exploding box and tags

Hello everyone I'm back. I've had a lot going on over the past few months and a loss of confidence. I love my box, thanks to Michelle (Midnight Crafter) for the idea and the roses.





These are a couple of tags that I made using leftovers from my Christmas stuff. Thank you to Tuesday taggers for the inspiration.




I've used flower faries on both tags with papers from my Christmas paper collection finishing off with embelishments, again from my festive stash. For the grunging I used my whispers ink pads.
There will be a lot less in my Christmas box now. Thanks again to Tuesday taggers

This is a technique that I saw in a magazine and liked so this is my first successful attempt. I used a candle to create soot on some glossy paper then used one of my lovely tree stamps from the stamping up collection. It was sealed using spray and shine. I'm looking out for other ways to use this technique if anyone has any ideas I would love to hear them. I'm still experimenting. NB There are sensible precautions to be taken when using fire with paper. It is very messy so I do it outside with some water to hand to put out any flames

This is my entry for this weeks tuesday taggers competition. It is one of the decoupage sheets that I bought because I liked it then I didn't know what to do with it so thank you to the taggers for the inspiration.

First attempt

I have been persuaded to do a blog so here goes.