Chunky book pages

Pictures of the latest chunky book pages that I have made for our monthly swap over at the sumofallcrafts yahoo group, fronts ans backs, these are 4 x 4 on chipboard, for the colour magic page we were given 3 colours to work with, my were Orange, Brown and Teal

stamping, inks, doilie, printed paper, photo image, ascent beads, roses are a water slide transfer, the lavender and words on the 2nd one are torn from a paper napkin, acrylic paints, coloured chippings, etc were all used to make these

Gingerbread men

In the same group as the previous post, Valerie sent us a book of 5 Christmas themed chipboard shaped pages, these had to be decorated and returned to her so that she can swap them between the players and either make them into a garland or for those of us that wanted they will be made into books, we will receive 5 different shapes in return, as you can see I worked on gingerbread men,

I thought that I had photographed all 5 pages before sending them back but when I came to download the camera I have only the 2 pictures shown below, never mind I am used to getting it wrong, lol

When I saw these gingerbread men I had absolutely no idea what I could do to decorate them, but out came my papers, inks, stamps, marvy pens, gold leaf, glitter, cord and bells, I was pleased with they way they came out but wish that I had the other photo's, I do hope that the girls will like these !!!!!

Oh no, I have just clicked on the pictures and see that they are blurred, so sorry about this,

House book page

This house book page and the charms were made for a swap on the Sum of all Crafts group, Valerie sent us the book page which we were free to decorate in any theme that we wanted, we also had to make 6 charms that will hang from the bottom of the page, we will receive a page and 6 different charms back, each charm from a different player, this has been a great swap to take part in, Thanks Valerie

Chunky Book Page, Ooooops

I must have been having a "senior moment" day when I did this book page for Jen, we are supposed to make our book pages with a Victorian theme, I completely forgot about that and made this one instead , ah well it comes to us all in time,

The side with the faces was done with torn papers coloured with different shades of brown ink pads, a selection of face stamps, written words, 3 faces were stamped onto card and added
The Egyptian one again uses torn papers, ink pads, stamping , embossing, old map page, image, postage stamps, etc

Jen has already received this page and has forgiven me for getting it wrong, Thanks Jen x

Victorian flower seller chunky page

This is the first page of a 5x5 chunky book that I have made for Jen, we will be swapping pages every two weeks, the theme is vintage, the background on the 1st one is made from two paper napkins, it nice to use something other than paper and inks for a change, I also used torn papers, images, stamping, paper flowers, narrow lace, flatbacked crystals, wider lace is coloured with distress ink ,luminare paints, etc.
Jen received this page today and seems very pleased with it, thankfully!

Dans Mon Jardin , Chunky Book

I joined a chunky book swap in one of the groups that I belong to, we had to make 8 pages that were 5x5 inches, The theme was Dans Mon Jardin, french for In My Garden, paper napkins were to be used for the background or as part of the design, below are pictures of the front and back of one of the pages that I made, 3 different napkins were used on each side along with stamping, raised butterflies, lady image, micro beads, inks, clay tiles, paper doilies, feather, fibres, paper flowers etc,

Our hostess is Sue Young in the USA, when she receives all of the pages she is going to make these into books for us, Sue has kindly made each of us a front and back cover to go with these, It will be great to get the finished book back and to see how everyone designed their pages, Thank you Sue !!!!!

The edges of my pages do not look straight in my photo's, they are in reality, I did not know about this until after they were sent to Sue, to late by then !!!