Purple & Orange ATC

I recently hosted another ATC swap using the colours Purple & Orange with only black or gold ink/embellishments. I have always loved this stamp of the three women but haven't used it up until now.

We had 19 players in this swap, another success.

Surrounding Wonders

This is my contribution to the Surrounding Wonders Collab book with one of the members of Paperarts. The first pic is my page. The second pic is my cover for my book!
And the third pic is the inside of the back cover. This is a photo of the backyard of one of our BSL members. Isn't it peaceful!

This swap has been 7 months in the making so I will have great pleasure in handing it over to our hostess to bind & then return them all to us.

Angelic Skinny Book Back Cover

This is the back cover of my Angelic Skinny Book. The one on the right is a bit miffed because she is on the BACK cover, but hey, she should be just happy she is there at all!!!!

On both of these I have used Jo Sonja paints to create the background after giving it texture with Impasto.

Angelic Skinny Book Front Cover

This is the front cover for the Angelic Skinny Book.

It is simple but I think eyecatching.

Angelic Skinny Books

I was recently invited to join the Chunkybookartists group. The latest book is called Angelic Skinny Books and there are 6 of them. I signed up for 2 and these are my pages. It is very exciting waiting for each page to arrive in the mail.

This again was out of the square for me but I think they turned out OK.

Jackie's Luncheon

Jackie's luncheon was a great success.

Almost 40 of us met at Parramatta with ladies from Brisbane, Victoria, up & down the coast of NSW and of course Jackie from the USA.

Rhonda suggested we do an altered coaster swap to commemorate the occasion. This is mine. However mine seems to have been lost in the mail so maybe this is all any one will ever see of it again!!!

Book of Shadows

This page is my contribution to another Collab book. We generally have 6 months in which to do this one, it is 15 pages and we have an extra book to auction on ebay with the proceeds going to our charity of choice.

This year the theme was Book of Shadows with the direction that we needed to include a "spell" in the layout. I will admit that the thought of "spells" put me off somewhat however I found a lovely one about friendship and would have to say that all the "spells" in the book are of a positive nature. Nothing dark or intimidating.

The tag at the bottom is what is held in the pocket. Ophelia is looking into a crystal ball seeking friendships.

The background behind Ophelia is torn book pages painted & then swiped with a black stamp pad. The background to the left is embossed with a cuttlebug folder & swiped with a black stamp pad. The background of the pocket is Alcohol Ink with a gold embossed stamp of various ladies. I love the image of the three friends on the tag, it is frame is done with my nestabilities.

Christmas At My House

I have been very quiet online lately but believe me I have been working hard at keeping up my swaps!!!

This latest one is Christmas At My House. My friend Mary planned it and was aided & abetted by Evvie & John.

We all received a Christmas house book, front & back covers made of MDF board with pages to work on included. We then sent one page to each of the players once complete.

These are mine. Backgrounds are napkins pasted to Canvas Paper using Gel Medium, it gives it a luscious texture. The rest is pretty obvious. Nativity scene, Lights, Christmas tree, gift and reindeer.

I have yet to decorate my covers but will get to it in due course!! I hope!!!!

Jackie's Luncheon

We have a very exciting luncheon coming up. Jackie is one of our BSL members who lives in the States. With a bit of planning behind the scenes one of our Australian members and her sons planned a trip to Australia for her. So we are having another luncheon so as many people as possible can meet her in Sydney.

This is the ATC I have made for the luncheon. I used lots of different backgrounds but this one is one of my favourites, I learnt how to do it at Stamp Camp last year, taught to us by Cathy Daulman.

Firstly I brayered the white gloss card with a multicoloured stamp pad. Then I scrunched wax paper, flattened it out, put it on top of the c/s, a layer of baking paper on top, then I ironed it. When it was cool I dabbed my black stamp pad across it and the wax resisted the ink. Then I stamped it and embossed it with gold embossing powder. I then used the dress & bow die cut that my dear friend Mary gave me. I also embossed the background card with Cuttlebug Swiss dots and so I have the most elegant ATC.

Wax ATCs Take 2

This is the style I used for the Paperart Wax ATCs swap. Much better than my first attempt.