Happy Easter Sunday and ATC's

Happy Easter everyone.

Below are 4 ATC's I have created for a swap with the lovely Penny over H E R E why not pop over and see her.

Theme 'all in a row' using a crafty individual stamp and the teacup hat I have had for sooo long but just started to use it.

The theme.... Architectural the stamp another Crafty Individuals Penny hasn't seen this so hope that she likes it.

The theme...'legs'..the leg stamp Tanda Stamps the Head and wings from Paper Forest designs.

The theme 'Correspondence' the stamps I do not have a dolly blue I purchased them at least 10yrs ago at my one and only craft show in Leeds but they didn't come packaged and so no name.. only started to use them this last year as until just over 2 years ago I didn't do any playing with stamps... but boy I am so glad that I do now and just love them for creating ATC's with them.

see you later.

UPDATE..

There is a party going on over HERE with prizes!!!

Chriss x

Happy Birthday and tanda stamps ATC's

Happy Birthday DD Cheryl, tonight 5 girls are getting together in our PJ's for a crafting party with lots of challenges, good food , nice wine, fab company and lots and lots of chocolate. Bet you wish you could join us.

She's will kill me when she see's this hahaha.... catching up with me now.. you are over that 40 mark... hope that you had a great day at Uni and enjoyed your surprise which your gorgeous children did for you. x

Just playing around last night with these 2 gorgeous stamps from T a n d a and so I thought that I was sharing them with you.

...they are from one of the retro sheets but you can buy them seperately.

Have a great weekend x

BLOG CANDY, BLOG CANDY, BLOG CANDY.

WANT SOME BLOG CANDY ..... TANDA STAMPS ARE GIVING AWAY A FABULOUS SET OF RUBBER STAMPS OVER ....HERE....

WHY NOT POP OVER AS YOU HAVE TO BE 'IN IT, TO WIN IT'... AS THEY SAY.
GOOD LUCK XXX

tag your it .. sketch 44

I sooo enjoyed doing last weeks tag challenge that I just had to have another go this week...lol!
Check out the 'Tag your it' blog over HERE.

If you feel inspired by the great selection of tags the 'tag your it' designers have created then why not have a go.

I used 3 stamps from the set of 4 fabulous Crafty Individual's sight seeing stamps of 'London' to create the sketch... the diamond stamp is also CC's I use that one loads...I love it.
Check out Crafty Individuals over HERE

The Post Card and London stamps are from Tanda stamps over HERE.
I cannot remember who the gorgeous Pen stamp belongs to but if anyone out there knows then please, please leave me a comment to tell me.

Chris and I have just had a 24hr crafting session covering some of this weeks challenges and have we had fun :))

Thanks for the challenge and thanks for looking.
Chriss x

Vote 4 your favourite CD

Here are your fantastic entries to the Altered CD Challenge, once again it's going to be difficult to choose a favourite.

One lucky winner is about to own these fab postal stamps provided by Tanda Stamps Good Luck to you all :))

We thank you sooo much for entering you made our day.... please feel free to put a link to The Papergirls letting your readers know that they are welcome to pop over and vote for their favourite CD.

Altered CD 1

Altered CD 2

Altered CD 3

Altered CD 4

Altered CD 5

Altered CD 6

Altered CD 7

Altered CD 8

Altered CD 9

Altered CD 10
Well done to you all, we are sure you will agree they are all winners.

Please vote for your fave CD.... not your own though :)).

The voting Poll is on the right of the page.

Voting will close on Sunday.(updated to Sunday due to poll times)

Thank you for your entries and your votes.

Further update.... got it all wrong with the timings on the poll, however it wont make any difference to the votes just gives another day in thr UK to vote.

December the 10th will be our next challenge... Our Chris has set the challenge it is to be an Altered Jigsaw piece ...we will provide the Template for you to down load and print off so that everyone is working from the same size.......and you may guess if Chris has set it...you must include some B L I N G !!!!

Altered CD challenge win these postal stamps

Your chance to win these great stamps by entering our Altered CD challenge ..see below

Our next challenge will be on Monday the 10th of November... the challenge is to alter an old CD which must include words from a magazine/newspaper and as before using any other medium you wish, email them to me at chrissylamata@live.co.uk

Here we are with our challenge for November.....

To alter an old CD to the specifications above....

