It's hump day Wednesday and downhill all the way to the weekend!

Morning readers,

It's been an ABSOLUTE age since I did any scrap booking and it kind of showed when I set out to record my recent attendance at Craftathon 2018 .... it's a little BUSY. I swear that I USED to know when to stop adding stuff but .... no longer, as you can see. Not sure whether it was because I had new stash or whether it's just that I have lost the knack!

My layout, such a long time since I scrapbooked that I just kept adding stuff -
after I KNEW I should have stopped! Oh well!

Materials used:

• Costco double sided 300gsm paper
• Computer generated journalling and printed photographs
• Hand written journalling and doodling
• Stamping using various images, letters and inks - see  below, in my defence .. the stamp set was new and I wanted to ink as many images as possible from it!!!!

STAMPS: Bo Bunny "To the Point", PaperMania Leftovers Alphabet,
Creative Expressions CEC 897 "Loopy Textures and elements", Hero Arts LL927 "Conversation and Dots"
INKS: Versafine onyx black, Memento tuxedo black and rosebud
Black pitt pen and a white gel pen

I'm sure that you have all spotted one of the latest trends in papercrafting ... the Artist Trading COIN ..... I thought it was high time I had a go at these too. There don't appear to be many rules other than they should be 2½" (6.35cm) in diameter, the only other limits are your imagination. Decided that I wanted to go colourful and deployed my Pro Markers - first time in an age .. only to discover two had dried up (tulip yellow and lime ...... guess I'll be heading to The Range tomorrow, to see if they sell from open stock).

My batch of Artist Trading COINS

Materials used:

• On white water colour card I brayered the paints below till I was happy and then set aside to dry. 
• I computer generated an Artist Trading Coin backing sheet which I then die cut in to a circle, slightly smaller than the 2½" recommended as the universal AT Coin size
• I die cut 2½" circles from pearlised grey card and, once dry, die cut the next size circle down, from my water colour masterboard
• Using the circles design from the Paper Artsy set I randomly stamped the circles using the white pigment ink and, again, set aside to dry
• Using the MFT dragons set and matching dies I stamped and die cut my dragons, using Pro Markers to colour
• Using the Recollections monsters I stamped and fussy cut, using my Pro Markers to colour
• To finish off I added some stickers to my trading coin

STAMPS: MFT BB-37 "Magical Dragons", Recollections "Monsters", Paper Artsy ESA02
PAINTS: Fresco Limelight, zesty zing, bora bora, Deco Art festive green and vivid violet
INKS: Memento tuxedo black and Color Box white pigment ink
Tim Holtz Idea-ology sticker book "chit chat"
Not Shown Pro Marker alcohol markers to colour and Circular dies

I'll be entering these for the following challenges:-

1. Passion for Pro Markers - challenge No. 449 - BEAR-R-US ... just the monster carrying his (or her) bear!!!This is the top left of the 4 AT Coins
2. Crafty Sentiments - June 19th challenge - ANYTHING GOES
3. Through The Craft Room Door - June 19th challenge - ANYTHING GOES
4. Lemon Shortbread - challenge No. 70 - ANYTHING GOES

And the backing for my trading coin?

I enjoyed making that batch so much that I made more of the same .... except the photos didn't come out so well but ... here they are, think I'm done, I'm "dragon" my heels now!!!! har har