ATCs for ArtyATC swap

... for the 'Spring is Sprung' swap, this is my first swap with the group and so I'm keeping it simple - kind of a less is more approach. The main flower image is by T and is one of the Art-o-matic stamps.....

and when I wasn't making slide art I've been knitting these scarves - warm and ooooh so soft and snuggly!...

... and excuse the state of my mannequin - she's more than a little bit shabby chic & vintage!

Slides deco's

Here are a few of the 'slide decorations' - mini collages created with clients' photos, - each one unique. Commissions accepted.

Somerset Wedding 3

Here is the cover pic! YAY FOR ME!!! and BIG THANKS to Somerset Studio for considering my work worthy of being their cover art!

You can't see me but I'm doing an 'excited' dance!

Well, If I can't show off, get excited and shout 'Yay for me!!' here then where can I??!!

I'm so proud to have this cover! (and still slightly gobsmacked!) :o)

My work is the cover art of Somerset Wedding 3 !!!!!!!!!!! Am so pleased that I plucked up the courage to submit our Wedding items for consideration!
Its going to be published on February 1 - can't wait to hold it in my hot little hands!!

I'm revamping the blog so have taken some posts off and will be adding as and when -

Have been doing lots of creative things - the slide decorations are coming along - I showed them to my SIL and she ordered 2! so that was a good boost for my confidence! I'm going to personalise them and put a piccy of J in one of them, and a piccy of their friends' child in the other. I like that these pieces can be made to suit any occassion - make good bridal favours?

I had a good stock of cards ready for the two craft fairs I'm doing on the 2 December (which is getting scarily close... aaaaaarrrgggghh) but then a previous customers brother popped in on the off chance for cards and bought about 15!!! so now I have to really get my butt in gear!

So less www time and more creating . . . . . . . . . .

Aargh!
I'm behind already in my 'make something creative every day' challenge! I did the creative thing but didn't upload it. It's not finished but is going well....

I've uploaded a piccy of some samples of my wedding stationery that I'm currently writing some blurb for because... drumroll please... its going to be featured in Somerset Studio Wedding 3 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Can't put into words how exciting/ scary that is! (I'm trying not to get too excited incase its a thumbnail image on the last page!! - but what the hey - it'll still be in there!!) These are the pieces they selected (and also a book but that's with them and I don't have photo's of it (don't know how that happened!)

Challenge!... or Discipline??

I'm going to challenge myself to do something creative every day . . . So - whether its cards, or scrapbook layouts or samples for class I'm going to try and do ONE creative 'thing' a day.
I'll post when I can . . . .

This has been inspired by Debbi Crane's Paper Doll Post, where she makes a doll a day... really inspiring.

So to start (and cheating a little) - here is yesterday's!















and one that I made earlier in the week...



















Two different looks with one image - the dry embossed christmas tree - I like experimenting to see how many 'looks' you can get with one motif/image/embellishment....

Inspiration.....

I went to Franklin's yesterday to FINALLY pick up my repaired sewing machine - I didn't realise how much I used it until it wasn't there! I still don't know how I managed to put the needle through the bobbin case inside/underneath the sewing plate??!! doh!
Anyway while I was waiting I wandered around and found these great ribbons - gorgeous teal tassel braid, and the animal print velvet ribbons (mmmmm velvet ribbons!) remind me of the collars Fredd and Phoebe used to have (very posh they looked too!!).
I just loved the colour combo - very inspirational... makes a change from the Christmas theme I'm trying to stick to in preparation for the TWO craft fairs I'm doing in one day!!

Testing. Testing. 1.. 2.. 3..

I should probably start my blogging journey with something slightly more profound but I just need to get some words on this big blank page!

and now I've got words I'm going to try a picture!.... and as christmas is only 10 (!!) weeks away here are some christmas baubles...