An Altered Book

I've had a little board book sitting on my desk for weeks, just waiting to be 'altered' so I thought I'd do it in the theme of the moment.

Little miss yoghurt chops

Twilight

In case you don't know what I am talking about, it's the series of books by Stephanie Meyer, the first of which has just been released as a film. Perhaps if I tell you I have read 2 of the 4 books and am half way through the 3rd in under a week and went to see the film last week you might get the idea that they are totally addictive. They are beautifully written and although I want to read them all I am going to be sorry to have finished them. The only negative side effect is the housework hasn't been touched and husband is starving - well I can't leave Bella and Edward in mid chapter now can I.

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.

Popcorn Bear - Blueberry

At last I've got round to finishing off knitting the Popcorn Bear for Mya and here is Blueberry in all his glory waiting for his new owner.

and something else to see

my mate Hels has a beautiful canvas on her blog, go and have a look see at

http://pinkleart.blogspot.com/

a site to vist

you must have a look at Jennie's blog - she also owns The Artistic Stamper, a fab place for your crafting chopping.

http://www.theartisticstamper.blogspot.com/

ENJOY!!