Artist Says Chunky Book

Really enjoyed doing these Chunky Book pages on the theme of travel. Above are some of my pages.

Christmas Banner

Been busy today working on my flags for a Christmas Banner swap. My theme was Vintage Snowmen. When I started looking I found that they are a scary lot!!!! Certainly not the cheery character we feature at this time of year. There was even one that was chasing a terrified child with a big stick! Here are some of my flags - I was rather proud of them in the end.

Scrapbooking and More!

This week I have been working on a scrapbook I have been making of events since we moved last January. Such a lot has happened since then. One of the big events was the conversion of a freezing cold partly converted garage into our 'toy room'. In other words my craft room and Mervyn's computer room. This is the page in my scrapbook of the conversion!!!

I've also been making atcs for Ali's swap of Lord Leighton's Ladies. I enjoyed making these and am quite pleased with them.

Artist Says

Ali on Vintage atc has been running an Artist Says Exchange. Those taking part gave instructions daily for additions to atcs. This was fun. Here are some of my atcs.

Cavallini style cards

Been having fun today making birthday cards Cavallini style!!! Quite pleased with them. Will have to try a different theme from flora and fauna next time!!

Flora and Fauna Cavallini Style

Really enjoyed making these. Love the style. Some are for Vintageatcsuk exchange in September.

Cards

No made any cards for a bit so I printed out some backgrounds and images from a Carole Clarke CD I've had for ages. They were peach coloured bluebells!!! A contadiction in terms really. Had a lovely evening inventing. Even did some teabag folding. The Martha Stewart round the edge punch coame into ite own on some of my efforts.

Altered Book

Been busy today working on Heather's Altered Book for UKATC. Enjoyed this a lot as the theme 'Flights of Imagination' gave me lots of scope! It included atcs one of which I've shown here!

It has been a busy week really - getting ready for 'Jack the Ripper' which begins tonight. Jenny, my daughter, and Mervyn, my husband, are in leading roles and their performances have been thrilling everyone! I've had time for some crafting though. Yesterday I made my atcs for the UKATC Medieaval Swap in August - just fancied doing them although it is a long time in advance.

Been Busy!

I've been busy making my Favourite Stamp atcs for Ali Exchange in Vintageatcuk. Love this lady - she is so elegant.

Something different!

Just thought I'd write about something different today! For many years now I have been involved with an amateur drama group in Newton-le-Willows. This has taken up a lot of my time when I've not been working and crafting!!! For many years I made costumes and performed on stage in plays. I cannot sing or dance so avoid musicals but sometimes have a go in a pantomime!!! This year our society and the Lowton society are combining to produce a musical called 'Jack the Ripper'. It is to be performed at Lowton Civic Hall from 14th to 17th July this year. My husband, Mervyn, and daughter, Jenny, have big roles and I am very proud of them both! I will be helping front of house.

Ali's new group!

I've been very busy the last few days making my first offerings for Alison Brandist's new atc group - vintageatcuk. It promises to be a brillliant group with lots of interesting swaps on a vintage theme. Ali has made me a moderator on the group to help out if she is offline for any reason and maybe to host some swaps - will have to put my thinking cap on here!!!! Above are some of my offerings for Ali - 1920s and 1930s songs and vintage geishas!

Crafting Day

My sister in law Marily stayed last week and we made each other 'Challenge Bags' to make atcs!!!! It is amazing the ideas we came up with. These are some of my efforts!!!!

Busy Week!!

What a busy week!!! My sister in law, Marilyn, has been to stay. We spent Monday crafting, Tuesday we visited Rufford Old Hall and Southport, Wednesday was Martin Mere then on Thursday Ormskirk Market. Today we took Marilyn home via Botany May.

I took some beautiful photos at Martin Mere - sharing a few here!!!

I will post some of the atcs we made on our crafting day later - we made each other 'challenge bags' - fun!!!

Gardening

Been busy today. Morning spent on housework - ugg! After lunch spent a long time in the garden - with being away last week the weeds had grown. It is lookiing beautiful with new things coming into bloom every day. The vegetables are doing well - we ate our own radish yesterday and today I planted the courgettes. Shallots, garlic, lettuce and rocket all growing well.
Evening was spent on making hydrangea atcs for UKATC. I've made six! Now to choose which ones to send to Hope.

Ireland

On Saturday we returned from a week in Ireland at a beautiful thatched cottage above Portally Cove on the south coast near Dunmore East. Jenny and Steve gave us the holiday for out 60th birthdays - WOW!!! They came as well and the four of us had a lovely quiet week spent mostly down at the cove where we 'bodged' for sea glass and Steve swam and explored caves.

It was a steep walk down to the cove and even steeper up on the other side to walk along the cliff top to Dunmore East - got used to doing it though!!!

ATCs

Above are copper atcs for UKATC - backgrounds from the internet. The first atc has punched copper coloured daisies and sewn on copper beads, the second has strips of Cuttlebugged copper metallic paper with copper ebads sewn on to compliment the background. In the third atc I used a Martha Stewart punch to decorate strips of copper metallic papaer - I also added beads and some copper peel off strip.

To the left are my Paris atcs - again thanks to the internet and some stamps I had of France. I found these hard to do but am quite pleased with the results!

These are my foxglove atcs for the Flower of the Month exchange on UKATC. I enjoyed making these - they are based on images from the internet as I had no foxglove images in my crafting stash!!