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 [...]

Fairy Magic Pendant

Created by Hand this week is all about “Faeries”… so I happily got to play with the Toadstools stamps from Home Impressions to create this altered puzzle piece pendant for Ria!

I started with a little collaged music and text and then brayered over them with a rainbow ink pad, which has seen better days! I [...]

Tell me a story…

That’s what Diane asked for at Mixed Media Monday this week. She has painted a gorgeous canvas as an example and I have altered another giant puzzle piece!! The background is simply layers of glazes, using up leftover paint, and then I added a stamped image on text and a light wash with some gold [...]

Doors!

That’s this week’s challenge at The Three Muses blog… and it really got me thinking. I am working all day on Saturday in my capacity as a volunteer for the Holsworthy Scrapstore, for our Midsummer Night’s Day event. I have made my fairy skirt (!), my badge so people know I’m a helper, and not [...]

More puzzling!!

This is a triple-header puzzle piece from me this evening. I painted the background whilst I was waiting for my Layer Love#6 painting’s layers to dry!! I used a piece of corrugated cardboard for the hatchmarks with black archival ink, images from Ten Two Studios Little Men/Children Sheets, a pewter charm from my stash and [...]

Mona…

I received an invitation from The Three Muses today to take part in a new challenge blog and their first theme is “Mona” – the eternal enigma! Here’s my entry… Dear Mona… always a puzzle!

Stamps: Gothic plate from Home Impressions; Latin text from MaVinci and “another pretty face” from ThirdCoastRS. Background – smooshed distress inks, [...]

Faerie Fay!

Fairies is Wednesday Stamper’s theme this week. I don’t like fairies and I don’t think they’re as sweet and angelic as they’re often painted. I have referred to this before and I stand by what I wrote then!! I think they’re far more likely to play mean tricks on you and give your hair a [...]

WS – Transfer

Wednesday Stamper invited us to show image transfers in our artwork today and I used a puzzle piece which I wasn’t happy with as my base. It has been covered with newsprint, painted and over-painted with silver acrylic paint. I used an image from the Orange Things Collage sheet at Ten Two Studios.
I first tried [...]

Artygirlz farewell…

This is the last Artygirlz challenge for the forseeable future. It’s very sad, but as my pals Julie and Crissi have said, they’ve been setting challenges since September 2007 – I never realised it had been so long…
So, I continue my love affair/obsession/addiction to altering puzzle pieces and in line with their theme, “Stamping”, I [...]

Altered puzzle pins – 2cre8art

2cre8art is a monthly challenge with a full-blown pictorial showing you the artist’s process – so you always have an example to follow if you get stuck! I used rather large puzzle pieces I found at the Car Boot last week – a) they were brand new and b) they’ll also make fab collage items and [...]