The swaps received from my crafty friends.

Hello Blogging Friends

It has been a long time since I have had the time to actually sit down & craft let alone blog, but, I am back!! yip that's right, back to part time hours at my place of employment and so more time for crafting, meaning more time for blogging. 

I have missed it, people who do not craft do not realise the release that you get, the calming effect that it has and the health benefits that can be achieved.  I am always much happier and much more relaxed when I have the time to make things.

As you know i am part of a swap group, only a recent member but at the end of last month I received my second batch of swaps and they are just awesome.

The ATC theme was "Art Deco" -

Christine Stuart

 

Ina Wilkinson

 

The theme for this months postcards was "Christmas", perfect for this time of year as we all had our Christmas stash out anyway -

Abbie Kay

 

Ina Wilkinson

 And finally, the tags were fab, the theme was "the sky is the limit"

 



Pauline Jackson

 

Katrina Polson

 

I loved my swaps.  Its one very talented bunch of ladies at http://www.crazicards.co.uk/

 

Keep visiting the blog for regular crafty updates, I promise to be keeping it up to date and showing my most recent crafty projects.  Remember all comments are very much appreciated.

 

Happy Crafting

 

Amanda xxx

Tags - The Sky is the Limit?

Happy Friday!!

 

What a quick week it has been this week.  I am working tomorrow so not quite the end of the week for me yet but nearly there.

 

This months Tag Swap theme was "The sky is the limit".  I had thought of doing hot air balloons as this was the first thing that came to mind, however, one of my crafty friend who was super organised posted pictures of their creations and one of them featured hot air balloons!! Great minds think alike!

 

I decided to go along the route of a quote that I am quite fond of and incorporate it as a star sign horoscope.  It was very simple but has worked out OK.

This was simply some black card with an eyelet added to make it into a rectangle tag.  I used a silver Painty Marker to add all the detail and gems for the stars to make the constellation which represents the crab and added the names of the stars.

 

Same as above, just a different shape.

 

Well both very simple but due to time issues I think they are OK and I am sure will find a place in someones collection.

 

Have a great weekend everyone, whatever you get up to.  I have the family Christmas cards to make, I may add a few posts showing some of the generic ones next week.

 

Much love

 

Amanda xx