The stamps...

ooooooooooooooooooooh look - all that rubber!!!!

Even with the custom's charges and a very long journey to collect them I'm a very happy bunny.

May be AWOL...

I have to go and pick up a grab bag of unmounted stamps from the sorting office today! Not sure whether I am a happy bunny or a cross bunny about this as the stamps cost £8 - the postage £12 and now the customs people want £12.87 from me. Plus I have to catch two buses to go collect and pay up!!

But 100 stamps - how long will they keep me busy ? Where am I going to store them ? Oh what have I done?

I may show photos later in the day - if I don't disappear under a mound of rubber never to be seen again.

Alter something...

This was the title of the challenge at http://cuttlebugchallenge.blogspot.com/ over the last week. I knew exactly what I wanted to do (well maybe not the fine details) but it just took me a while to get started.

I have never transformed a box before and was really quite scared about getting messy edges. It turned out to be very time consuming but not as hard as I thought. The whole of my box is covered in cream hammered paper (including the base - halo is shining).

The top was then decorated using an image from the Joanna Sheen CD 'The Cardmaker's Year' and embossed squares made using the cuttlebug writing folder. I used chalk on the embossing to give a more aged appearance - I won't use the word 'distressed' as i think that was more a good word to describe me at this stage wondering if the whole project was going to come together.

I matt and layered matching card on the sides of the box to draw the design together and I must admit I am pleased with the finished result which is going to become a box to store all those notelet type cards I make.

Materials used:

• large box
• cream hammered paper
• dark brown card
• tan coloured embossed card
• cuttlebug writing folder
• 'The Cardmaker's Year' CD
• gold mirri card
• gold corner peel offs