylusions paints and sprays. The image I used is a new one from Paper and Gluestix.

MONOCHROME BIRTHDAY

I made this card for my son's partner it is her birthday today, well actually I made 3 the same as it is a blogger friends birthday today and another friends on Sunday. I got the idea from Jo Capper-Sandon's blog she made a couple of mono cards and posted them on her blog when I saw them I really liked them.

I used a Crafters workshop stencil with stormy sky DI, the balloon stamp I used are from Paper Bag Studios as is the image of the little girl, I just love this stamp. The floral stamp is a Stampotique by Daniel Torrente