Pink Candy by Caroline

Hot choccie yumminess...

Take a look at what Abi made me a couple of evenings ago....

 

'Ab, would you do me a drink before we sit and watch Big Brother?...." I said.  And this is what greeted me.  Milky Aero hot chocolate, whippie cream and marshmallows.  Sprinkled with chocolate powder.  Ooooh, it really did taste as good as it looks.  This is now my favourite nighttime drink - whats yours?

Please pop on over to Bubbly Scrumptious to see details of my Abigail Word Book, and if you want to hear what I sound like then pop on over to Fiskarettes to see a video I made.  How is it that we always sound different to how we think we sound?!

25th Club - Blue, Silver, Glitter and Swirls

On the Bubbly Funk Forum we have a 25th Club, where we try to commit to making some Christmas Cards by 25th of each month, with a view to having some ready in time for Christmas.  I wasn't sure if I could do this and time will tell whether I will continue or not, but I am certainly going to try to do two a month.

Joanne set a theme for January which was Blue, Silver, Glitter and Swirl so I've incorporated those elements into the two cards I've made...

 

I inked the card blank with Distress Ink and then added a snowflake stamp in two colours of ink.

I added some sequin waste and the silver snowflake, and the swirl is stamped and then heat embossed.  I added some crystals and dots and there is a tiny blue butterfly just above the snowflake - not sure if that is clear.

I sanded away part of the inked design before I stamped on the sentiment, bottom right.

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This is a stamped image which I coloured with Copics, heat embossed a glittery frame around and stuck to a  card blank, the edges of which were inked with Distress Inks.  The border is created using a Martha Stewart deep edged punch and I stamped a swirl over the top. 

The snowflake is bedded onto a crocheted flower and secured with a brad.

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Thanks for the theme Joanne!  I enjoyed making these.  It always seems a shame to only use Christmas and festive crafty bits for such a limited time in the year.  How nice to be able to spread that use throughout the rest of the year.  Onto the next theme now which TraceyR has set - pop onto the Forum and join in!!

Caroline x

Art Journal 2010

Over at the Kathryn Wheel there is a challenge to journal your 2010.  I put my name down despite me wondering if I could ever keep up with it - but I have so far.  I know we are only 8 days in but still...

My journal is 12x12 and is layered with with gorgeous paper that Abi experimented on at College.  She dropped ink into a bowl of water, laid the paper on top and created the gorgeous swirly pattern.  She was going to throw them away!  Nooooooooooo I said (running in slow motion as I shouted Noooooooo and grabbing them from her hand as I did a stunt man skid across the floor).  I can do something with them.

Click on pic to get a bigger image....

 

and yes, you can see, I am up to date!  woohoo.........

Sooooo, I grunged them up a bit, inked and stamped and glittered and I am doing the daily squares each day and then sticking, cos I have decided to use lots of my stickers, labels, rub-ons etc. and thought it would be easier to decorate the square before adhering to the main sheet.  I love layering and overlapping so this will work better for me than having them stuck down already.

 

So far the snowy theme chosen for January is working out to be a good idea!