Some serious crafting at last.

I have had a couple of proper crafty sessions and made my entries for the January challenges I am running on the Paper Dolls.

For the White and one colour swaps I made 2 tags, using my latest toy - my cuttlebug - and a few other bits and pieces.

For the Love Tag Swaps I decided to carry on using my new toy and made these 3 tags.

Finally my entry for the Big Challenge, which is to make a wall plaque featuring your favourite quote. My favourite has always been the Serenity Prayer so that had to be the centre piece for my plaque. I decided to have a messy play with my inks and stamps - I am still so new to this side of crafting and haven't a lot of confidence. I started playing with some cream card and Distress Inks in Shabby Shutter, Peeled Paint, Milled Lavender, Dusty Concord, Weathered Wood and Faded Jeans. It took a while to get something I was reasonably happy with but still wasn't sure if it was all going to come together at the end. Added a couple of spritzes of Gold Tattered Angels Glimmer mist and a little Blonde Moments Sugar Pink Pigment, then decided enough was enough before I got too carried away. I stamped various flourishes onto the background using Versamark pad and emossed them using Bronze, Gold and Silver embossing powders - that got a bit tricky trying to mix the colours without actually running into each other. I then added the quote and nearly 100 crystals in pale green, lavender and pale blue. A lavender ribbon hanger and a quick run round the edge with my silver marker and it was done. It looks a lot better in real life, my photography still sucks.

Finally I had to make two pages for the Alphabet Technique Fat Book - it's K & L this month. So I decided on K for knitting and L for Light Box Embossing.