Which I have made into a vintage pendant
Saturday, 6 December 2008
One Powerful Hour
The challenge this week on One Powerful Hour is Altered Dominoes and here is mine.
Which I have made into a vintage pendant
Which I have made into a vintage pendant
Tuesday, 2 December 2008
A Moment in Time
Lime, pink, and chocolate - for This Thursday's Challenge
I took this photo before I finished it - as it will take me a couple of days to complete this book cover for a BIA notebook I intend making with it. This is the before photo.
It will get at least two coats of varnish - which takes a day for each coat to dry, but its worth it as it not only gives it a lovely 'oil painting' look - but also gives it a wipe clean surface.
I used milk chocolate and plain chocolate colours - I love all chocolate!
Tim Holtz clock mask - used it for the first time!
Hope it makes your mouth water!
I took this photo before I finished it - as it will take me a couple of days to complete this book cover for a BIA notebook I intend making with it. This is the before photo.
It will get at least two coats of varnish - which takes a day for each coat to dry, but its worth it as it not only gives it a lovely 'oil painting' look - but also gives it a wipe clean surface.
I used milk chocolate and plain chocolate colours - I love all chocolate!
Tim Holtz clock mask - used it for the first time!
Hope it makes your mouth water!
Friday, 28 November 2008
Another sort of art - Flower Arranging
I spent a pleasant couple of hours this afternoon in a village hall flower arranging.
The theme this time was Christmas - and there were all different shapes and styles of arrangements being made.
We just had to do whatever we wanted - but had to bring a in picture or photo of the design we were going for.
The spikes of yellow flowers are Mahonia, and the foliage you can see is bay, rosemary, Australian bottle brush sprayed gold and some hypericum berries. You can click on any photo for a close up
Yellow cymbidium orchids and red spray carnations.
This will reside in my porch on the window ledge where it will keep nice and cool and will last right up to to and over the Christmas holidays.
You can also see conifer, variegated holly from my garden and fir cones sprayed gold.
Its a bit early for Christmas decorations for me - but this, I feel, is not a traditional arrangement.
When the flowers fade I can remove them and the ribbon, and by adding a few flowers, it will last through spring.
And the cost? Not as much as you may think.
Stem of Orchids £4.95
Spray carnations £2.50
Foliage from my garden and hedgerow
The ribbon I already had - so too the candle which is years old.
And the best bit is - I have enough of the above flowers to make either one more large arrangement like this - or two smaller ones for either side!
The porch smells amazing when you walk in there with all that foliage.
The theme this time was Christmas - and there were all different shapes and styles of arrangements being made.
We just had to do whatever we wanted - but had to bring a in picture or photo of the design we were going for.
The spikes of yellow flowers are Mahonia, and the foliage you can see is bay, rosemary, Australian bottle brush sprayed gold and some hypericum berries. You can click on any photo for a close up
Yellow cymbidium orchids and red spray carnations.
This will reside in my porch on the window ledge where it will keep nice and cool and will last right up to to and over the Christmas holidays.You can also see conifer, variegated holly from my garden and fir cones sprayed gold.
Its a bit early for Christmas decorations for me - but this, I feel, is not a traditional arrangement.
When the flowers fade I can remove them and the ribbon, and by adding a few flowers, it will last through spring.
And the cost? Not as much as you may think.
Stem of Orchids £4.95
Spray carnations £2.50
Foliage from my garden and hedgerow
The ribbon I already had - so too the candle which is years old.
And the best bit is - I have enough of the above flowers to make either one more large arrangement like this - or two smaller ones for either side!
The porch smells amazing when you walk in there with all that foliage.
Sunday, 23 November 2008
Something completely different!
This Thursdays Challenge is 'Playing with Paint'
This is something completely different for me! If you click the photo you can see the embossing texture.
Colour washed background paper.
Then I used my just arrived Tim Holtz masks - aren't they BIG! I don't do big - and when I saw them I thought - I won't be using them! But encouraged by my very talented friend Paula and being snowed in - I thought I would give them a go!
I placed a tiny part of the mask onto the paper and then applied more paints in different colours.
With a white pen and using the bandanna method, (it was my first attempt) I dotted around the masked areas. Then embossed the areas which were outside the mask.
It's given the book cover a lovely texture on the dark areas which emphasise the masked area.
I assembled the notebook with my BIA and added an acetate cover - to finish it off.
This is something completely different for me! If you click the photo you can see the embossing texture.
Colour washed background paper.
Then I used my just arrived Tim Holtz masks - aren't they BIG! I don't do big - and when I saw them I thought - I won't be using them! But encouraged by my very talented friend Paula and being snowed in - I thought I would give them a go!
I placed a tiny part of the mask onto the paper and then applied more paints in different colours.
With a white pen and using the bandanna method, (it was my first attempt) I dotted around the masked areas. Then embossed the areas which were outside the mask.
It's given the book cover a lovely texture on the dark areas which emphasise the masked area.
I assembled the notebook with my BIA and added an acetate cover - to finish it off.
Friday, 21 November 2008
UK Stampers Challenge
The challenge on UK Stampers is to make a piece of art using an old stamp which you have not used before.
The photo stamp I used on this note book I made, was one I bought second hand on impulse.
I had to take the photo in artificial light unfortunately - which does not show it to its best advantage.
I stamped the vintage image with sepia archival ink, then embossed it - the spots you see are not spots on the image but where the light is catching the embossing.
I then 'inked' all over the cover, and embossed it with gold to give it a vintage 'leather' look about it - well that was the aim and added a gold strip of ribbon.
In 'real life' it looks so much better - clear embossed in the middle with a clear photo stamped image - and the textured gold page.
The photo stamp I used on this note book I made, was one I bought second hand on impulse.
I had to take the photo in artificial light unfortunately - which does not show it to its best advantage.
I stamped the vintage image with sepia archival ink, then embossed it - the spots you see are not spots on the image but where the light is catching the embossing.
I then 'inked' all over the cover, and embossed it with gold to give it a vintage 'leather' look about it - well that was the aim and added a gold strip of ribbon.
In 'real life' it looks so much better - clear embossed in the middle with a clear photo stamped image - and the textured gold page.
Sunday, 16 November 2008
Thursday, 13 November 2008
Shades of the sea - 'Friend' tag.
I can't get a true to life picture of this, couldn't take it in daylight - so this is a scan.
I have shaded it from left to right with sea green, blue, then sea blue - then stamped it and added the wording.
The wording cut outs are not are showing up quite white - think its the scan light and flash light, in reality they are shaded with sea green and blue to match the tag.
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