Sunday Stampers plus Grungepaper books

Phew, just in under the wire for Sunday Stampers ;-)  Well I have had a busy week.  The theme over at Hels this week is Brown.  I've made a little canvas doll.  Her shoes are brown too but they look black here.  Actually Hels uses the titles of her fave songs to inpire the theme and the song this week was Brown Eyed Girl, well my girl has one blue eye and one brown eye haha.  As is required I have done a little bit of stamping - just the 'circles' stamp.

I can also show 2 books I've made as gifts using grungepaper for the cover.  I used brusho to colour the pages of both books.  They've been left mostly blank inside with a bit of stitching and a few pockets with quotes in.  The heart on Pat's book is made from Tyvek and the flowers on Tracey's is made from fabric paper.

Another page for Sunday Stampers and Report from ICHF

I had completed this page when I completed the other 2 (previous post) but photo'd it later and couldn't get a good pic.  This is another entry for the Sunday Stampers and also for the BIA (Bind-it-all) book I'm making.  As the SS is now 100 Hels is having a Mega Candy giveaway so for the chance to win why not pop over and join in.
Well, had a great time at the ICHF show in Liverpool yesteday.  Tracey and I went down together and met up with another friend the lovely Ann (originally from Craft Swap Forum) and also the lovely Nicci - think I contacted her initially via WOYWW and as she lives in Liverpool we arranged to meet up.  As a Stampin' Up demonstrator she was on the SU stand on the Friday but as she lives not far from where the show was she had a mooch round yesterday.  I enjoyed the show but I think if suffers from being a mix of papercrafts and stitchery stuff.  I love both as do many others but many more prefer just one or the other so I feel this affects the number of people attending.  Also I overheard quite a few stallholders saying it wasn't as busy as such and such a show - presumably dedicated papercraft shows.  I bought some stamps, Tattered Floral die (£11.50 from the Craft Bug, unfortunately they'd sold out of the birdcage die on the Friday) by that guy whatsisname (I'd be able to remember more easily if he was much better known LOL) For those who haven't heard of him, where've you been? I mean the fabulous Tim H.  I also bought some flowers, archival inkpad 2 MS punches, fab book on natural dyes and woad seeds; yes WOAD seeds!  I've just read that I need to sow the seeds either March or November, tut, long time to wait!  So Googled 'Can I grow Woad indoors' and got this: 
Marijuana growing Indoor, all the steps for growing weed indoors hehehehehe.  Hmm, maybe I can start a cottage industry! LOL
The little tubs of alpha stamps are Studio G and cost £1 they're  fantastic value and great little stamps, they do quite a few different fonts; I have 4 sets now.

Sunday Stampers, BIA book and a trip to ICHF show

I've completed the pages I'd inked and showed on WOYWW (scroll down) but as I photographed 2 earlier and they turned out fine but the 3rd keeps coming out blurred trying to photograph at this time of night and it's irritating me so I'm not posting it now.  I just wanted to post the others so if you visit tomorrow there'll be something new to look at, see how I think of you LOL  These pages are for my BIA book but also my entries for Hels' Sunday Stampers challenge.  The theme fo SS this week is 'Free' so we are free to do anything.  As Hels uses song titles to inspire the themes this week's song is Free As A Bird so she said we could inclued a bird if we wanted and I did, on 2 of them anyway.  As the SS will be celebrating it's 100th anniversary this Sunday Hels is having a  MEGA CANDY giveaway, so pop over and join in.  The great thing about SS is you can make any art project you like so long as you include some stamping.  The birdcage is courtesy of Dan   I won't be around tomorrow as Tracey and I are off to the Creative Stitches + Hobbycrafts show tomorrow at Aintree Racecourse in Liverpool yippee!!!
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BIA book - another page

I've done another page for my BIA book (mentioned in a previous post).  I did have one which I'd inked and stuck part of a page from a book onto it, but have temporarily mislaid it :-/  I've spent quite a few hours gardening today but managed to do the page this morning.  I've used DIs then sprayed over a stencil with a homemade mica powder spray and did a bit of stamping.  I used Grungepaper for the heart then decided to triple emboss it and stamp into it - I mention this 'cos I could've used card for the heart.  I did some stitching down the side using my sewing machine so decided to stitch the heart on.  The pieces of shell are from an old necklace.  I added a piece of sinamay - used in hat making -  and a few beads.  For info: sinamay can be wetted (?) and shaped and left to dry :)
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BIA - What's that?!

My poor BIA has been languishing half-forgotten on the shelf for far too long.  I've used it very rarely.  I had every intention of making lots of books when I bought it and must try to rectify it.  One of the problems is what type of books to do!  Anways I bought some of Tim's new Alteration Dies including 2 'On The Edge' dies and decided to make a book utilising one of them.  I've made 2 pages so far but unfortunately as is my wont I haven't left sufficient space at the edge of the page to punch and get the wires in so I did think about putting the wire at the top of the page however I'm thinking I may stitch some pieces onto the edge of the card to accommodate the wires.  I've used DIs for the backgrounds.  I've used my fabby new Stampotique stamp on one.  The leaf shape was done using a stencil and gel medium coloured with mica powder.  I've added a metal charm and sewn beads round the edge, the heart charm is from a set of All My Memories zip pulls and charms from QVC that I've had since Adam was a lad.  I bought some invisible sellotape to see how it would work - I've stamped amour onto a piece using Stazon.  I think it works well and is useful hear as I wouldn't have been able to stamp over the raised stem.  I cut out some metal flowers and coloured with alcohol inks for the other one.  Embossed the bottom edge and added some transfer foil, one of the zip pulls from AMM and text from an old scrapbooking kit.  I've stamped a beautiful Anna Griffin stamps at the top of the page.
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