Stamp Doodles

This card shows the craft shack I would like to build one day ....

I wish this was the right way up !

New Nan ..... my sister

Welcome Joshuah Stephen Howard

My niece has delivered her first baby .... 9lb 2oz. Only gas and air. What a woman !

Lovely little bear

For one of 'my ladies' who has just has a heart op. May God bless her and heal her.

Aldi mint tins ... Altered Art

Painted with gesso then covered with washi tape (3 rolls for £1.99 from The Works). You can see 3 tins stuck to shelf and holding my scissors, pens and pokey tools.

Here she is ....

Decorated tissue holder

Well, try as hard as I might the amount of time I spend on crafting is very much related to my energy levels and motivation. I never know from one day to the next if I am going to be turbo charged or super exhausted. 
This week I have been trying to get some projects completed. I get project ideas and then take no action for years but will not cave in to declutter my stash so the projects mount up.
The first project is decorating a tissue box.  I had one attempt months ago when my treasured creative friend Julie and I started decorating our plain boxes.  As is usual Julie completed hers fantastically, leaving my horrible gold and green monstrosity leaving me feeling as if I was rubbish. 
The giid news is I have now transformed th3 ugly duckling into a beautiful swan just by changing the colour. 
I started by covering the box with Claudia Hellmuths Studio Gessom followed by Craig and Rose 1829 Chalky Emulsion in Swedish Blue.
The raised pattern was used on the original project by masking using Viva Terra and this createc the raised pattern effect.