Easter Eggs and Easter Hats.

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Two hats made from lots of card, die cuts and a bit of glitter. Wish the sky and my garden looked this colourful, 'tis still a bit glum and chilly round here.

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Little egg creatures that I made using lots of glue, fluff and pipe cleaners.

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ATC's, Tags and a Twinchie.

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The blog I fully intended to keep up to date and interesting has stagnated! Amongst the madness of moving home and the crazyness of big crafting (decorating the new house) I have let it lie neglected and unloved! While the decorating contiues (and probably will for the eon I am slowly getting a little time for crafting back. Here are the ATC's that I have made recently.

Some ATC's with a black and white theme and cloth tags for the UK Stampers January swap.

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I stamped some flowers onto black and white card, cut it and wove it. The corners were cut with a corner chomper and the flowers were decorated with stickles as were the edges of the ATC's.
We were asked to include a tag with January's swap. I made some cloth tags with buttons sewed onto them and lots of yarn bows.

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UK Stampers February swap was for ATC's with a 'Moody Blues' theme. I have created four different cards. Two with fairies, one with ballet dancers and one with a Paper Artsy message upon it. The backgrounds were made using an airgun with my copic ciao pens. I have used distress rock candy crackle paint over the front of three of them and some also some stickles for the flowers and wings. A twinchie is to be sent with the cards and I have made mine using airbrushed copic ciao pens, glittered flock and a vellum butterfly and dragonfly.

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Watercolour ATC's

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I enjoyed making the ATC's for last month's UK Stamper's swap that here I am again! This month the theme is watercolour, to be interpreted in any way we like. I have painted two peices of ATC sized card with my Twinkling H20's. Then I have stamped some images onto them, a pretty girl onto the blue card and some Technique Tuesday flowers on the purple coloured card. I punched a hole in the purple card so my pretty girl can peek through it before sticking the two pieces together. I have decorated the flowers with some stickles and have used a shiny new ATC stamp on the back. I loved the ATC's I received from last month's swap, they were absolutely gorgeous. If these are enjoyed half as much I will be very pleased.

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Grungepaper Flowers...

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I have caught the grungepaper flower bug! I cut out loads of petal shapes and coloured them using a whole variety of coloured inks, some metallic some not. Then stamped flourishes onto them to decorate them. Some have some stickles dotted around to add a little sparkle. I used some fabulous, very pretty fabric brads for the flower centres and have curled some of the petals using my heat gun. I am sending one off for a UK Stampers swap, I hope the recipient likes it.

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Gorgeous, Pretty Ribbon Boxes!!

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I fell in love with a ribbon box that I saw at the Craft Barn, so credit for my inspiration goes to the clever cookie who made it and left it there to tempt me. The box base is made by Kaisercraft. I prepared the pieces be painting them with a couple of coats of white emulsion and then sanding them to ensure they were as smooth as possible. Then I used adirondack acrylic dabbers in Wild Plum and Purple Twilight to paint lovely strong colours onto all of the sides. The plain acrylic colours didn't look quite right so I have used Alchemy paint all over both boxes; the colour was whirlwind which is an interference colour that reminds me of dragonfly wings. I have used Iris Stazon ink to stamp some flourishes on one and floral flourishes and swirls on the other. The stamps are made by Technique Tuesday. The boxes are decorated inside and out. A butterfly and dragonfly stamp have also been used over each box. The flowers on the floral box now have stickled centres in a variety of colours. I have varnished the boxes with a spray on varnish. I am pleased with the finished boxes but not so with the photos. I need to be able to capture the iridescent finish properly, preferably with a letterbox lens....then I might get a photo I like.

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Birthday cards and Birthday Cakes.

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This month is full of birthdays for people who are truly special to me. Here are the cards I have made for two of those people. A little Edwin playing the guitar and the laughing lady have been stamped onto shrink plastic before being coloured and heated. I have used glimmer mists and cosmic shimmer sprays to decorate the embossed card. I embossed the cards using my cuttle bug and cut out apertures to hang the dangly bits. There are little shrinky plastic butterflies all around the feminine card. Both cards have been edged using stickles.
The laughing lady is a stamp called Laugh made by Paperbag studios and Edwin is a magnolia rubber stamp.
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Lovely birthday cakes! mmmm! I think these will go down well with everyone. A vanilla sponge covered and filled with buttercream icing. I have used sugar ladybirds, leaves and flowers to decorate it. The fruit cake is huge, delicious and should have enough fruit and brandy to ward off any evilness for the next year or so!!
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New Neighbours and Baby Names!

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We have new neighbours. They seem friendly but not excessively so. Since meeting them and enjoying a chat we haven't seen them much but from the little we have seen so far they appear to be the perfect people to have as neighbours, hopefully we do too. I made a 'New Home' card for them, one for the old neighbours who have moved to the other side of our village and a couple of spares in case I am surprised by anyone else moving anywhere else :) .

We have been invited to the naming ceremony for a gorgeous little girl we know. Another card for the special occasion, plus a few extras for who knows when.

I have used K & Company card and papers, some some shapes I have cut and some I have punched out. I made the little tags on the new home cards and wrote the message with a glittery pen and added stickles and perfect pearls to add a shimmer. I printed my message out on heavy card stock and die cut the shapes.
Inspiration? Well I took that as well as the sentiment on the baby cards from the new Cards magazine.

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Monochrome Twinchies

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The theme for the UK Stampers twinchies swap this month is monochrome. I have painted my blank twinchies with creamy white paint, leaving some bumps and lumps to add texture. I then stamped my image using a Technique Tuesday clear stamp and archival black ink. I added some white and transparent dots using white pearl stickles and Anita's glossy clear finish. I don't normally work in just black and white, but quite like the effect.

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