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Its Wednesday, and time for the weekly snoop across the desks of the crafting blogland, led by the amazing Julia.  (WARNING this is going to be a long post and photo heavy!!!  Put the kettle on!!)

So on my desk yesterday lunch time was ... 

a tin can!!!

 And by 9pm last night it looked like this ...

I took some Kraft coredinations, masked it with a sentcil, glimmer misted and chalkboard misted it, dried, and then embossed and sanded back.  I glimmer misted a heart doilly and cut out some pennants using a WOJ die and embossed them.  The image from Sugar Nellie is printed out onto kraft cardstock and coloured using my promarkers.  I added tulle, buttons, brads and twine.  This is my first attempt at an altered tin can.

And here it is in the light of day, holding my ink dusters.

Challenges:

Sew Many - twine

Allsorts - pennants

Try it Tuesday - alter a tin can

Cupcake Craft - colour on kraft

Craft your days away - buttons or bows
The Paper Shelter - Anything Goes
Divas by Design - Anything Goes

OK now you remember the canvas bag from last week ...

Well it was too dark when it dried, so I washed it in the washing machine with some bleach, thinking it might go back to white and I'd start again.

Well it didn't go white, but i like the effect so ....

I used a Tattered Angels screen, some chalkboard mists, the matching stamp to do add a butterfly. I repeated the process on the other side.

While it was drying I cut tattered flowers out of calico and chalkboarded them ... they needed 3 coats to get the deep colour I wanted.

I stitched the flowers together and added a button and then sewed them onto the bag.  I also went over the butterfly with Tattered Angel Glitter glam to add some sparkle detail, and stamped some swirls in glitter glaze.

Finally I stamped the motto on using chalkboard ink sprayed onto cut n dry foam as my ink pad.

I am really proud of it ...

both sides!

And here it is with my ipad all snug inside it.

Challenges:
Stampin' Royalty - Anything but a card
Simon Says Stamp - Anything Goes
Fab n Funky - Anything Goes

Right ... thank you if you have got to the end of this post and a bigger thank you if you are not bored rigid!!  The girls are off school today due to the strike so maybe a bit of crafting this morning with them, and then off to the cinema this afternoon.