Advent Calendar 2010. Day 16

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In today’s post I’d like to share the latest page created for my advent calendar project.

Advent Calendar 2010; Day 16

Advent Calendar; Day 16

• Stamps Used; Anna Griffin; Clear Stamps. Hero Arts; LL471 Tiny Snowflakes
• Inks Used; Adirondack; Cranberry. Distress Ink; Weathered Wood
• Paint Used; Adirondack Acrylic Dabber; Gold
• Cuttlebug Alphabet; Olivia

I’d love to see your results if you are making daily pages for a similar advent calendar. If you missed the tutorial at the start, here’s Part 1, which contained a download for how to create your calendar. Hope you like this project and will join me tomorrow for the next page.

Best wishes and thanks for reading, see you soon

Billie

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My First Fabric Covered Book

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In today’s post, I’m sharing a picture of my very first fabric covered book. 

My First Fabric Covered Book

Back in early May a good friend Crafty Nanna took pity on my lack of sewing skills and came round to get me started with sewing. She also very kindly left me a huge pile of fabric to play with. The fabric I covered the book with has a lovely suede finish. Very tactile, and would make great books for men. I covered the book board with a light layered of PVA and applied the fabric. The turn in’s on the corners were tricky, as if I applied too much glue it seeped through and marked the surface. 

Here is the book, once it has been decorated 

Fabric Covered book, embellished with ATC

I created an ATC using Tim Holtz Distress Inks and Versa Fine in Onyx Black 

Stamps: Crafty Individuals; 204, Elusive Images; UA6GW0194; Words of Inspiration, Hero Arts; H2365 Old French Writting. 

Binding Style: The book is bound in my favorite Coptic Stitch using brown linen thread. The book is just over A7 in size, perfect for popping into your pocket. 

This piece fits in with this month’s theme of ‘F’ for The Virtual Crafting Challenge, ‘F’ for Fabric  

Best wishes and thanks for reading, see you soon 

Billie

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More detailed pictures of Jacob’s Ladder

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Here are some more detailed pictures from my first Jacob’s Ladder made using mainly Crafty Individuals stamps and Ranger Adirondack dye based inks.

The bird themed side of the ladder

 

Here is a link to Crafty Individuals who’s stamps I used to create this Jacob’s Ladder

http://www.craftyindividuals.co.uk/

I also used a few Hero Arts stamps too

 

Best wishes and thanks for reading

 

Billie xx

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SMF Book Swap July 2008; Megan’s Page

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I would like to share the book page I made for Megan over on the Stamping Mad Forum’s book swap for July 2008.  Megan’s theme was ‘ Seaside or On the Water’.

I didn’t have any suitable stamps so Megan very kindly stamped some images for me and sent them with the blank page. This was the first time I have used silicone glue to give my images dimension and I will definately use it again, even if it does wiff! (Stink). I have not had any luck buying any decent 3D foam square in the last few years so had a go with the silicone. Sadly there was only a little left so will need to buy more.

Any hoo back to the pages

My Page for Megan

 

Products used mainly Ranger unless otherwise stated.

Inks; Adirondack Dye Ink; Stonewashed, Sail Boat Blue, and Aqua

Inkssentials; White gel pen

Stamps of mine used; Hero Arts H2365 Old French Writing, LL031 Elegant Letter Set (alphabet)

Cut n Dry Foam to apply ink

Perfect Pearls in Mini Mister with water were irridescent green and irridescent blue. Two different misters not mixed together

 

Hope you liked my page, Megan did.

 

Best wishes and thanks for reading

 

Billie xx

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Book Swap July 2008; Lynn’s Page

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After several posts without pictures I thought it was high time we had some, so here are a couple of pictures of the pages I made for this month’s Book Swap from Stamping Mad Forum’s www.stampingmadforum.co.uk

These are the pages I made for Glitter Monkey’s book. Her theme was ‘Shades of Brown’

 

 

Here is the other side of the page

 

 

Products Used

Inks; Ranger Adirondack Dye ink Espresso, Caramel, Butterscotch

Stamps; Katzelkraft ‘Birds’, Katzelkraft ‘Flourishes’, Crafty Individuals Boarders CI-147, Hero Arts D3055 Life with Sunshine

Ranger Cut n Dry foam to apply the ink.

 

Links

http://www.craftyindividuals.co.uk/ Crafty Individuals

http://www.katzelkraft.fr/index.php Katzelkraft Stamps

http://www.heroarts.com/ Hero Arts

http://www.rangerink.com/ Ranger

http://craftandwaffle.blogspot.com/ Glitter Monkey/ Lynn’s blog

 

There are several more pages to show you for the other people who joined in the swap, check back soon.

 

Best wishes and thanks for reading

Billie

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