Childhood

is this weeks theme over on TGIF.

I've made my piece on a base of corrugated card that was recycled from some packaging. The use of the corrugated card is inspired by my friend Joanne, who has used it several times and always to great effect.

It was a very dear friends birthday this week and this is the little hanging I made for her.

She is a very talented lady who can turn her hand to most crafts, from paper crafts to amazing stitched pieces and in the 5/6 years I've known her, her work has always filled me with wonder, which is kind of where the inspiration for this piece came from. Sadly she doesn't have a blog but she does have an Etsy shop, so you can see some of her wonderful work there

http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5970002

Do you wanna dance?

The theme this week over on MMM is dance.

I have had the sheet of ballerinas I downloaded from Lisa Vollraths site for ages waiting for the chance to use them, well this weeks challenge over on MMM gave me that chance.

My background is made from a dried up babywipe, sprayed with glimmer mists, sprinkled with embossing powders and UTEE and finished off with a few micro beads and a spot of glitter.

Thanks for looking.

A little something for me

I haven't made anything 'just for me' in ages, and I didn't start out to do so today. I was playing around with my acrylic paints, tin foil and some old mulberry paper that I bought back when I first started to make greeting cards about 6 years ago. I am going to mount this 5x5 onto some mount board and then find somewhere in my home to hang it.

and now something completly different

A young daughter of a friend of mine is having a rough time at the moment with an unknown illness which is really getting her down, so I made her this hanging just as a little 'thinking of you' type of thing.

spritz, spray and /or spatter

is the theme on Created by hand this week.

I made this hanging for Kaz when she moved home a few weeks back and never got around to blogging it but this challenge reminded me.

A whiter shade

I love having time to play, and I love making things just for the sake of it even more. I like the tone on tone look and wanted to do a very pale background to go with the image, and what is paler than white.

Egypt 6x6

I am taking part in a 6x6 swap, the theme is Egypt. I did begin to wonder why on earth I signed up for it as I realised I don't own anything remotly Egyptian so I really had to think hard on this one. I decided the best way to go was with colour, the blues and golds we associate with Egypt, and I had to have the obvious pyramids didn't I.
The background I did using ink pads, some gold dimensional paint which I applied with an old credit card and then I sprayed some glimmer spray mist, that I was sent by Joanne some time back and only after Jo mentioned I should try them I remembered I did have this one bottle, so thanks to you both girls.

All on the move

I have several friends who have either just moved house or are moving in the next few weeks. I wanted to make them all a little something and new home cards really were not working for me so I went with these little hangings. I've really enjoyed making these, and I'm glad to say I still have another two to make.





This first one has an alcohol inked background with over stamping and embossing. The main image is part of a stamp from good old Crafty Individuals, stamped in purple and highlighted in white souffle pen.

This hanging I've made for a friend who has moved to the coast (lucky thing, not jealous honest :o) ) I've used a large slide mount as the frame and covered it in a piece of worked paper, scrunched, inked and embossed, I think it kind of looks like sea spray. The stamp I've used is from a very old set of Stick and Stamp stamps I bought many years back and only have used a couple of times.

Another with alcohol inks as the background, also with a layer of overstamping in red, copper and strlight black. The butterflies are from another of Crafty Individuals image books.

Never ending circle

This months recipient for my circle gift is Kaz .

I have made a small hanging, about 3inches square. The papers are all K&Co, and I have used stamps from various companies, including PaperArtsy and Art Journey. The image is taken from the People and Places image book from Crafty Individuals.



To give the piece some texture I ran a glue stick around the edges and applied clear embossing powder, then after heating I added metalic rub-on cream in a copper colour.

Hard to resist

The challenge this month was to make any piece you want as long as you used a flower in the reist technique. Not a technique I've done much of in the past so I thought I'd swot up on it but found there are quite a few different ways to do resist, so I went with the clear embossing powder way. I punched a flower shape from a piece of scrap card and used this as a stencil. I coloured through with my Versamark pen and the added the embossing powder, then over the top I added loads of different toning chalk inks. I really like the subtle effect this technique gives and I think it's one I'll be using again in the not to distant future.

I sent my piece to Louise, hope you like it mate.

Challenging time

The challenge was to make a hanging and my recipient was Nicole. I wanted something fresh and summery and these K&Co papers seemed perfect. The stamp is by Art Journey.

The main part is a large slide mount, covered in paper. The little piece at the bottom is a very small slide mount which I made into a shaker box.

Lets kick things off

This is a hanging card I made for a friends birthday, using acohol inks, acetate and glitter.

I have found myself making quite a few of these hanging creations recently.