Don’t Stop Me Now…

Apart from the fact that’s it was “Queen” week on X-Factor, “Music” is also this week’s theme over at Sunday Postcard Art, chosen by Cindy McMath. This is one of my faves by Queen – great to vacuum to! I’ve used a magazine image of a woman high-fiving a friend as my central theme. I’m [...]

Faces…

A couple of weeks ago I made this wacky jewellery set for The Seventh Wave Gallery to display to show some Day of the Dead artwork. I see that Theme Thursday’s challenge this week is “Faces” and would like to share them with you here as my entry/take on the theme:

It comprises a bracelet, a [...]

Corned Beef Hash!

That’s what inspired this altered jigsaw piece for Wednesday Stamper’s theme – Key *Keys! All the tins of corned beef here (that I have bought), are opened with these keys… Shame to waste it, no?

Stamp: Cherry Pie Artstamps. The background is acrylic paint in shades of ochre and burnt umber, mixed with a little acrylic [...]

Alternative Cutlery!

Here are some altered cutlery pieces I’ve been working on for the Seventh Wave Gallery in Bude… they are pretty gruesome and more like small assemblages as they’re completely 3D. Three large spoons and two forks:

All the images are from Ten Two Studios – Zombie Faux Postage and Black & White sheets, as are the skull [...]

SaWo – Altered Cutlery

That’s the challenge today at Saturday’s Workout – Altered Cutlery. Here are a couple of large spoons that I have in the Seventh Wave Gallery in Bude… I still have some Zombie spoons to finish for the Halloween window, but like everything else, it takes time!
I love altering cutlery and probably the most complex part [...]

Rosetti vs. RoZetti

I’ve been a bit naughty and taken liberties with a beautiful microscope slide image (from Ten Two Studios) this evening – all in the name of altered art, The Three Muses (Zetti theme!) and my compulsion to make soldered slide pendants. Got to master the art of soldering, as my new, more powerful, tool arrived [...]

“Death becomes her…”

Remember that film? I never watched it but as soon as I received these images from Lisa, I knew I wanted to create a double slide mailer with some of them! Mixed Media Monday’s challenge this week was set by Anni (Anni’s Fabric Art), who asked us to use something ’round’ in our artwork. She [...]

My summer in Nice…

Scene: My study at home in St. John’s Wood, London
Date: 11th September, 1926
Dear Diary, I have to tell you what a wonderful week I spent at the Hotel Ruhl with Cousin Judy. We had never met before, just corresponded through relatives and then she decided to come to Europe and that we should meet at [...]

Tiara-boom-deeay!!

“Art in the Round” – set by The Three Muses (Bev) this week… she made a very beautiful example for us and I wondered what I could show that was round before the end of the week? I admit to being super-tired this evening, needing a shower and for those reasons, I am sharing this [...]

Using Words

That’s this week’s challenge from TGIF – and Glenda has created a really inspirational Layout as guest host. I’m sharing another Layer painting project with you, inspired in part by Ria’s Toadstools stamp sheet and an idea I had of fairies emerging from a forest and dancing round in swirling circles. They’re there, but not quite… [...]