Journal pages

I joined Pam Carriker's journal workshops hosted by Gail from Creative Workshops and Shabby Cottage Studio. Here are my first two pages. They have gone through the first three stages outlined in the workshop.

New Give away

Lisa Volrath is doing another give away. There will be downloadable images on her blog http://countdown.tentwostudios.com, between February 1 and Valentines Day.

Think Monday Think ATC "Ice Blue"

Here is my entry for this week's challenge at TMTA. Been so busy with looking at all the OWOH blog's that I did not do any art work myself, but this week I decided I must do something. The background is multy layers, stamping, inking, gesso, more stamping etc. The image is a gel medium transfer. Finished off with some lace, hand made flower and doodling.

One world one heart

Most people will know by now about the one worl one heart give away. I decided to give away a beautiful stamp set of 15 medieval tarot card stamps. Leave a comment on this post for a chance to win and do check out by clicking the one world logo what it is all about, if you don't know already. The picture just shows some of the stamps, as I said there are 15 in the set and they are mounted on EZ mount already. If you don't have a blog, make sure to leave your email in your comment. The winner will be drawn on February 12

Sunday Postcard "Turqoise!

The theme at Sunday Postcard is Turqoise. Have not managed to participate for ages because of lack of time, but this week I really wanted to, turqoise, though I don't often use it in my art, is one of my favourite colours.

Gothic Arches "Gypsies"

The theme at GA is "Gypsies". I think we actually should call them Romanies as the word Gypsies is not truly politically correct.... Anyway, I experimented with my background paper, first I used an altered background from Shabby Cottage Studio, I added colour with various inks, overstamped and added the image, I then scanned that, opened it in photoshop and added some digital stamps/brushes (something I just learned in Gail's workshop). I then printed the image, added more colour and "real" stamping and some embellishments and finally mounted it on a piece of card which was embossed with the cuttlebug script folder.

Art Creations Friday

Art Creations Friday provided this brilliant image of a little school girl this week for their challenge.

Here is my contribution.

The frame is a piece of metal embossed with the Cuttle Bug. The background was done with white embossing powder resist technique.

Journal

One of my New Years resolutions was to create an art journal. I know I cannot do a page every day, but am aiming for one or two a week. Here are my first two pages.

Mixed media Monday "Friends"

The theme at MMM is "Friendship".

I created my background with collage. I then made a metal frame with Ten Second Studio's metal and tools etc. that I received as a Christmas gift from my wonderful children. The image is a freebee from Nancy Dooren's site.

Gothic Arches "Grunge"

Grunge is the theme at GA today. I covered my arch in texture paste, coloured it with cranberry and expresso acrylic dabbers. The image is from Shabby Cottage Studio Altered Children digi collage sheets. I put a stripp of embossed metal along the bottom to try and make it more "grungy" added some higlights with distress stickles, (they got lost in the scan)and added a few sticker embellishments and the text. Finally the arch was edged with a Krylon copper pen.

Wednesday Stamper "Gesso"

Just back from the States, so this will be my first entry to a challenge in the New Year.
The theme at Wednesday Stampers is "Gesso". One of my favourite art materials as it is so versatile. Here I have used it in combination with collage.

TGIF "All is New"

All is new is the theme at TGIF. I thought I would be too busy to post anything else, but couldn't resist using some of my new goodies on this challenge. Have called it New Beginnings.

Really enjoyed doing something totally none Christmassy with different colours for a change.

Theme Thursday "Christmas Tag"

Happy Christmas everyone!!!

After having cooked dinner for 15 people and a busy family afternoon, I felt it was time for a little me time. Here is the last of the many tags I made this Christmas.

I'm off the day after tomorrow and will see you all again in the New Year.

Back on January 7th. Hope you all will have a peaceful festive time and I wish everyone a creative New Year!

TMTA "Christmas"

The theme at Think Monday Think ATC is to show a Christmas ATC. This is the very last one I made. Faux leather paper background, embossed with cuttlebug etc. The wings are Grunge board.

I'm fairly sure this will be one of the last challenges i will be doing umtil well into the New Year, as I'm going away, so I want to use this opportunity to wish all visitors to my blog a very happy holiday season and thanks for all your encouragement!

Mixed Media Monday "Gold"

The theme at MMM is Gold. I started out with the full intention to NOT do something Christmassy for a change. I even has another image, but then after I had done the background it just asked for this little angel to finish it off, the other image just did not fit. So there we are, yet another Christmas card, I guess it'll either be a surprise card for someone or gather dust until next year as all my other cards are mosted out. (Just feeling smug:)

Most of the gold embossing has been lost in the scan as is the matting on gold mirri card...

TMTA "Lamps"

The theme at TMTA is lamps this week, this affords the freedom to either create something christmassy or not. As I just had the perfect Christmas stamp (bought in a closing down sale just last week) it turned out to be christmassy. Main image stamped in black archival ink, coloured with distress inks and water soluable pencils and then an image added from an old French Christmas card I got last summer in France at a fleemarket. Card was scanned obviously as I did not want to cut up the actual postcard. The snowflakes were added with a Ranger white gel pen

Sunday Postcard "Bright Colours"

Finally had some time to do the Sunday Postcard art challenge again. The theme is "Bright Colours", to cheer us all here in the Northern Hemisphere's cold and wintry weather.

My background was done with glimmer mists, the letters are schrink plastic. The colours have totally gone lost in the scan, so the result is rather boring I'm afraid:0(

Saturdays Workout "Design your canvas"

The theme at SaWo is to design a canvas. This week as it so happened i did a piece on a canvas for the first time. Painted with paint dabbers from Rangers, added some embossed metal, added texture with PVA and embossing powders etc. and added an image plus some grungeboard letters.

TGIF Santa is coming to town

The theme this week at TGIF is father christmas or santa as he is known.

I made a rather chunky christmas tag, soldered around slidemailer glass.

Think Monday Think ATC "Red"

The theme at TMTA is "Red". Here is my ATC