Inky background card

Made this background for a challenge on katyscorner. This is one of my favourite stamps.

Some recent stuff

Thought I'd upload a couple of recent cards while I ponder on what kind of card to make for a baby that hasn't been born yet. All I know is that baby will be born today cos it's being induced. I'm hoping to make a congratulations card today for youngest son who has his driving test at 12-43pm today in a town that he doesn't know! Enough chatter.

This card was for my Uncle's birthday.
Those FFC scrap papers are very versatile, aren't they?

Accidental background

Last Wednesday when Tracy came to play, she fancied doing some resist techniques.
My memory is pretty hopeless and on bad days, nothing goes as it should.

This background started out as a marvy marker background. Only, I had problems with the pens (hadn't been used for years) the pink one left scribbly marks that didn't react to with water. I threw the card to one side in frustration!
Decided to use it to experiment on. I stamped Tracy's new stamps and embossed with clear EP. Then, silly idiot, I decided to use alcohol inks to colour the background of the card. I intended to wipe the ink off the stamped images. I totally forgot that alcohol ink sticks to pretty much everything it touches! DUH! When I spritzed some alcohol solution on, the inks reacted beautifully. I rather like the effect.....maybe I'll play some more with this.

Asian fan card

Made this card for a friend who loves anything Oriental.
The scapbook cardstock is from FFC (monsoon) Charm is FFC too. Love those charms.
The cardstock is pretty close in colour to the scrapbook paper but the scan doesn't show that!

Far Flung Craft

Tagged by Craftygirl

I was tagged by my mate Craftygirl

So I have to list 6 quirky or little known things about me:) THEN, I have to tag 6 people:)

Here goes:

1) I don't like frogs! Seriously, we have loads of them in our garden and they wait for me to walk down the garden path, THEN they jump out and scare the living daylights out of me. My DH loves them:(

2) Still on frogs (can you see how they ruin my life?) I was walking with my grandkids on the common land at the back of my house. Oldest grandson, (then 8) lifted a sheet of wood that was lying on the ground. And there, gawping at me was the biggest frog I'd ever seen in my life (it was probably a toad!) I screamed so loud, it scared the kids half to death. Then, I yelled at them, run for your lives! Save yourselves! And I was gone....(shame on me) They've never let me forget that incident!

3) When I was a child, I wanted piano lessons. The only teacher in our area was a guy that mum went to school with and she said he was useless on piano! She told me to get on the piano and just *play it*. So that's what I did, starting with 3 Blind Mice! I had some lessons when I was 40. My teacher used the American method of teaching music theory...and it ALL made sense to me! I understood maths!!! YES I DID! Sadly, the lessons ended after I completed grade 1 because she had to go back to the USA :(

4) When I was in school, I had some poems published in a local magazine. Recently I wrote my very first Haiku for a competition on Oriental Stamp Art yahoo group. My entry got second place. Maybe I should write some more:)

5) I have a problem with my eyesight. After attending hospital for a few years, they finally confirmed that it is macular degeneration. Apparently, this is very rare in someone my age. It usually affects people in their 70's. In my *good* eye, I have a naevus. This is like a freckle, and can turn cancerous so I have to have tests every year to check how it's growing (or not growing)

6) I talk too much! Yes, even when composing an email or updating my blog..I talk far too much.

Mel's Bookie Joint swap

I've been taking part in Melanie's *Bookie Joint* swaps for some years now. The idea is, make 8 pages using whatever theme and size Mel stipulates. We send the pages to her and she collates them and makes the most beautiful art deco books to send back to each player.
This time, the theme was Oriental, but we had to make our pages in the shape of a house. It was lovely to do something different. I made my backgrounds using Distress inks DTP, then spritzed with some home made shimmery sprays. The butterflies were cut with a spellbinder die from FFC scrapbook papers. Charms are also from Far Flung Craft
These are 2 of my pages.

Chance to play today

My mate Tracy came to play today and I enjoyed our time together:) I made a birthday card for dad (he's got Altzheimers and it's his 77th birthday soon)
Bird stamp by: stampattack










And I made the card below for a lovely friend.