Alice in Wonderland

Story book CJ time again! This time it was a lovely book from Rebbecca. Here are my DLOs mainly using digi stamps and collages.

Affirmation postcards

I did some affirmation postcards for a swap on UKS. There was a set with a positive theme and then a more alternative theme! I used grungepaper as a base, covered with gesso, coloured with Dylusions spray and distress inks, a bit of stamping before adding the printed an inked sentiments.

January Card swap

Another month, another card swap. The theme this month was Time and one of the additional criteria was to use white space, I did wonder if my cards were too white, but I think the work!

For this one I embossed the edges, then used a stamp on some cardboard shapes, before colouring with distress markers and covering in Distress crackle paint.

For this one I used a silicone clock mould with three differnt pearalised colours, the picture doesnt quite show but they are, red, green and blue, stuck onto a piece of lace.

Just for me!

I decided I wanted to make something just for me for a change, so having had this lovely chipboard heart from my secret Santa I set about it. It didn't take long to stick some squares of patterned paper onto it with modge podge, ink the edges with distress ink, a couple of layers of modge podge as a varnish and here it is! Something pretty to put on my wall by my craft desk :)

December Card

Here is my easy Christmas card, used a card from M&S that I altered and a stamp from Rick st Dennis one of his Creepmas range, that I thought met the Nightmare before Christmas challenge.

Christmas Chunky

When I got my theme for this chunky my heart fell! I love Christmas and everything about it, and was looking forward to making a glittery festive chunky. But I got "Bah Humbug" as my theme! So I put my thinking cap on and bought lots of black and grey bits to add to my stash, and fell in love with my theme. I found out about Creepmas, and bought some wonderful digi images from Rick St Dennis which I loved. I fell in love with this chunky it sat in its embossed underwear for a week as I though it looked so pretty!! Then went on the digi stamps that took ages to colour in with promarkers, then some lovely TH tinsel which again I would never have bought if not for this theme! Then the final piece sourced off eBay, the bauble!! As soon as it arrived I knew it was too big! Ive made a few attempts to make a smaller version without success, so I finally took the plunge and stuck it on! I think it looks like a bomb! I has a play with stuffing bits round it to try and get the proportion right but nothing looked right, so Ive left it as is, its grown on me! My swapee can always remove it if its to OTT for her.I finally added the bottom to it which although so simple I really liked it. So thanks to my swappee for inspiring a chunky that I love, I hope they do to x

November cards

For this months card swap the theme was music, and one of the optional themes was metal, this is what I came up with. I was feeling a bit unwell while trying to sort these outs, so they are mainly digital so a little different for me, hope my swappees like them :)