Getting excited

I’m getting very excited I will be going away very soon and I am really looking forward to it! For those that don’t know. I am going to Brisbane for a week and then my best friend, her girlfriend and I are off to Thailand and Malaysia for 12 nights. I’ll be away from home for about 3 weeks.. Will I survive with out ATC’s?? Don’t fear, I have some stuff prepped to take LOL

I have never been to either country so it’s really exciting. I am looking forward to eating, shopping, swimming and getting massages :)
I’ve set up my ABC swap that I am in to post every day over the next 7 days so be sure to stop by and check them out. I have done A thru to G at the moment. I probably won’t get a chance to work on the others before I go away, so you’ll just have to wait :P
Here are some recent-ish ATC’s. The elephant and windmill are country swaps. First India and the second France. The Imagination one is a pink ribbon swap, and the last one was a spring swap.

Addiction?

   
I think maybe I am really an addict LOL I have finally finished sorting all my ATC’s I have something like 600 of the little suckers. Not bad considering I only started making them last April, that’s about 18 months ago.. Which means I make something like 30 ATC’s a month ahahah!
If you click on the picture you can see a much larger version, so you can see some close up.
Ok here is a recent ATC I made for a flickr swap..


A layout I did for YSB last month as part of the monthly challenges. This month there are some great challenges up, but with going away I am not going to be able to play :( I am also going to miss the second cyber crop.. So head along and have some fun for me :)

Last but not least is Michael’s Mothers birthday card. I made it a week or two back. Her birthday isn’t until mid Nov, but I will be away so I did it early.. I hope he remembers to post it haha!!

Crop Lo’s

I’ve been attending a crop at a local girls house. Last time was my 3rd time to her place. It’s been awesome getting to know the ladies. I don’t really know any locals other than a few people I’ve met through Michael’s work. I am loving going to these crops. I don’t achieve much, but then I am happy with that lol. This boy LO I started and finished at the last crop. Very simple, grungy and just what I wanted :)

This Lo I started at the last crop. Matted the photo (it is so crooked..omg!), painted the grungeboard in crackle paint. Stuck that all down. Got the flower ready and that was about it. This week I stuck the little extra bit of grungeboard down, added the flower, lots of pearls, the little bling at the top and added that lovely rubon, which btw took a lot to get down lol.

I have another Lo that I worked on last time, and this time and hopefully will be finished at the next crop whenever that is :) I also did a card for Michael’s sister (she’s turning 18) and finished off my Angel ATC’s. I will post a pic of those later.

Thanks for stopping by!

ATC CJ – Loulou

Here is LouLou’s ATC. Her’s in the final my CJ line. I couldn’t think what to do Linda’s theme was travel and/or postage stamps. So I went with travel and stamped some postage stamps down the side. I used mostly distressing inks, stamps are PaperArtsy and Clearly Impressed. Both of which I love!

I stamped the ticket on white card and inked it brown and tore the bottom, scrunched it a little and inked the top again. The ‘keys’ tag I stamped on the same white card and just distressed it with mahogany ink, added an eyelet and a brad so that it can be turned on the ATC. I hope she likes it.

ATC CJ - Marcy

Here is Marcy’s ATC, her theme was Bright Delights. Mine is a little bit brighter than pictured here but not much. It was lots brighter but I put a pearl over the whole thing to give it some zing and shine, but it kind of dulled it a bit too :( Anyhow. I made the cardstock background used (White cardstock, and used the shaving cream technique) a dark room door set cut the frangipanis out and went around them in black stayzon to make the colour pop more and to make it stand out a little more from the base. I foam mounted 2 of the flowers. Hope she likes it.

5 New ATC’s

Here are my newest ATC’s. They are for the August/September swap at allcraftz. I had quiet a lot of fun making these. Though it was more difficult than my general swaps. I really like a couple of them and am sorry that I don’t get to keep one :( lol. I’ve finally filled 1/2 of my ATC’s I took them to a crop last Friday. I think the ladies liked looking at them. We’re in our own swap, I can’t wait to post what they do!!     
Used lots of different techniques for these ATC’s mine is a homage to Ruby, and her first Youtube vid. I’ve embedded the vid in the bottom of this post. I hope it inspires you to try something new.

