Paired journals (Darcy and Clare)

Here are the first photos of the paired journal swap taking place between myself (Darcy) and Clare.

The 2 signatures, made by Clare are just held together with cord for now. We plan to make several signatures, I shall make the next set, and then once we have a few completed we will take off the cord and bind them into books.

We decided to exchange signatures rather than full books, to make the packages lighter and cheaper, plus this way we can use all kinds of different papers in each signature.

So here are the 2 that just arrived from Clare.

The same but slightly different..

with the start of backgrounds and decorative gilding..

No idea yet what I will add to them, but I am looking forward to playing in them both. 

Introducing Clare with paint in her hair

Hi everyone I am Clare, mostly know as Gotpaintinmyhair. If I am a member of it I will always be under this name. I am almost 35 and live in West Yorkshire with my fellah and 4 rescue kitties that are now almost 7 years old. I found them abandoned by their mother and starving, they were about 4 days old then. I am the property manager for my Mum's factory and land, sounds glamorous but it really isn't! I also run her caravan and camping club certified campsite.

Art wise I am very much a mixed media assemblage sort of person, though I don't get time to do as much for me as I would like. I am one of the oldest serving design team member's for IndigoBlu stamps and will soon have a stamp line of my own coming out with them. I make samples for them for craft shows and Create & Craft TV. For the past week I have been up to my eyeballs in samples for CHA that I can't show yet until they have been made public.

I don't really have much art to show right now but here are a couple of older things.

Left is after altering right one is before

You can find me at

Blog:  http://gotpaintinmyhair.blogspot.co.uk/
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