A play day

Found myself with some spare time yesterday morning and as I still have scrappers block (havent been able to get the enthusiasm together to create a layout for about six months now!), I thought I would have a play and I was inspired to finally make some concertina layered flowers.  Have been meaning to make a concertina flower for such a long time now as they make great embellishments but have never gotten around to it.  But then whilst doing the rounds on WOYWW rounds on Wednesday I came across Mary Anne's site http://scrappystickyinkymess.wordpress.com/2010/08/11/woyww-1182010/ where she has made the same flower but edges it with a punch, and that just gave me the push I needed to sit down and finally have a go!

whilst I didnt sit and watch the video or have a martha stewart board I did use the idea of the punch around the edge.  I cut a strip of cardstock 10" x 1.25", inked the edges with either broken china or chipped sapphire and punched along the edge with a martha stewart punch.  Then I scored along the long length every .25" and folded the piece into a circle concertina style, I joined the two edges with a few staples as tape didnt hold it and then stuck the whole thing down onto a sizzixed circle to hold its shape.  Then on top I mounted either a dark blue or white crepe paper flower with the edges finished with stickles and then a ribbon flower finished with a button.  They have come out fairly big, the two smaller ones are just over 3" in diameter and the larger one (using a 12" x 1.5" strip of card) is almost 3.75" in diameter - so these will probably be used on layouts if and when my scrappers block finally comes to an end!

I then also continued with my mammoth organising session (at least its turning into a mammoth session - I only started off by doing a distress ink tag swatch!).  Anyway here are some more tag swatches - the first is all my texture, cuttlebug and sizzix plates: 

Oh and a texture plate on acetate too there - not sure what I am going to do with that yet!

and a glimmer mist tag swatch.

These swatches are great - I just attach them to my little pen holder thingy and take them with me wherever I go then I just have a quick flick through and decide on what colour I need to use - the names/colours of each are written on the back for easy reference.  Just need to do one for stickles and possibly paints now.  Such fun!

Thanks for looking :)