For Marnie, she wanted stamping	For Joy, She wanted Vintage and Bathing Beauty
For Robyn, she wanted Africa.	For Sharon, she wanted Music.

For Me, I wanted drawn or painted detail.

Here as I promised is the video of Ruby’s mixed media journal page. Hers is a lot better (obviously), but ever since I saw it months ago I wanted to give it a go.

Black, White and Red

Rachel at Dark Room Door, held a competition to win 1 of 3 stamp sets, to enter you had to do a project (or several) that used Black, White and Red and a Dark Room Door product. I made 9 ATC’s and 3 Postcards. I used mostly their products I also used Tim Holtz products, 1 stamp, distressing inks and I used his perfect pearls. I have already swapped out my postcards, but the 9 atc’s are going to be swapped out in my 5/5 swap on Allcraftz, so come join the swap and you might just get one of mine ;)

     

     

ATC - CJ

My ATC Circle Journal came back to me at the end of the week. I was so pleased with all that I recieved!! thank you so much to the lovely ladies. It was so much fun and I can’t wait to do it again.

My ATC	Loulou’s ATC. Love the watch parts!!
Robyn’s, awesome! Love the emb’s!	De’s. Love the film strip and clock!!
Marcy’s.. WOW! Love it!	Nova’s. Love the distressing!!
Ruby’s, love the paint! Arty!!

    

Marnie’s. So cute! I love the acetate!!

ATC CJ - Robyn

Here is the atc I made for Robyn. Her theme was Autumn. I stamped the background using a Tim Holtz stamp and a clear ink then I pounced perfect pearls over it. Gave it a misting of water to set the pearls. I have a pallet that has re-inkers in it also has perfect pearls and I just add water when I need to use the colour so for the leaves, I rewet my orange, red, yellow and green and on a piece of white cardstock did a real wet wash mixing the colours. Let that dry, painted again, let it dry then stamped the leaves in stazon. I fussy cut those out then went over the leaves using glass bead gel. When that dried I went over it with perfect pearls to make it a little more bronze like. Hope she likes it. Click through to see a MUCH large version.

Butterfly ATC’s

The next swap for YSB is on and the theme is Butterfly. These are my ATC’s. I really like them they are bright and very shimmery in RL.

I received our first swap back (Birds) and Wowo! Some are so awesome. I am going to take a photo of them because they are so lovely. I also have to blog about my ATC CJ that arrived home yesterday they are just magnificent! Each is just Woah!!!!!!!!!!  So expect another post very soon :)

First Inchies

I made my first ever Inchies, they are party theme and are for YSB, I hope they are right lol. they are about as big as they show up here, but if you click through you can see them bigger. The present one I did on it’s side.. I do hope that’s allowed LOL!!

Young Scrap Birds - CC

This weekend gone was the first YSB Cyber Crop. It was such great fun there was 4 scrapping challenges up over the 4 days and I managed to complete 3 of them. I am pretty proud of my efforts :) There was also lots of fun and games, I topped the games chart by a whopping 70 something points LOL. I am not sure what my prize is but I can’t wait to receive it. I received a lovely little package from Rachel this week for bingo that I won there. I also just won the Lotto there as well. I better stop playing the games or they won’t let me hang out anymore lol

  

ATC CJ - De

 

Here is the atc I made for De. Her theme was Vintage Flowers. I punched out the flowers from an old book and then dyed them using re-inkers. Stamped the background using distressing ink and then put perfect pearls over it to give it shimmer. Put gold perfect pearls over the punchies. Printed an image on cardstock. Hope she likes it.

Bird Swap

I made these cute Bird Motifs thanks to the great video supplied by the Crafts Beautiful Channel. Check it out. They are easy to make and you just use up scraps. I’ve made the atc’s for the first ever swap at Young Scrap Birds.

Inky Stains

I love Roni’s blog, I can’t even remember how I found it, but I often recommend it to people. Anyhow she’s got some LOVING going on, on her blog. She’s giving away a signed copy of her book, so go check it out :)

Ink Stains