Layers of Colour’s Grand Opening!

That’s what we’re celebrating this week as Laura and family open their new online store, selling gorgeous Layers of Colour stamps. The theme this week for the Grand Opening is to Create Something That Opens as part of your artwork. Add a window or door, a card with something special inside, or a hinged object [...]

Metal House

Dans Ma Maison, il y a… du metal – this week’s theme is to use ‘metal’ of some kind in the creation of your house. This is one of the Houses I created for the swap – quite plain, but the background paper is another sheet from the Chruch architecture book, which I have waxed. [...]

Architecture

4×4 Friday’s challenge this week is to create an architectural piece. As soon as I saw the theme, I knew I’d be delving into one of my old books about Church architecture. It has thick pages and many coloured drawings. This one is black and white, so I tinted the statues with watercolour pencils and [...]

Woman ATCs

Theme Thursday this week is very structured and challenges us to use an image of a woman in ATCs. Interestingly enough, up until a couple of months ago, I’d never made an ATC, let alone an Inchy, so I’ve made some personal progress! Today I had another madcap, hectic time with playing taxi to my [...]

Umbrellas

Laura has chosen Umbrellas as this week’s challenge at Layers of Colour and there’s even a tutorial (which I happily referred to), showing you how to make a 3D umbrella embellie! So here’s my entry – a whimsical card…

I used a cocktail stick and a bead for the handle of the umbrella, adhered with silicone glue [...]

Diamond Geezer!

Wednesday Stamper’s theme is “Altered Playing cards” and I may not have altered the card enough. If not, so be it, but as soon as I saw this little card, I had to use it as the phrase “Diamond Geezer” popped into my head. So all hail Jack – “Jack was a diamond geezer!” So [...]

What a great surprise!

I’ve created this tag for Created by Hand’s ‘Tags’ challenge this week from a glue resist background sheet in one of my favourite colours. I had to work fast, as I’ve had a really weird day and just half an hour to myself! I owe my teamies at Auntys some silhouette entries, so this will [...]

Postage Inchies!

Challenge #5 at Inchy by Inch is Postage Art! There’s blog candy up for grabs too from Nina (Purple Faerie), who’s kindly offering inchies and an inchy stamp as a prize. I don’t own any inchy stamps, so I’m keeping my fingers crossed!! Anyhoo, I managed another 5 of the little chaps after I made [...]

House of Cards

Weekend Taggers are such lovely people, I can’t not join in!! This week the theme is ‘Our House’ and I have made a ‘House of Cards’ tag, because often in our house, that’s how it feels… we daily juggle so many causes, hopes, ambitions and emotions, it all feels as tenuous as a house of [...]

Dans ma maison…for Donna

In the Row Houses swap I took part in, Donna didn’t get her package, so like Hermine, I decided that was an awful thing to happen and I have made her another house. I hope she likes it! This is also my entry for this week’s challenge – “the colour green” – for Dans ma maison, [...]