Collage......

Inspired by this picture found on the front of a damaged book of sheet music in a charity shop...dont know why but got to wondering who she was and what her life was like...I will never know!! Anyway... I used a piece of mountboard , sprayed with cosmic shimmer mists to fix the picture to, embellished with some lovely antique lace (given to me by a kind aunt!) buttons beads and butterflies, a faux porcelain flower and 2 wooden hearts, covered with some of the sheet music and clear embossed. Across the bottom is some lovely beaded trim. I wanted to use fabric for the edging but didn't have anything suitable so pleated this K&Co paper instead.

tags..

I have been messing about with a combination of acrylic paint and cosmic shimmer mists for the background to these tags.......the first was overstamped with versamark & perfect pearls added to give the gold crest then the metal charm added. The seahorse on the second is a rub-on, I have used tiny shells, gems, and glitter glue to decorate. Lastly, I over-stamped with script, the bird is laser-cut wood , added the word & the trailing branches are made from flowersoft........knew I would find a use for that eventually !!

Wooden heart.....

Once again, apologies for the rubbish photo, borrowed camera ! This heart is made of a light wood, I think balsa . I put a thin coat of white paint on first then stamped the swirls and the bird stamp (freebie from CS mag) then added various distress inks to give it a vintage look. Finally I used a coat of 3D gloss to protect the surface and added the the sheer ribbon.

Yet another card.......

I decided to blog this one as I think it came out quite well, by accident !! I found some old decoupage sheets from when I first started with this card making lark and thought I would use it up. Started by stamping the swirls (La Blanche)with peeled paint distess ink, then remembered I had the Tall Grasses stamp (EZMount Art Stamp) then blended with a little peeled paint and dabbed around with broken china ink to create the sky before fixing the ducky decoupage ! Hope you like it.

Cards for charity...

I am making some cards for a couple of charities...I wont blog them all , its ok!! Here are a couple of them.....the guitar one is actually on a white A6 card !

Tag book....

Apologies for the lousy picture! Had to squish it in the scanner as still no camera! Made this little tag book at the weekend workshop with Katy Fox at www.bubblyfunk.co.uk. The tags are samples of distress ink techniques, which are labelled on the back so I dont forget what I did!

Really enjoyed the workshop, lovely people ......and coffee and cake!! Thanks to Caroline and Katy for a fab day.

some more cards....

Just a few cards..the bottom one was for my nieces' birthday and the others inspired by a workshop at www.bubblyfunk.co.uk last weekend .

Altered thimble shelf

I made this some time ago but never got round to putting it on here. The thimble shelf is one of several I bought at a car boot back last summer & measures about 6inches square plus the top bit. I was inspired by a tv program about a house full of collectables & antiques - this reminds me of a little junk shop ! I know - Weird !!

Heres another one...

The stamps, BTW , are mostly from PaperArtsy. This one is really simple but works I think.

A bit different......

Well its been a while ! Anyway here I am with some cards to get me started again (need to get a new camera as mine is now defunct ! Cards I can scan.) These are a bit different to my usual style ....but I really like them! What do you think?

First art journal page.......

This is my first art journal (the cover is a few posts back) and I am not at all sure I have the right idea !! If not will someone please let me know? It feels a little like a mini scrapbook......

A couple of cards......

More grunge pages........

Vintage memories.........Create your dreams

(Edison image courtesy of "the Graphics Fairy")
Your numbers up...................Feeling blue

Grunge book pages.....

Journey in time .........Come fly with me

The wheels go round ......................So the saying goes

Fun with letters...................Wish you were here

Art journal workshop

I went to have a look at a new craft shop in the town and ended up booking a place for this workshop ! Thoroughly enjoyed doing it and the company too - thanks to Caroline for hosting the workshop.
Anyway, this is the front cover of my journal, the idea is to do a page a month, so will blog as I go!

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