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Here is the photo of my second challenge

Paris Challenge

As most of you will know by now 4 of us headed of to Paris last weekend to Version Scrap, I didn't take many photos as I was chief tour guide which meant having my head buried in a guide book for most of the weekend! 

We did have a fabulous time and bought lots of yummy goodies too.

I challenged the girls to make 2 things, 1 using products they bought at the show and the other using some tissues tht Helen and Lin bought at the top of the Arc du Triumph and were kind enough to share with Sam and I. 
this is my page using the tissues, apologies fot it being on its side.

This is my page using products bought at the show, it features american crafts paint rollers, Paperartsy stamps and some of the new  metallic inks i bought at the show.

PaperArtsy Challenge

The http://blog.paperartsy.co.uk/2014/02/weekly-challenge-and-winners-february_16.html challenge this week is all about the fabulous Ellen Vargo, here is my effort, i followed the blog post for the background but as i dont (yet) have any of Ellens stamps i used my Kate Crane ones to create the flower instead.

Darcy challenge

Over at PaperArtsy Darcy has started a monthly journal challenge, see it here,  Darcys page had 14 coats of paint on and for my sins so has mine! My arms nearly fell off rubbing back all that paint!!

I am showing you a part finished page as there are some words i want to add that i don't want to share publicly. I have used the same grunge paste, masking tape and painting techniques that Darcy has used and also the rubbing of the stencil under the page is incorporated too.

I really enjoyed layering up all these paints, it felt very therapeutic.

Thanks for looking.

More ATCs

Over at the ATC swap we are having to be super organised as our leader is going on holiday soon. February theme is faces and this is what i did

The backgrounds are dylusions sprays on watercolour paper and the stamp is Lynne Perella,i think these look a bit freaky now i have seen them on the big screen lol.

Bright tags

One of the themes for the tag swap i am part of is brights and this is what i came up with

I used distress stains througout, the background stamps are by Kate Crane and the flowers are Sam Poole for creative expressions.

Although they are not quite 'me' i think they certainly fill the criteria of bright!

Wall hanging

It was the return of the lovely Jo Myhill at PaperArtsy last night and i was inspired to make this hanging, i think i will add some cup hooks to to the plaque, but at present i don't have any.

I used squid ink, eggplant, pansy and moonlight frescos, the plaque was made using the same technique Jo used, but i wrapped it with some silver mesh and raffia. I used imperial purple versafine to stamp on my heart (i then stuck it on upside down twice), then covered it in 2 coats of UTEE.

Its actually quite a bit darker than in the photo but the day is so gloomy i had to take pictures in my kitchen with the halogen lights on!

Thanks for looking