Friday - Finish Off Day

Quite a few UFOs sorted today.  My lateness in posting is largely due to my continued internet problems.  That means that to get  decent photo, I have to take the camera to the computer, download the pictures I need, edit them there, then transfer them to the Kindle.  Three times the work.

This first one has been hanging around for at least two years, since the Clarity retreat that year.  It got pushed aside because I dropped a real changer on the other piece that went with it and hid it from Barbara, and it has remained hidden since then.  This week, I finished the snipping and decided to get it mounted up.  Unfortunately, I forgot one other process I had meant to do, which was some light embossing on the bodies to give them a little shape.

Number 2 is a non-Clarity design, but using basic parchment techniques.  I was at a local class and looking for a way to make the card mine. It was just a stamp and colour on card, but I thought it would make a good parchment piece, so I stamped th design onto card and then traced what I wanted, before painting and embossing the flowers.

Number 3 stems from the lovely blue tit from Linda Williams.  I had already done the squirrel this week and was looking for more creatures to fluff.  These two owls seemed to fit the bill.  Like the squirrel, the colours were very mixed, with tyre different browns, two greys, white, cream and black, with blue in the background.  It is mounted on a scrap piece of Clarity designer paper, which gave me hills in the background.

Number 4 is another that has been hanging round for years.  I acquired a pile of very old embroidery transfers from an aunt after her death.  Although I don't do much needlework these days, I kept them and one or two have been used for colouring and some traced for parchment work.  This is one of those.  Sadly, I don't think this shows well in a photo, but it does look better in real life.

Finally, I wanted to show the lovely PTC and accompanying card that arrived this week from Maureen Riggs. Thank you, Maureen.  They are lovely and I will treasure them.

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