The Three Muses "Art Envelopes"

I love mail art and altering envelopes is one of my favourites. Here is a Halloween themed one for this week's challenge. The main image is from a free collage sheet from Land of Nods studios. The sheet is called altered people, but I altered the little boy a bit further still.

Playing with portraits

Just playing around with some cool new techniques. The background to this piece was created using the gesso watersoluable crayon technque. My friends Roc and Terri just made a great new video demonstrating this cool way of making backgrounds. A great excuse to get the old Caran D'ache watercolour crayons out of their dusty boxes. I have had these for years and years and don't use them nearly often enough. You can see the video here

Experimenting with layers

At the moment I am experimenting with lots of different layers, there must be well over 10 in this journal spread. Acrylic glazes, stamps, pens, paper serviettes. Journaling to be added later.

Halloween Postcard

In my art group there is a post card swap evry month. This month the theme was that there had to be a moon on the postcard somewhere. I am still in Halloween groove, so ofcourse it turned into a Halloween postcard. Mostly hand painted with some digital brush work.

The Three Muses Printed Word

It's a long time since I have blogged one of my journal spreads, but here is a double page incorporating the printed word. I use torn book pages a lot in my art, so this was an easy challenge. I'm also posting the second side of my Frida journal page for an art swap. The main image is a new stamp I got from Happy Daze

Journal page swap

This is side 1 of a Frida Kahlo journal page swap in my art group.
The main image is from a google search totally altered. The background was done with painted deli paper. The central strip of paper was a gift from my friend Wanda. You can see her amazing work here

Halloween skinny number 4

Here is number 4 of the 6 skinnies I am making for a halloween swap. The background was created using deli paper which I was sent by the lovely Marilyn Rock. You can watch a video on how to do these kind of backgrounds here

If there is anyone who knows where you can get this kind of paper in the uk, please let me know, I love the stuff! I am also putting this in for the 3 Muses' challenge where Bev has chosen the theme "Numbers" this week.

Two more Halloween skinnies

Here are two more halloween skinnies I made for a swap I am in.

Monthly Candar Journal September

Here is my monthly calendar journal page for September. I am also putting this is for the Three Muses Challenge where the theme is back to nature.
Even though Autumn is now truly on its way I always feel that in September nature is at her most abundant. At least here in Scotland many fruits are only ripening now, we often seem to get more sun in September than either July or August and you can really experience the "fullness" of nature.

Sacred Heart ATCs

A while back I joined a Sacred Relics ATC swaps.It will carry on over several months and each month there will be another sub theme. This month's theme is Sacred Hearts. The vocal point of each ATC was meant to be a heart and of course the ATCs themselves had to have the feeling of sacredness, so no love hearts or anything.
Anyway, here is what I came up with for my three:

And the winner is....

Last week I did a mystery blog giveaway when I had reached my 400th post and 200 followers. The winner would receive a mystery gift. Well the gift is a original folk art painting my me on a plywood canvas. Here it is:


And the winner is: LINDA. The random number generator selected you, congratulations. I hope you like your little painting. I'll be in touch.

Thank you to everyone who left a comment.

Halloween Skinny

Here is my first Halloween creation for htis year. It was made for a Halloween themed skinny swap. Background Digital Collagesheets.com altered with the help of paper serviette. Witch put together out of various bits and pieces by me. Skull and bat Digital Collagesheets.com

Wonderful post!

Today when I came back from work, postie had brought me a wonderful parcel. Inside were my swaps from a postage stamp mini book swap I had joined. The pages are just 3 by 2 but aren't they just wonderful and creative?

I just had to make a front and back cover for them straight away so that I can bind my little book.
Here they are:



Thank you to my wonderful art friends for this great swap! (You know who you are :0)}

The Three Muses Zetti

It's the World of Zetti over at the three Muses.
Here is my Zetti Artdoll magnet I made for a swap a few days ago. A few posts below you an see the little "home" in which she is going to travel the world in a few days. So that's her world of zetti.

Blog Giveaway

I just realized I have reached 400 posts and 200 followers pretty much at the same time.
First of all I want to say a huge big thank you to all you lovely people that come and visit my blog and specially those that leave me such wonderful comments. It means a lot to me.

I have decided to do a mystery giveaway of one of my pieces. If you leave a comment I'll pick a winner using a random picker or whatever you call them. Please make sure you leave some way in which I can contact you.

A home for my art doll

I had great fun creating a "home" for my art doll, (see below). This was made out of a padded envelope and will become the folder in which I will send her to whoever will get her as this is for a swap. The idea for this was not my own but Constancet's. I asked her permission and she was happy for me to use her idea. Mine looks quite different but you can find her fantastic work on her flickr

This is the folder open:


This is the front when the folder is closed with a place for the address


And this is the back where you can see how the folder closes:

I wonder what the postman will think, - I have sent my altered envies through the post but never anything as big as this, but apparently Constance does it all the time and I have to say I have received some amazing mail art from her in the past.

Final Sacred Relics ATC

Here is the last of the Sacred Relics ATCs. In the original the central images is better visible than in the scan...

Sacred Relics ATCs

Here are two atcs I made for a swap, I still have one more to complete. Backgrounds were done with acrylic paints, texture paint, utee stamped while still hot etc



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A little freebee

I thought it was high time i posted a little freebee again for all my wonderful visitors. Please know that your kind comments are always hugely appreciated!
Please feel free to use in your art in whatever way you want. As the round tag was created with the help of commercially purchased elements, there will be copyright issues no doubt, so please just use in your own private art.

Here is a jpeg

and here the same as a png

Another altered envelope

Here is another altered envelopes. A different swap and the theme had to be flowers. I love doing these, they are so much fun. I made the actual envelope myself too as they had to be in a size you can't get here in the UK.
This is the front

and this is the back