Exciting News!!! :D

Hey!
I've got some exciting news for you today :) I think it's safe to say as it's been announced, that i've been picked as a DT member on the Lexi's Creations challenge blog... yippeee!!! I don't normally enter dt calls, but I do love this challenge, so i thought i'd just go for it :) Lexi emailed me last week and asked if I could make a project for the challenge starting today, which is Altered Art, so here it is. It hasn't been put on the challenge blog for some reason, but I wanted to show it anyway.
I altered a photo frame into a memo board type thingy, which i'm going to give to either my mum or my sister. Here is a semi-before picture of the photo frame...

I said semi-before, because it actually started of as plain wood, but I had already painted it white before I thought about taking a before picture... haha.

I painted the frame with white emulsion paint, then found some bits of wood out in the garage, cut them to size and fixed them to the frame to make divisions. Next I gave the whole thing another couple of coats of white paint, inked with Broken China, Antique Linen and Walnut Stain distress inks, then painted over with PVA glue, which moved the colours about to give a cool effect. Then I stamped the front and the outside edges of the frame with my Prima swirl stamp, and flowers on the divisions with Broken China DI. For the main whiteboard (wipeable), I printed one of Lexi's images (star dust butterfly), coloured with promarkers, glitter glued, then laminated and stuck onto the back of the frame. In the top, smaller section, is a laminated photo of me and my sister. And in the bottom one I backed it with papermania paper, inked with DI and attached some little hooks that can be used for keys or other little hangy things. Then i tacked the back on with panel pins, and finished it off with a flower made like in my tut, a sizzix butterfly, gems, and pearls.

WOW... that took alot of explaining! Here's some more pics:

I'm entering it in these challenges:
Crafty Creations - Anything Goes
Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes

Simon Says Stamp - Childrens Challenge-Anything You Want

Do you like my new-look blog then??? I think i'm gonna leave it like this for now, but you never know... it could still change!

Thanks for looking
Rachel xx