My unpredictable muse…

Isn’t it funny how sometimes you start to create something and it takes you in an unexpected direction? We were very busy at home today, taking advantage of the reasonably good weather to tackle sorting through the junk and non-junk in our garage. Despite the very blustery wind, Nick and I managed to bring half the garage out into the garden, dispose of a lot of rubbish and make inroads into reorganising his formidable fishing tackle! I won’t even go there…

Eventually, I had time this evening to go upstairs and make something. I pottered about, picking fabric and old jeans up and putting them down again: I had the urge to work with fabric but couldn’t face clearing the little table on which I usually put my sewing machine. I turned my attention to one of the bamboo dominos I bought from Lisa Vollrath’s TenTwo Studios, but although they’re pre-drilled, my cord wouldn’t pass through the holes – splinters! So I had to start decorating the domino and leave it till I clean the holes tomorrow with the tiny rotary tool set Nick gave me today! It’s very similar to a Dremel…

So I took the 2 cowgirl fabric transfers I had left over and decided to do something with them. Here’s what happened:

I used the Poppy Pods (Stampington) to frame the images and the Stampers Anonymous image with Saddle Brown Stazon to decorate the frame. I have lusted after these 2 stamps for ages and I recently bought them on Ebay from a fellow artist who’s clearing house to move – thank you so much Jan! (Nevada Artist). The strip across the top and bottom of the images is paper lace (roses), distressed with Frayed Burlap, just tapped really. I had to scan these frames as the flash kept bouncing off the transfers…

Then it occurred to me that I had subconsciously satisfied the required elements for 3 challenges! Theme Thursday – Flowers; Mixed Media Monday - Rust; This Thursday (which is what I started out to create for!) – ‘The Golden Rule’. The Golden Rule is to make something practical and useful or simply beautiful and I think these turned out well enough to be in the latter category! I believe I shall save them for the Craft Fair in November which I shall be working towards now.