Swap card using 'green'.

I love this range of stamps from Artful Impressions.  They always make me smile!

swap card using ribbon and a punch

In this card I have used one of my favourite Hero Arts stamps.  I started out with a piece of white cardstock and mixed some bright coloured paints on my craft mat and swiped the cardstock through the paint to achieve the coloured background.  I used my Prisma pencils to colour in the image and finished the card off with some ric-rac and 3 small flower punchies.

3-D stamping

I really like the effect of this technique.  Stamp your image using white ink.  Let it dry - or if you are impatient like me, use a heatgun to dry.  Now re-ink the stamp using an ink similar in colour to the cardstock you are using.  Stamp again slightly off-centre to the previous image.

Here is my example:

Joy fold card

This is the first time I had made one of these types of cards - but it won't be the last!  This was made for a swap on one of my yahoo groups.

Quilts

My quilt group had an exhibition over the long weekend here.  We had over 100 quilts on show - some new, and others showed their journey from their first quilt made many years ago to their currnet work.  As I am a relative newcomer to quilting - and I must say I really love it! - I was rather hesitant in showing my 2 quilts I have made.  The other members of the group really encouraged me so here they are hanging at the show.  This quilt was my answer to our group challenge for the exhibition - "Circles". 

Polished stone atc

I love this background technique!  Each atc is different in the colours and intensity.  Adding a little bit of gold makes the colours really stand out.

This atc was made for a March swap.

ATC using gesso

This atc was for a swap using gesso.  I started off with a page torn out of an old book, then covered it with gesso. I made a flower stencil, sponged it with 2 shades of yellow and orange ink, added a button, flower and the word 'Beauty' and it all seemed to come together.

Another card

I know I have been really slack with keeping my blog up to date but in life, things happen!

Here is a bargello card I made for another swap - I hope you like it.