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I meant to post  yesterday, but as often happens on the weekend, there was not enough internet to go around in our little town, so I couldn't upload any photos.
But here are a few backgrounds and bits I did in my journals whilst the embroidery machine was whizzing away.

These are all sticker sheets I painted whilst I was working on the pages.  I have done this before, with large pieces, but I was reminded of it after watching a Mary Beth Shaw Webinar

This was a stamp of a dragonfly I made and tested out in my journal

This page used the stamp with some silver paint and the coloured dragonflies were cut from the stickers

After I cut out the dragonflies, I used the scraps to makes some strange looking plants on this page.


Nothing is ever wasted here!

Happy Creating!

Let's play and go shopping

Today's ATC is a mixed media one

On  an ATC mattboard, scribbled markers (textas), black shoe polish, glitter. enamel square, spiral paper clips, cardboard letters (and tacky glue of course).
and all I've got to blog about is a bit of shopping!
I am the dollar store queen, when it come to supplies.

some pealy brads.  I love brads.

some light wooden circles, which might make a good stamp and embellishment.

some stick on gems, which I of course wanted yesterday for my ATC, so had to do something different

Some great foam stamps, I love butterflies, don't we all?

Some felt sheets, for 69 cents!

leather scraps - a great find!

lots of great stickers with text, pictures, sayings etc.

some great papers.

Greaseproof paper, which is just like craft tissue and which I use in fabric papers and tissue collage. And contact film, clear book covering, which is great for tape transfers and means you are not limited to the width of tape.

some pebbles, which I have been wanting for a while

And last of all, some cheap kid's paint brushes, which you can refill with whatever you want, then squeeze to paint, useful for painting big areas, and for coating pages with PVA.

So, although I haven't got any work to show today, I have done a bit of preparation and since it is my birthday tomorrow, I don't feel too guilty, lol

Don't forget to spoil yourself!