Key Cabinet

I'm loving the turquoise and burnt orange combination of these papers which are from the vintage autumn papers from calicocrafts.co.uk and covered this little wooden key cupboard after painting with acrylic paints
I took a photo of the box before going on for the grungy look with inks and adding a piece of hessian and covered numeral (Idea-ology) to the apex adding a painted bird from the Tim Holtz adornments and a key on the hesian tag (I'm lovin hessian too) I made some paper flowers from the leftover scraps of paper - dipped them in melted Utee to decorate to the roof space

Art Journals

I recently got some Vintage Decor papers from Calico Crafts
http://www.calicocrafts.co.uk/ and used them to cover these albums
I bought a watercolour pad from Aldi £2.49 and cut it in half to make the books - as it was spiral bound I was able to use the original wire binding for one and added one from my stash to put the second together I covered some matboard with the paper and punched the holes with my Cinch
I used mod podge to glue a square of the 7 Gypsies tissue to a frayed square of hessian then stitched around the edges
this was then mounted with brads to a square of Tim's Core-dination cardstock (lightly sanded)
The second jounal has a sponged rusty heart tied with string through punched holes (cropodile) to a scrap of corugated card then mounted to a piece of card

Valentine heart book

I used the gorgeous vintage roses papers from http://www.calicocrafts.co.uk to cut out a heart shape book I also used the papers to make some paper roses to decorate the front I punched holes in the rusty metal heart and layered it onto hessian - that I painted in white acrylic and some french text torn to a heart shape
I finished by tying various ribbon and fibres to the book rings

Chinese Dragon Box

I have been lucky to be chosen for the design team for
http://calicocrafts.co.uk/blog/2012/01/chinese-dragon-box/
and my first project was to do something depicting the chinese year of the dragon - I used a wooden box paints and one step crackle from Calico Crafts for my project painting with acrylic paint stamping with various chinese stamps and adding the crackle paint for a textured finish - the metallic rub-ons gave the antique finish I was looking for
I decided to paint a piece of thick card to match the top and stamped a dragon into several layers of ultra thick embossing enamel which I manipulated to crack around the edges again finishing with the gold rub-ons and stuck this to the top of the box

Travel journals

My friend Anne and I are going on holiday to Egypt in April - the holiday includes a textile mixed media course with my favourite mixed media artist Beryl Taylor I wanted to take a journal with me - and of course one for Anne too. They are made from fabric paper lined with tie-dyed cotton fabric with a Egypt/sewing theme they include a pocket and a needlecase inside and removable scissors and thimble attached to the spine

Numbers postcard

Each month on UK Stampers there is a postcard challenge - the postcard is posted naked (no embelishments) - this month the subject was numbers
I have interpreted this with inks and random stamping

Alice in Wonderland atc's

my interpretation of Alice in Wonderland for an atc swap on UK Stampers
the inked backgrounds have been stamped with more 'alice' images added