Altered Pages Digital Collage Giveaway

Altered Pages are giving away this free digital collage sheet called "Ladies Who Lunch" If you would like a chance to win visit the GlitterTart Design's blog here and leave a comment or find out about for more chances of winning.

An Alice Swap

I am in a swap with two others from Zuzu's Forum with the theme of Alice.




This is a Nicho altered with paint and collage.




This is a Kilt pin with tiny Alice themed charms with Alice and the Queen charmes made by stamping and colouring on shrink plastic.

These are also my entries for this month's Tin Pan Alley challenge over at Alter It Monthly which Happy Daze shop is sponsoring with a £15 Gift Voucher.

An Altered Matchbox

Almost too late but just my the skin of my teeth I have an altered match box for the April challenge at Alter It Monthly . The matchbox is made from Ten Second Studio metal using the template Zuzu had found. The metal was embossed and "aged" with some Espresso paint dabber. And what do I keep in my matchbox? Well some pretty hot stuff, as DH is going away for a week he has left me his love.

New Challenge Blog - Alter It Monthly

Alter it monthly.

There's a new kid is on the block, Alter It Monthly is precisely that, a monthly challenge blog for those who prefer an altered reality. There will be a new theme each month, make an item, blog it and just pop a link to your blog on the challenge site, simples!

April is.. Matchboxes. Alter a matchbox or use matchboxes as a theme in some way...

Spring Swap

Back in about April or May I set up a swap on Zuzu's Forum called the Spring Swap for people to have a go at a technique that was new to them. Well it is now November and I finally got round to doing mine. Having been on a workshop in May I wanted to use the Ten Second Studio metal embossing but then did not pick up a tool or a piece of metal till last week and struggled to remember what to do, watched the online videos by Cheryl and Megan of TSS and laughed a lot and learned a lot but was still in a pickle as I only had one mould which was not right for the project so in the end I got out a Cuttlebug embossing folder, some alcohol inks and acrylic shapes and this is the result. . Anyway that got me back into it and since then a notebook was made for the DH birthday yesterday and a picture frame is half done. It made me decide I was definitely going to start stocking it in the shop, lovely stuff to work with. Anyway Carol has received it now so it's safe to blog it. I may now have to go and lie down in a dark room having actually blogged a piece of work for the first time in months.

Blog Candy Alert

Over at the Happy Daze Design Team Blog there is a gorgeous scrapbook layout and class by Ruth Phillips and some lovely Blog Candy too. You can find it here

Happy Daze Gets a Design Team

I am so excited, I have been able to bribe and threaten 9 wonderfully talented and creative people into forming a Design Team for the Happy Daze shop. There is a new Design Team blog which gives lots of information about these amazing women, you can visit it here. And look out there next week for some Blog Candy to be announced.