Blog Along with Effy, September 10th

 

Once again I am joining in with Effy's Blog Along. I thought I would share some more 'diary' posts, along with some of the crafty things I have been doing.

My first picture was from when I made some sea creatures for a yarn bombing and I photographed them on that background I mentioned the other day!

Today was the first day of a virtual crafty retreat - so far the only thing I have to share is a watercolour from a lesson by Cindy Porter.

I should have mentioned yesterday that that Quad Easel card came from a tutorial by Mrs A at the Butterfly Challenge. And happily today I received a prize from Mrs A!!

What else have I been doing recently? Lots of ATCs - these are my favourites I think. I cut the giraffes with my Cricut from a Gelli Pull background made using stamps and inks.

I was going to pretend that my Macaw was an African parrot and add it to Leigh's Serengeti Steampunk hop - and I am half way through a flamingo painting - but too late. 

However I still have another giraffe ATC up my sleeve so I will add that as my final post to Leigh's Linky

Once again I have used those Gelli Plate plus stamp and ink backgrounds to cut the giraffe (with my Cricut) and as the background on a dark base. I added mowed lawn Distress ink around the edges and through one of my oldest leaf stencils. I added black pen around the giraffe and then some bits of die cut foliage.

I thought you might be interested in the card I put on the back - cut slightly smaller than the 2.5 by 3.5 inches. This is from Gecko Galz.

I also have been doing a bit of cross-stitch...

This is to go in a card for a friend...

And to finish - today's memory - it is my son's 41st Birthday today - this picture is from 1980!

More tomorrow!

Happy Crafting!