You may think no problems... and yes both Chris and I thought.. 'great, love this challenge' and so during our crafting session on Wednesday we completed ours and thought wow that was OK.

UNTIL.... today when I read the challenge before posting them... and we had both forgotten to use words from a magazine/newspaper.... DOH!!! rofl.... we were howling at our mistake.... and so back to the drawing board.

'Oh Baby, Them there eyes' is Chris' fabulous example of altering a CD, she used Cosmo Cricket papers and chipboard making it into a scrapbooking page which she intends to turn into a book..good idea and wait 'till DGS see's his photo. She even managed to use one of the postal stamps to the leaves on the 3d tree.

This altered CD above was my first attempt but does not abide by the rules however I am showing you it anyway... lol. but it doesn't count as the challenge...lol

The stamps I used are some of the postal ones you are able to win by entering your own Altered CD in the challenge, they are from Tanda Stamps and the lovely images are from Crafty Individuals the hats from Lisa's altered art.

Above we have my example and this time I am using words from a magazine.... only 2 of them... they are 'Forever Friends' I had to search for something to go with these images as I sooo wanted to use them...they are from 'The Artistic Stamper' 20's plate which I was lucky enough to win in a challenge over at 'The Artygirlz blog' earlier this year. The papers are from Anita's Christmas range. the sentiment is from 'Rivercity Rubberworks' I purchased it about 2yrs ago... Karen at Scrapz does stock some of their stamps.

Because we are almost a day late posting our examples due to our mistake we will give you until midnight Tuesday our time to email them to us at the address above.

We already have some great altered CD's in so if you would like to spread the word a bit more then please do.

PLEASE DO NOT put your entries onto your blog before we have a winner which will be chosen by YOU using a poll... we will post the entries on Wednesday 12th Nov.

Hope you are still with us but before we sign off I must show you a photo of a man Chris found for me...she thinks it's time I had one lol

Let me tell you my hair and body actually looked like that 5 years ago... I am off to dream of him rofpmsl..thanx Chris...night night.
P.S. she found him at Photofunia
See the altered box file below using the Tanda Stamps which are up for grabs on this post.

Love Chris and Chriss xx

altered box file...

My take on Linda & Rosies challenge over at the Awfully Big Art Adventure

We were challenged to alter either an A5 or A4 box file.

I chose to do a A4... covered in paper mache which I was going to later stain and stamp when dry but when I got up the next morning it was something akin to a slice of bread which had been left out all night and the crusts all curled up...rofpmsl.

So here we have take number 2... an A5 box file... thanx to Chris...she came over to mine yesterday bringing it with her and saving the day.

This is exactlty how the other one should have turned out.... So I am H A P P Y.

The Images are those of Crafty Individuals....the postal stamps are from Tanda Stamps.

Once again you can wake up and smell the coffee!!

It's what I used to stain the box... I tried to palm what was left of the coffee onto Chris but she wouldn't play! LOL

Just want to say A big thanx to Chris for the great crafting session and photographs...she ended up staying over again as this time the petrol station was closed at 11pm.....so we continued on until 2am. Can't get rid of her. lol

Thanx for the challenge L&R x

P.S. mine is a gift for someone BUT I will be making myself another as it looks great on my hall table.

NOTICE, Willow is now having a weekly challenge over at her 'Fairy Dust Bag' blog and this is what she wrote...

Every Thursday I will be setting the challenge where I will submit a Willow Sketchie and card example...(remember..you can make whatever you like, using ANY products, the sketchie is there to give you ideas, follow it as you wish. At the end of every week I will be looking to put the most inspiring piece of work on-line in Willow Designs gallery and who will be asked to join me in the following challenge as a guest designer!

Why not pop over HERE and take a look.

Tomorrow Chris and I will post our take on the Altered CD challenge hope you have all managed to find yourselves an old one to give it ago.

Chriss xx

CD Challenge Prize.

Just to remind you about our next blog challenge that is coming up soon.

Our next challenge will be on Monday the 10th of November... the challenge is to alter an old CD which must include words from a magazine/newspaper and as before using any other medium you wish, email them to me at chrissylamata@live.co.uk.

