March 2008 Tip In - Travel

This is the front & back page of my Travel Tip in for CC Swaps for March 2008. Which will be going in the mail on Monday, 3/31............the Deadline. :-)

Paint Scraped background - Background Noise #3

This is a background I made using a credit card to scrap Prussian Blue and Yellow Ochre Color Box Chalk reinkers along with Blue Teal Color Box Mica Magic reinkers. I am using them for a Fish ATC chunky book swap due next week.

Birds & Eggs Tip In - February 2008

This is the front and back of my Bird & Eggs Tip in Page for CC Swaps, February 2008

Paris Tip In - CC Swaps - January 2008

These are my first Tip in Pages. The Eiffel Tower is the front page and the lady is the back. I Loved working on these. Although.........since I'm used to chunky books with pages 4 X 4, I did tend to get this larger size a bit Busy. But I am Excited about joining all of the tip in's this year in CC Swaps. Thank you Pea!

Background Noise 2 - Glue backgrounds

These are 2 different techniques using glue first, then using ink pads over. This is background challenge #2. With the black & white one, I stamped over the glue just to see if it would work. And with the last one that seems to have a little red on it....I sprayed that with Copper Color Mists which did seem to stick. Instructions are here: http://trishbee.co.uk/?page_id=321

Background Noise - Shining Stones

These are my first backgrounds for the Background Noise challenge on Next Generation Stampers yahoo group. I agree with others who have tried & posted, that scans of this technique don't show well. They look stained here, but in person, they have a gold glow, kind of like alcohol ink backgrounds. The 3rd one I tried using a textured brayer. The 4th on I just used pad to paper blue & although it doesn't really show, the blue has a nice golden glow.

For instructions, see this link: http://trishbee.co.uk/?page_id=321

My claim to fame.....my book was published in the book shown here. :-)

This is one of 3 things I have had published. :-) It didn't hurt that Sue is my friend. But to give myself some credit, I did submit this book and it was not only accepted for the publication, it was actually on the cover! I have been very flattered by this. Now that I have a blog, I figure I might as well post it. :-) Also posted are a few of the inside pages. I still have a lot of work to do on this book, but have had Much fun collecting things to put In it. :-)