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

The Three Muses "Wheels"

The theme at the three Ms is Wheels. I know wheels are not very prominent in my piece but they are there. The pictures is me when I was about 3 or so. I call it my first wedding.... I have not seen the groom in about 35 years, but hey....
Most elements are from Cathererin Designs

Final envelope journal page

I finally managed to do the last of the six envelope journal pages I had to do for the swap in my art group. They were good fun, but quite a bit of work.

The background to this one was hand painted, inspired by my recent trip to Cornwall

The background to this one was created with the help of a paper serviette.
And here is the tag to go inside:

The Three Muses "Doors"

It's been ages since I played in the Three Ms challenges so I thought it was high time I joined in once more and I love the theme "Doors". So here is my door to fairyland card. This is also the back of the journal page for the swap I mention in the post below.

Altered Mona for a journal page swap

In my art group the theme for our monthly journal page swap was Mona. We always have to stick to the theme for our one side and can do our own thing for the back.
Anyway, as Mona is not my favourite theme to be honest, I just felt I had to alter her quite a bit, in fact I gave her a mate. Mona uses Leonardo's body and Moner has her head. Almost all other parts are freebees from flickr. I am terrible at keeping track of my credits and just say a big thank you to all the kind and generous souls that share their freebees in the public domain!

Art clay workshop

Today I attended a whole day workshop working with art clay silver. I managed to make a necklace, two charms and a chunky ring. It was tricky but great fun! Thank you Emma for this great class!

Envie no 4

I seem to be spending all of my art time making these envies. They take forever.
Anyway, here is no. 4, tags, back and front. I had to scan the tags twice, once with and once without the bead embellishment.

Main image on the front is from a Moonlight sheet, slightly altered. The little bird on the back I cannot remember, I think it may be the graphics fairy

Another envie done

Here is the next altered envie for the journal swap (see post below) Raven from Land of Nod studios, Moon from Paper Whimsey collage sheet. Sumo wrestlers Teesha Moore

Altered envelope journal swap

In one of my art groups there is a journal swap going on. Each participant has to alter and embellish 6 half business size envelopes, they are the pages. Each of the pages has to have at least one insert with an inspirational word or quote. The pages themselves have to have three things on them: wings, text and number(s). It is to be a chunky journal, so lots of fibres and embellies. They are great fun to do.

Altered envelope journal swap

Here is number two with inserts etc:

Cover and final page of French artjournal

I finally managed to get the cover of my recent French trip journal done and also the last page.
The main image on the cover was a scan of a plastic carrier bag we picked up in a local tourist shop. I altered it quite a bit in photoshop and then drew and painted over and around it, added the words journal 2010 etc. Like that I was able to stick to my plan to mainly use local bits and pieces for this journal. The background for the final page was a paper serviette. I found this amazing craft shop in Colmar where they sold loads of different designs and you could buy them singly!

Monthly Calendar page

Here is my page for August. This is the monthly challenge Kate Crane of the Kathryn Wheel posted way back in January. It took me a long time starting this and I always forgot to post my pages here, but anyway, better late than never.

Back from France

We got back from France yesterday. Had a great time with lots of wonderful warm weather and relaxation. Of course I had taken some art supplies and a journal, so I'll show some of the pages. Not all of them have the journalling on them yet. I used a lot of local bits and pieces for my collages in this journal, taken from leaflets, serviettes, paper bags and whatever else I could find. It was great fun looking out for things to use.

Off to France

The last few weeks have been very busy and I have not been able to create or indeed to blog as much as I would have liked. I also feel as if I have sadly neglected some of my blogging friends .
At last my holiday/vacation has started and tomorrow we are going off to France for three weeks, so again, I will not be blogging. But, when I am back I'll have more time again and will be blogging more regularly. I want to use this opportunity to thank all my blogging friends and followers. Your wonderful comments always mean a lot to me!!

A set of decorated hands

Here is a set of decorated hands created for a journal swap. The idea is that a journal is made out of the different hands created for the swap. Each artist participating has traced their own hands (so these are obviously mine) and then decorates them in whatever style. On the back of each one is a handwritten art quote.
We each have to make six hands in all so I still have two more to go but they are great fun to do!