SaWo "Make your own jewellery"

Here is a watch strap and chunky bracelet that I made out of grungeboard. I saw this while wantching a programme on Create and Craft of all places. Not often they use Tim Holtz products there... I just had to try this one and it worked really easily. There is a video on You Tube on how to do it too.Fun if you like chunky jewellery...

Ginko Canvas

Today I felt like doing something totally different for a change. I made a textured background by setting Tyvek and crumpled tissue paper onto grungeboard, using PVA, Golden Matte Medium and Gesso. I also added some salt while the gesso was still wet to add further texture. When it was dry more or less I painted it with a mix of Stewart Gill and Lumiere paints. Finally I added the Ginko leave which is made from Utee poured into a mould and then coloured with Perfect Pearls from Ranger. Finally I finished it by embellishing with some beads.

The three Muses "Long ago and far away"

Long ago and far away is the theme at the 3 Muses. The perfect theme of course for something vintage, which is my favourite style. I created a 6 x 6 page which eventually I will use as a book cover. The image is from a cabinet card I bought at an antique's fair. The lace is also genuinely antiques. The other embellishments are mainly grungeboard, painted ad distressed with Lumiere paints, Perfect Pearls and Stazon ink. Unfortunately the photo turned out a lot bluer than the original.

Gothic Arches "Risque"

The theme at GA is Risque. I had so many ideas as I really liked the challenge of this theme. Unfortunately by the time I had finished with my creation the end result was not very risque at all but just my usual sort of slightly vintage, romantic kind of thing that I always seem to do.....:o(

SaWo "Recycle it"

Recycling something is the theme at SaWo. Well I am in the process of creating a minibook out of beer mats so decided to show some pages for this challenge, as no doubt if I had no picked up these beer mats in a pub the other day, they would have landed in the bin.
More pages can be seen in my flickr album.

Art Creations Friday

ACF provided such a lovely image this week, I just had to play.
I made a digital 4 x 4 as that was all I had time for...

TGIF "Pointy Hats"

The theme at TGIF is pointy hats.
Here is my ATC. Image as most people will recognize is from Paper Whimsey, hat and spiderweb etc. are hand drawn as I have very few Halloween stamps.

Mixed Media Monday "Pink"

Because of Breastcancer Awareness Week the theme at MMM is "Pink".
Here is my pink creation:

Gothic Arches "Twilight"

Twilight is the theme at Gothic Arches. I loved the idea of this theme but when I tried to start to create my arch inspiration kind of left me. After staring at my empty arch for a while I decided to hand paint a kind of twilight scene. I am not sure about the result. I used a mix of |Ranger dye inks, distress inks and Derwent colour soft pencils. The background paper I created a while back in Photoshop elements.

TGIF "It's Raining"

The theme at TGIF is "It's Raining". Well it certainly rain's enough in Scotland at this time of year. Decided to do something totally different for a change, so here is my scrap card

The Three Muses "Numerology"

Haven't found the time to partake in this challenge blog for ages, but at last I managed again to do at least something. 7 is defenitely my lucky number.

Mixed Media Monday "Maps"

The theme at MMM is Maps. The background of my 4 x 4 is an old map (I created it with a photoshop brush set from Brusheasy. The image is from Itkupilli

TGIF "The colour White

The theme at TGIF is the colour white.
I used images from "Digital Collage's White sheet for this beeswax collage. Though it is not completely white, white was defenitely the main colour... I called it Vintage Bride

Slide mailer

I was recently really inspired by an article in Craft Stamper where they showed some altered slide mailers including mirrors. I made various ones, here is a small sampler.

TGIF "Wonderful Trees"

The theme at TGIF is "Wonderful Trees", suitable theme to the approach of Autumn. Autumn certainly is well on the way here in Scotland, so I tried to create a real autumn mood with my card.

Two Cute Christmas cards

Cute is not usually my thing but I could not resist these stamps from the Scandinavian firm Panduro, I therefore started to make some Christmas cards.

TGIF "Skulls"

The theme at TGIF is Skulls, this in connection with Halloween getting closer already. Though Skulls is perhaps not exactly my sort of theme, - nothing like a good challenge, and I have to say, I did enjoy putting it together. It's what I think you call a hybrid creation, I started it in photoshop elements, then printed it out and worked on it further with inks, stamps, grungeboard etc.

Mixed Media Monday "Time of Day"

The theme at MMM is Time of Day, well, my favourite times of the day are dusk and dawn. I love it when there is still a hint of light, yet you can see the first stars coming out already. My piece is portraying Dawn. I created the background with a dreamweaver stencil which i put through my cuttlebug. The forground image is an altered image from Shabby Cottage Studio.

Gothic arches tag

As part of the Gothic Arches birthday celebrations there are different challenges every week, the Gothic Arches Palooza. Number 3 was to make a tag.

TMTA "Marilyn Monroe"

I haven't participated in Think Monday Think ATC for ages, but today I made this ATC.
Sadly I have no Marilyn stamps so I had to use a found image. Just to make it a bit more interesting I altered her a bit.