Ten Minute Tuesday

Hello again, my, my don't Tuesdays come round very quickly and isnt this gorgeous sunny weather just fab. What a pity Im stuck in work all week :( Time to join in again with Vicki's Ten Minute Tuesday. Hop over to her blog to see what its all about. I'm sure she would be delighted to have some more of you joining in rather than her just having my boring old entry every week lol. So what have I managed in ten minute bursts between being enthralled with the tennis this week then. Well when I saw Karen had put up a mail art trail on UK Scrappers I couldnt resist joining in. Its something I havent tried before and I fancied dipping my toe in. You put your name on the list then make some mail art for the person above and the person below you. This time round Im making for Gill and Karen. Here's the postcards I have done for them, I really hope this is the sort of thing you are meant to do. The backgrounds were done by spraying card with water then liberally spraying on dylusions ink sprays in cherry pie, bubblegum pink, pure sunshine and lemon zest. I then did some background stamping using a Tim Holtz script stamp and some Bo Bunny background stamps using stayzon inks in red, yellow and orange. I coloured in the stamped Octopode Factory image with my new coloursoft pencils, I love these and definately need to build up my collection as I only have a dozen colours so far. Then I added some painty stamping with bottle tops and making some painty lines with the edge of an old gift card. I finished off with the stamped sentiment from Tim Holtz. These are now winging their way to the recipients in the post and I just hope they like them. Sorry for the photograph but the bright sunlight isnt doing the colours any favours. IRL its much more vibrant *sigh*