Briar Rose

Roses die cut from grungepaper with Donna Salazar Rose Creations die  and coloured with various inks.

AlphaTags 2012 C & D

Coffee time with cupcake.


My experiment with texture paste for the icing on the cake.

...obviously dandelions.
Another go with the texture paste on one of the flowers and a couple of the leaves through a Crafters workshop template. I am a bit disappointed with the dandelion fairies, I had hoped they would be a bit finer. Too heavy handed I suppose!

sticky stuff

Further to the conversation on Chocolate Baroque regarding gooey materials, I am now the proud owner of a large tube of gesso, a pot of texture paste and a tube of matte glaze medium.
Off to play I think.................

Birthday Card

Gift Box

Gift Box

Close up of decoration

another close up

inside the box

September

Not had much time for crafting as been visiting relatives in the USA.


Here is the first of this years Christmas cards.

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Making flowers

While I was, on the whole, disappointed with the craft fair at Newbury, I did buy a new Spellbinders 'Rose Creations' die. It is very nice. It works particularly well with the thin brown paper that Amazon use to pack their parcels. So here are a couple of examples;