Postal goodness and Mothers day

My parcel arrived yesterday from my spring swap partner Carolyn. The spring swap was organised by Jamie over at Lyrical Journey. The idea was to make a new blog friend and send a little something to them in the post.

I recieved all these wonderful things in my parcel- a handmag tag (which I am going to use on my april calander page!), lots of images to use on my journal pages, two beautiful photos that Carolyn had taken (which will go up in my craft room when we move back home), lace, buttons, a flower, 2 stamps, a chocolate bunny (which I had to fight my daughter for!) and 2 felting needles. I was overwhelmed with all the wonderful stash goodness! So much thought had gone into the parcel it made my day! BIG thank you's Carolyn! My husband has just arrived home from Tesco with a beautiful bunch of flowers for me for mothers day! The kids had already bought me a DVD so I was not expecting flowers as well.

My two beautiful, wonderful children also made me this 'Diploma of mummy-ness'! I love it! They always make me a little something on mothers day whether its a painting, a poem or a song and these are always my favourite gift.

If you are celebrating mothers day today, have a good one!

TFL

Sami x

Spring swap

I have not posted all week because everything I have been working on is for other people! But my spring swap partner recieved her gift yesterday so now I can post it. I was paired with Carolyn and I spent ages looking through her wonderful blog, deciding what to make for her. I was very lucky as we seem to have lots in common so I decided to make an altered art wall hanging.

I started off with some thick carboard that I cut into four pieces. I covered each piece with old text and music pages before using gesso over the top, rubbing off the excess.

I did the first layers of paint (Dylusions) and added some Tim Holtz tissue tape.

I built up the layers using more paint, dylusions spray inks, stencils and stamps.

The houses were stamped onto sticky back canvas that I painted in the same colours and then stuck onto each piece. I made the flowers with circles of the canvas, added the chipboard letters which I had painted and stamped and the metal embellishments.

I stamped my favourite stamps all over some kraft wrapping paper so that Carolyn could save the paper and use the images for her art work, included a little note and sent it off. This is the first swap I have ever taken part in and I really enjoyed it. I have done paintings for friends and family but have never sent my art off to someone I dont know, I was really nervous about how it would be recieved, but I had a lovely message to say thank you!

I am looking forward to doing more swaps so if you know of any let me know!

TFL

Sami x

Spring Swap

Just a quick post to let you know that Jamie over at Lyrical Journey is hosting a spring swap.

Pop over and check it out if you are interested!

TFL

Sami x