Birthday Wishes

I intended to post my valentine's creations today thinking SW might appreciate seeing them first but I've managed to drop my camera on the floor and its not very happy about it.  Borrowed SW's but the memory card was full and there are so many photo's on it that my machine can't cope with it.  Seeing as bad luck usually comes in three's for me I'm staying in and walking very carefully up and down the stairs (having fallen down them and embarrased myself last year!)

Warble, Warble ... anyway I thought I would show you a card I made recently for someone.  The background is alcohol ink stamped with dragonflies (paperartsy) and then I've shrunk some really cute butterflies using shrink plastic.  I love shrink plastic for making your own embellishments.

Hope you like it
x

Ice ice baby

I thought I would share this picture with you.  Back a few weeks ago I was consoling the cats when they couldn't go out when I looked out of the window and found this hanging from my washing line . Bless them, they tried but they kept sinking into the snow.  It was very funny to watch even if they weren't amused!

The whole side of house was decorated with icicles some as long as a metre - beautiful.  I looked out the next day and thought my washing line decoration and gone, but looking further out of the window it had just travelled along the line!

I'm on the look out for inspiration to scrap this photo as its so unusual.

Take care
x

Inspired by Paper Artsy

I'm not sure where the time went between October and now but it definetely went somewhere and mostly to a non crafty place - boo!

I started this back in November.  Take one plain pine frame throw some Ferro Graphite texture paste at it.  Paint in black and then highlight it red and gold.  You get the idea,  - more of a add a bit here and there until it looks right technique.

The picture isn't doing it justice (modest aren't I!)  The inside of the frames are decorated with embossed and glimmer misted metal.  They look brighter here than they actually are, which could possibly be because of my snap and see photography style.

I've finished off the piece with a grungeboard butterfly embellised with metal flowers and with a stampboard tile decorated with Red alcohol ink, stamped and topped with crackle accents.

Hope you like it.

x

A brave new world

Ok, maybe not that new but it always takes me a little while to convert to new things. I like to see what everyone else is up to first.

Having attended ArtsyCrafts for the first time I've been inspired by the people I met to start a blog and show some of the things I make. If you haven't been to one of Lin and Leanra's weekends you don't know what your missing. A great time was had by all (despite me not feeling 100%) Can't speak for anyone else but I played with lots of new techniques and became much braver thanks to a bit of help from Lin. Never thought you could just paint over something and start again - it's made me much braver. I think I've always been a bit of a perfectionist before and now I've realised the best art comes from playing and adding too. Thanks to Lin, Leandra and the people I sat with over the weekend.

Going forward I'm going to master the art of loading the photos I've taken and I hope you'll let me know what you think.