Wednesday workdesk no 84

So here we have my workdesk at 5.30am this morning and no I didn't get up early I was just going to bed!!! Yep you read it right.(I'm what you might call a night owl).

The girls and flowers are a tag book I'm making for the Art 'n' Soul swap. This is the front and back of the first tag.(Trying to make a vintage style and quite pleased with how these turned out). I'm totally in love with Distress Ink and used walnut stain here and there to give an aged look. I bought this for £5.20 and have since found it at another web site for £4.69. Can anyone better this please as I want to buy more but not at these prices.?? I need to make four tags in all and each tag must incorporate a buton somewhere on it. The little house is another tag idea I'm playing around with. Look at all those nasty loose ends I now have to thread in. Nop can't just cut em off now can I.

Lots of other things on the go but as they are either prezzies or for secret swaps can't be revealed as yet.

Well I failed all of you last week as I only managed to get round a pathetic 22 desks. Sorreeeee. I will endeavour to do better this week. Hop on over to Julia's Stamping Ground here to see what everyone else is doing on this wet and windy Wednesday.

Winners Come Forward.

The winners of my Blog Tutorial give away have now been randomly picked by 'The Doc'

They are in no particular order.

Shelley Schmidt: My Creative Rumblings

Jenni: Jenni's Crafty Journal

Mariska: Mariska's Creative Journey

Barbara: U-inspire-me

Jan: Scrappy Scatty

If you would like to contact me via the email on my side bar giving me your address and colour preference then your brooch will be winging its way to you as fast as the butterfly can fly!

Your colour choices are.

Red.

Pink

Orange

Purple

Blue

as shown in above photo.

Thankyou for all taking part.

Aces High.

My very 1st foray into ATC cards!

I have joined in the 'I'm playing cards are you' challenge being hosted by Rachel over at Katzelbows. The idea is to make 52 altered playing cards and include jokers if you want. You can use any suit that takes your fancy just make sure you have 4 suits and 13 cards to each suit. I make that 1 card a week for the rest of the year.!! I decided to stick with the playing card theme. Here is my take on the Ace of hearts. I have kept to the standard ATC size of 2.1/2" x 3.1/2" for this one but may well change around as I get more comfortable and bolder.
Made from white card stock, with walnut stain Distress ink around the edges to match the beautiful mother of pearl heart adornment and edged in red thread. So where's the butterfly I hear you ask that I promised on all my projects for 2011?

Well here it is on the back. Simples!!!!

To Receive and To Give

This all came in the post for me on Friday from the lovely Jo of JoZarty.

I won these goodies in her recent blog candy giveaway. I love the wooden bangle and am wearing it as I type. Lots of pink loveliness and a super Japanese lady (details haven't shown up very clearly in photo) stamp. As soon as 'Her Fluffness' shows me how to mount onto a wooden block I will be stamping away. Thankyou so much Jo. I adore pink and make a lot of bags from Japanese material so you couldn't have put a nicer package together for me.



There is still time to win one of the badges I am giving away to go with my Netbook Cover(made for Fluffy) Tutorial that has been featured this week on Vintage Dragonfly. Pop over and have a look. Just be a follower of my blog and leave a coment here about the tutorial and I will be randomly choosing 5 names to receive a badge each. These would look fab either on a coat, hat or a bag.
Draw takes place midnight Sunday 9th Jan.

Busy Busy Workdesk Wednesday

This is the state of my desk this morning! The postman delivered not 1 but 4 parcels for me an hour ago. So shove everything to one side floor included(now looks like the very epicentre of a tornado) and lets see what I have got.

Under the lamp is the remains from making some felt brooches for my giveaway on previous post. On top of sewing machine the material has arrived for the quilt swap 'Take Flight'.

Owl material is for a project for a very good blogging friend. The heart material is for the Valentines Heart swap. Crafting goodies for my tag book and 52 pack of cards challenges and the buttons are for finnishing off something for The Doc.

The sculpt Dry? I just added that in to get the free postage.!!!

Now completely blown my January budget so I'm on bread and jam now for the rest of the month. Will be visiting your blogs shortly to see what you are up to.

Netbook Cover Tutorial

Welcome if you have arrived here via my Tutorial that is being featured on Vintage Dragonfly. I hope you found the pictures for making the cover easy to follow. If you are already here then please check out JoAnne's blog for the detailed instructions.



Leave a comment on this post and be/become a follower and I will randomly draw 5 names to receive one of these handmade brooches from me.They are all different in design and colour. This is a selection of them. Draw will close on Sunday 9th at 23.59 (GMT). Hope you will choose to take part and thankyou for stopping by.

Blingtastic 2011!

Happy New Year One and All. I'm starting 2011 off with this Evening Bag that I have made for the January Artful Bag challenge being hosted by Anna of Frosted Petunias. This months challenge is to make a bag or purse using only paper (any paper medium that you like) and then to embelish it.


I am much more at home using fabric and felts so this was quite a hard one to do. I wanted the bag to have the look of lace and have soft folds in it and rather than just embelish with paper roses I wanted it to look like I had raided the jewel box. After trying several different folded papers I finally hit upon using sheets of kitchen towel. It's soft (has a pattern to it) and by carefully pulling each sheet apart gave me the texuture of lace that I wanted whilst still seeing the bag underneath (yellow card stock). So lots of glitter and bling later one Evening Bag. I love butterflies and for this year have decided that any project I make will have a butterfly incorporated into it somewhere!