Tessmatt's Blog

This is a card I made for one of my neighbour's friends. She loves flowers so this seemed to fit the bill. The card is 6" x 6"". The pansies are decoupaged onto a gold mat with a sheet of backing paper underneath. It is finished off with a peel-off greeting in a matching colour.

These are 3 Atc's I made for an alphabet swap on All Things Crafty Forum. These are for the letters S,T and U.

This is my item for the September Raffle on All Things Crafty. The title was Autumn. I painted a beer mat with Adirondack copper paint dauber and added some yellow acrylic paint to give a more Autumnal look to the colouring. I then added a large yellow flower to which I stuck a glittery brown flower. I finished it off with a tiny yellow flower. The flowers are all different textures. I then attached a goldy/yellow ribbon so that whoever recieves it can hang it up.

This is a gift bag I have made for a swap on All Things Crafty. You had to either make/alter or decorate a gift bag. I decided to make mine from scratch and am quite pleased with the way it came out. The image is from a J. Sheen cd rom.

I altered this note book for the August raffle on All Things Crafty Forum. The theme was Beads.

I threaded seed beads on to head pins and then attached them to the front of the book, adding bows to cover the loops. I then added adhesive beads across the spine. I decorated the rest of the front with dimensional embellishments. The paper was some I got from C& C some years ago.

This is my first ever piece of jewellery. I made it for a swap on All Things Crafty, the theme was "Something to Wear", so I decided on a bracelet.

This is a tin I have decorated for A Raffle on All Things Crafty, the theme was seaside. I used Tim Holtz alcohol inks to colour the tin itself .