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I've just come back from a few days away at my parent's house. My Dad has been ill for a few months, and it was good to check up on him and see how he is coming along. It was also his Birthday on Saturday, and I don't often get to celebrate that with him. He has a long recovery process, but hopefully he'll get there.
I also went to two fabulous classes at Graphicus run by Lynn; a Bind it all Book class, and a fabric book class. They were just fabulous. The fabric book was my favourite, it just pushed all of the right buttons for me, using fabric and watercolour pages inside a fabric book, we used paints and inks to decorate the pages. Lynn taught us how to make a twisted fabric flower, and we added embellishments to some of our pages. The day just flew by. I haven't finished either of my books, but hopefully I'll post some pictures for you soon, as what I did finish, I am quite pleased with.

I am posting a couple of pictures of an item that I made when I applied to become part of the Elusive Images Design Team This item is a card with a matching necklace, made using Stampbord. I don't normally work with green much, so this was a step out of my comfort zone. I used some beautiful bird stamps as the focus of my design, and found some matching beads. I added a lovely flower toggle clasp and some little silver bird beads to finish it off. I made a gatefold card from a scrapbook size piece of card, and added an internal pocket to hold the necklace.

I really like these bird stamps from Elusive Images, and enjoyed making this project immensely. I used Distress Inks for my colours; Tattered Rose, Shabby Shutters and Bundled Sage, if memory serves me correctly. I protected the necklace front with Glossy Accents.                                                             

Thanks for looking, Judith xx