Accordian journal ...

... made for a swap ...

... or if you want see this 'animated' and hear me talk (badly)  you can watch on Youtube!

More Mini Album videos ...

... for anyone who is not mini-albummed out :-)) And an update photograph of 'the puppy' - now 11 months old - at the end ...

Time ...

... where does it go? I didn't continue with uploading LSEDN pages - too personal - but there were some great prompts to get you thinking.

I have been making ATCs and mini albums - I love both ...

This ATC was made 9 times to share/swap with a group of internet friends and the theme was 'Creative Embossing' ...

The background is made from paper that has been scribbled with wax crayons, spray inked, crumpled and inked with an ink pad and then over stamped. This background has been fused to a felt background and then I have used some fabric paper (Beryl Taylors method) to make the heart and free machined this to the back ground. It is embellished with a UTEED  and pearlexed hand made button and finished with a machine stitched boreder and a coat of matte medium over this and the background.

I put my mini albums onto Youtube (I'm too lazy to take all the photographs) and if you would like to look at these just click here  for my channel ... or on the individual links below ...

Dimensional Circlies

These are the finished 'Circlies' mentioned in the previous post. I know they are not ATCs in the true sense but they are a type of art trading card just circles instead of 2.5" x 3.5" so the ATC description is just how I think of them.

They turned out nicely I think and I really enjoyed making them. I have made a video of these so if you want more details and a closer look I have put the Utube link at the bottom of this post.

The swap specified complimentary colours , dimension, all different and at least 2 layers. This is what I came up with ...

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Missed this last week - they fly by so quickly! To join in visit Julia here and get to visit numerous desks - if you have the time! Here is my desk today...

...showing my trusty and much loved Cuttlebug and dies because I am busy completing yet another TP (toilet paper!!) roll mini album. This time I am making a Utube tutorial - scary stuff! I only have a small camera so the tutorial will have many short videos - if you are interested head over to my Utube channel or watch the first video below...

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Well I am not going to actually link this to Julie's gorgeous blog as I truly have not used my desk since last time (3 weeks ago I think!) - life and Molly (puppy) have taken over and crafting is still having to take a back seat. I am now having serious withdrawal symptoms and need to get inky asap.

In the meantime I have been doing more clearing out of unwanted 'stuff' from my craft room and have also managed to upload a couple of videos to Utube of more completed minis if you would like to look.  - two in one go may be a bit much though!!

Molly

More than two weeks have gone by with very little crafting  - almost none! - due mainly to this little 'time waster'.

Molly is now 10 weeks old and really 'finding her feet' - in some 'good ways' but mostly she is 'trouble on four legs' - luckily she's adorable!

Back to crafting shortly I hope. I do have a video to be going on with - this is another mini album created with some old basic grey papers. The pages are made from toilet paper rolls ...

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Finished projects - Yaaay!

Two mini albums at the back - one just awaiting its cover decoration and the smaller one is 'in progress'. The tag and postcards have been completed for challenges and swaps and the other stuff is a recent purchase - a few additional beading supplies as I want to make some charms. If you like looking (snooping?) at other peoples work spaces check out Julia's Stamping Ground here.

I have added a video to Utube of my 'Floral Mini'.

And if you are still with me ... here is another photograph of Molly who will be coming to live with us in 6 days!!

Album in a box

Well I have tackled another video - I quite like doing them but hearing your own voice is very strange...

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Another wednesday and this is what my desk looked like this morning

Working on a gift card holder for a Christmas present and in the background you can see the beginnings of an explosion box and in the far corner an almost finished mini album. See more crafting spaces here.

Shortly after this my desk looked like this as I decided to try videoing my album - this is the result left just as it is with all its 'faults' - my first video upload ever ...