Calendar Journal: April

Another month has arrived, and again I was rushing at the last minute to prepare pages for the start of the month.  At least this time I knew what I wanted to do: I wanted a bold and bright rainbow in the background, done with Dylusions sprays, with raindrops to journal on.  I practised on a spare piece of paper, which gave me due warning how messy the rainbow was going to be, but I love it anyway even though some of the colours have run into each other too much! 

I also wrote the month freehand onto a spare raindrop and coloured it in, I was pleased how it came out as I usually use stencils, stickers or die-cutting for titles.

Easter Fun

The staff council at work held an Easter Craft competition last Thursday, to make an Easter bonnet, card, cake or decorate an egg; there was also a competition to guess the number of chocolate eggs in a jar (I didn't win that, which is probably a good thing!) and a cake stall plus a raffle of a beautiful cake.

I decided to make a papier mache egg using an Easter Egg mould, which I then painted and decorated.  I was so pleased to be told I had won first prize, for which I got a lovely Thornton's Easter egg.  As the winner I also got to choose the charity to which the proceeds of the day would be sent, and I asked for it to go to the Smile Train, a charity dear to my heart which arranges for the repair of cleft lips and palates in children in some of the poorest countries in the world.  The £188.00 raised will pay for one lucky little one to have their surgery.

 

 

 

Inchies and Twinchies

I have signed up for some more swaps on UK Scrappers, one was to make a set of ten Inchies which will be swapped with other crafters so I will get a set of ten back all different (Including one of mine)  At the same time I made a set of Twinchies for the same swap.

Inchies:

And Twinchies:

 

Sapphire Wedding Card

I don't make cards very often, but a colleague asked me for a Sapphire Wedding Anniversary card.

March Calendar Journal

I was all out of inspiration for this month's pages, but had some new Dylusions sprays so decided to use these as a bright background, since Spring is due to arrive this month!

Calendar Journal

In December I decided to join in with Kate Crane's Calendar Journal, as I had a few friends who were taking part and I had promised myself I would do something for me this year, craft-wise.  I have so far completed the pages for January (by the skin of my teeth!) and February,s (which I finished last night.

Hopefully I will be able to keep it up through the coming year!

Victorian Christmas Chunky ATC

The fifth and final Chunky ATC swap on UK Scrappers was a Christmas one, and the lady I had to make for was Chris, AKA Scrapnanny.  Her theme was Victorian Christmas, which had me scratching my head because I am not really into anything Victorian!  It was my daughter's suggestion to make the front a toy shop window that set me off down the path that led to the finished article below.

My original vision was to have the whole front of the chunky as the window, with the children standing in front and looking through, but it was too fiddly to cut from card and I couldn't find a dolls house window the right size, hence the much smaller window. 

Once I had finished I had a suitable box to send it off in, but it was a cat food box and I felt that it had to be covered to make it more suitable.