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Happy Thursday ...... What's this .... no tag? No, I've got something a little different today ...... Artist Trading Coins. If you're not familiar with these, they're just like ATC's (Artist Trading Cards) except they're circles.  Two and half inches in diameter and, as with ATC's, they can have any design on them or be any theme, and they are mean't to be swapped. I recently became a member of an ATC/AT Coin group on  group on Facebook , started up by the lovely Kylie (Addicted to Stamps and More) .  There's quite a few of us on there now, from all over the world, and the idea is we swap our little works of art with each other.  There's a swap going on for November, we have to create a set of three Coins with a Christmas theme.  This particular set will be winging its way to Australia very soon! These coins are made from MDF, which is a great surface to work on.  They can be made from card though ..... perfect if you have a 2.5 inch punch. I ga...

Happy Tuesday ....... It's tag time again, and I think this is one of my favourites so far ..... I'm definitely going for the CAS look with this year's designs. I must admit, I am a bit of a traditional gal when it comes to Christmas ...... festive red's and greens, and I love the frosty looking metallics with pretty gold and silvers.  Saying that, I may have to change my colour scheme just a little bit this year, if we end up with the Christmas tree I have my eye on!! This is my Tag number 8 for the 12 Tags of Christmas with Loll & Friends I'm having so much fun playing along with this year's event .... have you joined in yet? White cardstock for the tag ...... gold and silver metallic inks for the snowflakes ..... with one beautiful, large snowflake heat embossed over the top ..... A little bit of ink splattering on to the background ..... I used the same gold and silver inks that I stamped the snowflakes in And then a simple greeting on the bottom ..... s...

Happy Friday ....... Well the bags are packed, my craft room door is closed, and we're nearly ready to go.  BUT ...... the weather is a bit of a problem.  We've got rain, wind, and more rain!  Delightful ....... especially when we're booked on the boat!!  Oh well ..... the weather is one thing we can't control.  Serves us right for booking a ferry trip in November I suppose. We'll just have to sit tight and hope the storm passes quickly.  In the meantime, I'm playing along with the 12 Tags of Christmas with Loll & Friends  again.  I'm a little early for the official Day 5 post but, here's my Tag number 5 ........ and we're going a little bit vintage for this one I do love poinsettias at Christmas .... but as I think I've told you before, I'm not very good at keeping the real ones alive! This one looks healthy enough though ...... stamped ones I can cope with! This beautiful bloom has been stamped and heat embossed in gold, onto the bottom...

Hello there, me again ....... How's your day been? I've had a lovely day, cosy and warm in my craft room.  Tags are done, craft bags are packed and I've even finished off some AT Coins ready for a Christmas Swap ..... I've had a great day! To finish it off I'm playing along with the 12 Tags of Christmas with Loll & Friends again ..... It's Day 3 today (Wednesday) ...... and here's tag number 3 Something a little bit different ..... a layered tag, and I've used vellum!! I saw a beautiful little tag last month done by Anita from neetandcrafty.blogspot.com  and I was inspired by the colours and thought the vellum layer added a pretty delicate look, so this is my take on it. I also wanted to use this gorgeous little die that I received recently.  Thank you so much hun .... you know who you are .... mwha! I embossed the vellum layer using the Stampin Up! Softly Falling EF and used it as the backdrop for my Christmas Trees. I added the stitched frame ove...

Happy Friday ...... It's the first Friday of the month and you all know what that means ...... yes, the latest copy of the Craft Stamper magazine hits the shelves today so ........ it's also time to get this month's Craft Stamper challenge underway. As always the theme is Anything Goes  ...... cards, tags, journal pages,  the list is endless.  Just remember ....... include some actual rubber stamping on your project and you're good to go. You can enter up to three different projects into the challenge, but each one must have its own blog post. And speaking of blog posts, please keep to just the one project per post ..... thanks We've got 2 fabulous prizes for you again this month ....... there's the regular Design Winner, chosen by the DT and they get their winning project published in the magazine along with a Winner's Profile and a GD spot.  And there's also our monthly, randomly chosen, Challenge Winner.  What a treat we have for them this month ......

Happy Sunday evening ....... Phew!  What a busy week it's been.  Time to chill out a little now as we start the countdown to our little family break in the Cotswolds at the end of this week ...... only 5 sleeps to go! Now that's something to smile about ..... which brings me nicely in to this month's Happy Little Stampers ATC Challenge ....... As you can see, our theme for June is ........ SMILE!  Go on ..... you can do it! Maybe these will help ....... A fun set of ATC's simply covered in smiles. I added colour to a piece of white cardstock by splattering different Distress Oxide inks using a paint brush ........ smoosh the ink onto a craft sheet, spritz with water, and then pick up the ink with a paintbrush and simply splatter it randomly over the card ..... easy.  Leave to dry for a few seconds in between colours so that the inks don't run into each other, and go all muddy. I then cut three pieces to form the base of my ATCs. The first one was simply a smiley fa...