4 down, 16 to go! (Day 2)

I have challenged myself to make 20 mini books from my existing stash to be sold for the Charity so lovingly run by 2 of my colleagues at the college where I am a lecturer.

Once I have done these, I have promised myself to move onto Greetings cards, also for the same charity. The books and the cards will be very simple as it is the start of term and I have lots of preparation work to do, but that's okay!

I used images I stamped and cut out ages ago and die cut some flowers. I used  DCWV card for the covers and the details were  highlighted with Glossy Accents.

All colouring in was done by my daughter - who fills in between the lines better than me :)

Tim Holtz - 12 tags of Christmas - the leftovers!

I decided to use up all the 'scrips and scraps'  I had left over after the 12 days of Christmas marathon...though anyone following my blog will know I made most everything very happily 'out of scraps' in the first place. I was happy with this tag because I tried out several of Tim's techniques on this one that I had never tried out before. Who knew there was so much you could do with a stamp! Not me for sure. I was so pleased with my drippy candle, it looks good in real life!

My little altered angel atop the tree

The Angel I made a few weeks ago (my very first post) has made it onto the tree! she looks really cute, I grabbed a hasty shot on the camera and realised I had also captured a mixed media canvas that my talented daughter made when she was 13!! it is so cool that I grabbed a photo - she is very talented and I am always so proud of her.

One of my daughter's canvasses -done when aged 13

Twelve Tags of Christmas 11 - Water splats and Embossing

OK then, the only thing I had in the way of supplies for this task was a 'Faded Denim Distress Ink' Anyone who has been kind enough to drop in on my recent efforts will know that this has been par for my course! Has that stopped me? Oh no, not a jot....quite the contrary in fact! Using techniques learnt this week on previous tags, coupled with the 'water splats'  from Tim blog today, I tried to emulate the  look of shrink plastic and to infuse my tag with as much texture as I could manage.

For the tag itself, I swooshed distress ink over paper, water splatted it, dried with a heat gun and  stamped and embossed snowflakes. I die cut 3 baubles using a Quickutz die, embossed them with a freebie folder, coloured the 'debossed' element with Sakura pens and found 3 clear plastic domed tags which (mostly) fitted over the baubles. I cut out the tree and added a sentiment.