Friends and Friendships

Hello and welcome to my first post as the first guest design team member at Out of a hat creations where they are celebrating their first birthday this month.  I will be sharing my projects with you each Thursday morning for the month of March and I hope you enjoy visiting my blog, find inspiration in what I share and join us each week by linking your creation based on the chosen theme using the frog.  I have never done anything like this before but have been posting on my own blog for a while now and started participating in monthly blog challenges last year before committing to giving a weekly challenge a go with this creative bunch of Ladies.  I am very happy to be part of the DT for a month and I couldn't believe it when I was asked if I was interested, well I just couldn't say no!

So for those of you who are new to visiting my blog, I'm Tracey and I am a lover and addict of all things altered art and paper crafting.  I live in Suffolk England and have a 9 to 5 office job that gets in the way of my creative passion, thankfully I also have a very understanding man in my life.

Today's theme for challenge 50 is 'Friends and Friendships' and when one of my lovely friends celebrated a certain milestone birthday I made her a frame and matching card.  I forgot to take a photo of the frame at the time but she has since sent me a photo.

I used a frame from Poundland, kraft card stock, Basic Grey basics paper, Dylusions ink sprays, Tim Holtz distress ink, Jenni Bowlin journaling flower card (used as a template), Stickles, twine, glossy accents gems and leaf and heart hatpins. The butterflies are a Martha Stewart punch.

The card was created using the same with the addition of Tim Holtz kraft resist paper stash. The stamps are from Stampin'Up and the numbers are Thickers.

Thanks for looking!
Tracey x