Crafty Daze

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.

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.

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.

I have made some pretty little tags using a template cut with a Sizzix die (the pocket scallop die). I used H2O's to paint the tags. Some were (technical term!) splodged, and some were painted in stripes. I used my gold krylon pen to colour parts of some of the tags. I made other tags using some pretty paper that I have.I am going to put little metal die cut pieces in side them to make little pressies for some lovely people I know. The die I used to cut out the metal decorative pieces is made by Spellbinders and is called Timeless Heritage. It is full of buttons as well as a key, clock and lock, it is one of my favourites.
I have been making some larger tags to go with presents. I used Tim Holtz distress inks and techniques, H2O's and I edged them with gold and silver krylon pens.