Altered Matchbox - for Valentine

It looks as though I may be (almost) back to normal - 

although the font looks a little different to usual.

Just to bore you a little more - I have got the Mozilla Firefox

up and working.  For my previous post, I was still browsing on 

Internet Explorer .... hmmm, we'll see how it goes now ....

Still there?   Good, I'll show you something I've made...

This is a matchbox I altered for the February challenge

over on the Matchbox Monthly Flickr group. 

Now my swap partner, 

Les of Harmony Road Studio

 has received it, I can show it here.

The theme was Valentines - all things hearts, love and cupid.

I stated off by covering the matchbox with some self adhesive silver tape 

I used Tim Holtz (doh, don't mention Tim Holtz - my credit card is still

hot from all the purchases I made on QVC's craft day on Tuesday!)

well, I used his Sizzix/Alterations die to cut the heart.

(I also embossed it for more detail)

.... I covered the card with silver tape and book text before

putting through the die cut machine.

Then used three colours of alcohol ink 

This is one of my favourite colour combinations 

Pink Sherbert - Cloudy Blue - Cool Peri

I used a piercing tool to etch a few feathery lines on the wings.

Now the fun part, finding little bits and pieces to fill the matchbox with!

and just for good measure, I filled a little glass bottle

 with teeny weeny hearts too

For next month, the challenge is to alter a matchbox

to the theme of 'Shamrocks'!

"March will be all about the Shamrock, you must have a shamrock or shamrocks in or on the outside of the box. It can be the main theme it can be small it can be held in the hand of an image, but, you must have a shamrock."

Les, the owner of the Flickr group is looking for some new members,

 so if you'd like to join in you have until 9th March

to sign up for the swap. 

 

Thanks for staying with me .... I promise not to moan

any more .... well, maybe I won't promise, but you get my drift!

 

Shabby Chic Mini Book - page for February 'Hearts'

I really have no idea what's going on with my blog at the moment.

I haven't altered any of the settings but my blog posts can only be made

under the old style editor, which after using the updated version is so frustrating.

Thanks for the comments and help given.

I have uploaded Mozilla Firefox, but can't see that it's helped?

I don't even know if it's loaded (although it did say 'installed') as at the top

of my screen it's still showing 'Windows Internet Explorer' even though

I set the Firefox as the default browser!

I really haven't a clue about all this.

Anyway, I don't know what this post is going to look like when published

(if it gets published at all that is!), but I shall stop moaning now and press on!

The photo at the top of this post is of a page I made for a

'Shabby Chic Mini Book' challenge

this is the page for February and the theme is 'Hearts'

I started off with a card base and machine stitched various strips of seam binding and ribbons onto it. I painted a heart shape in the centre with Gesso and machine stitched around the shape a few times. I added a few other hearts from old book text and scraps of fabric.

I stretched some sari ribbon across the back and machine stitched into place, leaving the scruffy edges showing at the front to add to the shabbiness of it.
Fingers crossed when I press 'publish post' in a moment, it'll work!