Hot Tickets for Hotluca

Just passing through with a quick swap. Decorated ticket strips from the Tim Holtz die. Lots of watercoloured backgrounds using distress inks, some rub ons, a ton of background stamping and job done. They are much brighter in real life, but my scanner hates me and dulls everything down!

Thanks for looking and take care.

Dragon Chunky ATC

This is a swap for Frances. Now, she makes the most fabulous chunkies herself (see her blog) so it is really hard to make for her. Plus, I did one for Frances on the last swap. Plus, it's dragons! I don't have a good picture at the moment - only this one (note to self - must update) but here is my effort. And boy, was it an effort. Air dry clay was too brittle so I redid it in Fimo, plus the gold leaf is not behaving well!

Crappy photo taken from a borrowed ipod (I neeeed a camera!) but hopefully you get the idea. The chunky is covered in gold leaf with the Fimo dragon wrapped around it (and guarding it, obviously). Perched (but not stuck) on top is a treasure chest made from a cat food box. I'm actually pretty pleased with how that turned out - the rest doesn't quite match the vision in my head but hey ho. Having said that, my eldest made the dragon's head and I think that came out pretty well, so thank you Alex. The treasure chest does have contents - is Frances brave enough to face the dragon to find out ....?

Not me for once, but my daughter Alex

These aren't by me - they are all done by my amazing and talented daughter Alex.  At just fourteen she shows great artistic talent and I'm very proud of her so I just wanted to give her a shout out really. Love you Alex.

Inchies and Twinchies

Large parts of the crafting world have obviously passed me by - until now. I have never made inchies or twinchies before, although they have been around for ages. I did some for a swap recently, and I only had time to lob some onto the scanner and hope before sending them off. Well. the pic is rubbish but you get the idea. Now, I've found out that the host has used the same stamp for one of hers but hopefully it will all come out in the wash.

Steampunk Valentine Chunky ATC

My latest take on the chunky ATC theme - this time a steampunk valentine. Now, I love steampunk but I really do struggle to do it. I hope I've sort of captured it. Here's the front, chip[board heart and wings, cogs and wach bits. I did want to make this move, so that when you turned the cogs the wings flapped, but it didn't work out. I'm going to have another go at that with thinner cogs.

This is the other side, where I transfer printed a free vintage image and added a watch mechanism plus some other bits. I was aiming for a sort of etched copper look and it's close enough to make me happy.

The top's a bit overloaded!

The sides are just covered with some cog and wheel die cuts and I didn't get a picture of those, but hopefully you get the idea and thanks for looking.

Mini Canvas

Just a wee swap - after the next couple I'm going to cut right back to concentrate on a personal project that I finally feel ready for. This was to make a 5 x 7 mini canvas on our choice of theme, to be mixed up so that we get a random one back. Oooo, the suspense is killing me! Anyhoos, here are mine (I made 2 so the swap host can either keep one of mine, or swap it for a better one!).

Hope it fits the bill and should be on its way soon.

Affirmation Postcards

I joined another swap (what a surprise!) for affirmation postcards. One set is positive, one a little more twisted, and here they are ...