Old Paper Swap Returns

These are the lovely paper squares that I have received as part of the UKStampers Old Paper Swap. I laid them out to photograph them and immediately thought of a patchwork quilt so hopefully something will come of that idea... These are just gorgeous and are such a good way of using up old patterned paper you no longer love or that free paper that comes with some of the crafting magazines.

More playing with paper, stamps and stuff

My first experiment was a piece of coredinations card that I doodled on with glossy accents and then stuck face down into some pearlising pigment powder. I love the grunge effect. Then I mucked about with the colour of the photograph to create a second piece - I could use these as paper, digital or hybrid...

Then I decided to stamp on a piece of faded floral paper I had found in my box of leftovers. I used brown pigment ink and tried stamping a couple of times to get different depths of ink. I then painted over using glossy accents with obvious brush stokes. I think I will cut it up into individual squares and use for something...

Finally I had some pva glue lying in a dish and an old Banana Frog Paisley Pattern stamp that was a bit perished so I painted glue onto the stamp (well it was done in) and then stamped this onto card. I then added various types of glitter - I like this pink one here.