Journal52 - Hope

Another catch up page for Journal52 - the theme was Hope and for the first time I have used parts of napkins on my page which I have wanted to try out for a while.  I always look at the lovely napkins in the garden centre and finally bought some to try out!  As usual I used a quote for my page.

Beer Mats and Cereal Boxes!

I took part in The Craft Barn's Quotes & Lyrics Challenge last year, and each fortnight I altered a beer mat for the current theme.  Having got to the end of the year I needed to make something with them all and decided to do a book, so I made pages for the book from cereal boxes and found some more quotes for each one to stick on the opposite pages.  Here are a couple of pics of the completed book.

An example of the completed pages.

Q & L Challenge - Risk

We are up to the penultimate themes for The Craft Barn's Quotes & Lyrics Challenge which has been running all year.  Our words this time are Risk and/or Heart.  I chose to use Risk for my altered beer mat. The quote is by Plutarch.  I am making a book for all my beer mats which is coming along slowly and probably won't be finished now before Christmas, but will be one of my first jobs afterwards!

Q & L Challenge - Patience

Our two words this time on The Craft Barn's Quotes & Lyrics Challenge are Patience and/or Better.  I went for Patience for my altered beer mat, but it took a while to find one that I thought I would have an appropriate stamp for!  I got there in the end!  My chosen quote is by Leo Tolstoy.

Q & L Challenge - Mountain

Our new words for the next 2 weeks on The Craft Barn's Quotes & Lyrics Challenge are Mountain and/or Mistake.  I went for Mountain for my altered beer mat, and thought this lovely Crafty Individuals lady looked very patient and diligent so was ideal for my chosen quote, which is by William Penn.

I really must get on with putting my book together and hopefully I will be able to show you some pages next time!

Q & L Challenge - Smile

The new challenge from The Craft Barn for this year is Quotes and Lyrics, and our first word/s are Smile and/or Up.  I decided to alter beer mats for this challenge, as I made ATCs last year plus I have a whole stack of beer mats that I bought in bulk in my early crafting days so it will be a good excuse to use them up!  I will make a book of some sort at some stage for them to go in!  I went for Smile as my word, and Googled some quotes and liked this one.  Unfortunately it didn't say where it originated from.  Looking forward to seeing what our next words are!

Poppy Shines

The new challenge on My Time To Craft this week is Dark Hair! Luckily I have a very dark-haired dog, Poppy, so I made a LO using Basic Grey Periphery paper and Cosmo Cricket Fleuriste, and some stamping and Primas, and a suitable quote!