ONLY JOKING

It’s the second week of Tando’s FB Live and the tutorial was by Jane Royston. This week the colours are more my style. I didn’t have the exact supplies so had to improvise a little. This was the end result... I love doing these tutorials.  I put aside time for me on a Saturday morning and just get lost in the moment...all worries are forgotten for an hour or so.  I would highly recommend it.

Joined a FB Live on Thursday evening which is teaching different techniques using Tando greyboard as the substrate. The lovely Hannah was up this week with an aged metal technique and a textured rust technique.  Great fun to do and very straightforward 

Here's a card I was recently asked to make for a friend of a friend for someone with a significant birthday but who didn't want the age on it! Usual layout and all AMD products used apart from a stamp.

Another project to get my mojo up and running.  Today it's the turn of journals. The first two journals are made using the larger Eileen Hull Journal die.  I covered them with a sheet of cardstock I had decorated with Pixie Powders and then added layers of rice paper which I had used to mop up the Pixie Powders and then overstepped with Indigo Blu stamps with a Versafine ink pad.  The main image is a rice paper from Stamperia. I couldn't resist doing a couple of the smaller passport journals with the lovely flamingo napkins again!

...albeit a little late! I don't know about other people but after the huge amount of crafting I do in the lead up to Christmas, by the time Christmas is over and I have some spare time to craft, I have lost my mojo which is exactly what happened to me this January.  I decided therefore, to have a bit of a play and try something a little different to what I am used to...candles! I only had one set of Starlight candle paint colours to play with, hence all the pink and purple!  So I started with a dirty pour.  This really is fun to do, if a bit messy, but you just never know how it's going to turn out. I then decided to see if I could add a stamped image but painted the tissue paper first to make it blend in. ...and finally, some plain candles using an ombré effect.

I think I may have finally caught up with all the Christmas makes - more baubles today.  I had quite a response when I posted a photo on FB, everyone seemed to like them and wanted one! Sorry about the amount of pictures.