July Variety Swap

The Variety swap this month is a nice easy one - "Have a Heart" is the title!

You can make anything you like but it must have hearts in it or on it somewhere! The 2 examples are:

A fridge magnet, made from a 2" square canvas painted white, over stamped with words and hearts then glittered and topped with a utee heart wrapped in ribbon & a gem added.

A paperweight, made from a lump of clay left quite rough for texture, coloured with purple & silver metallic rub-on wax into which I stuck curled wires topped with utee hearts added ribbons & gems & finally an acetate butterfly. (I meant to put beads on the curly bits but forgotuntil it was too late!!lol)

April Variety Swap

Here are some examples for the April Variety Swap. The items are memo boards. The spotty one is made from a piece of polystyrene sandwiched between two pieces of card, covered with the paper and the flowers have push-pins through the centre to fix messages to the board. Size appx 21cm x 19cm.Tag shaped one is just mountboard covered with paper, a pocket made with acetate & eyelets & clips for messages. The black/gold one is a covered tin lid, gold ribbon etc. The butterflies have magnets on the back to hold a paper message.