Fat Book Pages

These fat book pages are created and then are put back to back. Often others do pages for you and you do pages for them and complete a full fat book created by you and others. You can of course make one with just your own artwork.

Under The Sea

The theme was under the sea and these are my interpritations of under the sea. Using lots of different techniques and materials to create these. There are some great colours and the colours that you would more likely find with tropical fish.

A friend was really ill and she really like fairies so i made a fairy card to lift her spirits a bit.

Liverpool birthday card

I was asked to make a liverpool card for my brother-in-law so thats what i did!

Girl! (closed & Open)

This is a folded atc with a difference. Instead of the whole atc being folded like a card fold there are smaller folds that are a bit like shutters.


So, there is script staamping on the backing on top of a multi coloured brayered. There is then an image that works with the colours and a gem. Then the folded element is added to create the folded atc.

Theme - Use 3 different rubber stamps

The technique for this swap was to use 3 different rubber stamps. Some people have lots if rubber stamps that sit and never get used, because they think the design is nice or the see the image stamped somewhere and fall in love with it, but when it comes to them stamping they don't have the confidence. So, this swap was designed to get people more familiar with stamping and prove to themselves they can do and can get those gorgous stamps out of hiding. I wrote a "How to do it" news letter which gave a guide of what to do and the common problems people have and how they can be avoided

Necklace and Bracelet Set

A Necklace and Bracelet set i made for a friends birthday. She had commented that she didn't have much jewllery so i thought it would be nice to give her jewllery and i thought she would appreciate it that bit more if i made something that i knew she would like.

This was one of the very few christmas cards i made. I really didn't feel well enough to be making cards so only a select few people got one that i had made.

Mums Birthday Card

Unable to get a card from a shop and not feeling my best as still trying to recover from pneumonia i did what i could manage to make my Mum her birthday card. I wouldn't have been happy buying a card but i didn't want to make a card i felt was just not acceptable for public viewing. However i was quite happy with this card and less is definately more for some cards and this is one of them

Random ATC's

inchies

inchies for anyone?

Newest canvas

Gothic Arches Received

These are the two return gothic arches i received and they are both lusherly. The first one as you can see is very colourful with flowers and butterflies, which reminds me of summer, or at least what summer should be

The second one as you can see is very different in the way it has been created and the colors used are far more muted but work really well for the style and composition of the art work. This one reminds me of two people uniting somewhere very peaceful

I was well chuffed with both of these and know that a lot of time of effort has gone into creating them

Anyone for a game!!!!

These are altered large playing cards for a swap on UKATC. The idea was to alter them in anyway you wanted to so you could use either side have some of the base showing or cover it entirely. I covered all of mine as you will see below

This had white geeso applied to begin with. Once it had dried i began to add scraps of different types and colours of papers covering the whole card. I then used a versa mark all over and randomly sprinkled some B-Muse embossing powders on, heated them and hey presto that was my background about finished.

Next i took a stamped image that somene had very kindly sent me a little while back ad i colourised using marvy Le Plumes, added some string brading and some sequin flowers. A few more embellishments were added and this one was done!

To begin making this one i painted a couple of layers of geeso and left to dry between each coat. I then painted it copper and stamped a background stamp using a versa ink pad applied clear embossing powder and heated. Then i pained the whole card turquoise and put it to one side dry. While it was drying i cut my focal image and mounted it onto copper card and got together the other elements i was wanting to use on this card. Ocnce it was dry i place a piece of scrap paper over the card and then took a hot iron and ironed over the top. The paint that was on the embossing powder then came off onto the the piece of scrap paper (emboss resist technique) and was ready for me to put it all together as you can see

This card also started with a couple of layers of white geeso. Then once dry i used B-Muse embossing powders to create the background. I wanted to use this image that someone had very kindly stamped and sent to me and so i wanted to create a completely different background for the image. I brayered ink over the stamped image and then embellished with accent beads and a friendly plastic butterfly. Around the edge of the card i used wire like thread to create a stitched effect

Again the card was primed with geeso. I then used the emboss resist technique as described above. The colours i used for the background came from the colours that were in the image i had chosen to use. I Then embellished with a big 3D flower, gems, a circle word charm and added some dangly using wire and teeny tiny brass flower charms

They were all great fun to do and was nice to have the challenge of a larger surface than that of an atc. As i have been describing them it makes it all seem as if it was all soeasy and that they all just came together but let me assure you that was not the case but i was pleased with the finished results and hope the recipients will be too.

Long Time no action!

Well it has come to my attention that i have been neglecting my blog and there hasn't been any new activity since august 10th and it is now the 6th Sept!

Over the next few days i am gonna update you all with what i have been up to and what i have been creating and showing any new bit's and bobs off. I have no idea rally what order they all happened in so i will just methodically work through my list and that way hopefully i won't forget anything!

I must check out my fellow bloggers blogspots to see what they have been busy with and to get a look at any new creations they have been making.

I have had lots of crafters block and that has resulted in periods of no creating and then i get a night like last night and i couldn't sleep or settle, sat at my craft desk and hey presto produced something i hve been trying to do since the 15th August! Phew got those bits done and off in the post so i know they will arrive on time.

Right off to compile my list and then will be back later to update my progress with my creations.

Bye for now!