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Try it on Tuesday  say we can alter anything this week so thought I would try to alter something I haven't tried before. I tore two pages from an old book that I keep for craft projects. The paper is really thick and suitable for inks etc. Here is the piece of artwork I have made using the pages.

Wonderful samples for this challenge at Dragon's Dream TIO   -what a wonderful challenge and I have so enjoyed making this tag I left the 'you' out of the words from the song as this quote seemed more appropriate for my dream. I suppose you have to know the song to know what I mean by that.

I have decided to make a Christmas card that fits in with 2 of the places I like to do challenges. The Shabby Tea room has birthstones and mine is the garnet, Fashionable Stamping Challenges has Ribbon and Lace I made the two backing papers in garnet and white spots and coloured the poinsttea with shades of garnet -added a lace embellishment and some ribbon.  The image is a stamp I have had for a long time and is called Medallion Bordered Poinsetta J1404G.

Here I am back to crafting after a week away and I was feeling sorry for myselmissing last weeks challenge at Just for fun. I needn't have been sad cause it is almosthe same this week but with an extra colour to play with here . I had this idea for some of my Christmas 'Cards' cause I am fed-up of the same old thing. So I thought I would make a smaller version for this challenge but make it a birthday card instead. Here is the card as you would send it--the charm isn't one I made I got it in a charm swap a while ago. I did stray a bit with the mauve on the umbrella--sorry. My added colour is dark pink. Inside of the card with room to write a message--hopefully lol And now for the real difference--you can hang it up somewhere--not on a door handle really :) Here are some of the Christmas ones I have made-they fold up to send and haveo match so you can write a greeting. The silver bits are a pack of muffin bases I bought for 50p at the car boot sale--still a lot left yet....

Here I am back to crafting after a week away and my brain seems to be on another planet at the moment. Nice to have a challenge that is a subject I love here at MAWTT . I made the picture in psp with a digital freebie and some music background then coloured them with Promarkers and cut out another of the birds to add some depth to the card. Beautiful samples by the team to give me inspiration

Just back from a week away and trying to get back into crafting so what could be better than a travel challenge like the one at Dragon's Dream TIO . Mine is to travel back in time in a van with flowers painted on it--those were the days and I am old enough to remember them :) Thank you for the challenge and the great samples to inspire.

Another interesting combo to think about this week at Just for Fun . Whenever I think of Black and White I think of Freddie Mercury in his white and black clothes on the last album he made just before he died. I thought his music was amazing and particular the Bohemian Rhasody. Where am I going with this you may well ask? I decided to use an old frame that was in the shed and paint it white--just a rough coat of paint to make it look rustic, then I made a few things in PSP and juggled them about a bit to make a picture to add to the frame as a tribute to Freddie Mercury. The backing paper is some old music that I bought at the charity shop and scanned into my computer. It was very brown but it wasn't too difficult to use an effect to make it Black and White. The text is from the Bohemian Rhapsody. My husband just loves the picture and can't wait to hang it somewhere :)