Gifts...

This post is purely for fun - well aren't they all?

As you can see Paris Hilton absolutely loved her new fridge magnet and as the challenge at http://abc-challenge.blogspot.com/ is to make a gift for someone I think this counts. LOL!!!

Scroll down to see a proper photo of her gift.

I found this link to a site that enables you do all sorts with your photos of cards, etc on another blogger's blog and couldn't resist using it...

http://www.photofunia.com/

Animal Antics and Alter it...

The fantastic thing about doing challenges (well for me anyway) is that they encourage you to do things that maybe would have been pushed to one side and then never really got round to.

The challenge at http://artygirlzchallengeblog.blogspot.com/ is to alter something. I have been having a major sort out at my house and lots of things have come to light that I had completely forgot about including a set of naff fridge magnets (10 for a pound at Poundland). As you can see from the picture below of just one of them the original was not something I would want on my fridge - but then I'm easily scared!!

I decided that triple embossing would be a good idea for this project as being a fridge magnet the finished item needed to be strong. The image I used is one from an unmounted set by Tanda Stamps and is called Cats. I stamped the image on to mount board and then triple embossed it. The theme at http://www.mytimetocraftchallenge.blogspot.com/ is animals so my work also fits their challenge which is great cause I want to enter everything and there just aren't enough hours in the day.

I matt and layered the finished image onto the magnet finishing it off with a metal tag from my stash that has the word 'dream' embossed on to it. Sheenie friends already know where the narrow black ribbon came from but are keeping stum - I hope!

Materials used:

• white mountboard


• black versefine ink


• triple embossing powder


• small scrap of paper from vintage paper pad by DCWV


• metal tag from stash


• narrow black ribbon (source not admitted to!)

Beach Babes from a sketch by Katharina...

At http://papertakeweekly.blogspot.com/ Katharina has created this 'stripey' sketch to challenge crafters.

I tried really hard to follow the map carefully but somehow my card ended up 'landscape' rather than 'portrait'. Same sketch though - just from a different angle!

I am going on holiday soon with a really good friend and am going to send her this card just to say 'Are you excited?'. There will also be a little note inside to say that I'm the sexy one in the chair on the left. LOL!

Materials used:

• Papers by English Paper Company
• Pink Cat Studio Rubber Stamp Set
• Studio G Clear sentiment
• white base card
• Lyra aqua crayons