THE FIRST ONE!

Here's my finished January pages. It has been so easy to fill in a small 4cm square each evening, it doesn't take up a lot of time and some of the entries are quite boring and others I have been able to elaborate as you can see, hopefully. Now ready to go with February.

ART CALENDAR FEBRUARY

I have just put the finishing touches to my February pages for Kate's Art Calendar challenge. I say finishing touches but it's not exactly finished as I will add to it as I go along. I used dabbers for the background choosing dull beige/brown colours because I think of February as being dull I have added a little colour yellow and blue here and there these are to represent the occasional sun and blue sky we may have if lucky. All the paper squares, February and 2010 are Basic Grey papers, everything is outlined in black and I have added a couple of Zetti people from Lisa's Altered Art sheets which I reduced to be as small as poss. Tomorrow I will post my completed January pages.

WOYWW

I have decided to join "What's On Your Workdesk Wednesday" over on Julia's blog after visiting various peoples blogs. I feel a bit embarassed actually as my workdesk looks tidy, sorry. I finished 2 projects last night and after filling in my Art Calendar I decided to tidy up ready to start my next project. My bin, which proves how much work I have done, underneath my desk is choca and waiting to be emptied, please believe me. The Urban Outfitters Bag is a late Christmas present for a friend who I shall be seeing tonight (Curry Night) and the Santa prezzie bag has 2 more late Xmas boxes (decorated pencil cases) for 2 more curry addicts. The wicker basket holds EZ mount and new stamps waiting to be mounted. If you can see the Penguins on my small easel this is a Xmas card from DH and I just love the penguin picture no other sentimental reason for keeping it. You can also see my Art Calendar next to my lamp and so far i have kept up to it. Now I need to go and prepare the February page before I go out.

Elena's Birthday Card & PDCC 13

This is a birthday card for my grand-daughter Elena, she will be 14 years old on Thursday. OMG doesn't time fly. The card is very much her as she is into "grungey stuff" but at the same time it is suitable for the PDCC 13 as the colour challenge this week is dark red, turquoise, black and white. The turquoise base is a Claudine Hellmuth sticky back canvas piece which I have painted with Claudine's paints, gone over sequin waste with a snowy white dabber, mounted on to black card and stitched all the way round twice, attached the Artchix white wings and mounted the Stampotique girl. My Stampotique image I have coloured with Perfect Pearls. The tag I stamped in Brilliance Moonlight White and embossed with clear embossing powder, faux stitched in white using my Inkessentials pen, fixed a turquoise eyelet and threaded red ribbon. I attached the piece to the red card using Tim's washers and faux screws. It took ages deciding what to do and several attempts but once started it began to flow.

SPRING ATC's

It doesn't actually feel like Spring yet but here are two ATC's I have made this evening with the theme Spring. They are for a swap at the Craft Den this month. I am not sure which one Ilike the most, the one on the left the background is actually green but on the photo it looks a pinky/beige for some unknown reason. I stamped them both with a Penny Black Golden Daffodils stamp, embossed with a Blonde Moments Fresh Yellow Iridescent embossing powder. I cut notches at each corner with a corner punch and threaded gold thread all the way round. The pearl centre of each flower is a Vivo gold pen (from the Craft Den). They are both mounted on to a lime green card. The dark green one I embossed the flowers first, made a mask and then using a Crafty Individuals script stamp I stamped and embossed with clear powder over the top, which was quite difficult as I was in fear of melting the yellow daffodils. Now I need to decide which one is for the swap.

ZETTIOLOGY SWAP

This is an ATC I have made as part of a monthly swap on Chrissy Rollins blog. The idea is to make 5 ATC's, keep one for yourself and the other 4 are sent by the last day of the month to swap. This months theme is ZETTIOLOGY so this is my version, all 5 are different but they could be all the same the choice is yours. I have not done Zetti before today so I am hoping that I have the correct idea but I have really enjoyed making the ATC's.

Play Date Cafe Challenge 12

OMG I have just finished this in time just 50 mins to go before the challenge closes. It is a pencil box which I have painted and stamped using Crafty Individual stamps of trees birds and flowers. The butterflies are a Wendy Vechi stamp and all the embellishments are grunge paper. I have used different shades of blue. The pencil box itself I painted using Claudine Hellmuth Teal mixed with white and I edged the whole of the box with a dark blue Ranger dabber. I did all of this inbetween collecting my 2 grand-daughters from school, taking them to the dentist, cooking dinner, eating it, walking the dogs and taking the girls home again, I am shattered.