My charm giveaway

In honour of Amber Dawns International Charm Day I thought I make a couple of charms to give away myself. If you would like the chance of receiving one of these two charms leave me a comment and a link on your blog before 2pm GMT tomorrow (Wednesday) and I'll pick the winners by a random number generator.

If you pop over to The charm blog you'll find lots of other people who are doing something special for today.

Mermaids pendant

I'm in the process of making a few charms for Charm day and this one kind of made itself as all the bits I needed were in one box waiting to be used. I think it's a pendant any mermaid would be happy to wear, and I know it may be stretching the theme a little but I thought I'd put it forward for this weeks MMM where the theme is Mermaids.

The background I've used is something I made a while back and haven't gotten around to using in a project yet, but I thought it was perfect for this photo.

International charm day

If you like making little pieces of art that you wear or swap then check out this blog.

This is what Amber Dawn, the host, has said

I am hoping to have as many people join us as possible!The more the merrier!And while you are at it, why not make some charms to share with people on April 28 in your part of the world!

My pendant

I made this pendant for Jackie .

The background is actually a piece of scrap paper I had down on my table to protect it from some inks and paints I was using to make backgrounds, when I was cleaning up I was about to throw the scrap paper in the bin when I noticed there were some pretty amazing effects on the paper so I cut the areas out to use at a later date. The rest of the pendant is made up from Basic Grey rub ons and a butterfly image taken from a crafty individuals image book. The layers were then sealed in with three layers of Glossy Accents.

I set the challenge to the girls on the forum to make pendants, the results were stunning so if you want to see some of the others check out the Chrysalis girls links in my side bar.

A circle of friends

I've been a member of a particular forum for a couple of years now, it only has a few members and each one of them is wonderful. Would I say they are friends? well if a friend is someone you can laugh with, tell your deepest fears to and know they will listen and know they will be there in your time of need, then yes these girls are in deed very special friends.

Recently on the forum we have started a circle, where we make something for one of the other girls each month. this month my recipient was Sheenagh I made her this little pendant, it is less than an inch square. I cut and layered the flowers and butterfly and then applied Glossy Accents over the top.

I apologise for the terrible picture

charm swap

I enjoyed running my first charm swap so much that I decided to do another with a different group of friends. There was no theme for the charms and I am amazed at the different work I've received so far.

Here is my offering for the swap, I used very small wooden dominoes for the base, alcohol ink background, micro beads and teeny stars set in a couple of layers of glossy accents.

Charmed

After seeing some of the fantastic charms people have created I was itching to have a go and so I orgainised a charm swap with a group of friends. Making charms is a new thing to most of us who are taking part, but from those I have seen so far it promises to be a very exciting swap.

My charm is about 4cmx3cm in size, alcohol ink background, collaged dragonfly and stars and then the whole thing is enclosed in acetate.

I'm bored of cards........

so when I had to make two greeting cards for friends I decided to come up with something different for them.

This first piece is a matchbook ATC holder and matching ATC that I made for Sarah. I made the holder from a length of cream card stock and stippled and stamped it to within an inch of its life, lol. I must say I was pretty pleased with the results.

EDIT for AUDREY :- the phrase stamp is by Paperartsy, Stage Lights plate4.

The second piece I made for Jo. I thought it was appropriate for her as she lives in a house called Papillon. I coloured glossy card with blue Ancient Page ink, I stamped in copper and white Dew Drop ink and then embossed around the edges. I found some small images of butterflies and the word which I added but I aged them first with the copper ink. I mounted the piece into a small copper frame, about 1'x1.5' and then applied two layers of Glossy Accents. I did think about making it into a keyring and then I thought about a pendant but I then decided to leave that decision to Jo.

I hope you both had great Birthdays girls xxx