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Thursday, 24 December 2020

31st December 2020

 Today’s Daily Prompt SING

30th December 2020

 Today’s Daily Prompt NET

29th December 2020

 Today’s Daily Prompt PRECIOUS

28th December 2020

 Today’s Daily Prompt CUT

27th December 2020

 Today’s Daily Prompt BASKET

26th December 2020

 Today’s Daily Prompt CLOUD

25th December 2020

 Today’s Daily Prompt SPIRAL

24th December 2020

 Today’s Daily Prompt FLAG

Weekly Prompt BELIEVE

23rd December 2020

 Today’s Daily Prompt PRIDE

22nd December 2020

 Today’s Daily Prompt CIRCLES

21st December 2020

 Today’s Daily Prompt GEOMETRIC 

Tuesday, 24 November 2020

Thursday, 8 October 2020

Thursday, 1 October 2020

Monday, 24 August 2020

Saturday, 1 August 2020

1st August 2020

Today’s Daily Prompt: WIGGLE
Weekly Prompt: ORIENTAL
Monthly Prompt: COCKTAIL

Friday, 24 July 2020

Thursday, 16 July 2020

Tuesday, 16 June 2020

Monday, 8 June 2020

Friday, 8 May 2020

Friday, 1 May 2020

Monday, 2 March 2020

March Mini Book

Hello!  Here is my mini book for March.  The monthly theme is AMBER so I have tried to use the different colours of the gemstone.  I added a moth to the front as a reference to the inclusions in the gems.



and the inside folders...


Take care , Karen x
 

2nd March 2020

Today's Prompt: CRISS CROSS

Sunday, 1 March 2020

Saturday, 22 February 2020

Friday, 14 February 2020

February’s book


Hi there, Celia here with my mini book for February.

I decided to recreate the faux leather book I made for Hochanda. I painted the cover in DecoArt raw umber, then used Seth Apter’s technique of mono printing different colours with a piece of canvas paper. I used various browns and black, printing repeatedly to get a nice aged, dirty look.
I did this on the inside cover too. I painted the inside of the spine in gold, to tie in with our ‘golden’ theme for the month. Then I cut some pages and sewed them onto the spine. It doesn’t matter about making the outside stitching pretty as this will be covered over. The pages don’t completely fill the book, but I think I’ll put in some concertina pages when there’s a word I particularly like!

I cut a piece of calico to go over the spine and painted it black.
Then I coated this liberally in DecouPage glue and stuck it on the outside of the spine. You need to stretch it on a bit and open and close the book a bit to get the position right.
Finally I finished off the inside of the cover with some Stamperia paper. I clipped the inside pages together and let it dry.

For the embellishments, I found a lock and key from the Tando minis and covered them with embossing powder. The minis are made from thin card so there’s enough room in the tower to store the book. I had to change my other book with two hearts on it as it didn’t fit! Then I used an embossing pen to randomly blob round the edges of the book and embossed these with Aged Gold embossing powder.
For the first entry and to tie in with the ‘golden’ theme, I made a triple embossed page in gold, shamelessly copying Dee’s style as I love it so much!

Thanks for stopping by!

Celia x

14th February 2020

Today's Daily Prompt: TRAVEL
Today's Weekly Prompt: SUNSHINE

Friday, 7 February 2020

7th February 2020

Today's Daily Prompt: WONDER

Today's Weekly Prompt: TEXTURE

1st 7 days of February!

Hellooooooo!  How are you all getting on? We are loving seeing all the different interpretations and isn't it amazing what you can do on such a small scale?   If you are just thinking of joining don't worry as this isn't a race.  The prompts will be on the FB page all year.

Here is my 1st week of February completed and ready to stick into my book.


Karen xxx

Saturday, 1 February 2020

February - Golden

Hellooooo, it's February already!  How are you all getting on with the prompts?  I hope you are enjoying them as much as we enjoy seeing all your take on them.

As its a new month it's also time for a new book and I have used the monthly theme GOLDEN as inspiration.  This little book is so golden it glows hahaha!




I painted all the substrates using *METALLIC GOLD*.  Unlike most gold acrylics this one goes on in one coat, I didn't even need to use gesso!!!!!  Magic!!!!! Over the top of the cover and on one side of each of the folders I embossed a background pattern in gold.  On the other sides I embossed the same pattern in cream to match the heart.  Had to have a * HEART*  as its February!


I had some gold metallic embroidery thread that I was going to use but it kept knotting so I used cream instead.

Thank you for looking and keep up the good work, Karen x

Monday, 20 January 2020

20 January

Todays prompt is CURIOUSITY.  I have hand drawn and pencil coloured an eye.


It is a little dark as I have worked it on cream paper.

Karen x

20th January 2020

Today’s prompt: CURIOSITY


Saturday, 18 January 2020

18th January

I have used a stamped image for todays prompt - GRACE , coloured in with pencils.


I hope you are enjoying this challenge! Karen x

18th January 2020

Today’s prompt: GRACE


Wednesday, 15 January 2020

Wednesday, 8 January 2020

January 1st-7th complete and Book Tower

 
 
Afternoon lovely people. I must say I am truly amazed at all the fabulous creations you are all posting over in the Facebook Group, so truly Inspiring.
 
Well I have completed my Book Tower.
 
 
And here is a close up of the top panel.
 
 
I went with a mystical theme and used gold crackle paste through a stencil.
 
For my mini books I have decided to go with the monthly theme for the covers, The weekly theme for the inserts and the daily prompts for the pages. So here is Januarys book and the first week of pages completed. I have kept to the same colour theme for all the pages by creating a master board background to cut all my pages from and then attach them to the concertina fold out in  each of the inserts. Stamping added and then the word of the daily prompt. Make Sense?
 
Ice Book.
 
 
Inserts.
 
 
Day 1 Daily Prompt- Beginnings.
 
 
Day Two Daily Prompt- Lacy
 
 
Day Three Daily Prompt- Courage
 
 
Day Four Daily Prompt- Breath
 
 
Day Five Daily Prompt- Hope
 
 
Day Six Daily Prompt- Graffiti
 
 
Day Seven Daily Prompt- Star
 
 
So my first week completed. Will be back to post the second weeks pages.
Have fun all and happy creating
Fiona x
 
 


 
 
 
 
 
 
 


8th January 2020 Week 2

Today’s daily prompt: OCEAN


Weekly prompt: STAR


Tuesday, 7 January 2020

7th January 2020

Hi there,

Celia here with my ‘star’ page.
I painted the background dark blue then heat embossed some tiny stars in silver, using some stars from Lavinia Stamps. I found a nice star in my Tando mini’s and wet it so I could peel off a thin layer, then embossed this with gold when it was dry.
I found the quote in my Tim Holtz stickers book and assembled the page. The shooting star tail is just drawn on with a gold pen.
Thanks!

Celia x

7th January 2020

Today’s prompt is: STAR