4×4 for the 31st!!

Artygirlz want numbers this week and I received my new stamps from Third Coast RS today so I had to stamp out all the images, put them into CD boxes and then get them out and play with them. Due to unforseen problems, Val was a bit later then usual shipping, so by way of [...]

It’s a puzzle, isn’t it?

That’s loosely what This Thursday, it’s all about… is asking us to interpret. I had a lovely piece of faux leather background ready for stamping on and I used a puzzle piece on it, along with a dictionary definition. The 2 corners are inverted fabric paper offcuts!

Stamp is by Cherry Pie. If I remember rightly, [...]

Quotes!

4×4 Friday’s challenge is so easy today! Include quote(s) in your artwork… and I bought a sheet of art quotes from Robin at MaVinci’s a couple of months ago – ideal! One of the added bonuses with these stamps, is the variety of fonts Robin uses, there are lots and they’re all different, so never [...]

Dymo-labeller

That’s the required element this week for 4×4 Friday… I used the lovely Cherry Pie Artstamps 3 muses image (well, that’s who they remind me of!) stamped onto a wax-resist painted background *** and added a couple of rather nice embellies – surprising how pretty purple and green look, isn’t it?

*** GPP Street Team Crusade [...]

Orange and yellow!

That’s this week’s theme at 4×4 Friday. I made 2 freestanding plaques because I was playing with the textured cuttlebug background technique I’ve seen Adrienne, Carol and Annette showing on their blogs. I didn’t have time for the complete process with tissue paper, gesso and paints, so this is the abbreviated version which has worked [...]

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 [...]

4×4 Friday – a box!

‘Florals’ are all the rage this week at 4×4 Friday… and I just happened to have prepped, a 4×4 ‘treasure’ box. I’ve painted the whole box with a coat of gesso, followed by a coat of green acrylic paint. I’ve used a scribble stamp on geen acetate and stuck that to the lid, after using [...]

Mixed Media Monday

MMM’s theme for this week is “Love & Romance”, so I’m going to enter this little 4×4 I made last month – I have a bit of a rush on this week with a commissioned piece that I need to work on and other R/L obligations, too.

This is an acrylic painted background on watercolour paper, [...]

I never learn!

Over at 4×4 Friday, this week’s theme is Wild West! I had to hunt for them, but a lovely lady (friend of mine) sent me some American Indian stamps last year and I really like the detail in them. Hooray! I found them, cut out my 4×4 square, and decided which ones I’d use. To [...]

Triple challenge for me.

I love working on 4×4s and skinnys… anything smaller and I’m still somewhat out of my depth. 4×4 Friday challenge was ‘open theme’, Created by Hand asked us to produce artwork in black and white and Artygirlz want pockets! I had very little time this evening, but following Trish’s mantra (“Make art every day…”), I [...]