The swaps received from my crafty friends.

Afternoon All

 

Well we have nearly almost made it to the end of another week. 

 

Remember it is Mothers Day on Sunday, a day that is set aside for us to say thank you to our Mum for all that she does for us through the year.  I am always very grateful but as we are all so busy with our lives, work etc it is good to have that one day which we know is a date in the diary to keep free.  In saying that I am completely unorganised as always and have still to make the cards!!

 

I had a lovely surprise from my postman yesterday just before I left for work, he delivered the crafty swaps from my crafty bunch of ladies.  They are fantastic as always and I am very happy to be able to share them with you all.

ATC - Rain

by Angela Drummond

by Ina Wilkinson

Tags - Love & Romance

by Angela Drummond

by Christine Stuart

Postcards - Flower Explosion

by Ina Wilkinson

by Katrina Polson

They are all just fab, aren't they?  The girls are just so talented and as you can see we all always have such different takes on the themes that we are given.  Its just so exciting waiting for the swaps to come through the post.

 

So I had better get myself off and make these Mothers Day cards then.......

 

Happy Crafting,

 

Amanda xx

ATC - Rain

Morning

I cant quite believe I am posting this so early in the month.  I am so organised it is scary!! 

This month our lovely leader has chosen Rain as our ATC theme & I loved this, so much so that I just could not wait to get started!!

I loved doing this ATC.  I love the dimension of it and the movement that has been created.  The background has been created with pastels and the clear star Sakura Gel pen which can be blended with a little water adding a lovely sparkle.  I have added the theme with silver peel off letters.

The cloud is made up of lots of tiny wool balls all stuck together with 3D glue gel and some ultra fine sparkly glitter added.  The rain drops are blue & clear glass beads on stretchy jewellery thread and are free to move about.

This was a very simple ATC to do but I think that's what I love about it, simple but effective.

The main part of the ATC is a background created with pastels and a lovely "rain" quote written on with a black fine-liner, very simple.

This is my actual "rain" part of the ATC & it is simply an ATC protector with drops of clear 3D glaze for the rain droplets.  These have set hard, clear & perfectly raindrop like.

I cannot wait to see what the rest of the girls have created.

Happy Crafting,

Amanda xx