The Postal stamps above have been donated by Andrew at TANDA STAMPS

as our prize for the altered CD challenge, the winner will be chosen once again by YOU using the voting poll. Click on the Tanda stamps above pop over and start making your Christmas wish list...leaving it next to the kettle, in the bathroom, on their pillow, in their lunch box ,everywhere where it can be seen by the whole family... lol.

Hang onto those old CD's everyone is welcome to join in the challenge.

Thank you sooo much for your support xxx

Recycle aluminium cans

Hey, why not pop over to see some recycling using aluminium cans at the scrapbook lounge

http://sbl.tvweekly.com/player.php?a42f2a8661dc8cc5a78fd87024935656z6680

Thanx to Joanne on Tanda Stamps forum

Thanx Chriss x

Altered Envelope Winner

Congratulations to our winner who was chosen by YOU.

Huge T H A N K Y O U to all of YOU for taking part in our 1st challenge on The Papergirls, without you it couldn't happen and in my eyes they are ALL worthy WINNERS, they are all fantastic, I was thrilled to bits when they arrived in my mail box and each one I opened had me soooo excited I could hardly wait to post them to TPG blog.

If you can imagine winning a huge sum of money ...well that is how I felt when I saw 63 votes were made :)) well can you imagine how I am feeling to end the poll on 102 VOTES, I was dancing around my living room trying not to stand on my crafting goodies that are scattered all over the floor.

T H A N K Y O U to all of you who voted :)).

....so without further ado.... drum roll please...

Our chosen winner is F E M M Y , Femmy thank you for entering and congratulations on winning. Below is your Prize donated by 'Tanda Stamps' thank you TS.

You can check out Femmy's blog over HERE, please enjoy your stamps which are just in time for Christmas.

Our next challenge will be on Monday the 10th of November... the challenge is to alter an old CD which must include words from a magazine/newspaper and as before using any other medium you wish, email them to me at chrissylamata@live.co.uk.

Please scan or photograph your art with a back ground so that when It is uploaded it will be in a square and not in a circle which would have a lot of white around your art and would not compliment your altered CD, if you don't know what I mean please contact me.

For all who took part if you would like to have our readers come and see your blog please leave a comment inviting us... it will enable us to click on your name and then we can pop over and see you.
Once again T H A N K Y O U. x
EDIT ...OH! I almost forgot the challenge altered envies was my 100th post and to celebrate I put all the names of the artists into a hat (a bowl really) and picked out number 4... who happens to be Jane... you were picked out and a little parcel of stash is yours... enjoy.
And a small parcel of goodies goes to number 8 chosen from those leaving a comment on the 100th post and the 8th person to leave a comment was Denise...thanx Denise.

Our Altered Envelope Challenge

At last we are here and it would seem that some of the pictures were too large and this was the reason Mr Blogger just couldn't upload for me.
Thank you Chrissy for telling me how to put that right. :))
So after a long delay lets get going.
My altered envelope below which I entered for a numbers challenge on Mixed Media Monday is what set this challenge off.

and even with such short notice 19 of you have entered fantastic pieces of ART.... all of them are a work of ART and it will be SO difficult for me to choose a favourite to vote for, I am sure you will all have the same problem.

Please vote for your Favourite Altered Envelope... not your own though... rofpmsl.... the poll is on the side bar on the right. ( if I can get it to load lol )
the voting is open to everyone.

Lets get started then..... I bet you have already scrolled down to have a look at them before you read all of this.. its what I would do...lol.

Here is entry number 1


Entry number 2


Entry number 3


Enter number 4

Entry number 5

Entry number 6



Entry number 7

Entry number 8


Entry number 9

Entry number 10

Entry number 11

Entry number 12

Entry number 13

Entry number 14

Entry number 15

Entry number 16

Entry number 17


Entry number 18



Entry number 19


19 Wonderful, Fabulous Altered Envelopes..... a huge THANK YOU to all 19 of you because without you it couldnt happen.

The person with the most votes will receive one of Tanda Stamps new Christmas stamps.
GOOD LUCK TO YOU ALL.
Many of you that entered this challenge asked if we could do the challenge on a regular basis..... We have talked it through and for now we would love to set a challenge once a month as most of us already do some of the other fantastic challenges out there...Hope that is ok .... and so for next month it will be to alter an old CD... as we all have those lying around.. but more on that nearer the time.
Once again thank you and happy voting the poll will close Saturday 11th October. x