Cabochon Parade

Welcome back, I hope that you had a wonderful weekend.  It was cold and wet here but I hope that the new month will bring a change in the weather.

I was reminded yesterday that 29 years ago a cousin married and the weather was much the same on that day.  The weather the day they married may have been a lot better but it must have been a good omen because they are still  very happy and recently became grandparents.  Congratulations to everyone concerned.

We have reached the mid point of the current challenge at Crafty Boots Challenges, which is a sketch challenge. There are one or two additional rules for our sketch challenge:

• you can rotate the sketch and you can re size the elements if you wish. 
• do not move the elements around too much, the original sketch layout should still be recognisable. 
• you can use any materials you like to make anything you like, for example, a card, a box top, a gift bag, a scrapbook page, an ATC, an inchie, etc. Just as long as the original sketch design is obvious in whatever you make.

I have an Artist Trading Card to share with you today.  The base of the card is made from blue glitter card.  The cabochons are different sizes, different colours and some are clear whilst others pearl like, but they are all brads - the larger ones came from Wild Orchid Crafts (not sure where I got the smaller ones).  The remind me of polished stones on the bed of a flowing river, tossed about until the are smooth and shinny.  

There are two very talented Guest Designers joining the Crafty Boots team today, make sure you see their fabulous cards, along with those made by the rest of the team, and perhaps visit their blogs.

Dionne